 From Hollywood, it's time now for Yeah, I'm Johnny Duller But my plane's about to take off. He said he's very urgent, sir. Well, it better be I don't get back Hey look, my name's dollar I understand you have a oh, thanks Johnny Duller Todd Swamp Johnny at the Chamber of Commerce. Oh Todd. Look, I'm sorry I didn't have a chance to say goodbye to you and I appreciate all your help like your city to nice people good fishing But I barely had time to make my plane reservation pack my stuff you've got to cancel your reservation cancel my plane's already to leave Earl poorman is on his way to the airport now to pick you up and bring you back here Look, we proved that the accident in that rocket fuel laboratory was an accident I know all worse technician that Leon Spy so the company will pay for the damage and that's that well the company also pay a claim on Leon Salkoff Don't see why now now look I got to catch my what Salkoff is dead Johnny. It looks like murder In the exciting adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator. It's truly Johnny Duller and now act one of yours truly Johnny Duller Expense account submitted by special investigator Johnny Duller To the tri-state life and casualty insurance company Sarasota, Florida Following us an account of expenses incurred during my investigation of the Salkoff sequel matter Expense account item one three dollars no show penalty for cancelling the flight back to Hartford By the time I hung up the phone on Todd swam Earl poorman had pulled a shiny new can into the airport parking lot and we took off I'm glad Todd caught you before you climbed aboard that plane Johnny Earl He said that Leon Salkoff have been murdered. That's what it looks like. Well, what happened? Actually, he's just disappeared but under circumstances that make it look like he's been murdered any idea who Johnny you know as well as I do that he was pretty deep in subversive activities during the last war Yeah, but he's been given a clean slate at least so far as our country is concerned right but then Wait a minute If some of his old pals and we know there are plenty of them in this country working for the other side, right? If they know he's working for us the first thing they do for the sake of their great and glorious cause would be to eliminate one Leon Salkoff Yeah, or at the very least persuade him and I mean torture him into telling the formula the stuff He's helped dr. Allwood develop exactly Where and how did happen? Well, you'll have to get the details from Todd swam us common people aren't even allowed to know we're all worth slab Is hidden away, you know, that's why I'm taking you to see Todd and drive on Todd was waiting for us at the Chamber of Commerce building He thanked her all for dragging me in from the airport Earl left then Todd and I walked out to his car Here Johnny use my car. You know where to go out to the lab. Yes You still haven't told me what happened to Leon Salkoff because I don't know exactly Dr. Allworth called me from the nearest phone down there told me Salkoff is gone that he sure he was murdered Have you dragged the police in on this? No, but I telephoned the FBI in Washington. They've promised to send a man Well, do they know I'm here they might not want any interference I told them about your investigation down there at the lab and they said to give you a free hand. All right good Well, I better get going Johnny. Let me know what you find out Once again, I headed south and route 41 down through Fort Myers where I swung left on 82 and on into the heart of the Everglades I found the old wagon trail leading into the swampy jungle finally came to the shack of the Indian Ben Osceola There I hopped aboard one of his airboats one of those strange little contraptions driven by an airplane type of color Fifty minutes later I pulled up at the first covered island in the middle of that vast wet soggy swamp Dr. Allworth was standing in front of the well-hidden laboratory Mr. Dollar, I'm so glad you haven't left yet. What's happened out here doctor? Oh, it's been terrible a terrible thing like like a nightmare here come inside I'll show you and tell you everything. I know oh Our living quarters are down this corridor. Yeah, I remember After you and mr. Swarm left us yesterday Leon and I went to work immediately to replace the rocket fuel additive We had lost in the accident you investigated. Yes Oh, if only I'd paid attention when he told me about the man He'd seen in Fort Myers the day before but we were so busy. Wait a minute. What man? Someone he'd known in Europe during the war a man. He suspected of now working for Well for those who'd like to sabotage our Yeah, go on doctor look mr. Dollar. This is my room and this right next to it is Leon show Great Scott. Yes. There must have been a terrible struggle And doctor this looks like blood on the floor Now what happened? Well, it was early this morning before dawn. I heard voices in here at first I thought Leon was shouting in his sleep Yes, but then he began to call for help and I heard the furniture being knocked about well Didn't you come in here something had been shoved against my door this table? I couldn't open it then I heard the shot I heard Leon scream with pain then another shot no terrible terrible come on Then I heard them drag poor Leon's body away outside But how did you get out of your room by by placing my bed as you see it now I was able to brace my feet against it force the table away from my door Now come mr. Dollar. All right, I pursued them down this hall, but by the time I reached the outside door They were gone But unless they had an airboat they must have hidden somewhere on the edge of this little island Oh, there are a thousand places in the brush and trees where it could have been hidden. Do you see look a thousand places? I don't see Leon's airboat out here only yours. They took it That's why I think there was