Speaker 1: Time now for Edmund O'Brien as.
Speaker 2: Johnny Dollar. Why in the world are you down here, Donard?
Speaker 3: You can't leave for.
Speaker 2: Forty five minutes, and I'm taking a quick refresher course
Speaker 2: in ancient history. You're sending me out to find a
Speaker 2: missing archaeologist, aren't you. Well. I want to be able
Speaker 2: to talk his language in case I find him alive.
Speaker 1: Edmund O'Brien in a transcribed Adventure of the Man with
Speaker 1: the Action Packed Expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator.
Speaker 2: Yours truly, Johnny Dalla expense account submitted by special Investigator
Speaker 2: Johnny Dollar to Great Corinthian Life and Liability Company, Hartford, Connecticut.
Speaker 2: The following is an accounting of my expenditures during my
Speaker 2: investigation of the disappearance of Bruce Lampet, the archaeologist who
Speaker 2: never should have left his tomb. Expense account Item one
Speaker 2: seven dollars and fifty cents railway and taxi fare from
Speaker 2: my Hertford apartment to Room three seventeen Bright Arms, New
Speaker 2: York City, a hotel who's front rooms had a depressing
Speaker 2: view of an eighty first Street mortuary.
Speaker 4: Miss Lambert, Yes, please come in mister Dollar.
Speaker 2: She was tall, without awkwardness, had the physique of an athlete,
Speaker 2: but still with softness, and a golden tan made her
Speaker 2: seem out of place, set against the snow heaped on
Speaker 2: the sill outside the windows.
Speaker 4: Thank you for coming, mister Dollar. I realized that mine
Speaker 4: was a rather unusual request to make of an insurance company.
Speaker 2: At all, Miss Lambert. The company doesn't want to lose
Speaker 2: a policy holder anymore than you want to lose a brother.
Speaker 2: But there are a lot of good private detectives in
Speaker 2: New York.
Speaker 4: I couldn't afford one. I had thought of notifying police,
Speaker 4: but I realized that Bruce's case would be just one
Speaker 4: of many. To their they're so impersonal. If there's a
Speaker 4: chance of any notoriety.
Speaker 2: Miss Lambert, if you mean that, for some reason, you'd
Speaker 2: rather the police didn't find him, you'd better tell me
Speaker 2: about it.
Speaker 4: Yes, of course I was going to. I don't see
Speaker 4: how it could make any difference. Please sit down.
Speaker 2: Maybe we'd better start way back at the beginning. Huh.
Speaker 2: That would be in Egypt, wouldn't it.
Speaker 4: Yes, in the desert, some hundred miles west of Thebes.
Speaker 4: My brother's an archaeologist and he'd uncovered some ruins. It
Speaker 4: was quite an important discovery, something about the Twelfth dynasty.
Speaker 4: I I don't know much about it. You were with him, yes,
Speaker 4: I didn't spend much time at the excavation side. I
Speaker 4: stayed in the village. But the reason the police might
Speaker 4: make it difficult is that Rose discovered some relics that
Speaker 4: he didn't declare to the authorities.
Speaker 2: There you mean he swiped them?
Speaker 4: And if you're in the habit of using extreme bluntness,
Speaker 4: I suppose you could put it that way. All right,
Speaker 4: I'm please, mister Dollard, this is quite unpleasant for m
Speaker 4: If Bruce had stolen all the relics, you wouldn't expect
Speaker 4: it to make any difference in how I felt about
Speaker 4: his disappearance, would you.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm afraid I can't do anything for you. I've
Speaker 2: got to know these things that I'm gonna help him.
Speaker 4: Wait, I'm I'm sorry. I'll tell you everything I know.
Speaker 2: Alright. What were those relics that your brother didn't declare?
Speaker 4: Well, I'm not sure how many there were. And there
Speaker 4: was some statuary in obsidian head of some old king.
Speaker 4: And then there was a scarab it was supposed to
Speaker 4: have been the official seal of this king.
Speaker 2: You know how valuable this stuff is. I'm afraid that it.
Speaker 4: Might be very valuable in some circles. That's what I
Speaker 4: was afraid of, that someone harmed Bruce or even But
Speaker 4: there's so many things to be afraid of 'em. He
Speaker 4: isn't strong, maybe even his mind. He was injured quite
Speaker 4: severely in a traffic accident in Alexandria just before we
Speaker 4: left Egypt. I've got to find out what could have
Speaker 4: happened to it?
