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Wrigley's Spearmint chewing Gum. They're refreshing, delicious treat that gives
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you chewing enjoyment. Presents for your listening enjoyment. John Lund
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As Johnny Dollar, Jeff Connors, Johnny, Oh, Hi, and Jeff,
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I haven't heard from your chances of you making it.
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Down here to Dallas real fast? Like?
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Huh?
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Well, I never know you to be in a hurry, Jeff.
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It's a firebug, Johnny.
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Four fires and four weeks total claims today ninety five thousand,
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keeps up.
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I ain't got no job left. You just gotta get
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out here tonight.
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You're kind of rushing things, aren't you me?
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Johnny?
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Oh, it's a firebug, thoughuld you'd like to be here
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when number five goes up. That means you've got to
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be in on the ten o'clock flight.
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Don't tell me he works on schedule every.
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Tuesday night at eleven o'clock.
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What do you say, Pal, I'll be there. The makers
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of Wrigley's Spearmant Chewing Gum bring you John lund and
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Another Adventure of a Man with the Action Pact Expense
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account America's Fabulous freelance insurance investigator you're truly Johnny Dollar. Friends.
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The makers of Wrigley's Spearmint Gum present these weekly adventures
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of Johnny Dollar because they know that millions of you
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enjoy Johnny Dollar. That's true of Wrigley's Spearmint Chewing Gum too.
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It's enjoyed by millions day in and day out. People
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find the chewing on a smooth, delicious piece of Wrigley's
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Spearmint Gum somehow makes time pass more pleasantly. Whether you're working, driving, shopping,
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or just taking things easy, That good tasty chewing gives
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you enjoyment and satisfaction. So always keep a package of
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Wrigley's Spearmint Chewing Gum handy, and whenever you want a refreshing,
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delicious treat, chew a stick. You'll like it. You really will.
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Expense accounts submitted by a special investigator Johnny Downer to
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Home Office Eastern Indemnity and Fire Company, Hartford, Connecticut. The
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following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of
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the punctilious Firebug matter. Expense account ADAM one one hundred
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and thirteen dollars and twenty cents airfare between Hartford and Dallas, Texas.
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Your Southwestern States manager, Jeff Conners met the ten o'clock
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flight at Love Airport and drove me down to your
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offices on South Akard Street. Here they are Johnny number one,
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candy store out Northwest, number two, two family residents on
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the east side. Three small factory out on Commerce Avenue.
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Four garage and repair shop out Southwest. Ran totally claims
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as nine five thousand, and it's all yours. He's all
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followed the same time pattern everyone almost Tuesday night around
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eleven o'clock, and that firebug just naturally lights up all
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new policies Jeff written within the past six weeks to
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two months.
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It's right.
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He hardly gets cold on the premium checks when it
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gets all hotted up again.
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On the claims. Any connection between the policy holders, I
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can't find one.
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If there is all in different businesses, different parts of
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the city, the whole thing just don't make sense.
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It does if the bug is in your own organization. Yeah,
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that's what Lynn Borchard says. Who's borchered Detective Lieutenant Arson Division.
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He's been working on it. How's he making out well?
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I got ten men out in the field, two gals
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in the office here, lots of alibis to check out,
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takes time. So far, there's no reason to suspect anybody.
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Those fires are reasons enough.
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But man, why did anybody want to do anything like that?
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Well, when it comes to firebugs, who knows, could have
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a grudge against you or the company, or maybe it
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just like to see them flame shoot up. That's as
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good a reason as any.
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Well, whatever it is, we sugar, I get this boy, Johnny,
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this kind of thing keeps up, I'll be losing my job,
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my home, my wife and everything else I can. What's
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the time, Johnny, it's furmun us after eleven. Wouldn't want
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to lay a little bit while this phone's ringing at
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this time of night, would you? Eastern and Dana Day Connors. Yeah,
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that figure where I get that address? That's uh, wait
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a minute, that's seven to five East west Chester. Yeah,
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I got it. Yeah, thanks, Lieutenant be seeing it number five,
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big apartment building, not in Westchester. You're sure it's one
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of yours. Wrote the policy on it myself four days ago. Well,
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let's get out there and have a look.
