July 24, 2025 • 29 mins
Follows the investigations of an insurance detective whose cases often involve intrigue and deception, blending elements of mystery and drama.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Hallmark Playhouse, which is heard during most of the
year at this time on Thursdays, has finished its summer vacation,
so he'll be with us when Hallmark Playhouse returns to
CBS a week from tonight on September the seventh. Now
from Hollywood, it's time for Edmund O'Brien as Johnny.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Dolla Carl Brewster down on the East Coast.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Yes, Karl, I wonder if you do a little job
for us. Sure, what is it?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
A policyholder of ours needs some protection.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
I hope this doesn't indicate a trend. This is the
second time an insurance company has hired me as a bodyguide.
Is that rather unusual?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Well, it's rather an unusual case. This girl, her fiance,
has spent the past five years in prison. He's being
released tomorrow and he swears that the first thing he's
going to do is kill her.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
That's cozy.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I think she deserves some help. Come on down this afternoon.
We'll talk it over.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Edmund O'Brien in a transcribed Adventure of the Man with
the Action Packed Expense Accounts, America's Fabulous Glance insurance investigator,
Yours truly.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Johnny Dollar expense account submitted by a special investigator, Johnny Dollar,
to Home Office, East Coast Underwriters, Hartford, Connecticut. Attention Carl Brewster.
The following is an accounting of my expenditures during assignment
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on the Virginia Beach Matter expense account. I'em one a
dollar and a half cab fare from my apartment to
your office.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Well, well you're prompt, Dollar, I am. Or did we
set any particular time?
Speaker 5 (01:40):
No, I guess we didn't.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Well, I'm glad to see you anyways, Sit down, thank you,
let's see. Oh yes, the Browning girl, Janice Browning? How
much did I tell you over the phone that.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Her boyfriend was getting out of Stern was going to
kill her? What you left unsaid was that she probably
deserves it. I don't hold much sympathy for these dames
get themselves involved in some hoodlum and then decide to
get disinvolved a minute that going gets rough, that it's
your money.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
I wouldn't jump to conclusions Dollar, this is a pathetic case.
Of course, the girl made a mistake in taking up
with this fellow, But five years is a long time
to think, and.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
She realized a mistake.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
What did he go up for?
Speaker 5 (02:18):
I believe it was robbery.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
You know, if she spent all the loot before she
realized a mistake. No, Dollar, why doesn't she hire a
bodyguid herself.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Because she can't afford it. She has nothing. She turned
to us because there was no place to go. Poor
thing is in desperate fear of her life.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Dollar, sure you can appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Okay, give me the rest this little more.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
She's living in Virginia outside of Norfolk, Virginia Beach.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Janice Browning was it?
Speaker 5 (02:42):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Huh?
Speaker 5 (02:43):
I have address for you.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Her fiance's name is ropes and Mark Robson, and he's
due out tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
From the State Penitentiary at Richmond. Just stay with her
until we see what happens. She was here, Dollar, I
talked to her. This will not be an unpleasant assignment
for you.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
She must have of something more than a policy to
knocked this whole company off its feet, far enough to
hire a bodyguard that could spell bankruptcy if it went
far enough. Spence count Item two one hundred and ten
dollars Transportation and incidentals between Hartford and Virginia Beach, Virginia,
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Virginia Beach seemed hardly the scene for potential murder, a
white strip of sunny beach on one hand and a
friendly forest of pine on the other. I found Janis
Browning's address just south of the village Proper, a fair
sized cottage surrounded first by a small, well kept garden
and then undeveloped land. When I got out of the cab,
I was looked over by a trim little honey blonde
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thing and shorts and halter who waited for me on
the verandah, well, hello.
Speaker 6 (03:48):
You seem to be carrying a suitcase. Are you sure
you haven't been mister Redford?
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Are you miss Janis brown No.
Speaker 6 (03:54):
I'm her personal maid. Who are you?
Speaker 3 (03:56):
My name is Dollar. I'm the investigator from the insurance company.
Did you say personally?
Speaker 6 (04:02):
Yeah? Did you say investigator? That's well, I hope you
will pardon me if I am confused. I was not
notified of the arrival of non investigator. What is it
you want?
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Miss Brownie asked for me. She went to her insurance
company and requested a bodyguard.
Speaker 6 (04:16):
A bodyguard. I don't know about that, But then there
are lots of things I don't know as yet I
knew here. But if she asked for you, you may
as welcome in thanks. I suppose she was surprised when
I said I was Miss Browning's personal maide because of
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the way I'm dressed. For your pardon expression.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
As a matter of fact, I was surprised that she
had one.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
Why'd you say that?
Speaker 3 (04:44):
I'd been led to believe that she couldn't afford things
like that.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
Well, between you and I, I haven't been paid yet,
but she seems to be very generous. She turned over
her entire wardrobe for me to wear at any time. Yeah,
but maybe that's a bad sign. Maybe she's going to
pay me off in clothes and they don't quite fit.
Speaker 7 (05:01):
As you can see.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
How long have you been here?
Speaker 6 (05:04):
Just only three days. My name's Betty Light. I took
the name Light from his stepfather. What are you doing here?
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Thomas Browning has a fiancee coming out of prison today,
and she's afraid to meet him alone person.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
Well, you could never tell, but I suppose it's her business.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
What is he?
Speaker 6 (05:24):
If I was sweating out of fiance after all that time,
I wouldn't be quite so thick with what she's thick with.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
What do you mean?
Speaker 6 (05:30):
Well, if I were him, i'd feel cheated. She hasn't
been wasting her time, from what I can tell, and
then one week that's plenty. But I shouldn't be gassing
like this.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Who is he?
Speaker 6 (05:41):
His name is George Masters. And if there's a fiance
on Tappy, better be careful. Why is she afraid? Is
if she shouldn't.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Be because she changed the mind about him and evidently
didn't tell him about it.
Speaker 6 (05:54):
Sure, the same old story. Now this is a surprise
to me. But the least I can do his work
out the wig.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
You know, Betty, I feel the same way. It was
just past midday when I arrived, and wasn't until almost
five that a cream colored convertible coasted into the driveway,
carrying a man and another honey blonde. I could see
immediately how Janni's browning had swept the insurance company off
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its feet.
Speaker 8 (06:22):
How do you do, mister Dollar. I'm so glad you're here.
Oh may I present mister Master?
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Oh, mister Masters. I won't stay, Jana know you have
things to talk over.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
I'll pick up seven all right, George bye.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Dollar. Feel a lot better too, now that you're here.
I'll do what I can see it.
