 Johnny dollar why don't you get married to me? Well, I Johnny dollar well, will you marry me? Well, sure why not anytime you say Janet, oh, sorry. I meant Carol. Oh, you did Mariana. No Gladys. No, Janie Let's try Hildi Merlin How about no? No Yes Leading me on again like you have been for all these umpteen years, but you listen to me Johnny dollars Yes, dear It weren't for that crazy business of yours jumping around over the country getting slapped and shot at Enough to drive a loving wife to drink. Yes, Johnny. I'd trick you into a date with a preacher Yes, dear Well, you wouldn't like that Oh, sure I do you drive you to drink every time I have to be away or tangle with a killer And if you just stop being so darn insistent about my popping the question why he knows, maybe I'd Well, yes, if I did stop trying so hard to land you you'd watch Johnny Uh, I declined to answer on the grounds of my tend to Heartless dope I'm such a shameless fuzzy for admitting the way I feel but if you ever do decide to become a normal human being Get into some safe sane honest business that Only Johnny. Yes, we I'm afraid it's about business that I really called you. I mean insurance business. Oh my entire ego just flew out the window Well, what is it, hon? I? I've got to see you right away Betty. I'll be out there at 13 325 East Maple Drive No, honey. I'm not at home. Okay at the office. No, dear. I'm not at the office either. Tell me where you are Where you want me to meet you just Stay right there and wait until I call you again. Will you please honey? Well, I look I just hung up on a frantic phone call from Fritz Melchior over at Continental Insurance and Trust apparently the usual sort of emergency I know No, I mean, I'm sorry, but this is so important honey and since it concerns me and if anything were to happen Happen to you Betty Johnny dear. I can't talk anymore right now, but wait Wait until I call you and tell you where to meet me. Hey now listen Betty. I'll call you. No listen Something very funny about this CBS radio brings you Bob Bailey in the exciting adventures of the man with the action-fact expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigators truly Johnny dollar Expense accounts submitted by special investigator Johnny dollar to the Continental Insurance and Trust Company home office Hartford, Connecticut Following is an account of expenses incurred during my investigation of the mystery gal matter There was something very strange about that call from Betty Lewis Except for the end of it. I'd almost exactly the same conversation with her only a couple of days before almost word-for-word. Oh Sure the marriage talk has been going on for a long time and why kid about it If it weren't for this crazy sometimes risky job of mine I'd ask that girl to marry me in a second and maybe someday But she knows all that she knows why it just doesn't make sense right now for either of us to think about it We've agreed to that so why bring it up again at a time when she actually had some important matter involving insurance on her mind Important enough to stall me on whatever it was that Melchior at Continental Insurance and Trust wanted me for I Waited for her to call me back Yeah, I waited over an hour and then finally though. She told me she wasn't home or at the office. I called her house No answer. I called her office then to see if they knew where she might be Much to my surprise the switchboard operator told me she was right there had been there all day Yeah, hi hon listen, I thought you were gonna call me back Well And I thought you weren't in the office Whatever made you think a thing like that Are you kidding? You said you weren't when I talked to you about an hour ago I might have known this would happen sooner or later so many girls on the string. You can't even keep Betty you talked to one probably even proposed to her and then you lose track of which one it was Are you trying to tell me you didn't call me on the phone an hour an hour and a half ago? Insurance matters some emergency Had to see me right away that you'd call me back about where to meet you I'm dead serious, so let's cut out all this nonsense You're you're sure that Honey, I I'm sorry. I got a hang up. Johnny is something wrong. I'm afraid so I'll call you later I wish to heaven I knew Pepsi Cola refreshes without filling why because it's truly light Charlie you're forgetting something wait K There's more. Yes ice-cold Pepsi is the delicious refreshment that goes great at a picnic or a party But John and Pepsi goes fast people like it. So keep plenty handy there Oh, you did fine Except for one thing. Well, I mentioned likeness and how Pepsi refreshes and how fast it goes You left out Pepsi sociability, you know the be sociable song, okay? I can't sing I can