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Speaker 1 (00:02):
The journey into the rails, rover straight to get a bye.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
I hope you will enjoy the chap, that it will
tree you a little and kill you a little.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
So settle back, get a good grip on your nerves.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Where are we going?
Speaker 3 (00:22):
You'll find out when.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
We get there, Johnny dallar that McCracken, Johnny, how's the
weather in Palm Spring? A blonde and a MCKINNI just
melted past my pull side window cabin.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Now, No, don't hang up, Johnny. This job just a
few miles north of where you are. Don't take maybe
a day to.
Speaker 5 (00:41):
Clear it out.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Hey, you said at last Christmas, Patt and I got
tramped in a budget this season, I'm soak in the sun.
Happy new year, john boy. We have a bonus list
in this office.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Your name could be on it.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Uh near where I am.
Speaker 5 (00:53):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
It's a gold down in Gallago. An old prospect named
Kringles breathing.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
His lands up there.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Prospect has never died.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
He wants to change the beneficiary and a fifty thousand
dollars policy. But a nephew, Net Kringle threat and suit him.
Speaker 6 (01:06):
We let him.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
So you contact our agent Jean Craig and Barstow.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
That was the new beneficiary. Carmen Kringle, Camon a burrow,
A burrow.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Yeah, if I don't hear from you, Johnny Merry Christmas.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Bob Bailey in the Exciting Adventures of a Man with
the Action Tactic spens the con America's Fabulous Free Lance
Insurance investigator. It's true, Johnny Dollar, Now act one of
your truly Johnny Dollar. Submitted by a special investigator Johnny
(02:02):
Dollar at a home office Universal ad Judgment Bureau, Hertford, Connecticut.
Following is an account of expenses encouraged during my investigation
of the common Pringle matter. Expensive count of one a
dollar forty telegrams a Jean Craig and Barstow telling him
where and when to meet me.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
I had him two.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Fifty dollars even a while sterner for his chartered plane,
and it goes down at Calico. The guy books, there's
something about desert country that's good for the soul, and
it's white in the air.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Bump.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
I got a panoramic duel with a great Mohabby that
took my breath away. The sun's setting rays hit the
weird mineral traders in a calico range and turned them
into a patwork of beauty.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Think comes with me in this country?
Speaker 4 (02:42):
And I turned awll when a Christmas street cluster of
flinking lights appeared under a wing. By way of anser,
he put the plane into a C line and set
us down on the.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Schools from a dry lake.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
Ben, Johnny, you want me to wait around your friend Joseph?
Speaker 5 (03:01):
No, I thank you.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
I seem pretty funny accompany, I asked.
Speaker 6 (03:05):
Oh, coote, don't stand too long or freeze.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
At the spot.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
Okay, good luck, call me when do you want to
be picked up?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
I walked down plane.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Until it was swallowed by the dark, and suddenly I
got that feeling in the hair on the back way
neck because I wasn't along. The moon was up enough
to make out shadows, and silhouetted in a circle around
me was a strange collection of figures. Why the pack
moved towards me, and for a crazy second I thought
I bumped at the Santa gloves.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Of grain there. Then a car with on lights came
rushing at me.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
The headlights swamed on and I got a glimpse of
a donkey herd scattering into the night. All right, mister,
walk towards me, slow with your hands.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Fine, I've learned.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Neverbody to work you with a Winchester in ninety fourth
or I calladoris.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
I spotted the weaving headlines of another car approaching him.
Pray to was the agent Jean Craig.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Most enough, Sonney, I can pop the rappers off a
sideline at sixty yard. Don't you make no sudden move.
It was maybe sixty with gray sideburns and my frosty.
Go see a Marshall.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Brad and with mother jacket. All right, now missed it,
that's all.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Just miss the Dollar. I first meet him earlier.
Speaker 7 (04:22):
I'm off you saw him at the Dollar.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
I'm Jean Craig.
