 Johnny dollar. Tell me all boy. How's the weather cold wet and miserable? And who are you Charlie Warren Johnny out here in warm sunny southern, California? Who are you lucky dog? Uh-huh. Don't I know it? I spent too many long cold winters at the home office there in Hartford not to know it You're still with worldwide mutual sure. I am always will be I guess unless they try to move me out of this Los Angeles office Boy when I think how you must be suffering back there in New England with all that cold and snow Okay, okay, Charlie. Don't rub it in we can't all be as lucky as you are and just think of all the beauty you're missing Yeah, like what the clean crisp invigorating air the sparkle of the sun on sleep covered branches the sound of sleigh bells Rolling fields drifted high with pure white snow and all that mud and flush you have to plow through there in town And don't tell me otherwise. Okay, you've made your point. I'm feeling even worse than I did before you're cold Now what's on your mind any good reason why you shouldn't be out here enjoying the sunshine the warm breezes the smell of orange blossoms The palm trees and beautiful broads barging around bikinis and all the other delights of this sub tropical paradise And I want a badge from the Chamber of Commerce. Yes, what money? Well now that's no problem Oh, it isn't well I should it be when the company is gonna pay the freight provide it Of course you keep that crazy expense account with unreasonable pounds, but just once in your life Charlie you touched me to the quick have I ever done other one? Oh, I mean except for occasional nickel or dime here and there Oh an occasional C note now and then well after all Charlie. Oh, seriously Johnny. I need you. I need your help Are you free to fly out here? I don't know why not Okay, now according to my watch It's a little after 4 p.m. And according to the clocks here in the wilds of Connecticut. It's a little after seven Yeah, that's right look suppose I take a prop job that'll give me time for a little sleep along the way And I'll see you first thing in the morning. Okay, I'll meet you at the airport. Okay The CBS radio network brings you Mandel Kramer and the exciting adventures of the man with the action tactics fence accounts America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator yours truly Johnny dollar Accounts submitted by special investigator Johnny dollar to worldwide mutual insurance company Los Angeles office Following is an account of expenses incurred during my investigation of the Cinder Elmer matter expense account item 1 17640 taxi to Bradley Field in a plane ticket It was close to midnight by the time I could get a flight out of Hartford I don't know why so many people have to travel this time of the year And it was nearly three by the time my plane in New York took off and headed west All my plans to sleep along the way went to pot Not only because of the several stops we had to make but because of the cute little brunette who occupied the seat next to mine a Real charmer on her way to LA for a winter vacation And did I have any ideas for how she might enjoy herself out there on the coast? Did I have ideas? But after we landed then she introduced me to the blonde giant who met her there at the airport took her in tow well Who am I to argue with a man who plays right tackle for the LA lambs football team? Anyhow, I was sadly lacking in sleep when Charlie Warren finally found me at the luggage stand picked up my bags and Led me out to a car parked at the curb. Hey, Johnny. I'll just toss these bags in the back Here Johnny here's the keys to a nice quiet room with a soft bed in it. Are you kidding for this car? Oh, Charlie, why don't you drive? Oh, this is one of those rental jobs. Hmm. Sure. My car's over there in the lot Oh, and I had them thrown a set of chains, but you mean skid change. Yeah up where you're going You're gonna need in sunny southern, California. Excuse me. Let me get my glove compartment and be my guest You mind telling me just where I'm going and why now here's where we are see LA International Airport. See I'd rather see a comfortable bed, Charlie Now you're going north on top of the Boulevard, Comanchester east to Harbor Freeway Turn north then east on the San Bernardino freeway. I do. Yeah Sanberdo's maybe 65 miles or so then you turn north here up into the mountain see and there's crest line There you are. At least that's where you can get directions to Hillcrest Lodge. I can't oh boy I wish I could go along with you. That's the most beautiful country up there this time of year It really is 75 or 80 degrees a hot smog down here and up there at 5,000 feet altitude It's all covered with snow, but you Charlie you're a dirty dog Huh over the phone You give me the Chamber of Commerce pitch to get me away from an eastern winter and when I get out here Yeah, but this is different Johnny. You'll love it Skiing to bargaining magnificent view of all the peaks up there on the rim of the world drive It's right