 And the Johnny dollar. Earl Foreman, Johnny. Oh, hi, Earl. Our thing's down in sunny Florida. I don't know. You what? I'm calling from Green Mountain Falls, Colorado. What under the sunny are you doing out there? Fishing trip? Hardly. Because if it is, I'll join you. I want you to join me all right, but no fishing. I've got a problem, Johnny. One of my important clients is this pier. Ah, I see. OK, Earl. I'll grab the next plane. $5,000 in the exciting adventures of the man with the action backed expense account. America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator. Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. And now, act one of yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Expense account submitted by special investigator Johnny Dollar to the Tri-State Life and Casualty Insurance Company attention, Earl Foreman. Following is the account of expenses incurred during my investigation of the three sisters matter. Expense account item one, $151.80, transportation to New York, and airfare and incidentals to Colorado Springs. Earl met me at Peterson Field, the municipal airport. I'm glad to see you, Johnny. Hi. Toss in your bags and toss in. OK, sure. And where is this Green Mountain Falls you call from? A little place about 12, 13 miles east of here. I'm staying at the Lucky Four Ranch. One of the last places Rolanoff was seen. Rolanoff? Amisha Rolanoff, the concert pianist. Rolanoff. Oh, sure. Yeah, I've heard of him. He has a little place up on the mountain just back in the Lucky Four where he and his daughters live when he's not on concert. Daughters? How many? Olga, Maria, Ada. No, here's what happened. Rolanoff and the girls. Well, they really stepped on it, by the way. Oh, where's the mother? She died some years back. Well, anyhow, they arrived up here about 10 days ago right after his last concert swing over in Europe. Oh, what does he do when he's up here? Even the girl's just low. Oh, he has a piano in his cottage to keep him practice, if that's all. And now you say he's disappeared. You see, Johnny, he was fond of taking long walks. This is a pretty good hiking country. Oh, I can see that all right if your part mountain goes. Yeah. Well, anyhow, three days ago, right after breakfast, he started out on his usual morning walk. He stopped in for a second cup of coffee with Ray Schmitzney and his wife. Who were they? Ray and Glee had run the lucky four. Oh, yeah. Well, go on. Well, that's all. That was the last time Rolanoff was seen. Was any kind of a search been made? Yes, and that's not easy to rain to search. There's been quite a bit of snow, too, enough to cover up any tracks he might have made. All right. Do you know of any reason he might have wanted to disappear? No, I don't think so. I knew him very well, Johnny. I've known him for years. Of course, he occasionally got set up with having three girls around his neck all the time. Oh, so many men. Well, actually, it wouldn't, but he was, I'm sure. Especially Aida, the youngest. She's a brilliant girl. Aira, tell me, how did the girls feel about him? Really feel about him. Oh, not just a minute, Johnny. Well, you said yourself they had his own blood. Well, just wait till you meet them and decide for yourself. Yeah. I will. The lucky four was on a level spot on the side of a mountain. It consisted of half a dozen leaps, modern, and comfortable cottages. And from the front window of the one we shared was a beautiful view of Pike's Peak. Oh, come in, Ray. Come in. You see us come up the drive? I want you to meet the man I've been telling you about. Ray's Missionary. This is Johnny Dollar. Hi, Ray. Johnny? Only I'm afraid he got here too late, Earl. Oh? Well, what do you mean? Well, just a few minutes ago before you got back here in a gully up on the West Meadow way up where I dumped the trash. You know what I mean? Yes. Remember the bear cave I pointed out to you one day when you went up there with me in the jeep? You mean that bear got Rollin' Off? No, but that's where I found it. Rollin' Off? Yeah, Earl. Yeah. A bullet hole in the back of his head. Act two of yours truly, Johnny Dollar, in a moment. Act two of yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Question. Was Misha Rollin' Off the eminence of Constantinus' murder? Or was he shot accidentally up near the bear cave on the mountain back of the Lucky Four Ranch at Green Mountain Falls, Colorado? We went up there and raised jeep. A careful inspection of the body and the gully in which he found it revealed nothing by way of clues to the river. One thing, Johnny. Yeah, what's that, Ray? Like I told Earl here, I was planning to shoot that bear myself. Yeah. Letting him get nice and fat on the garbage from the ranch. So what? What's that? He used to come down every day. Regular his clockwork and tip over the pales and gorges and stuff. Well, what are you trying to say? It's been over a week now since I've seen him. Well, I don't see what you're getting at, Ray. Well, it could mean only one thing, Earl. Somebody else got to that bear before I could. And it