Speaker 7 (04:25):
I couldn't get here until I drove Doc's banger up
to Chris. He's got another step back, Marshall.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Yeah, some dark fool led down a rail on his
parral and Chris Kringles holds herd got loose.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
You don't give it.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Chuck for most of him, No scept Carmen. Now he's
frecking because she's running wild. Almost had him tacked down
on this year.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Probably showed up.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
If you voucher him and Jean, you are Johnny Dollar,
aren't you well frozen fact?
Speaker 7 (04:49):
Certainly, come on, I'll drive you at a calico.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
You tell Chris and I'll have his Carmen back in
the corral a port the Moon's pool and Jeane, you
know tell it do or stay alike? Would we need
him around here? Sorry about mistaking you Dollar. Jean Craig
(05:17):
with a J knew her way around. She was strictly
business and filled me in the face. On the old
prospector with the odd name and his desire to change
the beneficiary of his college.
Speaker 8 (05:26):
Everybody caused him Chris, because every year he loads up
his bugs.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
With calls and presents for the miners and their family
back in the hill. The kids really think he is
Santa Claus. I'm afraid it won't be a very merry
one for them this year.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Well, what makes everyone for sure? Chris Kringle is giving
up the ghost.
Speaker 8 (05:41):
Doc Fangler says there's nothing apparently wrong with him.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
Well, I he's given.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Out once with a Scrooge character.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
The nephew mid Kringle seems all right. It's the man
with him, Willie dagos Pino. He doesn't talking for that.
Do you think he was going to inherit the money.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Well, maybe he's expecting to.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
You know, you're making a good chase for common Can
a girl.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
Be a beneficiary, Johnny?
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Chris can leave it to a three Evans at schooner
if he wants providing a trust to set up.
Speaker 8 (06:08):
Could the people of Kaliko be that truck if they
promised to take care of Carmen? Yeah, I guess so,
why that's the way Chris wants it that way? They'll
always be a Christmas in Callik.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
What happens when Carmen goes to Donkey Evans? Or is
it Burrow? Could never die?
Speaker 8 (06:26):
They'll always be barrows in Kaliko, Johnny, and one of
them could always be named Carmen.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Act too, If yours truly Johnny Dollar in a moment,
act too? If yours truly Johnny Dollar and the Carmen
Kringle matter.
Speaker 9 (06:52):
Oh well, here we are Johnny Calijo, once the richest
silver city in the West.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
It was unbelievable, like seeing a.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Page from the past.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Walter or Nuts, same creator of not.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Buried Farm in Western historians, had bought the old ghost
town's battered remnant and restored it to the way it
must have appeared in the wild and fevered days of
the silver loads. I can think out signs nail, the
weathered bat and board, the total of a flourishing and
colorful past Joe Saloon, the Last Chance Hyena House, Hotel,
Lane's recantile, the calico print. High on a hill at
(07:44):
the edge of town, people were gathered at the entrance
to a cave that was illuminated by hundreds of miners lamps.
Speaker 7 (07:52):
Canny get you, almost like it was planned, the rehearsing
for the Christmas Eves pageant.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Do you to stand Christmas? He's with it, Johnny. He
don't have any plans.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
I have a day with a steam hited swimming pool.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Come on, let's meet the old man. Expense to count.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
At him three one hundred bucks per quarter, perfume or
a mink scarf, anything to wipe the hurt look off
of Jean Craig's face. She let me have the steps
to the rickety porch of Chris Kringles Wooden Shacks. A
tall figure carrying a black bag stepped toward it.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
Oide of the shadow.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Yeah, I'm glad, gee.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
Will you drive me back to town by certainly?
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Doc, Oh, this is nit the dollar, Hi.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Jahna Chris, is he still our ryes?
Speaker 10 (08:38):
And I couldn't say been sitting out here waiting for you.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
You haven't seen the patient.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
The medical man ows a duty and all that, but
I'm too old talk back.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
To a gun.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
They wouldn't let you in tired.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Well, I'm not a medical man.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
Well he'd be careful. Johnny I told you to bot stay.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
Away and leave the old minute.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Well, if the little jee the policy fix it? And
who are you mister.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
Monny Gagostino's a Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 7 (09:05):
He's in the insurance company to see about changing the pollock?
