WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.359 --> 00:00:06.000 Time now for Edmund O'Brien as. 2 00:00:05.679 --> 00:00:07.839 Yours truly, Johnny Dollars. 3 00:00:14.560 --> 00:00:17.160 Edmundon O'Brien and another of the adventures of the Man 4 00:00:17.239 --> 00:00:21.399 with an Action tact expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance 5 00:00:21.440 --> 00:00:22.960 investigator Johnny Dollar. 6 00:00:36.439 --> 00:00:41.119 Expense Accounts submitted by special Investigator Johnny Dollars to home 7 00:00:41.200 --> 00:00:46.520 office Intercontinental Marine Insurance Company is Hartford, Connecticut. The following 8 00:00:46.560 --> 00:00:49.320 is an accounting of my expenditures during my assignment aboard 9 00:00:49.320 --> 00:00:52.679 the S. S. Melee Trader, the ship with no court 10 00:00:52.759 --> 00:01:01.560 of course expense account. Item won eighty dollars transportation from 11 00:01:01.560 --> 00:01:02.880 hospital to Savannah, Georgia. 12 00:01:03.039 --> 00:01:05.359 M Well after pausing only the grower. 13 00:01:05.120 --> 00:01:08.319 Dead and deck myself out in seamen's garb, I conceded 14 00:01:08.359 --> 00:01:10.760 to the local hiring hall of the Seamen's Union. 15 00:01:18.359 --> 00:01:18.920 VACAT and the. 16 00:01:18.959 --> 00:01:19.920 Rest see too. 17 00:01:20.079 --> 00:01:23.239 Standing for the Panamania times bound for reods now or 18 00:01:23.359 --> 00:01:26.159 least the mam on a nine am they call it 19 00:01:26.280 --> 00:01:29.840 for one baker, one category at one compident, two abies. 20 00:01:30.599 --> 00:01:35.840 The the rent w good, yes, yes, okay, alright, we'll 21 00:01:35.879 --> 00:01:37.319 put it all right through right away. 22 00:01:38.879 --> 00:01:42.319 Well, what is it? The name is Dollars. I'm signing 23 00:01:42.319 --> 00:01:45.200 on the Malee Trader Ordinary Streamen Special permit. 24 00:01:45.400 --> 00:01:48.599 Wa uh huh, don't let me seem uh oh yeah, yeah, 25 00:01:48.640 --> 00:01:52.319 here he is correct insurance deck. Huh. Well, I'm glad 26 00:01:52.359 --> 00:01:53.480 to cooperate. 27 00:01:53.040 --> 00:01:53.640 Though, thanks. 28 00:01:53.680 --> 00:01:55.400 Where do I find the ship? Period? 29 00:01:55.879 --> 00:01:58.400 The directions will all be here on your assignments slip? 30 00:01:59.760 --> 00:02:01.599 Uh what bef a hot cargle? 31 00:02:01.799 --> 00:02:02.000 Oh? 32 00:02:02.079 --> 00:02:04.760 Maybe when I find out, you can read about it 33 00:02:04.760 --> 00:02:05.239 in the paper. 34 00:02:05.439 --> 00:02:06.920 Okay, so you're not talking. 35 00:02:07.000 --> 00:02:08.919 That's your business. Here your slip. 36 00:02:09.879 --> 00:02:12.439 Now, the best way to get there is. 37 00:02:12.400 --> 00:02:14.960 To fallows the railroad tracks past the warehouse? 38 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:26.120 Did right or my new home? When I found he 39 00:02:26.439 --> 00:02:30.280 looked neither pretentious, comfortable, or even seaworthy. She was a 40 00:02:30.360 --> 00:02:32.919 rusty old liberty ship that probably had a war record 41 00:02:33.159 --> 00:02:39.639 but hadn't had a coat of paint in months. Her 42 00:02:39.639 --> 00:02:42.919 winches fore and aft were busy feeding heavy ratand covered 43 00:02:42.919 --> 00:02:48.759 bales into a gaping holes. Her decks were alive with longshoremen, 44 00:02:49.039 --> 00:02:52.000 and set against all that activity, a bulky gent wearing 45 00:02:52.000 --> 00:02:54.240 an officer's cat lolled on a stool near the head 46 00:02:54.240 --> 00:02:57.319 of the gangway, idling time with fingernails and a pen knife. 47 00:03:00.080 --> 00:03:02.960 Yeah, butcher business. 