 From Hollywood it's time now for Johnny dollar Jim Peterson mr. Dollar. Oh, hi a sheriff. I Understand you talk with Miss Parker this afternoon. That's right. I did Well, what do you think now? I think I'm going back to Hartford the first thing in the morning So you finally decided the girl is innocent. I don't know sheriff and I probably never will know I'm just finishing up my report now. I'll send you a copy of it I'll be mighty interested in seeing it on the basis of my investigation. I'm sure the company will pay her claim without question Whenever she's ready to file I'm beat hands down and there's no use denying it. Well, you can't win every time mr. Dollar It's not that sheriff, but this is the first time I've ever had to end a report with a question mark Tonight and every week day night Bob Bailey in the transcribed adventures of the man with the action-packed Expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator yours truly Johnny dollar From special investigator Johnny dollar location Green Pass, Virginia to the home office surety mutual insurance limited Hartford, Connecticut assignment the qui bono matter expense account final page Item 14 50 cents notary fee on a 20 page report a report that covered everything and told nothing But it was the best I could do. I had no more leads no new ideas The bear facts of the case still stood Dan Parker had returned unexpectedly from a trip entered his darkened home late at night and had been shot to death as a prowler by his daughter Luanne I'm out of insurance $100,000 beneficiary Luanne I Checked through a half a dozen theories and been forced to throw out every one of them and the whole case finally came down to just one simple question When Luanne pulled that trigger and fired down the dark stairway Did she or did she not know that she was shooting at her father? I couldn't answer it and I didn't believe anyone else would ever be able to except of course Luanne herself Item 15 $1 even transportation out to the happy hollow Road House where the steaks were good the drinks were good and a Beaten down guy could kill anything Me up and mail me south. Here's that dollar man again. How's it going Sammy business gets any worse? I'll open an artery you here for kicks tonight. Are you gonna put the arm on you again? Let joy reign unsuppressed. That's the word man. That's the word come on over. I'll let you buy me a drink You're riding on a swindle sheet or better yet. I'll let you buy me one you own the joints okay, okay? Set us up Joe make mine a use of fusel. Well, yes, sir sconce in the rocks You ever get through to that Parker chick? Yeah, I talked to her this afternoon. What do you think man? Was I right or was I right about what? Is she a cool fool or not? I don't know Sammy. She's a tough one to figure. She's just a tough one period Well here's to the housekeeper's daughter. Yeah This stuff is murder. I don't know why the customers stand for it So what comes next text I'm going back to Hartford in the morning and little cookie gets her pay off a hundred G's Man, it's really going for broke if she is on the level It's not enough to pay for the way. She'll probably feel for the rest of her life feel that one I'm telling you man. I know that little She's got a heart about as big and warm as the olive and a martini. You could be right. I know I'm right She's took your man. She's took you good Bang bang and the little lady wins a prize. Maybe so a big fat hundred G's and bad old Papa in the cold cold ground She was really shooting for new shoes at night. Well, if she was she's got them Sammy There's nothing more I can do about it. So that's life. What is it? You win a little lose a little and taxes take the rest What Parker's got it made man safe and cozy in his little box. No worries. Oh sure, but we can't all be lucky sometimes Well, wow, hmm, brace yourself Sammy. It looks like you're rated. What? Oh Mr. Sheriff right on time on time relax max He's just come to tell the tale and do the deal Protection sure same set up ahead with Parker and the sheriff says he'll keep bully boy baits in line How about that huh? Well life goes on I guess Well, I wasn't expecting to run into you out here, mr. Dollar. I don't imagine Finish your report. Yep, right down to the last comma sheriff and the last question mark I don't recognize any question mark got to the truth. All right, just wasn't what you'd expected. That's all never saw You got a minute Sammy sure thing pal. Let's go back to the office Stick around I'll other join to be jumping I can hardly wait. Let's have another one here bartender coming up Sir, would you do me the honor of having little drink with me? Well, thanks. I'm having one with you. I've already got it. Well, so you have so you have Another little one never hurts though later. Maybe thanks. Anyway, any time friend What line you in the insurance record sure. Well, that's all right. I guess I oh Thank you. Thank you bartender. Thank you very much. I mean ladies ready to wear myself Must be fascinating a whole sale. I work out a Baltimore cover three whole states Oh, I've got a great little line of merchandise. I really don't need it. Oh the heck with business. Let's live a little shall we? I missed you dollar Johnny dollar He's looking at your dolly You know, I always believe in living while I can Because you never know That's a very profound thought. No, sir. We just never do because it can happen to anybody Just like it did to a fellow I met last week man right here in this town to fellow named Parker Parker that's right. It was a fine chap I met him on the train coming out from Richmond. I was on my way to Roanoke. Oh, we were laughing and we were joking And that very night he got killed I