Speaker 6 (09:07):
Where's the why? Who are you talking?
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Relaxed man, Adam, give us some tourist directions.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Back to the bar store.
Speaker 10 (09:13):
I mean, no policy changing at this late date. Mister
ned Kringle is very bereaved at the imminence of his
uncle's demid just family admitted this said, I was the
most your long, folks, I don't leave. The young man
was graved, your foot is in the.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Door, miss Tare.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
I don't like your foot, and I don't like you.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
His hand moved to his shoulder holster, but Jean was
standing right beside me. It with Doc with suddenly shouldered
past Sagasino and fled up the stairs and gave him chance.
I keeped the door wide, threw him off balance. I
shoved Genie aside, and that was a mistake, because a
million Christmas tree.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Lights blazed up in my skull.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Then slowly the tree light faded away, and I saw
a Genie funking over me and looking worried. A young,
nice looking fellow was seated nice to a marble fount
table Vegas. Stina leaned against the stone fireplace and dangled
his gun, smiling like he had a spectic. All right, Doc,
the laste cuts, but no fractor.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
I pull my.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Bucket dog the old man, how is.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
He no better, no worse?
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Just lying up there staring to see him.
Speaker 7 (10:29):
I want to see Chris.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
I had a right to Ned. I'm an old Sam.
Speaker 10 (10:33):
Wooly wouldn't be okay if Jeane just went up lot.
I'm dying faces past, Karen Osi said, Wooly, these people.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Hi, right, I get a hero going to speak to
shove off.
Speaker 7 (10:43):
Go on, come on, Johnny, help me, Doc.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
How are they gonna feel ned sharing blood money with
a hoodler?
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Your uncle paid for that? I see with a pick
and a shovel. It took a lot of years, a
lot of sweat.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
He is your name on that policy ever since you
were oh man Craig.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Will never saw him paid during his life, Mad.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
He had to give him money to live on paid
the previous.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
In his policy. Chris was always tapping.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
A kid, claiming he had a new find.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
He was gonna mind a million.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
No man died. Tell him, man, tell him how.
Speaker 10 (11:16):
Your phoney was always taking a box making like Santa Claus.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Of the money you give him, will he haven't you
got a hold of the money.
Speaker 10 (11:22):
I know he's been waiting a long time for this
me Willie did.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
Agastino, That's who is that?
Speaker 2 (11:30):
True man?
Speaker 10 (11:32):
Yeah, I thought my uncle would like a strike some day.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
I honestly thought he'd strike it rich.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
And then he tried.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
He did strike it rich.
Speaker 10 (11:43):
Mad.
Speaker 7 (11:44):
When he dies, every man, woman and child in his
town almar him.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
You live in their hearts?
Speaker 7 (11:51):
How do people remember about you, mister Dagostino.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
All right, I'll get get out and stay off the park.
Really rifle or make a hold, and you're a belly
big enough to pass up bull Rax team through you.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
Just drop that gun.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
And I don't know what the shout is about, but you're.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
Jilly carrying side arm. You're threatening violence, mister Daggstino, And ain't.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Nobody does that in Caliico long as I'm the marshall.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Now you better get ad dollar. I love you to
let gladys here there.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Well, I'll see how Chris is doc and tell the
old buzzard that I got his carmen back in the corral.
Jingle bells and all yeah, nice work.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
I once hold you, mister, Okay, okay, all right, let's
go and let let the squares have around. Huh almost
say your willie.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
I want to be here when Chris, Hey, that's a
good idea. That way, no fool around at the wheel.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
I smart kid, that med see as the funeral. I'm
I don't go up now.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
He will run the for Marshall. You too, Jenny, Oh yes, sure,
I take a nice stock on my head.