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Huh man, that's sure, I've gone.
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Yeah, there's another one. You're gonna write off.
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You can say, oh, cover's land Bouchard over there, didn't
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I'd be done.
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Here so quick. Let's see what he's got to say. Yeah, sure.
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I had, Lieutenant, he got down here right fast.
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Even reasonable to mister Conner's not. There's much I can
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do before she cooled down. I won't be before morning.
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I'm like you to meet Johnny Dollar, lieutenant, one of
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our investigators from the east.
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Johnny, that's Lieutenant Landbort idn't oil, Lieutenant.
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Looks like our firebug didn't waste any time showing himself
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off to you, mister Dollar.
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No question about I being talked well.
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That guy said, I won't be able to get in
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there until morning. When you figure the pattern where that
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fire rolled up and took hold, no doubt in my
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mind who reported it. Fellow by the name of Hendrickson
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at the second floor Apartment West called in from a
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hallway telephone.
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What kind of a story did he give you?
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He didn't got trapped up there on the second floor
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suffering third degree burns and shit, he's not in any
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sheep to talk to anyone. I don't know that I
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care to be around when he is fit to talk, though, Oh,
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why is that his wife and two kids? It's still
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in that fire.
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Someone Jeff Conners went back to the office to wire
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his preliminary report to Hartford, while I stayed around to
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see if anything would turn up. By one thirty am,
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the only thing we'd learned was that our only possible witness, Hendrickson,
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had died en route to the hospital. A preliminary check
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of the record seemed to indicate that the fire had
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started in the basement, but it was still too hot
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to check into the thoroughly, so Lieutenant Borcher drove me
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back downtown.
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I'll dig into it in the morning. Dollar. I can
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tell you right now what I'll find.
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Oh, what's that, Lieutenant?
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There'll be four or five hotspots indicating the use of
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kerosene gasoline something like that amount of paraping drippings.
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Sounds like a candle's used for a slow fuse.
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That's what we figure it found the same drippings and
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all the other fires.
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Any idea of how slow a feuse it is looks
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like an hour and a half.
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Two hours gives a bug plenty of time to get away,
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fix himself up, and alibis somewhere.
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Connor says, you think it's someone in his organization.
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Fold pattern points that way. Haven't been able to run him.
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Down, though takes a lot of legwork.
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Connor's has been a big help co operating right down
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the line.
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Known him along, Donna, Oh, four or five years off
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and on. He's a good man.
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Yeah, he doesn't seem to be letting his personal troubles
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interfere with his work any.
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What personal troubles at us?
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Well, he's been pretty broke for the past six months
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or so. Wife's been sick, run up a lot of
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doctor and hospital bills, had to buy a new home recently.
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Oh why is that last one burned down? Lost his
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eight month old son in that fire. Been pretty rough
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going for him. Yeah, well, when we get this firebug
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pinned down, might
help him some, take some of the
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pressure off, relieve his mind.
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Maybe you are Dollar, Oh thanks, Lieutenant.
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Check with me in the morning. Dollar, think over what
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I've been saying. If something will come.
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To mind, Yeah, yeah, I'll think about it. I had
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Bortuer dropped me off at your office building. I figured
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i'd pick up my bag and talk things over with
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Jeff before checking into a hotel. I let myself in
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with a key Jeff had given me and headed for
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his inner office. Wow, good morning you, Johnny Dollar. Mean
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anything to you, Johnny Dollar.
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Oh you're that insurance investigator, mister Connor said, was coming
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out from the east.
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That's right.
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Well, I'm plenty happy.
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To hear that.
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He gave me a pretty bad stop, mister Dollar.
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I'm sorry.
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I'm Ally Martin, mister Connor's secretary.
