 Johnny dollar Yes, George got a pencil and piece of paper sure and write this down go ahead 130 You know his name George adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator yours truly Johnny dollar to Northeast indemnity Association Home Office Hartford, Connecticut Following is an account of expenses incurred during my investigation of the tip-off matter Only a few miles south in Weathersfield a town with a population of about 20,000 Where the father of our country once planned the historic battle of Yorktown an assistant warden led me not to one of the cell blocks But to a screened off corner in a hospital ward lay there was in his early 30s It's a full minute before I recognized him as Turner McGackie up for safe-cracking whom I hadn't seen since the day that judge handed out his term some 10 years before I'm pretty funny how dollop. I'm due to get out Instead, I lay here dying. Oh told you that McGackie. Come on. Don't you try and kid me to dollar before you see maybe Maybe you can stop a killing dollar job that got me in here. That was 10 years ago Only they never found the loot from it did they and you know where it is Mac see dollar me telling this but You're the only one I Only one I got any respect for respect for me Mac I was partly responsible for putting you here. Yeah Sure, darling Yeah, did your guts? Then I did only yesterday the warden He told me about what you've done for Tommy my kid brother About the home and foster folks you got for but you're seeing he'd get educated Like the way that I never did It was a nice kid McGackie So because of you that kid has a chance to play it straight. I think he will too He doesn't know about me. He didn't know I was there Mac. Yeah. Yeah, I Stood in the crowd and I watched him graduate from high school with honors You'd have been proud of a Mac Yeah, yeah, you give him what I Couldn't never give him Tommy deserved a chance like any other kid. That's all yeah, but the way you done it You're letting them think I've been killed Some kind of an accident You'll never let them know about My record what I really was now he's got no spots on him He's got nothing to live down to make him ashamed all this time I didn't know about about what you've done for him. I just kept hating him, but I didn't know look Mac That's all water under the bridge now So no, I'm gonna make I got to your dollop. There's no need to Mac. Look look you're getting tired I gotta leave the mood from that safe job hundred cheese Listen the thing is a fisherman living in Mac's old cottage on Pecanic Bay Long Island near the town of Kutchon He told me about a safe in the cellar of the cottage The fact Pirelli knew only half the combination to it and the other half two weeks ago When he found out that he was going to die Mac had given the other half to a crook by the name of Danny Russell off Who pulled the heist with him? Who was also there in the pen? Who'd not only been a box man, but a killer Okay, fine except for one thing I Wouldn't have told Danny Not if I'd known then about what you've done for my brother look Mac, but now I don't know So it's you that you Have that dough now it'll go to the insurance company Mac look Danny gets to him first Danny'll kill Pirelli take it easy now. Don't get yourself too excited. Don't you see I haven't the whole combination between them Danny you'll get the dough then Then you'll kill Pirelli Well, look if um, if you gave me the combination Yeah Yeah, you give me a word. You you'll protect Pirelli Danny's keep it that dough for me all this time Mac. I'll do what I can for him But first while I'm here at the pen I better get things straight with Danny Wetzel off. No dollop Danny's getting out of here Today getting out mean they're releasing him. Yeah, you gotta go for that dough and go see Pirelli Okay, Mac have a combination of the safe Yeah, yeah, it's just it's right Turn it right. Yeah, no No Maddie Come on Mac. Help me orderly. Help nurse nurse get a doctor in here Yes, mr. Dollar. We sent him on his way about an hour ago and all I can say is good riddance That's kind of them two hundred and fifty dollars for a plane a charter job. We took off and hit it south How dick spined all the pilot ever managed to sit down among the sand dunes near cut jogging semi darkness I'll never know but after a walk of about a mile. I found the gas station Item three twenty dollars to the gas jockey for the use of his stripped down vintage car Sure, man. You just negotiate that next turn left. You see it down there I mean then you swing another left on the sandy road you come to and you stop when you make the bay It's a beat-up old shack with a war out old pier in front of it Okay, oh and if you don't see him around or he don't answer when you knock pouring in any house It's probably cause old Pirelli's liquored up like he mostly isn't his fellow sleep. All right, thanks Oh, and just be sure to get my car back here by midnight when I close up, huh, right? About that table a hundred thousand dollars no from the safe in your cellar. Oh, you got no right for that I'm sure you did and it all better be in it now Only a couple of hours ago in the prison hospital. I'm up and check on it. I don't think so Johnny You're insurance day to get that money. No, I'm also here for another reason. Yeah, like what? To save your worthless carcass if I can You don't believe that I never trust no cop when you're a cop look Pirelli get one thing straight Personally, I couldn't care less what happens to you I've got no use for you a man with a record like you piled up over the years I paid for everything I done I served time for holding on to this hot money My only reason for trying to keep Danny Russell off from killing you is because I promised McGacky. I would I can take care of myself like you did when I came barging in here Okay, so maybe you look Danny Russell off the killer and he's got the other half of that safe combination What yes because McGacky gave it to him when he found out he was gonna die And you think Danny couldn't force your half out of you with a gun in your belly If you refuse to help him open that box And then when he got the dough he'd kill you I wouldn't Tell him my hat kid you any way and then blow the safe that used to be his business So whatever happens Pirelli without me you end up dead Now look, I know it'll mean breaking my word to McGacky But if that's the way you want it all I have to do is just sit on the sidelines Wait for Danny to get here for the safe to be open one way or another so you get knocked off and then move in on Danny Okay, okay, but I Maybe I can get him fresh Go on, but if you do get lucky if you do kill him before he kills you I promise you one thing Pirelli I'll see you end up in the chair. Do you like to think about