Speaker 8 (06:36):
Seven yo, I'll be ready. Oh please sit down mister Dollar. Betty, Yes,
Miss Browning, I don't think we'll need anything, and i'd
like to see mister Dollar alone, if you don't mind.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
By all means, Miss Browning, could I have your permission
to visit the.
Speaker 8 (06:51):
Beach of course day, as long as you like.
Speaker 7 (06:53):
You know where the beach things are.
Speaker 6 (06:54):
Oh, I wouldn't think of it croaching. I'll just go
the way I am.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
She's a strange where'd you find her?
Speaker 8 (07:01):
She was a waitress in New York. I asked her
if she wanted to come down for the rest of
the summer. I thought she'd be company, but she's become
so formal or tries to be.
Speaker 7 (07:11):
Oh, would you like a drink of something?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
No?
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Thanks?
Speaker 8 (07:15):
I suppose you think I'm an awful coward to screen
for help the way I did.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
I haven't heard all the particulars.
Speaker 8 (07:21):
I really didn't know what else to do. I thought
of running away, but well, I've made friends here. There's
a simple fact that I don't have any money.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
How serious do you think this threat to kill you is?
Speaker 8 (07:33):
I'm afraid it's quite serious, but I don't know what
will happen.
Speaker 7 (07:37):
And I wanted somebody to.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Be with me when did you see him?
Speaker 8 (07:41):
Last six months ago?
Speaker 9 (07:43):
I thought about it for a long time, about our
breaking our engagement and which would be the best way
to do it, And I decided to face him while
he was still in prison and simply tell him I
couldn't go on.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
That wasn't the easiest way to Hannah to him, I.
Speaker 8 (07:57):
Know, but it was the fairest I thought, and create
a scene or anything. But I'll never forget his expression.
He just looked at me and said, have your fun.
You've only got six months because when I get out
of here, I'm going to kill you.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
Well, now the six months are up. He's been let out.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
He knows you're here.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
Yes, he'll come here.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Your friend Masters said he was going to call for
you at seven. Where were you going?
Speaker 7 (08:24):
Just to dinner and maybe a club afterward.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
I think you'd better cancel it.
Speaker 8 (08:29):
Why I'll go crazy if I have to sit in
this house and just wait.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
I don't want you to come back here after dog
for one reason. If you can't go a long distance
and stay, I don't want you to leave it all.
The village is too small. Of he knows it. He'll
find you. I'll be with George if you managed to
put the responsibility of this thing into the lap of
your insurance company, and they handed it to me. Now,
I want you to stay here where I can keep
my eye on you.
Speaker 7 (08:53):
All right, mister dollar, I'll do anything you want.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Me to good. You might mix that drink you offered
scotch if you have it in plain water. The rest
of the evening was spent with small talk and mounting tension.
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The State penitentiary was no more than one hundred miles
from Virginia Beach, and since it's the habit of prisons
to turn out their guests at dawn, Mark Roveson had
had plenty of time to make the trip. In spite
of a sultry night, I closed and locked all the
doors and windows, and by eleven the cottage was dark
with everyone retired. The living room was the most strategic
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spot in the house, so I stretched myself across a
couch that was too short for me and listened to
the silence. It must have been some time after midnight
when I heard a door crack behind me. Was at
You shouldn't be roaming around the house, Betty. I donnia
laid a chair across your head.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
It was too hot to sleep, and besides, I have
a few things on my mind.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
If you're interested, sure, sure, said thanks.
Speaker 6 (10:02):
Did I not understand you to say that this con
was her fiance? That's right when she certainly lives in circles.
If you ask me, I happen to uncover some information
that will knock you for a loop. What we Basically,
I've never been a snoop, But I didn't go to
the beach.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Oh No.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
After you advised me of the situation around here, I
thought I had a right. I went into her room,
which is no more than an oversized closet. Was bad,
and it's a good thing I did, because in a
drawer I found a picture of miss Browning posing as
a bride.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
A bride? Yeah, are you sure of then?
Speaker 6 (10:32):
As sure as I'm sitting here and the guy's standing
with there was a bridegroom if I ever saw one?
Speaker 8 (10:36):
Were they fancy?
Speaker 6 (10:38):
What do you think of that?
Speaker 3 (10:39):
I don't know. It doesn't necessarily mean.
Speaker 6 (10:41):
Anything, but from what I've overheard, this fiance of hers
has been in prison for five years.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Yeah, that's the story.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
And how come a wedding picture was taken in nineteen
forty seven?
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Was it and that's what's.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
Stamped on the back of it. Now is that scruely
or isn't it?
Speaker 3 (10:54):
It definitely is.
Speaker 6 (10:55):
And there are some other things that don't ring truly,
for example, this mug she's currently tied to. I heard
it when she called him tonight, and it sounded more like.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
He blasted your room down the floor and stayed there. Hey,
hold it, hold it rose. He hadn't moved away from
the window he fired through. When I got to him,
he was still pointing the now empty gun at me,
pulling the trigger and looking down at it stupidly. Get away.
I won't go back. I don't have to stay in
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the hospital now, I'm all better. Now give me their gun,
robes and it's empty. No, it's mine. You're one of
her men. She always had men. No, not one of
them men. Let's go in the house and calm down.
You talk like a doctor. Yeah, you're a doctor. You
can't take me back. Get away from me. You told
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me to make myself believe that she was dead. Night's sleep. Better,
come on, get away. I won't go back. Let go,
don't cause any more trouble. Robes and now come on,
I won't go back. But go robes. Well, now I
don't have to go back.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Let go.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
I'd heard stories of the unbelievable physical strength of those
whose mental strength is gone. I got his hands away
from my throat by sinking my knee into his stomach.
There was nothing I could do to hold him. He
lumbered off into the darkness and disappeared. I didn't need
a medical opinion to know that I wasn't protecting Janie
Browning from a released convict. I was protecting her from
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a homicidal maniac.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
There's the opportunity of a lifetime waiting today for any
healthy young American man, an opportunity to begin a profitable
and stable career for himself and at the same time
to offer assistance to his nation, to the United Nations
in their present conflict against armed aggression. The United States
Armed Forces need volunteers today in every branch of the service.
You have the chance to choose not only the branch,
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but the type of work which you feel will be
of the most benefit to you in the years ahead.
Maybe suggest that you go to your nearest recruiting office
now to see if you were eligible to volunteer and
inquire about the many opportunities open to you. And now
back to our star, Edmund O'Brien and the second act
of yours truly, Johnny.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
Dollar, Are you all right, mister?
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Yeah? Ten hans and lamps in here, but stay away
from the windows and out if he'll come back. That
he might.
Speaker 6 (13:49):
That brute is still on the loose.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Yeah, where's miss Browning?