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And the rest of it.
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Well, you mean what I'm doing up here.
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Well, I'm as curious as the next guy.
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But I promised to have some material ready for mister
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Connors in the morning at the office tonight and said,
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you hurry. I forgot it and we'll just stop by
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to get it ready for him.
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You're a pretty conscientious employee, miss Martin, getting out of
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bed at two in the morning to come down to
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the office for something like that.
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Oh, No, wasn't that way at all?
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Oh what way was it?
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Well?
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I had a date this evening dinner theater and that
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club Romilo just down the street.
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Stopped up here on my way home.
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M h. Is this the material mister Connors wanted ready
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in the morning. Yes, it is comprehensive fire policy on
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the property. At seven to twenty five East Westchester. I try,
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that's pretty coincidental, isn't it. Well, or maybe you didn't
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know that there was a
fire out there tonight, a poet,
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Any idea why mister Connor has wanted this particular policy out.
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I think if you have any more questions to ask,
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mister Dollar, mister Connor should be here to answer them personally.
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That sounds reasonable, and maybe we should ring in Lieutenant
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Borchyard too, Lieutenant.
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Book, Hey, Sally, what's keeping you so long?
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Oh?
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Hi, didn't know anyone else.
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Was up here with you.
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This is Johnny Dollar, one of our investigator. Bill, mister Dollar,
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this is still tremblers.
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Oh, glad to know you, mister Dollar.
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I was telling mister Dollar about the wonderful time we
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had denied dinner in the theater and.
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Being at the Club Romulo until just a few minutes ago.
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Huh oh yeah, yeah, that's right. We did have a
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swell time. But honey, it's getting late, so if you
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were ready, let's run along.
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Okay, Bill, good night, mister Dollar.
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Glad to meet your dollar. Hope see you again. Sometimes,
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being a firm believer in the ability of my subconscious
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to resolve any knotty problems.
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I checked into the Baker Hotel for the night. The
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bed was very comfortable, but my subconscious didn't come up
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with a thing. Expenser count had them two three dollars
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and seventy five cents Texas style breakfast, including steak and
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pan fried potatoes. That supplied me with enough energy to
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walk over the City Hall and look in on Lieutenant
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Bortude with a.
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Little hit and run accident the corner of Westchestern Gates
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by nine o'clock last night. Dolla, it's just half block
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away from where the fire was, seems a fifty three
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Ford stand parked on the street there suddenly took off
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without lights, spun around the corner, and threw the fender
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off another car coming up the street.
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Do you think there's some tie in between that and
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the fire.
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Well, one of the boys in traffic thoughts. So, after
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witness gave him the license number the Ford, he checked
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it through motor vehicle.
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Who's it registered to?
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Jeff Connor?
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Friends, No matter what kind of work you do, there
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are bound to be times when the job seems monotonous,
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you feel tense and restless, and you need something to
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give you a boost. Well, you'll be surprised how helpful
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a stick of Wriggly Spearmint chewing gum can be at
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times like that you see. Chewing on a smooth piece
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of Wriggly spearmint gum is a natural way to ease
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tension and relieve that feeling of restlessness. The easy chewing
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gives you satisfaction. You get a nice little lift out
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of it. And Wriggly's Spearmint gum tastes good too. Its
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flavor is lively refreshing spearmint a flavor millions and joy.
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Try it and see for yourself. Get a few packages
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of Wrigley's Spearmint Chewing gum and chew a stick from
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time to time while you work. Chewing this delicious gum
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will make your job seem easier and pleasanter. It really will.
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And now, with our star John Lund, we bring you
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the second act of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar. The Traffic
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Divisions report of the hit and run accident on Westchester
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the night before added nothing to what Lieutenant Borchard had
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already told me. Jeff Conner's ford had been parked halfway
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down the block at approximately nine to five pm, it
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roared away from the curb without lights, turned the corner
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on the gates, smashed into the side of another car
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some ten feet from the intersection, and kept right on going.
