 That's for your listening enjoyment, John Lawton, Baz. Johnny Dawes. George Dean, Johnny. Conduct Mitchell. Oh, hi, George. Johnny, how does Los Vegas sound to you? Expensive. Can you afford it? Got to a client of ours at a 30 grand diamond necklace stolen out there yesterday. Little of a sword. The batter? One and only. Still packing them in after all these years. And still the same? Well, they think every girl needs a hobby, George. Not two hobbies, though. That should run into money. The makers of Wrigley's Spear Mint Gum bring you John Lawton, another adventure of the man with the action-packed expensive couch. America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator. Here's to you, Johnny Dawes. Wherever you go, whatever you do, enjoy chewing Wrigley's Spear Mint Gum. That lively, full-bodied Wrigley's Spear Mint flavor is really refreshing. It cools your mouth and freshens your taste. The pleasant chewing helps keep your throat moist, helps relieve that dry, thirsty feeling. 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Johnny Dawes, special investigator for your insurance company. Oh, well that's very nice. I'm sure of it. That's why I'm here. Mind if I ask him in? Oh, please do, Mr. Dawes. This is Eddie Lawson, Mr. Dawes, my very dear friend. Just a doll, really. Hello, how are you? I think it's awfully dry and nice for the insurance company to take this and interest in my poor little affair. I imagine they regard $30,000 as more of a rich figure there. Oh dear. And then I suppose you'll go around crying into all my most intimate secrets and such embarrassing questions that I'll just... Oh, I think having jewelry stolen is always such a bore. Yes. The insurance company feels the same way, Mr. Sur. Now, it's not just... Oh, good heavens. Look at the time. I got the fly. Lily, you remember what I told you. Now, Eddie, don't start being a child. Don't you think these questions out there are just adorable, Mr. Zoller? Well, they do a lot to point out the girl's personality, all right? Well, maybe this investigation won't be such a chore after all. Oh dear. I'm late. Buck and Devastator are going to be just furious. Oh, tell me more about your show tonight, Johnny. 10 o'clock at the Billion Dollar Club. Buck Barclay, he's the writing instructor at the Lacey J. Staley's. Devastator is the horse. It's a better name for Lily. I'm going to marry Lily, Mr. Dollar. Oh, congratulations. Now, what about this necklace? What happened? It disappeared. That's all I know about it. So how? Where? Look, why don't you do like Lily said, come around tonight. The same gang will be there, and you can check to set up yourself, see what happens. You can keep an eye on this Buck Barclay that you want to kiss with me. And the other are anywhere, as long as it's not on Lily. Two dollars and fifty cents. And twelve dollars for a hired car to the Lacey J. Staley's. Horses for hire. English or western-style saddles. Instructor available. A western-style instructor as was soon painfully obvious. Hello, Mr. Dollar. Lily just took off from here a couple of years ago. I know. You, uh, eastern friend of hers? Well, I'm not exactly a friend. I'm a special investigator. Checking into those diamonds she lost the other evening. Oh, I see. I haven't seen if you were there. Might know something about it. No, sir. Beats me. There we were sitting on that fancy pairs kind of thing they got there. Hoisting a little poison and shawing on some beef steak, you know. And the next thing you know, Miss Lily lets out a gyphosis. My rocks. Somebody at them took my rocks. I didn't even know she had any jewelry out there with her. Did anybody know she had? Well, not unless it was with Joe. Miss Joe? Oh, the gal I've run, Miss Joe and Greg. I was thinking she might have known because she ambled down to Miss Lily's room with us so they could change their glad rags and put on their bathing suits, you know. She'd been pestering me for a week to meet Mr. Sir, but she sure wouldn't take nothing if it didn't belong to her. But I wonder if there was a diamond necklace on the terrace. Well, you ain't able to say Miss Lily lied about it, are you? Well, that little woman is true blue, Miss. Matter of fact, Mr. Darlow wouldn't want this to get around, but I'm sort of amin' her. Well... Tell me a guess, Buck. You're amin' to marry her. Yes. I reckon it just sticks out a little bit. Double Miss Darlow. Well, it's supper, Mr. Darlow. Not that I'm the only one with a pool. It was after Mr. Sir's last show, so the four of them had the place pretty much for themselves. Now, who were the four, Marshall? Well, there was Mr. Sir, of course, in the gin color he brought with it from the east. Had he lost him? Yeah. Don't know much about him, except she's dang old enough to be his mother. Well, I'll have to admit, she doesn't work at all. Sure, I don't. Well, the other young