 Johnny dollar Johnny, this is Jake Kessler. You know greater Southwest insurance company out there in Kingman, Arizona That's right. Well. Hi, Jake. What's on your mind? One of my clients Johnny insured for $30,000 has a little cattle ranch Name is rave Chisholm rave Chisholm. That's right Oh, it's a circle RC layout lays over between here in that Lake Mojave resort. You're always going. What's the trouble? We losing some of his cattle. Oh losing plenty of them. They're being poisoned. Oh, only it's not them steers About it's rave. What do you mean Johnny? I just found out that he just found out who's been contaminating them water trough Yeah, who take he won't say but listen. Yeah, if he really does. Well, I know rave Chisholm pretty good Johnny He's a bad character. I wish I'd never sold him insurance. Yeah. Yeah Oh, if he does know or Johnny this whole thing is going to end up in a killing either whoever's doing this or rave himself The circle I see that's right. So will you come out here? See what you can do about it right away? Sure Okay, I'll be there Brings you Bob Bailey in the exciting adventures of the man with the action-fact expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator yours truly Johnny dollar Thirsty people everywhere prefer ice-cold Pepsi Cola and because it's light it refreshes without filling Charlie Be sociable. I am Kay. Pepsi is a favorite of thirsty people from Maine to Hawaii from Alaska to Florida It's perfect for parties or picnics. So serve Pepsi to your guests. It's helpful But this is the sociable part keep plenty of Pepsi ice-cold and ready Remember it goes fast because everybody likes Pepsi singing still sounds more inviting. May I But singing doesn't say pick up an extra carton of Pepsi today better yet get a case you do that And now act one of yours truly Johnny dollar Expense accounts submitted by special investigator Johnny dollar to the greater Southwest insurance company Kingman, Arizona office The following isn't a kind of expenses incurred during my investigation of the Sidewinder matter Jake Kessler hadn't given me very much to go on one of my old friend Buster favor If Buster knew about the circle RC and its troubles Well expense account item one is 350 for a phone called a Davis damn 7 to the Lake Mojave resort That's about the way Jake Kessler put it to me. So how'd you like to meet me at the airport over in Vegas? All right now Buster the best connection I can make will get me in there at six o'clock in the morning, okay? Item two 163 90 plane fatal Las Vegas, Nevada True to his word Buster favor was there waiting for me in his car We headed east on route 95 to Boulder City and turn south George Kingman And I wondered just how much food there was for a herd of beef cattle out here in the seemingly bear desert country We sure it's problem Johnny, but a much bigger one is keeping them supplied with enough water See those windmills in there. Yeah, I've noticed them Well, every one of them has a big water tank and a watering trough at the base of it With almost here if it's all die off We turn here all right Jake Kessler said this rave chism is a pretty bad character You asked me Johnny rave just soon kill a man as he would talk to him the side one Do they call him in good reason too? He's just as mean as a side one. Oh, that's why nobody was very happy to see him Politic himself into a lease on that good ranch land with all the water it's got on it Out of a single one of his pumps ever goes dry, which is more than you can say for most of wells out here Believe me, but now somebody's poisoning the water for him. That's right Any idea who no doubt about it who buster his ex-partner in a gold mine another bad character name is Jerry McCoy Was by cheating Mac out of his chair of the mine that Chisholm got the money to lease the ranch I see and Mac swore V ever caught up with Chisholm. He'd get even with him Ask me Johnny Mac has caught up with him. What apparently wasn't a very large one But must have pointed out where the fence line extended nearly two miles back into the mountains at the east end of it As we near the ranch house, I could see what he'd meant about the water There were more trees and green than I'd seen anywhere else in this desert country The ranch house itself was a sprawling un-painted affair But there was a flower garden at the side that appeared to be doing quite well A dozen or so chickens pecking away at the dirt as we stopped a woman came running out of the door came over to meet us Mr. Johnny dollar Special investigator for your husband's insurance company. Oh, then you got to do something mr. Dollar do something about my husband Well, he's the one I came to see is he here? No No, that's the reason you've got to do something about him. You've got to stop him from what? Oh, it was about an hour ago that my son come in from out on the range my son Wayne Wayne had been over along the east fence fixing the repair broken post But instead he come on back here and told his pa told Ray told him what this is just Jerry McCoy Wayne had saw McCoy out there fooling around the trough at the windmill fixing the poison that he must have been And it is McCoy. Oh, what did your husband do about it? Oh, he He grabbed his pistol that old 45 and that knapsack of his and he rode out there after him Rafe will kill him