Speaker 2: Oh, come on, we we can't find out this way.
Speaker 2: What does your brother look like? A light or dark?
Speaker 4: Here's a snap shot.
Speaker 2: M He's blonde.
Speaker 4: His hair is straight and was quite long when I
Speaker 4: last saw him.
Speaker 2: And that was four days ago.
Speaker 4: Yes, they are ship docked. I was arranging for my luggage.
Speaker 4: He just disappeared.
Speaker 2: What else? What's his bill? Slight? Medium, heavy, slight? I'd say,
Speaker 2: what about his clothes?
Speaker 4: Well, he was wearing a dark blue suit and a
Speaker 4: gray overcoat. The right sleeve of both would be empty
Speaker 4: because his right arm and shoulder and a cast.
Speaker 2: Uh huh a traffic accident.
Speaker 4: Yes, both were fractured. I wish I were able to
Speaker 4: be more help but I've told you everything I know.
Speaker 4: He just vanished.
Speaker 2: Did he Did he have any enemies that you know of?
Speaker 4: No, there's not even that. I can't let myself lose hope.
Speaker 4: But what can we do? How do you start looking
Speaker 4: for somebody with so little to go on?
Speaker 2: Before I answered the question, we started at the beginning again.
Speaker 2: The second run through was pretty much like the first,
Speaker 2: But disappearance from a foreign ship in the port of
Speaker 2: New York is not as easy as the telling of it.
Speaker 2: I left the troubled marsha checked into an eighth floor
Speaker 2: room in the Brighton Arms, where a phone call told
Speaker 2: me the north Fleet had already sailed. No hope of
Speaker 2: information there, so I headed for the US Customs office.
Speaker 2: Good afternoon, it's a Nixon yesh. My name is Dollar.
Speaker 2: I'm an insurance investigator. The girl outside said you could
Speaker 2: help me. I'd like to get some information on a
Speaker 2: passenger who arrived from Alexandria on the north Fleet. In
Speaker 2: north Fleet, Well, i'd have to know o the day
Speaker 2: of arrival and the name of the line. It was
Speaker 2: four days ago they'd made it. Uh, that would make
Speaker 2: it the twentieth It's a British ship in north Fleet. Uh.
Speaker 2: What was the passenger's name planted Bruce Lamber the uh
Speaker 2: clarony luggage through customer Bruce slamberd Yump witnessed the examination
Speaker 2: of one piece of luggage, suitcase, personal effects, one piece
Speaker 2: of statu where he purchased in Alexandria and no duty.
Speaker 2: Uh what address did he give you, Bruce Lambert?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 2: No street number? A hotel the Brighton arm right now, Well,
Speaker 2: don't count on that expense account item two thirty dollars,
Speaker 2: which would my id cod helped him press the cab
Speaker 2: drivers who worked the entrance to the pier where the
Speaker 2: north Fleet at docked. Checking these caves took the whole afternoon,
Speaker 2: and midway through it, I realized I wasn't the only
Speaker 2: one interested in that particular hackstand. I wasn't sure at
Speaker 2: what moment I had actually noticed him. He was doing
Speaker 2: a very bad job of hiding behind a journal American
Speaker 2: on the other side of the street. All I could
Speaker 2: see was the lower half of an overcoat, the same
Speaker 2: of some razor sharp trousers with some pointed shoes. But
Speaker 2: I began to feel his eyes looking at me as
Speaker 2: I went on with my questioning that finally paid off
Speaker 2: through the mouth of driver number seven eighty two.
Speaker 6: You know, you meet all canes in this business. Some
Speaker 6: you forget and some others you remember.
Speaker 2: Now, well, do you remember a guy with his arm
Speaker 2: and shoulder in a cast?
Speaker 6: And something you learn in this business that's to read
Speaker 6: people's faces. You get to know a deadbeat before he
Speaker 6: gets a chance to dead beat you, and you catch
Speaker 6: on if the guy is scared of something.
Speaker 2: Well, if he was afraid of something, it's not me.
Speaker 2: He's been reported missing by his sister. I've been hired
Speaker 2: to find him. How much is ten bucks by? You know?
Speaker 6: Maybe he don't want to be fouled, Is that what
Speaker 6: you think? Sure he paid me more to climb up
Speaker 6: than you often.
