1 00:00:28,640 --> 00:00:36,000 Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise Idahol. This is 2 00:00:36,039 --> 00:00:40,320 your host, Adam Graham. If you have a comment, email it to 3 00:00:40,359 --> 00:00:46,200 me Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net, Follow us on Twitter at Radio 4 00:00:46,280 --> 00:00:52,159 Detectives, and check us out on Instagram, Instagram, dot com, slash 5 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:57,799 Great Detectives. If you're enjoying the podcast, please follow us using your favorite 6 00:00:57,880 --> 00:01:03,520 podcast software. And when making travel plans, remember Johnny Dollar Air dot com. 7 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:07,159 Johnny Dollar air dot com is our price line affiliate length. So when 8 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:12,840 you purchase an airline ticket or rent a car or hotel room, part of 9 00:01:12,879 --> 00:01:18,239 the purchase price goes to support the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio at no 10 00:01:18,280 --> 00:01:21,920 additional cost to you. So remember, when making your travel plans, check 11 00:01:22,040 --> 00:01:26,400 Johnny Dollar Air dot com first. Well, now let's go ahead and get 12 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:30,879 into the conclusion of this week's Yours truly, Johnny Dollar Cereal, we've got 13 00:01:30,920 --> 00:01:34,840 the Star of Cape Time Matter Episodes three, four, and five from July 14 00:01:36,079 --> 00:01:46,760 eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth of nineteen fifty six from Hollywood. It's time now 15 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:55,640 for Johnny Dollar liften and Vandal of the Cape Down Police. I was just 16 00:01:55,680 --> 00:02:00,400 gonna call you, lieutenant something the matter. You sound very strange, probably 17 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:02,120 from nursing in lumb on my head. That put the stir of Cape town 18 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:07,280 of shame. I don't understand you found the diamond. No, to put 19 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:09,080 it politely, somebody slugged me here in my room in a while agoing why 20 00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:13,159 to keep me from sailing on the Southern Empress. She just shoved off. 21 00:02:13,159 --> 00:02:15,759 And I've got a strong hunch that diamond as a board that bears out what 22 00:02:15,879 --> 00:02:20,159 we've learned from Julio Biac. Did he confess to force murder now, but 23 00:02:20,199 --> 00:02:23,039 we're fairly certain he's involved. However, he swears he does not pay the 24 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:27,280 diamond either he parentsed it to somebody aboard the Southern Empress, or he was 25 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:30,840 chasing whoever's got it. Lieutenant, I've got to get on that ship you 26 00:02:30,919 --> 00:02:32,479 say it is now on the way and out of the harbor. He wouldn't 27 00:02:32,479 --> 00:02:36,240 happen to have a stray helicopter around with you. I can make arrangements for 28 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:38,719 one with the military. Can you be the airfield in fifteen minutes Mega ten 29 00:02:46,759 --> 00:02:50,840 tonight and every weekday night. Bob Bailey, in the Transcribed Adventures of the 30 00:02:50,879 --> 00:02:55,960 man with the action pact expenscout America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator, Yours truly Johnny 31 00:02:55,960 --> 00:03:15,840 Dollar from Special Investigator Johnny Dollar location in Cape Town, South Africa to the 32 00:03:15,879 --> 00:03:22,039 home office Trie Eastern Indemnity Associates assignment the Star of Cape Town matter, expenser 33 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:29,639 Count continued, I don't make can't ford to the airfield where the helicopter was 34 00:03:29,680 --> 00:03:36,960 waiting for me. I don't know which was throbbing the most, the helicopter 35 00:03:37,039 --> 00:03:39,360 engine on my head on the way I have to see. I had time 36 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:44,560 to try to put the pieces together, but as usually didn't fit. A 37 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:46,960 playboy named Andrew Forbes, and here it's a diamond called the Star of Cape 38 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:51,759 Town, worth one hundred and fifty g's. The insurance company gets FIDGETI at 39 00:03:51,759 --> 00:03:54,360 the way Forbes is flashing the stone around, so they send me to Cape 40 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:59,000 Town to talk some sense to him. But now Forbes is dead and the 41 00:03:59,039 --> 00:04:02,199 diamond is missing, and the fact that his probable killer was picked up aboard 42 00:04:02,199 --> 00:04:05,479 the Southern Empress before it shoved off convinces me the stone is somewhere on that 43 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:10,319 ship. But I've got no proof. Even though I'm breaking my neck to 44 00:04:10,319 --> 00:04:17,800 get there. At the moment, we picked up the Southern Empress about twenty 45 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:20,360 miles out at sea, and the helicopter pilot set being down on deck of 46 00:04:20,439 --> 00:04:25,000 the Stern. A crowd of passengers had gathered, but I didn't see forbes 47 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:28,519 sister Agatha, nor Helen, the girl who'd spent so much time with him 48 00:04:28,519 --> 00:04:30,720 the night he was killed. I got me a room and then headed for 49 00:04:30,759 --> 00:04:35,079 Agatha forbes state room. As I stood at the door, I caught a 50 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:42,160 whiff of Forbes's favorite perfume, Forever, the kind Sheila had worn. Yes, 51 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:46,279 what we it's Helen, isn't it. I don't think we've met, 52 00:04:46,319 --> 00:04:50,319 mister Dollar, Johnny Dollar. No, no, we haven't met officially, 53 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:54,639 but we were both at Forbes party the other night. You wish to speak 54 00:04:54,639 --> 00:04:58,519 with Miss Forbes and you too, Helen Helen, mister Dollar, I'll be 55 00:04:58,519 --> 00:05:01,399 in my stateroom if you want Miss f just a minute? How am I? 56 00:05:02,879 --> 00:05:08,439 Hm? Well, mister Dollar, I must say you are a persistent 57 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:12,279 person on my job. I have to be Miss Forbes. Well. As 58 00:05:12,319 --> 00:05:15,759 long as you're here, you might as well sit down. Thanks. I 59 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:18,959 still would rather not talk about what's happened. I can certainly understand that. 60 00:05:19,199 --> 00:05:21,959 But if I can throw any light on it, which I doubt very much, 61 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:26,279 then I suppose it's my duty to one thing. I must ask, 62 00:05:26,319 --> 00:05:30,279 however, what is it that there'd be as little additional publicity as possible? 63 00:05:30,920 --> 00:05:33,519 Forbes's name has been dragged through the dirt enough as it is. I'll do 64 00:05:33,639 --> 00:05:39,120 my best, very well. What is it you want to know? Well? 65 00:05:39,199 --> 00:05:42,360 Several things. First, do you think your brother could have been killed 66 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:46,600 for a motive other than the diamond? I hadn't thought of that. After 67 00:05:46,639 --> 00:05:50,120 all, you must admit that a diamond like the star of Cape Town be 68 00:05:50,240 --> 00:05:55,079 motive enough to the kind of people my brother thought it amusing to consort with. 69 00:05:55,399 --> 00:05:58,879 Yeah, you're probably right, But I'm trying to cover all the possibilities 70 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:02,040 about your brother's friend, Sheila, for instance. I prefer not to discuss 71 00:06:02,079 --> 00:06:04,399 her, But do you think she could have done it? I don't know. 72 00:06:04,439 --> 00:06:08,759 I'm afraid I wouldn't put anything past her. I read another thing, 73 00:06:08,800 --> 00:06:13,240 Miss Forbes. I was pretty surprised to find Helen here in your stateroom when 74 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:16,439 I kncked. Why, I didn't know you knew her. I have engaged 75 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:21,120 Helen as my traveling companion. Oh kind of sudden, wasn't it. As 76 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:25,879 a matter of fact, it was my brother told me about her for one 77 00:06:25,879 --> 00:06:28,920 of the few times in his life he was right about someone. She's a 78 00:06:28,959 --> 00:06:32,160 thoroughly nice person. So you hired her. I think I told you before 79 00:06:32,240 --> 00:06:36,399 how exhausted I am by all this. I needed someone to make arrangements for 80 00:06:36,519 --> 00:06:40,360 me the last moment she decided to make the trip, when I was delighted. 