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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Midas Touch Matter, Parts One and Two (EP1155) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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time for today's episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar uh and that action packed expense
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accounts taking them to Arizona. As we go ahead and we take a listen
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to the Modest Touch Matter Parts one and two from Hollywood, It's time now
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for Johnny Dellar at mcgreg and Universal Adjustment hereaud Oh, hi, Patty,
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this is my third call where you've been. I'm buying some tackle. I
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want to go fishing. Yeah, I'm heading down to New York State.
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It's Sopus River, maybe the beaver Hill. Try to snag myself a nice
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trot and Patsy, my fishing is one thing you aren't going to interfere with.
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I wouldn't think of it. Why don't you try a Linke Mohafi?
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Where is that along the Colorado River up between Nevada and Arizona? What sure
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beat against a Greater Southwest Insurance and Liability What are you talking about? I
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don't know how you'd value those at Shopper's River Trout. There's a fish out
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there that maybe worth three million bucks. Johnny, I'll be right over tonight
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and every weekday night. Bob Bailey in the transcribed Adventures of the Man with
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the action packed Expense Account of America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator, Yours Truly,
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Johnny Dollar. Expense account submitted by special Investigator Johnny Dollar to Greater Southwest Insurance
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and Liability Company Kingman, Arizona, office. Following is an accounting of expenses
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incurred during my investigation of the Midas Touch Matter expense account out of one cabfair
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from my apartment to the Universal Adjustment Bureau eighty two forty two North Spring.
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When I got there, Pat McCracken was standing holding the door of his office
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open for me and Johnny. But don't bother shitting down. Now, what's
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that supposed to me? It means you haven't got time you're pack Oh you
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bet? I am for a trip to the sofas and some of those pretty
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rainbows in Eastern Brook. Trot got a new little oil called fast Strike.
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I want to try out. I hear it's great. Sorry, but if
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there's going to be any actual fishing, it's going to be for Lake Mohave
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Bass. Here there you playing tickets here to New York non stop Los Angeles
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and not to Las Vegas. Now you'll have to go to Kingman Arizoner by
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car hold On boys. Slow down. Man is Ian Kingman is Jake Kessler
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at Southwest. Pat. Uh, you mind telling me what it's all about
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the Midas touch Mine, new racket and uranium, I said, Midas gold
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Mine. Oh sure, Well what's the insurance angle? Ask J Kessler.
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When you get the Kingdom, what but you gonn at least tell you you
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only got twenty minutes to catch your plane to New York. You mean if
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I had just signed it and with a million and a half dollars maybe three
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million at steak, nobody's going to quibble too much over your expense account.
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Maybe I should take a crack at those Lake Mojave baths expense a count Adams
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two and three, two ninety even a handful of American Express travelers checks and
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cav fair. Back to my apartment for my luggage, then to the airport.
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From my plane to New York to Las Vegas, Nevada. It was
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eleven thirty pm when the big plane slowly glided down out of the clear,
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starlet sky. And unless you've seen the millions billions of stars that twinkle brightly
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through the clear, dry air over the Mohave Desert, you've missed a real
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thrill. We glided down toward the landing strip on the edge of the town
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of Las Vegas. From the air, the myriad multicolored lights made the fambuinous
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resort sparkle like a field of jewels. I had them four to thirty cents
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phone call to car rental agencies they were all closed. I had them five
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sixty five cents per cab to the Flamingo Hotel, where I decided to spend
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the night and drive on to Kingman in the morning. I had them six
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hotel overnight food and incidentals one hundred seventy eight dollars thirty cents. If you
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know Las Vegas, you know what that word incidentals me fifteen odd and blacks.
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Wave your bats please. There we got to the boy. I'll say
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this much. I tried to make some expense money on the side, but
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well, I guess I shouldn't have tried to cover so many of the gambling
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joints if I'd stayed at the Flamingo, where I'd always made me a buck
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or two at the casino. But this time lady luck just wasn't on my
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side. Anyway. Well, I had them seven fifty dollars deposit on a
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rental car. The next morning, I headed south and east toward king in
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Arizona. First stopover dam Or, that tremendous hunk of steel on masonry straddles
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the Nevada Arizona state line, and I took a brief but longing look at
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what I could see of giant Lake Meet. I wanted to stay right there,
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break out my fishing tackle and take a crack at some of the huge
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lunker baths for which lake meat is famous. But duty is duty or something.
