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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Lonely Hearts Matter, Parts One and Two (EP1083) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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long, So let's just go ahead and sit back. So we get started
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with the Lonely Heart Matter Hearts one and two from Hollywood. It's time now
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for Johnny Deller, Davello, Johnny Northwest, Sherity. Oh hi yah,
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dave how's the family growing like weeds? You wouldn't even recognize I guess not.
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It's been a long time. Say you freed the moment, Johnny?
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Now there's nothing going on here except the rent. What's on your mind?
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I don't know exactly, Maybe smoke, maybe a fire. I got a
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girl here, you executives, really living well? She's pretty enough to say
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why don't you come on over here and meet her? Social Lord? Do
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I get paid for it? You get paid? Jay Dollar. He's like
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a little personal attention to lonely hearts, specially hearts. Why'd you say that?
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Say what lonely hearts? I don't know. Why. Is it a
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code of some kind? You could call it that. I guess what's it
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mean, Johnny? If this girl is telling the truth, it means murder
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tonight and every weekday night. Bob Bailey in the Transcribed Adventures of the Man
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with the Action Packed Expensive caud America's Fabulous Freelance Insurance Investigators Truley Johnny Dollar from
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Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the home office Northwest Surety Company, Hartford, Connecticut.
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The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the Lonely Hearts
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matter. Itdem one a dollar and sixty cents taxi fare from my apartment to
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the Northwest Shorty Building in the office of Dave Elwood, Executive claims Adjuster,
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a hard working little man with thinning hair, who, even after twenty years
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in the game, still couldn't help making every claim of personal matter. He
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met me in the outer office and led me off to one side. She's
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waiting inside there, Johnny, I wanted to brief you before you met her.
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I wish you dame. Her name is Normal Wells. He's from Chicago.
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She flew in from there this morning. Hasn't had any sleep. She's
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pretty upset. What about her? Her father died three days ago, suddenly
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unexpected? What did he die of? Acute? And to writist? Supposedly
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the death certificate hasn't been signed yet. Is that what you meant by murder?
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And his daughter thinks too? Was he insured with you fifty thousand dollars
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term life written five months ago? Who was the beneficiary? This daughter?
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No? His wife? His second wife, that is, the girl's mother
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died years ago. Wells. We married a month before the policy was issued,
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a woman named Mabel Burke. The insurance is payable to her, and
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the Wells girl thinks she killed him. That's what she says. She's pretty
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mixed up. Why did she come here? And I'm not quite sure,
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Johnny, Suppose you ask her? Okay, let's go. They swear.
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What about that lonely hearts crack you made on the phone. Well, that's
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how he met this new wife. This Mabel Burke through a lonely Hearts club.
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Like they say marriage is a lottery, in this case, it sounds
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more like Russian roulette. Yeah yeah, miss Wells. This is Johnny Dollar.
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He's a specialist, an expert in this kind of thing. I'm sure
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he'll be able to help you. How did you do, mister mister Dollar?
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Miss well Now, I'm going to leave you two alone. I have
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a couple of things I got to take care of. Can you just punch
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the intercom if you want me? Ryan, Dave? Thanks? Would you
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would you care for a cigarette as well? No? Thank you? Yes,
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yes, I will too. Please forgive me. I I just can't
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seem to think straight. That's perfectly understandable. Yeah, thanks, thank you,
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mister doll. Forgive me for being so blunt. But when was the
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last time you had something to eat? Yesterday morning, I guess, Dave.
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Yes, Johnny, I suppose you could send out for a glass of
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orange juice, a hot roll, a pot of coffee. Oh sure,
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I'll have one of the girls go get it ahead. Thanks, no,
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no, please, I really you're really going to though. You're shaking so
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hard you can hardly hold onto that cigarette. I know it's so stupid at
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me. You and your father were pretty close time at you, yes,
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until he married her. What kind of a woman is she? Well,
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she's strange. It's hard to explain. She's she's sort of vague, fuzzy
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around the edges, if that makes any sense. It's like she isn't even
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there sometimes, but way off somewhere in time of space, a little batty.