Speaker 2: I've got more. What are you going to do with him?
Speaker 2: I want to talk to him. I want to find
Speaker 2: out if he's all right. If he wants to stay lost,
Speaker 2: that's his business, not mine. I was twenty five.
Speaker 6: Get in, my boy, get very far from here.
Speaker 2: Our destination turned out to be an old red brick
Speaker 2: hotel near very ninth Street between tenth and eleventh Avenue,
Speaker 2: and it occurred to me that as an archaeologist, Lambert
Speaker 2: was running through to form. He even used some ruins
Speaker 2: to hold up in. One five dollar bill brought the
Speaker 2: information from the room clerk that Lambert was out of
Speaker 2: his room, and another bought a pass key that let
Speaker 2: me in. The first thing to catch my eye when
Speaker 2: I switched down the light was a black piece of
Speaker 2: statuary shining dully on a chipped bureau, A crowned head
Speaker 2: with exaggerated features, sculptured and obsidian. I posed myself this riddle.
Speaker 2: If it was so valuable, why didn't Lambert take better
Speaker 2: care of it? But before I had a chance to
Speaker 2: try for the answer, a foot nudged The door opened
Speaker 2: behind me. As might be expected, it was wearing a
Speaker 2: pointed shoe, and was followed into the room by a
Speaker 2: slight yellow ivory skinned band who rather resembled the black statue.
Speaker 2: I must thank you for leaving us to the hiding pace.
Speaker 2: Where is he? All that depends on who he's hiding from.
Speaker 2: It looks like it's you. Perhaps it is that you
Speaker 2: do not know where he is. Yeah, perhaps I followed
Speaker 2: your taxi after you talked with those drivers. That was
Speaker 2: very smart. Where did you think I expected you to go?
Speaker 2: What's your interest in? Lambert?
Speaker 5: You were employed by the girl to find him. How
Speaker 5: much does.
Speaker 2: She pay you? I never talk money with a stranger.
Speaker 5: And perhaps we will not be strangers for long. The
Speaker 5: point of importance is that you have not yet found him.
Speaker 5: Mister Drummond will pay you two thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: To do so. Mister Drummond is generous, But what makes
Speaker 2: you so sure. I haven't found Lambert because he is
Speaker 2: not here, but that only means he's someplace else.
Speaker 5: Please, I have no wish for violence.
Speaker 2: And put that thing away. And the first place, gunfire,
Speaker 2: even in this neighborhood, is gonna bring the law. The
Speaker 2: second place, it's a lady's gun, one of those handbag
Speaker 2: jobs you know you ought to be ashamed of yourself
Speaker 2: for carrying.
Speaker 5: Please, I have no wish to use it, and get.
Speaker 2: Rid of it. I hate little men who try to
Speaker 2: play bully. There was more than that behind my fist.
Speaker 2: I figured I could learn to know him better if
Speaker 2: he was quietly stretched out on the floor. I was
Speaker 2: half right. An Egyptian passport told me that his name
Speaker 2: was Ammon Hixas, hometown Alexandria. There was nothing else I
Speaker 2: could turn Hixsas over to the police. On an assault charge.
Speaker 2: Or I could wait until he woke up and try
Speaker 2: knocking some information out of him. But I didn't do either.
Speaker 2: I left him there in the lobby. I gave a
Speaker 2: message to the room clerk for Lambert, telling him to
Speaker 2: stay out of his room when he came back, and
Speaker 2: to phone me at the bright Uns. Who is it, Dollar?
Speaker 4: Oh just a second, he is there? Any news? Did
Speaker 4: you learn anything, mister Dollar? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I made some progress. I met Ammon Hixs. You told
Speaker 2: me a brother didn't have any enemies. That little Egyptian
Speaker 2: is out looking for him with a gun. Why'd you
Speaker 2: lie to me?
Speaker 4: I have no right to ask you to believe me now.
Speaker 2: That's so true, But I wish you would.
Speaker 4: Please come here and sit down.
Speaker 2: Oh no, thanks, You sit there, and I'll stand here.
Speaker 2: I I think I'll be less inclined to believe you
Speaker 2: from here.
Speaker 4: That's not fair. I know I wasn't fair with you either.
Speaker 2: I won't to be.
Speaker 4: But there are some things I just can't tell you.
Speaker 4: Why not I can't tell you that?
