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well, now it's time to jump into today's episode of Yours Truly Johnny
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Dollar, The Shepherd Matter, Part one and Part two from Hollywood. It's
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time now for Johnny Dellair, Providence, Rhode Island. Calling mister Dollar.
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Yes one moment, please go ahead. Hello, Hello, mister Dollar.
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Yes, this is Dick Porter. I'd like to hire you. Porter.
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Dick Porter, I am an insurance broker here. Burt Masterson, a United
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Adjustment Bureaus, suggested, ey context, Oh what's the trouble, mister Porter.
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Well, darned if I know exactly. I just have a client who's
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taking out all the insurance he can get. I may be wrong, but
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it looks to me like he's getting ready to die. Oh can you help
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me out? I can try, mister Porter. Tonight and every Weekday Night
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Bob Bailey and the Transcribed Adventures of the Man with the Action Packed Expense Account
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America's Fabulous Freelance Insurance Investigator Yours Trulee Johnny Dollar. Expense Accounts submitted by special
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investigator Johnny Dollar to Richard Porter for Ady Webster Boulevard, Providence, Rhode Island.
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The following is an accounting of expendit yours. During my investigation of the
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Shepherd Matter expense account item won fifteen dollars air faireness, so that's hard for
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the Providence. I arrived at two thirty in the afternoon and was in my
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hotel room by three point fifteen. At five o'clock, I was having a
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quiet drink with Porter, who turned out to be a twenty four year man
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in the insurance brokerage business and seemed to know what he was about. I've
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never had anything like this happen to me, and I didn't quite know what
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to do about it. I'm glad I can get some expert advice from you,
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while I don't know how expert the advice will be, but I don't
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do what I can for you, mister Porter, and one another one of
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these. No, I'm fine for now, thank you. I'll try to
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explain this matter as far as I know. Two days ago, doctor Shepherd
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called me up and inquired about rates on straight Life insurance. He's carried about
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twenty thousand dollars worth. The policies ten years are better. I have the
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figures in my office. I gave him the prices for coverage, and he
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said he'd take eighty thousand dollars, which would bring him up to an even
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hundred thousand. Now Shepherd's a single man. The beneficiary on his other policies
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is his mother, Claire Shepherd. She lives over in Pawtucket. He's only
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dependent. He wants to name herb officiary again. I see now ward the
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matter stand with doctor Sheppard right now. I told him to take a few
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days to draw the policies up. He sent me a check for the first
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payment and told me to do what had to be done. I don't want
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to act on his application until I know it's okay. Sure, Well,
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what can you tell me about doctor Shepard? Very little. He seems to
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have a good practice here in town and does his share of charity work and
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so on. As far as I know, he's above. Question would have
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to be, of course, practice medicine here. He has an apartment above
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his officers, owns building, all of his equipment. Know anything about his
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friends. No, Now, let me understand this about doctor Sheppard. He
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called you, you didn't call him. He wanted to buy the insurance,
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you didn't try to sell it. That's about it. Yes, And that's
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why I'm worried. Give me one hundred people and I'll show you ninety nine
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out of that hundred who will never never call up an insurance broker and say
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I want to buy some life insurance. People have to be sold life insurance.
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They'll go out and shop around for fire, theft coverage, obil insurance
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held almost any kind, but straight life insurance that has to be sold.
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On the other hand. Suppose Shepherd is that one in one hundred. Yeah,
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it may be a perfectly legitimate situation. Yeah, Shepherd may have looked
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into his mirror one night and said to himself, I got to have one
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hundred thousand dollars worth of insurance or I won't sleep A wink. Oh yeah,
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it could have happened that way, mister porter. But I have to
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think of those ninety nine people in that hundred sure sure sort of way.
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Well, here's to caution, cheers. Expense account adam two twenty five dollars
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deposit on a rented car, which I use the following day driving from place
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to place. Collecting data on doctor Charles Sheppard, MD. At his bank,
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I was able to learn that he enjoyed what might be called a lucrative
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practice, and that, like most people, he spent slightly more than he
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made. He belonged to a golf club where he was seldom seen. He
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belonged to a tennis club, which he managed to make three or four times
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a week. Questioning the pharmacist who had the prescription Countra a half block from
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doctor Shepherd's building, and the manager of a cafeteria across the street from same
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I was unable to learn who doctor Shepherd's steady companions were or gain any information
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that would justify his puzzling application for life insurance. Hello, good morning,
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Oh, good morning. I'd like to see doctor Shepherd. Please. Do
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you have an appointment? No? I don't. Well, may I have
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your name? Please? Johnny Dollar? Dollar Dollar, Are you a regular
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patient of doctor Shepherd's. Mister, No, no, I'm not. I
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didn't think I recalled your name. I've been with doctor Shepherd almost five years.