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Anyhow, I hit the highway again across the hot, dry desert toward
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the city of Kingdon. At this time of year, at this time of
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morning, the thermometer hits the hundred mark without any trouble at all, and
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the occasional swimming pools and motels outside Kingman looked pretty inviting. When I drove
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straight to Jake Kesseler's insurance office on East Palm Drive. Right. Must be
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Dollar, It's a good name, Come on in. Jake was tall,
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angular, well tanned, and dressed in blue jeans, opened denim shirt,
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high heeled boots, and broad brimmed hat. He looked as though he'd be
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more at home on a range point than in this insurance office. All right,
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Dollar, let me tell you what this is all about. Okay,
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thanks miss kissing Jake. You want the folks around town think I'm putting on
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airs? Okay, Jake. By the way, Johnny, I hope you
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didn't make any arrangements to stay right here in Kingman, did you No?
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My bags are still out in the car. A good I got a place
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waiting for you down at Catherine Landing Lake, Mahovey Resorts. What to call
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it now? It's nice cabins, good restaurant, nice people right down at
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the edge of the lake. Too bad you aren't a fisherman. Well,
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I just happened to have brought along a couple of rods and reels, good
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boy, and then you'll love it. Bust your favorite down there will show
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you a spot where you can haul in the prettiest mess of large mouth bash
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you ever saw, five six pounds maybe more. Oh, stop making my
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mouth water, Jake. I'm supposed to be here working on a case.
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Well, every man's entitled to a little time off for fishing, and you
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look like you could stand some. Brother. You are killing me. Listen,
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Pat mccrack and a Universal Adjustment Bureau said something about a gold boy.
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Hey, yeah, I contacted Pat because I knew he'd know where to find
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you. It's the Midas touch mine, Johnny, and it's tried down that
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neighborhood where you'll be staying. Well, the mine was abandoned back in the
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early thirties, worked out apparently, but about a year ago, hard luck
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Dennis took another look at it. We see Dennis prospector promoter here and there
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Arizona, Nevad of California. He's found himself an old mine, pecked away
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at it and managed to scratch out a fair living for himself, you said,
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promoter. Yeah, well, I was in Texas mostly I was able
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to get the full story. But it appears he got some folks to invest
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in some kind of phony oil stock down there a couple of years ago and
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had to skip out. Couldn't have been too serious. So because the law
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and never bothered chasing him up here or else, he was able to make
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things look legal enough, could be, could be anyhow, He's been back
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in this country for a while now, poking around the hills looking for the
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big strike again. You know how prospectors are. Yeah, I've heard finally
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while back he started prowling around the old Midas touched first thing. You know,
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he'd got a lease on it. Well, I still don't see the
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insurance connection. You will, you will and you won't like it. Okay.
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Well, next thing, we knew, he'd got a report on some
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ore samples he'd brought into town here at the essay office. Johnny, Well,
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you wouldn't breathe it good, huh, Johnny. It looked like a
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prospector's dream comes true or worth about eleven hundred dollars a time. All right,
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Now, it takes money to work a mind like that, no matter
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how you figure it. First of all, he had a big pumping job
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to do, pumping out there in the middle of the desert, that's right.
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You see, when there was just the Colorado River running down the valley,
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it was different. But since Davis Dam was put into form Lake Mohave
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about ten years ago, the level of the water table in that whole area
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is raised considered. I see, the Midas Touch was in a low spot
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and parts of it were dug pretty deep. So now with seepage from the
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lake feeding at the lower level filled up with water. Yeah, well,
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now, Jase, simmer down, Johnny, I'm getting to it. Hard
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luck. Dennis needed money, a lot of money. So who should he
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come to but the Haskell Brothers, three of my best clients. So what
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happened. I hate to keep chewing your ear off. Three, And I've
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got to give us some background. Shoot, Ernie Kevin and George Haskell.
