 Johnny dollar got fuller Johnny Universal Adjustment Bureau. Oh, no Pat, please forget you ever heard of me Now what brought that on I don't want another assignment right now. That's all oh you don't I've been going too hard lately Pat I'm tired and I need to get away for a few days for a good solid rest Well, who said anything about an assignment now don't tell me you're wasting company time and money just to call up and pass the time of Day, no no I call to read you a telegram or a cable or whatever it is Oh and brother what a message it'll make your eyes pop. Who's it from a fellow by the name of Emmett gallon You ever hear of him? Are you kidding? That man knows more about fishing than you and I could know in a thousand years Right also Emmett and I got to be real pals after he helped me solve a rather important case back in 58 I think it was I remember that one, but it's been a couple of years since I've heard from him Where is he? What's he doing? You better let me read this wire. Yeah, go ahead It says that this spot is the closest thing to heaven a fisherman could possibly find oh Sailfish dolphin amberjack Snappers bonefish Just about anything you can think of makes my mouth water pat, but keep reading if you don't come on down here And be my guest and right away. It says I'll never forgive you I mean it. This is really urgent and it's signed Emmett gallon. Well, what do you mean? Well, are you going you're a lucky dog for me only thing? I don't understand is why he sends a wire like that to a lousy fisherman like you Especially when he knows me that's just a point Johnny. What's just the point? Well, the wire was sent in care of this office. All right, but it's addressed to you. Oh Yeah, oh So if you're so anxious to get away, why don't you take him up on it? Well, sure what else and what's the address? Where is he Pat? Pat you're still there. Sure. Sure. I am. Well, give me his address Why don't you come on over here, and I will can't you give it to me over the phone? I could but it won't why not? Well, I'll put it this way if you will come on over here Maybe we'll pay your expense. I get it. You do have an assignment for me and that telegram is a phony Oh, it's a McCoy Johnny I swear instead of a rest the fishing trip all I'm in for some more work and headaches No, no really Johnny, then give me Emma's address. Sure over here in my office that you think I'm kidding about the wire Yes, well, there's one way you can find out Well, okay, I'm on my way PS radio network brings you Mandel Kramer in the exciting adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator yours truly Johnny dollar Accounts submitted by a special investigator Johnny dollar to Universal Adjustment Bureau home office Hartford, Connecticut Following is an account of expenses incurred during my investigation of the lust for gold matter Expense account item one a dollar twenty for a cab into Pat Fuller's office Much to my surprise he hadn't been kidding I mean about the wire from Emmett Gowan inviting me to enjoy what he claimed to be the greatest fishing in the world and where on the little island of Cozumel off the coast of Mexico Yeah, and if anyone can show you where and how to land the big ones Emmett Gowan sure can you couldn't be more right, Pat So if I were you I'd pack up my duds and head for the island of Cozumel, and I mean right now, and you know something Pat I'll do it and I just happen to have your plane reservations all set up and waiting for Patrick You're a doll. Yeah now you fly from here to New York to New Orleans then across the Gulf of Mexico to Merida Now that's the capital of Yucatan now wait a minute and from there It's only about an hour's flight to Cozumel Pat by this time tomorrow You'd be fighting bonefish or wahoo or tarpon or whatever at Company expense. Did you say yeah? Why don't worry about it until after you've got in some fishing and then Come on Pat. What's the hitch? No no no it's really Johnny no no it's just it Well, you know after you've had a few days rest and fishing well Maybe you'd like to fly on over to our Mexico City office. Why? Some clients been reported missing Man by the name of Wano Ansana. His wife went somebody on it and well as long as you're gonna be down that way I thought maybe you might look into it after the rest and the fishing. That's the deal Pat I still think there's a hitch in here somewhere. Oh Johnny, but Cozumel here. I come Expense account item two seven thirty for a taxi back to my apartment where I packed my bags And then late in the afternoon another taxi to Bradley field a prop job took me to New York in less than five hours later I was in New Orleans item three 1420 covers a cab from moissan international to the Roosevelt Hotel a bed for the night Then a very early breakfast the next morning on the ride back to the airport Two hours and 40 minutes later. We landed at Merida out on the tip of Yucatan. I Took a ferry plane from there and well before noon was comfortably ensconced in one of the Cabanas del Cuddeed a private bungalow Overlooking the Caribbean as I finished unpacking my bags Come in come in Johnny I just knew you wouldn't let me down. I'm it. How are you just fine Johnny? Just as fine as self. How are you? Well, you want to know the truth? I'm but I'm bushed. I'm a little beat and you look at you Don't you worry Johnny a few days of the greatest fishing in all the whole world and I mean that Johnny It'll make a new man out of only one thing. I don't understand about all this. What's that Johnny? Universal Adjustment Bureau footing the bill not only for a trip to Mexico City on business afterward but for this did you Do you ever hear of a man named One oh and Xana Then you do know something Because that's the man Pat Fuller mentioned Day watch Johnny We get going right now. Maybe we can pick up enough fish for dinner Emmett, do you know this one oh and sonna? I have the boat already all the gas and tackle we need so come on now. I knew there was a hitch Well, you're ready to start fishing all right Emmett. What's it all about? fishing Johnny Emmett And I mean it right now. There's nothing for