48 00:03:02.439 --> 00:03:04.319 And signing on where do I find the chief out 49 00:03:04.360 --> 00:03:04.479 of it? 50 00:03:05.039 --> 00:03:08.919 He found the time hot stuff. Let me say useless 51 00:03:12.439 --> 00:03:18.280 uh uh yeah. 52 00:03:17.680 --> 00:03:21.439 Oh gokay, dol, you're on the uh forty eight watch 53 00:03:21.960 --> 00:03:25.240 quarters or three as fast thiutay, then I have started shot, 54 00:03:26.159 --> 00:03:28.280 got up here to sign later. 55 00:03:28.719 --> 00:03:36.719 Right, so far that fine story method seemed to be working. 56 00:03:37.199 --> 00:03:39.479 But was aboard the ship as a seaman, and a 57 00:03:39.520 --> 00:03:42.240 few seconds later I was shaking hands with a man 58 00:03:42.240 --> 00:03:44.960 who shared my quarters. Now wrote it on a salary 59 00:03:45.039 --> 00:03:48.240 for four years is Intercontinental's marine investigator? 60 00:03:53.919 --> 00:03:56.759 Go, I am, it's been a long time. 61 00:03:57.039 --> 00:03:59.759 How much I'm fine. I'm fine. It's gonna be working 62 00:03:59.759 --> 00:04:03.240 a basically again. They yeah, they're all right to talking here. 63 00:04:03.400 --> 00:04:06.120 Yeah yeah, let's keep it down. I've been on this 64 00:04:06.199 --> 00:04:08.719 substance that left Singapore and nobody's on to me yet. 65 00:04:09.520 --> 00:04:10.120 But play at. 66 00:04:10.120 --> 00:04:13.680 Cagy on deck. How much did I tell you in 67 00:04:13.840 --> 00:04:14.960 jolly old Hartford. 68 00:04:15.280 --> 00:04:17.720 Well, they gave me just the basic situation that uh, 69 00:04:17.759 --> 00:04:20.240 that Intercontinental ensue with a bunch of crude rubber from 70 00:04:20.279 --> 00:04:23.639 British melees before the devaluation of the British pound steerling 71 00:04:24.279 --> 00:04:26.439 half that I understand burned and a whams. 72 00:04:26.040 --> 00:04:28.040 In Singapore and that to the tune of over a 73 00:04:28.120 --> 00:04:33.399 hundred thousand insurance bucks. I flew out there signs of arson, 74 00:04:33.480 --> 00:04:36.240 but no proof. I followed the other half of the 75 00:04:36.240 --> 00:04:37.920 crop here at the Savannah. 76 00:04:38.079 --> 00:04:41.680 Ay Uh. This company that owns Maylee Traders kind of 77 00:04:41.680 --> 00:04:42.319 an outsit of it. 78 00:04:42.439 --> 00:04:46.680 They art Angels, been up against British customs a few times, 79 00:04:46.720 --> 00:04:50.079 never nailed. They own their ships and the branch here, 80 00:04:50.120 --> 00:04:54.000 headed by a mister Peela, imports basic commodities like the 81 00:04:54.079 --> 00:04:57.720 rubber and minerals. Well, the point is that since this 82 00:04:57.920 --> 00:05:01.480 crude was insured before the British p dropped, they can 83 00:05:01.480 --> 00:05:04.000 bring in more loot destroying it and they can filling it. 84 00:05:04.360 --> 00:05:07.079 Yeah. I guess that's a loose and I take it 85 00:05:07.079 --> 00:05:09.519 to policy covers until they do so, and that's it. 86 00:05:10.639 --> 00:05:13.120 I thought we were getting rid of it here. They 87 00:05:13.199 --> 00:05:16.000 packed it away in their warehouse, but then three days 88 00:05:16.000 --> 00:05:19.720 ago they started loading it aboard again. That's why you 89 00:05:19.800 --> 00:05:20.480 were sent down. 90 00:05:21.560 --> 00:05:24.279 What's the matter now? Don't you think the company trusts you? 91 00:05:26.120 --> 00:05:28.879 I guess they figure I need help and they're right. 92 00:05:30.040 --> 00:05:31.279 Where do you think we're bound? Jenny? 93 00:05:31.439 --> 00:05:33.839 Well, my papers at Corpus Christy and the scuttle. 94 00:05:33.839 --> 00:05:36.279 But is that corpus is just a stop that we 95 00:05:36.399 --> 00:05:41.079 clear there for Mexico Vera Cruz where arson investigation isn't 96 00:05:41.079 --> 00:05:44.000 what it could be after that operation in Singapore? 