 From Hollywood it's time now for Johnny dollar Abdul you don't know me. Oh, I have the little business. Well, I'm so happy for you. I hope it's doing well Okay, what now look Joe Abdul Jobs for people for servants all the employment agent. Have you got the address of that girl who worked for the Countess? You've got the wrong idea Abdul. I just want to talk to her. Where does she live? I'll give you 10. No, she's worth more. Look knock it off I got to find her and talk to her fast while I'm still alive and while she is Tonight and every weekday night Bob Bailey in the transcribed adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator. Yes, truly Johnny dollar From special investigator Johnny dollar location Algiers, North Africa to the Home Office Transworld Fidelity Company Hartford, Connecticut Assignment the Lorco Diamonds matter a hundred thousand dollars worth missing expense account continues Item nine fifteen dollars even Gratuity tip gift bonus. Ah, why kid about it? It was a bribe To a man named Abdul for the address of a girl named Chara an address up in the native quarter the Casbah But the idea wasn't romance no matter what Abdul thought Four hours earlier in the Countess Duttalia's apartment somebody had turned on the gas and tried to kill one or both of us It was nine to one that the somebody was chartered a servant. I wanted to ask her why I Put my coat on it was just on the point of leaving my hotel. I Slipped a gun into my side pocket and moved over to the door Now is it Going What's on your mind you check if I come inside it's kind of personal, you know what I mean probably All right, come on in much obliged I didn't know who you were but when we when we got that little fracas at their cop told me about it afterward Man, you really got a wallop on you. You make a fella know he's at it You know what I mean is that why you're here a post mortem on the fight. No, no, no, it's done and over You whip me fair and square as far as I'm concerned if you've got anything to say, let's have it fast I'm in a hurry to get out of here. Well, I sure don't want to take up no more your time than necessary. I know how it is Course I'm on vacation now. We're back in Chicago. I'm in a meat business Look, Barrett, would you at least in a way? I am I mean by products. Actually, you know what they say use everything with the squeal I'm the fellow the Kansas squeal you get it. Oh brother What I come here for was Maybe to get it straightened out about that game Do you mean that count is that earlier count is count is them titles are a dime a dozen I can buy him sell them like sausages. Oh, what about her? I look neighbor I was figuring to come here and put it to your man-to-man. You know what I mean I know what I'm beginning to think you mean I figure when you see my position You'd want to do the square thing like anybody on the right side of the fence would you with me neighbor? You better drop that neighbor business. I've moved Well dollar the thing stacks up like this now. I already had my claim staked there before you even got in town I got a lot of money invested in that dame Barrett so how I've been taking her around places, you know feeding her buying her one thing another But I was even going to kick through For a 20 grand chunk of ice for her She and I had that fight last week. You want that dames got highfalutin. I did what are you talking about? Well, I just put it to a cold turkey. I told her she had to quit Jenny flipping around with all those other fellas Or I just wasn't gonna have nothing more to do with her. Well, that made her mad. You understand. She lit into me Man, you ought to hear that dame talk when she's mad. You did you look when was this fight was it before the diamonds were sent here? We sure Sure, I said if that's the way she was going to ask she could forget about them diamonds Well, I ain't seeing a sense of talk to her, but I just can't I just can't seem to get her off my mind. I Look dolly you was in her apartment there for two hours and 40 minutes tonight, and I don't like it It bothers me strictly business Barrett, and I gotta get going now. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. All right. Wait a minute We we still got something to settle here Like I told you I got all Barrett get out You better hold your horses. I don't know if you know that the name CK Barrett if that means anything to you But I got influence back then in the United States. What's the hard way, huh? Look you just work for that company of yours You're nothing but an employee And if you think you can talk to me like you kind of somebody's finest in here now Hello room service. This is Johnny dolly some drunk just wanted in here and passed out Would you send up a couple of boys to drag it out in the hall? Expense account item 10 $5.30 a tip to the bill boys and taxi fare to the Casbah The taxi dropped me off at the end of the causeway and from there on I walked It was late Well after midnight But the narrow crooked alleys were teeming with life Some of it out in the open some of it under cover Small groups of people met together here and there along the cobbled streets Men of two dozen tongues and dialects and women too slip silently in and out of the dark doorways Crouched over tables in the dim lit cafes and coffee houses Groups usually fell silent when I passed instead with hostile curiosity The Casbah backwash of North Africa Little-known seldom bothered and scarcely policed And for an outsider especially at night more dangerous than dynamite The address Abdul had given me turned out to be a coffee house, but it could still