 Johnny dollar this is Al Turner at New Britain Mutual. Hi, Al. What goes with you these days Johnny? One of our important clients is very anxious to get in touch with you says that she's an old friend of yours Oh, who's that? Her name is Mrs. Virginia Haskell Virginia Haskell. That's right. Sorry, Al But I'm afraid I never heard of her before she got married about a year ago. Her name was Van Doran Ginny Van Doran. Yes. Oh, well, now that's something else again, and I mean something One of the most delectable bits of feminine poker, too I ever ran up against believe me a young man's fancy didn't have to wait for spring to turn to thoughts of her No, what's that mean? Oh Al even I had serious ideas about that gala one time Yeah, right after college isn't every kid of that age intrigued with the idea of marrying into a fortune and very beautiful At least she was when I know her still is Johnny. So she's married to somebody by the name of Haskell, huh? Gordon Haskell They live on Birchbrook Road down in Bronxville, New York. Funny. What? Well, when I knew her that blonde Sharmer didn't have eyes for anybody but Paul Snowden Who's Paul Snowden childhood sweetheart that sort of thing poor boy making good in his own you know the bit Too proud to marry her because of her money, but she swore that she'd never marry anybody else that he was her one true love But I guess she changed her mind What does she want to see me about Al? She didn't make it clear however that it has to do with some of the family insurance Well, that's as good an excuse as any then you want to run on down there for a longing look at the gorgeous Ginny Van Doran But it'll cost you money Al Listen Johnny with the premiums we get for all the insurance She carries life house property and so on the sky's the limit brother. Have you stuck your neck out? Albert I'll be in touch Freaking adventures of a man with the action-packed expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator It's truly Johnny dollar And now act one of yours truly Johnny dollar Expense account submitted by a special investigator Johnny dollar to the new Britain mutual insurance company home office Hartford, Connecticut Following as an account of expenses incurred during my investigation of the wayward errors matter I Decided it might be handy to have my own car along for this one So expense account item one four dollars and a quarter for a tank full of gas I picked up the freeway and headed south and west a fashionable Westchester County, New York to me Bronx Phil has always been one of New York's most charming suburbs Only about 20 miles north of the big city. It's full of beautiful homes with lots of trees and expensive landscape properties There's a lot of wealth in Bronxville The Haskell home on Birchbrook Road was a huge English type of fair filled of stone and stucco the kind of place that'll last a hundred years 18 to 20 rooms I guess and surrounded by well-kept lawns and flower gardens oak and sycamore trees and neatly trimmed hedges Yep, a big hunk of the van door and oil money must have gone into it unless young Haskell was mighty rich Virginia looking every bit as beautiful as I'd remembered her from college back in the Midwest Readed me like a long lost Well brother, darn it and Johnny. I'm so glad you could come I I'm worried sick worried about what Jenny Gordon my husband Well, look, it's none of my business, but it Well, it kind of surprised me to learn you'd married somebody other than Paul Snowden. It's Paul who has me worried Johnny. Oh, yes Well back in the old days in college. I wasn't interested in anybody in the world at Paul I mean seriously, I remember the rest of us couldn't get the first base with you I loved him Johnny And I hope that as soon as he could get established in the business of some kind he'd asked me to marry him Well, what stopped him Jenny? money When father died and all the van door and money came to me Paul suddenly changed He stopped seeing me Even avoided me So then well, I guess what I did was Make a mistake. What was that? I went to see him at his little plant there in Chicago Chicago That's where we were living then and Johnny the only reason he stayed there was to be close to me So he went to see him. Yes And I proposed to it. Oh Also Well, this was the big mistake. I Offered to finance the machine tool business that he was trying so hard to build up But he didn't like that and told me so I'm afraid there was quite a scene there just been looking down your nose at me all these years It's been nothing but pity. Oh, yeah for timid little me needs help Maybe needs mothering by somebody who pitties him by somebody who can afford to support all that isn't true Then why do you come offering help offering money? I don't want pity somebody holding up my head for me I've got to work this out alone. It may take me a long time, but I'm not going to I'm sorry Jenny, but don't you see I love you. I'll never love anybody and why don't you let don't you understand? I'll never get anywhere on your charity. You're feeling sorry for me all darling. All right All right the less we see of each other now the better Maybe some time, but oh no not now Find somebody else Jenny somebody who can give you the things you need Uh-huh a little too