In this thrilling episode of "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar," our favorite freelance insurance investigator, Johnny Dollar, embarks on a high-stakes mission involving a hidden stash of $100,000 from a decade-old safe-cracking job. The episode kicks off with a mysterious call from George Hardy at Northeast Indemnity Association, hinting at a potential commission for Johnny if he can unravel the mystery.
Johnny's investigation leads him to the state prison, where he meets Turner McGaffey, a dying convict who reveals crucial information about the hidden loot and a potential murder plot. McGaffey's dying wish is for Johnny to protect Joe Pirelli, an old accomplice, from Danny Russeloff, a dangerous criminal recently released on parole.
As Johnny races against time, he navigates through a web of deceit and danger, ultimately confronting Danny in a tense showdown involving nitroglycerin. The episode is packed with suspense, unexpected twists, and a dramatic conclusion that leaves Johnny narrowly escaping death.
Join Johnny Dollar as he pieces together the clues, faces life-threatening challenges, and ultimately ensures justice is served in this action-packed adventure.
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Johnny Dollar. Johnny, this is George Hardy at Northeast Endeavity Association. Yes, George. Got a pencil and a piece of paper? Sure. And write this down. Go ahead. 130070583. Got it. So? He wants to see you. Who does? +1 30070583 at state prison. Oh, you know his name, George? No. But if it's who I think it is, well, Johnny, you just might find yourself going to the commission on $100,000.
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The CBS Radio Network brings you Mandel Kramer and the exciting adventures of the man with the action packed expense account, America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator, yours truly, Johnny Dollar.
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Expense account submitted by special investigator Johnny Dollar to Northeast Indemnity Association home office Hartford, Connecticut. Following is an account of expenses incurred during my investigation of the tip-off matter. Expense account item one is 460 for a tank full of gas. Despite the fact that the state pen is only a few miles south in Weathersfield, a town with a population of about 20,000, where the father of our country once planned the historic battle of Yorktown. In other words, George Washington slept there. An assistant warden led me not to one of the cell blocks, but to a screened off corner in a hospital ward.
The man who lay there was in his early thirties, but he looked a hundred, thin, drawn, initiated with the pallor of death on his face. It was a full minute before I recognized him as Turner McGaffey, up for safe cracking, whom I hadn't seen since the day the judge handed out his term some ten years before. Pretty funny, Adala. I'm due to get out. Instead I lay you a dime. Oh, now come on. Come on. Who told you that, Megaki? Now come on. Don't you try and kid me too, darling. I ain't got long and I know it. That's why Adam sent for you. You see. Maybe maybe you can stop a killing dollar.
A killing? From that safe job that got me in here. That was ten years ago. Tell me they never found the loot from it, did they? Oh, I see. And you know what it is, Mac? Look, this ain't this ain't easy. Dollar me telling this, but you're the only one I only one I got any respect for. Respect for me? Mac, I was partly responsible for putting you here. Yeah. Sure, Dollar. I hated your guts. Then I did. Only yesterday, the warden, he he told me about what you've done for Tommy, my kid, Brenna, about the home and foster folks you got for about you seeing you get educated like the way that I never did.
He was a nice kid, Megaki. It's all because of you. The kid has a chance to play it straight and get somewhere. I think he will too. He doesn't know about me. He didn't know I was there, Mac. There? Yeah. I stood in the crowd and I watched him graduate from high school with honors. You'd have been proud of him, Mac. Yeah. Proud. And on the count of you give him what I could never get him. Him. Tommy deserved a chance like any other kid. That's all. Yeah. But the way you've done it, you're letting him think I've been killed in some kind of an accident.
You never let him know about my record, what I really was. And now he's he's got no spots on him. He's got nothing to live down but make him ashamed. And all this time, I I didn't know about about what you've done for him. I just kept hating you. But I didn't know. Look, Mac. That's all water under the bridge now. So now I I'm gonna make I got the Adala. There's no need to, Mac. Look look you're getting tired. I, I better leave now. You gave it the loot from that safe job. A hundred g's. Oh. So listen. I hope I like it. Listen.