97 00:05:44.040 --> 00:05:45.800 What else would they do? Hold it. 98 00:05:49.360 --> 00:05:49.800 All up? 99 00:05:51.240 --> 00:05:55.720 Yeah, I'll stop hip articles during the company office corner 100 00:05:55.720 --> 00:05:58.160 of the wirehouse short sign them. 101 00:05:58.240 --> 00:06:00.120 Okay right away, sir. 102 00:06:02.519 --> 00:06:06.319 Nice tries there was Oh and uh, if you'll take 103 00:06:06.360 --> 00:06:07.759 a word of fatherly. 104 00:06:07.360 --> 00:06:09.959 Advice, well practically anything you saying, go ahead? 105 00:06:10.000 --> 00:06:12.879 That Uh that girl in the office, the Malaya and 106 00:06:12.879 --> 00:06:15.600 the half cast, she's the boss's daughter. 107 00:06:16.399 --> 00:06:20.480 Oh my am I is that her appreciation or is 108 00:06:20.519 --> 00:06:21.800 it her name? Both? 109 00:06:22.639 --> 00:06:26.399 But Savior dreams the chief our friend hall Staff is 110 00:06:26.439 --> 00:06:27.839 as possessive as he's big. 111 00:06:28.639 --> 00:06:44.160 And you know something, I don't blame him. 112 00:06:44.199 --> 00:06:46.600 I didn't blame the horse staff either. After I saw 113 00:06:46.639 --> 00:06:50.040 Am I you could tell she had enough accidental know 114 00:06:50.079 --> 00:06:52.360 how to be proud of what the Oriental did to her. 115 00:06:52.399 --> 00:07:00.560 Looks ah mine, indeed, good afternoon. Hello, I'm here to 116 00:07:00.600 --> 00:07:01.319 find the articles. 117 00:07:01.519 --> 00:07:04.040 I'm a Mainley treat Oh what please? 118 00:07:04.079 --> 00:07:04.639 Are your names? 119 00:07:05.040 --> 00:07:06.040 Dollar? Johnny Dollar? 120 00:07:06.759 --> 00:07:07.079 Dollar? 121 00:07:08.199 --> 00:07:10.480 Are you a very fifty man, mister Dollar? 122 00:07:10.720 --> 00:07:13.439 Well, hardly. My name is usually the only one I 123 00:07:13.519 --> 00:07:14.279 have to my name. 124 00:07:14.439 --> 00:07:15.720 H yes, and it's your rug here. 125 00:07:17.439 --> 00:07:19.319 I wish I was saving with you. 126 00:07:19.720 --> 00:07:23.160 What what did you say that I wish I was 127 00:07:23.240 --> 00:07:23.879 saving with you. 128 00:07:25.040 --> 00:07:28.439 I have begged with my father, but he will not 129 00:07:28.560 --> 00:07:29.480 let me go with him. 130 00:07:29.800 --> 00:07:31.959 Mm, your father's going with us? Huh. 131 00:07:32.360 --> 00:07:35.240 I didn't know that I would beg some more. Ah, 132 00:07:35.279 --> 00:07:40.800 once again, pleasing me right here? Hm, you have a 133 00:07:41.199 --> 00:07:42.560 nice sons, mister dollar. 134 00:07:42.759 --> 00:07:44.800 Nice hand. Now why'd you say that? 135 00:07:45.639 --> 00:07:48.759 I see so many hands here on my desk? No, 136 00:07:48.920 --> 00:07:53.879 I noticed that I'm a big and lumpy, them a short. 137 00:07:54.079 --> 00:07:57.560 I'm a dirty and in steward's departments some are clean 138 00:07:57.680 --> 00:08:00.839 from dish washing. But holleringly, let me see. 139 00:08:01.399 --> 00:08:03.040 Well, I'm read to get back to the ship. Thanks, 140 00:08:03.319 --> 00:08:03.680 thank you. 141 00:08:04.519 --> 00:08:06.879 We hope that conditions during your voyage will meet with 142 00:08:06.959 --> 00:08:09.680 your approval and that you will accept employment with Main. 143 00:08:20.839 --> 00:08:23.639 And with those memorized words ringing in my ear, I 144 00:08:23.759 --> 00:08:26.519 thanked the lushes am I again and proceeded ship was 145 00:08:26.680 --> 00:08:29.000 to take up my duties as a very ordinary seaman. 