Speaker 6 (13:53):
She's still in a room. I read a ball in that.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
You stop now? It is Browning? Yes, I'm coming in.
Speaker 8 (14:01):
Where is he?
Speaker 3 (14:02):
I couldn't hold.
Speaker 8 (14:03):
Him the lights, No, no, don't turn on the lights.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
He thinks he killed her. He won't come back tonight.
Speaker 7 (14:09):
Well, why don't you go ahead and say it?
Speaker 3 (14:13):
I'd better not. As a matter of fact, I don't
mind your lies or the way I was dragged into this.
But what really stinks is you're hiring that girl because
she looks enough like you to be mistaken for you
at a distance. You give her your clothes to wear,
and you put her into your room. She'd be dead
now she hadn't committed the living room.
Speaker 8 (14:30):
I'm not trying to pass the blame. But it was
George Master's idea. He remembered her and thought bringing her
here might be a way to.
Speaker 7 (14:35):
Save my life.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Rosen's your husband, isn't he?
Speaker 7 (14:39):
Yes, he's my husband.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Un what's he doing running around loose?
Speaker 7 (14:42):
He escaped from a hospital in Pennsylvania. He's been there
a year. He tried to kill me before he was committed.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Why didn't you tell the insurance company the truth? I did? No,
you did?
Speaker 7 (14:49):
Yes, I did.
Speaker 8 (14:51):
It was mister Brewster's I did to tell you that
he was coming out of prison.
Speaker 7 (14:55):
He thought you wouldn't take the job if you knew
the truth.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Well he was right, and I'm leaving the job right now.
Speaker 7 (15:00):
You have every right to.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
You can get yourself some protection around here.
Speaker 7 (15:03):
I couldn't when I tried.
Speaker 8 (15:05):
I went to every private detective in Norfolk and Portsmouth.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
None of them would take the case. No, what about
the police? What is this county out here?
Speaker 5 (15:13):
Yes it is.
Speaker 8 (15:14):
I notified the sheriff's office and they promised me extra patrols.
Speaker 7 (15:17):
But that's the best they could do.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
How'd you happen to turn to the insurance company.
Speaker 8 (15:22):
Well, George Masters is my lawyer. He suggested it.
Speaker 7 (15:26):
Mister Dollar. I'm not begging for help.
Speaker 8 (15:28):
Or excusing anything I've done, but I've been half crazy
with fear and the awful lost feeling when nobody would
help me.
Speaker 7 (15:34):
I had to do something.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
What about your lack of money? Was that a lie to.
Speaker 8 (15:39):
Every penny I had has been spent on treatment for Mark.
I borrowed from George on my insurance. I sold our
house in Connecticut and that money's gone. This property is
all I have left, and I borrowed against it.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
M I guess you've had your troubles. Who can I
talk to about your husband?
Speaker 7 (15:57):
You mean a doctor?
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Yes? I thought maybe a doctor might know what robes
and would do next.
Speaker 8 (16:02):
Doctor Becker came on to Norfolk AFTERY warned me that
Market escaped. His phone number is in the little book
on the stand, and.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
I had to bother him that I'd like to have
him come out tonight.
Speaker 7 (16:14):
Mister dollar, Yeah, you're staying.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Not any longer than I have to. You'd better get
up and have a drink. I was shaking like a leaf.
I changed my mind about dropping the case, mister Brewster,
not only because she was a beautiful woman in a
tough situation, but also for another reason. I awoke doctor
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Becker at his hotel in Norfolk, and after I outlined
the Knight's events to me, he agreed to come out, it.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
Must have been a decidedly unpleasant experience. Mister Dollar. On
the other hand, you are fortunate to be alive. Yes,
I guess I am robes and is onlyerous when his
basic jealousy is aggravated. You say you arrived with Luggy.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
That's ryan.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
Perhaps he was watching then and misunderstood your visit.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Ah, I get it. Well, what do we do now, doctor?
He probably thinks he killed her, and we expect him
to come back.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Well, that is hard to say. He'll suffer a deep
sense of remorse. Then he may feel that what took
place was only a figment, a dream. The remorse would
cause introspection and keep him away. The fantasy thought might
bring him back to investigate when knows tonight even more tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Would he try to kill her again? Oh?
Speaker 5 (17:39):
Yes, is an extremely strong fixation. Do you want him
to come back?
Speaker 3 (17:43):
And I want to see the end of this. That's
the best way I can think of. I'll keep his
wife here tomorrow outside so he can see her if
he does come.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
She is the one who really has suffered. The poor girl.
I wish they were a way to ensure her safety.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
We could alert the police.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
With the police the scene, then he would not return,
My dear morning. Rather. Oh so sorry about the trouble.
Speaker 7 (18:09):
I'm afraid it can't be helped.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
I he was so sure at one point that he
was responding to treatman.
Speaker 8 (18:15):
I know you've done your best, doctor, mister Dollar. I
may be imagining things, but I'm awfully worried. All right, No,
I mean I tried to phone Georgie and there's no answer.
It's after two and he should be at home. Mark
knew that George and I have always been friendly.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Would there be any danger to this man, doctor.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
I hardly think so. All of your husband's aggressive urge
was directed towards you, Jane.
Speaker 8 (18:37):
Well, could we go and see if everything is all right?
Speaker 7 (18:40):
I can't help it.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
I'm worried. How does he live in the village.
Speaker 7 (18:43):
It's not far from here. Could we borrow your car? Doctor?
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (18:46):
By all means, my dear. Here, here are the keys.
Speaker 8 (18:49):
You'll come with me, mister Dollar.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Oh, I'm not letting you go alone. We'll be back
so as we can. Doctor.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
Oh.
Speaker 8 (19:03):
This is his house, the white one.
Speaker 7 (19:08):
There's his car in the driveway.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
There's a light on. Maybe his phone is out of order.
Speaker 8 (19:15):
I told him I'd let him know if anything happened. George, George,
it's jam doesn't answer.
Speaker 7 (19:33):
I want to go in.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Let's see m it's un locked. George lights coming from
a room back there.
Speaker 7 (19:42):
That's his study. What the phone is?
Speaker 3 (19:44):
We can check that. Then George Masters was lying face
up in the middle of the room that had been
pretty well torn up by the struggle. The first thing
I noticed, with the bruises left on his throat by
the hands that had choked him to death. I noticed
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another thing when I went to the desk to phone
the police. There was a gun lying on it, and
I would have sworn that it was the same police
special Mark Robeson was carrying earlier in the evening. It
took Doctor Becker to quiet Janie Browning after I literally
dragged her out of the Master's house and got her home.