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Is that what you're implying? No, No, not really. She
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could be as sharp as attack when she wanted to. But something about her,
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well, I was scared of her, mister Dalla, And I don't
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actually know why. I see my father and I could never be alone.
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Somehow she always managed to be there, separating us, driving us apart.
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Did she ever say anything that would lead you to believe that she didn't have
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to? Just being there was enough to all right? I know what you're
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thinking. The vexation, second wife, jealous daughter, neurotic imagination. It's
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a possibility, isn't it. No, don't you suppose I thought of that,
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made allowances for it? Do you think I'm a fool? I don't
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know what to think, Miss Wells. You told Dave Ell, would you
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believe your stepmother had murdered your father, and so far the only reason you've
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given is the fact that she was around all the time. Maybe he wanted
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her around. Maybe that's why you married her. Of course he wanted her
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around. That's not what made me suspicious. Then what did the fact that
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he took out life insurance named her as beneficiary. Not at the time,
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I wasn't suspicious at all, mister Dalla, Not until the night he he
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died. I was hurt, yes, and I felt out of place so
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well. I moved out of the house three months ago and took an apartment
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off the loop. But I didn't have the slightest idea she might be planning
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to kill him. Did he carry any insurance before they were married, some
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protection for you in case I No, he didn't feel it was necessary.
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He'd set up a trust fund, and there's some bonds and so on that
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I suppose will come to me. I see. No, the policy was
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entirely her idea. Thinking back, it seems to me she started talking about
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insurance the first week after they were married, and he finally gave in.
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If he hadn't, I I think he'd still be alive. Just what were
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the circumstances of his death. I don't know. I wasn't there she saw
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to that. What do you mean, Well, he was taken ill suddenly
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in the middle of the night. He wanted her to call me, but
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she wouldn't do it. Why not, She claims she didn't think it was
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anything serious, so there was no need of it. Instead, she called
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the doctor, her doctor. A few minutes after he arrived. My father
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died. Then they called me after it was all over. This doctor is
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he the one who has refused so far to sign a death certificate. He
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was going to sign it all right until I got there and kicked up a
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scene. An obvious case of acute enterritis, he called it. Then he
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backed down, decided maybe he should have another opinion. I went to father's
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doctor, but he said there was nothing he could do because he hadn't been
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called in at the time. He's the one who suggested I come here.
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Why. He said the insurance company would help me since they were involved too,
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they'd advise me what to do. Well, what did he think about
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that diagnosis? Secute enteratis? He said? He said it was possible,
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but extremely doubtful. He knew father's physical condition. He treated him for years.
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How long had your father known this Mabel Burke? Before they were married,
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less than a month. He'd answered a lonely heart sad and so I
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found out later by accident. Both seemed embarrassed by the way they met.
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Was it a private ad or an organization? A club of some sort,
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the Rendezvous Club? They have an office on Atlantic Avenue, mister Dollar,
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It's not just imagination. Father's own doctor Field. There's something wrong too,
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That's why he sent me here. I'm not crazy. She killed him for
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his insurance. I know she did. Maybe maybe there's not much to go
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on, not at the moment anyway. I think it's about time for coffee
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break. Yeah, I imagine it's a little pastime as well. I couldn't
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really. Oh, yes you could, Yes, you could go ahead and
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not again. I'll be back in a few months. Have a word with
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you to do right, Jenna Well what do you think I think I need
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some looking into. How soon can you get miss Wells and me on a
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plane for Chicago hour and a half. I've already checked good. I'll have
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her get a court order for an autopsy in case the coroner hasn't already asked
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for one and we'll take it from there. Then you think the Earl was
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telling the truth. I wouldn't bet on it. Expense account adam two ninety
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six dollars and forty cents transportation from Hartford and taxi tips and incinentals in Chicago.
