 Johnny dollar Would it be possible for you to come out here right away, can it miss it? What did you say your name is Charles Kingsley St. Claire. Oh, yeah with providential assurance company. Yes, that's right. Yeah, and now wait a minute I thought you were leaving the company. You're such a gentleman. You just couldn't stand doing business with the poor wretched clients You inherited mr. Dollar. I am a change man. Well good for you Well, I I considered them nothing more than poor white trash ignorant Well, I'll say this for them. They sure know how to make some pretty powerful moonshine I'm very true. Yeah, if one of those characters hadn't poured some of that white mule down my gullet I doubt if I'd have been crazy enough to go out after that killer Yeah, that was the one Dade Whopperman Like what? Oh now look mr. I was lucky once got out of that swamp country alive But I'll be nuts to stick my neck out again and since those people already know who I am what my job is Okay, St. Claire. I'll grab a plane CBS radio brings you Bob Bailey in the exciting adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator. It's truly Johnny dollar Expense accounts submitted by special investigator Johnny dollar to the providential assurance company office in Kennett, Missouri Following is an account of expenses incurred during my investigation of the deadly swamp matter Item one is 7645 plain fare Hartford to Memphis Charles Kingsley st. Claire met me as promised and apparently the man had changed Considerably from the snooty better than now stuff shirt. I'd found him to be on my first trip Yes, mr. Dollar in spite of my earlier feelings about the clients my Peter says he had left me yeah I know Mr. St. Claire those moonshine isn't such Existing in that 20-mile swamp are hardly typical of the folks living around Kennett where your office is Well, I realize that now and I shall stay in Kennett try to justify the company's confidence in placing you there very good Nevertheless when I came to this part of the country the swamp people were the only ones with whom I had to deal They were the only ones to whom he had sold insurance and when I saw the horrible dirty Squalid way in which they lived in those broken down shacks full of vermin kind of turn your stomach Quite frankly did exactly that that's why I requested transfer to our New England offices But now of course I had planned to stay down here now When you came here before you taught me a great lesson in how to deal with them how to understand them By having my car wrecked for me by getting shot at and nearly drowned in that swamp I've you succeeded in elisting the help the cooperation of the Good ones among them learning their respect well I had to do something to get out of there alive a point is that you did you have friends among them now And you will be willing to help you again. Yeah, well, that's something that oh Now wait a minute Yeah You mean these murders you call me about they're back in that swamp country too. Oh Great. Oh, no, no, no, no, and I thought that maybe for once Okay, St. Clair. Let's have it. What's it all about as I told you a series of murders Oh, you're having to pay out a lot of insurance. No, and you think that I can somehow miraculously put a stop to Huh, did I hear you say no somewhere along the line? Oh the victims of these murders have Well, they've been Well relatives of some of my clients up in the swamp country up in the swamp country Well clients whom you know whom you met when you were here before go on Thanks to you and what you did for them. They regard the company and therefore me and you as a kind of well Protective agency a protection for them with only their best interests at heart That sort of thing is very good for the company Yeah, shall we stop for some lunch? Yeah, sure go ahead and stop if you like But if you think you can talk me into meddling into these murders when it's a job for the law But it's not for the law. What do you mean by that? Well, as I told you before these these people living far beyond any town a city limit Pretty much you law unto themselves. Yeah, that I know and the local police leave Malone. They have no jurisdiction So what about the state authorities? That region of the big swamp pretty much straddles the state line Neither state wants it then I can't blame them in any event when a murderer cares by the time jurisdiction is established And this dollar them wow Do you remember the beneficiary of the policy you came down here to pay off with the insurance money? Are you for crump? That's right. Yeah, real sweet pretty young kid. Yes St. Clair, I'll never forget the look in her eyes the almost childish Unabashed gratitude when I gave her that money Yes, now she can have pretty clothes for a change good food on the table Oh, she can fix up that little house She and her kids live and buy some lace curtains for the windows and What do you mean no you for who is the latest victim of this killer? Come on, St. Clair. It's only what you know so I can get to work on this thing Next time you refresh enjoy a frosty ice-cold Pepsi Cola sociability Charlie. All right, Kay. How's this Pepsi is light Refreshes without filling you like to refresh have a Pepsi right now. We'll offer it to everybody Charlie. I will enjoy Pepsi at the fountain It's delicious at home too Have one at lunch or with a snack Charlie at the beach or at dinner wherever you go Pepsi is there. It's here too in our be sociable song For the weekend have plenty of Pepsi around pick up an extra carton today CK. I'm sociable with Pepsi everyone is and now act two of