146 00:08:29.920 --> 00:08:33.159 I hope that her interest in my landlover hands really 147 00:08:33.240 --> 00:08:37.200 stem from her unusual hobby and not from suspicion, and 148 00:08:37.360 --> 00:08:40.120 I wondered why mister Peeler, her father, and the local 149 00:08:40.200 --> 00:08:43.159 head of the suspect company, had decided to go with us. 150 00:08:44.000 --> 00:08:46.679 Had his doctor ordered a sea voyage for his health 151 00:08:47.600 --> 00:08:49.759 or did he want to enjoy in person the odor 152 00:08:50.200 --> 00:09:01.320 of burning rubber. The next afternoon, Chicago had all been 153 00:09:01.360 --> 00:09:04.240 brought aboard, the ship was made ready to see, and 154 00:09:04.440 --> 00:09:07.480 I had sustained, along with multiple cuts and bruises, the 155 00:09:07.600 --> 00:09:09.840 ire of the bosom because I didn't know the difference 156 00:09:09.879 --> 00:09:12.960 between a preventer and a topping list. But by the 157 00:09:13.080 --> 00:09:16.240 time night fell and the melee trader was plunging down 158 00:09:16.240 --> 00:09:20.559 the Atlantic coast, I knew one thing. The sailor's life 159 00:09:20.759 --> 00:09:37.279 is not from me. How'd you make out? Al Well? 160 00:09:37.440 --> 00:09:41.720 Nothing new. Scuttle Butter is still very cruise. But there's 161 00:09:41.759 --> 00:09:45.159 something screwy about it. Johnny, you develop a nose after 162 00:09:45.200 --> 00:09:48.559 you've snooped as many ships as I have. There's something 163 00:09:48.799 --> 00:09:49.559 wrong aboard? 164 00:09:49.919 --> 00:09:54.120 What besides my seamanship? The old man, Yeah, a lot 165 00:09:54.159 --> 00:09:55.039 of little things. 166 00:09:56.000 --> 00:09:58.600 Of course, we're on for Florida straits or readings on 167 00:09:58.679 --> 00:10:02.960 a dollars gages. Of course, the displacement ratio changes with 168 00:10:03.080 --> 00:10:04.840 different oceans and water temperature. 169 00:10:04.919 --> 00:10:07.159 Look, look, I'll that's that's all Greek to me, valas 170 00:10:07.240 --> 00:10:10.960 gauge's displacement ratio. Just what are these things that about it? 171 00:10:11.120 --> 00:10:14.799 He said, Well, I don't know, just vague things that 172 00:10:16.080 --> 00:10:17.840 look come out on the four deck with me. 173 00:10:17.919 --> 00:10:20.840 Well, yeah, shoot, it's probably just this. 174 00:10:20.960 --> 00:10:28.559 Over active nose of mine. But I wanna get a 175 00:10:28.639 --> 00:10:32.039 look in one of these holes. Now, there's a hand 176 00:10:32.120 --> 00:10:34.840 standing lookout in the bow, and if you'll go up 177 00:10:34.840 --> 00:10:37.200 there and keep his attention, I'll slip into the escape 178 00:10:37.240 --> 00:10:40.240 patch of number two. All I'll need is about ten minutes. 179 00:10:41.159 --> 00:10:42.039 I'll meet you in the cabin. 180 00:10:49.639 --> 00:10:51.919 I made small talk with the lookout but ten minutes, 181 00:10:52.200 --> 00:10:57.120 then started back towards the cabin. Suddenly I heard a 182 00:10:57.200 --> 00:11:01.480 scuffle behind me, A hell that you. Then I heard 183 00:11:01.519 --> 00:11:04.399 someone running and I started after the disappearing figure. But 184 00:11:04.519 --> 00:11:07.799 I didn't get very far. I stumbled over the al 185 00:11:07.879 --> 00:11:10.519 rode his body by the open hatch, and there was 186 00:11:10.559 --> 00:11:12.559 a stab wound in the back of his neck, just 187 00:11:12.639 --> 00:11:15.200 at the top of the spine. It was small enough 188 00:11:15.240 --> 00:11:21.480 to have been left there by us ten knight. I 189 00:11:21.519 --> 00:11:24.440 didn't report to the chief's mate or the captain. I 190 00:11:24.519 --> 00:11:26.279 went over both their heads and I counted on the 191 00:11:26.360 --> 00:11:28.960 door of the owner, mister Peter the pillar. 192 00:11:29.879 --> 00:11:31.879 Yes, yes, yes, one moment. 193 00:11:33.399 --> 00:11:33.919 What is he? 194 00:11:36.200 --> 00:11:37.320 What does this mean? 195 00:11:37.519 --> 00:11:38.879 There's been a killing down on deck? 196 00:11:39.159 --> 00:11:40.840 What do you say? 197 00:11:41.440 --> 00:11:43.039 Chiling? My watchmate, al rode it? 198 00:11:43.399 --> 00:11:49.120 But these relieve he captain or mister Horst, where are they? 199 00:11:49.919 --> 00:11:50.919 Why do you come to me? 200 00:11:51.200 --> 00:11:53.320 Because because I think a request from you as an order, 201 00:11:53.480 --> 00:11:55.320 I think sparked order radio the coast Guard. 