much pride for his own good. I'd say it upset me terribly Johnny Especially when he told me to go out and find somebody else, but I take it you did then Gordon came along Sort of caught me on the rebound. I guess Tall and good-looking He fell in love with me the first time we ever met I Guess he kind of swept me off my feet But now that the honey won't over he's been wonderful to me and I love Gordon Johnny. I love him very much As much as Paul not Perhaps in the same way But we're very happy together and there's never been any strain or tension because of this this difference in our fortunes Gordon isn't wealthy either Well, he hasn't what I have of course, but he manages to get along and I'm being a good wife to him Oh, I'm sure you are Jenny and Don't you see if Paul because of his jealousy were to kill Gordon. You mean you honestly believe he might yes That's exactly what I mean. That's why I sent for you good heavens. Yeah Johnny You've got to stop him Of yours truly Johnny dollar and the wayward errors matters Listen to me. It's true Johnny. I'm sure of it Paul Snowden has come here to kill my husband. He's He's told you as much. Haven't you been listening to me, of course I maybe my marriage to Gordon was on the rebound on the spur of the moment call it anything you like But it was Paul who turned me down at least for the time being I told you what he said and simply because of a misguided Sense of pride because you had money and he didn't yes How did Paul take it when he learned that you were gonna marry Gordon? I mean he was terribly angry He made all sorts of wild threats. Well, that doesn't that he said that he would kill anybody else who married me And he will Johnny does he know Gordon. He's never seen him, but he wants to kill him. Oh Ginny that doesn't make any sense. Don't you understand? It was to get away from Paul that Gordon and I came here to get married and settled down Or because you were afraid you might still be in love with Paul It isn't a very nice thing to say Johnny, but it could be true. Couldn't it? It's Gordon in business here in the east well, he I've helped him to start one Johnny a little importing business. What did he do before? Jenny well His family had quite a bit of money once They lost it all and some bad speculations and Well, if you must know Gordon just sort of played around for a while did Paul know all this I don't know because if he did maybe you shouldn't blame the poor hard-working guy for not liking but Gordon is good And he's good to me. He's good to you seems to me. You're the one who I can say that Johnny He is good to me. He's all I have now Only Paul hadn't found out where we've come to live Look Jenny, I'm an insurance investigator not a love counselor and What's the matter? Don't you believe me or I've told you or are you just trying to be very cold-blooded about this? Jenny all right then This happens to be a cold-blooded insurance matter For the simple reason that Gordon's life is ensured And if you have no heart if all you can think about his business, all right It's your job to keep Paul from killing Gordon now listen Jenny You've been married nearly a year. Nothing's happened nothing at all yet now all of a sudden because Paul has come here He telephoned me and there can be only one reason why he's here. I doubt that but where is he in New York at a hotel? What hotel he didn't say well Is he coming out here to the house? He said he wouldn't come until you could be sure that Gordon was here and then Then to prepare for the worst those were his very words Johnny prepare for the worst wasn't Gordon here when he fall Yes, but I didn't tell him that where's Gordon now over in Larchmont at the Beverly arm in hiding in other words I want him to stay there until something can be done about Paul. That's all Well if Paul so all fired determined he is Johnny. He always was that could be a pretty admirable quality Jenny of course it is But when he's determined to do such a horrible Johnny Johnny, I don't understand you the way you're taking all this Are you going to help me or aren't you? Yes? Yes? Yes, okay, Jenny. I'll see what I can do If by any chance what you suspect is true if Paul really has come here to get of course he has Paul doesn't give up no matter what he set out to do Which is to say that sooner or later if you'd kept your head if you hadn't gone off the deep end if you had waited and married him Jenny I know I should have I Should have waited for him no matter how long it took him Yeah, and what Johnny I didn't mean that I'm married to Gordon now, and I must protect okay, then the first thing to do is get him over here Why sure if Paul's staying undercover, it's the only way to bring him out in the open But if anything happens to say it's my job to see that it doesn't I'll see you later Now like I said many times before in this business of mine You run into some real wildies and this was one of them made me feel like an advice to the love-shorn column And it was pretty obvious that Ginny was still in love with Paul that she was sorry She had married and was supporting this Gordon Haskell Incidentally must have been a smart cookie to have caught her on the rebound latched on to her and her fortune But she'd made her bed and by golly out