Speaker 5 (20:28):
And I hope she can rest now, but she's dangerously
near to mental collapse herself.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Yes, I can understand that.
Speaker 6 (20:34):
Is there anything further that I can do, mister.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Dollar telling now, Betty gets some sleep.
Speaker 6 (20:38):
If you can sleep, who could sleep?
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Hell and spend your time packing or going back to
New York in the morning.
Speaker 6 (20:43):
I certainly am for me. You can give Virginia Beach
back to the engine.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
There's Janis in love with Masters, doctor.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
I think so, a great feeling of loyalty. At least
he had helped her so much with monetary loans and so.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
But you said he wouldn't remember the association between Masters
and his wife is. I was convinced that he wouldn't.
There was a police special and Master's study. I'm positive
it was the same one that Robeson used here. Oh,
I tried to take it away from him. I couldn't.
And why should he leave it at Masters?
Speaker 5 (21:15):
Well? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Did they know one another before Robeson broke down?
Speaker 5 (21:19):
Oh? Yes, they were quite friendly. Good heavens, Dollar, what
are you driving here?
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Jannis borrowed from Masters on a life insurance policy that
usually means making the lender a beneficiary. I don't know
how much the policy was for, but I'm going to
find out. Well.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
I dislike having you agree with you, Dollar, but I do.
In Robeson's warped mind, Janis was the arch enemy. It
would have been quite easy for Masters to inflame Robeson
to the point where where he would kill his own wife.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
What is it, Betty? Then he came back, I'll take
it easy, you're all right, and he.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
Was looking in the window, the one he's shot through.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Doctor take care of her? Will I'd better get back
to Jannis's room. There was no more trouble that night,
nor was there any rest. We knew that since Robeson
had come back, he realized his mistake, and we knew
that he would try to come back again. We agreed
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that instead of calling for police protection, we would let
him return and try to handle him. When he did.
An hour after daybreak, we felt it safe to relax,
and it wasn't until noon that I drove Betty light
into Virginia Beach and put her aboard a bus bound
for the comparative safety of New York. Before I started
the return trip, I made a swing past George Master's house,
convinced the deputy sheriff in charge that I had a
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right to poke my nose in, and got myself back
into the study.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
I suppose it'll be all right if you go in.
They took up all evidence. They wanted to guess, why
was that sheriff? All the things that'd pick up prints
here y'are what do you want to look at.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Some of his papers? I want to interfere with your work,
but I'd like to know how he stood financially.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
You think that has something to do with it.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
I don't know it might.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
They gusted all them drawers, so I guess it's all right.
Speaker 7 (23:13):
If you pull them.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
He's a lawyer, you know. Yeah, I know, send the
peoples wide open. A lot of people didn't like him.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Oh, I didn't know that.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
What's that book?
Speaker 3 (23:27):
It's a legend kept his accounts in it.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
What'd you find Janice Brown?
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Who's that somebody loans some money to Oooh, I'll.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
Say he did twenty thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
That's all I wanted, Sheriff. Thanks, and I hope I
haven't caused you too much trouble. What I'd found was
another link in a chain of circumstantial evidence that would
never be used since George Masters was dead. He had
loaned Janice Brown Wing the thousands she had spent on
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treatments for her husband, and it was obvious that there
was no chance of her ever being able to pay
him back. The last notation revealed the fact that a
five thousand dollar alone had been made on her insurance policy.
In April, a long distance call of the company told
me that the policy was for fifty thousand and that
George Masters had become the sole beneficiary the same month April.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
But I see your purpose in telling her mister dollar
or questioning her.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
I don't neither, doctor, I hadn't planned to, but the
sheriff's aves won't think twice about throwing it at her
if it gets out.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
If you will allow me the privilege of perjuring a
certain amount of expert testimony, I think I could manage
to gloss over it.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Well. The deputy saw it, but I don't think it
sank in.
Speaker 5 (24:45):
I hope not. Of course, we're assuming that we'll be
successful in subduing Rudson.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
You said he would come back.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
I'm sure he will.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
It is you. I'm worried about it, and I'll have
to be ready for him this time. He's too strong
to take without a weapon. I hate to do it.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
Oh, I don't think you need to be the oh, fellow,
have no idea what is happening except that he has
come back?
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Okay? She awake? Yes, yes, I think so. It was
three o'clock. She should be outside in Casey's watching. Yes, yes,
I'll go and explain our tactics to her. Good luck,
mister Dolly, I hope all goes well. It seemed almost cool,
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baiting the trap that it had to be done. We
paraded Janice Browning through the garden in her most fetching
get up until dark, and then santor and to sit
in front of an open window. I don't know how
she held on to her own sanity. I do know
that I had a little trouble myself. I sneaked into
a position outside the house, from which there was a
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good view of all the approaches, but the one from
the north. He arrived at about ten thirty. He was
moving toward the living room window and I started toward him. Hi,
I'm Mark, I can't see it. I'm George Masters. You remember,
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George Masters. That's right, it's your fault. She wasn't in
that role. Did I tell you she was in that room?
Your heart, George Masters. He made a mistake. I told him,
and he said, I made a mistake. You're the doctor.
Get away from me. We'll do it right this time. Mark,
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come here. George Masters is dead. You aren't George Masters. No,
I'm not Mark, but you have to come with me. No,
I don't. I welcome back to the hospital. I won't
let you Mark, Ropes and don't get out away though,
No I don't. I'm sorry Ropes. And I don't know
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what Becker is going to say to the police, but
I do know what he learned from his patient. After
he was returned to the hospital and quieted down and closed,
you will find the doctor's confidential statement.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
He did go to Masters, hoping to ally him as
a friend, taking advantage of his escape. Masters aren't in
the hope of realizing a prop from Genesis insurance policy.
But Robeson, in his agitation, fired into the wrong room,
and because he placed the blame for his mistake on
Masters instead of himself, he became violent and.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
As a result, Masters was killed.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
He spends the count Item three, same as item two.