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I dropped normal Wells at her apartment, checked in at the hotel,
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and phoned the corner's office and learned that an autopsy request had been filed but
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was being delayed penning a court order. I informed them that the daughter was
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available and willing now to cooperate with them. I left my name and asked
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the office to keep in touch with me. Item three two dollars and ten
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cents taxi to the offices of the Rendezvous Club. Introductions arranged, mail forwarded,
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lonely Hearts mended, and possibly the murder's plan. Well, hello,
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I must be in the wrong place. What do you mean I mean?
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I can't see you as the lonely tex Oh I'm not. I mean I'm
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not a client. I work here. Really. For some reason, I'd
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always had the idea that these clubs were run by sweet old ladies of seventy
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five or so. Oh, well, I don't exactly run it at least
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I don't own it, that's what you mean. Hey, you're not a
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client, for God's sake, any rules against it? Well? No,
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how do I go about it? I mean becoming a client? Well,
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you're either ride in or come in like you are now. Then you fill
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out a form, tell all about yourself, and attach a photographs and look,
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buster, there's no use trying to kids you. Humh. We don't
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have a woman in our files under forty five years old? Oh maybe I
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got a mother complex? What so I fill out a form? What do
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you do with it? Then we'll keep it on file. Then we send
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out bulletins to the active members and forward letters back and forth. Or you
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can come in here and be introduced and look are you serious at my act?
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Serious? Well? I don't get it. A young guy with your
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looks and I bet you're selling something. No. No, As a matter
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of fact, I just got in town and I'm trying to locate a certain
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fellow. I was told he's a member of your club. Oh well,
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why didn't you say so? What's his name? Jonathan Wells? Probably got
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his address? Jonathan Well? Yeah, have you got a file on him?
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Who are you. You're with the police. Police, Now, what
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gives you that idea? Well, I don't know anything about the man you're
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looking for. No, well, I suppose we check through the park.
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It's not here. We don't keep the fix. Where do you keep from
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them? They're not here? Well, maybe they're in the next office through
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that door there. No, you can't go in. There's no Take it
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easy. You have no right in there. I won't let you stop it.
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You just stand right up there on that desk and stay out of drug
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Let me go. Don't you think you are anyhow you get out of here,
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you go get a warn if you want to be Who was in here?
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Nobody? Do you smoke cigar? Of course I don't smoke. Yeah,
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right there in the ash tray, still burning. Somebody just sneaked out
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through that door in the hall. Who was he? What's your name?
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Tyler? Danny Tetler? How long have you worked here? A year?
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Hey, I've got to hunt. You're not a police. I didn't say
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I was. What about Wells? Have you got a file on him?
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No? What happened to it? I don't know what you're talking about about.
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Mabel Burke. Abel, you got a file on her, of course
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not. What do you mean, of course not. She and Welles met
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through this club. Lookbuster, Mabel Burke owns this club. Johnny Dollar is
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Max Llan through mister Dollar. Oh, the corner tells me cutting yourself in
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on this Jonathan Wells thing. I'm representing the insurance company. Wells carried a
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fifty thousand dollars policy payable to his widow. What about the autopsy, any
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results? Not yet. Colin is still working on it. I understand it
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with Wells's daughter who called you fell us in on this kiss. Yes,
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on the advice of her family doctor. I know I talked to him,
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only his version puts a different slant on things. What do you mean?
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But he thought she was suffering from temporary hysteria. He was only trying to
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calm her. He didn't think she'd really fly back to Hartford and stirrup a
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mess like this. I see her father's sudden death must have been caught a
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shock to her. It may have caused her to imagine things things like murder.
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Maybe it's possible. Anyway, what do you think I think I'll wait
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for the results of that autopsy, mister lancer. I'll keep in touch from
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Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the home office Northwestern Surety Company, Hartford, Connecticut.