be legitimate And there was only one way to find out. I want to see Chata But for private reasons Chata's not here. Where can I find it? Take a seat table in the corner Maybe she'll come I Took the seat ordered coffee and waited a Wrinkled old Arabs squatted on a rug in the middle of the room and played strange weird melodies Gradually the other patrons went back to their conversations ignoring me completely in fact pointedly 20 minutes past the girl didn't show you will of course not object me sure if I take the liberty of joining you No, sit down. Merci So you wish to see chat. Yeah, that's right. Do you know her me? I know her very well no way to find her but naturally, miss you. I always know what they find here. She's my woman So you're the man they call Bobo me miss you the man who poisoned the diamond curry. Oh Miss sure it is true that I gave him some wine a little not much But I think perhaps it was a bad vintage Yes, most unfortunate. It was for him. Well, perhaps it was for the best life is so uncertain But I do not wish to think of such unpleasantness Instead of let us talk about diamonds. Let's talk about killing or attempted killing Is Chata the one who turned on the gas in the Countess's apartment? Dispossible that she did that on whose orders it was nothing personal I didn't even know that you were going to beat him. I see then you really meant to diamonds Miss you that's enough of this foolish talk of killing All right. All right. What about the diamonds? You were sent here by the company that has insured them Is that not correct? That's right. And this company would like very much to recover this diamond. That's why I'm here Now I'm told that these companies sometimes give a larger rewards Agree to an arrangement of a sort make a deal you mean with no questions asked Exactly now is this thing true, sir? Is it possible that you would you have the diamonds Bobo? Well, let us say that I'm able to direct you to their location. You could almost call that a confession What does it matter so long as we are in the Casper? Oh, yeah, sure I imagine you have been spotted all over the place at least 30 right in this room. I am in no danger Tell me something you didn't pull off this job by yourself. Who else was in on it? I only wish to talk about the diamonds Well, can we come to an arrangement? Oh, I don't make deals with murderers. It is better that you do not use such words, it's true though, isn't it? That is not the question. It is only that I resent the insulting way Bobo Did you rise for the police to come here, sir? I'm as surprised as you are Bobo Consider this matter of the deal. We will talk more at some other time The patrons rush for the doors and in one minute flat the coffee house was empty even the owner was gone I was the only one left Three minutes later the inspector with a flying squad of 20 man came bursting into the street Well, I'm happy to find you are still alive. Why don't you get lost somewhere for you? I think it most fortunate that we are I mean time. Oh sure in time to follow up the only lead I had in this case lose a suspect is better than to lose one's life, monsieur Look inspector I was holding a gun in my pocket covering Bobo from the second he sat down at the table But you men are not if it had come to a showdown He couldn't have done a thing because he'd have been the first one to get it and he's wanted enough to have known that But I thought space and inspector. You've done it again. You'll goft, but I was only thinking The shooting was somewhere outside But it hadn't been the police all of the inspectors men were inside the coffee house He gave them orders quickly and they found out to search the area the streets were empty now dark and silent not a soul in sight We split up into pairs I worked with inspector Marcus for a while and left him and searched alone along a narrow side passage That's where I found him He'd been shot three times in the back and he was dying Mr. Dollar. Yeah, Bobo you you can't forget that deal. I think yeah, it's a little too late for deals now Who was in honor with you Bobo? Look, you've got nothing to lose by talking. You know that don't you? Except my auntie, monsieur as you see this of the castle who shot you a dragon, monsieur 12 feet tall with fiery eyes. All right, Bobo. All right, but just tell me this just one thing Are you the man who attacked the property agent at the airport the man who slug Andre Jardine? Oui monsieur. I do it very good. No Almost I kill him He's too bad. I Minute or two later inspector Marcus came up and we stood there looking down at the dead man lying on the stones of the alley He was a short man stockily built with wide shoulders and a deep chest It was the body of a man of action of accomplishment But he chosen to be a smuggler dope peddler thief and killer Now he had become the victim of another killer. Did he say anything? Monsieur? Was he able to talk? Yeah Enough. Huh? What is it to mean monsieur? Do you know who is guilty of this? Yeah, that's right inspector. I know the whole story now The whole filthy rotten story There'll be the final intriguing episode in our story of the Lorco Diamonds matter tomorrow tomorrow night The odds are set the last chip is down. It's the last spin of the wheel and death is the croupier Join us. Won't you? Yours truly Johnny dolly Yours truly Johnny dolly starring Bob Bailey is transcribed in Hollywood Written by Les Crutchfield it is produced and directed by Jack John stone Be sure to join us tomorrow night same time in station for the next exciting episode of yours truly Johnny dollar Roy Rowan speaking