Real careful. Real careful, darling. He told me then about Joe Pirelli, an old crony of his. Pirelli now posing as a fisherman living in Mac's Old Cottage on Peconic Bay, Long Island near the town of Cuttjog. He told me about a safe in the cellar of the cottage and the fact Pirelli knew only half the combination to it. And the other half? Two weeks ago, when he'd found out that he was going to die, Mac had given the other half to a crook by the name of Danny Russeloff who'd pulled the heist with him, who was also there in the pen, who'd not only been a box man, but a killer.
Okay. Fine. Except for one thing. I wouldn't have told Danny. Not if I'd known then about what you've done for my brother. Look, Mac But now I don't know. So it's you that you have that dough? No, it'll go to the insurance company, Mac. Look, Danny gets to him first Danny'll kill Pirelli. Take it easy now. Don't get yourself too excited. Don't you see? I have a whole combination between them. Danny'll get the dough then he'll kill Pirelli. Well look if, if you gave me the combination Yeah. Yeah. Alright then. You you you'll you'll give me your word. You you'll protect Pirelli.
I it's gonna just keep adults in me all this time. Mac, I'll do what I can for him. But first, while I'm here at the pen, I better get things straight with Danny Russelloff. No, darling. Danny's getting out of here t today. Getting out mean they're releasing him? Yeah. So you you gotta go for that going. Now go see Burley. Okay, Mac. I have a combination of the safe. Yeah. Yeah. First, it's right. Turn it right. Yeah. To num number dollar I can't breathe. Mac. Oh, call call on Dollar, I'm on Mac. Help me. Orderly. Help me. Nurse. Nurse. Get a doctor in here. By the time the doctor got there, McGacky was dead.
I asked the warden about Danny Russell, Austin.
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Yes, mister Dolly. We sent him on his way about an hour ago, and all I can say is good riddance.
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Okay. Expense account item two, a hundred and 50 dollars for a plane, a charter job. We took off and headed south. How Dick Spiedel, the pilot, ever managed to sit down among the sand dunes near Cuttschaug in semi darkness, I'll never know. But after a walk of about a mile, I found a gas station. Item $320 to the gas jockey for the use of his stripped down vintage car. Sure, man. You just negotiate that next turn left. You you see it down there? And then and you swing another left on the sandy road you come to, and you stop when you make the bay. It's a beat up old shack with a wore out old Pier in front of it. Okay. Oh, and if you don't see him around or he don't answer when you knock, go on in anyhow. It's probably because old Pirelli's licked up like he mostly is and just fell asleep. Alright. Thanks. Oh, and, just be sure to get my car back here by midnight when I close-up.
Right. Mike? Pirelli? Anybody here? Come on up, man. Okay. Alright, Pirelli. I, Oh, yeah. You got a gun? You kids have been waiting for you. You got a lousy shot. Really? Okay, Tony. Danny, Danny, Danny, Danny Russelloff?
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Yeah. Yeah. I thought I I read Danny was getting out tonight. Who are you?
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Who are you, mister? My name is Darling. I sit down over there by that table.
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Yeah.
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Well, where are you going here? I've come to pick up some money, Pirelli, a hundred thousand dollars No. From the safe in your cellar. No. You got no right to that. I haven't, You think I didn't know what's in the safe? I'm sure you did. And it all better be in it now. That's Max, though. Magaki. He's dead, Barelli. Only a couple of hours ago in the prison hospital. You're lying. Do you wanna call him up and check on it?
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That's right. Oh, yeah. I forgot those mine. That's mine, Della. I don't think so. Oh, no.
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Della, You Johnny Della? You're insurance dick. That's right. And I'm here to get that money. No. I'm also here for another reason. Yeah. Like what? To save you a worthless caucus if I can. You don't believe that? I never trust no cop and you're a cop. Look, Pirelli. Get one thing straight. Personally, I couldn't care less what happens to you. I've got no use for you. A man with a record like you piled up over the years. Fuck. I paid for everything I done. I served time. For holding on to this hot money? My only reason for trying to keep Danny Russell off from killing you is because I promised McGawkey I would. I can take care of myself. Like you did when I came barging in here? Okay. So maybe you maybe Danny Russell lost a killer, and he's got the other half of that safe combination.