more than one of them and now I must leave you what I must go into a telephone I'll be back as soon as possible. Now look wait a minute You're here in charge I'll be darned if I'm gonna chase him What's more I doubt if I could have caught him in the old airboat that I had so all right It would give me a chance to look around alone sometimes. That's the best way I Poked around outside for a while looking for where Leon's attackers might have concealed the boat They'd used and that swamp and brush it was like looking for a needle in a haystack, and I walked back to the laboratory The front door was closed funny. I thought we'd left it open a minute ago. Oh, well Huh, oh no you Two of yours truly Johnny dollar in a moment and now act two of yours truly Johnny dollar and the Salkoff sequel matter I don't know how long I was out after the attack on me at the hidden laboratory the other place But when I came to I was lying in all this bed Across the room and a desk at a well-dressed man going through files of papers and folders I played possibly because I want a time to think If Leon Salkoff had been murdered by subversives, then this man must be one of them But how would he got here without all with knowing or did always know? After all now that I had time to think about it His explanation of what had happened to Salkoff had been pretty glib and the doctors sudden departure a while ago to phone The FBI he'd said didn't he know that Todd Swarm had called him in any event. He'd run off to leave me alone like a sitting duck Who was the man sitting here? Why hadn't he killed me when he had the chance? I rode over and grown my head felt like it was split down the middle. Oh Mr. Dollar you finally come around Yeah, yeah, I guess so You were quite concerned about you. We I'm terribly sorry about what we did to you But until we frisked you and discovered your identity. Why are you a Walter Bramon FBI? Oh When we found you prowling around we thought you might be one of the people we hope to trap here the killer of Leon Salkoff Salkoff is not dead mr. Dollar What? Have you forgotten a case here in Florida that you handle last year probably Baron yes another scientist who apparently disappeared Actually, we had arranged the whole thing so that his whereabouts would not be known while he continued with his nuclear research Yeah, I remember the report of his death and disappearance was to throw off our pals behind the iron curtain precisely So now you've done the same thing Ouch again. I'm sorry dollar, but we didn't know who you were. We didn't want to take any chances You say we mr. Bramon my colleague Mike Crucian who's in searching the laboratory. Oh for what? There are two groups agents from behind the iron curtain who would like to get to Leon Salkoff Either to gain the secrets he's learned in this laboratory or to get rid of him because of his help to this country's defense and missile programs So if he's reported dead each will think the other did it and they'll stop chasing him exactly We had to act fast because Leon has already spotted some of his ex pals as you call them in this general area That's not you're all worth know this whole thing was rigged. No, and you mustn't tell him He's a great scientist, but Well, he might let the cat out of the bag Stall him dollar stall for time Drag out your pretended investigation It'll delay always bringing in the police that sort of thing until we can take care of Salkoff That is install him in his new place Well, maybe I'm a little muddle because of this wallop on the head But I should think you'd tell everybody you can you know to make sure his so-called death is publicized Make sure these people who are after them will get the word. Don't worry. They know I'd stake my life on it And needless to say if any of them come out here, we'll be ready for them. Oh Michael What did you find nothing single? See mr. Dollars come to almost say I'm sorry about the way I slugged your dollar. Yeah me too. I'm sure Walter told you why You find anything in here? Well, no, I'm afraid we'll have to go back. Oh Dollar yeah, I take your doctor all worth is in on one of his usual all-day trips for supplies Yeah, yeah something like that. We've got to leave you for a while. You have your gun You know what to do if anyone suspicious comes around well now look when the doctor comes back I'll have to tell him you've been here fine, and that we'll be back. Well, yeah, so I'll see you back. Oh sure Well, dolly will we'll see you later. I'm how you rest you need it. You're not kidding. Come along I felt so rocky. I didn't quite know what to make of it. I heard them leave by the other door And a couple of minutes later from all the one side. I heard their airboat Wait a minute It wasn't going out by the channel I've been given to understand was the only way out of this place strange Painfully I rose and walked out. I Headache so much I could hardly think straight There was something wrong here. Oh, sure. They'd left me your gun, but Yeah, they left it with me. All right, but the chambers had been emptied My airboat was still where I parked it in front of the building to Yeah, I wouldn't start tamper with maybe Then I heard it another boat coming into the regular channel in the distance I could see there were two people in it quickly I crouched behind a clump of brush until I saw who the two men were Max McLaughlin. Oh All right, all right I always said you're out here. Mr. McLaughlin was already on his way when I telephoned. Why didn't you tell me the FBI had already been sent for mr. Dollar, I tried to but you took all your honey. What happened to you a couple of your own boys did this Mike what? Men from the bureau. That's what they said and I was so adult from this knock on the head. Johnny. That's impossible What do they look like what what are their names? What a brand man for one? friend 511 sparse gray hair blue eyes about 