Speaker 2: I oh nuts. Women like you make everything tougher than
Speaker 2: it should be. You demand all, but you give nothing.
Speaker 2: You ask to be trusted and you won't trust. You
Speaker 2: make yourselves look soft. When you're as hot as steel.
Speaker 2: You've got warmth, but you you only turn it on
Speaker 2: when you're get something out of it. You're wrong.
Speaker 4: I was trying to help him or us. I had
Speaker 4: to lie.
Speaker 2: Look, I started this thing wanting to help you. Uh,
Speaker 2: there was something personal about it. But you wanted me
Speaker 2: to do things your way and not mind. Well we
Speaker 2: just stopped doing that alone.
Speaker 5: Just go away, go back to heart, but forget you
Speaker 5: wherever here.
Speaker 2: I wish I could. And I'm working for an insurance
Speaker 2: company looking for a missing policyholder. Well, I'll be up
Speaker 2: in my room if you decide to help me find it.
Speaker 7: Mm.
Speaker 2: Yeah, is this mister Dollar? That's right?
Speaker 3: This is Bruce Lambert. I got your message to call
Speaker 3: or are you now? Not so fast? There were two
Speaker 3: attempts on my life while I was on my way
Speaker 3: here from Alexandria. I'm not anxious to tell anybody where
Speaker 3: I am. How did you get into this?
Speaker 2: Marsha called your insurance company when you took a run out.
Speaker 2: They hired me. Good for Marcia? Is she all right?
Speaker 2: Well that depends on your point of view. I suppose
Speaker 2: she's being the helpful sister to you, But for me,
Speaker 2: she's done nothing but act mysterious. I don't get it.
Speaker 2: You won't tell the truth about you. I hope you
Speaker 2: do better.
Speaker 3: She told you she was my sister.
Speaker 2: I'm sure she did. Why shouldn't she.
Speaker 3: Oh, I can't see why she do that.
Speaker 2: She isn't your sister.
Speaker 5: Oh.
Speaker 3: I don't understand it. She's my fiance. I don't understand
Speaker 3: it at all. Where is she? I better talk to her.
Speaker 2: That's a good idea, Room three seventeen, brighton arms. I'll
Speaker 2: be there with her, waiting for you, which, in a
Speaker 2: way was how it worked out, except that I waited
Speaker 2: for him in the corridor outside her room. I left
Speaker 2: Marsha where I found it. She was on the bathroom floor,
Speaker 2: where she died from wounds inflicted by the proverbial blunt instrument,
Speaker 2: and where her eyes had died with her.
Speaker 1: In just a moment, we will return to the second
Speaker 1: act of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 2: But first.
Speaker 1: And now, with our star Edmond O'Brien, we returned to
Speaker 1: the second act of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 2: Ruse lamba, Yeah, it's alright. I'm Dollar didn't take you
Speaker 2: on and get here. Where's your phone from? Just around
Speaker 2: the corner bar? Why do you wask where's Marsha? Marsha's dead.
Speaker 2: I don't believe you. I wanna go in there. She
Speaker 2: isn't dead. Let me in there. Come on, use your
Speaker 2: head when ye there's nothing? Oh you're on. I'm sorry. Look,
Speaker 2: you don't wanna go in there. Believe me, you don't.
Speaker 2: There's nothing you can do for her. Sh she can't
Speaker 2: be dead. She can't be Come on, where? Wh wh why?
Speaker 2: I want you to come up to my room with me.
Speaker 2: You've gotta do two things. Hurst give me every reason
Speaker 2: you can think of why this should have happened. And
Speaker 2: then before the police get here, you had better start
Speaker 2: rehearsing the story of your own. Now I'm at the
Speaker 2: first hole in marsha stories that she wasn't in thieves
Speaker 2: while you were working on your ruins. That's right. I
Speaker 2: didn't even know her.
Speaker 8: Then I met her in the hospital in Alexandria after
Speaker 8: my accident.
Speaker 2: I was there for two months. You see. She was
Speaker 2: my nurse. But she did know about the relics, that
Speaker 2: statue and the scarab that I haven't seen. Oh yes, yes,
Speaker 2: here it is this is the scarab.
Speaker 8: Oh, yes, she knew we talked about my little deceit.
Speaker 2: Well, how little is it really? You talk about two
Speaker 2: attempts on your life. Now we have actual murder. You'd
Speaker 2: better let me have that scab. Oh yes, yes, of course.