81 00:06:40,560 --> 00:06:44,120 Uh huh she made up her mind at the last woman. Huh. 82 00:06:44,199 --> 00:06:47,319 May I ask quite all these questions about her? Or I know she's pretty 83 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:50,439 high on my list of possible That's impossible. As far as we know, 84 00:06:50,639 --> 00:06:54,399 she was the last person to see your brother alive, and I refuse to 85 00:06:54,439 --> 00:06:57,639 believe she could possibly in. I hope she isn't. But I've got a 86 00:06:57,680 --> 00:07:00,040 run down every lead I can get. If I don't recover the Star of 87 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:02,360 Cape Town, the company I represented is on the hook for one hundred and 88 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:06,519 fifty thousand dollars. I have not filed a claim as yet, mister Darler, 89 00:07:08,319 --> 00:07:11,920 nor do I propose to until we reached New York. I shall give 90 00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:15,600 you every opportunity to recover the diamond. I appreciate that, miss Forbes, 91 00:07:15,199 --> 00:07:20,560 but I'm afraid it still doesn't leave me much time. I went back to 92 00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:24,759 my stateroom. The door was open, but I was sure i'd closed it 93 00:07:24,759 --> 00:07:30,399 when I left. Inside was the same lingering smell of the same lingering perfume 94 00:07:30,759 --> 00:07:33,959 Forbes' favorite forever, Sheila Warrant. But as far as I knew, she 95 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:38,720 was still in Cape Town, and I remember her saying that Forbes had given 96 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:42,079 Helen a bottle of it. I also remembered smelling it in my Cape Town 97 00:07:42,160 --> 00:07:45,839 hotel room just before I got slug. I thought then it was a carryover 98 00:07:45,879 --> 00:07:49,480 from Sheila's earlier visit. Now I wasn't sure. I started back out of 99 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:53,839 my stateroom just in time to collide with somebody in the passage. Oh sorry, 100 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:58,480 say Pardner, you sure took the wind out of my sale. Yeah, 101 00:07:58,519 --> 00:08:00,959 well, I'm sorry I didn't when anyone was out here. Oh, 102 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:03,480 I just passing by, partner. Stacy's a name, Ben, Stacy. 103 00:08:03,560 --> 00:08:09,000 What's yours? Dollar? On the level? Trusts my heart. When I 104 00:08:09,079 --> 00:08:13,519 tell people I bumped into a guy named Dollar a board a boat, I'll 105 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:20,839 mean it. Zeerong partner, So he could have been just passing by, 106 00:08:20,959 --> 00:08:24,439 like he said. But if so, he moved off quietly for a guy 107 00:08:24,480 --> 00:08:28,800 his size. I locked my door and headed for the bar. Expense account 108 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:33,000 out of nine one fifty at double Martini, which occupied me just long enough 109 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:37,360 to get a couple of things nailed down in my mind, namely open stateroom 110 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:41,240 doors and the smell of perfume. Ah, it had to be Helen, 111 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:45,000 no two ways about it. At this point of my brilliant chain of deductions, 112 00:08:45,039 --> 00:08:46,799 I made a big mistake. I looked down toward the other end of 113 00:08:46,840 --> 00:08:50,000 the bar, and the person I saw sitting there made me realize, in 114 00:08:50,039 --> 00:08:58,639 one big hurry that my trainer thought had just gotten itself derail. Hello Sheila, 115 00:08:58,279 --> 00:09:03,440 Hi Johnny, I thought you were back in Kip Tom Why should I 116 00:09:03,519 --> 00:09:07,759 be? What's to stay for now? Good question? But you didn't tell 117 00:09:07,799 --> 00:09:11,919 me you were leaving. You didn't ask me, said I. You must 118 00:09:11,960 --> 00:09:16,679 have decided in my hurry. It's the only way I ever decide anything. 119 00:09:16,879 --> 00:09:20,840 Hum. Well, you picked an interesting boat to Ceylon. I suppose you 120 00:09:20,919 --> 00:09:24,000 know Helen's abored small boat, isn't it? Oh? Look, she La, 121 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:28,399 I suppose we dropped the flip chatter. Huh, Okay, Johnny, 122 00:09:28,519 --> 00:09:31,480 what do you want me to tell you that I hate Helen for taking Andy 123 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:37,679 Forbes away from me? Okay, I do. It's happened before, but 124 00:09:37,720 --> 00:09:43,120 Andy always came back. What hurts this time is that he was killed before 125 00:09:43,159 --> 00:09:46,399 he had a chance to Don't worry. I'll keep out of her way. 126 00:09:46,440 --> 00:09:52,559 I won't make any trouble. And Johnny, do me a favor. What 127 00:09:52,679 --> 00:09:56,120 is it, Let's just forget. I'm on board. I'd kind of like 128 00:09:56,159 --> 00:10:01,399 a decent chance to forget a few things if I can. Okay, just 129 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:05,080 one thing? She Len, Yeah, were you in my room a few 130 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:09,960 minutes ago? No? On the level? Sure? Why let me skip 131 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:16,480 it? See letters? Okay, I hope you find your diamond. Thanks. 132 00:10:16,919 --> 00:10:20,519 I hope you find whatever you're looking for. You know what it is? 133 00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:31,720 No, I got news for you, neither do I. Well, 134 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:37,039 one thing was clear anyway, If Sheila hadn't been in my stateroom, then 135 00:10:37,080 --> 00:10:41,120 the perfume might smell must have belonged to Helen. She seemed to be getting 136 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:43,120 higher on my list all the time. I had to have a talk with 137 00:10:43,159 --> 00:10:46,080 her. But by the looks of things, I wasn't going to be easy. 138 00:10:46,639 --> 00:10:50,120 She was doing a pretty good job of avoiding me. About half an 139 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:52,720 hour later, though, I spotted her top side in a deck chair where 140 00:10:52,759 --> 00:10:54,879 I got the Forbes. Next to them was my old buddy from the wide 141 00:10:54,879 --> 00:10:58,159 Open Spaces. Why some of the things we got out west, you just 142 00:10:58,240 --> 00:11:03,039 wouldn't believe. I am certainly I've never been there. But oh hi, 143 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:07,600 everybody, well, sir for this and mister Dollar. So now I ask 144 00:11:07,679 --> 00:11:11,000 you, ladies, if that isn't just about the most colorful name a fellow. 145 00:11:11,679 --> 00:11:15,840 Yes, mister Dollar, i'pe be a little more arrested, Miss Forbes, 146 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:18,600 Thank you, I am, and Helen, I'm glad to see. 147 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:22,440 I wonder if you'd excuse me my suit. I'm afraid I have a headache. 