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Who recommended doctor Shepherd? No one when, mister Dollar, I'm afraid
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doctor's out now and won't be back until late this afternoon. Well, now
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that's funny. I was standing out in front of you three minutes ago,
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and I thought I saw doctor Shepherd walk in. Please, miss Dollar,
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he is not in to anyone. What's your name? Why? I'm mis
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Treeter, Miss Treeter. Well, yes, but I like to see doctor
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Shepherd. Miss Treeter here, oh insurance investing? He yes, Will you
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tell the doctor that please? Why? Yes, I'm sorry I had to
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tell your doctor was out. He asked me to say that to everyone who
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came in. I'm afraid the doctor's been acting strangely all day. I'm very
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much concerned over him. Excuse me. The tall, pale brunette girl in
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the crisply Starts uniform was certainly concerned about something. She bit her lip,
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forced do on a wan unprofessional smile, and looked like she wanted to cry,
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just before she disappeared beyond the reception room to seek out doctor Sheppard.
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I pretended not to notice that part One minute passed, two minutes, three
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minutes, no one reappeared. So I pushed the door open and I looked
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down the corridorading to the examination rooms and laboratory. I had to notice doctor
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Charles Shepherd standing at the end of the corridor. Most of his costume was
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medically correct, white coat, stethoscope in one hand, but on the other
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hand he brandished a thirty two automatic and the safety was off. Stay where
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you are, mister, and get your hands up. What pucket do you
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keep your credentials in? Left inside? I'll get her insurance investigator for whom
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at the moment, for mister porter Dick. Yeah here, I'm sorry,
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mister Dollar. I guess I'm very nervous these days. Oh, mister Dollar,
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I'd like to get you a dress and phone number before. Well,
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that's all right, Korean. Don't you think this might be a good time
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to go out and get a bite? Well, it's a little early,
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doctor, I have some lab tests. Go ahead, Korean like a good
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girl and lock up. Yes, goodbye, mister dog. Yeah, goodbye,
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very fine girl, Korean. Jeez been with me five years. She
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told me. Oh, I don't know how I'm going to explain meeting you
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in the hallway with this in my hand. Yes, well, before you
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try, suppose you snap the safety on? Oh? Yes, how you
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look somewhat foolish. I guess you want to come in my office? Sure,
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you say, mister Porter's. Mister Porter told me you made an application
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for eighty thousand dollars worth of life insurance. We look into things like that.
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Doctor, investigate me because I want to buy life insurance. Yeah,
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you're a single man with few responsibility. Well, I don't know whether to
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be irritated or not. Am I going to get my insurance? I wouldn't
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be irritated? Doctor. What's yourself in the insurance company's position? It's not
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used to this kind of application. Oh, you may get it. I
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don't know, but obviously you're in some kind of trouble gone at all.
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Well, I you know, the whole thing is a ridiculous mess, mister
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Dollar. My life has been threatened by a man who has definite homicidal tendencies.
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I suppose I've been acting very strangely lately. I don't know whether to
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leave town or give up my practice. All you have to do is pick
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up the telephone and call the police and tell them about it. A thriller
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in your life comes under a police business. Doctor. I know that,
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and I would go to the police only. Well, it's a very delicate
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matter. I have a patient's welfare to think of it. You can't very
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well treat any patient if you're dead. I suppose you sit down and tell
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me all about it, all right. Several months ago I treated a woman
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named Forbes. A thorough examination and consultation disclosed that her poor physical condition was
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not based on any organic disorder, but rather upon her own emotional instability,
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not an uncommon diagnosis this hectic day and age. You heard of things like
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this, mister Dollar. Oh, I've heard of semantics and neurotics and psychotics.
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But I'm not a doctor. Well, let me tell you the psychotherapeutic
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side of medicine is by far the most challenging and one in which I've had
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considerable experience. Consequently, I undertook to treat Missus Forbes, hoping to affect
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a cure. Are you a psychiatrist, doctor, No, I am not.
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Don't misunderstand me, mister Doller. In the process of treating Missus Forbes's
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physical ailments, I urged her to recount a variety of experiences, talk to
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her from day to day, probing all the while for the source of her
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trouble. It has been my intention from the first to place her in the
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hands of a competent neurologist. I suspected her troubled early in the treatment.