Speaker 2: But surely you don't think the relics are at the
Speaker 2: bottom of this. They're rare, but not valuable enough for
Speaker 2: this unless someone knows more about them than I do.
Speaker 2: I doubt that I have made a pharaoh study of
Speaker 2: a twelfth dynasty and king Amendem at the third it's
Speaker 2: a carving his head. What do you know about a
Speaker 2: man named Ammon Hixas and another whose last name is Drummond.
Speaker 3: Hixos Ammon Hixas.
Speaker 2: You know him? Does it ring any canna of a bell?
Speaker 8: No, I I I'm afraid not.
Speaker 2: Drummond means nothing. M alright, let's try the two attempts
Speaker 2: on your life? What about then?
Speaker 8: Well, h they happened on the nights of the seventeenth
Speaker 8: and the eighteenth.
Speaker 2: Both of them could have been.
Speaker 8: Accidental, except that, well, the same small man stood near
Speaker 8: me both times.
Speaker 2: It would be too much for me to hope you
Speaker 2: you could describe him, I said, well if he was dark. Well,
Speaker 2: both times I was on the promenade deck and something
Speaker 2: heavy was thrown or pushed from the deck above. I
Speaker 2: reported the second one, and the ship's officer apologized for
Speaker 2: the carelessness. Which you thought enough of it to disappear? Oh, well,
Speaker 2: I certainly did instead of going to the police. Yes, oh,
Speaker 2: I suppose it was wrong, but you must understand I
Speaker 2: was desperate. Well, we'd better go down to the third floor.
Speaker 2: I I hope the police think more of your story
Speaker 2: than I do. In twenty minutes, Room three seventeen really
Speaker 2: looked like a murder scene. The place was swarming with
Speaker 2: New York's finest white with fingerprint powder, and blinding with
Speaker 2: flash flows. The lieutenant to whom I made my statement
Speaker 2: looked as if he thought I was as crazy as
Speaker 2: I thought everybody else in the mess was. But then
Speaker 2: he changed his mind. Holla, hey, where is that insurance stake? Uh? Here,
Speaker 2: I am in the bathroom. Oh there you are all?
Speaker 9: Yeah, find as soon as I noticed something, what'd you
Speaker 9: say that name was? I'm in uh uh Hixes? Yeah, Well,
Speaker 9: I guess there aren't too many ways to spill that one,
Speaker 9: so this must be it. Pill box. Let me see
Speaker 9: that prescription from Alexandria.
Speaker 2: Doctor, I'm in Hixes.
Speaker 9: We'll put a trace around that phone number you took
Speaker 9: off the first thing in the morning.
Speaker 2: Yeah, hey, are you gonna take Lambert in for questioning?
Speaker 9: I guess we'd better Routie.
Speaker 2: He's clear as far as I can see. We'll do
Speaker 2: something that me. Will it? Have your doctors run a
Speaker 2: test of that plastic cast of his and call me
Speaker 2: in my room. Huh A test for what I'll just
Speaker 2: look it over. It would make a handy blunt instrument,
Speaker 2: if nothing else. Expensive gun item three seven fifty A
Speaker 2: few late cocktails, a rare steak, and coffee in the
Speaker 2: Brighton Arms dining room, after which I picked up an
Speaker 2: armful of extra editions so I could catch up on
Speaker 2: what I'd been doing. I self operated my way to
Speaker 2: the eighth floor and started toward my room. I was
Speaker 2: looking forward to a hot shower, but I didn't get it.
Speaker 2: I was still looking forward put into a familiar gun muzzle.
Speaker 2: This is the gun, ayes, mister Della, May I introduce myself,
Speaker 2: Sir Garrett Drummond, at your service. Our meeting has been
Speaker 2: postponed too long. Well there's a difference of opinion on
Speaker 2: that you will please open your door? How can I refuse?
Speaker 2: Who's that pine sized invitation you're still carrying after you, sir?
Speaker 2: And I need to remind you that my friend here
Speaker 2: is prepared for any rash move up on your part. Look,
Speaker 2: I'm tired. I don't have a rash move left in me.
Speaker 2: Close the door, emont. I suggest that you sit there,
Speaker 2: mister Dollery in that unsightly straight backed chair. Thanks a lot.
Speaker 2: And now, sir, I shall plunge right to the point.