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Assignment the Lonely Hearts Matter location, Chicago, Illinois. Expense account canntinues
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item six two dollars and ten cents for a late lunch at my hotel.
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I finished it, went up to my room and started trying to fit the
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few facts I had into some kind of a pattern that made sense. Max
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Lancer at the DA's office might be right. Maybe it was nothing more than
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just hysterical suspicion. And she'd admitted herself that she was hurt and jealous when
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he married Mabel Burke. Sudden death could still be natural death. And yet
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all I could do at the moment was wait for the results of that autopsy.
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Yeah was it? It's me? Oh all right, just a minute,
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come in, come in this one. Thank you? What's wrong?
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I don't know exactly wrong? Well? Here? Why are we here?
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In saddan? Thank you? Yeah? Oh what do you mean? You
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don't know exactly? Could I be be losing my mind? Mister Dollar?
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If you were, you'd be the last one to think. So I'll tell
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me what's happened. Well, I went to the corner's office to sign the
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authorization for the autopsy, and then went back to my apartment. And a
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little while later the phone rang, and when I answered it, there was
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nobody on the line. The wrong number. Maybe no, I mean,
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I mean there was somebody on the line, but they didn't say anything.
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I kept saying hello, and then there was a click and the line went
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dead. And that's all that happened. No short time afterward, I heard
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footsteps out in the hall. They stopped at my door, and I kept
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waiting for someone to ring the bell. When they didn't, I I finally
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got up enough courage to open the door. There was nobody there, I
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see. A two minutes after that, the phone rang again. The same
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thing is before. I couldn't stay there any longer. I ran out and
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got a taxi and came here. Oh who do you think might be doing
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a thing like that? Miss World? No, no, but somebody is.
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I'm not just imagining thing. Max Lancer. The DA's investigators seems to
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think you might be. I know he talked to me at the Corner's office.
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That's why I came to you, mister Dollar. You've got to help
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me. Please be glad to But how there must be something you can do.
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Yeah, yeah, I can wait for that autopsy report. And at
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the moment that's about all I can do. Without some definite evidence of a
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crime, something stronger than mere suspicion, we don't have a leg to stand
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at. But suppose the report doesn't show anything, then I wiped the egg
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off my face and go back to Hartford. But good look, maybe she
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was. She was clever enough to kill my father in some way that wouldn't
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show up in an autopsy such as I don't know, but I do know,
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as sure as I'm sitting here that she married him and got him to
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take off that insurance policy with the full intention of murdering him. Who such
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things have been known, all right? Somebody using a correspondence club to contact
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wealthy pigeons. Did you know that your stepmother owns that Lonely Hearts club?
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That's what the girl in charge told me, A Fanny Tetler. Do you
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know her? No, I've never heard of her. Neither Mabel nor my
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father ever mentioned that she owned the place. She apparently has somebody running it
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for her. A man, I think any idea who he might be?
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No, he slipped out before I got a chance to see him smoke cigars.
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He left one burning in the Ashtraik. Wait, maybe it's thirty Burton.
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Burton Creey, her nephew. He smokes cigars. That's the first I've
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heard of him. He's detestable. He moved in on us right after Mabel
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and my father were married. He's the main reason why I left the house.
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I couldn't send him. He was always after me, bothering, still
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living. There was he in the house that night, your father? Yes,
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at least he was when I got there. That was an hour afterward.
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As I told you, does he have a job work anywhere? I
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don't think he's ever worked. He lives off of her. He and your
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father get along all right. Oh. My father could get along with anyone.
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He always managed to see the best in people. And then Thurton was
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careful to act different around him. I see, I suppose you think that's
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some more of my imagination. Frankly, Miss Wells, I don't know what
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to think. There was only some way to prove what I'm sure of.