148 00:11:22,519 --> 00:11:24,919 Why don't you go lie down for a while. Thanks, I think 149 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:28,799 I will well, No, it was kind of a chilly reception. Partner 150 00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:33,519 looks like a little lady doesn't like you much. Oh well, you can't 151 00:11:33,559 --> 00:11:37,799 win them all. Yeah, thanks, I'm sure Helen's simply tired, mister 152 00:11:37,879 --> 00:11:41,240 Dollar. Mister Stacy here tells me he was quite a good friend of my 153 00:11:41,399 --> 00:11:46,480 brother's. Oh why sure, partner Andy Forbes and I was a pest. 154 00:11:46,519 --> 00:11:50,519 Nobody's well I didn't see you at his ponty the other night. Well he 155 00:11:50,639 --> 00:11:54,320 asked me, of course, but I just couldn't make it. I tell 156 00:11:54,399 --> 00:11:56,559 you, though, dog, if I wouldn't have been there, if I 157 00:11:56,559 --> 00:12:01,159 had I known it was gonna be old Andy's last party. Oh excuse me, 158 00:12:01,320 --> 00:12:05,639 ma'am, that's all right. How long had you known Forbes, mister 159 00:12:05,679 --> 00:12:11,200 Stacy? Years or years old? Andy and me was always bumping into each 160 00:12:11,200 --> 00:12:16,360 other and undarned as places Cairo, Parie, Copenhagen. I tell you, 161 00:12:16,440 --> 00:12:20,799 it was always a barrel of laughs. Well we got together. Why I'll 162 00:12:20,799 --> 00:12:24,159 never forget one night in a little old daycar. We say we're gonna be 163 00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:26,840 in daycar in a couple of days, aren't we. I believe so? 164 00:12:28,519 --> 00:12:31,600 Yeah, I suppose everybody will be going to shore off you. Well, 165 00:12:31,639 --> 00:12:35,759 you don't want to miss daycar. Why I can show you some places you 166 00:12:35,879 --> 00:12:41,000 just wouldn't believe. I tell you what, Why don't we get up a 167 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:45,240 little party, mister Stacy? It sounds very pleasant, But I'm afraid you'll 168 00:12:45,240 --> 00:12:48,840 have to excuse me. I'm not quite in the rood for sight. See. 169 00:12:48,039 --> 00:12:52,600 Oh I understand, sure enough, Miss Forbes. A dollar? How 170 00:12:52,600 --> 00:12:58,120 about you we'll see. Yeah, well, anybody care to join me for 171 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:00,799 a walk around a dick? No, thank you, I gotta keep up 172 00:13:00,799 --> 00:13:03,879 my appetite, you know, see you later. But don't you forget about 173 00:13:03,960 --> 00:13:07,519 me, car It'll be up bore. Yeah, it'll be a birrel of 174 00:13:07,519 --> 00:13:13,480 fun, missus Forbes. Yes, did your brother ever mention this character Stacy 175 00:13:13,519 --> 00:13:18,519 to you? No? Of course Andrew had many strange friends that he didn't 176 00:13:18,559 --> 00:13:28,679 mention to me. Yeah, I'm sure he didn't. I went back to 177 00:13:28,720 --> 00:13:31,120 my stateroom. This time the door was closed and there was no odor of 178 00:13:31,120 --> 00:13:35,840 perfume. But when I went in, I saw that I'd had a visitor 179 00:13:35,840 --> 00:13:39,240 again, and this time he or she had been much more thorough. The 180 00:13:39,320 --> 00:13:45,600 room was torn apart from one end to the other. I sat down, 181 00:13:45,919 --> 00:13:48,759 tired and beat. I thought of that building title somebody tried to drop on 182 00:13:48,799 --> 00:13:52,440 me in Cape Town, and the bang on my head I'd collected in my 183 00:13:52,519 --> 00:13:56,440 hotel room. I knew that whoever I was after was also after me, 184 00:13:56,399 --> 00:14:00,879 and now it looked like a third party was involved. Whoever had torn up 185 00:14:00,879 --> 00:14:05,559 my run must have figured I might have the diamond Sheila Helen Stacy. It 186 00:14:05,600 --> 00:14:07,919 could be any of them. Or even worse, it could be somebody I 187 00:14:07,919 --> 00:14:13,159 didn't even know about. But one thing was sure, I was no closer 188 00:14:13,159 --> 00:14:16,480 to that king sized diamond. Pretty soon we'd beginning to the car, and 189 00:14:16,519 --> 00:14:20,200 once everybody had the chance to get a shure, my chances of getting the 190 00:14:20,240 --> 00:14:24,080 diamond back were practically zero. I had a strong and sickening hunch that the 191 00:14:24,120 --> 00:14:28,399 car could be the end of the trail for me, and I didn't like 192 00:14:28,440 --> 00:14:48,120 it. Johnny Doller, this is the person, mister dollar. Oh, 193 00:14:48,159 --> 00:14:52,600 I was just about to call you better send a steward to my statement and 194 00:14:52,639 --> 00:14:56,879 to put it back together. Somebody just tore it apart looking for something. 195 00:14:56,960 --> 00:15:01,799 I guess the diamond. They think you would have it. Well, somebody's 196 00:15:01,799 --> 00:15:05,360 got me peg wrong. What's on your mind? A cable graham was sent 197 00:15:05,399 --> 00:15:09,279 to Cape Town about an hour ago, addressed to Julio Biac. Julio, 198 00:15:09,399 --> 00:15:13,240 Yes, isn't he the man who's being held on suspicion of murdering Andrew Forbes? 199 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:16,480 Yeah? But the news hasn't been released, and obviously whoever sent the 200 00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:20,600 cablegram isn't aware of it. What did it say? Contact me? Usual 201 00:15:20,679 --> 00:15:26,279 placed car? Who signed it? The name was corner. I checked the 202 00:15:26,320 --> 00:15:30,240 passenger list, but there's no such name as Steward delivered the message to the 203 00:15:30,360 --> 00:15:33,639 radio room I've sent for him. He should be able to tell us who 204 00:15:33,679 --> 00:15:35,799 sent him. Nice work, per Se, could be you just helped me 205 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:54,840 wind up this case. From Special Investigator Johnny Dollar location at sea, I 206 00:15:54,919 --> 00:15:58,519 wrote Cape Town to the car that the Home Office tries to indemnity associates as 207 00:15:58,559 --> 00:16:07,159 silent. The Star of Cape Town matter expense account continued. I had them 208 00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:11,919 ten ten dollars a token of appreciation to the purser for furnishing me the one 209 00:16:11,919 --> 00:16:15,960 good lead I've had in this deal. A cable grammed to Julio Biock, 210 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:18,519 who was being held in Cape Town right now as Andrew Forbes probable Killer. 211 00:16:19,480 --> 00:16:22,759 But Forbes's diamond, the Star of Cape Town, one hundred and fifty thousand 212 00:16:22,799 --> 00:16:27,360 dollars worth, was still missing. The cablegram indicated that Julio hadn't been working 213 00:16:27,360 --> 00:16:32,120 alone on the deal. Whoever, center was aboard ship and either had the 214 00:16:32,159 --> 00:16:36,759 diamond or was looking for it before long, I'd know who that someone was. 215 00:16:37,480 --> 00:16:41,639 I started for the Purse's office. Oh, Helen, I'd like to 216 00:16:41,679 --> 00:16:45,519 talk to you. Hello. That's a switch. What do you mean? 217 00:16:45,120 --> 00:16:48,600 Ever since I got aboard this ship, I've been trying to talk to you, 218 00:16:48,240 --> 00:16:51,600 but you weren't having anything. I don't know what this is all about, 219 00:16:51,799 --> 00:16:55,440 but you've gone to farms to dollar coming in. Don't try to pretend 220 00:16:55,519 --> 00:16:57,039 when I found my room all torn up just now, I wrote, Hey, 221 00:16:57,120 --> 00:17:00,120 wait a minute, your room's been torn of. What do you mean 222 00:17:00,120 --> 00:17:03,960 by two? Mine got the same treatment a while ago. I don't understand. 223 00:17:04,920 --> 00:17:07,319 I thought it was you. Look, Heleen, I think you and 224 00:17:07,359 --> 00:17:12,519 I had better have a little talk right now. I steered it to the 225 00:17:12,559 --> 00:17:18,160 bar expense account out of eleven five dollars drinks. I still couldn't figure out 226 00:17:18,160 --> 00:17:21,279 which team she was playing on, but I had to find out. This 227 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:25,279 was the best way I can think of it. May I have a cigarette? 228 00:17:25,319 --> 00:17:33,200 Please? Oh? Sure? Here? Thanks? Had been so confused, 229 00:17:33,240 --> 00:17:37,720 mister Johnny Johnny confused about one home. Everything. It's all happened so 230 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:41,400 fast, and then when I realized that somebody was watching me and following me. 231 00:17:41,480 --> 00:17:45,000 Look, I think you'd better start from the top. I suppose, 232 00:17:45,039 --> 00:17:52,480 so maybe it'll make sense to you. I hadn't really known Andy Forbes very 233 00:17:52,519 --> 00:17:55,920 long, longer than I had that party he gave It was so strange. 234 00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:59,400 All those people I didn't know. I mean, well, I guess it 235 00:17:59,440 --> 00:18:03,960 took me a little while to realize he was interested in quite a few people. 236 00:18:04,559 --> 00:18:10,759 Sure. I feel sorry for Sheila. I guess she's pretty bitter about 237 00:18:10,799 --> 00:18:14,759 everything. But I didn't do anything to encourage Andy, and I didn't realize 238 00:18:14,799 --> 00:18:18,039 he was serious about me until the night of the party. And then he 239 00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:22,359 told me he was. And he gave me a bottle of very expensive perfume 240 00:18:22,559 --> 00:18:30,240 forever. Oh, his usual gift. I'm afraid, so I don't care. 241 00:18:30,480 --> 00:18:33,000 He wanted me to have it, and it's lovely perfumer. I like 242 00:18:33,119 --> 00:18:37,440 Dandy. He was completely irresponsible, but in his own strange way, he 243 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:41,680 was nice. So when they told me the next morning that he'd been killed 244 00:18:41,720 --> 00:18:47,000 during the night, I couldn't believe it. And then the diamond was missing. 