202 00:11:55.360 --> 00:11:56.039 The sooner the better. 203 00:11:56.159 --> 00:12:00.840 But the chilling on my ship to believe this you no, no, 204 00:12:01.000 --> 00:12:01.440 I do not. 205 00:12:04.759 --> 00:12:10.960 Help you, man over lord, mister Peeler. A murder has 206 00:12:11.080 --> 00:12:13.000 just been turned into an accident. 207 00:12:26.799 --> 00:12:29.039 In just a moment, we returned to the second act 208 00:12:29.200 --> 00:12:33.039 of Johnny Dollar. But first, Kitty Callen will join Vornman 209 00:12:33.159 --> 00:12:36.159 Rose Caravan along most of these same CBS stations this 210 00:12:36.240 --> 00:12:39.799 Saturday night and on the CBS Gen Autry Show, The 211 00:12:39.879 --> 00:12:42.360 King of the Cowboys Will Bring You Ramona When the 212 00:12:42.399 --> 00:12:45.240 Bloom Is on the Sage and many another Western favorite, 213 00:12:45.759 --> 00:12:48.840 The Born Monroe Caravan and the Geen Outry Show are 214 00:12:48.919 --> 00:12:52.080 heard every Saturday night. Hear them tomorrow night in an 215 00:12:52.120 --> 00:12:57.320 hour of Top Pops and sage brush symphonies. Now with 216 00:12:57.480 --> 00:13:00.360 us are Edmund O'Brien. We returned to the second act 217 00:13:00.399 --> 00:13:02.320 of Yours proby Johnny Dollar. 218 00:13:17.879 --> 00:13:28.240 Mister Horsecas, mister Horsecaf, you sease come here until horsehuseynswer 219 00:13:28.759 --> 00:13:31.559 mit horse there has been. 220 00:13:31.639 --> 00:13:34.320 Tobal Yes, one of the crew all overboard. 221 00:13:34.840 --> 00:13:36.639 Then talk with this young man. 222 00:13:37.879 --> 00:13:39.879 He speaks of killing. 223 00:13:40.080 --> 00:13:45.279 Killy Chill Dollar. That's his gup about Kelly al Roder. 224 00:13:45.559 --> 00:13:47.320 He was stabbed in the back of the neck with 225 00:13:47.440 --> 00:13:48.200 a small knight. 226 00:13:48.759 --> 00:13:53.000 This man is either drunk or crazy, mister Piller. I 227 00:13:53.159 --> 00:13:55.080 just stepped out on deck to check the running lights 228 00:13:55.080 --> 00:13:57.559 before I turned in. I saw the man leaning over 229 00:13:57.639 --> 00:14:00.919 the rail. He was sick, approl and he went over 230 00:14:01.120 --> 00:14:01.879 have it go away. 231 00:14:02.320 --> 00:14:04.279 I guess that was a life jack right stun below that. 232 00:14:04.360 --> 00:14:07.120 Huh, what are you doing about the man overboard? 233 00:14:07.120 --> 00:14:09.039 I'll thank you to remember your place on the ship. 234 00:14:09.240 --> 00:14:12.440 I do, but I also remember how Roder doing what's. 235 00:14:12.279 --> 00:14:14.879 Prescribed by maritime law. I'm changing my court to circle 236 00:14:14.919 --> 00:14:15.679 and touch the area. 237 00:14:16.240 --> 00:14:18.039 How about the coast guy, so you not ifed in 238 00:14:18.159 --> 00:14:20.799 your time, I'll either go to your quarters or get 239 00:14:20.840 --> 00:14:21.799 forward to the rest of the crew. 240 00:14:21.840 --> 00:14:26.559 And look for this guy you're so worried about. Where 241 00:14:26.600 --> 00:14:28.120 are you going the radio rooms? 242 00:14:28.480 --> 00:14:30.720 Even I know the coast guard gets first. Did you 243 00:14:30.879 --> 00:14:31.240 listen to me? 244 00:14:31.320 --> 00:14:34.080 Dollar, I'll have you up before a commission board. You'll 245 00:14:34.080 --> 00:14:37.240 never ship again if you don't obey my order and 246 00:14:37.360 --> 00:14:40.039 the boilers. You better get to your lifeboat station. 