Transportation back to Hartford expends count item four. And this
is to you, personally, mister Brewster, payment for the seat
in acing me into this matter, five hundred dollars. Spends
a count total eight hundred and fifty five dollars and
seventy five cents. Yours, truly, Johnny.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Dollar, yours truly the Johnny Dollars stars Edmund O'Brien in
the title role and is written by Gildaud with music
composed and conducted by Leith Stevens. Edmund O'Brien can currently
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be seen starring in the Columbia Pictures production seven eleven
Ocean Drive. Featured in tonight's cast were Bob Sweeney, Virginia,
Greg gene Bates, High Averback, and Howard mcneer. Yours Truly
Johnny Dollar was transcribed in Hollywood by Hime Dovai. CBS
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you will find one of CBS's greatest stars, Arthur Godfrey,
on hand to welcome you, five days a week, Monday
through Friday. For an hour and a quarter each day,
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Speaker 3 (29:00):
HM to hear Reach and every star dials where they
are Christmas the cbyes the stars.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Yes, yes, the stars.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Yes, this is CBS where Philip Marlowe takes the case
every Friday night on the Columbia Broadcasting System
The Hallmark Playhouse, which is heard during most of the
year at this time on Thursdays, has finished its summer vacation,
so he'll be with us when Hallmark Playhouse returns to
CBS a week from tonight on September the seventh. Now
from Hollywood, it's time for Edmund O'Brien as Johnny.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Dolla Carl Brewster down on the East Coast.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Yes, Karl, I wonder if you do a little job
for us. Sure, what is it?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
A policyholder of ours needs some protection.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
I hope this doesn't indicate a trend. This is the
second time an insurance company has hired me as a bodyguide.
Is that rather unusual?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Well, it's rather an unusual case. This girl, her fiance,
has spent the past five years in prison. He's being
released tomorrow and he swears that the first thing he's
going to do is kill her.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
That's cozy.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I think she deserves some help. Come on down this afternoon.
We'll talk it over.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Edmund O'Brien in a transcribed Adventure of the Man with
the Action Packed Expense Accounts, America's Fabulous Glance insurance investigator,
Yours truly.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Johnny Dollar expense account submitted by a special investigator, Johnny Dollar,
to Home Office, East Coast Underwriters, Hartford, Connecticut. Attention Carl Brewster.
The following is an accounting of my expenditures during assignment
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on the Virginia Beach Matter expense account. I'em one a
dollar and a half cab fare from my apartment to
your office.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Well, well you're prompt, Dollar, I am. Or did we
set any particular time?
Speaker 5 (01:40):
No, I guess we didn't.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Well, I'm glad to see you anyways, Sit down, thank you,
let's see. Oh yes, the Browning girl, Janice Browning? How
much did I tell you over the phone that.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Her boyfriend was getting out of Stern was going to
kill her? What you left unsaid was that she probably
deserves it. I don't hold much sympathy for these dames
get themselves involved in some hoodlum and then decide to
get disinvolved a minute that going gets rough, that it's
your money.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
I wouldn't jump to conclusions Dollar, this is a pathetic case.
Of course, the girl made a mistake in taking up
with this fellow, But five years is a long time
to think, and.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
She realized a mistake.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
What did he go up for?
Speaker 5 (02:18):
I believe it was robbery.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
You know, if she spent all the loot before she
realized a mistake. No, Dollar, why doesn't she hire a
bodyguid herself.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Because she can't afford it. She has nothing. She turned
to us because there was no place to go. Poor
thing is in desperate fear of her life.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Dollar, sure you can appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Okay, give me the rest this little more.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
She's living in Virginia outside of Norfolk, Virginia Beach.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Janice Browning was it?
Speaker 5 (02:42):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Huh?
Speaker 5 (02:43):
I have address for you.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Her fiance's name is ropes and Mark Robson, and he's
due out tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
From the State Penitentiary at Richmond. Just stay with her
until we see what happens. She was here, Dollar, I
talked to her. This will not be an unpleasant assignment
for you.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
She must have of something more than a policy to
knocked this whole company off its feet, far enough to
hire a bodyguard that could spell bankruptcy if it went
far enough. Spence count Item two one hundred and ten
dollars Transportation and incidentals between Hartford and Virginia Beach, Virginia,
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Virginia Beach seemed hardly the scene for potential murder, a
white strip of sunny beach on one hand and a
friendly forest of pine on the other. I found Janis
Browning's address just south of the village Proper, a fair
sized cottage surrounded first by a small, well kept garden
and then undeveloped land. When I got out of the cab,
I was looked over by a trim little honey blonde
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thing and shorts and halter who waited for me on
the verandah, well, hello.
Speaker 6 (03:48):
You seem to be carrying a suitcase. Are you sure
you haven't been mister Redford?
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Are you miss Janis brown No.
Speaker 6 (03:54):
I'm her personal maid. Who are you?
Speaker 3 (03:56):
My name is Dollar. I'm the investigator from the insurance company.
Did you say personally?
Speaker 6 (04:02):
Yeah? Did you say investigator? That's well, I hope you
will pardon me if I am confused. I was not
notified of the arrival of non investigator. What is it
you want?
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Miss Brownie asked for me. She went to her insurance
company and requested a bodyguard.
Speaker 6 (04:16):
A bodyguard. I don't know about that, But then there
are lots of things I don't know as yet I
knew here. But if she asked for you, you may
as welcome in thanks. I suppose she was surprised when
I said I was Miss Browning's personal maide because of
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the way I'm dressed. For your pardon expression.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
As a matter of fact, I was surprised that she
had one.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
Why'd you say that?
Speaker 3 (04:44):
I'd been led to believe that she couldn't afford things
like that.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
Well, between you and I, I haven't been paid yet,
but she seems to be very generous. She turned over
her entire wardrobe for me to wear at any time. Yeah,
but maybe that's a bad sign. Maybe she's going to
pay me off in clothes and they don't quite fit.
Speaker 7 (05:01):
As you can see.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
How long have you been here?
Speaker 6 (05:04):
Just only three days. My name's Betty Light. I took
the name Light from his stepfather. What are you doing here?
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Thomas Browning has a fiancee coming out of prison today,
and she's afraid to meet him alone person.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
Well, you could never tell, but I suppose it's her business.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
What is he?
Speaker 6 (05:24):
If I was sweating out of fiance after all that time,
I wouldn't be quite so thick with what she's thick with.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
What do you mean?
Speaker 6 (05:30):
Well, if I were him, i'd feel cheated. She hasn't
been wasting her time, from what I can tell, and
then one week that's plenty. But I shouldn't be gassing
like this.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Who is he?
Speaker 6 (05:41):
His name is George Masters. And if there's a fiance
on Tappy, better be careful. Why is she afraid? Is
if she shouldn't.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Be because she changed the mind about him and evidently
didn't tell him about it.
Speaker 6 (05:54):
Sure, the same old story. Now this is a surprise
to me. But the least I can do his work
out the wig.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
You know, Betty, I feel the same way. It was
just past midday when I arrived, and wasn't until almost
five that a cream colored convertible coasted into the driveway,
carrying a man and another honey blonde. I could see
immediately how Janni's browning had swept the insurance company off
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its feet.
Speaker 8 (06:22):
How do you do, mister Dollar. I'm so glad you're here.
Oh may I present mister Master?