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There moneymen from back east. What do you mean? Money men or brokers?
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You know stock market. Oh, they made themselves big pilot dough,
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got the usual ulcers doing it, and then decided to give up and get
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as far away from New York as possible. I don't blame them by the
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babus when they got out here. Instead of just retiring and taking it easy,
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you know, much as you might like it at first, you can
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get pretty bored just riding around on horseback and hunting and fishing all the time.
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Get turn of fishing, huh? Nothing go on? Yeah. Well,
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after a few months they decided they'd have to have something to do with
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themselves, or at least something to occupy their mind. So they bought up
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the old too lazy two ranch, eighty thousand acres northeastern ye're not very good
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grays in land, but enough to keep two three hundred head to beef alive,
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and with alex bundirs they're foreman. They did all right. Well,
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now let's get down to gentlemen, ranchers, they called themselves, and that's
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just about what it amounted to. They built a nice house on the property,
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settled in it. Well, not much work, but just enough worry
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and responsibility so that time didn't hang too heavy on their hands. Now now,
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now all their insurance is with my company, the Straight Life That is
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five hundred thousand apiece. And you're afraid something, sir, half a million
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each and double indemnity, wow, a million apiece in case of death by
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accident, right accident. So let's get back to hard luck Dennis. Well,
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that part's easy, isn't it. Is it? Sure? Dennis needs
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money to open his mind. The Haskell boys are obviously loaded. First off,
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Even before he got his leaps, he tried to sweep talk him into
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putting up some money. But after years of fooling around of those bulls and
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bears in Wall Street, they were too smart for that. So we took
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them down in the mine, let them chip off some samples or and had
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them take it themselves down at the assay office. And was that the ore
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that you said tested so high? Yes, sir, And from the minute
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they saw the report on it, you couldn't have held him back with a
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twenty mule team. How much did they go in for twenty thousand apiece cash
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on the strength of a handwritten agreement with hard Luck Dennis that they'd get thirty
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percent of whatever came out of the mind. Okay, Jake, Now let's
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get down to business. Are you afraid that something connected with his minas touched
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mine? And hard Luck Dennis is what the Haskell brothers in jeopardy? I'm
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afraid it's got beyond that, Johnny. Uh. Three days ago, hard
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Luck took the Haskeles over to the mine again for another look. Yeah,
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cave in. They finished digging their bodies out yesterday morning, all three of
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them. Hard Luck Dennis. He wasn't caught in that cave in? Where
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is he? Who knows? Hmm? Then for you, it's a question
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of a three million dollar payoff on the policies or a million and a half.
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Yep, Johnny, a question of accident or murder. And for me
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it's a matter of finding a killer, yeah, named hard Luck Dennis.
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And when you do, look out for him. Yeah, tell me,
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Jake, does anybody know I've come here to look into this the whole town.
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I'm afraid maybe I should have kept it quiet. Well, sometimes it
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is better if where are the policies? Oh? Here, I'll get them
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for you there right in this little side. Who are the beneficiaries? The
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only one the girl that is or was married to Kevin Haskell. The other
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two were bachelor's. She lived at the ranch. She finally claimed you no
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as well? Can you make the corners reports available to me anytime you want?
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I'll take it for you. Johnny Dollar, I mean this is the
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officer. You're the one I want to talk to. I want to talk
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to you. I want you to meet me your Oh who are you?
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Tell you in a second, and don't come care and again because mister I
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can outdraw your tutor. Who is this? You call me hard luck?
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Dennis? Johnny Dollar, I mean this is the office of Jay. You're
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the one I want to talk to her. Huh you heard me. I
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want you to meet me. Hello. Oh oh are you tell you?
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Whin and wearing a second? Don't come care and again because mister I cannot
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draw you to the win. Who is this? They call me hard luck?