Speaker 6 (13:10):
Day you will there come up to Chris wants to
say something.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
I forget on this a coral come on.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Aegastina must have had another gun in his car, one
of the bullets that's on the market intended. Well, he
boy wasn't taking any chances that common Kragio would inherit
fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
We found the borough lying on her side quite dead.
Jingle bells and all.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
Fact three of your truly Johnny Dollar in a moment
act three of yours truly.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Johnny Dollar, and the Carmen Kringle matter, Marcia.
Speaker 7 (14:13):
Johnny could have been so cruel coming.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Dad should not, right.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
H I figured Decastino might be mean enough to try
killing Chris is pet buro.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
We can't tell him about it. We kill him for sure.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
You'll have to know the truth, Jean. You'll have to
decide about the world, and truth is always the best
and easy this time easy huh.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
I'll just take these bells off of this poor little
fellow and I'll put them where it belong.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Carmen, what Garmon? I'm mosy away? Now what you for
the switch?
Speaker 4 (14:51):
You put these bells on another book. I didn't trust
that easy character, and I was right.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
And night girl, Carl.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Now you folks going up to see old Chris, I'll
keep an eye on this year fifty thousand dollars jacket.
That's the way it's gonna be, any it, Johnny, Yes, sir,
that's the way it's gonna be.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
But I was wrong, but only poorly.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Little old man in the forepost to bed with his
white whiskers resting on the crop changed his mind again,
even after hearing about how the Marshall saved comment, I din't.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
Got to scratch Nick's name. That insurance was done.
Speaker 11 (15:33):
I've tried to shake that guy Yestino, seeing he's taking
hooks off of Ned. If he's not mind common he
was gonna get the money.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Oh.
Speaker 11 (15:42):
I was scared for a while that I just might
have to up and die square. And if he's gam
and dead, yeah, I'm sorry, Chris. I'll work my fingers
for off pan every sing I owe, but i'll pay
him back with interest. Once you were around, I gave
you got it this salida on that foot locker idea
(16:03):
and fetch ruder and bag man.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
Yeah they're pretty heavy, but.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
You look strong. Sure heavy enough they got them get
better than children over there.
Speaker 11 (16:16):
Yeah, as you get ye recognize that.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Man, Maybe you'd better have a good sleep, Chris.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
This here a plain old brown Yes, traffic, it's uranium.
Speaker 11 (16:29):
Do the last back assay at nine hundred dollars a ton,
and I got a mountain of a stakeout in both our.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
Names dead kill.
Speaker 11 (16:41):
If you and Genie checked with a Barsco bank, you
will find the day extend credit.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
On the strength of that assay you reckon, you can spend.
Speaker 10 (16:52):
Two days buying the president as we go disappoint the
folks here about.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Expense account at him four sixty eight dollars even telephone
calls to five principal cities where I thought Willie Degasino
might be remembered. The police department had a long list
of reasons why they remembered Willie. That was my Christmas
present to them. Expense account at of five another fifty
truck rental the hall of presents we brought for ned
to give away on Christmas morning.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
And then it was Christmas Eve.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
We sat on the Kringle's porch and watched the procession
up to the Maggie mind, the flickering lights from the
miners lamps reflecting on the faces of the happy children.
Whole Chris was bundled up in blankets, his little eyes twinkling, chuckling.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
To himself like he knew all the answers to the universe.
Speaker 7 (17:51):
Jean was there two men handy nanny, isn't it Jenny
and nice.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
Marshall of Nola was one of the wise men in
the procession. I recognized the sideburns and Duck's fangler couldn't
hide his height.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Oh he wore an awful beer.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Ned Kringle led the borough that carried the Blessed Mother.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
Yeah, you guessed it.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
The borough was common Cream. Expense account total including returned
to Palm Springs and incidental two hundred and twenty nine
dollars and seventy five cents.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
But forget it, Pats.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
This is the best holiday I ever had, and I
was only cold at the start. From all of us
to all of you, may this be your very merriest
Christmas ever. Yours truly, Johnny Dutton
The journey into the rails, rover straight to get a bye.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
I hope you will enjoy the chap, that it will
tree you a little and kill you a little.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
So settle back, get a good grip on your nerves.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Where are we going?