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Oh, mister Masters. I won't stay, Jana know you have
things to talk over.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
I'll pick up seven all right, George bye.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Dollar. Feel a lot better too, now that you're here.
I'll do what I can see it.
Speaker 8 (06:36):
Seven yo, I'll be ready. Oh please sit down mister Dollar. Betty, Yes,
Miss Browning, I don't think we'll need anything, and i'd
like to see mister Dollar alone, if you don't mind.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
By all means, Miss Browning, could I have your permission
to visit the.
Speaker 8 (06:51):
Beach of course day, as long as you like.
Speaker 7 (06:53):
You know where the beach things are.
Speaker 6 (06:54):
Oh, I wouldn't think of it croaching. I'll just go
the way I am.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
She's a strange where'd you find her?
Speaker 8 (07:01):
She was a waitress in New York. I asked her
if she wanted to come down for the rest of
the summer. I thought she'd be company, but she's become
so formal or tries to be.
Speaker 7 (07:11):
Oh, would you like a drink of something?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
No?
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Thanks?
Speaker 8 (07:15):
I suppose you think I'm an awful coward to screen
for help the way I did.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
I haven't heard all the particulars.
Speaker 8 (07:21):
I really didn't know what else to do. I thought
of running away, but well, I've made friends here. There's
a simple fact that I don't have any money.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
How serious do you think this threat to kill you is?
Speaker 8 (07:33):
I'm afraid it's quite serious, but I don't know what
will happen.
Speaker 7 (07:37):
And I wanted somebody to.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Be with me when did you see him?
Speaker 8 (07:41):
Last six months ago?
Speaker 9 (07:43):
I thought about it for a long time, about our
breaking our engagement and which would be the best way
to do it, And I decided to face him while
he was still in prison and simply tell him I
couldn't go on.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
That wasn't the easiest way to Hannah to him, I.
Speaker 8 (07:57):
Know, but it was the fairest I thought, and create
a scene or anything. But I'll never forget his expression.
He just looked at me and said, have your fun.
You've only got six months because when I get out
of here, I'm going to kill you.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
Well, now the six months are up. He's been let out.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
He knows you're here.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
Yes, he'll come here.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Your friend Masters said he was going to call for
you at seven. Where were you going?
Speaker 7 (08:24):
Just to dinner and maybe a club afterward.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
I think you'd better cancel it.
Speaker 8 (08:29):
Why I'll go crazy if I have to sit in
this house and just wait.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
I don't want you to come back here after dog
for one reason. If you can't go a long distance
and stay, I don't want you to leave it all.
The village is too small. Of he knows it. He'll
find you. I'll be with George if you managed to
put the responsibility of this thing into the lap of
your insurance company, and they handed it to me. Now,
I want you to stay here where I can keep
my eye on you.
Speaker 7 (08:53):
All right, mister dollar, I'll do anything you want.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Me to good. You might mix that drink you offered
scotch if you have it in plain water. The rest
of the evening was spent with small talk and mounting tension.
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The State penitentiary was no more than one hundred miles
from Virginia Beach, and since it's the habit of prisons
to turn out their guests at dawn, Mark Roveson had
had plenty of time to make the trip. In spite
of a sultry night, I closed and locked all the
doors and windows, and by eleven the cottage was dark
with everyone retired. The living room was the most strategic
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spot in the house, so I stretched myself across a
couch that was too short for me and listened to
the silence. It must have been some time after midnight
when I heard a door crack behind me. Was at
You shouldn't be roaming around the house, Betty. I donnia
laid a chair across your head.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
It was too hot to sleep, and besides, I have
a few things on my mind.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
If you're interested, sure, sure, said thanks.
Speaker 6 (10:02):
Did I not understand you to say that this con
was her fiance? That's right when she certainly lives in circles.
If you ask me, I happen to uncover some information
that will knock you for a loop. What we Basically,
I've never been a snoop, But I didn't go to
the beach.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Oh No.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
After you advised me of the situation around here, I
thought I had a right. I went into her room,
which is no more than an oversized closet. Was bad,
and it's a good thing I did, because in a
drawer I found a picture of miss Browning posing as
a bride.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
A bride? Yeah, are you sure of then?
Speaker 6 (10:32):
As sure as I'm sitting here and the guy's standing
with there was a bridegroom if I ever saw one?
Speaker 8 (10:36):
Were they fancy?
Speaker 6 (10:38):
What do you think of that?
Speaker 3 (10:39):
I don't know. It doesn't necessarily mean.
Speaker 6 (10:41):
Anything, but from what I've overheard, this fiance of hers
has been in prison for five years.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Yeah, that's the story.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
And how come a wedding picture was taken in nineteen
forty seven?
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Was it and that's what's.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
Stamped on the back of it. Now is that scruely
or isn't it?
Speaker 3 (10:54):
It definitely is.
Speaker 6 (10:55):
And there are some other things that don't ring truly,
for example, this mug she's currently tied to. I heard
it when she called him tonight, and it sounded more like.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
He blasted your room down the floor and stayed there. Hey,
hold it, hold it rose. He hadn't moved away from
the window he fired through. When I got to him,
he was still pointing the now empty gun at me,
pulling the trigger and looking down at it stupidly. Get away.
I won't go back. I don't have to stay in
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the hospital now, I'm all better. Now give me their gun,
robes and it's empty. No, it's mine. You're one of
her men. She always had men. No, not one of
them men. Let's go in the house and calm down.
You talk like a doctor. Yeah, you're a doctor. You
can't take me back. Get away from me. You told
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me to make myself believe that she was dead. Night's sleep. Better,
come on, get away. I won't go back. Let go,
don't cause any more trouble. Robes and now come on,
I won't go back. But go robes. Well, now I
don't have to go back.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Let go.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
I'd heard stories of the unbelievable physical strength of those
whose mental strength is gone. I got his hands away
from my throat by sinking my knee into his stomach.
There was nothing I could do to hold him. He
lumbered off into the darkness and disappeared. I didn't need
a medical opinion to know that I wasn't protecting Janie
Browning from a released convict. I was protecting her from
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a homicidal maniac.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
There's the opportunity of a lifetime waiting today for any
healthy young American man, an opportunity to begin a profitable
and stable career for himself and at the same time
to offer assistance to his nation, to the United Nations
in their present conflict against armed aggression. The United States
Armed Forces need volunteers today in every branch of the service.
You have the chance to choose not only the branch,
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but the type of work which you feel will be
of the most benefit to you in the years ahead.
Maybe suggest that you go to your nearest recruiting office
now to see if you were eligible to volunteer and
inquire about the many opportunities open to you. And now
back to our star, Edmund O'Brien and the second act
of yours truly, Johnny.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
Dollar, Are you all right, mister?