What? Yes. Because McGahnke gave it to him when he found out he was gonna die. And you think that
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And he couldn't force your half out of you with a gun in your belly if you refuse to help him open that box. And then when he got the dough, he'd kill you. Oh, I I I I still still wouldn't wouldn't tell him my hat. He'd kill you anyway and then blow the safe. That used to be his business. So whatever happens, Sparelli, without me, you end up dead. I gotta listen. Look. I know it'll mean breaking my word to McGacky. But if that's the way you want it, all I have to do is just sit on the sidelines, wait for Danny to get here, for the safe to be open one way or another, see you get knocked off, and then move in on Danny. Okay. Okay. But I get maybe I can get him first.
Go on. Try it. But if you do get lucky, if you do kill him before he kills you, I promise you one thing, Pirelli. I'll see you end up in the chair. Would you like to think about that for a while? Just don't take too long, because I doubt if Danny's gonna waste much time getting down here. And if I'm not around when he does get here well, Barelli? Okay. Okay. What do you want me to do? Got enough food around here to keep us for a couple of days? Sure. I got plenty. Alright. Then I'm moving in. You got a phone? No. Only plenty of food and booze. I can see that. Is there any other way to get here, Pirelli, besides the road that turns off near the gas station? I'd rather some way try to get here with one of those Helia Copters.
Alright. Then from the gas station, I can tell if somebody is heading in here. I'll I'll see you later. Item four. Back at the gas station out on the highway. A hundred dollars even. A hundred bucks? Well, for that man, I'll ride a bicycle and borrow my sister's car and you can keep the old crate. No, Jimmy. I'll only need it for a day or two, I hope. All the time you want. And is there anything else I can do, mister Dollar? Just let me have a handful of change to throw at this payphone of yours. Item $5.03 80 for a call to George Hardy at his home back in Hartford. I gave him the whole story. Good, Johnny. Good. I had a feeling it had to do with that safetracking job we had to make good on.
Now, how do I contact you down there? You don't. I'll have to contact you. What are you thinking of? Well, you said this Danny Russeloff hasn't shown up there yet. Not yet. So he's had plenty of time by now. Maybe Danny's playing it smart now he's on parole. What do you mean? Well, he's supposed to report in here in Hartford where he used to live, isn't he? Probably. Joe, you do that first to give a good impression, make everybody think he's on the up and up. Maybe. And then when he figures nobody's watching him anymore, then he'll make his move. Right? Except that I can't see him wasting any time about getting his hands on the money or at least making sure it's still here. So, George Yes? Get hold of Pete Larkin. The private detective. Yeah. Tell him it's for me. Tell him if Danny is there in Hartford to keep an eye on him day and night. And if he leaves town, I wanna know it so I can be ready for him. Okay.
And, meanwhile, what'll you be doing? Have you called on the police down there? I don't even know if they have any in this little town. What's more, a couple of cops prowling around would only scare him away, and I wanna get him. I'll check back with you three or four times a day. Oh, okay. And at least we know where that hundred thousand is now. Do we? Maybe I better get back out to Pirelli and make sure. The safe was still there in Mike Pirelli's cellar intact. And Mike himself, in the process of getting very, very drunk. But in answer to my question Okay. Okay.
The only it's
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it's only the last two numbers. It's a combination that I know. Alright. What are they? Yeah.
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It's two, two turns to the right. Two turns to the right. What number? It's 8081. 2 turns to the right to 81. Yeah. And then? Hey, listen, Tyler. And then, Mike? Yeah. Then left, left 14. Then left to 14. Yeah. That's it. Okay. Yeah. Listen, Tyler. I'm scared now. You got me scared. Give me a minute. Go ahead. Help yourself. Maybe enough of that stuff will at least keep you hold it. Listen. Ready? Hold it. Right. You hear that? Right. Yeah. I think it's a car out there. Alright. Let me douse these lights. You see it there? You know that car? No. Haven't that sense. Stay. Be quiet. There's someone in here that's killing me.
