 From Hollywood, it's time now for Bob Bailey as Johnny Deller Fred Wilkins at North Eastern Fidelity Johnny. Oh, hi Fred. I got a case for you Remember the Alvin Summers embezzlement. Sure. He took off with 75,000 bucks about six months ago, right? We held a bond on him. So we're stuck with it. So This morning a guy called from a little town on the west coast of Mexico Santo Tomas was a bad connection But I gathered he had some information on Summers and wanted somebody to go down there talk to him I nominated you then he's expecting me. Yeah, what's his name? I don't know Well, how do I contact him and send it to us afraid? I don't know that either You mean I'm supposed to go looking for somebody whose name I don't even know how come he's so coy I don't think it's a case of being coy Johnny Before we could get very far into the conversation the connection was broken off at his end Okay, friend. I'm on my way Tonight in every weekday night Bob Bailey and the transcribed adventures of the man with the action package Expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator yours truly Johnny dollar Expense account submitted by special investigator Johnny dollar to the home office northeastern Fidelity and bonding Hartford, Connecticut The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the Alvin Summers matter Item one two hundred and twenty dollars plane train and boat fare to Santa Tomas, Mexico For a town trying to be a resort Santa Tomas shouldn't be so hard to get to The last lap was by far the worst a creaky twice a week boat from mousetlan And I may be wrong But it looked to me like the only outfit interested in making a resort out of Santa Tomas was the big new hotel up on a cliff Overlooking the sea the Playa del Mar The rest of the town just didn't seem to care. It was a sleepy fishing village a Delapidated pier a long curving beach with the jungle crowding in on it and a miscellaneous Assortment of adobe shacks huddled here and there sort of digging their feet into the ground Even at a distance the Playa del Mar looked too rich for my purpose. So I checked into the other hotel It was an old two-story job in town that I found after carefully detouring around a belligerent rooster scratching of a meal in the street outside Once inside I couldn't help feeling that the rooster was better off It was small dingy and hot I signed the beat-up ledger that passed for a register and a little character wearing a ragged shirt with no color A big grin and a baseball cap swooped down on me and grabbed my suitcase You the star of the Santa Tomas 9 or something okay the baseball cap Is a first-class hotel here. I got to wear a uniform. Oh sure silly of me. Which way follow me, sir Do you come here to fish not exactly my cousin has a very good boat to hire a cheap Sorry Well, if you're here on just a vacation, I'll be glad to show you the scenic sites for a very small thing Hey, look promoter before you start making a career out of me. How about showing me my room? Here is a very nice room. No, oh sure Hey, look, can we get a little air in here? Oh, see I don't under overhead fan It's better no no There's a balcony out here. Oh see with a beautiful view of the ocean senior dollar beautiful The only thing I can see is the wall of that building across the alley But if you climb up on the railing and stand in the corner and look over the roof of the building There in the distance you'll see the beautiful Look, yeah Benito senior Bonito, I gathered in in addition to a few other assorted enterprises You're the bellboy in this establishment. I do everything. I must really be a string. Oh Always a string but in Santa Tomas long Have you heard my name mentioned around town lately anybody asking for me Holy red oh The door to the balcony is nothing senior only the fun Well, when the fan is on the door it blows up Jumpy Yeah, well, I'm in a good business for a video. Tell me did you ever hear the name Summers? summer Senior in Santa Tomas is always summer. Okay. I mean a man named Summers Alvin Summers is his picture. Take a look Have I seen before? Senior in this heat is a strain to use the memory While you were you think this might make you forget the heat Yes, I'm a senior dollar it might help here Dollars American Gracious now how about it? Yes, sir. I have seen this man here in Santa Tomas. I think so where how long ago I Don't remember but I'll try to find out for you. Okay, Benito that bill I gave you I've got a few more just like it if you can locate the guy in this picture Alvin Summers Or if he can find anybody who's asking about me, senior for that kind of money, I'll not only find him I'll bring him to you on a silver planter Item two on expensive count five dollars American to Benito the bellboy Flying blind the way I was in this deal. I figured I needed all the help I could get and who knows Benito just might turn something After he left I stretched out on the rickety bed and tried to figure out a plan of operations I had to make myself conspicuous if I wanted the man who'd called the home office to contact me on the other hand if Alvin Summers himself was in the vicinity I'd have to be pretty inconspicuous to stand a chance of getting anywhere near him Trying to do both at the same time might not be exactly easy Yeah, dollar. Oh, yeah, who are you? Carson's the name ek Carson, and I'm sure glad I found you friend Hey, you the guy who telephoned and wanted to see me. I sure am well my luck seems to be holding up pretty well not too well I hope Yes, sir as soon as I saw you check in I phoned a desk