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Dennis? Oh, you're planning to add another murders of that of the
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Hasko brothers. Thirteen miles out of Kingman on the Highway East Little Side Road
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to the right mark here for trade. Listen, I'm on the quarter,
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Ann you'll see an old minor shock be there at three o'clock shop. And
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what if I bring somebody with you or try anything funny and you'll never get
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out of this digital life? Hellod that called for me? Johnny? No,
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No, it wasn't Jake. But I wonder why a killer would call
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me expense accounts, I mean a buy special investigator Johnny Dollar location, Kingman,
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Arizona to the Greater Southwest Insurance and Liability Company, following as a report
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of expenditures. During my investigation of the Midas Touch matter, Jake Kessler,
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local representative for Greater Southwest Insurance and Liability, had laid it out pretty clearly.
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The three Haskell brothers, prosperous gentlemen ranchers, had taken out life policies
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totaling a million and a half dollars double indemnity, which meant that their death
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and what was supposed to look like an accident at the bottom of the Minas
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Touch mind could cause Southwest a cool three million and the finger of suspicion pointed
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straight at one hard Luck Dennis, prospector and promoter. It was in Jake
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Kessler's office that I had received a phone call from hard Luck. Where did
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hard Luck tell you to meet him? Johnny? Oh, I'll find it
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all right. Look, I think i'd better handle this alone, Jake,
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Johnny, he's being hunted by every available policeman here in Kingman. He's a
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killer. Like I told you, he got twenty thousand apiece from the Haskell
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brothers cash then took him down to the Midas touch and caved it in on
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him. All right. Even supposing that he did, why would he do
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it? And I got it? That's as obvious as those two heads you're
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wearing. The mine is worthless. How do you know? Because smarter people
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and him gave it up over twenty years ago. I thought you told me
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the your samples he brought out to say that eleven hundred dollars a ton.
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Now, look, Johnny, you know as well as I do that there's
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more ways to salt the gold mine than there's the skin of cat. Do
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you have any proof that hard Luck salted that one? No? But Tad
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Harding will Oh, Captain Tad Harding please. He hasn't lived out in this
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country all his life for nothing worse Harding now at the night's touch, when
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he gets back here, you see him, he'll show you that I'm right.
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Well, if you are, it certainly would point the finger at hard
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Luck Tennis, wouldn't. Can't you understand, Johnny? Hard Luck needed money.
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He's always needed money. He salted that mine, got sixty thousand from
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the Hassles on a lick and a promise, then caved in the mine on
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him before they could get wise to him. Good theory, we'll find it's
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the fact. That's why he skipped out as soon as he Yeah, he
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couldn't have skipped very far, could he? And if he were guilty,
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why would he want to see me? All right, Donnie, now listen
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to me. The Hassles were three of our finest citizens. So the whole
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town will cooperate with you. So don't do anything foolish like meeting that hard
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Luck Dennis alone. That willingness to cooperate includes you, Jake, you know
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it does. I'll do anything, all right, then, just give me
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your word you won't tell anyone that I'm meeting hard Luck. Well, No,
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because if you do. I'll drop this case like a hot potato.
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Wow. Okay, Johnny for the time being. Okay, I just noticed
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out the window Tad Harding's car just pulled up in front of police head for
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us. Then what are we waiting for? Let's go captain. Ted Harding
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turned out to be a tall, well built, cool headed man of about
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forty impressed me as being able to cope with any situation that might arise.
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He bore out everything Jay Kessler had told me about the Haskells and about hard
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Luck, and he added two new and very important bits of information. One
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that he'd found nothing whatsoever to indicate that the minas touch had been salted.
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On the contrary, he'd picked up some very rich chunks of ore. Two
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he'd learned the probable cause of the cave in and what it meant. He
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told it was murdered, Johnny, I told Tan Harding had found a length
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of wire rope, one end wrapped around the spool of a powerful handwinch.
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The other end had very obviously been tied around a pillar, a thick pillar
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of rock and gravel that had been dug around so as to leave support for
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the ceiling of a horizontal shaft Jake, and I walked back to his office.