As the car pulled to a stop, I quietly slipped over to one side of the door and grabbed the knob. I drew my gun and waited. For a long moment, there was no sound out there. Then a car door opening and closing quietly, then footsteps on the wooden sidewalk. Then as I fell in touch with the doorknob, I turned it and swung open the door. Say, what's the matter, man? What's going on here? Why are you palming that cannon? Sorry, Jimmy. I was expecting somebody else. Man, I hope so. Hey. Hey. What happened to him? To O'Parelli? Oh, well, he, Oh, yeah. Yeah. I see the jug now. Mhmm. Flowing down drunk again. Oh, but, here. Here, mister Darr. The reason I stopped by is I forgot to give you this key to the trunk of my car in case you need it. Oh, okay, Jimmy. Thanks. And listen.
I've been thinking. Mhmm. Your name is Dollar, Johnny Dollar, that investigator? Man, I think you're the most Look, Jimmy. If Johnny Dollar was around here, if he was setting a trap for some crook Yeah? And if anybody blabbed about it to anyone, Johnny Dollar might end up very dead. You understand that? Don't worry. Don't you worry. Just just let me know how you make out, will you? I'll let you know. Yeah. And thanks. Thanks, Johnny. Item six. In the next three days, forty one dollars for more telephone calls to George Hardy. Yeah. Danny Russeloff was in Hartford, but sitting tight.
So maybe George had been right. But how much longer I could keep old Pirelli under the influence without doing him serious harm began to worry me. And I was afraid that if he got sober, he might turn on me. Then the fourth day. And listen, Johnny, I mean, mister, As soon as you get through making that call, I wanna tell you something. Yeah. Okay, Jimmy. Sure. And I hope you haven't been worried about my telling anybody you're here because I haven't told anyone. George? Johnny Dollar? Yeah. My goodness you called. When I got back here from lunch, Pete Larkin met private eye you had me call. Yes? Early this morning, Danny Russelhoff got away from him. He did. Pete's lost him entirely. So, Johnny, if I were you Okay, George.
Now, what I was gonna tell you, Jimmy, I'm sorry. I haven't time now. But, about that other car that started down the road. What? Yeah. Down at Pirelli's place. When? About an hour ago. But then it came back to the highway. Did you get the license? Oh, I didn't get the number. It was Connecticut, though. Alright. Then after we came back to the highway? Down that way. I see. Jimmy, is there another road around here that goes to the bay? Yeah. The old fishing club below Pirelli's place. Okay. Here. A sawbuck? Yeah. But why? What did I do? I'll let you know.
I started down the road to Pirelli's. But no. Because if it had been Danny, the reason he turned around and come back to the highway was because he'd seen my car there. So instead, I took the road to the fishing club. And there it was, beside the abandoned clubhouse, a rental job with Connecticut plates. Leading away from it were footprints in the sand leading toward Pirelli's. As I got close to the cottage by by crawling on my belly behind the sand dunes, I managed to work my way around to one of the windows. I waited and listened.
Not a sound inside. A trap? Maybe so. Maybe Pirelli's still hoping for a crack at the hundred grand at taking a chance at going over to Danny's side. Well, there's only one way to find out. I raised up just enough to look into the room. There on the floor lay Mike Perelli, dead, a bullet hole in his forehead. So he hadn't told his half of the combination. That meant there was only one way Danny could get the door out of that safe now. And the door to the cellar was wide open. Yet if I tried to lift the noisy old window and climb in without some other sound to cover, but Danny himself gave me that.
By the time the noise of this nitro job on the safe had died away, I was inside the house and halfway down the cellar steps. Alright, Danny. Raise them up over your head. Don't move. Get those hands up high. Oh, yeah? Yeah, mister? Good luck. You reach for a gun, Danny, and I'll pull the trigger. I'll hide it out. You see this? This bottle, mister? Nitro. It's nitro and I can throw it even with a slug in me and you are dead. I can hit that bottle from here. Now back up. Drop the gun. You try throwing that bottle of nitro Yeah. At you. Set it down now. Gently. Set it down. No. I'm throwing it now. I'd heard of such things, but never before quite believed them possible.