must have been some time before Rollin' Off disappeared. That's right. So his being killed here couldn't have been accidental by somebody gunning for that bear. Look here, Johnny. It's the cartridge case I picked up. Oh, let's see. Yeah. 257 Roberts. Where'd you find it? Behind that tree there down the slope. Do you know anybody around here who shoots a 257 Roberts? All the hunters in these parts use a 30 odd stakes or a 270 or a 30-30. Only 257, I think. Well, what's the matter, Ray? You look sick. Yeah. There's a 257 up in the Rollin' Off cottage. One of the girls, she's a pretty good shot. Ray, do you know what you're saying? Which one, Ray? All good. Maria? Ada? No, I won't do it, Johnny. I won't accuse Laura. Laura, this is no guessing game. This is murder. No, Johnny, I can't believe it. Not one of them. Besides, look, I got to drive into Colorado Springs, notify the coroner and the police. But if you know something, it'll help us. No, no, Johnny, because if I was wrong, I'd never forgive myself. Don't you understand? Laura. Vera, do you know the way up to the Rollin' Off place? Yes, John. I rode all right to my car, Ray. Yeah. Yeah, it's so quick. Now, let's go. Hey, take it easy, girl. This road is much wider than the car. I know it. Rollin' Off cottage is right up in that clearing, in the middle of that big meadow. You know those daughters. They're daughters. You figure which one of them might have wanted to kill Rollin' Off? Oh, no, Johnny. No. Who's the benefit theory of this problem? Well, it's a very unusual policy. Now, what do you mean unusual? There's no beneficiary specifically named. What's the beneficiary? Or beneficiaries are to be the same as the heirs, but are specified in Rollin' Off's will. Well, who? Nobody knows. Well, where is his will? Same answer. Well, I look here. It's always made it very clear that his will would show up at the proper time. I assume, of course, his step-daughters will be his heirs. Oh, but if they're not. Oh, this is the Rollin' Off cottage. Well, quite a lot of cottage. And just as nice on the inside as it is on the outside. Rollin' Off used to complain now and then about some of the feminine trippery all around him, but, well, he liked it. And you're sure they all got along well together? Well, of course. Every family has a little spat once in a while. Oh, Johnny, Johnny, I'll listen to me. Oh, we shall see what we shall see. I know that after what Ray said, the evidence kind of seems to point to one or all of them, but, well, yes. Oh, hello. To say the girl who stepped through that door was beautiful would be the understatement of the week. Fall and striking dress and something that looked like sceparelli or Christian Dior. As though she'd just stepped out of Charles of the Ritz. And if her two sisters were anything like this, hmm. Johnny, I said this is the older sister of Rollin' Off. Johnny, hmm. Oh, oh, I'm sorry. Hi, Johnny. Hi. Hey, do you mean? Hey, I guess so. You're the investigator, Earl, told us about. Come in, won't you? Sure, thanks. Have you found out anything about Daddy? Oh, girls, that's what we have. No, no, Earl, we haven't. Oh, dear, it's such a terrible thing. Oh, wait a minute, Johnny. You wait. Ada, we have guests. Oh, hello, Earl. Oh, hello, Ada. And this good-looking man is Johnny Dollar. Hi. Hello. Oh, that's a nice warm welcome. Ada, why don't you go in and fix your hair? You look a fright. That plain old house there, really. What's that you're playing, Ada? It's the last thing Daddy wrote. He wrote it practically the morning he was almost as though he knew something was going to happen to him. Oh, come now. And then he had to write it before it did happen. Oh. Where were you, Ada, the morning he left? Right here, Johnny, playing this for the first time. Ever since he disappeared, I've been trying to figure that I had some special news. Oh, Ada, that's such a silly idea. Is it? What did you mean by that, Olga? Oh, it's really. Well, it's like a lot of other silly ideas she gets over her music. Yeah, like what? A lot of things. As though she should be the concert artist in the family instead of Daddy. Maybe now that he's gone, I will be. I'll be greater than he ever was. Oh, sure. And I'll do it in memory of you. You'll do it for your own self-slorification. I'm sorry, son. It's all right. It's literally where were you that morning, Olga? In Colorado Springs. I went shopping right after breakfast, or rather window shopping. Oh. I need some music so badly. Well, you know, I have to keep up with the styles or I'd look like our poor little artist here. Oh, yeah. Oh, where was your other sister, Maria? I don't know. Oh, Ada, stop that. When I left the house, she and Ada were doing the dishes. Well, you weren't helping. I told you, Johnny. I had to go into the spring. Oh, where is she now? Oh, Maria's probably out in the hills somewhere, camping. Maria's right here, Olga. Hello, Earl. Well? Oh, come in, dear. This is Johnny Dollar. The investigator, Earl, said that you were getting married. So I see. Well, investigator? I saw