read about it in the paper Sir just don't never know hey look tell me something Are you the man who got off the train with him talked with him on the platform while the train was standing in the station? That's right. That's right. He wanted me to meet his daughter And that's all he talked about it was his doll. He was crazy about that Well, did he expect her to be there at the station? Yes, but she wasn't I guess he got there Wires crosses he tried to phone her, but he didn't have any luck So I get back in the train. He walks off down the road and a half hour later He's dead. I'm telling you. I'm telling you just never know on the train on the way down What did he say about it? Oh, you know the way a guy talks about his kid. He he worshipped her Yes, he did. That's all he was telling how they were always kidding each other in there. Oh, say here Here take a look at this tie I'm wearing. Yeah, sure. It's a nice time sure. It's a nice time That's what anybody would think just to look at it. Yeah, it's a nice come on. Come on I want to show you something about this time. Can't you show me without going? Oh, you got to go outside. So come on come on Mr. Parker gave me this tie He was wearing one on the train and I liked it So he gave me one he said he had three of them his daughter gave him to him the week before he got Them from some novelty house. So come on come on Look, what is it? You want to show me about it? Oh, come on. Come on. We got to go down there at the corner of the building Oh boy, this will knock you out. No, I'm telling you. Oh, it's just real crazy. Yeah, it must be Parker never would give it to me except he had three of them. He figured he could never wear them all so Come on. I see the trick. All right. All right. Look, it's just a nice necktie, isn't it? That's all Yeah, that's nothing out of the ordinary Now Come on around the corner. You're out of the light. Oh Boy, this is gonna fracture you now now look Well, I'll be Good Lord. How about them? Is it crazy that daughter of Parker's really must be something huh? Yeah, she is. Can you imagine a kid thinking up an idea like that? Can you? Giving her dad a necktie that it glows in the dark Good evening, Miss Parker. Well, Mr. Darla, what are you doing out here this time of night? Mind if I come in? Please do. Thanks Oh, I brought your gun back. The sheriff was finished with it. I never want to see it again. And how you feel? I'll put it here on the table You'd better not leave it there though. It's loaded. I wish Sheriff Peterson had kept it Oh, it may come in handy sometime again. Mr. Darla. I was planning to leave town in the morning, Miss Parker I'd already made out my report and given you a clean bill of health I didn't even realize I was under suspicion What was I supposed to have done? Deliberately murdered your father in order to collect a hundred thousand dollars in life insurance You've got a pretty horrible mind, haven't you? Maybe but I wouldn't trade it for yours Haven't you noticed my neck time is Parker? I thought you'd tag it the first thing Why should I because it belonged to your father a special gift from his loving daughter He gave it to a man. He met on the train and I bought it for $10 this evening So now you know what happened to the third tie. That's probably been bothering you because I imagine you carefully destroyed the other two I think you're a little more than slightly insane. Oh, it was a neat plan simple and sweet You got the idea a month ago when the sheriff caught a prowler over on the south side of town and Suddenly you began to hear prowlers at night You bought your father a set of ties that glow in the dark and then you waited and when he came back from that trip You got your chance you got quite an imagination Oh, it was a great setup a dark house and him wearing a tie that glowed in the dark just like this one miss Parker It was a perfect target. You couldn't miss It's almost a shame that you were beaten by one unforeseen accident Your father talked to a stranger and gave him a tie and that tie is going to hang you No, I don't think so mr. Dollar Turn on those lights. You were right. You know it is a perfect target You were very clever mr. Dollar, but not quite clever enough or you don't know Yeah, I've been standing out there on the terrace you know no the way in you better give me the gun no use pointing it honey Loaded with blanks You all right mr. Dollar? Yeah, all right sheriff a little sick. That's all But anybody so beautiful could be so right you faked it. You tricked up the whole thing just to frame me you Daddy Nobody tricked you except yourself That's hard for me to believe Dan me used to take you fishing with it when you were no no higher net you was a pretty little thing I think I'd ever shut up your food now. I got to take you someplace again Wish I had never lived to see this day, and I'm mighty glad that Dan ain't here to see it Come on honey. We better get started Expense account item 16 a hundred and forty eight dollars and thirty cents hotel and incidentals and green pass and transportation back to Hartford Expense account total three hundred and eighty two dollars and sixty five cents end of account end of report remarks When you gave me this assignment Don you asked a question a phrase in Latin Quibono who benefits so here's your answer nobody Yours truly Johnny dollar Remember there'll be another intriguing story for you beginning next Monday night next week a study in entomology You know bugs and this one's the deadly variety a fire bug Join us. Won't you yours truly Johnny dollar? Yours truly Johnny dollars starring Bob Bailey is transcribed in Hollywood Written by Les Crutchfield. 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