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That's it, Johnny, no doubt about it, no doubt. If
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you quick turned to the handle on that winch, the pillar came down and
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the roof caved in. I'll have to admit it certainly looks that way.
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At least the company's off the hook for a million and a half of the
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insurance if we can prove that somebody operated that wench while the Haskells were down
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there. Ah, Now, look, that means finding that person. I'm
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satisfied it was murdered. Would the courts be? The court? Sure?
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When the claims on these policies are final, they'll be for three million on
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the basis of double indemnity for accidental deaths. You can bet your last penny
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on that. Claims haven't been filed yet, have they. No, Well,
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I hope we'll have time before they are time to prove it was murder
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by producing the murderer. You you still plan to see and talk to hard
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Luck Dennis? Yep alone, yep, when sometime soon, when Johnny tell
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you all about it, after I've seen him, Johnny, it's day.
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Look, if I'm going to stay at that place, you told me about
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over at Lake Mohave. I may as well go and get settled. Huh,
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how do I get there? I'll drive you over, Johnny, No
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point in that, I've got my rented car. Well, you probably want
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to be seeing the mine too. Maybe I can be of help to you.
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Maybe you just want to be present. If I happened to keep a
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date with hard Luck Tennis, now I didn't say that. He didn't need
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to, Jake. I want you to stay right here in Kingman, so
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you can keep in touch with whatever the police take up and still be in
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touch with me. There's a phone at the Lake Mohave Resort, isn't there?
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Well? Sure, john Also, don't forget that three million dollar claim
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may be filed here at your office any minute, if so, I want
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to know about it. Now, how do I get to Lake mohavee head
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east on Highway sixty eight? He said? So I did, And thirteen
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miles out of town I found the little side road yuck, a trail that
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hard Luck it described over the phone. The next mile on the quarter was
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about the worst driving I ever encountered. This was nothing but an old wagon
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trail. Several times the crank case and rare axles spread on boulders in the
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middle of it. The trailer dropped off sharply from the highway, and as
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far as I could see, there was nothing but sunbaked rock and gravel of
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the Mohave Desert, splotched here and there with withered sagebrush tumbleweed. It's a
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weirdly shaped Joshua tree, an occasional yucca plant with its stalk poking upward like
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a huge candle, and too many kinds of cactus to mention. All of
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it surrounded by bleak needles and crags of rock, by high plateaus and masons.
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The going got so bad I almost decided to get out and walk when
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I spotted the old miner shack that hard Luck had named as our meeting place.
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As I approached it, I could see no sign of life around it.
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Hello, anybody here? I like, Dennis? Hello, nothing,
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no one, no sign of life at all. Huh. The sudden movement
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at the corner of the shack was nothing but an ancient desert turtle plotting at
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what he probably thought was breakneck speed toward a shady spot under his sagebrush.
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Oh hi, love, anyone inside there? Mm hmmmm, Wow, that's
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not what I should have looked around back of this tack, right, gold
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Big tracing me dead? Hard Luck? Dolly? Yes, yeah, come
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along. Like I said, I don't see anybody else around in real stir
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down. I don't move nogain, that's smile. Sit down there on that
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bitch. Sure, what's this all about, hard Luck? I didn't do
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it, That's what it's all about. I didn't do it. I didn't
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kill l ashkool boy. If you understand that, I didn't think you did.
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Why not? Because if you had, I think you would have skipped
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the country. You wouldn't have asked me to come here and talk to you.
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That's right, that's right. Are you just trying to soften me up?
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How much point in that is there? With you holding a gun on
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me? If you didn't do it, hard Luck, why don't you go
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to the police in Kingman and tell him that I wouldn't have a chance jury
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anything else. Whole town's against me. They made up the mine. I
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did it so the best lawyer in the country couldn't see me. Apparently the
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whole town thought a lot of the hask A brother. Surely they had fine
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men that's why I picked him to share the mine with me. The only
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reason you picked them was because they had money. And you know it,
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yea like all the rest. Didn't you see the or they took out of
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the miner's touch. I heard about it, rich rich or twelve fifteen hundred
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dollars a ton, And I didn't plan it there. It's been there all
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the time. Even Captain Harden couldn't find where I sorted it because I didn't.