Speaker 3 (00:22):
You'll find out when.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
We get there, Johnny dallar that McCracken, Johnny, how's the
weather in Palm Spring? A blonde and a MCKINNI just
melted past my pull side window cabin.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Now, No, don't hang up, Johnny. This job just a
few miles north of where you are. Don't take maybe
a day to.
Speaker 5 (00:41):
Clear it out.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Hey, you said at last Christmas, Patt and I got
tramped in a budget this season, I'm soak in the sun.
Happy new year, john boy. We have a bonus list
in this office.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Your name could be on it.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Uh near where I am.
Speaker 5 (00:53):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
It's a gold down in Gallago. An old prospect named
Kringles breathing.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
His lands up there.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Prospect has never died.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
He wants to change the beneficiary and a fifty thousand
dollars policy. But a nephew, Net Kringle threat and suit him.
Speaker 6 (01:06):
We let him.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
So you contact our agent Jean Craig and Barstow.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
That was the new beneficiary. Carmen Kringle, Camon a burrow,
A burrow.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Yeah, if I don't hear from you, Johnny Merry Christmas.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Bob Bailey in the Exciting Adventures of a Man with
the Action Tactic spens the con America's Fabulous Free Lance
Insurance investigator. It's true, Johnny Dollar, Now act one of
your truly Johnny Dollar. Submitted by a special investigator Johnny
(02:02):
Dollar at a home office Universal ad Judgment Bureau, Hertford, Connecticut.
Following is an account of expenses encouraged during my investigation
of the common Pringle matter. Expensive count of one a
dollar forty telegrams a Jean Craig and Barstow telling him
where and when to meet me.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
I had him two.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Fifty dollars even a while sterner for his chartered plane,
and it goes down at Calico. The guy books, there's
something about desert country that's good for the soul, and
it's white in the air.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Bump.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
I got a panoramic duel with a great Mohabby that
took my breath away. The sun's setting rays hit the
weird mineral traders in a calico range and turned them
into a patwork of beauty.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Think comes with me in this country?
Speaker 4 (02:42):
And I turned awll when a Christmas street cluster of
flinking lights appeared under a wing. By way of anser,
he put the plane into a C line and set
us down on the.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Schools from a dry lake.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
Ben, Johnny, you want me to wait around your friend Joseph?
Speaker 5 (03:01):
No, I thank you.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
I seem pretty funny accompany, I asked.
Speaker 6 (03:05):
Oh, coote, don't stand too long or freeze.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
At the spot.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
Okay, good luck, call me when do you want to
be picked up?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
I walked down plane.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Until it was swallowed by the dark, and suddenly I
got that feeling in the hair on the back way
neck because I wasn't along. The moon was up enough
to make out shadows, and silhouetted in a circle around
me was a strange collection of figures. Why the pack
moved towards me, and for a crazy second I thought
I bumped at the Santa gloves.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Of grain there. Then a car with on lights came
rushing at me.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
The headlights swamed on and I got a glimpse of
a donkey herd scattering into the night. All right, mister,
walk towards me, slow with your hands.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Fine, I've learned.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Neverbody to work you with a Winchester in ninety fourth
or I calladoris.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
I spotted the weaving headlines of another car approaching him.
Pray to was the agent Jean Craig.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Most enough, Sonney, I can pop the rappers off a
sideline at sixty yard. Don't you make no sudden move.
It was maybe sixty with gray sideburns and my frosty.
Go see a Marshall.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Brad and with mother jacket. All right, now missed it,
that's all.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Just miss the Dollar. I first meet him earlier.
Speaker 7 (04:22):
I'm off you saw him at the Dollar.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
I'm Jean Craig.