But so help me when I picked myself up on the edge of the wreckage of that cottage. Most of my clothes were blown completely off. And yet by some miracle, I suffered no more than a couple of bruises and a slight headache. As for Danny, well, let's not go into Ben. He's paid for all his crimes. Expense account totaled, $3.49 40. And, don't forget my commission. In spite of the fact that a lot of bits and pieces of that money had to be pasted back together, Yours truly, Johnny Dollar.
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Johnny Dollar. Johnny, this is George Hardy at Northeast Endeavity Association. Yes, George. Got a pencil and a piece of paper? Sure. And write this down. Go ahead. 130070583. Got it. So? He wants to see you. Who does? +1 30070583 at state prison. Oh, you know his name, George? No. But if it's who I think it is, well, Johnny, you just might find yourself going to the commission on $100,000.
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The CBS Radio Network brings you Mandel Kramer and the exciting adventures of the man with the action packed expense account, America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator, yours truly, Johnny Dollar.
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Expense account submitted by special investigator Johnny Dollar to Northeast Indemnity Association home office Hartford, Connecticut. Following is an account of expenses incurred during my investigation of the tip-off matter. Expense account item one is 460 for a tank full of gas. Despite the fact that the state pen is only a few miles south in Weathersfield, a town with a population of about 20,000, where the father of our country once planned the historic battle of Yorktown. In other words, George Washington slept there. An assistant warden led me not to one of the cell blocks, but to a screened off corner in a hospital ward.
The man who lay there was in his early thirties, but he looked a hundred, thin, drawn, initiated with the pallor of death on his face. It was a full minute before I recognized him as Turner McGaffey, up for safe cracking, whom I hadn't seen since the day the judge handed out his term some ten years before. Pretty funny, Adala. I'm due to get out. Instead I lay you a dime. Oh, now come on. Come on. Who told you that, Megaki? Now come on. Don't you try and kid me too, darling. I ain't got long and I know it. That's why Adam sent for you. You see. Maybe maybe you can stop a killing dollar.
A killing? From that safe job that got me in here. That was ten years ago. Tell me they never found the loot from it, did they? Oh, I see. And you know what it is, Mac? Look, this ain't this ain't easy. Dollar me telling this, but you're the only one I only one I got any respect for. Respect for me? Mac, I was partly responsible for putting you here. Yeah. Sure, Dollar. I hated your guts. Then I did. Only yesterday, the warden, he he told me about what you've done for Tommy, my kid, Brenna, about the home and foster folks you got for about you seeing you get educated like the way that I never did.
He was a nice kid, Megaki. It's all because of you. The kid has a chance to play it straight and get somewhere. I think he will too. He doesn't know about me. He didn't know I was there, Mac. There? Yeah. I stood in the crowd and I watched him graduate from high school with honors. You'd have been proud of him, Mac. Yeah. Proud. And on the count of you give him what I could never get him. Him. Tommy deserved a chance like any other kid. That's all. Yeah. But the way you've done it, you're letting him think I've been killed in some kind of an accident.
You never let him know about my record, what I really was. And now he's he's got no spots on him. He's got nothing to live down but make him ashamed. And all this time, I I didn't know about about what you've done for him. I just kept hating you. But I didn't know. Look, Mac. That's all water under the bridge now. So now I I'm gonna make I got the Adala. There's no need to, Mac. Look look you're getting tired. I, I better leave now. You gave it the loot from that safe job. A hundred g's. Oh. So listen. I hope I like it. Listen.
Real careful. Real careful, darling. He told me then about Joe Pirelli, an old crony of his. Pirelli now posing as a fisherman living in Mac's Old Cottage on Peconic Bay, Long Island near the town of Cuttjog. He told me about a safe in the cellar of the cottage and the fact Pirelli knew only half the combination to it. And the other half? Two weeks ago, when he'd found out that he was going to die, Mac had given the other half to a crook by the name of Danny Russeloff who'd pulled the heist with him, who was also there in the pen, who'd not only been a box man, but a killer.