245 00:18:47,079 --> 00:18:51,359 Yeah, his attitude about the diamond was very strange. What do you 246 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:57,640 mean He seemed to regard it as an inexpensive drinkt he he was so careless 247 00:18:57,680 --> 00:19:00,640 with it. Oh, you're telling me. That's where I was sent down 248 00:19:00,680 --> 00:19:03,240 to Cape Town to try and talk him into being more sensible with it. 249 00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:08,079 But Helen, you said something about being watched or followed. Yes. When 250 00:19:08,079 --> 00:19:11,119 I left Andy's house that night, I felt that somebody was watching me, 251 00:19:11,640 --> 00:19:15,400 and later I knew somebody had been in my hotel room, and now my 252 00:19:15,440 --> 00:19:18,480 stateroom torn apart. What does it all mean? That's a good question. 253 00:19:19,799 --> 00:19:25,559 One more thing. Yes, you decided to make this trip rather suddenly, 254 00:19:25,680 --> 00:19:29,400 didn't you. I wanted to get away from Cape Town. Miss Forbes was 255 00:19:29,480 --> 00:19:32,200 kind enough to offer me a job as her traveling companion for the trip, 256 00:19:32,279 --> 00:19:34,440 so I took it. Do you like working for her? Yes? She's 257 00:19:34,480 --> 00:19:37,799 really a very nice person, perhaps a little on the dignified side. Yes, 258 00:19:38,160 --> 00:19:42,000 I'm pretty concerned over the Forbes name. Wouldn't you be? After all 259 00:19:42,039 --> 00:19:47,279 it's happened. Maybe, Oh, Johnny, I've got to be getting back 260 00:19:47,319 --> 00:19:51,200 and see if she needs anything. But thanks for what talking to yours made 261 00:19:51,240 --> 00:19:55,519 me feel a lot better somehow good good. It's been a big help to 262 00:19:55,559 --> 00:20:00,240 me too, So oh makes things easier for tonight. They're having a dance 263 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:11,400 and I've been figuring how to go about asking you, No, dude, 264 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:14,880 there's a thing I need at the moment. Then if you don't mind, 265 00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:18,839 I'll go to my State Room and chain. See you tonight, Johnny Ryan. 266 00:20:21,079 --> 00:20:23,880 Well, you too seem to be getting along pretty well now, Yeah, 267 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:27,240 I guess so. I'm glad. I'm sure you realize by now that 268 00:20:27,319 --> 00:20:33,839 Helen couldn't possibly be involved in the murder or the diamond theft. I hope 269 00:20:33,839 --> 00:20:37,599 not. You are a very suspicious man, mister Dowler. It's part of 270 00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:41,799 my job, Miss Forbes. I still don't have any idea who's got your 271 00:20:41,839 --> 00:20:45,599 brother's diamond, and if I don't find out before we get to the can 272 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:48,599 tomorrow, all the chances are I never will. I don't see how you 273 00:20:48,599 --> 00:20:51,480 can be so sure the star of Cape Town is aboard this ship. I 274 00:20:51,599 --> 00:20:55,319 wasn't sure until today that Cable Graham convinced me. Cable g Yeah, I 275 00:20:55,400 --> 00:21:00,079 was addressed to Holio BioC in Cape Town. Yeah, who's under arrest back 276 00:21:00,119 --> 00:21:03,000 there? That's right. He was posing as a bartender at your brother's party. 277 00:21:03,359 --> 00:21:07,039 We think he's the killer, but apparently whoever sent him the cablegram was 278 00:21:07,039 --> 00:21:11,480 working with him and doesn't know he's been arrested. I hope you can clear 279 00:21:11,519 --> 00:21:15,680 it up, mister Dollar, so that all this publicity will die down. 280 00:21:15,319 --> 00:21:19,119 It's been terribly trying. Yes, I imagine it has. I know Helen's 281 00:21:19,119 --> 00:21:26,839 felt the strain too, She's been so nervous lately. Oh if if we 282 00:21:27,079 --> 00:21:30,880 Oh, I was just thinking, if only Andrew had met someone like Helen 283 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:37,039 sooner, perhaps none of this would have happened. Maybe not. And I 284 00:21:37,160 --> 00:21:40,519 known she was coming to the party. I don't suppose i'd have tried to 285 00:21:40,559 --> 00:21:44,440 talk Andrew out of giving it. She's spent the one bright ray in all 286 00:21:44,480 --> 00:21:56,240 of this. Oh if only. But regrets are so futile. She looked 287 00:21:56,240 --> 00:22:02,880 old and tired and lonely. Sure maybe she was too worried about the dignity 288 00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:06,880 of the Forbes name. But when I could see now, it was about 289 00:22:06,920 --> 00:22:10,480 the only thing she'd had all these ues, and with a brother who'd kept 290 00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:14,799 tossing the name around like a cheap toy, I quit looking at the picture. 291 00:22:14,799 --> 00:22:18,640 It wasn't very pretty anyway. I had another picture in my mind, 292 00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:22,920 Helen. I couldn't quite figure her. Everything she told me could be the 293 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:27,079 truth, or it could be just one big lie. And there was something 294 00:22:27,079 --> 00:22:30,839 else bothering me about the whole deal. Something I couldn't quite put my finger 295 00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:36,279 on, A piece that didn't fit, A discord in the tune, but 296 00:22:36,359 --> 00:22:41,200 Helen kept pushing everything else out of my mind, and the feeling didn't change 297 00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:45,759 any That night, we danced and then we went out on the deck, 298 00:22:47,759 --> 00:22:51,599 but all the while one of my stock confucianisms kept gnawing away at me. 299 00:22:52,839 --> 00:22:56,480 He who gets too interested in suspects is building up to king size. Let 300 00:22:56,519 --> 00:23:06,200 that go out here alone in the sea and the ships sliding along. It 301 00:23:06,279 --> 00:23:11,039 almost doesn't seem real. I know, I almost wish it could go on 302 00:23:11,119 --> 00:23:17,079 this way forever. No people, no places. There's just one thing wrong, 303 00:23:17,119 --> 00:23:22,440 though, What that routine doesn't work for very long? I know, 304 00:23:25,079 --> 00:23:32,400 Johnny, is there something wrong? It seems so far away, so preoccupied, 305 00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:37,640 just too thinking about a lot of things. I guess it's not being 306 00:23:37,759 --> 00:23:44,440 very informative. I'm sorry, I guess I'm not feeling informative. That's okay. 307 00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:52,839 Sometimes talking isn't very important, you know, Johnny. The last few 308 00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:57,240 days have been a sort of nightmare for me. But tonight everything seems so 309 00:23:57,400 --> 00:24:07,279 nice. Why would that be, Johnny? Maybe I can make a kiss. 310 00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:18,000 Maybe you could, Johnny. Sorry, we'll say now if you too, 311 00:24:18,079 --> 00:24:23,240 don't look just like a picture postcard, Yes, sir, I tell 312 00:24:23,279 --> 00:24:26,880 you if they can put a picture of what I saw a second ago, 313 00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:30,960 and all her travel folders, they double her business. How nice for them. 314 00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:34,880 You want us to run forward again for the proper camerangle. Oh come 315 00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:40,119 on now, partner again't you take a little Josh and I'll try partner the 316 00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:42,119 reason I've been looking for you too. We get into daycar in the morning. 317 00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:45,400 Yes, and you can have a barrel of fun in that town. 318 00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:48,799 What do you say we set up a little party. I can show you 319 00:24:48,839 --> 00:24:56,119 some places you won't pull the fun. How about a dollar? Yeah, 320 00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:59,000 you can come me in Stacey good, I'll see you in the morning. 321 00:24:59,039 --> 00:25:04,279 Then right, He means, well, Johnny, you do sound very convinced. 322 00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:08,480 I don't know. Half of my job has always been sizing up people. 