near like I'll have you know, no, I didn't know and what's more. I don't care unless I can get a little sleep Charlie I can see Charlie up there in that clean clear crisp cold air and that high altitude You'll sleep like you've never slept before you mean like some time tonight sure if I'm lucky What do you mean by that? Well, you still haven't told me what kind of a case I'm supposed to be working on. Oh, yeah, that's right Yeah, that's right Disappearance Johnny name is Bartley Harman Bartley Harman, uh-huh in his wife Nora real good-looking doll by the way Mm-hmm and his business partner man by the name of Elmer right. Yeah. Well, I don't like they always do this time of year They all went up to Cress line he'll press large for a few days. Oh No, I'll phone me just before I put in a call to you Seems the poor little shrimp took a word little shrimp. Yeah, her old man Bartley Oh both he and his partner Elmer rights and stand about five feet three about a hundred and fifteen pounds ringing wet Look almost like twins. I think Going well not that Nora Barley's wife She's a good five feet 11, but Johnny boy. I mean good. She's built like an Olympic champion blonde beautiful and I'll take your word for it. No, what happened to Bartley on them? Well, he took off for a plant in the snow And he's suddenly and completely disappeared Oh sheriff's department put out an APB in the whole area, but nobody's seen high in the hair of them Go on and Johnny that San Badoo sheriff's department Well, they know their way around out in that country if they haven't been able to find them Bartley Harman is really lost And the way it gets cold up from those mountains. Oh Anyhow sheriff's boys are expecting you they'll cooperate Just what is your stake in him Charlie got him insured for 200,000 accidental death double indemnity He's falling off a rock and bust his neck or into a chasm or something Charlie and on top of everything else part isn't too awfully good either Of course if somebody Well, you know, I mean No, I'm not sure I do. This is about Lee Harman have a lot of enemies Not what I know of For that matter. I don't think he has any real friends either Tell me who would benefit by his death. Well, of course the business will all go to his partner on the right How do they get along only because they have to I guess keep the business going nice and the insurance goes to his wife All those to know and how do they get along? Well, she's a beautiful dame. He has a lot of money and She's a lot younger than he is, you know, no, I didn't know now wait a minute, Johnny Somebody did murder Well, you mean You think that maybe You think that maybe one of them Charlie, I think I'd better get on up to Chris Here's a friendly and important reminder from your postmaster This is the time of year when the post office handles its biggest volume of mail The extra load often takes extra time So if you want your cards and packages to arrive at their destination before Christmas Mail early and often make sure addresses are clear and correct Use postal zone numbers and send your cards by first-class mail For a merry-or-Christmas shop early mail early That long hot drive through the valley to San Bernardino San Berdew was the natives call it almost did me in I really felt the lack of sleep But then as I swung up into the mountains and at the 4,000 foot level had put on snow chains and turn up the windows Well, it really is beautiful country up there Not only because of the white clean snow, but the mountains the magnificent big pines Anchored to the sides of them and the colorful pictures to little cottages At Hillcrest Lodge, I found that a young fellow from the sheriff's office Roy Turner was waiting for me After helping me up to my room with my bags, he got right to the point. I Can't say that. I like this situation. Mr. Dollar not a bit. Why Turner call me Roy. All right, call me Johnny Well Johnny simply because of the people involved Man falls in love with partners wife Does a way with said partner not a chance at least there's no chance you'd give him any kind of a break I bet on it why because Wrightson is the same kind of homely, pedantic Facts and figures a little shrimp as her husband Bartley is and there's no question, but that she's had enough of him And up to want to get rid of him Roy Well, Harman's worth a lot of money. I understand a lot of insurance too. Yeah, that's true And she's a much younger good-looking athletic Well, what do you see here? I'd like to you will and Don't think for a minute. She doesn't make the most of it of what she has Johnny for the few days they spend up here every year She brings along enough expensive clothes to sink a battleship in addition to snow and ski and skating outfits I mean, she has a whole front full of shoes alone Anyhow, we're making sure that she sticks around writes in two for that matter Roy if they're all on such lousy terms. Why do they come up here together? Only because she likes it so much so Bartley tags along to keep an eye on