listen Well, at least I can say this pick up an extra carton of Pepsi today Please do and now act two of yours truly Johnny dollar and the mystery gal matter Expensive on item one a dollar fifteen for a taxi to Fred milky or his office at continental insurance and trust I didn't bother phoning ahead to tell him why I was so late in responding to his call for help I found him literally pacing the floor. Oh Johnny thank goodness. Yeah, hi efforts only I didn't expect you in here so soon sit down Is everything all right so soon did you say what here? I was all set to apologize for not having got here when I was supposed to nearly two hours ago Well, as long as you called me back and asked if you might go right back Yes, of course, and I agreed with you It was best not to waste time coming here for the facts on the car No, no, wait a minute Fred so I told you all about it though I still think it shouldn't have been gone into on the telephone told me about what but since time was so Important and since you're going out there right away my Johnny what did you say? I didn't but I will now listen to me fritz There's something very screwy going on around here. Oh, what do you mean? You call me on the phone about an hour and a half maybe two hours ago Yes, you ask me if I'd come on over here and see it Yes, you said you were still in bed, but that as soon as you could get shaved and dressed at a cup of coffee You'd come on over here. Okay, so far so good and then well naturally I Waited for you. Yeah, but then after half or three quarters of an hour when you didn't show up Oh and believe me this matter is so urgent so pressing so hello important matter No, no wait, let's not go into that just yet. So so what happened when I didn't appear I decided I'd better call you again, but I didn't have a chance why not Why not? Well, you know why not because you called me back. I did, huh? Well, yes, and as I reminded you a moment ago You suggested that instead of wasting time coming here to the only fritz. Yes, I didn't call you back now Why do you say a thing like that? Of course you didn't no But Johnny, but it's pretty obvious somebody did. Oh, but I'm sure somebody who tried to make you think it was me Who must have succeeded pretty well, but that's him, but Johnny Johnny, I hope you're not joking. I am not because I am certain Absolutely certain. I mean, well, how could I mistake your voice after all these years looks like you did though doesn't well Then who was it that called me and told me it was you and Asked me for all the details on this case that I want you to handle for us brother I wish I knew and then when I told him told him where to go and whom to see He agreed to get on it right away. I thinking it was you. Oh, no No, oh good heaven now what well this all means that you haven't been out there to see him our client I mean out on East Maple Drive who fritz. Oh good heavens Johnny. Oh, we're too late Well, come on. We've got to get out there and see him. Yes, right away Yeah, sure anything you say, but first would you mind telling me who this client is and what's bothering him? Oh, no, no time Johnny. No time. No, you just come along and I'll tell you all about it on the way I I Hope you don't mind my driving so fast Johnny, but time you know time is of the S time for what friends now Why don't you just start from the beginning? Yes. Yes. Yes. I will now When I called and I talked to you the first time the only time friends. Oh, all right. Yes. Yes Yes, it must have been somebody else who knew I called you before who found out for me that Ellis I'm listening now anyhow when I talked to you I told you I'd had a call from one of our clients Yeah, only you didn't say who how the call was from mr. John Marshall Sawyer out there on East Maple Drive So here the attorney. Yes. Yes retired was right across the street. Well from a very good friend of mine I don't know about that. I don't care the point is that mr. Sawyer before he retired and came up here Sure the DA's office down in New York, that's right probably sent more hoodlums up the river than anybody else the big town's history Exactly Including Andy Rinaldi Andy the actor. That's right Confidence man and suspected killer. Yeah, I had a hand in that case myself I know Andy the actor was a character right out of the old pulp magazine. Yes. He was so clever at disguise It's no one of the police took so long to catch up with me. Yes now Hey, you know what time he did such a perfect imitation to some big financier looks voice Everything that one of the big banks handed him nearly a quarter million in cash and Wait a minute You thought that I had called you back. Yes, John. Yes, and Andy Rinaldi got out of prison only a few days ago So that's who it was so mr. Sawyer thinks he may come