yours truly Johnny dollars You for crump. Yeah, what a name That cute intelligent little girl really had a place in the swamp country Well regardless of how you or I the law might feel about it her inheriting that moonshine still when her husband was killed a while back Had meant something to provide for both her and her children And the insurance she received on top of it and she planned to marry cast Dingell the character who'd befriended me Who'd helped me run down her husband's killer? Cass who was gonna leave this desolate country get out in the world to make an honest living for Yeah, but it was Cass who'd sacrificed his life out there in the swamp in order to save mine No, mr. Dollar what? Cass Dingell is still alive But I myself saw a Dade Whopperman shoot him in the back you for somehow missed him back to health They were married according to whatever rights the swamp people observe and they were very happy and then she was Yes, that was Cass who asked me to call on you again and since you know him you know these people Okay, stop wasting time saying Claire get me on up to Kenneth where I can run a car and get on this Well, if you drop me at my office, I'll be more than glad to let you have this But about some lunch lunch forget it. Let's get going Item 2 470 for a tank full of gas there in Kenneth and I headed west a few miles then do north into the swamp country Well, as I said before the 20 miles swamp is one of the most dismal uninviting places I've ever seen The road after a while wasn't even a road just a set of muddy wagon tracks More than once driving slowly and carefully along. I held my breath hoping St. Claire's car wouldn't bog down in some mud hole a Past couple of shacks falling apart and apparently vacant But the distinctive smell of moonshine whiskey in the air told me otherwise that a still wasn't full operation If cast English married you for he'd gone to her place to live so I headed that way But a mile or so before I got there edging the car around a thicket of wild blackberries I had learned the last time I was here that when somebody starts shooting the only thing to do is stop Whatever you're in whatever you're doing. So I did fast I ducked down under the wheel on the floorboards and I pulled out my gun And I waited Only what was the idea of pulling off a couple of shots. Howdy, miss Johnny. I'm glad you've come Yeah, I knew maybe a shot would make you stop the car. Mr. Johnny And that way you wouldn't go on up to the house in the still yeah Well, that's where I was headed to look for you It's much better. You hide this car back in my old cabin You remember where it is little turn off right up ahead, isn't it? Yes Now you do that and I'll cut through this swamp and meet me there. Sure. Whatever you say I'll meet you there. I should have got there in five or six minutes at the most The car bogged down in a sticky black mud hole by the time I pulled enough twigs and branches and other wheels to get traction And make the turn off and pull up in front of his place more than half an hour had passed Because of his shortcut through the woods in the swamp I'd expected to find Cass out in front waiting for me, but he wasn't Though the door of his cabin was a jar Now if I'd had any sense I would have stopped for a minute and I'd have given some thought to that But I didn't and believe me. It was a mistake in the dark windowless cabin I could see casting go on a bunk at the far end tightly bound with ropes and rawhide looking at me helplessly And standing in front of me was the biggest most ugly man I've ever seen 250 pounds at the least built like a gorilla His face was covered with coarse black stubble his long hair straggled down into the back of the collar of his dirty shirt He aimed at my chest was an ancient rifle with a bore almost big enough for a shotgun Three specters came forward out of the shadows smaller men also dirty unshaven looking no less menacing than the man in front of me Each of them had a rifle I could feel one of them against my backbone Now listen I took a course once from the FBI on the proper procedure for disarming a man who has a gun in your back But they forgot to tell me what to do about for them. So I raised my hands up over my head That's right, Mr. Johnny Now you just keep them hands right up straight You Paul. Yes, Daniel Donald what my Paul you taking mr. Johnny's gun away from him. Yes now will Daniel Yes, you taking it away from him Paul. I got in it Daniel It's a real pretty one. That's right Paul So you holding on to hit real careful so when I won't damage it none While am I killing? About best-selling records. Here's a familiar tune about America's best-selling filter cigarette Winston Winston gives you real flavor full rich tobacco flavor and you know That's because only Winston has filter blend up front Choice flavorful tobaccos specially selected and specially processed for filter smoking. No wonder Winston tastes good like Cigarette should smoke Winston Hello act three of yours truly Johnny dollar and the deadly swamp matter I've been in some pretty tough spots and this crazy job of mine But nothing ever quite like this four men like four vicious animals who crawled up out of the muck of the 20-mile swamp Armed with ancient rifles. I was sure they knew how to use and use well For a man living and moonshining in his God forsaken country depended on his gun for survival Survival it was obvious by the way the guns were aimed that survival was the one thing they didn't plan for me Like four vicious animals. I said Stupid maybe enough to be tricked somehow and there wasn't