323 00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:15,799 Suddenly I seem to have lost my touch, meaning me. I didn't 324 00:25:15,799 --> 00:25:21,000 say that. If it's any help in sizing me up. What happened a 325 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:26,279 moment ago? I meant that, Johnny, mister oh, oh, excuse 326 00:25:26,279 --> 00:25:30,839 me, a man? Sure you're right back? Yeah? What is it? 327 00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:33,839 Person? It's Stewart. I was telling you about mister Dolla, the 328 00:25:33,839 --> 00:25:36,880 one who delivered the message for Cape Town to the radio room. Worries he 329 00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:40,240 that's just it. I don't know what. I can't understand it. I've 330 00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:44,279 looked everywhere. I'm worried. That's not good. I was counting on him 331 00:25:44,319 --> 00:25:48,319 to tell me who sent that message to Julio Biac. Whoever did is probably 332 00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:52,920 working with Biac and could have the diamond. Well, I'm sorry, mister 333 00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:55,599 Dolla. I'll keep looking and let you know the minute I find him. 334 00:25:56,359 --> 00:26:00,000 I turned back toward Helen, but she was nowhere in sight. I started 335 00:26:00,039 --> 00:26:06,519 along with Dick. What happened? I was walking along the deck. As 336 00:26:06,599 --> 00:26:08,440 I passed some lifeboat. Somebody stepped out from behind it and grabbed that. 337 00:26:08,799 --> 00:26:11,359 It wasn't I couldn't see it. Come on, let's take a look. 338 00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:22,960 He ran away, and I screamed, oh, I see so there it 339 00:26:22,079 --> 00:26:26,599 was again. Was she lying or telling the truth? I took her to 340 00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:30,799 her stateroom and told her to lock herself in for the night. Then they 341 00:26:30,839 --> 00:26:33,839 went back to deck and tried for the empteenth time to put the pieces together, 342 00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:42,279 but I didn't have long Suddenly everything was noise and confusion. Almost by 343 00:26:42,279 --> 00:26:45,119 the time I got to the stern, the ship was certainly lowering a boat. 344 00:26:45,519 --> 00:26:48,920 Twenty minutes later, they hoisted a body aboard. He was wearing a 345 00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:52,160 Stuart's uniform and one look at the person told me which Steward it was. 346 00:26:53,000 --> 00:27:15,559 Yeah, my one, good lead gone, Johnny Dollar. This is Ben 347 00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:21,000 Stacy partner. Oh high Stacy. We'll be docking at the car in an 348 00:27:21,039 --> 00:27:22,880 hour or so. Now, yeah, I know, don't forget. I'm 349 00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:26,960 gonna show you and Helen around the town. Okay, I'll be ready. 350 00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:30,680 Hey, Dollar, that was a little excitement we had aboard ship last night. 351 00:27:30,759 --> 00:27:36,039 Huh at Stewart who fell overboard. That's putting it politely. What do 352 00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:52,400 you mean? I think he got pushed from special investigator Johnny Dollar. Location 353 00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:56,160 at sea on the Southern empress Our Road, Cape Town to Decar to the 354 00:27:56,200 --> 00:28:02,119 home office train Eastern Intemnity Associates assignment. The start of Capetown matter expense account 355 00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:11,400 concluded adam twelve fifty cents room service on two aspirins. Right from the start, 356 00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:15,799 this whole deal had been a series of headaches. Had ache one Andrew 357 00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:18,200 Forbes, international playboy and owner of the Star of Cape Town, ensured for 358 00:28:18,279 --> 00:28:22,279 one hundred and fifty thousand bucks. Forbes was tossing that stone around like it 359 00:28:22,319 --> 00:28:26,880 was a cheap toy. He wound up murdered, the diamond missing. Forbes's 360 00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:30,000 probable killer, Julio Biock, was in a Cape Town jail at the moment, 361 00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:33,880 but his confederate was still on the loose. The steward who could have 362 00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:37,759 told me who the confederate was had been fished out of the drink dead last 363 00:28:37,839 --> 00:28:41,960 night. Now we were going ashore at the car, and whoever had that 364 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:45,240 diamond could make it hard for me to find. It could be Stacy, 365 00:28:45,279 --> 00:28:48,920 the boy from the Wide Open Spaces. It could be Helen traveling companion d 366 00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:52,480 Wagatha Forbes, and I knew if it did turn out to be Helen, 367 00:28:52,519 --> 00:28:55,799 it'd lead me kind of sick inside. Worst of all, it could be 368 00:28:55,799 --> 00:29:00,799 somebody I didn't even know about, hence the aspro Stacey had asked us to 369 00:29:00,799 --> 00:29:03,920 meet him at the gang Way at ten o'clock, but he was nowhere in 370 00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:07,559 sight when I showed up. Pretty soon Helen and Aggera Forbes came along. 371 00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:10,960 Morning, Johnny, Hi, Helen, miss Forbes, Good morning, mister 372 00:29:11,039 --> 00:29:14,559 Darlan. Helen just told me about what happened last night. Somebody trying to 373 00:29:14,559 --> 00:29:18,200 seize her on deck dread. Perhaps I shouldn't have told you, Miss no 374 00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:21,200 No. I'm glad you did anything happened during the night, Helen No, 375 00:29:21,279 --> 00:29:23,880 I kept my stateroom door a lot. Well, here you are. Sorry, 376 00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:27,839 I'm late. I guess I were slept already already. Say now, 377 00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:30,599 I'm mighty glad to see you with us, Miss Forbes. I was hoping 378 00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:33,680 you'd come. I won't be going with you. I'm going to stay aboard 379 00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:37,680 and rest. Oh come on now, Miss Forbes, do you good to 380 00:29:37,799 --> 00:29:41,960 let your hair down and frisk around a bit? Really, mister Stacy, 381 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:45,359 I assure you I don't feel like frisking around a bit. I'll see you 382 00:29:45,359 --> 00:29:48,559 when you get back. Say no, I guess I put my foot in 383 00:29:48,599 --> 00:29:52,680 my mouth talking that way. Oh well, I usually do anyway, It's 384 00:29:52,680 --> 00:30:00,079 sure big enough. Well, one thing I I had to give Stacy credit 385 00:30:00,119 --> 00:30:03,440 for. He was a good guy. He threaded us through street after the 386 00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:07,319 street in the Native quarter of the car narrow passageways crowded with people in stalls 387 00:30:07,359 --> 00:30:12,480 where Native hawkers were peddling all sorts of merchandise. This is fascinating, isn't 388 00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:15,400 it? Like I told you, Hell on day cars quit, I'll play. 389 00:30:15,559 --> 00:30:18,759 I love it. I wonder if it isn't about time we started back 390 00:30:18,799 --> 00:30:21,640 to the ship. See just a minute, Helen, I think there's a 391 00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:25,200 shop around here. You'd be interested in Silk's perfume, stuff like that. 392 00:30:25,359 --> 00:30:27,519 You interested here, Well, let me get my barons a minute. You 393 00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:32,920 need more perfume. Johnny doesn't bother you that I still wear this perfume Andy 394 00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:36,200 Forks gave me. If it does, I won't. Yeah. Yeah, 395 00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:37,640 the shop I had in mind is right down the street. Come on. 396 00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:45,400 Stacy led us to the shop. Helen began trying on dresses and rolls. 397 00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:48,880 This I didn't like. If she had the diamond, this was a golden 398 00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:52,319 opportunity to pass it along. There wasn't much I could do about it. 399 00:30:52,039 --> 00:30:55,359 Then, all of a sudden I realized that Stacy was nowhere in sight. 