here and try to get even with him And he disappeared contrary to all the parole regulations and so on but being such an actor such a master of disguise Well, I suppose he figures he can make it just as difficult for the authorities to track him down as he did some years ago And he's probably right. Oh kind like that other be kept in the cling forever. Oh, of course He's been reported here and there half a dozen innocent people been picked up all over why it's far west is Los Angeles Ah, he's too smart to travel far the longer the trail usually the easier it is to pick up the point is Mr. Sawyer was awakened last night by somebody prowling around outside his home Apparently just Casing it well, it could have been a common burglar. He thinks it must have been Andy the actor Did he notify the police? No, he wants you on the job You know Andy and you're on to some of his tricks. Well, maybe some of them. What's more? Andy may have reason to feel the same way about you as he does about mr. Sawyer That phone call to you pretending to be me somehow he must have found out you'd call me But that girl who called me girl who perfect imitation of Betty Lewis, I'm afraid I don't know if you'd better step on it You say a girl called you had to stall me off It had to be to maybe keep you away just long enough for him to get out here Come on faster fritz anything you say but listen Johnny the point is that if Andy comes around The point is that he may have decided not to wait until tonight. Come on. Let me take the wheel fritz. We got to make time We made time all right, but all along the way I kept reminding myself that if those phony calls had been meant to delay me They couldn't have hoped to keep me away for long In other words, Andy the actor was ready to take care of us to Sawyer right now I hoped him crazy. We wouldn't be too late. So here was an old man hardly a match for a killer All right now now here. We are and now look Johnny front door of his house is wide open That isn't right. Come on fritz don't waste time talking about it. Oh, no, we're too late It's fighting it's a wall say fighting it's a wall No Look what body fallen there in the doorway Yeah Yeah, the camel blend of caustic tobaccos has never been equaled for real smoking satisfaction Have a real cigarette start to really enjoy smoking again now act three of yours truly Johnny dollar It was not the body of mr. Sawyer lying there in the doorway of his home But then it was Sawyer who slowly stepped out onto the porch where Fritz and I were still flat against the wall He stood there quietly for a brief moment and handed the still smoking 38 to me Here Johnny. Yeah, thanks, mr. Sawyer only one shot the first one you heard Was from his gun. I'm sorry about this about killing a man, but I'm afraid he gave me no choice. It's Andy the actor. All right, Johnny. Yeah, look here. These false sideburns the must They still alive fritz. Yes. Yes. He's still alive. Thank you. Then you better call an ambulance and the police. Yes Yes, sure. Well, mr. Sawyer Hey, and you know something You may have saved my life too. I followed the ambulance into the hospital and I hope Andy the actor would come too There were some things I wanted to ask him about the girl the actress who'd call me on the phone to hold me at my apartment until They could carry out his planning as Mr. Sawyer But Rinaldi stayed unconscious. So I took a cab back to my place. That's item three a dollar and a half As I walked up to the door a man from the phone company came around the side of the building Hey, excuse me. Aren't you mr. Johnny dollar? Yeah, that's right. Oh, I've been hoping you come home You want to check your phone for me now? Oh something that mattered with my phone. Oh, there sure was Oh, yeah, somebody put a tap on that line of yours You wouldn't have any way of knowing it so that we have ways of knowing down at the phone company Yeah, so that's how any of the girl whoever she has got to know our voices Yeah, a lot of people think they can get away with tapping a phone line And believe me mr. Dollar. They can't get away with it for long They took off the line in the basement. You have any idea who might have done it Yeah, and the no what well Andy the actor for one What's that who the girl is hey mr. Dollar, what are you talking about? Oh, nothing nothing you need to worry about Sure, whatever you say, but now if you go inside and dial somebody and see if you get him Okay, you see I got a handset still hooked up to it. Yeah, I'll do that Oh, and they're the cops have already been notified. So if they come around asking questions, okay, thanks Okay, fella. You can get off this line. It's all right. Yes. Yeah, Betty Now listen, tell me what you listen Johnny, can you come out here to my house, right? Betty