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She's married to an erratic, ruthless, ill tempered man, Paul Forbes.
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Oh, I made a grave error. When Missus Forbes pressed me last week,
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Well, I could only tell her to move out and divorce him immediately.
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That's pretty extreme advice, doctor, I know, but I also know
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the advice was right. Oh, you aren't in sympathy with me, I
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can see. But let me tell you that any competent psychiatrist would have advised
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her the same. I approached her husband on the matter a few days ago.
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What I explained to him that Missus Forbes's health, her very life is
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in jeopardy, that more is involved here than just keeping intact. A union
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which has nothing but legality, is a binding force. And mister Forbes doesn't
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care for semantics. He doesn't care for Missus Forbes, mister Dowler. He
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ranted and raved and accused me of trying to break up his home, and
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finally he attacked me. I managed to get away. Did he threaten you
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then? Yes, he said he'd kill me. Who else was there?
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What do you mean? Who heard him say these things? R Missus Forbes
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was there, and a servant in their home, Yes, a servant uptons
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his name. I believe he should have called the police. I should have
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done a lot of things differently in my lifetime, but I didn't call the
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police. My primary concern is for Missus Forbes. Further shock and guilt complex
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could be totally disastrous to hers. So here gonna creak around here with a
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gun in your hand, I don't know whether I'd even know how to use
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it. I why the application for all the insurance? I wondered if Forbes
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might get me. I wanted to be sure my mother was taken care of.
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I don't know whether anyone's ever threatened your life, and you knew for
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certain he'd try to carry out the threat. But that is the position I
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am in. What are you going to do? I don't know. I'll
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think of something, But what about my insurance? That's up to mister Porter.
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If what you say is true, I wouldn't assure you. What do
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you mean if it's true. Of course it's true, Doctor, I don't
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believe it. I left him standing there in the corridor, staring after me,
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a lonely man, somehow not as frightened a man as he tried to
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let me believe. I wondered about that. I was still wondering about it
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when I went to sleep that night. Johnny Dollar, Big Porter, mister
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Dollar, Hi, did you check on doctor Shepard? Yeah? Do I
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write up his policies? Well, that's up to you, mister Porter.
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Doctor Shepherd's life has been threatened. What that's according to him? And the
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man who threatened his life has definite homicidal tendencies also according to doctor Shepard.
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Well what do you think, Porter? I think doctor Shepherd's a liar expense
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account. Submitted by special investigator Johnny Dollar to Richard Porter for Ady Webster Boulevard,
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Providence, Rhode Island. The following is an accounting of expenditures during my
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investigation of the Shepherd matter. More expensive it him three twenty six cents one
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bottle of aspirin for mister Porter. I felt he was going to need it.
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I hope you are trying to be funny, mister. I'm not,
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mister Porter. I think you've got a tough decision to make. I know
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that the commission on eighty thousand dollars worth of insurance would be high. Sit
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down, Oh thanks, mister Porter. Doctor Shepherd told me he bought or
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tried to buy all that insurance because he thought a man named Forbes was going
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to kill him. He bought it, he said, to make certain his
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mother is well provided for. He was carrying a thirty two colt. Now
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he spoke of treating Forbes's wife and of advising her that divorce would settle her
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health problem. Mister Forbes didn't like that and accused Shepherd of trying to wreck
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his home. And well that's about it. Now, what have we got?
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Well, your doctor Sheppard is either nuts or an idiot. Or the
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cleverest man alive. I don't know. I do know. I believe about
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one half of what he told me, maybe less. What reason would he
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have to live? Treats me. If someone threatened your life or mine,
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we turn to the police for help. Now Shepherd won't do that, insists
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that it would probably be hazardous in the case of his patient, missus Forbes.
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I don't want to write up this policy of what he says is true,
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but I don't want to pass up the commission. If it is true.
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Can you stick around town for another day or two and find out about
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it. I'll do what I can. Mister Porter, go ahead, have
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an aspirin. He had an aspirin, and I had a car ride once
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again out to the offices of doctor Shepherd. The same things are more or
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less going on in the same way. His nurse, Miss Streeter, appeared
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as distraught as ever. Once she recognized me. There was a quick dabbing
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at the eyes, a straightening of the hair before she spoke, I good
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morning, mister Dollar. Oh oh, I like to see the doctor again.