Speaker 7 (04:25):
I couldn't get here until I drove Doc's banger up
to Chris. He's got another step back, Marshall.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Yeah, some dark fool led down a rail on his
parral and Chris Kringles holds herd got loose.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
You don't give it.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Chuck for most of him, No scept Carmen. Now he's
frecking because she's running wild. Almost had him tacked down
on this year.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Probably showed up.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
If you voucher him and Jean, you are Johnny Dollar,
aren't you well frozen fact?
Speaker 7 (04:49):
Certainly, come on, I'll drive you at a calico.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
You tell Chris and I'll have his Carmen back in
the corral a port the Moon's pool and Jeane, you
know tell it do or stay alike? Would we need
him around here? Sorry about mistaking you Dollar. Jean Craig
(05:17):
with a J knew her way around. She was strictly
business and filled me in the face. On the old
prospector with the odd name and his desire to change
the beneficiary of his college.
Speaker 8 (05:26):
Everybody caused him Chris, because every year he loads up
his bugs.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
With calls and presents for the miners and their family
back in the hill. The kids really think he is
Santa Claus. I'm afraid it won't be a very merry
one for them this year.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Well, what makes everyone for sure? Chris Kringle is giving
up the ghost.
Speaker 8 (05:41):
Doc Fangler says there's nothing apparently wrong with him.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
Well, I he's given.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Out once with a Scrooge character.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
The nephew mid Kringle seems all right. It's the man
with him, Willie dagos Pino. He doesn't talking for that.
Do you think he was going to inherit the money.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Well, maybe he's expecting to.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
You know, you're making a good chase for common Can
a girl.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
Be a beneficiary, Johnny?
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Chris can leave it to a three Evans at schooner
if he wants providing a trust to set up.
Speaker 8 (06:08):
Could the people of Kaliko be that truck if they
promised to take care of Carmen? Yeah, I guess so,
why that's the way Chris wants it that way? They'll
always be a Christmas in Callik.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
What happens when Carmen goes to Donkey Evans? Or is
it Burrow? Could never die?
Speaker 8 (06:26):
They'll always be barrows in Kaliko, Johnny, and one of
them could always be named Carmen.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Act too, If yours truly Johnny Dollar in a moment,
act too? If yours truly Johnny Dollar and the Carmen
Kringle matter.
Speaker 9 (06:52):
Oh well, here we are Johnny Calijo, once the richest
silver city in the West.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
It was unbelievable, like seeing a.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Page from the past.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Walter or Nuts, same creator of not.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Buried Farm in Western historians, had bought the old ghost
town's battered remnant and restored it to the way it
must have appeared in the wild and fevered days of
the silver loads. I can think out signs nail, the
weathered bat and board, the total of a flourishing and
colorful past Joe Saloon, the Last Chance Hyena House, Hotel,
Lane's recantile, the calico print. High on a hill at
(07:44):
the edge of town, people were gathered at the entrance
to a cave that was illuminated by hundreds of miners lamps.
Speaker 7 (07:52):
Canny get you, almost like it was planned, the rehearsing
for the Christmas Eves pageant.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Do you to stand Christmas? He's with it, Johnny. He
don't have any plans.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
I have a day with a steam hited swimming pool.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Come on, let's meet the old man. Expense to count.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
At him three one hundred bucks per quarter, perfume or
a mink scarf, anything to wipe the hurt look off
of Jean Craig's face. She let me have the steps
to the rickety porch of Chris Kringles Wooden Shacks. A
tall figure carrying a black bag stepped toward it.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
Oide of the shadow.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Yeah, I'm glad, gee.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
Will you drive me back to town by certainly?
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Doc, Oh, this is nit the dollar, Hi.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Jahna Chris, is he still our ryes?
Speaker 10 (08:38):
And I couldn't say been sitting out here waiting for you.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
You haven't seen the patient.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
The medical man ows a duty and all that, but
I'm too old talk back.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
To a gun.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
They wouldn't let you in tired.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Well, I'm not a medical man.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
Well he'd be careful. Johnny I told you to bot stay.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
Away and leave the old minute.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Well, if the little jee the policy fix it? And
who are you mister.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
Monny Gagostino's a Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 7 (09:05):
He's in the insurance company to see about changing the pollock?