247 00:14:39.960 --> 00:14:53.360 Mister Keeler. Every time an explosion lifted the Mela trader 248 00:14:53.440 --> 00:14:55.879 up off the water, lifted my stomach up with it. 249 00:14:56.559 --> 00:14:57.279 My heart must have. 250 00:14:57.240 --> 00:14:59.840 Been counting too, because I felt that high and my crop, 251 00:15:00.600 --> 00:15:03.399 and feeling that big sea going box of steel plates 252 00:15:03.480 --> 00:15:07.200 and boat shuddering up my feet, painted sweat on my forehead, 253 00:15:07.279 --> 00:15:10.399 and big sticky splashes of real fear on my shoes. 254 00:15:11.320 --> 00:15:11.759 This would be. 255 00:15:11.799 --> 00:15:21.639 Getting dead the hard way. But finally the quivering of 256 00:15:21.679 --> 00:15:24.960 a ship came to a stop, calming down my own vibrations, 257 00:15:24.960 --> 00:15:28.320 which have faded. Then the tub started to list, giving 258 00:15:28.360 --> 00:15:30.240 me a new reason for keeping my mind off of 259 00:15:30.320 --> 00:15:32.879 taking a cut at hallstaff with the closest fire at 260 00:15:33.679 --> 00:15:35.480 the crew got panic. Here's a bunch of kids in 261 00:15:35.519 --> 00:15:38.399 a burning school. And while I fumbled with a lifeboat, 262 00:15:38.919 --> 00:15:41.320 I took a last running look at number two holes 263 00:15:41.840 --> 00:15:44.639 there were still bloodstains on the decks where I found rots, 264 00:15:45.440 --> 00:15:49.320 and next to them, besides the open hatch, I found 265 00:15:49.399 --> 00:15:52.200 something that hall Staff hadn't realized he lost, or I 266 00:15:52.240 --> 00:15:56.360 hadn't had time to look for his pens pearl shell handles. 267 00:15:56.799 --> 00:16:03.440 With an anchor and Boston still, I'd pulled back the 268 00:16:03.519 --> 00:16:05.600 top further and moved a few of the sectional hatch 269 00:16:05.679 --> 00:16:08.480 colors and got a look into the hole. There was 270 00:16:08.600 --> 00:16:11.559 enough light to see the cargo it enough smoke curled 271 00:16:11.559 --> 00:16:13.759 out to tell me the explosion had not been in 272 00:16:13.840 --> 00:16:18.360 the boilers. Yeah. I had a fine case, except that 273 00:16:18.360 --> 00:16:21.159 it was going down under my feet and I'd end 274 00:16:21.279 --> 00:16:23.120 up with everything but proof. 275 00:16:28.440 --> 00:16:29.480 It was shortly after. 276 00:16:29.440 --> 00:16:32.080 Dawn when the melee trader finally settled by the bow 277 00:16:32.480 --> 00:16:35.679 and went into a final plunge. Everybody in the light 278 00:16:35.759 --> 00:16:40.039 boat turned and watched her grow. The water quieted over her, 279 00:16:41.080 --> 00:16:43.879 and the only traces left were the hatch colors. I'd 280 00:16:43.919 --> 00:16:44.440 pull them. 281 00:17:01.000 --> 00:17:04.079 There's a place missing as the uh they'll be uh 282 00:17:05.119 --> 00:17:07.160 uh yeah two ways, Yeah. 283 00:17:07.000 --> 00:17:07.559 Hey, I keep it. 284 00:17:08.119 --> 00:17:09.200 Oh well, but thanks? 285 00:17:20.680 --> 00:17:21.960 Oh why are you. 286 00:17:24.160 --> 00:17:27.559 Page one and three, line twenty two Ship's articles. You 287 00:17:27.640 --> 00:17:29.079 remember dollar? 288 00:17:29.839 --> 00:17:30.039 Oh? 289 00:17:30.680 --> 00:17:36.279 Yes, what newspaper. He said, you're missing from the shipwreck. 290 00:17:36.680 --> 00:17:39.000 Yeah, a guy'd have to be stupid or dead to 291 00:17:39.079 --> 00:17:42.160 be lost on a sinking like that. Everything was too convenient, 292 00:17:42.640 --> 00:17:45.079 plenty of time to get the boat lawns only four 293 00:17:45.200 --> 00:17:48.519 miles from sure paper stages. Yeah, they reported me missing 294 00:17:48.599 --> 00:17:51.319 because I didn't take time to report myself among the living. 