clerk to ask who you were I says to him He looks like an American to me see I'm in Desk clerk I thought you meant that long distance called well the reason I hope your luck's not too good friend I'm sure hoping to get you into a little cribbage game Ribbit you play don't you know I'm strictly the general me time I could teach a friend wouldn't take a jiffy. Sorry. I thought you were somebody else I sure wish I could get you into a little game friend gets mighty lonesome making arounds these small towns Are you in business here? I'm a traveling man regional sales manager for whole tight zippers zippers down here Sure thing all a matter of education as I often say business is where you find it Why half the world is just waiting to be zipped up great thought ain't it terrifying I look mr. Carson if you'll excuse me What about that cribbage game friends? Sorry as I told you now I'll bet if you just learned to play the game you'd find out it was a wheel of a lot of fun I'll wait well and why don't we have us a good talk about business if you don't mind I've got a few things to do around here. So sure sure I know to tell you the truth I guess I'm just plain lonely Daytimes aren't so bad when I'm out on a road, but nights I don't seem to be able to find anyone to talk to not a jury. Yeah, well, uh, maybe we can have a drink sometime Hey, I sure like that. Then maybe we can get up a little game later. Well, maybe I Asher DK Carson the cribbage King politely but firmly out of the door I'd figured him for the man who wanted to talk about Alvin Summers but all he apparently had on his mind was cribbage and zippers I Amble on downstairs into the cantina next door. I Cut my way through the smoke to the bar and looked around a few tired-looking characters at the tables and Over on one corner a little fella bent over a guitar eyes closed in a world all his own Then I saw the girl Three stools down the bar from me But when I looked up again after a drink she was only one stool away. Hi. Hi Welcome to sound at Tomas. Thanks Really something isn't he hmm that guitar player. I saw you watching him. Oh You know Those guys give me the creeps. They start playing and all of a sudden they're gone real far away I Don't think even those there's anybody else in here lucky man. Yeah funny Cheap rundown bar like this Nobody listening to him Except us and he's playing like he's on a cloud. Yeah There's a flamenco singer like that up the hotel that night out on the terrace when she starts those wailing songs of his She gives me the creeps too. I'm put the hotel the player Delmar. Yeah You must be down here to see how the other half lives. I mean to see if anybody lives in this town. I Sure picked me a great spot for a vacation pretty dull real at least It has been Say you know that guy over there The American at the corner table. Yeah, the muscle man. I sure don't you were certain. Of course. I am why well He's been staring at us. Oh never saw him before Of course, I've never been in here before maybe he's the bouncer. He sure looks like he could qualify. Well Look, he's leaving. Yeah, I guess we've made himself conscious. I Guess I'd better leave too. We're too Gloria Johnny Johnny I Think I'll go back up to the hotel and change then what I don't know There's a moon tonight got a date Mm-hmm me Mm-hmm when On the terrace half an hour She left and I sat there a drink or two thinking her over and wondering what her angle was. I Was pretty sure she was interested in me for more than my manly charms And it occurred to me that it might not be too unpleasant finding out what was on her mind Especially if it could help me locate an embezzler named Alvin Summers. I went up to my room to change when I got there I found I had company close the door Wow my friend from the bar downstairs. I said close the door. Okay By the gun turn around face the wall Okay, hands against the wall. Hey look, what are you shut up? If you're looking for my gun, it's under my left arm. Thanks Now turn around so what's this all about? That's just what you're gonna tell me What's your name Johnny dollar I'll bet cross my heart. We'll try again What's your name? I told you Johnny dollar you can think of a better one than that. Why is up Buster? It sounds so phony. It's got to be legitimate and speaking of names. What's yours? I'm asking the questions your answering Okay, we'll play it your way. What are you doing down here? Look, I'll make a deal with you. You tell me why you want to know and maybe I'll be Play games with me dollar Next time you get more than the barrel of the gun Hey, look, I don't know what this is all about. Okay, we'll cut out the question and answer routine I know why you're here. Oh, so forget it dollar drop the whole thing and beat it. Maybe I'll like it around here Touch you won't like it out here anymore dollar. You'll learn to hate it You're not gun put up a pretty convincing argument. I'll give it to you once more dollar slow and easy so you can get it this time Go on away. Don't ever come back. If you don't go now you won't ever go There'll be another exciting episode in the story of the Alvin Summers matter tomorrow tomorrow night a threesome on a moonlit beach a beautiful girl me and a guy with a knife Join us. Won't you yours truly Johnny dollar? Yours truly Johnny dollar starring Bob Bailey is transcribed in Hollywood written by Robert Reif It is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone Be sure to join us tomorrow night same time and station for the next exciting episode of yours truly Johnny dollar Roy Rowan speaking