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He was calling mister Porter's office trying to locate you. I'll buzz him,
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mister Dollar. Do you have anything to do with why doctor's been carrying
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a gun. No, that's his business. In other words, I should
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mind my business. Well, I'm being honest. I've advised him what to
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do on the matter. What matter. He'll have to explain that to you,
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Miss Streeter. It doesn't make much sense to me. You can go
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back now, okay, nice he al mister doll. Hello, doctor,
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you were pretty insulting yesterday. I'm sorry about that, but we both have
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a problem to solve, and I get paid sometimes for deliberately insulting people.
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You're a stranger. You want to change his story about all this? I
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wish I could change it. It's still a miss, A bad miss.
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I thought it all out last night, and I still missed hold of my
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original thinking. I have to place my concern for my patient, missus Forbes,
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before anything else. In other words, you won't call the police and
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tell them your life's been threatened. No, and you're very stubborn about that
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part. I don't think you comprehend the situation at all. Wait a minute,
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let's understand each other. Doctor. If this man Forbes is all you
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say he is, and you say you're the expert on homicidal tendencies. Then
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the best thing for you to do is to prefer charges against him for threatening
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your life and have him locked up. Now you could do that, according
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to what you've told me about Missus Forbes and a servant in their home witnessing
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is threats. I will try to explain it again. I can't do that
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for Missus Forbes's sake. I just can't. She's been through a sh pattering
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ordeal. I must attempt to resolve this quietly. True. I can generally
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anticipate a man's actions inside my office under clinical conditions, but I well Forbes
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is different. That's why I tried to contact you today. Someone like you
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could approach Forbes and possibly persuade him to discard his ideas of violence, probably
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do it in a quiet way too. What does mister Porter pay you?
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Well, once I've got to do with it, I'm willing to pay you.
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I mean, you and I don't seem to get along very well.
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But I phone Porter and he tells me you're one of the best men in
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your line of business. I'll pay you to go to Paul Forbes and talk
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to him as I've described. I can't figure you, doctor, now I'll
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let you and I not get into any personality arguments. Will you do this
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for me for your regular fee? I was going to do it anyhow,
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for mister Porter and the fee he pays me. I just wanted to check
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you first. I'll do it, but I still think it's a matter for
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the police. All right, let's leave it this way. You go talk
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to Forbes. If you think he means to kill me, then I'll call
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the police and prefer charges against him. Patient or no patient. How's that
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that sounds a little more sensible, doctor. I took down the home address
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of Paul Forbes and climbed to my rented car and drove over to his home
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in the gilded edge of the city, a story and a half colonial with
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all the turmings, lawns, trees, plymouth convertible, a push button station
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wagon in the garage. It was a nice, warm spring day and some
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flowers were blooming and smelling up the area in a very nice way. Flies
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buzzed, he's drawn, birds sang, and I went up and pressed the
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doorbell. I should have gone butterfly catching or taken a plane to smoke can
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Yeah, I'm looking for pearl Forbes. Does he live here? Yeah,
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he sure does. I'm Forbes, just the forest. My name is Johnny
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Dull. Yeah, And I came over to talk to you with front of
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his gun slapped against the side of my head, and I went down to
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my knees. The door slammed somewhere and someone ran away. I twisted around,
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trying to see what it was all about, and then I managed to
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get to my feet. I'm trying to see Paul Forbes plunging the plumb without
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the driveway and heading I don't know where. Oh good goodness, what happened
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here? Where's mister Forbes? You hurt? Oh? Miss Forbes? Oh
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let me help you, sir, give me your well better sit you down
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over here. Goodness, goodness gracious, how did this happen? Mister Forbes
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swung a gun? No? Oh no, no easy, sir. Let's
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sit down here. What happened here? I'm afraid mister Forbes attacked this gentleman,
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Miss Forbes. Then go to my medicine chest and get some swabs in
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a panic. Right, the doctor isn't necessary. It just may be your
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cut, it might be deep. Well, get the first aid things and
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some brandy up to right away. This is unforgivable, just unforgivable conduct.
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Please. I don't know who you are. Are you a friend of Paul?