400 00:30:55,799 --> 00:30:59,759 I went outside and started along the street looking for him. Then I spotted 401 00:30:59,759 --> 00:31:02,920 a man and following me, a native in a bernous so I ducked down 402 00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:06,720 the next alley to shake him, but he didn't shake. Then I noticed 403 00:31:06,759 --> 00:31:10,319 that this was a blind alley. The native was closing in, and what 404 00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:12,799 he had in his hand looked strangely like a knife. Suddenly, a door 405 00:31:12,799 --> 00:31:17,599 beside me. Come on in, Dollar, crazy, I said, come 406 00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:19,440 on in. A gun in front of me, a knife behind me. 407 00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:25,839 I guess I don't have much choice. So you had your stewed steer me 408 00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:29,640 here. I figured sooner or later you'd start looking for me, so I 409 00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:32,200 just thought i'd make it easy for you. Well, thanks, stick around, 410 00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:37,000 Hassan. I may need you very well. Assan's a pretty effective persuader. 411 00:31:37,119 --> 00:31:41,559 Dollar Jelly, So you're the boy i've been after, Stacy. Correction, 412 00:31:41,119 --> 00:31:45,119 you're the boy i've been after. Dollar. What are you talking about? 413 00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:48,319 A diamond called the star a Cape Town? Let's have it. Oh, 414 00:31:48,359 --> 00:31:51,599 look, don't give me that routine. Fores was knife by your buddy 415 00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:55,079 Julio back in Cape Town. You killed the steward aboard ship to keep him 416 00:31:55,079 --> 00:31:56,240 from telling me. It was you who sent the cable grand to Julio. 417 00:31:56,480 --> 00:32:00,079 Right, boy, Dollar, that should mean you've got diamond. Smart enough, 418 00:32:00,119 --> 00:32:02,480 boy, you think i'd have a rangeous little reception for you if I 419 00:32:02,519 --> 00:32:06,759 already had the stone. Wait a minute, you're the one who was doing 420 00:32:06,799 --> 00:32:08,640 all the room searching aboard ship. I'm the one. Now, let's have 421 00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:12,759 it. I don't have it, Stacy, and I don't know where it 422 00:32:12,839 --> 00:32:16,440 is. You got a real sense of humored. Dollar, so has Hassan. 423 00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:22,720 Why don't you show him Hassan very well, Hey, look, this 424 00:32:22,759 --> 00:32:24,000 isn't going to do you any good. It's not gonna do your face any 425 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:29,359 good either, Hassan. Hey, look, you do try it, Dollar, 426 00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:32,039 I guarantee you'll get yourself shot. Now. Look, so you're a 427 00:32:32,119 --> 00:32:36,000 nice, brave boy, but you're being foolish. It's no good trying to 428 00:32:36,039 --> 00:32:37,359 snow me. I got it all figured out. Just what have you got 429 00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:39,839 to all figured out? That isn't in her stateroom, It isn't in yours. 430 00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:43,759 I searched them both again this morning before we came ashore. That's why 431 00:32:43,759 --> 00:32:45,680 I was late. You're talking about Helen. Who else? That's why I 432 00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:49,559 stirreed her to that chop to try on dresses. Little lady who owns it 433 00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:52,960 is a friend of mine. She had found the diamond if Helen was carrying 434 00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:55,759 Helen, Yeah, Helen, how do you know she had it? Process 435 00:32:55,799 --> 00:33:00,279 of elimination, buddy. She was the only one with Forbes before Julio got 436 00:33:00,319 --> 00:33:02,640 to him. I've been watching you and hele him like a hawk. Dollar. 437 00:33:02,839 --> 00:33:06,799 There's only one time she could have given you the stone that was during 438 00:33:06,839 --> 00:33:09,640 that tender little clinch on deck last night, right under my nose. Why 439 00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:17,599 don't there? What's the matter? Dollar? H nothing? Yeah? Yeah, 440 00:33:17,599 --> 00:33:22,680 what Stacy had just said popped the whole deal into place suddenly, right 441 00:33:22,759 --> 00:33:25,039 under my nose, right where it had been all the time. Tell you 442 00:33:25,079 --> 00:33:28,680 what, Dollar, you got just five minutes to tell me where that diamond 443 00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:30,319 is. Hassan will be here with you, and he's going to start persuading 444 00:33:30,359 --> 00:33:34,759 again. If you don't talk, I had to get back to the ship 445 00:33:34,799 --> 00:33:38,000 somehow. That meant I'd have to do some fast talking. I looked at 446 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:42,480 Hassan. I couldn't tell which was glittering more his black eyes of the knife 447 00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:45,960 he held against my throats. One wrong word and I knew he'd start coughing. 448 00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:51,759 Hazzan, what do you want? You come from the desert, don't 449 00:33:51,759 --> 00:33:55,200 you why? You're a long way from home? Have you get homesick? 450 00:33:57,319 --> 00:34:00,759 What do you mean? Oh? I was just thinking, with half the 451 00:34:00,799 --> 00:34:04,039 money from that diamond, you could buy yourself an oasis with all the trimmings. 452 00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:07,400 Do not worry. Stacy would pay me well when we get the jewel. 453 00:34:07,839 --> 00:34:09,880 What's he giving you for this job? Three goats and a new bernous 454 00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:15,519 easy with that knife. It's just that everybody who works for Stacy seems to 455 00:34:15,519 --> 00:34:20,360 wind up getting paid off the wrong way. Wrong. Take Cooliobiac, for 456 00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:22,000 one, the guy is Stacy hired to get the diamond in the first place. 457 00:34:22,639 --> 00:34:25,559 He's roosting in the cape down jail right now. You'll lie now you 458 00:34:25,599 --> 00:34:30,199 can check on it. Then there's the steward who sent Stacy's message to Biac. 459 00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:35,400 He got shoved overboard. You can check on that too, But I'm 460 00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:38,639 sure a thing like that would never happen to you. Go on dollar, 461 00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:45,159 Okay, I know where the diamond is. How do I know I can 462 00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:50,000 trust you? You can come with me to get it. I don't know. 463 00:34:51,960 --> 00:34:53,440 At least he was thinking about it, and that's all I wanted. 464 00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:57,920 His eyes got that far away look. That's what I was waiting for. 465 00:34:58,119 --> 00:35:00,599 I whipped my arm up and knocked his knife in. I buried my fist 466 00:35:00,599 --> 00:35:05,280 in his mitation, he checked knife. A rabbit bunch finished them off. 467 00:35:05,559 --> 00:35:08,480 I dove for the wall just as Stacey came charging in water. I tak 468 00:35:08,519 --> 00:35:14,280 the gun out of his hand. I went to work. Stacey was rugged, 469 00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:20,199 but I finally made it. I got to the cor police to put 470 00:35:20,239 --> 00:35:22,719 Stacey and the zan on ice, patched up my face and headed back to 471 00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:24,639 the ship. But there was something else hurting me a lot more than my 472 00:35:24,679 --> 00:35:34,239 face, Helen. Johnny, Yeah, Johnny, have you been I you 473 00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:37,320 face? What happened? I have to hand it to you, Helen. 