her and mr. Wrightson to keep an eye on him, I guess I Take it you've combed the hills around here pretty well as thoroughly as we know how What about all those little cabins that I've seen around been through them all Apparently Harman headed over toward old Ironside That's just north of here has a sharp face on it where the snow doesn't stick and Beyond it. Well in order to save time. We have a helicopter out there looking over that big valley Roy. Yes, John You know over the years I've investigated an awful lot of disappearances. Yeah, and You would be surprised at how many people disappear deliberately Just to get away from things once and for all But leave behind that beautiful wife. He's so jealous of and his share of a prosperous business It is a possibility though, isn't it? Well, oh That may be for me. I told the operator I'd be here Hello Yeah, yeah, where okay? Leave it there. I haven't go back and pick me up at the port As I started to say it is possible Roy not any more Johnny. Oh The copter just found Bartley Harman out there be beyond old Ironside or rather They've found his body We got to the airport on the edge of Sanford in less than 20 minutes The copter was already there and waiting for us We piled in took off and headed back to Crest line then passed it and circled the cold gray peak That was called old Ironside Beyond it was a long narrow valley Edged on both sides by a heavy growth of timber and a hundred yards or so from the tree line out in the open They're on the cold dry snow lay the body of Bartley Harman. I don't see any mark where you landed this place Steve I didn't try to land sir Just took her down low enough to make a positive ID that got all the horn recorded in It's over to run back with virtue and pick you up It's to me as though you may have got down there too close What's that? I Mean this chopper apparently blew a lot of snow on top of it. Hope it didn't cover any clues Now find a spot to land us up there ahead of it And help wondering what Harman was doing way out here in a loan Oh, he invites and believes that old legend about a cave full of gold out in this valley often came to look for it You know while his wife was busy skiing or skating or tobogganing with his bad heart Roy Well, actually, it's only a mile or so from the large so I guess he figured it wouldn't be too much for it Looks like you figured wrong though, doesn't it? Yeah Kind of knocked my theories into a cocktail you've given up the idea of murder. Yeah Get it down here anywhere Steve right there and we can see what we shall see What we saw down there was more than we bargained for The body was that about we have an all right, and there wasn't a mark on it It looked as though the old boy overextending himself at that high altitude and simply had his heart give out on him Until we found two things one Another set of footprints leading to the spot much smaller prints that could have been made by a woman's know and second besides in there in the snow Cigarette but with lipstick on it Looks to me Johnny like this settles it in spite of her alibi Nora Harman alibi run that she was over in Arrowhead Village shopping when he took his little walk out here Anybody try to check up on it? Yeah, but nothing really definite either way Well, then that doesn't prove that she did this right to cheer anybody else did anything you mean because it's no marks on the body, right? and Roy there's something about this whole setup that I don't know I'm I Don't know let's face it Johnny Why'd she say she was in arrowhead when she was really out here with him or was she and who else had such a motive? Did Elmer right soon have an alibi to the sleep in his room all that afternoon and no reason to doubt him I Wonder but Johnny Johnny the footprints and more important this cigarette but with a lipstick If a lab test shows it to be the same kind that she uses Steve When you and mr. Dollar haul the body into San Berdueva the autopsy have a doc Hanley analyzed the lipstick on this cigarette to Having do that first while we take the body in I Want to follow those two sets of footprints back to the lodge? I'll meet you there. Okay What's the matter John? Oh, nothing nothing Roy assisted Well, if we've overlooked something out here. Yeah, like what? No, I'll forget it Come on Steve. Let's get the body aboard. Yes Doc Hanley told me that the lipstick was quite unusual While he went ahead with the autopsy I had Steve drive me up to the lodge a $5 tip to a life-fingered Bell boy got me one of Nora Harman's Lipsticks out of her room when I got back and showed it to Hanley He was certain it was the same as that on the cigarette as for the result of his autopsy beaten to death mr. Dollar Without a single mark on him There were several intestinal and mesentery Perforations blood and the peritoneal cavity, so you saw no external bruises because death occurred so quickly the blood stopped Circulating immediately. Mm-hmm without circulation. There could be no hemorrhage into the tissues