two. And I didn't like what I saw. Maria was dressed in tacky shirt, britches, and honeyhoes. And hanging in the crook of her arm was a high-powered hunting rifle. Act three of yours truly, Johnny Dollar, in a moment. Act three of yours truly, Johnny Dollar, and the three sisters matter. How about aiming that rifle the other way, Maria? Oh, sure. I'll set it down the corner. Is empty, needless to say. Um, better let me see it, huh? Oh, I told you, is empty. Are you a hunter, too, Johnny? Talk as if you were, dear. I am, Maria. You do a lot of shooting? Shooting, yes. Killing. Samping around these mountains, blazing away at anything that moves just for the sake of... How about that, Maria? Give me something to do. Kind of a release. What else is there to do in this godforsaken place? Any other guns? A little .22 that I used for flinking. We all use it. Fine. I want to see that one you put in the corner, Maria. Sure. And please don't start waving it around the way you did. Here you are. Why are you so interested in it? Well, I... Hmm, really ought sick. That's right. Johnny. And your only other one is a .22. That's right. But why? That's no .22 up there, ultimately. That's daddy's gun. I don't think it's a gun. Oh. Get it down for me, Maria. Why? And why all these questions, Johnny? Better tell them, Johnny. Yeah, I guess. Tell us what? We... We found your father's body. Johnny, you can't do that. I'm sorry. He was shot by a high-powered rifle. Where? Where is he? What happened? This is terrible, Johnny. Tell me. Are you crying for Olga? I suppose you're glad, Maria. Because now you can do what you please. No more of those boring concepts all over the world. No more of this God-spot taking place as you call it. I suppose you're glad because now you'll have money. Fancy clothes, Europe, the Riviera, South America, men, men. Stop! Stop talking like that. Why? Because it's terrible. No, because it's... It doesn't even make sense to stop saying that thing over and over and over. What are you trying to do? Drive us out of our minds? No, I'm trying to find out why daddy wrote it. What compulsion made him feel he had to write it before he left that morning? Hey, wait a minute. Well, all I have to say... Wait, I said. What is it, Johnny? Hey, to get back to the piano. What? Sit down. Play that thing again. Now play it. Slowly. Stop. Johnny, what under the sun are you doing? Listen, Earl. The notes on a piano run from A to G like this. Don't you see? The first three notes of that thing she's been playing are A-D-A. Listen. A-D-A. A-D-A. A-D-A. Yes. What is it? A message to me? Oh, now, wait a minute. The rest of it now, quickly. D-E-F-A-C-E. To face. E-H-E-K-G. To face. D-E-F-A-C-E. To face. E-H-E-K-G. To face. To face. D-E-B-E-T. A-da. To face. S-H-A-G. S-H-A-G. To canary cage. Right. And it's exactly what I'm going to do. Tear out the base of that cage! Let's go and hurt the little bird. Will somebody please tell me what this is all about? Hey. Look here. Look. It has a false bottom. Yes. Look, what's in it? Hidden there. Yeah. The last will and testament of Misha Romano. Johnny... What does it say, Johnny? That note with it? It looks like Rolinoff put the finger on his killer. Johnny, what does it say? And my reason for deliberately omitting her from my will. Omitting home from his will? What are you talking about? Read on, Johnny. It's not only because of the self-centered life she's always led. Not only because of her constant completely selfish extravagance. I'm afraid that could apply to Oliver. An extravagance which finally led her to forging my name on checks. Oh, Johnny. Then when I discovered that she was sneaking out and practicing with the old rifle, it's kept over the map. The 250 cents. It was kept over the map. Don't move. Oh, enough! What have you done? All right. So he cut me out of his will. But if I can't have what I wanted, you won't have it either. Now look here, Olga. It's gone hold five shots. I know because I reloaded after I killed him. Olga. And now you all know that I killed him. All right. One shot is for you, Maria. One is for Ada. One is for you, Earl, and one for Johnny. Olga, listen. That leaves one for me. So that when I finish, no one will ever know. Olga, you're out of your mind. Maybe so. But what difference does that make now? Because now there's no other way out for me. There's nothing else I can't stand still. It's all over. Not for you, Olga. Somebody emptied the bullets out of that gun. Ada and I, we didn't want to believe it. We tried not to, but I guess we knew that when Daddy disappeared, she must have somehow... somehow had something like this might happen. And she did kill him. And she did. Oh, Johnny! Kind of a wine. You'd be so twisted. Extensive count total including fare back to Hartford 351-20. Remarked? None. Yours truly, Johnny Duff. Our star will return in just a moment to tell you about next week's story. Star to tell you about next week's story. Next week? A beautiful girl. A model, in fact. And unfortunately, a model crime to go with her. Join us, won't you?