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The Barbara James Matter

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar · June 29, 1950 · 29 min · 4,661 words

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helpful, refreshing, delicious. Expense accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the Monarch Life Insurance Company Home Office, Hartford, Connecticut. Attention, Mr. Frank Cabers. The following is an accounting of my expenditures during investigation of the Barbara James matter.

Expense account item 1, $73.87, transportation to Denver, Colorado. Spencer can't item two, $2.30, taxi fare from airport to police headquarters, but I spent a few minutes getting myself up today. Detective Lieutenant Harrison locked his hands in back of his head, leaned back in his swivel chair, and filled me in on the meager tax.

And swimming pool. You must have loved it. Well, he could afford it. And tennis courts, anything to hang on to it. See, dollar, he's one of these silly old fools dreaming of a sparkling youth.

What about his wife? She was 28. Got ya. Got a picture over here. Now, would somebody like this be interested in a 50-year-old baldie with a paunch? For money? She was originally. Once you got all the money she wanted, she started cavorting.

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