that for a while? Just don't take too long though, because I doubt if Danny's gonna waste much time getting down here And if I'm not around when he does get here well Pirelli Okay, okay What do you want me to do? Got enough food around here to keep us for a couple of days sure I got plenty all right, then I'm moving in You got a phone? No only plenty of food and booze. I can see that Is there any other way to get here Pirelli besides the road that turns off into the gas station? Not a lot somebody try to get here with a one of those heliocopters All right then from the gas station I can tell if somebody is heading in here, huh? I'll see you later Back at the gas station out on the highway a hundred dollars even a hundred bucks Oh for that man. I'll ride a bicycle or borrow my sister's car and you can keep the old craze No, Jimmy. I'll only need it for a day or two. I hope all the time you want and is there anything else I can do Mr.. Dollar just let me have a handful of change to throw with this payphone of yours Item 5 380 for a call to George Hardy at his home back in Hartford. I gave him the whole story You don't I'll have to contact you What are you thinking of will you set this Danny Russell off hasn't shown up there yet? Not yet though He's had plenty of time by now Maybe Danny's playing it smart now. He's on parole. What do you mean? Well, he's supposed to report in here in Hartford where he used to live isn't he probably You'll do that first to give a good impression make everybody think he's on the up and up Maybe and then when he except that I can't see him wasting any time about getting his hands on the money Or at least making sure it's still here So George yes, get hold of Pete Larkin the private detective Yeah, tell him it's for me Tell him if Danny is there in Hartford to keep an eye on him day and night and if he leaves town I want to know it so I can be ready for him. Okay down there I don't even know if they have any in this little town What's more a couple of cops prowling around would only scare him away, and I want to get him I'll check back with you three or four times a day. Okay, and at least we know where that hundred thousand is now Do we maybe I better get back out to Pirelli and make sure There and Mike Pirelli's cell are intact and Mike himself and the process of getting very very drunk But in answer to my question Okay It's only the last two numbers a combination that I know. All right. What are they? It's took two turns to the right two turns to the right to what number Who turns to the right to 81 and then hey listen and then Mike Then left to 14 Okay, I'm scared now you got me scared Yeah, go ahead help yourself Maybe enough of that stuff will at least keep you I turned it and swung open the door Why are you palming that cannon? Sorry Jimmy? I was expecting somebody else man. I hope so. Hey, what happened to him? Oh Pirelli. Oh, well he oh, yeah, yeah, I see the jug now Falling down drunk again, huh? Oh, but uh here here, Mr. Dollar. The reason I stopped by is I forgot to give you this key To the trunk of my car in case you need it. Oh, okay, Jimmy. Thanks, and listen, I've been thinking Your name is dollar, huh Johnny dollar that investigator man I think you're the most look Jimmy if Johnny dollar was around here if he was setting a trap for some crook Yeah, if anybody blabbed about it to anyone Johnny dollar might end up very dead. You understand that? Don't worry. Don't you worry? Just just let me know how you make out with you. I'll let you know. Yeah, and thanks Thanks, Johnny fix in the next three days $41 for more telephone calls to George Hardy Yeah, Danny Russell off was in Hartford, but sitting tight So maybe George had been right But how much longer I could keep old Pirelli under the influence without doing him serious harm began to worry me And I was afraid that if he got sober he might turn on me Then the fourth day and listen Johnny. I mean mister as soon as you get through making that call I want to tell you something. Okay, Jimmy. Sure, and I hope you haven't been worried about my telling anybody You're here because I haven't told anyone. Oh, the George Johnny dollar. Yeah When I got back here from lunch Pete Larkin that private eye you had me call. Yes early this morning Danny Russell off got away from him. He did Pete's lost him entirely So Johnny if I were you okay George Now what I was going to tell you Jimmy, I'm sorry. I haven't time now But about that other car that started down the road it what yeah down a Pirelli's place when About an hour ago, but then it came back to the highway. Did you get the license? Oh, I didn't get the number it was Connecticut. All right, then after we came back to the highway down that way I see what Jimmy is there another road around here that goes to the bay. Yeah, the old fishing club below Pirelli's place Okay, here I saw a buck. Yeah, but why what did I do? I'll let you know Danny the reason he turned around to come back to the highway was because he'd seen my car there So instead I took the road to the fishing club And there it was beside the abandoned clubhouse a rental job with Connecticut Place Leaving away from it were footprints in the sand leading toward Pirelli's As I got close to the cottage by crawling on my belly behind the sand dunes I Managed to work my way around to one of the windows the chance of going over to Danny's side There's only one way to find out I Raised up just enough to look for lay Mike Pirelli. Well, he hadn't told his half the combination That meant there was only one way Danny could get the door out of that safe now The cellar was wide open Yet if I tried to lift the noisy old window and climb in without some other sound to cover But Danny himself gave me that on the noise of this nitro job on the safe and died away I was inside the house and halfway down the cellar steps. All right Danny raise them up over your head Don't move Get those hands up high you reach for a gun Danny and I'll pull the trigger I know you don't throw it even with the slugging me and you're dead. I can hit that bottle from here I'll back up drop the gun you try throwing that bottle of nitro. Yeah, you set it down now gently Set it down off up on the edge of the wreckage of that cottage. Most of my clothes were blown completely off And yet by some miracle I suffered no more than a couple of bruises in the slight headache As for Danny Well, let's not go into that. He's paid for all his crimes Expensive count total three forty nine forty and Don't forget my condition in spite of the fact that a lot of bits and pieces of that money had to be pasted back together Yours truly Johnny dollar can you get premium gasoline performance at regular gasoline price? 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