listen to me night before last you went to the movie We got there in the middle of the picture. I know what part of the picture If it was you with me, you know what part of the picture Okay, okay, you're you all right Johnny I haven't the least idea what this is all about, but can you come out here and see me right away? I've got a surprise for you and honest honey. It's a really important one Betty I mean, she's a really important one. She yes dear Well, you don't mean to say that you I'm on my way Come on in the house. Now listen, buddy. This is some kind of a honey cross my heart But listen, yeah, I came home from the office early I had to walk the last couple of blocks because I ran out of gas Yeah, yeah, all of a sudden you and somebody else came charging up in a car to that house across the street Mr. Sorry, you were right. Yes, but I suddenly got too busy to call at you or anything You see I was just letting myself in through the back door. Okay. Now this surprise you talk about I've forgotten my key to the front door. So I had to sneak in the back one I always leave that key under the money. Would you get to the point? But the key was there and the back door was already open. Oh go on I started in quietly and then I heard a couple of shots over there at mr. Sawyer's house. Yeah, and Johnny yeah There in my living room Standing behind the drapes of the front window and with a gun in her hand was this girl the girl Standing there watching across the street so intently that she didn't hear me come in She started aiming the gun over at you and that man who was with you and mr. Sawyer who'd come to the door Well, let's go inside behind her and Well, I'm afraid I kind of ruined one of my nicest vases on her head And you've got it. You've got them inside all tied up with all the clothesline. I could find honey. I love you dearly Where is she here? Right here in the living room. Oh great. What a girl you oh You must have really clouded it. Well, I did But when she came to and started talking Well, honey, this burglar or whatever she is well She started talking her head off trying to tell me I didn't understand. Well, how could she with that gang? And you know something she sounded so much like me and I got so tired of listening to that voice Well, that's the reason I put that gag in her mouth Well You're proud of me Don't you agree? She must have had something to do with you You know something I love you gal That's what I like Oh, honey Why don't you and I just And you preach to me about getting mixed up with people like this had he sensed a tiny over my knee and I This is much more fun And maybe someday Yeah Expense account total including That's funny something or someone seems to have somehow diverted my attention for the moment from anything as trivial as an expense account trivial Yours truly shiny dollar Maybe you'll recall this tuneful reminder of times past This is Dennis James with something else worth remembering it's this You're so right to stay regular with Kellogg's all brand see it's the normal natural way to youthful regularity The whole brand content of Kellogg's all brand supplies your system with all the bulk forming food that you need every day There's only one all brand. It's Kellogg's all brand So relieve a regularity from lack of bulk as millions do with a bowl full of Kellogg's all brand each morning a Double L hyphen B. R. A. M. It's Kellogg's all brand Now here's our star to tell you about next week's program next week I'll tell you about the biggest deception that was ever pulled by me So join us. Won't you yours truly? Johnny dollar Johnny dollar starring Bob Bailey Originates in Hollywood and is written produced and directed by Jack Johnstone heard in our cast were Virginia Greg Jerry Hausner Harley Bear and Peter Leeds Be sure to join us next week same time and station for another exciting story of yours truly Johnny dollar This is John Wall speaking Suspense is next on the CBS radio network You know dooly I've been leading up on hypnosis come here and let me tie it on you I'm an officer the law and don't approve of making a man defogus secrets However, I'll stand by in case there's criminology involved. I just want to clear up some of his problems offers a sudden I Haven't got any problems. I'm the soul of contentment. Maybe that's your trouble. You're too contented. Lie down dooly You're going to sleep. I feel so good He's under my influence now little tight get up go straight to the beat of your choice Astounding he's heading for you to good club Cuz you took a club will still take the trouble to age fear the natural way You took a club you see he's got no problem. He's a happy well-adjusted bear mom Rude by the West End Brewing Company of Utica, New York Radio 59 W. R. R. W. Albany, New York