mr. Dollar. Oh, he'll get killed himself Mr. Dollar. Yeah, knapsack. Did you see? Oh, yes, sir that That knapsack. Oh, why do you say it that way? What's in it? I don't rightly know mr. Dollar last few days ever since he heard that McCoy was in these parts He wouldn't let anybody touch it. He's kept it hit away funny. Miss Chisholm You think Wayne could show us where it was he saw Jerry McCoy? I don't know where he is. Wayne has gone out somewhere too, and I'm so worried about it Why do you say that mrs. Chisholm? With Rafe and the kind of temper he's in Anybody got in his way or tried to stop him? Rafe's a dangerous man mr. Dollar, and he's got that gun with him what his own son You don't know that Rafe mr. And we better find him quick. We'll have to track him Johnny Miss Chisholm are there a couple of extra horses we can use. Oh, yes, help yourself It's a lot better than a car out there in that Miss Keaton sage. Come on And maybe we'll find Wayne for you too. Oh, I hope so mr. Caver Yes, sir. I hope so too but with that crazy man out there with a gun. Yeah, come on buster It looks like we've got our work cut out for us And for the 11th straight year Camel outsold every other cigarette filter king size and regular the best tobacco makes the best smoke So if you're smoking more now, but enjoying it less change to camels get more real satisfaction every time Start to really enjoy smoking again A real cigarette Two of yours truly Johnny dollar and the sidewinder matter Those footprints I still don't see how you spot a buster along all the cattle tracks and the other footprints a real Press Johnny and Rafe's Mount turns out as left walk with a little Sit there. Oh The other tracks and follow his Must be the boy's heart if Wayne catches up with him or old Rafe sees he's being followed You got a gun with you, haven't you? Yeah, right here. Good, but I sure hope you don't Gunshot huh pistol shot must have been that 45 Rafe's carrying and it probably means that he's found McCoy He's discovered that Wayne's trailing him only we had some way of knowing where that shot came from only hadn't been so busy talking My fool head off. Well, I guess the only thing we can do is to keep following those Johnny That shot came from over there at Black Canyon way over there to the right Rafe has a windmill and a watercrawl from an old Beach active. Let's go Look over there the top of that Mesa. I'll speak dust clouds building up I knew this here was too still out here Johnny that dust over the Mesa coming this way means that inside of five Maybe ten minutes. We're gonna be in the middle of the worst sandstorm you ever heard of we better get on back to the ranch We never make it. We got a fine cover. Come on boy Oh Where bustin on the right Big cave in the side of it. Let's go brother Just pray we can make it Johnny and believe me. I mean pray Was less than a mile to the cave in the side of Shadow Mountain But by the time we'd come at half the distance the sandstorm came roaring in on us The hot dry wind pounded and pummeled us at 50 or 60 miles an hour Burling clouds of blinding cutting sand ahead of it How the horses were able to take this on the run Then blow on the saddle our hats pulled down with handkerchiefs over our faces. We not only couldn't see we could hardly breathe As the storm got worse We were forced to dismount to cover the heads of the horses with our coats to leave them on foot But we kept on And I prayed that buster still knew where he was going buster Oh my good track only by hanging on to the tail of the horse that he was leaving Then finally the lee of shadow mountain The lifesaving protection afforded by the deep cave in the side And there to keep us company were other fugitives from the sandstorm half a dozen jack rabbits a couple coyotes of fox and several kinds of rats and mice Huddled together silently Forgetting for the moment all the ancient instinctive enmities and their escape from the peril outside of the cave And the wind roared with the sound of thunder Speaking its anger its frustration And having failed to smother us out there as though now trying to deafen us with a sheer power As we crouched there the horses stayed close to us making strange sounds little sounds that I'd never heard before It was almost like the whimpering of a frightened child Then After what seemed like ages but could only have been a couple of hours the winds subsided Suddenly as it had come up I started to rise but buster touched my arm and motion me to wait A hail a hail storm of the kind you may hear about but never quite believe Right here in the middle of the mojave desert Some of them almost as big as dolphins dashed against the rocks outside And some of those hail stones rolled into the cave then melted at our feet Finally it stopped The little animals who'd been our companions quietly looked at one another and one at the time departed maybe Maybe a little chastened by this having sheared the comfort of each other's presence for a while Kind of gives you respect for this does it doesn't it? Too bad those animals don't always get along so well So peacefully isn't it I guess you could say that about some of the people in this world too, couldn't you? Well We lost our trail But we know where those shots came Johnny now what? Half under that rock the one that blocks the entrance somebody lying there buster buster come in during the storm Wayne Tell me it's young Wayne Chisholm Are you all right boy? Hello, mr. Feather you heard Wayne you've been shot. Who did this? My pa your pa wave Chisholm I'll be all right. What happened? 