150 pounds mark of spectacles on his nose perfect description and the other Michael Crucian heavy set Maybe five six about 200 pounds right small scar about the right eye heavy almost gravelly boys. Yeah Brennan and Crucian, huh, so they said we're in trouble Johnny what unless I'm completely Cock-eyed those are the boys who kidnapped and probably killed the unself of Max been waiting a long time to catch up with them Their real names are Brennan off and krushensky spies and killers from now. You know where Act three of yours truly Johnny dollar in a moment And now act three of yours truly Johnny dollar and the sock off sequel matter McLaughlin my old friend of the FBI gave dr. Allworth a gun with instructions to lock himself into his lab and shoot On-site anybody who set foot on the island before we got back then we took off in the airport Briefly as possible. I told Mac what had happened to me at the laboratory there in the middle of the evidence Only a pair like Brennan off and krushensky would have the guts to impersonate FBI agents after that beating I was too muddled even asked for their credentials What I don't understand Mac is why they didn't kill me. They haven't yet learned the formula that missile fuels So they've got to leave every possible door open Johnny would you convince that they're from the bureau so they think yeah Well, it meant they could go back to the lab after the doctor returned Maybe even get your help in obtaining the formula from him. What's your The abduction of Leon Salkoff would indicate the doctor himself is in danger But if he wanted his work carried on if anything should happen to him Well, who better to give the formula to the agents of the FBI On the way out to the lab. He was ready to give it to me. Hey Mac He entays little visit. They're prowling through the lab and always papers It means they didn't get the formula from Leon Salkoff Which probably explains their sudden departure They couldn't find the formula the lab so they'll go back and put the pressure on Leon again makes sense Mac I sure hope he's still alive, but where? Well, let's hope in all points bulletin will help us catch up with them when they leave this swamp Got to come out of it somewhere. They've had a big hit stern on us Yeah, but this channel we're taking is the most direct route to the highway any highway they carried up their pose pretty well They even knew about that finally Baron matter. I handled with you boys. Why not? Broadcast the whole thing on your radio show. You gave me clearance. Oh, just keep mum about this affair Until after the boys on the East Coast launch a space satellite successfully. Don't worry A few minutes later. We pull up at Ben Osceola's shack at the head of the bayou where we'd left our car We use mine Johnny better equipped than yours for whatever we may run into I saw what he meant because in back of the seat was a regular arsenal As we tore out of the jungle and headed south on highway 29 Mac short waved in all points to every time in the area And to the state police posted over We're heading south Johnny because you said that's the way they left the island by airboat, right Mac Well the way those rivers and bayous twist around in the swamp they could come out anywhere Well, I know this country pretty well. They'd almost have to go south to hit this or any other highway You keep your eye peeled for any side roads that might lead into where they could land the boat, will you? Hey, look, what about this car that's coming at us man. He's really stepping on it That's okay Johnny. It's police car Police, huh? Sure But did you see who was driving it and I was sitting beside him? What? Yeah, Kruschenkoe and our old pal Brenman I love your hat. They must have heard the old point. Well, if they didn't they're herring it now in that car And if that thing is souped up like most police don't worry boy. They won't get away from this old boy Wasn't kidding how we held the road at over a hundred miles an hour. I'll never know Thanks to the sarin on the stolen police car. The road ahead was kept clear They must have recognized me though when we passed when we finally started to pull up on them They fired the first shot. I Can't weave at this speed Johnny stay down low. I've loaded this gun from the stuff in the back watch Put that lemon squeeze her away grab the Tommy gun and back in a seat right You got it. I got it. All right, Mike. Keep your hands on the wheel Those boys can really shoot. I told you the killers. Let him have it, right? For the tires John got him the goal of the road Mac if they hit that row of cybertrees, they're gone. They're beyond Salkoff Well, I'm afraid he gave more than this skill and efforts to the country He loved that had taken him under its wing His body was found trust up and floating face down in the bio from which Brenman off and Khrushchevsky had launched the airboat Dr. Allworth Well, now that the US space satellite is carrying out its mission. He's safely and officially working in a government laboratory Expense account total including incidentals and the trip back to Hartford. I'll forget it If in any way it helped to get the Explorer out in space in orbit, it's on me yours truly Johnny doll star will return in just a moment Now here is our star to tell you about next week's story next week a trip to a mining town out near Denver, Colorado And for me, it's a little too close to the Wild Wild West Join us. Won't you yours truly Johnny dollar starring Bob Bailey originates in Hollywood And is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone who also wrote today's story heard in our cast were her Bellas big parent Harry Bartell Jack Prussian Lou Merrill and Stacy hers Be sure to join us next week same time and station for another exciting story of yours truly Johnny dollar This is Dan cover Lee speaking. This is the United States Armed Forces radio and television service