Speaker 6 (09:07):
Where's the why? Who are you talking?
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Relaxed man, Adam, give us some tourist directions.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Back to the bar store.
Speaker 10 (09:13):
I mean, no policy changing at this late date. Mister
ned Kringle is very bereaved at the imminence of his
uncle's demid just family admitted this said, I was the
most your long, folks, I don't leave. The young man
was graved, your foot is in the.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Door, miss Tare.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
I don't like your foot, and I don't like you.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
His hand moved to his shoulder holster, but Jean was
standing right beside me. It with Doc with suddenly shouldered
past Sagasino and fled up the stairs and gave him chance.
I keeped the door wide, threw him off balance. I
shoved Genie aside, and that was a mistake, because a
million Christmas tree.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Lights blazed up in my skull.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Then slowly the tree light faded away, and I saw
a Genie funking over me and looking worried. A young,
nice looking fellow was seated nice to a marble fount
table Vegas. Stina leaned against the stone fireplace and dangled
his gun, smiling like he had a spectic. All right, Doc,
the laste cuts, but no fractor.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
I pull my.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Bucket dog the old man, how is.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
He no better, no worse?
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Just lying up there staring to see him.
Speaker 7 (10:29):
I want to see Chris.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
I had a right to Ned. I'm an old Sam.
Speaker 10 (10:33):
Wooly wouldn't be okay if Jeane just went up lot.
I'm dying faces past, Karen Osi said, Wooly, these people.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Hi, right, I get a hero going to speak to
shove off.
Speaker 7 (10:43):
Go on, come on, Johnny, help me, Doc.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
How are they gonna feel ned sharing blood money with
a hoodler?
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Your uncle paid for that? I see with a pick
and a shovel. It took a lot of years, a
lot of sweat.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
He is your name on that policy ever since you
were oh man Craig.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Will never saw him paid during his life, Mad.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
He had to give him money to live on paid
the previous.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
In his policy. Chris was always tapping.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
A kid, claiming he had a new find.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
He was gonna mind a million.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
No man died. Tell him, man, tell him how.
Speaker 10 (11:16):
Your phoney was always taking a box making like Santa Claus.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Of the money you give him, will he haven't you
got a hold of the money.
Speaker 10 (11:22):
I know he's been waiting a long time for this
me Willie did.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
Agastino, That's who is that?
Speaker 2 (11:30):
True man?
Speaker 10 (11:32):
Yeah, I thought my uncle would like a strike some day.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
I honestly thought he'd strike it rich.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
And then he tried.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
He did strike it rich.
Speaker 10 (11:43):
Mad.
Speaker 7 (11:44):
When he dies, every man, woman and child in his
town almar him.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
You live in their hearts?
Speaker 7 (11:51):
How do people remember about you, mister Dagostino.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
All right, I'll get get out and stay off the park.
Really rifle or make a hold, and you're a belly
big enough to pass up bull Rax team through you.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
Just drop that gun.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
And I don't know what the shout is about, but you're.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
Jilly carrying side arm. You're threatening violence, mister Daggstino, And ain't.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Nobody does that in Caliico long as I'm the marshall.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Now you better get ad dollar. I love you to
let gladys here there.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Well, I'll see how Chris is doc and tell the
old buzzard that I got his carmen back in the corral.
Jingle bells and all yeah, nice work.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
I once hold you, mister, Okay, okay, all right, let's
go and let let the squares have around. Huh almost
say your willie.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
I want to be here when Chris, Hey, that's a
good idea. That way, no fool around at the wheel.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
I smart kid, that med see as the funeral. I'm
I don't go up now.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
He will run the for Marshall. You too, Jenny, Oh yes, sure,
I take a nice stock on my head.