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That'd be some reason for Connor's being there just two
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hours before the fire, and for taking off in such
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an old fire to hurry that way without light.
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Well, let's get Jeff's out of the story before we
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jump to conclusions. Lieutenant, I don't.
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Believe much in coincidence, mister Dollar. Time element checks out too.
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The two hours between the accident and the fire.
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We know those candle teess burn an hour and a half.
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Two hours leaving here at nine gave him plenty of
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time to ditch the car and meet you at the
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airport with a pretty clean alibi. He wasn't driving the
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Ford when he picked up, was he? No, it was
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a Plymouth coop. Mayh, that's his wife's car.
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What have you've done about getting him in?
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Not at home, he's not at his office. Nothing else
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I could do but send out a pickup on him.
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Leave word for me at the Baker Hotel when you're
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getting with him.
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Sure thing, mister Dollar, I know how you're feeling about it.
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I'm sure sorry.
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Expenser cann had him three two dollars and twenty five
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cents cab Fair are to the Modern subdivision where Jeff
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Conners had his new home. Missus Connors turned out to
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be a sweet, nice looking young woman whose recent illness
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was still a parent.
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I'm sorry you had the long ride out here for nothing,
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mister Donner. Jeff's not home. He left early to get
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his car fixed or something too bad. You didn't call first.
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Oh that's all right, Missus Conners, it's you I wanted
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to see.
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Yeah, that's well. I guess I knew that it's about Jeff,
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isn't it? Those fires?
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That's right?
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And you've noticed it too. Terrible things were in Sarah
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can do to a man. Well, until six months ago,
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Jeff was the happiest man I'd ever known me, and well,
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I will just fell apart.
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That's when your home burned, Missus Connerson lost my son.
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Something happened to Jeff, then what happened to me too?
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I broke down, had to be hospitalized with Jeff. Well,
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it was different.
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How do you mean?
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She bottled everything up inside of him, refused to let
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it come out, and never even talked about it. A
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person can't do that, mister Dollar.
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You mentioned the recent fires, missus Conners, any particular reason why.
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Yes, that's what has me worried so ever since they started.
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He's become terribly depressed. I'm afraid he's going to break
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down under the strain.
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That's the only reason you mentioned him.
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Yes, I've tried to do everything in my power to
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help him. I thought perhaps if we moved away from
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Dallas it might help, but he wouldn't do that. Then
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I tried to get him interested in sports. That brought
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the first encouraging sign I've had in six months.
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Oh what was it, missus Conners.
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Well, usually on Monday and Tuesday nights, Jeff brings work
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home with him, all the mail umulated over the weekend,
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the new premium and renewals and so on. Well, for
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the past five weeks, mister Dollar, believe it or not,
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Jeff has gone Bowlin every Tuesday night. He's become so
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infused about it. Right, he hasn't come home before midnight
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on any Tuesday evening since.
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Now.
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Don't you think that's encouraging, mister Dallas.
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Expenser cont item of four fifteen dollars and seventy five
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cents cab Fair in and around the city of Dallas.
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I spent the rest of the day checking the neighborhoods
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where the fires had occurred, talking to policyholders, neighbors, anyone
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who might give me a new or different slant. I
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came up with nothing. Around five o'clock I called into
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Lieutenant Bouchard.
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Still the same answered, mister Dollar, picked up Connor. Yet
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we checked out Sally Martin and Phil.
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Tremla do anything there? Just like said, yeah, I see.
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Looked like something might have tied in.
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You had to work with Connor, you know Trendlear was
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with Eastern Identity months ago.
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Yeah, then start a business of his own. Bowling alley.
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Expense acount antum of five a dollar and sixty cents
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cab fair to Trendler's bowling them for him on East
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Gatto Street, five alleys and a drinking sandwich bar. Tremdler
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was keeping a score for a couple of high school
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bobby socks over on alley number three.
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Don't let it get you down on it happens to
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the best of us. Take off one of them anyway.