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Well, let's wait for that autopsy report. Meantime, I think I'll go
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out and talk to your stepmother, What about me? Stay right where you
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are, don't go out of this room. When I get back, we'll
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pick up some things from your apartment and you can check in here at this
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hotel for a few days. Expense account item seven taxi to Lake Shore Drive
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and the beachfront residence of the Lake Jonathan Wells. I was beginning to feel
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more and more like a fool. It looked as oh, Max Lancer might
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be right. Apparently a jealous, hysterical girl had lost her head and stirred
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up a nasty mess, all without one single fact that back up her suspicions.
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I had a hunt to the autopsy report was going to show death from
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natural causes for two cents had have thrown the case over. In fact,
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I didn't even see where I had a case. Good afternoon, young man.
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How do you do? Are you? Missus? Well? Yeah,
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that's right. Is it something I can do for you? My name is
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Dollar, Johnny Dollar. I'm representing the company that holds the insurance policy on
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your late husband's life. Oh well, you must be mistaken. Mister mourningly
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represents that company, young man. Mister Matthew R. Morning. Mister Morning
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is the local agent I'm from the home office in Hertford, Connecticut. Oh,
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I see, yes, I have my credentials right here. If you'd
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like to say no, no, that isn't necessary. I always judge people
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by their basis, and you have honest face, mister Dallah. Thank you.
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I wonder if I could ask you a few questions, missus. Well,
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well, I suppose so. I know this must be painful for you,
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and I'll try to be as brief as possible. Well, now,
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don't you worry about me. I'm all right. Of course I missed Jonathan
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and all that. He was a terribly nice man, terribly but I think
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of death as just being a doorway to a greater and more glorious life.
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Well, that's the one way of looking at him. You'll just come right
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in, man, and ask all the questions you're mind to. You come
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right in here, and we will sit down and have a nice chat.
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Ah. This is a very attractive house, missus. Well, oh,
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yes, yes, I think so too. Jonathan built it years ago.
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He and his first wife lived here. You know. Of course I've changed
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the drapes and things, just some of the little things sit right down there
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now, Thank you. And his daughter too. She lived here the first
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month we were married, and then she moved into town. A strange little
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thing, really, sort of a nervous and ere i've met her miss as
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well. Oh well, then you know what she's like. Oh it's too
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bad too. Would you like some teen cookies? Mister? That's one thing
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Jonathan wouldn't miss for the world. His teen cookies at four o'clock every afternoon.
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Every afternoon just doesn't seem the same without him. No, I imagine
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that's how I won his heart, you know, with my cookies and cakes.
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Oh, he really did adore them, and it was such a pleasure
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baking things for a person who appreciated them so much. Make you feel lonesome
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and lost not having anybody to cook for. Do you ever feel lonesome,
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mister Dalla, Well, I guess everybody does it. Right time I met
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Jonathan, I was feeling so lonesome I could just cry. Mister Burke had
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died two years before, mister, Yes, he was my husband before Jonathan.
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That was in Saint Louis. Of course. He was a fine man
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too, Walter Nable Burke, tall and handsome and impressive, looking just like
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his name sounds, and a perfect picture of health right up to the day
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he died. His death was sudden, unexpected. Oh yes, what complete
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surprise, acute indigestion. The doctor Colin. Of course, I don't think
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he was quite as thoughtful as Jonathan. Jonathan was always so considered, and
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he was a Oh my gracious, here I go, just rambling on and
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on. You didn't come here to listen to my silly little affairs. No,
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they're very interesting. Well, I've always tried to keep busy and keep
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my mind occupied. That's why I started in business, the Lonely Hearts Club.
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Oh, I wish you've heard about it. Well, I admit I
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felt kind of foolish at first about starting it. I need Josh about those
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kinds of clubs. It was Burton's idea. Really, he's my nephew,
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you know. Oh, dear, I wish you were here this efternoon so
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you could meet him. He's such a nice boy. He thought I'd do
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real well at that kind of business. And he was right too. Absolutely
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rite old money, you understand. But it was loads of fun meeting all
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those nice people, especially man. Yes, that's how I met Jonathan.