Little-known fact my boy. I've seen So it looks then as though Roy may have been right in spite of this hunch of mine Hunch in this modern day and age don't be ridiculous my boy. Look at the facts She not only had the motive, but if I understand correctly is physically capable of such an action And with the cigarette butters proof that she was out there with him You know Phone Roy Turner at the lodge and tell him to charge you with murder. I wonder though wonder why What's there to wonder about well doc unless she is pretty stupid well I'm certain from what I've heard about her that she isn't far from it Then why leaves that's obvious in Criminating tracks both the footprints and the cigarette my boy even the cleverest of criminals sometimes overlook little things like that little things Doc this is more like leaving a couple of neon signs. I Better get back to the lodge. This is Roy with the arrest maybe to keep him from arresting the wrong person I walked into my room at the lodge Roy was just hanging up the phone Okay Okay, doc. Yeah, that's good enough for me I'll um I'll bring you in right away Roy before you do that Hey, I know Johnny the doc told me what you said to him and I agree with you was pretty foolish for her to leave such Obvious signposts not at all like her okay then but following up for those sets of tracks out there really clinched it How do you mean? Oh, we went for his little walk in the snow alone all right, but she followed him and Every time he stopped arrest she also stopped but a couple hundred yards behind him and well hidden by the trees and More important Johnny yeah every time she stopped She lit up and smoked one of those cigarettes and they are the same brand she uses I've checked on it Then when he took off again She dropped the butt in the snow and followed him again until finally when she had him far enough a way to be safe Bangal now wait a minute One other little thing to Johnny Roy and while you were down there in Sanford do I compared those footprints with a pair of Nora's shoes Same type and size wait a minute with you well Roy it has finally got through this thick skull of mine the butt Cigarette, but we found by the body Before you picked it up. Yeah, what about it Johnny? Listen did you find some more out there? Several just further prove did you leave any of them laying around out there? Well sure one or two are all I need for evidence all right come on. We're going out there and look at him Why yes unless you can visualize exactly with that first one looked like lying there beside the body Well, I don't know because I can And Roy before you do anything foolish like arresting Nora Harmon you better have a look at some of those others Just a hat good Glad it hasn't snowed for a while Well, I still think this is a kind of silly way to time Johnny and I tell you that both of us ought to be shot For not having been more observant. You still haven't told me what this miraculous inspiration is that oh here? We are Can you see that butt lying there with that same lipstick on here? I'll take it along touch it. Huh? Just take a good look at it Roy. Don't you see? It wasn't crushed out. It was simply dropped there on top of the snow For sure is the what? Then what put it out? Well the snow what else did it what do you mean? If that cigarette was still burning when it was dropped here on the snow Don't you see Roy don't you see it would have melted some of the snow while it was going out? Wait a minute You're right, of course I am all those butts you found were smoked and put out somewhere else No doubt by Nora Harmon because of the lipstick then somebody else carefully picked them up and saved them And for only one reason Roy to plant them out here beside these footprints Right right Elmer writes in the only other person with a motive But the footprint from her shoe Since you say that she's a big girl and that Elmer is a little shrimp. Yeah And if he wears a snow boot like hers, we've got him But if he doesn't Johnny did you also say that she has a whole trunk full with it Yeah, well wouldn't you have at least a couple of pairs of snow boots? Sure, I've seen him myself any reason then why he couldn't have borrowed a pair of hers and then put him back Yeah, but if he didn't Johnny, well, let's try it Roy. Let's try to send her out a bit on him Only it'll be a Cinder Elmer We'll make him put on a pair of her snow boots and if they fit Well you came to try it Nothing to lose Johnny Let's go her snow boots fit him. All right And little old Cinder Elmer Done George should have known better. He should have made us come up with some really concrete evidence But luckily for us Elmer just broke down and confessed to the whole bit So once again, it's up to the courts Expense count total including the trip home 377 80 yours truly Johnny dollar Here's our star to tell you about next week's story next week One of the cleverest cover-ups for a fire bug I've ever seen and believe me. 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