Speaker 6 (13:10):
Day you will there come up to Chris wants to
say something.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
I forget on this a coral come on.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Aegastina must have had another gun in his car, one
of the bullets that's on the market intended. Well, he
boy wasn't taking any chances that common Kragio would inherit
fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
We found the borough lying on her side quite dead.
Jingle bells and all.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
Fact three of your truly Johnny Dollar in a moment
act three of yours truly.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Johnny Dollar, and the Carmen Kringle matter, Marcia.
Speaker 7 (14:13):
Johnny could have been so cruel coming.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Dad should not, right.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
H I figured Decastino might be mean enough to try
killing Chris is pet buro.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
We can't tell him about it. We kill him for sure.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
You'll have to know the truth, Jean. You'll have to
decide about the world, and truth is always the best
and easy this time easy huh.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
I'll just take these bells off of this poor little
fellow and I'll put them where it belong.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Carmen, what Garmon? I'm mosy away? Now what you for
the switch?
Speaker 4 (14:51):
You put these bells on another book. I didn't trust
that easy character, and I was right.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
And night girl, Carl.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Now you folks going up to see old Chris, I'll
keep an eye on this year fifty thousand dollars jacket.
That's the way it's gonna be, any it, Johnny, Yes, sir,
that's the way it's gonna be.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
But I was wrong, but only poorly.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Little old man in the forepost to bed with his
white whiskers resting on the crop changed his mind again,
even after hearing about how the Marshall saved comment, I din't.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
Got to scratch Nick's name. That insurance was done.
Speaker 11 (15:33):
I've tried to shake that guy Yestino, seeing he's taking
hooks off of Ned. If he's not mind common he
was gonna get the money.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Oh.
Speaker 11 (15:42):
I was scared for a while that I just might
have to up and die square. And if he's gam
and dead, yeah, I'm sorry, Chris. I'll work my fingers
for off pan every sing I owe, but i'll pay
him back with interest. Once you were around, I gave
you got it this salida on that foot locker idea
(16:03):
and fetch ruder and bag man.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
Yeah they're pretty heavy, but.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
You look strong. Sure heavy enough they got them get
better than children over there.
Speaker 11 (16:16):
Yeah, as you get ye recognize that.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Man, Maybe you'd better have a good sleep, Chris.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
This here a plain old brown Yes, traffic, it's uranium.
Speaker 11 (16:29):
Do the last back assay at nine hundred dollars a ton,
and I got a mountain of a stakeout in both our.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
Names dead kill.
Speaker 11 (16:41):
If you and Genie checked with a Barsco bank, you
will find the day extend credit.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
On the strength of that assay you reckon, you can spend.
Speaker 10 (16:52):
Two days buying the president as we go disappoint the
folks here about.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Expense account at him four sixty eight dollars even telephone
calls to five principal cities where I thought Willie Degasino
might be remembered. The police department had a long list
of reasons why they remembered Willie. That was my Christmas
present to them. Expense account at of five another fifty
truck rental the hall of presents we brought for ned
to give away on Christmas morning.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
And then it was Christmas Eve.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
We sat on the Kringle's porch and watched the procession
up to the Maggie mind, the flickering lights from the
miners lamps reflecting on the faces of the happy children.
Whole Chris was bundled up in blankets, his little eyes twinkling, chuckling.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
To himself like he knew all the answers to the universe.
Speaker 7 (17:51):
Jean was there two men handy nanny, isn't it Jenny
and nice.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
Marshall of Nola was one of the wise men in
the procession. I recognized the sideburns and Duck's fangler couldn't
hide his height.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Oh he wore an awful beer.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Ned Kringle led the borough that carried the Blessed Mother.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
Yeah, you guessed it.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
The borough was common Cream. Expense account total including returned
to Palm Springs and incidental two hundred and twenty nine
dollars and seventy five cents.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
But forget it, Pats.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
This is the best holiday I ever had, and I
was only cold at the start. From all of us
to all of you, may this be your very merriest
Christmas ever. Yours truly, Johnny Dutton
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