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Yeah? Ten hans and lamps in here, but stay away
from the windows and out if he'll come back. That
he might.
Speaker 6 (13:49):
That brute is still on the loose.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Yeah, where's miss Browning?
Speaker 6 (13:53):
She's still in a room. I read a ball in that.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
You stop now? It is Browning? Yes, I'm coming in.
Speaker 8 (14:01):
Where is he?
Speaker 3 (14:02):
I couldn't hold.
Speaker 8 (14:03):
Him the lights, No, no, don't turn on the lights.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
He thinks he killed her. He won't come back tonight.
Speaker 7 (14:09):
Well, why don't you go ahead and say it?
Speaker 3 (14:13):
I'd better not. As a matter of fact, I don't
mind your lies or the way I was dragged into this.
But what really stinks is you're hiring that girl because
she looks enough like you to be mistaken for you
at a distance. You give her your clothes to wear,
and you put her into your room. She'd be dead
now she hadn't committed the living room.
Speaker 8 (14:30):
I'm not trying to pass the blame. But it was
George Master's idea. He remembered her and thought bringing her
here might be a way to.
Speaker 7 (14:35):
Save my life.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Rosen's your husband, isn't he?
Speaker 7 (14:39):
Yes, he's my husband.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Un what's he doing running around loose?
Speaker 7 (14:42):
He escaped from a hospital in Pennsylvania. He's been there
a year. He tried to kill me before he was committed.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Why didn't you tell the insurance company the truth? I did? No,
you did?
Speaker 7 (14:49):
Yes, I did.
Speaker 8 (14:51):
It was mister Brewster's I did to tell you that
he was coming out of prison.
Speaker 7 (14:55):
He thought you wouldn't take the job if you knew
the truth.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Well he was right, and I'm leaving the job right now.
Speaker 7 (15:00):
You have every right to.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
You can get yourself some protection around here.
Speaker 7 (15:03):
I couldn't when I tried.
Speaker 8 (15:05):
I went to every private detective in Norfolk and Portsmouth.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
None of them would take the case. No, what about
the police? What is this county out here?
Speaker 5 (15:13):
Yes it is.
Speaker 8 (15:14):
I notified the sheriff's office and they promised me extra patrols.
Speaker 7 (15:17):
But that's the best they could do.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
How'd you happen to turn to the insurance company.
Speaker 8 (15:22):
Well, George Masters is my lawyer. He suggested it.
Speaker 7 (15:26):
Mister Dollar. I'm not begging for help.
Speaker 8 (15:28):
Or excusing anything I've done, but I've been half crazy
with fear and the awful lost feeling when nobody would
help me.
Speaker 7 (15:34):
I had to do something.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
What about your lack of money? Was that a lie to.
Speaker 8 (15:39):
Every penny I had has been spent on treatment for Mark.
I borrowed from George on my insurance. I sold our
house in Connecticut and that money's gone. This property is
all I have left, and I borrowed against it.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
M I guess you've had your troubles. Who can I
talk to about your husband?
Speaker 7 (15:57):
You mean a doctor?
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Yes? I thought maybe a doctor might know what robes
and would do next.
Speaker 8 (16:02):
Doctor Becker came on to Norfolk AFTERY warned me that
Market escaped. His phone number is in the little book
on the stand, and.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
I had to bother him that I'd like to have
him come out tonight.
Speaker 7 (16:14):
Mister dollar, Yeah, you're staying.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Not any longer than I have to. You'd better get
up and have a drink. I was shaking like a leaf.
I changed my mind about dropping the case, mister Brewster,
not only because she was a beautiful woman in a
tough situation, but also for another reason. I awoke doctor
(16:40):
Becker at his hotel in Norfolk, and after I outlined
the Knight's events to me, he agreed to come out, it.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
Must have been a decidedly unpleasant experience. Mister Dollar. On
the other hand, you are fortunate to be alive. Yes,
I guess I am robes and is onlyerous when his
basic jealousy is aggravated. You say you arrived with Luggy.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
That's ryan.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
Perhaps he was watching then and misunderstood your visit.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Ah, I get it. Well, what do we do now, doctor?
He probably thinks he killed her, and we expect him
to come back.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Well, that is hard to say. He'll suffer a deep
sense of remorse. Then he may feel that what took
place was only a figment, a dream. The remorse would
cause introspection and keep him away. The fantasy thought might
bring him back to investigate when knows tonight even more tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Would he try to kill her again? Oh?
Speaker 5 (17:39):
Yes, is an extremely strong fixation. Do you want him
to come back?
Speaker 3 (17:43):
And I want to see the end of this. That's
the best way I can think of. I'll keep his
wife here tomorrow outside so he can see her if
he does come.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
She is the one who really has suffered. The poor girl.
I wish they were a way to ensure her safety.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
We could alert the police.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
With the police the scene, then he would not return,
My dear morning. Rather. Oh so sorry about the trouble.
Speaker 7 (18:09):
I'm afraid it can't be helped.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
I he was so sure at one point that he
was responding to treatman.
Speaker 8 (18:15):
I know you've done your best, doctor, mister Dollar. I
may be imagining things, but I'm awfully worried. All right, No,
I mean I tried to phone Georgie and there's no answer.
It's after two and he should be at home. Mark
knew that George and I have always been friendly.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Would there be any danger to this man, doctor.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
I hardly think so. All of your husband's aggressive urge
was directed towards you, Jane.
Speaker 8 (18:37):
Well, could we go and see if everything is all right?
Speaker 7 (18:40):
I can't help it.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
I'm worried. How does he live in the village.
Speaker 7 (18:43):
It's not far from here. Could we borrow your car? Doctor?
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (18:46):
By all means, my dear. Here, here are the keys.
Speaker 8 (18:49):
You'll come with me, mister Dollar.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Oh, I'm not letting you go alone. We'll be back
so as we can. Doctor.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
Oh.
Speaker 8 (19:03):
This is his house, the white one.
Speaker 7 (19:08):
There's his car in the driveway.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
There's a light on. Maybe his phone is out of order.
Speaker 8 (19:15):
I told him I'd let him know if anything happened. George, George,
it's jam doesn't answer.
Speaker 7 (19:33):
I want to go in.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Let's see m it's un locked. George lights coming from
a room back there.
Speaker 7 (19:42):
That's his study. What the phone is?
Speaker 3 (19:44):
We can check that. Then George Masters was lying face
up in the middle of the room that had been
pretty well torn up by the struggle. The first thing
I noticed, with the bruises left on his throat by
the hands that had choked him to death. I noticed
(20:06):
another thing when I went to the desk to phone
the police. There was a gun lying on it, and
I would have sworn that it was the same police
special Mark Robeson was carrying earlier in the evening. It
took Doctor Becker to quiet Janie Browning after I literally
dragged her out of the Master's house and got her home.