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He only nicked me what happened Wayne I don't think he meant to hit me mr. Faber Well, but when he saw that I'd followed him after he got there looking for jerry mccoy did he find mccoy Well, he told me to go back and he cursed me and he fired a couple of wild shots at me the three we heard But I don't think he meant to hit me. I wonder then I hid behind some deer brush Then worked my way down again so as I could see what he was doing. Well, what about mccoy? Park Paul found him all right There in the feed shack there in black canyon where he was skinning out one of our young steers in there out of the sun Okay, then johnny. We better get on over and I'll wait wait buster Then what happened Wayne? It was terrible. Mr. It was awful I was close enough. I could see him. I could hear him through the open window of the feed shack Do you think I didn't know all the time we're human cars. It was poison in the water for my cattle Yeah Well, I told you I'd get even for what you've done to me over in that gold mine rave and now I've got you just No, no, I'll put down that gun. Don't don't tell me rave kill you and get myself in real couple Then put it down put it away. See I got no gun on me. I ought to kill you mac I've been thinking about this a long time about what I'd do when I caught you But what's the use? What's the use of killing you listen listen if I'll make it up to you for the cat odd poison make it up Yeah, the insurance takes care of that So mac I'm gonna let you go Yeah mean you ain't gonna Turn me over to the police only if you do exactly what I tell you to do Yeah, yeah rave. I'll do one of that sure you will because I got this gun on you Now start cutting a lot of strips a lot of thongs off of that steer hide Yeah You're gonna try me up. You're gonna leave me out here to die you like I tell you Go ahead. Or maybe I will pull this trigger But You said you'd let me go Hurry up. You're gonna need a lot of them me Well, I don't understand you Huh, you think I'd want anybody to know or let you go the man that was poison in my cattle Keep cutting them strips. I am rave. I am. No, it's gotta look like you've got the best of me tied me up and left What you're gonna tie me up to this post in here Tie you up. Go ahead. Do like I tell you Go ahead mac Unless you want a bullet in your head pull them strips around my ankle tighter Yeah rave short put another one around my neck around the post But this is some trick on me rave. Ain't no trick. But now listen a couple days out of here We're no water to die. Come on tighter. I still got this gun on you No killer rave you won't be There's a couple hours and that boy of mine. I'll be back here with help I don't think see me tied up this way. They'll never know I got soft and let you get away. I still don't You've got no choice You'll never get loose Unless they come out and cut you loose. You think I'd take this chance if I didn't know they would You get out of here the wind's coming up and you're going to be a sandstorm. All right. I will and uh here Good that's right. Take it Because I know you ain't got the guts to use it on me and it's better if they think you took it off me I don't get it rave But I better get out of here before they come for you. That's right You can take my horse too Your horse too For sure, sure. Don't touch that knapsack out there on the ground Knapsack That's the one you carried when we was prospecting. You You mean no any nuggets in that or mine mac Nuggets Oh Yeah, some of the gold you cheated me out of huh? I'll see for myself No rack you open that knapsack and you'll be sorry. Yeah Will I where you can't stop me tie it up that way? You can't stop me now Open it up. It's in here right? It belongs to me There in that knapsack Was three sidewenders sidewenders rattle snakes McCoy he didn't have a chance. It's a lord. There was enough poison in them Yeah And not knowing that you'd seen all this But knowing you'll come back with help that we'll find him tied up there Yeah, johnny reefs me to look like he has a perfect alibi Not the mccoy. I didn't deserve to die poison uncaddle. It's still murder buster Wayne, do you think you can make it to the ranch? Yes, sir Then come on buster. We'll go on to a black canyon. We'll pick up our killer. Okay, johnny Ironic in yeah All trust up and waiting for us By his own doing We reached the watering trough on the old feet shack And the body of jerry mccoy already have buried by the sandstone And I wondered what sort of punishment could possibly be enough for the man who'd done this to him Yeah, I wondered Until we found rachism Tied to that coast Wait a minute. There's a dried out of shrank tighter and tighter around his body around his neck until he Me too Yeah, just a question the ways of justice Expensive out total including a couple of drinks for buster myself on the trip back to hideford 345 40 yours truly Johnny dollars our star to tell you about next week's program next week long beach, california looking for the tidy sum of $75,000 join us. Won't you yours truly? Johnny dollars