Okay. Fine. Except for one thing. I wouldn't have told Danny. Not if I'd known then about what you've done for my brother. Look, Mac But now I don't know. So it's you that you have that dough? No, it'll go to the insurance company, Mac. Look, Danny gets to him first Danny'll kill Pirelli. Take it easy now. Don't get yourself too excited. Don't you see? I have a whole combination between them. Danny'll get the dough then he'll kill Pirelli. Well look if, if you gave me the combination Yeah. Yeah. Alright then. You you you'll you'll give me your word. You you'll protect Pirelli.
I it's gonna just keep adults in me all this time. Mac, I'll do what I can for him. But first, while I'm here at the pen, I better get things straight with Danny Russelloff. No, darling. Danny's getting out of here t today. Getting out mean they're releasing him? Yeah. So you you gotta go for that going. Now go see Burley. Okay, Mac. I have a combination of the safe. Yeah. Yeah. First, it's right. Turn it right. Yeah. To num number dollar I can't breathe. Mac. Oh, call call on Dollar, I'm on Mac. Help me. Orderly. Help me. Nurse. Nurse. Get a doctor in here. By the time the doctor got there, McGacky was dead.
I asked the warden about Danny Russell, Austin.
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Yes, mister Dolly. We sent him on his way about an hour ago, and all I can say is good riddance.
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Okay. Expense account item two, a hundred and 50 dollars for a plane, a charter job. We took off and headed south. How Dick Spiedel, the pilot, ever managed to sit down among the sand dunes near Cuttschaug in semi darkness, I'll never know. But after a walk of about a mile, I found a gas station. Item $320 to the gas jockey for the use of his stripped down vintage car. Sure, man. You just negotiate that next turn left. You you see it down there? And then and you swing another left on the sandy road you come to, and you stop when you make the bay. It's a beat up old shack with a wore out old Pier in front of it. Okay. Oh, and if you don't see him around or he don't answer when you knock, go on in anyhow. It's probably because old Pirelli's licked up like he mostly is and just fell asleep. Alright. Thanks. Oh, and, just be sure to get my car back here by midnight when I close-up.
Right. Mike? Pirelli? Anybody here? Come on up, man. Okay. Alright, Pirelli. I, Oh, yeah. You got a gun? You kids have been waiting for you. You got a lousy shot. Really? Okay, Tony. Danny, Danny, Danny, Danny Russelloff?
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Yeah. Yeah. I thought I I read Danny was getting out tonight. Who are you?
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Who are you, mister? My name is Darling. I sit down over there by that table.
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Yeah.
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Well, where are you going here? I've come to pick up some money, Pirelli, a hundred thousand dollars No. From the safe in your cellar. No. You got no right to that. I haven't, You think I didn't know what's in the safe? I'm sure you did. And it all better be in it now. That's Max, though. Magaki. He's dead, Barelli. Only a couple of hours ago in the prison hospital. You're lying. Do you wanna call him up and check on it?
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That's right. Oh, yeah. I forgot those mine. That's mine, Della. I don't think so. Oh, no.
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Della, You Johnny Della? You're insurance dick. That's right. And I'm here to get that money. No. I'm also here for another reason. Yeah. Like what? To save you a worthless caucus if I can. You don't believe that? I never trust no cop and you're a cop. Look, Pirelli. Get one thing straight. Personally, I couldn't care less what happens to you. I've got no use for you. A man with a record like you piled up over the years. Fuck. I paid for everything I done. I served time. For holding on to this hot money? My only reason for trying to keep Danny Russell off from killing you is because I promised McGawkey I would. I can take care of myself. Like you did when I came barging in here? Okay. So maybe you maybe Danny Russell lost a killer, and he's got the other half of that safe combination.
What? Yes. Because McGahnke gave it to him when he found out he was gonna die. And you think that
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And he couldn't force your half out of you with a gun in your belly if you refuse to help him open that box. And then when he got the dough, he'd kill you. Oh, I I I I still still wouldn't wouldn't tell him my hat. He'd kill you anyway and then blow the safe. That used to be his business. So whatever happens, Sparelli, without me, you end up dead. I gotta listen. Look. I know it'll mean breaking my word to McGacky. But if that's the way you want it, all I have to do is just sit on the sidelines, wait for Danny to get here, for the safe to be open one way or another, see you get knocked off, and then move in on Danny. Okay. Okay. But I get maybe I can get him first.