Speaker 2: There is that scoundrel Bruce Lambert. Well, I think I
Speaker 2: just decided that I don't know. We we have no
Speaker 2: wish for violent you always say that with a gun
Speaker 2: in your hand. Well, let's get started. You make your pitch,
Speaker 2: I'll make my refusal, and we'll see where we go
Speaker 2: from there. I have already met what I consider to
Speaker 2: be a generous offer for so unimportant a bit of
Speaker 2: information as merely the whereabouts of Lambert two thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: But if it will expedite matters, I am prepared to
Speaker 2: expand my offer by another thousand. I'm the sponsor, you
Speaker 2: bid the greedier, I guess what makes Lambert so important
Speaker 2: to the problem which is entirely out of your province?
Speaker 2: My boy, how much do you know of Egyptian legend? Sir?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: No, more than a dollar's worth. Pity the fascinating subject, well, Sir, Bruce.
Speaker 2: Lambert has in his possession a certain object of great importance,
Speaker 2: both culturally and economically. Certain landowners in Egypt hold it
Speaker 2: in such high esteem, Sir, that as a reward for
Speaker 2: its return to them, they would throw open to exploitation
Speaker 2: untapped oil fields, the richness of which would shake the
Speaker 2: very foundations of world economy? Are they shaky enough as
Speaker 2: it is? My boy? Think what it would mean to
Speaker 2: a civilization fast approaching the depletion of its petroleum sources.
Speaker 2: New horizon, Sir, A brave new world. Lambert owes to
Speaker 2: us all relinquishment of this object so that it may
Speaker 2: serve humanity. You're right, and it may be easier than
Speaker 2: you think. A splendid sir. Where is he? Which relic?
Speaker 2: Is it? The black statue your playmate could have picked
Speaker 2: up for free? It is king I might have met
Speaker 2: scareb that I would discuss with Lambert. I demand to
Speaker 2: know where he is. Why waste time on him. I've
Speaker 2: got the scarab. I find that most difficult to believe,
Speaker 2: mister Dollar. Well, no, no, no, keep your hands away
Speaker 2: from your buckets, Ammon will say to the trouble, Ammon.
Speaker 5: These remains too, mister Dollar.
Speaker 2: My wish is called peaceful, sure right coat pocket, he
Speaker 2: speaks truly, Garret here he's the matter, Garret. You don't
Speaker 2: have that brave New world look anymore. Ah, I should
Speaker 2: be the first to admit so that the lie has
Speaker 2: been put to the tail I created upon this useless
Speaker 2: geekll but mister Dollar, now, but we are forced to
Speaker 2: fall back upon the truth. I remind you that it
Speaker 2: sometimes hurts. Your position has not. But the desk knows.
Speaker 2: I'm up here, answered mister Dollar. But be cautious. Unfortunately,
Speaker 2: I do not share Ramon's a version to violence.
Speaker 9: Yeah, Dollar, that's right, this is Lieutenant Black. Say was
Speaker 9: that a hunch you had about that cast of Lambert's?
Speaker 2: Why do you ask all? If it was? It was
Speaker 2: a good one.
Speaker 9: The doctors won't let us take it off, but we
Speaker 9: cut into it. It was put on in three layers.
Speaker 9: The middle one was wrapped narcotics. Yeah, don't be so
Speaker 9: modest dollar, there must be three hundred thousand bucks worth.
Speaker 3: Now, sometimes it's a whole month before we get that much.
Speaker 9: Looks like the work of your friend, doctor Ramon Hixsas. Yeah,
Speaker 9: I'll wake up dollar. I want to check Lambert's.
Speaker 2: Statement with yours.
Speaker 9: I'll have you there in ten minutes.
Speaker 2: Goodbye, Okay. I commend you, sir upon your show of intelligence.