474 00:35:38,119 --> 00:35:43,599 That was a real class a snow job you pulled on me. Yeah, 475 00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:47,199 it was right under my nose all the time, the perfume Forbes gave to 476 00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:53,159 you. Now, where's the bottle on my dressing table? Okay, A 477 00:35:53,159 --> 00:36:01,960 pretty fancy bottle, solid base or maybe not so solid in the base of 478 00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:07,559 the bottle, starve Cape Town. I bet you're a real surprise, don't 479 00:36:07,559 --> 00:36:08,880 you, Johnny. I didn't know it was there. I didn't have any 480 00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:15,800 idea. I swear it. She's telling the truths Wow, well I got 481 00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:21,360 there. That gun looks sort of out of character. Perhaps I won't hesitate 482 00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:24,400 to use it if necessary. I don't understand. It was cruel of Andrew 483 00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:28,400 and me to use you like this, Helen, but we saw no other 484 00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:31,519 alternative. Wait a minute, you and your brother rigged this whole deal right 485 00:36:31,559 --> 00:36:37,400 from the beginning, didn't you? Sure? Sure? Because you slipped yesterday, 486 00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:39,199 Agatha, when you told me you discussed your brother's party with him. 487 00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:43,159 But back in Cape Town, he told me it was a surprise party for 488 00:36:43,199 --> 00:36:45,199 you. Johnny. I still Oh it's simple, Helen. That bottle of 489 00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:49,920 perfume would have turned up missing when you got to New York, Agatha would 490 00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:54,920 have appropriated it. One big question, Agatha, why all this? Have 491 00:36:55,079 --> 00:37:00,519 you any idea what it means to see somebody drag the family name through the 492 00:37:00,599 --> 00:37:07,199 dirt time after time with his wild escapades. And have you any idea what 493 00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:10,800 those escapades cost? A brother wasn't dead? Huh, terribly? We were 494 00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:15,119 pressed to the war. Oh why didn't you sell the diamond? We were 495 00:37:15,159 --> 00:37:19,599 bound by the will not to. But arrangements were made with someone in New 496 00:37:19,679 --> 00:37:22,639 York. What we could get for the diamond, plus what we could collect 497 00:37:22,679 --> 00:37:27,679 from the insurance, it would be enough. Oh, nice little scheme. 498 00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:30,679 But you didn't figure on Julio b A trying for the diamond in Cape Town 499 00:37:30,679 --> 00:37:36,440 and killing your brother in the process. No, first, I didn't know 500 00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:39,440 what to do, but it soon became clear that more than ever I had 501 00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:44,480 to go through with a plan. My brother's creditors began to make trouble right 502 00:37:44,519 --> 00:37:51,480 after his murder the Diamond. Please, now, look, don't you get 503 00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:55,280 at Agatha. You're elect? What do you mean You've done all this to 504 00:37:55,320 --> 00:38:00,760 protect the Forbes name. Of course you've failed. The story's out. It's 505 00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:01,840 known only to the two of you. How are you going to keep us 506 00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:07,480 from talking? I'll do whatever is necessary, bribe us, kill us. 507 00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:12,719 Sorry, neither one's gonna work. Mister Dollars, do not force trapped Agatha 508 00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:15,320 by the same thing that got you into all this, the Forbes name. 509 00:38:16,559 --> 00:38:22,400 Are you going to brand it with murder? No? I don't think you 510 00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:28,000 are. I don't think you could. I don't I don't know. Please, 511 00:38:28,039 --> 00:38:35,119 mister Galla, I'll take the gun Agatha. Thanks, Oh Johnny, 512 00:38:35,159 --> 00:38:45,440 It's okay. I guess I have failed, haven't I? All the way 513 00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:51,079 expense account adam thirteen three hundred and seventy five dollars and fifty cents transportation and 514 00:38:51,119 --> 00:38:54,599 incigntals from the car home expense a count total twelve hundred eighty three dollars and 515 00:38:54,599 --> 00:39:00,800 sixty cents. I turned the Diamond over to the authorities for safekeeping Agatha Forbes 516 00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:04,840 to face charges of fraud. Hojlio Biak and Ben Stacy were indicted for the 517 00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:08,960 murder of Andrew. Forbes remarks, how about Agatha, I guess she did 518 00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:13,679 what she did because she thought the end justified the means, which is one 519 00:39:13,679 --> 00:39:17,719 of the oldest sucker traps of them all. About Helen Allow that she's no 520 00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:22,480 longer a suspect, could be I'm no longer building up to a big letdown, 521 00:39:22,519 --> 00:39:25,960 whether at least it hasn't come yet, and I'm still waiting, and 522 00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:43,840 the waiting is real pleasant, yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Now here's our 523 00:39:43,920 --> 00:39:47,440 star to tell you about next week. Story next week. A yacht that 524 00:39:47,639 --> 00:39:52,360 wasn't there and a man who wasn't there. They never were, but that's 525 00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:57,880 where I found them. Join us, won't you? Yours truly, Johnny 526 00:39:57,880 --> 00:40:06,880 Dollar? Yours truly? Johnny Dollar is starring Bob Bailey, is transcribed in 527 00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:10,679 Hollywood. It is written by Robert Rife and produced and directed by Jack Johnstone. 528 00:40:12,159 --> 00:40:15,719 Heard him this week's cast with Gene Tatum, Virginia, Greg Harry bartel 529 00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:20,599 Chester Stratton, Marvin Miller, and d J. Thompson. Musical supervision by 530 00:40:20,639 --> 00:40:23,920 Amerigo Marino. Be sure to join us on Monday night, same time in 531 00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:30,360 station for another exciting story of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar, Roy Rowan 532 00:40:30,440 --> 00:41:30,239 speaking welcome back. There are so many hallmarks of this being a Robert Rife 533 00:41:30,320 --> 00:41:37,679 script, right down to Johnny's use of deal several times and a loud mouthed 534 00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:42,239 Puris type being a villain. Nevertheless, this is not a bad serial at 535 00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:45,599 all, with a lot of great action and I thought a really complicated plot 536 00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:51,920 with some superb twist and a good solution. Well e Jack Newman writing is 537 00:41:52,039 --> 00:41:59,000 John Dawson Unless Crushfield wrote the line shares of these serials with Jack Johnstone thirds. 538 00:41:59,280 --> 00:42:02,239 The ones that are written by others such as Rife and Tony Barrett really 539 00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:07,039 adds some variety to the stories that are told during the serial era. It's 540 00:42:07,039 --> 00:42:13,079 worth noting that the teaser at the end is not actually for the episode that 541 00:42:13,199 --> 00:42:17,840 ended up airing next Rather has happened once or twice before. Things got shuffled 542 00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:23,599 around and another story would appear the next week, and then we would end 543 00:42:23,719 --> 00:42:30,719 up getting the story that was described in that teaser the sea Legs Matter the 544 00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:35,079 week after that. So if you were intrigued by that little teaser, just 545 00:42:35,159 --> 00:42:38,639 pulled that thought for an additional week. Now, I do have an update 546 00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:45,320 regarding my plans for the old time radio adventure series, and this is something 547 00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:52,599 that we're planning to launch on the podcast after we finished Mister and Missus North, 548 00:42:53,079 --> 00:42:59,199 so it'll probably be sometime in twenty twenty five. And what I had 549 00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:06,280 kind of hanseled in as my immediate plans was to go ahead and play Bold 550 00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:13,039 Venture as the first series we would do as that sort of new adventure series. 