Go on. Try it. But if you do get lucky, if you do kill him before he kills you, I promise you one thing, Pirelli. I'll see you end up in the chair. Would you like to think about that for a while? Just don't take too long, because I doubt if Danny's gonna waste much time getting down here. And if I'm not around when he does get here well, Barelli? Okay. Okay. What do you want me to do? Got enough food around here to keep us for a couple of days? Sure. I got plenty. Alright. Then I'm moving in. You got a phone? No. Only plenty of food and booze. I can see that. Is there any other way to get here, Pirelli, besides the road that turns off near the gas station? I'd rather some way try to get here with one of those Helia Copters.
Alright. Then from the gas station, I can tell if somebody is heading in here. I'll I'll see you later. Item four. Back at the gas station out on the highway. A hundred dollars even. A hundred bucks? Well, for that man, I'll ride a bicycle and borrow my sister's car and you can keep the old crate. No, Jimmy. I'll only need it for a day or two, I hope. All the time you want. And is there anything else I can do, mister Dollar? Just let me have a handful of change to throw at this payphone of yours. Item $5.03 80 for a call to George Hardy at his home back in Hartford. I gave him the whole story. Good, Johnny. Good. I had a feeling it had to do with that safetracking job we had to make good on.
Now, how do I contact you down there? You don't. I'll have to contact you. What are you thinking of? Well, you said this Danny Russeloff hasn't shown up there yet. Not yet. So he's had plenty of time by now. Maybe Danny's playing it smart now he's on parole. What do you mean? Well, he's supposed to report in here in Hartford where he used to live, isn't he? Probably. Joe, you do that first to give a good impression, make everybody think he's on the up and up. Maybe. And then when he figures nobody's watching him anymore, then he'll make his move. Right? Except that I can't see him wasting any time about getting his hands on the money or at least making sure it's still here. So, George Yes? Get hold of Pete Larkin. The private detective. Yeah. Tell him it's for me. Tell him if Danny is there in Hartford to keep an eye on him day and night. And if he leaves town, I wanna know it so I can be ready for him. Okay.
And, meanwhile, what'll you be doing? Have you called on the police down there? I don't even know if they have any in this little town. What's more, a couple of cops prowling around would only scare him away, and I wanna get him. I'll check back with you three or four times a day. Oh, okay. And at least we know where that hundred thousand is now. Do we? Maybe I better get back out to Pirelli and make sure. The safe was still there in Mike Pirelli's cellar intact. And Mike himself, in the process of getting very, very drunk. But in answer to my question Okay. Okay.
The only it's
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it's only the last two numbers. It's a combination that I know. Alright. What are they? Yeah.
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It's two, two turns to the right. Two turns to the right. What number? It's 8081. 2 turns to the right to 81. Yeah. And then? Hey, listen, Tyler. And then, Mike? Yeah. Then left, left 14. Then left to 14. Yeah. That's it. Okay. Yeah. Listen, Tyler. I'm scared now. You got me scared. Give me a minute. Go ahead. Help yourself. Maybe enough of that stuff will at least keep you hold it. Listen. Ready? Hold it. Right. You hear that? Right. Yeah. I think it's a car out there. Alright. Let me douse these lights. You see it there? You know that car? No. Haven't that sense. Stay. Be quiet. There's someone in here that's killing me.
As the car pulled to a stop, I quietly slipped over to one side of the door and grabbed the knob. I drew my gun and waited. For a long moment, there was no sound out there. Then a car door opening and closing quietly, then footsteps on the wooden sidewalk. Then as I fell in touch with the doorknob, I turned it and swung open the door. Say, what's the matter, man? What's going on here? Why are you palming that cannon? Sorry, Jimmy. I was expecting somebody else. Man, I hope so. Hey. Hey. What happened to him? To O'Parelli? Oh, well, he, Oh, yeah. Yeah. I see the jug now. Mhmm. Flowing down drunk again. Oh, but, here. Here, mister Darr. The reason I stopped by is I forgot to give you this key to the trunk of my car in case you need it. Oh, okay, Jimmy. Thanks. And listen.