Speaker 2: Who was it the police they're looking for, Lambert? Oh,
Speaker 2: and what did they give as their reason? Narcotics? The
Speaker 2: story of a man bound from America who cracked up
Speaker 2: in a car, and while he was unconscious of being patched,
Speaker 2: said narcotics were put in his cast by a doctor
Speaker 2: Ammon Hixas, probably assisted by a nurse named Marsha. But
Speaker 2: there's no proof, Ammon, We who waste no time on evasion. Yes,
Speaker 2: we use the boy a courageous scheme, But for that
Speaker 2: silly goose of a girl, she was the true conspirator
Speaker 2: and the traitor as well. She having a fall in
Speaker 2: love with the guy. Are the romantic Atlantic crossing? An
Speaker 2: empty proposal of marriage suddenly becomes more important than actual
Speaker 2: coin of the realm. But enough of that, the police
Speaker 2: are looking for him and aunt teeth, So am I
Speaker 2: very is he? I don't know, Ammon, call his hotel
Speaker 2: in thirty ninth Street. No wait, my friend, the police
Speaker 2: must be watching that, are they, mister Dollan, Well, that's
Speaker 2: where his personal things are. If I were the police,
Speaker 2: I'd be watching. Yes, we seem to find ourselves in
Speaker 2: such a position that we must at least pretend to
Speaker 2: see ee two eyes. Uh, very well, we shall wait here.
Speaker 2: The chips are down, so to speech, Ammon, years gonna
Speaker 2: take the pistol into the bathroom medial with the door
Speaker 2: slightly ajar, you shall have a splendid command of the
Speaker 2: arena as it were years.
Speaker 5: Got it?
Speaker 2: And remember the stakes are high.
Speaker 5: Yes, get it, and I will remember.
Speaker 2: No, mister Diller, Which seemed that little roommains but to waiting.
Speaker 2: The waiting was more than the Drummond settled himself on
Speaker 2: the bed and facing the door, his pudgy hands folded
Speaker 2: over his bulging waist. I was still in the desk chair,
Speaker 2: facing him as usual. The police were late. Twenty minutes
Speaker 2: passed before we heard the knock on the door. You guess,
Speaker 2: mister Doller. Come, we shall go to the door together.
Speaker 2: Now keep your back to me. It's your party, Drummond,
Speaker 2: come in, Lambert got Lambert.
Speaker 9: The police haven't shooting, I haven't listen down.
Speaker 2: Drummond's wound wasn't half as excruciating as his call for help.
Speaker 2: The doctor's report that his shoulder will be in a
Speaker 2: cast that as soon as the State of New York
Speaker 2: can gather a jury, he will stand trial on the
Speaker 2: charge of first degree murder. The body of Amen Hicks's
Speaker 2: was taken to the mall. As an insurance company, you
Speaker 2: are probably less interested in that than in the fate
Speaker 2: of your policy holder, Bruce Lambert. That's explained an expense
Speaker 2: account item for two hundred and eighty dollars hospital bill
Speaker 2: paid in advance in view of the possibility that there
Speaker 2: may be others interested in that three hundred thousand dollar
Speaker 2: cash of narcotics. He has to carry around with him
Speaker 2: until his arm is okay. I thought it would be
Speaker 2: safer to keep him under wraps. Oh, by the way,
Speaker 2: while he was lying there helpless, I sold him a
Speaker 2: policy for you covering the scab and that carved head.
Speaker 2: Expense account total four hundred and fifty six dollars and
Speaker 2: ninety cents. Yours truly Johnny Dolla.
Speaker 1: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar stars Edmund O'Brien in the title
Speaker 1: role and is written by Paul Dudley and Gildawd with
Speaker 1: music by Leith Stevens. Edmund O'Brien can currently be seen
Speaker 1: starring in Harry M. Popkins United Artists Production DA. Featured
Speaker 1: in our cast were Virginia Gregg, Janevello, Ed Begley, John
Speaker 1: Dayner and Pat mcgeon. Yours Truly Johnny Dollar is produced
Speaker 1: and directed by Hime del Vai. Join us again next
Speaker 1: week when Edmund O'Brien returns in another adventure of.
Speaker 2: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 1: Fifty four thousand dollars is burning a little old hole
Speaker 1: in that little old jackpot of singing again this week,
Speaker 1: just waiting for somebody to light up the right answer
Speaker 1: and drop the cash and prizes in his lap or
Speaker 1: her lap. Dan Seymour gives the gals the same chance
Speaker 1: he gives the fellas when he starts putting in those
Speaker 1: calls from coast to coast. So be listing this Saturday
Speaker 1: when sing it again and the fifty four thousand dollars
Speaker 1: phantom boys come your way. On most of these same
Speaker 1: CBS station. This program was transcribed in Hollywood, Roy Rowan speaking,
Speaker 1: this is CBS where yours truly. Johnny Dollar meets Adventure
Speaker 1: every Friday night the Columbia Broadcasting System