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Can I talk to you for a minute, mister Tremley.
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Oh, it's you. The insurance man, Johnny Dollar, isn't it?
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That's right?
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What's on your mind? Dollar?
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I'd like to talk to you for a minute about
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the fires. Yeah, take over for the girls.
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Gym will be right back. Let's go on the office. Dollar,
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Let's have a dollar.
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He used to work for Jeff Conners at Eastern Yeah, sure,
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up until two months ago. Why did you quit?
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I just wasn't cut out to be a good insurance salesman.
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So you opened this bowling alley?
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Anything wrong with that?
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Well, they tell me it takes money to open these things.
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I had a few bucks saved from not being a
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good insurance salesman.
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Why are the interest in my finances? Dollar?
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I'm just curious, So be curious.
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About something else. Huh.
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Okay. Did Jeff Connor's ever come bowling here?
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Yeah? A couple of times.
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Jeff's wife says he's been bowling every Tuesday night.
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I wouldn't know. The last time I saw him was
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four weeks ago last night.
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Any idea where he might have been those other Tuesday nights?
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Wh Sally Martin?
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What she got to do with it?
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She's a secretary, she was within the times he came here.
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Maybe they figured out something better to do with their
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Tuesday nights.
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She was out with you last night.
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Yep, every minute from six o'clock for two to fifteen
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dinner theater Club Romulot.
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Well, you can always walk out of the theater
before
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the final curtain, and a ten dollar bill can make
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a nightclub way. They're pretty confused about time.
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Be kind of hard to prove anything like that, wouldn't it.
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Dollar, Well, there's no law against trying. Expenser count hadem
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six one dollar and eighty cents cab fair back to
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your offices. They were closed for the night at the
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Baker Hotel. I put a call into Sally Martin's apartment
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and got no answer. When I was trying to figure
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out the next move, Lieutenant Boorchyard called and made up
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my mind for me.
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Yeah, front two minutes done off yip, Where are.
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We going, Lieutenant? What's out there? Another fire? No?
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Je Connor's board twelve feet of water.
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Look about an hour for a mobile crane to get there,
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and another thirty five minutes before the grappling hooks got
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a solid hold and swung the car off on a
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dry land. Bucher and I were beside the car almost
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before the crane put it down.
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Well that's a big help.
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Disappointed lieutenant would.
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Have helped if he'd been in the car. Costs money
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to drag a river like this.
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I don't think you'll find him down there.
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We got a look.
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On his way back to city hall, Borcher drop me
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off at the hotel. On a hunch, I went across
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the street and had a little talk with a night
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elevator man in your office building. Let's see.
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E me somebody went up to eat an indemnity since
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closing time? Yep, here it is checked in at eight
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seventeen again at age twenty three, Salie Martin.
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Was anyone whe her? Come to think?
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What?
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There was fella waiting outside in the car, see you No,
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I'm just wondering if it was mister Connors himself.
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Expenser can Adam seven six dollars and ninety cents for
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a fast cab ride out to Sally Martin's apartment. The
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extra five was for the speed.
Yes, what is he? Sally?
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Where's who Jeff Connors? Is he still here?
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Then?
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You know?
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But he was hiding here today? Let's say I guessed,
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all right, where is he?
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I don't know what now?
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Look, there have been firefires and three people are dead.
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You're hurting my arm, mister dollar.
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I want to know what you were doing up at
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the office and where Jeff went when he left here.
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We went up there to get a list of the
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new policies that came in today.
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Why what did Jeff want with them?
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I don't know.
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Well, there was some reason. What was it, I tell you,
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I don't know.
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I got back here tonight and told him Missus Connors
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had called about the new policies.
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He made me drive right down.
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I called the office.
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Missus Connor has always did that, double checked the policies
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with me because of the files he kept at home.
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What was different about her call this time?
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Well, nothing except the day. Maybe she always called on Tuesdays.
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There wasn't any real reasons for were to call the day.
