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The Elliott Champion Matter

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar · December 12, 1952 · 29 min · 3,848 words

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From Hollywood, it's time now for John Lund as Johnny Dollar. John Baker Johnny. Well, I like that fine, but do I have to work? If you want a weak logic. Uh, how much is the policy worth?

Yeah. Like what? I'll pack my things. John Lund, in the transcribed adventure of the man with the action-packed expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator here is truly Johnny dollar expense accounts submitted by special investigator Johnny dollar to home office great Eastern fire and casualty New York City the following is the counting of expenditures during my investigation of the Elliott champion

matter expense account item one thirty eight dollars and eighty seven cents trained fair and incidentals between Hartford New York where I met agent Don Vickers and we made arrangements to fly to California. Item two, twenty eight dollars, even one raincoat. Item three, one hundred ninety nine dollars and fifteen cents, transportation in New York to Los Angeles. On route, Vickers filled me in on the

details concerning Mr. Elliot's champion. I met him once, Johnny, when he was in New York last time. Uh-huh. Vickers I said to myself, look well on this man. He made you the last of his kind. How's that done? Well, champion sixty or better now.

and he's been everything in his lifetime. Sailor, soldier, lawyer, financier, who Lord knows what all of them. One of those birds who started with absolutely nothing. He talked fast, worked hard, and what he couldn't get one way, he managed to get another.

All in all, he's done pretty well. I didn't like him, Johnny. Go on. And maybe I was just jealous of his aggressiveness, or maybe if I had stories of how we ran roughshard of a big and little.

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