anyone within miles to give me a hand Except for cast Ingle tied down in the bunker to far into the cabin helpless if only he were bright enough to Then the ugly giant in front of me talked again, and I'm gonna kill you mr. Johnny Right now for it being that you sent my brother dead up into prison He was a killer dental the same as you are. That's right So one more killer namely you it ain't gonna make me no worse than I am why Because you had no business to come here to begin. We don't like that here in this fall No, no, I mean why these are the killings why murder you for Cass's wife. Why you do that now? Because it was her insurance money mr. Johnny brought me here the first time then you put my brother in jail So you murdered her a harmless young mother just to get me back here. That's right now I'm gonna kill you You stand away from him back in him this charge gonna go right on through him Yes, Daniel, but now you should You shut up. Yes, maybe Maybe Cassie thinking what I thinking Daniel Mr. Johnny he from the outside you kill an outside man. Maybe they all maybe the police they're moving in on us They come in here in the swamp because he from the outside you stop thinking Paul Move away now so I can kill it Shut up. Yes Mr. Johnny No, Daniel you kill me instead Now you kill my wife you if I don't care you kill me instead, Daniel. I kill you Cass soon. I kill mr. Johnny Miss Johnny. That's It's all right. Yes. No, Mr. Johnny that ain't what I mean I Talk long enough. What do you say Cass? Must be nearing the five o'clock by now, mr. Johnny Five shut up. Cass and What do you mean by that? Miss Johnny. No, oh Yeah, you're right. What do you mean about five o'clock? Yeah. Yeah, Cass the other I mean, it's about time What do you mean mr. Johnny? What a nothing not a thing down. I just whistled That's all I mean, what do you mean about five o'clock you tell Tell me oh tell me Be because it's nothing you can do anything about Because it is five o'clock by the time you can pull that trigger you tell me All right If I'm not safely out of this swamp by five o'clock this place will be so full of state police well Would you like to look at my watch? No, you keeping your hands up over your head. Oh sure Because you lying mr. Johnny am I you lying to me? Just keep on talking panel. They'll give more time But if I were you I said I don't kill you mr. Johnny And no scheming words out in your mouth gonna Gonna You Paul I Ain't here nobody out there down you go out you go look out along the slew and the bio Yes, Daniel. You see anybody in a boat you shoot off that gun You Peter You go on back the road and look You John you go look up by Cass still You don't see no one you come back here and help me bury Cass and mr. Johnny in the ground Now you go And the three of them like so many shadows slipped off into the growing darkness Casting all storming is talking his own something would happen at five o'clock it gained time for us and More important had reduced the immediate enemy to one Daniels rifle was still aimed at my midsection Then after plenty of time for the others to have looked around You see mr. Johnny You trying to bluff me is all But there's no good Because you haven't heard from them Daniel That means the police have taken him Without them getting off a shot No, mr. Johnny, and I tell you that by five o'clock and it must be five o'clock by now Let let me look at my watch you keep your hands right up to straight It's long after five o'clock Me I prove it. I look at your little watch. Oh, yeah You think I can't tell the time. Oh, I'm sure you can but don't you move miss Johnny Because I keep in this right in the middle of your belly And you try and grab and I pull the trigger. Okay, okay Slowly Where all the guns still in my belly he looked up or toward the water my wrist And I've turned my wrist ever so slightly away from them so that he had to twist his head a bit just a little Then I brought up my knee with everything I had I Knew the sound of the gunshot would bring the others back to the cabin After all they certainly hadn't found any sign of those mythical state police out there So after sending cast free I lay down just inside the door looking very dead And then when Paul and John and Peter came in one at a time cast was standing back at the door quietly and carefully took care of them With the help of the butt of dental's gun So now four more of the swampers have left that region to spend a long long time behind the bars Expense account total including the trip back to Hartford 161 60 yours truly Johnny dough Our star will return in just a moment Constipation is something people don't talk about much But it can be a problem for anyone even doctors and when constipation occurs It's interesting to see just what doctors consider important about a laxative they might use or recommend Well a majority of the doctors we heard from had this to say a laxative should be effective Gentle close to natural acting a medicine that can be used with complete confidence Now x-lax has been popular with many doctors and millions of people over the years Because pleasant tasting chocolate at x-lax is effective Overnight it helps you toward your normal regularity x-lax is so gentle so close to natural acting There's no upset that's why many doctors and millions of people use x-lax with complete confidence x-lax the laxative that helps you toward your normal regularity gently overnight Now here is our star to tell you about next week's program next week a thrilling Chase out on the open sea join us. 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