295 00:17:51.839 --> 00:17:53.799 You see, I couldn't wait to get back to Savannah, 296 00:17:54.039 --> 00:17:56.759 get back to you and the king size scheme cooked 297 00:17:56.799 --> 00:17:59.759 up in this office. Now. I'm not promising anything, but 298 00:17:59.799 --> 00:18:02.920 a we signed statement might help you. I'll write a 299 00:18:03.119 --> 00:18:03.640 new sign. 300 00:18:03.680 --> 00:18:09.279 It you talk about skins, what statement is you? 301 00:18:09.559 --> 00:18:09.720 Ah? 302 00:18:09.880 --> 00:18:10.720 Come on, stop it. 303 00:18:11.480 --> 00:18:14.240 Look use the old sex pitch. Try to tell me 304 00:18:14.319 --> 00:18:16.720 that it'll be worth my while. But but don't try 305 00:18:16.759 --> 00:18:17.480 to sell me anything. 306 00:18:18.079 --> 00:18:18.680 Just gone it. 307 00:18:19.319 --> 00:18:23.319 You think I know about something, see give me what 308 00:18:23.440 --> 00:18:23.759 he means. 309 00:18:23.839 --> 00:18:25.640 Look, if you're a bluffing, you can quit. I know 310 00:18:25.839 --> 00:18:28.759 that explosion on the ship was stayed. Now the next 311 00:18:28.759 --> 00:18:30.599 step is to try to collect the insurance on the 312 00:18:30.640 --> 00:18:33.400 rubber that was lord, And that's the step I'm supposed 313 00:18:33.400 --> 00:18:36.359 to start. Yeah, is my id? 314 00:18:38.759 --> 00:18:39.519 She stuns. 315 00:18:40.640 --> 00:18:43.759 I not understand you are a police. 316 00:18:43.920 --> 00:18:45.440 Yeah, in a way in a way. 317 00:18:45.519 --> 00:18:48.519 I'm the police, and the real ones aren't far behind me, 318 00:18:49.400 --> 00:18:52.119 and you do not like me. Look, I wouldn't have 319 00:18:52.200 --> 00:18:53.319 any reasons. 320 00:18:55.440 --> 00:18:58.440 Seeks cruel. I knew nothing of body. 321 00:19:00.079 --> 00:19:02.240 I too do not lie. Well, why'd you think your 322 00:19:02.279 --> 00:19:05.799 father was taking this trip? I did not question, And. 323 00:19:05.880 --> 00:19:07.960 You're told me he had a business in Corpus Christians. 324 00:19:08.200 --> 00:19:11.559 Well, un horstop lied here The newspapers don't tell you 325 00:19:11.599 --> 00:19:13.640 why your father took a trip. Yeah, look at this 326 00:19:14.440 --> 00:19:17.279 importer and fleet on a narrowly escape death and explosion 327 00:19:17.319 --> 00:19:20.079 about his own ship? And who'd think of scuttling with 328 00:19:20.160 --> 00:19:21.960 the age of owner taking the risk himself? 329 00:19:22.079 --> 00:19:24.160 Huh starling. 330 00:19:25.359 --> 00:19:28.279 Three decent cor twenty in a few minutes. Two men 331 00:19:28.359 --> 00:19:33.680 you loved to come. Godn't discriming enough. I am only daughter. 332 00:19:34.920 --> 00:19:38.599 I not question my father. If he did this thing, 333 00:19:38.680 --> 00:19:39.680 he did it with reason. 334 00:19:41.559 --> 00:19:46.440 No, what did you have me to do? Oh? Or 335 00:19:46.480 --> 00:19:48.519 he stopped looking at me as if I started at all? 336 00:19:49.160 --> 00:20:01.319 I'm sorry, honestly I am. It was clear to me 337 00:20:01.400 --> 00:20:04.960 now that she wasn't buying to hide my embarrassment. I 338 00:20:05.039 --> 00:20:07.359 read through the newspaper accounts that the sinking again while 339 00:20:07.440 --> 00:20:08.400 she recovered. 340 00:20:08.000 --> 00:20:08.200 It, So. 341 00:20:10.400 --> 00:20:12.680 There were air photographs of the huge oils like the 342 00:20:12.759 --> 00:20:15.640 sinking ship had left on the surface. The only reminder 343 00:20:15.720 --> 00:20:18.559 now that the hatch covers had dwisted away. M The 344 00:20:18.640 --> 00:20:21.440 lack of wreckage was mentioned in the stories, and I 345 00:20:21.519 --> 00:20:25.319 remembered Al wrote a worrying about ballast and displacement. I 346 00:20:25.400 --> 00:20:27.039 looked up the number of a local kemmists and I 347 00:20:27.119 --> 00:20:40.319 made a phone call right at all, Listen, doc, this 348 00:20:40.480 --> 00:20:42.839 may sound like a silly question, but it could be important. 