fellow, so when you talked to Buck Bartlett, he called and said, Oh, yeah, the Texans. Yeah. He's about as Texan as you are, Mr. Darlow. Came here from Los Angeles. He just puts on that talk because the eastern are like it, especially the eastern women. The Texans are all comes in handy, huh? Then the other one, the girl named Joan Bray. Yeah, she was there with Bartlett. And she's kind of a funny young, pretty, smarter than whip. Came out from the east while back. She's floor manager at the casino at the billion dollar club. Talk to her. See what you think. I can't figure it out. All right? I'll see if I can. Yeah. Come talk to me again after you look around a little. Fine, I will. You know, I've seen these slot machines all over town. The last place I'd look for one is in the Marshall's office. Well, that's kind of very special. Guess I might as well take the jackpot with me. Lemon. Yeah, that's all it ever is. Huh? It's rigged. I send the money it takes in over the county opening. Charge it up to experience, Mr. Dollar. Expense account items free, one dollar for experience and information from the Marshall's office. And $17 miscellaneous expenses at the billion dollar club where miscellaneous covers a lot of different items. One item is the roulette wheel for conversation anyway. Of course I haven't had much yet. What would you like, the story of my life? We could start with that. All right. Lay out a dollar. 12 p.m. Raised entirely by nurses. Educated in exclusive private schools. I'm glad you're looking to flank colleagues for such a leave's name. 30 p.m. Would you like it so far? Well, it isn't original, but well told. Go on. Lay out another dollar. You've lost that one. And where was I? Oh, yes, the divorce. Quite sensational, really. A lot of clients with good accounts and support. He was bankrupt during three months and dead by suicide within six. You see, the other woman killed him. And I had tenderly nourished his tackling. He was passed out into the world of industry. Well, never fear. Heaven will protect the working world. Oh, that was also funny. Yeah. It was a scream. Work came even. And what did you do with the necklace? What? What is this? Who are you? Johnny Dollar, insurance investigator. And you're Joan Gray. The one who badly damaged the service. She changed clothes in her room with her. She was the only one who knew she had the diamonds out of the pool. The work's here for about only 50 bucks a day because of the use. $30,000. $22,000. And I asked you what you did with the necklace. I think that ought to cover the... What is this? Mr. Dollar, if you'd like to say we're left by all means, stay around. But I must say that I don't have any more conversations. It's not a big crisis. I thought I was overcharged for what I got. And this will show you the whole story was true. And with all that background and running a casino, is the best you could do? The best for me. It's good in glamour and sparkle. And that's what I was brought up to success. Diamonds sparkle a lot too. I missed Lily's first show at the Billion Dollar Club but I met her by the pool at her hotel right afterwards. It was a warm night. The stars blazed against the bedded sky and Lily and her guests cindillated back from the terrace below. Except me. I didn't cindillate. So far I wasn't any closer to that necklace than I did when I got off the plane. I had the feeling I'd learned a few things when at the same time I hadn't learned anything and Lily didn't have much. You're utterly gorgeous, Johnny. Yeah, the original Catalina had. Just look for the flying fish. Oh, he's just beautiful. He was a lifeguard in Miami, you know. Much thinner than he is now. I see. Look at Mark Watson. He makes you so too frivolous. He knows it too. Oh, they both just streaming me too. Stream me. How about that necklace? Oh, it's too nice and nice. Let's worry about it tomorrow. Let's worry about it tonight. Oh, John. Might as well go along with him, Lily. I've got a one-track mind. John, darling, I didn't see you there in the shadows. That's helping out the island. Why were you standing that night, Lily? Well, by the oddest coincidence possible, I didn't have very chance. You see, ordinarily I kept the necklace in the hotel space, but I wore it in my show that night and it was late when we got here and then we changed into swimming suits and I didn't want to leave it in my swing, so I just bought it out here. That's in a handkerchief. It was right here on the seat beside me all the time. Well, all of a sudden it wasn't there, did it? Well, yes, that's exactly the way it happened. Now it's all settled. Let's talk about something. Lily, you know as well as I do, it's not settled. You can't tell the insurance company that things just disappeared and that's all there is to it. They want to know how it disappeared, when and where. Well, it must be so hideously persistent. It