you to think about except fishing well ready Okay, I'm ready That is able to stay wrinkled free and neat in summer rain and summer heat in coats and slacks You can relax when you know there is day crime in the blend There's just no denying in the clothes you'll be buying day crime is a man's best friend If I told you the truth about the kind of fishing we had that afternoon you'd call me a liar So I'll tell you anyhow Emmett Gowen used an 18-foot skiff rigged with a pair of 20 horse outboards and equipped with every size shape and sort of fishing tackle You couldn't possibly think of We cruised southward around the edge of the little island of Cozumel to a big sort of lagoon With a mangrove island on one side and a palm-lined beach on the other There at Emmett's direction. I made my first cast the result a Fighting mad tarpon that nearly tore my arm from the socket before I could finally work him alongside the boat and release him on The second cast a hefty snook made my reel scream The third got me a moon-eyed snapper The fourth a log barracuda Those fish all of them were simply begging to be taken on for a scrap Then when I tied into three tarpon in a row I said in my minutes the fishing down there is almost unbelievable By the time the afternoon was over I was completely but happily exhausted felt better than I had in months And by the time I lay my weary body on the bed that night I'd completely forgotten all about the insurance investigation business And that's something Early the next morning about the time the Sun came up Emmett made a careful appraisal of the weather We climbed into his boat again and set out across the 18 mile strait between Cozumel and the Yucatan mainland Yes, Johnny you look better already now that I feel great Where are we heading for today over toward my vocal pile of fishing camp on the other side My rather a little north of it up toward Matt and Sarah Matt and Sarah haven't I heard that name before an old sunken ship there Johnny an old Spanish Galle, oh sure. I remember now a lot of pressure hunters have worked it over. Yeah Including senior one o'an's and That name again and that is until he found another wreck the other day Smaller one who is he Emmett? Why all the mystery? What have you and Pat Fuller cooked up for me down here? Well, let's put it this way Johnny It's the pinion that other sunken vessel we're heading for yeah And the pinion is where it may be we'll use this skew by this skin diving equipment I brought along this morning. Yeah, I'd see it here, but No spears. Well, let's say that now the weather is calm down enough. We're just gonna explore it this um Want to antenna found the wreck. Yeah When I brought him over here for some spearfish, but he's the one that Johnny He's the most unlikable man. I ever did me. I wouldn't trust him anymore than I would have hungry shark Emmett But I had him as a customer. So I had to put up with it Point is he's the one who disappeared from Mexico City Point is Johnny that he not only found some fish around the wreck of the pinion, but he found something else the mold Spanish treasure I wouldn't say he wouldn't say a thing about it Johnny But I've seen too many of these treasure hunters And I just knew from the looks of him that he'd found something down there Well Emmett didn't you come back later and see for yourself Johnny. Let me put it this way. Yeah After all those years of fighting for the almighty dollar up north For the first time in my life. I'm completely contented Fish a lot a right a little do some guiding Gives me everything I need to be perfectly happy. I See what you mean. So why should I spoil it all by trying to find? Then trying to hide and then trying to spend the thing that causes other folks so much misery Pretty unusual attitude in it. Maybe so but I guess it has its point Johnny. I Don't want anything not anything to interfere with this this Paradise I've found for both myself and my wife Claire That's why I didn't come back here to the wreck of the pinion because I was afraid that I Might find some treasure in But you think that a one-on-tonna did come back, huh? Well that Unholy gleam in his eye Johnny Now I felt sure he would so that this so when I got a phone call from his wife in Mexico City that he hadn't come home Then the radio message from your mr. Pat Fuller at the insurance company yesterday Then your wire to me was the put-up job Emmett between you and Pat. No in a way I guess But he did make me promise to get you a good rest and a lot of fishing now I suppose the first thing to do is examine the wreck and see if we can tell if on sauna has come back to it And of course Johnny if he's there and working on it. Well sure that'll explain his disappearance from home Emmett yeah You surely don't think he'd be foolish enough to come out and dive alone Johnny Where a treasure is concerned a man can sometimes get mighty foolish Now I guess you're right and a man like him Johnny. Yeah could also be mighty dangerous a Few minutes later the outer edge for little cold He pointed out the vague shadow of the wreck in some 40 or 50 feet of water and almost entirely hidden by a sort of coral overhang Emmett cut the motors and we drifted into the beach as we slid the boat up on it You can put on the scuba gear and Johnny look yeah, yeah, I see him it Somebody else been here with a boat to Pulled it over into those bushes Pomegranate whatever they are Bushes it in it so he is here Mr. Anzana Saying your and Santa I'll go take a look Well-hidden boat in the brush, but no sign of why no on sauna Was he out there in the water then poking around the wreck? Only one way to find out I Put on one of the scuba rigs the air tank mask and flippers Emmett carefully worked the boat out to the edge of the outcropping of coral They might be careful of that coral Johnny you can cut your ribbons and then I went on over the side I was amazed at how clean and clear the water was down there Once my eyes got used to the pale green light. I could see for literally hundreds of feet in all directions The water was warm and comfortable to Married tiny fishes with all the colors of