Speaker 5 (20:28):
And I hope she can rest now, but she's dangerously
near to mental collapse herself.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Yes, I can understand that.
Speaker 6 (20:34):
Is there anything further that I can do, mister.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Dollar telling now, Betty gets some sleep.
Speaker 6 (20:38):
If you can sleep, who could sleep?
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Hell and spend your time packing or going back to
New York in the morning.
Speaker 6 (20:43):
I certainly am for me. You can give Virginia Beach
back to the engine.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
There's Janis in love with Masters, doctor.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
I think so, a great feeling of loyalty. At least
he had helped her so much with monetary loans and so.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
But you said he wouldn't remember the association between Masters
and his wife is. I was convinced that he wouldn't.
There was a police special and Master's study. I'm positive
it was the same one that Robeson used here. Oh,
I tried to take it away from him. I couldn't.
And why should he leave it at Masters?
Speaker 5 (21:15):
Well? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Did they know one another before Robeson broke down?
Speaker 5 (21:19):
Oh? Yes, they were quite friendly. Good heavens, Dollar, what
are you driving here?
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Jannis borrowed from Masters on a life insurance policy that
usually means making the lender a beneficiary. I don't know
how much the policy was for, but I'm going to
find out. Well.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
I dislike having you agree with you, Dollar, but I do.
In Robeson's warped mind, Janis was the arch enemy. It
would have been quite easy for Masters to inflame Robeson
to the point where where he would kill his own wife.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
What is it, Betty? Then he came back, I'll take
it easy, you're all right, and he.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
Was looking in the window, the one he's shot through.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Doctor take care of her? Will I'd better get back
to Jannis's room. There was no more trouble that night,
nor was there any rest. We knew that since Robeson
had come back, he realized his mistake, and we knew
that he would try to come back again. We agreed
(22:23):
that instead of calling for police protection, we would let
him return and try to handle him. When he did.
An hour after daybreak, we felt it safe to relax,
and it wasn't until noon that I drove Betty light
into Virginia Beach and put her aboard a bus bound
for the comparative safety of New York. Before I started
the return trip, I made a swing past George Master's house,
convinced the deputy sheriff in charge that I had a
(22:45):
right to poke my nose in, and got myself back
into the study.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
I suppose it'll be all right if you go in.
They took up all evidence. They wanted to guess, why
was that sheriff? All the things that'd pick up prints
here y'are what do you want to look at.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Some of his papers? I want to interfere with your work,
but I'd like to know how he stood financially.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
You think that has something to do with it.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
I don't know it might.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
They gusted all them drawers, so I guess it's all right.
Speaker 7 (23:13):
If you pull them.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
He's a lawyer, you know. Yeah, I know, send the
peoples wide open. A lot of people didn't like him.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Oh, I didn't know that.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
What's that book?
Speaker 3 (23:27):
It's a legend kept his accounts in it.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
What'd you find Janice Brown?
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Who's that somebody loans some money to Oooh, I'll.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
Say he did twenty thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
That's all I wanted, Sheriff. Thanks, and I hope I
haven't caused you too much trouble. What I'd found was
another link in a chain of circumstantial evidence that would
never be used since George Masters was dead. He had
loaned Janice Brown Wing the thousands she had spent on
(24:01):
treatments for her husband, and it was obvious that there
was no chance of her ever being able to pay
him back. The last notation revealed the fact that a
five thousand dollar alone had been made on her insurance policy.
In April, a long distance call of the company told
me that the policy was for fifty thousand and that
George Masters had become the sole beneficiary the same month April.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
But I see your purpose in telling her mister dollar
or questioning her.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
I don't neither, doctor, I hadn't planned to, but the
sheriff's aves won't think twice about throwing it at her
if it gets out.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
If you will allow me the privilege of perjuring a
certain amount of expert testimony, I think I could manage
to gloss over it.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Well. The deputy saw it, but I don't think it
sank in.
Speaker 5 (24:45):
I hope not. Of course, we're assuming that we'll be
successful in subduing Rudson.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
You said he would come back.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
I'm sure he will.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
It is you. I'm worried about it, and I'll have
to be ready for him this time. He's too strong
to take without a weapon. I hate to do it.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
Oh, I don't think you need to be the oh, fellow,
have no idea what is happening except that he has
come back?
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Okay? She awake? Yes, yes, I think so. It was
three o'clock. She should be outside in Casey's watching. Yes, yes,
I'll go and explain our tactics to her. Good luck,
mister Dolly, I hope all goes well. It seemed almost cool,
(25:25):
baiting the trap that it had to be done. We
paraded Janice Browning through the garden in her most fetching
get up until dark, and then santor and to sit
in front of an open window. I don't know how
she held on to her own sanity. I do know
that I had a little trouble myself. I sneaked into
a position outside the house, from which there was a
(25:47):
good view of all the approaches, but the one from
the north. He arrived at about ten thirty. He was
moving toward the living room window and I started toward him. Hi,
I'm Mark, I can't see it. I'm George Masters. You remember,
(26:07):
George Masters. That's right, it's your fault. She wasn't in
that role. Did I tell you she was in that room?
Your heart, George Masters. He made a mistake. I told him,
and he said, I made a mistake. You're the doctor.
Get away from me. We'll do it right this time. Mark,
(26:29):
come here. George Masters is dead. You aren't George Masters. No,
I'm not Mark, but you have to come with me. No,
I don't. I welcome back to the hospital. I won't
let you Mark, Ropes and don't get out away though,
No I don't. I'm sorry Ropes. And I don't know
(26:52):
what Becker is going to say to the police, but
I do know what he learned from his patient. After
he was returned to the hospital and quieted down and closed,
you will find the doctor's confidential statement.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
He did go to Masters, hoping to ally him as
a friend, taking advantage of his escape. Masters aren't in
the hope of realizing a prop from Genesis insurance policy.
But Robeson, in his agitation, fired into the wrong room,
and because he placed the blame for his mistake on
Masters instead of himself, he became violent and.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
As a result, Masters was killed.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
He spends the count Item three, same as item two.
Transportation back to Hartford expends count item four. And this
is to you, personally, mister Brewster, payment for the seat
in acing me into this matter, five hundred dollars. Spends
a count total eight hundred and fifty five dollars and
seventy five cents. Yours, truly, Johnny.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
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the title role and is written by Gildaud with music
composed and conducted by Leith Stevens. Edmund O'Brien can currently
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