I've been thinking. Mhmm. Your name is Dollar, Johnny Dollar, that investigator? Man, I think you're the most Look, Jimmy. If Johnny Dollar was around here, if he was setting a trap for some crook Yeah? And if anybody blabbed about it to anyone, Johnny Dollar might end up very dead. You understand that? Don't worry. Don't you worry. Just just let me know how you make out, will you? I'll let you know. Yeah. And thanks. Thanks, Johnny. Item six. In the next three days, forty one dollars for more telephone calls to George Hardy. Yeah. Danny Russeloff was in Hartford, but sitting tight.
So maybe George had been right. But how much longer I could keep old Pirelli under the influence without doing him serious harm began to worry me. And I was afraid that if he got sober, he might turn on me. Then the fourth day. And listen, Johnny, I mean, mister, As soon as you get through making that call, I wanna tell you something. Yeah. Okay, Jimmy. Sure. And I hope you haven't been worried about my telling anybody you're here because I haven't told anyone. George? Johnny Dollar? Yeah. My goodness you called. When I got back here from lunch, Pete Larkin met private eye you had me call. Yes? Early this morning, Danny Russelhoff got away from him. He did. Pete's lost him entirely. So, Johnny, if I were you Okay, George.
Now, what I was gonna tell you, Jimmy, I'm sorry. I haven't time now. But, about that other car that started down the road. What? Yeah. Down at Pirelli's place. When? About an hour ago. But then it came back to the highway. Did you get the license? Oh, I didn't get the number. It was Connecticut, though. Alright. Then after we came back to the highway? Down that way. I see. Jimmy, is there another road around here that goes to the bay? Yeah. The old fishing club below Pirelli's place. Okay. Here. A sawbuck? Yeah. But why? What did I do? I'll let you know.
I started down the road to Pirelli's. But no. Because if it had been Danny, the reason he turned around and come back to the highway was because he'd seen my car there. So instead, I took the road to the fishing club. And there it was, beside the abandoned clubhouse, a rental job with Connecticut plates. Leading away from it were footprints in the sand leading toward Pirelli's. As I got close to the cottage by by crawling on my belly behind the sand dunes, I managed to work my way around to one of the windows. I waited and listened.
Not a sound inside. A trap? Maybe so. Maybe Pirelli's still hoping for a crack at the hundred grand at taking a chance at going over to Danny's side. Well, there's only one way to find out. I raised up just enough to look into the room. There on the floor lay Mike Perelli, dead, a bullet hole in his forehead. So he hadn't told his half of the combination. That meant there was only one way Danny could get the door out of that safe now. And the door to the cellar was wide open. Yet if I tried to lift the noisy old window and climb in without some other sound to cover, but Danny himself gave me that.
By the time the noise of this nitro job on the safe had died away, I was inside the house and halfway down the cellar steps. Alright, Danny. Raise them up over your head. Don't move. Get those hands up high. Oh, yeah? Yeah, mister? Good luck. You reach for a gun, Danny, and I'll pull the trigger. I'll hide it out. You see this? This bottle, mister? Nitro. It's nitro and I can throw it even with a slug in me and you are dead. I can hit that bottle from here. Now back up. Drop the gun. You try throwing that bottle of nitro Yeah. At you. Set it down now. Gently. Set it down. No. I'm throwing it now. I'd heard of such things, but never before quite believed them possible.
But so help me when I picked myself up on the edge of the wreckage of that cottage. Most of my clothes were blown completely off. And yet by some miracle, I suffered no more than a couple of bruises and a slight headache. As for Danny, well, let's not go into Ben. He's paid for all his crimes. Expense account totaled, $3.49 40. And, don't forget my commission. In spite of the fact that a lot of bits and pieces of that money had to be pasted back together, Yours truly, Johnny Dollar.
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