of nothing but stubborn pride. She was gonna lie in it It was well after dark by the time I left her and as I walked out to my car I decided that what I'd better do first was to locate Paul Snowden Somewhere in some hotel in New York City find out what this whole crazy affair was really all about But then as I reached for the door handle of my car just a minute, huh? Yeah I've been waiting for you. Oh Who are you as if I couldn't guess? Mr. I found out all about you. Why you came here me. Oh Believe me take a look at these photo stats from the police files in half a dozen Western states Well, not just just take it easy. Let me put on the dance light so I can take a look at them You'll have plenty of time to look at them when I'm sure Just Right now You want some more? That was Paul. I saw it. Yeah, so I figured must have found out that I sent for you Why if I hadn't come out of the house to see what the noise was all about he met Don't you see Johnny? Don't you believe me now when I say he's come here to kill Gordon? Jenny I Guess if you didn't convince me Paul has To the house with Ginny's help on a good stiff drink plus her tend demonstrations brought me back to normal I suppose I could make all sorts of excuses about having been caught off guard, but I won't Paul Snowden had a good pair of fists and he knew how to use them My plan had been to call on the New York City police for help at locating Paul But now this has suddenly become a personal matter and yet wait a minute Ginny. Yes, Johnny. Are you feeling up? Didn't you tell me that Paul and your husband Gordon didn't know each other had never met? Yes, what about those papers the photo stats papers, and we've been thinking that Paul jumped me because he'd found out You'd called me in to protect Gordon. Of course. Well, it just happens. We were wrong Johnny. I don't know listen I'll be right back But Johnny he may still be out there some way. I wouldn't be at all surprised Johnny Don't you I found no sign of Paul or the papers he'd shoved at me But I was certain that he was still in the neighborhood waiting and not for me I jumped into my car drove away and then circle around the block park and sneaked into the house the back way I thought it was Gordon coming in this back door. I phoned him that Paul had been here. Yeah, what do you say? Only that until Paul is taken care of he'd better get out of town, but Johnny that's such a oh great And yet if he plans on being away for any length of time Excuse me a minute. Yeah, there was a chance a bear chance that this whole thing could come to a head very quickly with a bit of luck I Open the front door and then called out into the darkness beyond the porch wall Paul Snowden This is Johnny dollar If you're out there stick around and listen I'm leaving this front door unlocked So use your own judgment. I went back into the library Standing there with Jenny was a man a few years older slightly gray around the temples He had a worried furtive look about his eyes. He was momentarily startled when I walked in on Johnny Gordon, this is Johnny dollar. Hi Gordon. He sneaked in the back way And I'm not staying around to get killed Now listen Virginia Gordon. It'll be all right now. No, I don't know who dollar is or why you've called him in But I'm not staying around here with Paul Snowden gunning for me. You're afraid of him Gordon. Wouldn't you be? Come on Virginia open up the safe. You've got plenty of money in it. I know but look darling Come on get it for me. Give it to me to run away like this Oh because Paul wouldn't run away. You know that isn't what I give me the money Virginia Or do you want a dead husband on your hands? Well, I'll listen Gordon you listen. This is none of your business. I wouldn't be too sure of that Well, I am Virginia not just a minute. Will you keep out of this? No. Oh, yes, you will You see what I mean. I'm not gonna give me that money so I can save my life. What that thing down Gordon Stand back dollar. I'll pull this trigger brother. That's what you think Yes Afraid he'll live. Yeah, he'll be okay. Should have killed him I guess but I'd rather see him face the courts Oh, what are you talking about those photos that you have? Yeah Police files all over the West He has a record as long as your arm under various names Wealthy women married them took their money. No, no. Yes, Jenny and some of them Well, he killed him Paul I didn't know I didn't know I'm sorry dollar about what happened outside earlier But in the darkness, I thought you were Gordon. It's okay, Paul. You've uh more than made up for it Paul and Jenny you'll finally get together for keeps. I don't I don't even know whether I care I'm just glad I wasn't involved. That is any more than I was Expense account total including mileage of my car back to Hartford a lousy 10 bucks yours truly Johnny dollar Our star will return in just a moment Now here's our star to tell you about next week story next week a sweet little old lady Involved in one of the dirtiest rackets. I know Join us. Won't you yours truly? Johnny dollar originates in Hollywood and is written produced and directed by Jack Johnstone Heard in our cast were Virginia Greg Les Tremaine Sam Edwards and James McCallion 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