551 00:43:13,239 --> 00:43:17,920 And I've had several listeners who've asked about Bold Venture, and I do 552 00:43:19,039 --> 00:43:22,920 need to let you know that at this point, whether we're able to follow 553 00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:27,599 through with that sort of plan is very much up in the air at this 554 00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:32,519 point, and it's kind of a good news bad news situation. What happened 555 00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:38,840 is that Carl Amori, who was the founder of Radio Spirits but has since 556 00:43:38,880 --> 00:43:49,280 sold that business, obtained an agreement with the nonprofit organization that holds the physical 557 00:43:49,719 --> 00:43:54,599 copies of Frederick Zim's radio library. Frederick Zim, of course, the famous 558 00:43:54,719 --> 00:44:01,679 radio syndicator of many series, including Bold Venture. Mister Amari held a Kickstarter 559 00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:12,079 campaign that was successful, so he will be making the complete Bold Venture set 560 00:44:12,519 --> 00:44:17,679 available for sale probably sometime next year. The good news, I think for 561 00:44:19,320 --> 00:44:24,159 those who are willing to purchase the set is that those who purchase the set 562 00:44:24,360 --> 00:44:31,719 from mister Amari will, for the first time in seventy or eighty years, 563 00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:37,280 be able to hear the complete Bold Venture radio series. By my account, 564 00:44:37,599 --> 00:44:45,480 there are fifty nine episodes that are in general circulation so about nineteen. I 565 00:44:45,639 --> 00:44:52,760 have not been heard since the nineteen fifties. For our purposes, it does 566 00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:58,760 put into doubt what we will be able to do with Bold Venture. I 567 00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:07,519 have stated and maintained a policy of not using any material that anyone claims is 568 00:45:07,159 --> 00:45:14,719 license to them. This is something that becomes even more critical as we've moved 569 00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:21,360 into another stage in terms of podcasting. Now, this doesn't necessarily mean that 570 00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:24,719 we're not going to be able to do it. What it does mean at 571 00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:31,639 this point is that I don't know. Mister Marius stated that for anything other 572 00:45:31,760 --> 00:45:37,960 than home use that there would have to be some sort of license. Now, 573 00:45:37,079 --> 00:45:43,639 would the license phe be something that the podcast could afford, Would the 574 00:45:44,079 --> 00:45:50,199 terms of the license be something reasonable that I could work with the answer to 575 00:45:50,239 --> 00:45:55,679 those questions, or I don't know, and honestly I don't think that I'll 576 00:45:55,679 --> 00:46:02,719 be in a position to address those with Stormy until things are more settled in 577 00:46:02,920 --> 00:46:07,840 twenty twenty four. And I do want to say that we will do the 578 00:46:07,880 --> 00:46:13,320 old time radio adventure series. We may just have to end up doing something 579 00:46:13,360 --> 00:46:17,800 else and it might work out with Bold Venture. Again, I don't know, 580 00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:22,400 but I also know that so many of asked about Bold Venture, and 581 00:46:22,480 --> 00:46:27,880 I want just to be very transparent about where we're at. I would love 582 00:46:27,960 --> 00:46:30,880 to do it, but it's kind of out of my hands right now. 583 00:46:30,159 --> 00:46:36,760 Now onto listener comments and feedback, and we go onto YouTube. A listener 584 00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:43,199 writes, my favorite radio Detective episode is Johnny Dollar The Nick schern Matter. 585 00:46:43,840 --> 00:46:49,480 Well that's good news because we're actually going to be doing that cereal the week 586 00:46:49,559 --> 00:46:54,000 before Christmas, and it's my favorite Christmas episode as well. And I think 587 00:46:54,360 --> 00:47:00,639 actually the Johnny Dollar Cereal that I like the best. Now, of course 588 00:47:00,679 --> 00:47:04,119 on YouTube, because we're a couple of weeks behind, it'll be a bit 589 00:47:04,559 --> 00:47:10,920 later, but we are going to have our Christmas Radio Detective playlist posted right 590 00:47:10,960 --> 00:47:15,880 at the top, and you can find The Nick sher Matter, along with 591 00:47:15,239 --> 00:47:21,239 all of the other detective programs we've done. And then I received this interesting 592 00:47:21,360 --> 00:47:28,320 Facebook message from Thomas, who writes, I've always said post nineteen fifty five, 593 00:47:28,440 --> 00:47:34,519 Johnny Dollar and Jim Rockford are the same person. That's an interesting comment, 594 00:47:34,599 --> 00:47:37,800 Thomas. I don't know if I would go quite that far, because 595 00:47:37,880 --> 00:47:44,119 I think there are a couple of fundamentals with Rockford in the way his character 596 00:47:44,199 --> 00:47:50,760 works that make him very different to Johnny. I think Jim Rockford is more 597 00:47:50,840 --> 00:48:00,320 cynical than Johnny Doller. He also has a very negative relationship with the establishman 598 00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:06,280 and in particular the law enforcement establishment, except for his friend Dennis, and 599 00:48:06,320 --> 00:48:10,960 even then, I think Johnny relates better with Randy Singer, who's not even 600 00:48:12,079 --> 00:48:17,000 his only law enforcement friend. Plus, there's also the essential nature of Jim 601 00:48:17,159 --> 00:48:22,960 Rockford. Jim is a natural con man. He doesn't really use it to 602 00:48:23,199 --> 00:48:29,800 defraud innocent people, but I think it's definitely a part of that character's nature, 603 00:48:29,800 --> 00:48:34,599 and I don't think you can view Johnny in quite that same way. 604 00:48:34,920 --> 00:48:42,199 That said, what I would say is that Johnny Dollar probably has more in 605 00:48:42,440 --> 00:48:51,800 common post nineteen fifty five with Jim Rockford than he does earlier Old Time Radio 606 00:48:51,920 --> 00:48:58,079 detectives, including previous takes on Johnny Dollar. Thanks so much for the comment 607 00:48:58,159 --> 00:49:02,079 Thomas, I really appreciate it. Now it's time to thank our Patreon supporters 608 00:49:02,199 --> 00:49:08,239 of the day, and since this is the first Friday in December, I 609 00:49:08,280 --> 00:49:13,840 want to go ahead and thank Patreon supporters who have been supporting us for five 610 00:49:13,960 --> 00:49:19,480 years this month, thank you to Debra supporting the podcast at the Detective Sergeant 611 00:49:19,599 --> 00:49:23,559 level of seven dollars and fourteen cents per month or more. And thank you 612 00:49:23,679 --> 00:49:30,000 to Robert supporting the podcast at the Shawmus level of four dollars or more per 613 00:49:30,039 --> 00:49:32,920 month. Again, thank you so much for your support and that will do 614 00:49:34,039 --> 00:49:37,280 it for today. If you are enjoying the podcast, please follow us using 615 00:49:37,360 --> 00:49:43,480 your favorite podcast software. If you're listening on YouTube, be sure to lock 616 00:49:43,559 --> 00:49:47,440 the video, subscribe to the channel, and check the notification bell as well 617 00:49:47,440 --> 00:49:52,199 as leaving comments all those great things that help a channel to grow. We'll 618 00:49:52,239 --> 00:49:58,440 be back on Tuesday with another yours truly, John ey Dollar Cereal, but 619 00:49:58,559 --> 00:50:04,840 join us back here tomorrow for Dragnet where bone message for you Friday came in 620 00:50:04,920 --> 00:50:07,480 a few moments ago. Thanks Davis Tomorrow and I they gotta make. Take 621 00:50:07,480 --> 00:50:14,280 a look at No Make or Warren's on James Vickers Great, let's talk to 622 00:50:14,360 --> 00:50:22,599 him. Come on, minor wound Joe bullet penetrated the fleshy part of his 623 00:50:22,679 --> 00:50:25,440 hands, didn't touch the bone. About this guy at an arm wound too? 624 00:50:25,639 --> 00:50:29,920 Just a nick man, that opficer. You shot the Pickers. He's 625 00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:34,840 dying? Is he the family? Guy? Got a wife, two kids? 626 00:50:35,239 --> 00:50:37,000 Has he? Why did you shoot him? Viger? Ask him? 627 00:50:37,159 --> 00:50:40,400 We did? And you know the reason said, there wasn't any reason. 628 00:50:42,039 --> 00:50:44,480 That's right, Lock. We're gonna make you on this, Pickers. You 629 00:50:44,519 --> 00:50:45,679 know that, don't you. I don't know anything. Why you shoot him? 630 00:50:45,719 --> 00:50:50,400 Shut up? Why I showed him? Joe? Yeah, hope you'll 631 00:50:50,440 --> 00:50:53,400 be with us then. In the meantime, do send your comments to Box 632 00:50:53,519 --> 00:51:00,280 thirteen at Great Detectives dot nat, follow us on Twitter at Radio Attack Does, 633 00:51:00,360 --> 00:51:05,440 and check us out on Instagram, Instagram, dot com slash Great Detectives 634 00:51:05,960 --> 00:51:09,360 from Boise, Idaho. This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.