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So I was told that the way it happened, he wrote into the club
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and I send it my picture and that's what started him. I remember when
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Burton showed me the letter. He said, Aunt, Mabel, this one
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sounds like you're kind of man, and he certainly was. Does Burton help
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you with the clos well? He runs it. Really, it's such a
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sweet boy and he works so hard. I just don't know what i'd do
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with that, But I don't know what I do. Yes, I imagine
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he's a great comfort zone. You have no idea, mister Doe, I
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suppose not. Well, I guess i'd better run along, missus Wells,
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it's been such a pleasure talking with you. It seems like young folks nowadays
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don't often have the gift for conversation the way they did in my time.
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Well, things move fast at today. Well, I certainly hope that company
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of yours moves fast, young man. I have to start house hunting,
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you know, the estate and everything goes to Jonathan's daughter, and all I
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have is the insurance. Oh, it's such a bother, mister Dalla.
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The funeral and moving out of the tail seemed like I just have the worst
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luck with my husband's I walked out of there, groggy. My head's spinning.
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I wonder Norma Wells was nervous and hysterical. I felt that way myself
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after only a few minutes of it, and I still had no case,
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not one piece evidence. I'd had a pleasant chat with a sweet old lady,
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a little on the duddy side, maybe, but that was all dead
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end. Max Lancer from the DA's office was waiting for me in the hotel
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lobby. You'll notice I'm holding my hat in my hand, mister Allen.
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How come it's a symbol of humility. You were right all along. According
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to the coroner's report, Jonathan Wells died from a dose of ground glass.
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So it's murder after all. And in that case, do something for me
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with you from now on, I'm your man. Contact the authorities in Saint
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Louis and have them check into what death had happened there. About two and
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a half years ago. A man named Walter Maberley Burke, who's he missus
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Wells was married to him at the time. No, just a matter of
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bad luck. She told me so herself. Now here's our star to tell
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you about tomorrow. Intriguing episode of this week's story Tomorrow a strange attack,
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a scared girl, a hunt in the duck, and thirteen knots make a
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noose? 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 Less
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Crutchfield. It is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone. Be sure to join
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us tomorrow night at same time and station for the next exciting episode of Yours
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Truly Johnny Dollar. Roy Rowan speaking welcome back. Well, as we were
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reminded a few weeks ago, just because you're a kindly seeming old lady doesn't
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mean you can't also be a murderous criminal, and so we will see how
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this plays out. I do need to make a programming note here, and
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this is probably one of the more difficult serials in the series because we're missing
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part four. So on Friday we'll play part three and part five. On
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Wednesday, we'll play a show named gun Smoke, though it has very little
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relation to the Western that you can listen to over at OTR Westerns dot com,
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so plan on that on Wednesday. It's a bit of a surprise,
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so I won't say anything more. Comment here from David, who says,
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really enjoy Yours, Truly, Johnny Dollar. Adding to my enjoyment is that
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he's based in Hartford. Last episode I listened to took place in my hometown
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of Waterbury, Connecticut. Well, thanks so much, David, And I
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think that is one of the appeals of Yours, Truly, Johnny Dollar,
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is that it is not confined to a single location. It's set throughout the
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country, and in fact, I think he got into most states. I
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don't believe there was a Johnny Dollar episode set in Idaho, but he covered
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a lot of ground, and Connecticut was one of the more frequent stops.
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And I appreciate the acknowledgment by the show's producer that Connecticut really is the go
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to place for insurance, and that I think is still true today. All
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right, and one more listener comment before we go. Rebecca says my favorite
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great detectives of old time radio, regarding yours truly, Johnny Dollar. All
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right, Well, that will do it for now. Join us tomorrow for
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Mister Malone, then on Wednesday for Guns, and on Friday we will wrap
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Grahamson and Off