happened while I was playing the slot machine. That one, that over there. I left the necklace behind here in the gym. And where were the others while you were over there waltzing with the slot machine? Oh, hello, nice phone. I don't know. When I hit the jackpot, I said we went right out of my mind. How about you, John? How are you? Like it says, you're out. Oh, plenty of opportunity, that's what you mean. Oh, at least, fantastic. She's a dear girl, John. And I insist that you stop suspecting her or anybody else either. Well, I wasn't the court or the other way. There wasn't really much of a problem, Johnny. We were wearing swimsuits, you know. John, I doubt if you went out of your mind over the jackpot, did you notice where the boys were at the time? Well, far as I can remember. I reckon the man ought to have the privilege to answer for himself. By sure. Pull up an empty saddle and join the party. Excuse you, Eddie. All right, Buck, where were you? I was over there with Miss Lily. I was standing right behind her when she up and hit that jackpot. I was in the pool. I came out when I heard everybody yelling about some diamonds and things. Do you check them out on that, John? Sure. That's how I remember. Well, I'm certainly glad it's all set. Oh, Johnny, you'll have to excuse me now. I've got to get ready for my show. I'd be mighty proud to scorch to your room, Miss Lily. Now, wait a minute. Stable to breathe. Boys! Boy, you can both scorch me. Come along now. I'll be right back, Johnny. Don't go away now. Silly and soft of the kitten on the surface. But inside, all angles and heart is a rock. She belongs to a different age, John. The last of the champagne slipper girls. Johnny, how much are those diamonds worth to you? To me. To the insurance company. Sometimes they make deals, don't they? Sometimes. No questions asked. Sometimes? How much? Ten. I have to find out. Everything about life, Johnny? I hope I can help it. It's real crazy where it works out. I didn't finish that story of my life, Johnny. My real name's Jones. My father was Jonathan Van der Lee Jones. Jonathan Van der Lee Jones? But if that's true then... Yeah. It's real crazy. The correspondence my mother named in that divorce case was Lily LeSue. You know, Wrigley's Spearmint Gum is a delicious treat that millions enjoy all year round. It's good to chew almost any time and any place. In warm weather, you'll enjoy especially the refreshments that Wrigley's Spearmint Gum gives you. When your mouth feels hot and dry, or when you're feeling warm and tired, chewing Wrigley's Spearmint Gum gives you a pleasant little lift. It cools your mouth, moistened your throat, and refreshes your taste. Besides, chewing on a good smooth piece of Wrigley's Spearmint Gum seems to add enjoyment to whatever else you're doing. So always keep some Wrigley's Spearmint Chewing Gum handy. Enjoy it at home, at work, wherever you are. Remember, that's Wrigley's Spearmint Chewing Gum. Helpful, refreshing, delicious. And now, with our star, John Lund, we bring you the second act of yours truly, Johnny Dollar. $5.90, supper snack with Joan on the hotel terrace. I sent there trying to put things together. Either Joan had suddenly spotted something that had tipped her off to the thief, or if she'd taken the diamonds herself, something had caused her to decide on a deal. But which, and what was it? I tried to remember what had happened just before, what had been said, and got nowhere. You know, Johnny, it's funny. I'd always been the innocent bystander, up until now. Maybe that's what you want to go on being, unless you've told it yourself. Would the daughter of Jonathan Van Der Lee-Jones turn out to be a thief? She might, for money and other valuable considerations. Like, for instance? Like a chance to hit back at the woman who ruined her father. Mm-mm. How are you heading up a dead end street? Maybe you are, too. Well, I guess we're expecting that to bring you down a club. Not I. Little Joan's got work to do. So is little Johnny. Maybe we'll meet in the same playpen. Somehow I don't think so. As I know. What happened if I just waived any claim of insurance on the next visit? Drop the whole thing, right now. Which one did it? Sure, I don't... Which one do you think did it do? Maybe I decided it doesn't matter which one. Suppose it was Joan. Would you still want to drop it? Oh, that's ridiculous. Or there's still another possibility. Maybe you started something you want to back out of now. Johnny, why must you be so hideously difficult? The insurance company sent you out here to save $30,000 for it. And I'm just utterly certain they won't care how or why as long as they seek it. No, maybe they won't. So what about me, Lily? It leaves me curious. No, I'm quite sure you know a good deal more about this than you're letting on. Well, I've got to run again at times of my show. Bye, sweetie. Expensive