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Oh, you know that he was out there, Sure I do.
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I know everything that goes on in his desert. All right. Then,
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look suppose you put down that gun and tell me what happened the day the
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mine caved in on the hask you bet, I'll tell you. That's why
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I court you, But I won't put down this gun until I'm sure you're
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on my side. And then waving in some other direct you want to hear
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what I gotta say it and sit still and listen to me. First,
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tell me this was it murder? It was murder? Then by my head?
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Then who did it? You know? Yes, yes, I know
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they wanted to see the mine again. It's more samples. That was last
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Friday there the Caven yeah. So I took them down there, gave them
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a pick, showed them where to chip it off down on the second level.
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But then I left them there for a minute. I heard a car,
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heard a car pull up, so I went back out, went back
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to see who it was. The one's supposed to be anybody around that mine.
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I hadn't posted, but I'd heard this car pull up. Hub or
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go on go on? So I left the hassles below and wind that in
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a hurry. I went, no time for my eyes to get juice to
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the bright sunlight outside. All I saw was the car. When I stuck
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my head out, That's when it hit me. What do I mean when
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what hits Hurraha club or something? I knocked me out When I come to
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the cave and was all over. The haskeles were dead in there, and
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I knew what everybody would think, So I let out, stayed in the
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desert. What do you know? Who it was? Who hits you?
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Row by the car? The same one that made the key in ho dollar
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it listen, that's somebody coming out there. You cheated me, you brought
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her? No, No, I did not hard luck get away from my
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dark got hard luck hard Luck. Yeah, I guess they named you right.
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Now, here's our star to tell you about tomorrow's intriguing episode of this
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week story. Tomorrow, the so called Trackless Desert yields a set of tracks
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that lead straight to But if I told you you'd know, wouldn't you?
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So join us? Won't you? Yours Truly Johnny Dollar? Yours Truly Johnny
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Dollar, starring Bob Bailey is transcribed in Hollywood. It is produced and directed
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by Jack Johnstone, who also wrote this week's story. Be sure to join
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us one all night, same time in station for the next exciting episode of
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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. Roy Rowan speaking way, welcome back. Well.
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Hard Luck makes that fatal mistake of being a typical mystery character who just refuses
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to reveal what he knows about the murder until it's too late. Smart witnesses
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should go ahead and tell them who did it first and explain the watts later.
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But that leaves definite mystery for Johnny. There are a few things I
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think that we're someone interesting in Pat McCracken, of course, who believes that
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he can just interrupt Johnny's vacation usually can get away with it. For money.
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You know, of course, Johnny's free lance, so doesn't technically have
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to do any specific work, but Pat McCracken, such a forceful personality,
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can drive him from over the phone. There were a couple of I also
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liked. One thing I really liked about this episode was the descriptions of the
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area. Just beautiful descriptions. And it's possible, very possible that Jack Johnstone,
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the writer, was very familiar with this area. You know, this
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of course being written by someone who lived in California. And perhaps the most
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important thing that happened in this particular episode was that we got introduced to Johnny's
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passion of fishing, which I think is a key characterization thing. It's something
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that writers are taught all the time, and to give your characters things to
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do that are outside of the plot, it makes them seem it makes them
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seem like they are real, living, breathing people. And oftentimes when detectors
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do things, it's merely a contrivance. They go scheme so they can get
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into a scheme murder, They'll go fishing, They'll get into a phishing murder
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case with Johnny. Well, of course, there'll be a lot of cases
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around fishing. It is a definite passion and I loved it when Johnny was
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like, who I'm getting tired of fishing. I don't see how that's passible.
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I mean, really, that gives them such just such a great actor
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and character and such a great attribute. That's really going to serve the series.
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Well all right, well that will do it for today. We will
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be back tomorrow with our first episode of the Casebook of Gregory Hood, and
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you want to be with us on Wednesday as we continue the Minus touchmatter and
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