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No, I'm Johnny Dollar. I wanted to discuss with your husband and
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something. I take it to your Missus Forbes. Yes, oh, set
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them right here. Yes, you're feeling a little better, so I don't
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know yet. He let me try some of that. Here we go,
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sir, Easy, now, easy? Thanks? How does it look to
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you? I believe it's not too deep, Missus Forbes. How's a feel,
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mister Dollar? And I don't think it's very deep. I'll be all
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right now. Minute up and go. Tell upon doctor Sheppard and tell him
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to come over here immediately. Mister Dollar, I can't tell you how sorry
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I am for miss you. You can bring suit against us, You can
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do anything you want to, mister Dollar. Paul's temper is just ungovernable these
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days. He could have killed you. He took the car and ran.
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I don't know what's gotten into it. Two nights ago. You take my
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personal position having to kill him. Now he's attacked you for no reason at
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all. Any idea where he might have gone. Heaven only knows. Mad
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that's what he isn't to doll its mad Pauline Forbes had a right to be
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scared. From what I'd seen of her and from what I'd seen of her
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husband. He was an angry man with a gun in his hand, slugging
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at anyone in sight. She was a distraught woman with a darkening spot underneath
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her right eye. And it wasn't Miss Garret. I began to wonder who
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needed more looking after doctor Shepherd, Missus Forbes or Johnny Dollar. No,
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you just I still know, sir. Why. I guess you kind of
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fainted a little bit. Anything I can get you, sir? No,
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just tell me about mister Forbes, a beggar pardoner. Look, I'm an
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insurance investigator. I came here today to talk to mister Forbes about threatening doctor
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Shepherd's life. Oh well, I wouldn't want to talk out of turn,
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so you you better discuss that with miss Forb. Now, just one question.
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Did mister Forbes threaten doctor Shepherd's life? Yes, sir, you heard
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him. I did. He attacked doctor Shepherd here two nights ago. Did
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he also attacked Missus Forbes? Mister Dollar? This is an unhappy house.
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Things are going all wrong here the last few months, mister Forbes changed.
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Miss Forbes, Well, I don't know, but please don't ask me to
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speak up against anyone. I'm just trying to find out the best thing to
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do for everybody concern. What can you do, sir? I know I
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didn't think anything like this. Terrible, terrible, this about seven and now
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I want you to go up your room and lie down. There's no sense
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in you're getting any more excited. I want to see about mister Dollar.
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First, good morning, doctor. Hell, let's have a look at this
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Dollar. Get that line, Yes, sir, how is it? Well?
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I don't think it's anything worse than a cut. How do you feel?
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Dollar? Oh? And asked for my straighten me out? I hope
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so. Yes, I'll get some suits. Dollar. I should have taken
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your advice yesterday. I'm going to take it now. I'm going to call
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the police and have this man arrested. He might kill somebody next time.
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Yeah, am I all right? Busy? Yeah? A little that'll wear
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off. They'll take him into custody and probably talk some sense to him.
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This is awful. You go up to your room now, missus Forbes.
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We will handle this up to take missus Forbes upstairs. Yes, you just
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come along with thank you. Yeah, she is not a well woman.
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She looks all right to me. I wish she were. I don't want
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to get an next ray on that head. Can you come by the office
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this afternoon? Yeah, I guess give me the police. I doubt if
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it's concussion or anything like that, but it's best to play safe. You're
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a safe player all the time, aren't you? Doctor? Does that mean?
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I don't know? Now? Look here, I'm not good. Hello.
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Yes, I want to talk to somebody about a threat on my life.
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My name is Shepherd, Doctor Charles Sheppard. When I left him,
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he was reporting Paul Forbes to the police. He gave them forbes description and
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the license number of the Plymouth Forbes was driving. I didn't stay beyond that.
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Maybe I should have. Maybe I should never have left that house.
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I'm not sure. But if I hadn't left, I might have saved a
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life. Now here's our star to tell you about tomorrow's intriguing episode of This
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week story Tomorrow. Well, the big lie is as true as little green
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Roy Rowan speaking welcome back. Well, this is the type of investigation I
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guess insurance company might want done to prevent something like the whole Ed Julian affair
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that we heard a couple of weeks back. And of course the doctor's conduct
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in this case raises all kinds of ethical questions. So the other thing I
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wonder about is how much insurance is it's changed, because he references this idea
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that life insurance straight life is not something that people just call to get.
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But and that may have been true, I think in previous years, but
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insurance companies had already begun selling through a lot of advertising. Plus I guess
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in our day we've had a lot of financial experts emerge who recommend and popularize
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recommending carrying life insurance. So I don't know if this would set off any
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alarm bells today, But this looks to be a pretty good mystery, and
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I hope you'll join us on Wednesday when we continue with the Shepherd matter,
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