a rainbow dashed in and out of holes in the coral And here and there are a huge one hung motionless Looking warily at me the intruder as I slowly descended into his realm And he casually turned swam away a Rather large shark gave me the BDI at one point and then decided to ignore me As for the wreck of the little schooner of Pygna finding it was easy But so a few minutes later was finding something else wedged in there between a couple of barnacle-covered timbers Was the body of a man Have you tried the mild kind taste of Kent you should be cause you'll feel better about Smoking with the taste against Kent with the micro night filter Refinds away harsh labor Refinds away hot taste It makes the taste of a cigarette miles as a party day in the month of May Is the best for a mild kind taste smoke a carton of Kent without switching Discover the kind taste of Kent's blend of the world's finest quality tobaccos then try your old brand What a difference in taste You'll enjoy the mild kind taste of Kent with the micro night filter Flippers was that of a Mexican with a bullet hole in the back of his head Although the light was poor. I was able to read the lettering on a dog tag on one of his wrists The name was one o on sauna But who had killed him and why? Could it have been whoever had hidden the boat up there on the beach And Emmett's reaction to that boat when he saw it Was as though he was familiar with it knew the owner I Thought of trying to pry the body loose But then looking upward discovered the shadow of Emmett's boat in the 20 minutes or so I've been down there had moved far over to one side of the coral reef So instead underwater I worked my way over to it and then surfaced Then hanging on to the side of the boat with one hand pulled off the breathing mask with the other and looked up into a Very unfamiliar and a very unpleasant face Do not know who you are senior, but you might as well come aboard What the devil who are you and this boat? It's it's the one I saw hidden over there and Who are you no matter here? I will give you a hand. Oh, no, sir. You listen you see this gun Who are you? You senior will never know Because you will join him down there you understand you will join him join who? You talking about the body down there in that wreck you just the body of the man I killed Because he came here after my treasure the treasure is mine. You understand. He's mine. I find the pinioner down there I find it first The senior Emmett go and he does not know of it. Oh wait a minute. I See his boat over there, but it's empty. He will never know Nobody will ever know Nobody but me you hear Because I will kill anybody else See That is why now that you have found out you have found out about him. You must know Do not move You have the gun And I shall use it on you Before I bury you down there with him So the secret of opinion it will only be mine now look mr. No, no, sir There is no use You must die Right now I suddenly found it in my struggle with him under the water I was not alone from somewhere over near the wreck Emmett Gowan appeared in his scuba rig Subduing our unfriendly companion was easy and when we finally hauled him up onto the beach completely tamed out cold as a matter of fact Well Well, it's this way Johnny like I said he'd had a bad gleam in his eye It was more than just from a lust for treasure. It was like you think of madness You're talking about one-on-one sonner down there in the wreck in the wreck Yes, I found his body down there Emmett a dog tag on his wrist No, Johnny this one Zanzanna What yes this one He was mad Don't you see what it means the body down there? Well now? I'm not sure that other man found out about the pinioner and came here to investigate On sonna found him here and killed him but why put his dog tag on it so that when he on sonna found the treasure He could just disappear with it What little was left of the body by then if it was ever found more likely just a skeleton would be identified as his Because of the dog tags. Oh, I see he'd be free and have the treasure and nobody would ever know that he'd murdered over it Johnny, I think you're right Oh wait a minute Emmett. Yeah How come you so conveniently appeared there underwater after I capsized his boat and when I really needed your help Well, Johnny, I knew that hidden boat was his Yeah, but he wasn't anywhere about And also Johnny there wasn't any sign of bubbles out there to show he was diving. You're so right. I never thought of that So he had to be hiding somewhere Watching it of course So I took my boat around the other side of the reef put on my scuba Then went on under where he wouldn't know where I was At least that wouldn't make both of us sitting ducks for him That's done good thinking Emmett. And then when I came up real slow and quiet under the flaring bow of his boat And heard what was going on When I saw you starting to capsize it Haha Yeah, I sort of helped no wonder it flipped so fast and easily Thanks Emmett My pleasure Johnny Well So we get him back to cause him out. Why not? I Imagine the police might like to see him You know the ironic part of it all is that there wasn't one single Dollars worth of pressure in the wreck of the pinion So he had murdered for nothing and now of course we'll have to pay for it Expense account total after four more days of absolutely fabulous fishing Wait a minute. This one's on the house yours truly Johnny dollar There's our star to tell you about next week's story next week the two-step matter that means two steps to murder Join us, won't you? Yo is truly Johnny dollar truly Johnny dollar is written by Jack Johnstone Produced and directed by Bruno Zerato, Jr. Music supervision by Ethel Hubert Sound patterns by Walter Otto and Don Greed Johnny dollar is played by Mandel Kramer Also featured in our cast were Bob Dryden as Emmett Gowen Ralph Camargo as one on sauna and Lawson's Erby as Pat Fuller Be sure to join us next week same time same station for another exciting story of yours truly Johnny dollar. This is Warren Sweeney speaking Pireways are not for sleeping Stay awake and drive safely This is the CBS radio network