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Only one new policy had come in, a fire policy,
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Yes on an apartment building out on the way. Where
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is it cook, mister Donna, I know what you're thinking,
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But Jeff didn't have anything to do with those piles.
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Believe me.
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Where's the policy? Sally over there on the table expense
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account it of mate seven dollars and fifty cents cab
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there with speed to the newly insured apartment building on
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the west side. I called Lieutenant Borchard from Sally's and
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he was there waiting for me. Its spotted them yet, Lieutenant.
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Yeah, talk to miss Martin's car back there in the alleyway.
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What are you going to take him? We're just waiting
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for you. Okay, let's go.
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There it is, Donna. Yeah, keep your hands on the wheel.
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Conned, don't worry, lieutenant. I won't try anything. Are you
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expecting us, Jeff, No, matter of fact, I was hoping
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you wouldn't show. Johnny, I wanted to handle this myself.
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You've been handling it that way too long.
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Connor, Yeah, I guess I have.
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I wasn't really sure until I saw the car last night,
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read about the hit run in the morning papers.
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Is that why you dumped it in the river?
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Didn't make much sense, I guess trying to cover up
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that way, just getting kind of desperate. Where is she, Jeff, Well,
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your wife? Where is she in the basement? Yes, she
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must be through by now. I was waiting for her
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to come out, trying to lay it over the last minute.
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I guess I'll have to get her.
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Connie, You're treated gently, won't you, Lieutenant.
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Don't worry. I'll treat her gently.
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Sally Martin's not mixed up in this, Johnny. Boy was
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just trying to help her boss out of a jam.
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Didn't even know what it was. Don't worry about it, Jeff.
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Doesn't make much sense, does a journey my own wife, firebug?
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I suppose maybe it was our home burning boy, I
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don't know. This doesn't make much sense. She was a
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lovely girl, Johnny. I wish you'd know that she was
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such a lovely gift.
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Expense account adam nine thirty seven dollars and forty cents.
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Hotel bill and miscellaneous expense accunt adam ten one hundred
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and nineteen dollars and ten cents. Airfare back to Hartford.
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Expense account total three hundred and nine dollars and twenty
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five cents. Remarks. I've seen fires burn everything from blocks
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of tenements to a hole in a rug, but this
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is the first time I ever saw and actually burn
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the heart out of a man. I don't ever want
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to see it again, Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Friends, next
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time you chow a stick of Wrigley's spearmint gum, notice
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how cool and fresh it makes your mouth feel That's
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because Wrigley's Spearmint Gum has lots of lively, refreshing, real
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spearmint flavor in every stick. The minute you sink your
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teeth in, that cooling flavor begins to freshen your taste
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and relieve that hot, dry feeling in your throat. It
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sweetens the breath too. Millions of people carry Wriggly's Spearmint
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Gum with them wherever they go for quick, long lasting
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refreshment and for real chewing enjoyment. Next time you're at
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the store, gets some Wrigley's Spearmint Chewing Gum. Enjoy its
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refreshing flavor and good pleasant chewing often every day. Remember
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that's Wriggly's Spearmint Chewing Gum, healthful, refreshing, delicious. Yours, truly,
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Johnny Dollar, Brought to you by Wrigglely's Spearmint Chewing Gum,
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stars John Lund in the title role and was written
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by Sidney Marshall with music by Eddie Dunnstetter. Featured in
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tonight's cast were Hal March, Barney fell Ups, Gene Bates,
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Sam Edwards, Virginia Greg and Jim Nusser. Yours Truly Johnny
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Dollar is produced and directed by him Delfai, the makers
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of Wrigley's Spearmint Chewing Gum. Hope you enjoyed tonight's story
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of Johnny Dollar, and that you're enjoying delicious Wrigley's Spearmint
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Gum every day. This is Charles Lyon inviting you to
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join us again next week at the same time when
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from Hollywood, John Lound returns as yours, Truly, Johnny Dollar.
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