349 00:20:43.519 --> 00:20:46.200 This crude rubber float crude robbers? 350 00:20:46.640 --> 00:20:49.839 Do you mean by yeah, whatever you call it, the 351 00:20:49.920 --> 00:20:51.960 way it comes into the country wrapped in return? Will 352 00:20:51.960 --> 00:20:52.400 it float? 353 00:20:52.759 --> 00:20:53.000 Oh? 354 00:20:53.279 --> 00:20:54.440 Spency? Gravity? 355 00:20:54.559 --> 00:20:54.720 Wait? 356 00:20:54.920 --> 00:20:58.599 I think ah, it decreases as the. 357 00:20:58.680 --> 00:21:02.960 Temperate your arise if you see normally, specially gravity is 358 00:21:02.960 --> 00:21:05.240 a little less than that the water. 359 00:21:05.799 --> 00:21:09.160 Yah, it would float, Yeah, it floats in the hole 360 00:21:09.240 --> 00:21:11.799 of a sunken chip with a hatch partly open, it 361 00:21:11.839 --> 00:21:12.960 would force its way out. 362 00:21:12.880 --> 00:21:15.759 And come to the surface. Yeah it floats, Yeah, but 363 00:21:15.920 --> 00:21:19.599 it didn't. Thanks am. 364 00:21:19.680 --> 00:21:23.759 I see how many warehouses as melee traders have here 365 00:21:23.799 --> 00:21:27.000 in Savanna when you get here on the water front. 366 00:21:27.039 --> 00:21:31.279 Huh was anything moved out of them? Last night? After 367 00:21:31.359 --> 00:21:32.000 the ship left. 368 00:21:32.640 --> 00:21:34.519 No, nothing was moved. 369 00:21:35.759 --> 00:21:36.200 Did I know? 370 00:21:36.279 --> 00:21:36.960 What does this mean? 371 00:21:37.960 --> 00:21:38.200 Am I? 372 00:21:39.240 --> 00:21:40.880 I want you to wait here in the office for 373 00:21:40.960 --> 00:21:44.279 your father. When he comes, I want you to tell 374 00:21:44.359 --> 00:21:45.839 him that I'll be waiting for him in one of 375 00:21:45.880 --> 00:21:57.759 the warehouses, and that I know the truth. The Melee 376 00:21:57.880 --> 00:22:00.799 Trader warehouses were closed to the day, but my foot 377 00:22:00.839 --> 00:22:03.759 and a window opened them. Both were stacked high with 378 00:22:03.920 --> 00:22:06.920 imported good and I picked my way through everything from 379 00:22:07.039 --> 00:22:11.880 leechy nuts to ivory backscratchers. And the second one, hidden 380 00:22:11.920 --> 00:22:15.440 behind a wall of cotton ceylon tea, I found what 381 00:22:15.559 --> 00:22:23.839 I was looking for. They were unlabeled wood crates. I 382 00:22:23.960 --> 00:22:28.359 opened one and the resilient mass inside was crude rubber, 383 00:22:28.599 --> 00:22:31.279 still on dry land and still insured. 384 00:22:33.359 --> 00:22:38.519 Alright, dollar old, it's old, white horse. That's there's nothing 385 00:22:38.599 --> 00:22:44.839 left the hole. Oh you made by that for me? 386 00:22:45.079 --> 00:22:49.799 Everything is finished, wound up. Time for the lore unless 387 00:22:49.920 --> 00:22:52.000 you can make another switch with that rubber before they 388 00:22:52.119 --> 00:22:54.119 get that rubber on the crate. 389 00:22:54.319 --> 00:22:56.640 Yeah, been here for over a year. 390 00:22:57.279 --> 00:23:00.720 I come on, let's not waste time. You and Peela 391 00:23:00.799 --> 00:23:03.480 and I know there wasn't any rubber in number two holes. 392 00:23:04.079 --> 00:23:06.000 You say that the seal after you got paid off 393 00:23:06.079 --> 00:23:08.599 for losing it, and I'll let the expert prove it. 394 00:23:09.559 --> 00:23:10.359 What excerper? 395 00:23:10.880 --> 00:23:12.000 Oh, they got all kinds. 396 00:23:12.880 --> 00:23:13.039 You know. 397 00:23:13.160 --> 00:23:17.920 One group is gonna ail you for murder. That's very funny. 398 00:23:18.200 --> 00:23:21.240 H that's very funny. There's a pen knife a funny 399 00:23:21.279 --> 00:23:24.079 murder weapon. But I found one on the Malee trader 400 00:23:24.119 --> 00:23:25.599 on that deck me a number two holes. 401 00:23:30.039 --> 00:23:31.160