item five, $10 for an hour and a half of more miscellaneous at the billion-dollar club. Lily was in too much demand for any chance of a quiet talk, and my other three chums weren't around. I was trying to decide whether to go back to the hotel when I was paged over the public address system. I picked up the phone at the end of the bar. Johnny, darling. Oh, yeah? What's up, Marshall? I've been arranged to get into the market. Did you find it? No. Did you notice your hand? Yeah. Apparently, you've had him around something greasy, rusty. I wonder... Wait a second. You may not have been killed here at the club. He could have been brought here and left, if possible. Who's this cop along to? Buck Bartlett. We've got the boy out looking for him now. It's almost time up. Do you want to let me in on it, Mr. Dollar? Let me check first. I'm doing a lot of guessing. Joan brought up this deal while we were all at Lily's hotel this evening. I think she just figured out how the necklace was stolen. I think she was killed trying to get it. I think I figured it out, too. But let me check first, Marshall. I'll talk to you later. Ten minutes later, I was alone on the deserted terrace beside the swimming pool at Lily's hotel. I knelt on the edge and looked down into the water. Crystal clear, lighted by an underwater bulb, sunk in a concrete wall. The pumping system was running as usual, drawing the water from the drain pipe on the deep end, circulating it through the filter tanks in the pump room, and returning it to the shallow end. I took my handkerchief, waved it with my room key, picked the spot carefully, and dropped it into the water. I watched it sink down till the drain. Down, down, then suddenly it was caught by the curtain, sucked into the drain. So far, so good. The next step was the pump room. I looked around to the switch on the pump motor, found it, and shut it off. There was a crescent wrench laying on the window ledge. It was shiny and clean. No use worrying about fingerprints. I picked it up and started to work on the rusty cover bolts on the strainer tank. Probably the same way Joan had started. Now, if you're clever, she said, well, she was clever. Well, not clever enough. Inside the strainer tank, laying in a wire basket was my handkerchief and room key. And beside it was Lily's diamond necklace. I was halfway across the terrace, and the lights around the pool went out. Somebody had pulled the main switch. I stopped and listened, waiting. But when it came, I was caught off guard. Somebody hit me and knocked me into the water. When I came up, I heard someone swimming. Whoever it was had come into the pool after me. I made the side, grabbed hold of the ledge with my left hand, threw back the wrench in my life. As the slashing came close, I lifted it and swung. Look here, without flashlight. There's a light. The switch was pulled. Here, helped me get him out of the water. Yeah. Marshall, this time, I had the wrench. Well, huh? He'd lost it. Yeah. I found the necklace in the strainer of the fillet system. Well, it's been all the time. He was lying when he said he was in a pool when Lily hit the jackpot. Right afterward, during the excitement, took the time as with him. Joan knew he was lying, and she figured out what he'd done. He was a smart kid. Too smart. Oh, you did. I mean... Which one of your boyfriends? Why don't you give up, Lily? Time moves along. The years add up. I'm not harming anyone. Aren't you? Joan is dead. He killed her over these diamonds of yours. Dead? Dead? It's all right, though, as long as you're not harming anyone. But how could I know? I didn't mean any harm to that poor girl. Eddie could have had the diamonds if I'd known. They didn't matter, Johnny. Just a gift a long time ago. I don't even remember who it was. J.V.J.? Those are the initials on the class. Shit. That's who it was. Joan. Some fool named Jonathan Vanderley-Jones. They didn't mean a thing to me. Item 6. $51.40. Hotel charges and additional miscellaneous. Expense account total $418.40. Remarks? Suggest you reconsider this account. Clients should be regarded as a bad risk. It'll happen again. Here's truly Johnny Dollar. Friends, wherever you are, whatever you do, enjoy chewing wriggly spearmint gum. That lively full-bodied wriggly spearmint flavor is really refreshing. It cools your mouth, moistened your throat, helps keep you feeling fresh, comfortable. The smooth, pleasant chewing helps keep you feeling relaxed, too. So you naturally feel better, work better, get more fun out of doing things. Remember, too, wriggly spearmint chewing gum is a refreshing treat you can enjoy almost any time and any place. Just slip a stick into your mouth whenever you want it. Do as millions do. Keep wriggly spearmint chewing gum handy and enjoy it often every day. That's wriggly spearmint chewing gum. 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