 From Hollywood, it's time now for Bob Bailey as Johnny doll. Yeah, remember me sweetheart. Johnny I didn't I'm the guy you were making the big pitch for dancing moonlight on the beach the complete routine Oh, I got a hand it to you, baby. That was real nice act. No, it wasn't acting Johnny I meant it all of it. Oh sure Gloria sure that's why I catch you here and searching my room That's all part of the big romance. I can explain and that's just what you're gonna do. Hey look Gloria One guy has already wound up dead on this deal. I've got a strong hunch I'm number two man on the list and this baby I do not want Tonight and every weekday night Bob Bailey and the transcribed adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator yours truly Johnny dollar Santo Tomas, Mexico expense accounts submitted by special investigator Johnny dollar to the home office northeastern Fidelity and bonding Hartford, Connecticut The following is an account of additional expenses during my investigation of the Alvin Summers embezzlement of seventy five thousand dollars Item nine seventeen dollars and sixty cents business entertainment for one Gloria Harris Believe it or not I wasn't going to put that item on the account because I figured it might just possibly be a private romance But when I caught Gloria searching my hotel room I knew she tied into the deal somehow that she could give me information on Summers whereabouts Johnny, please Oh, no, you're not leaving Gloria. Not yet. I'm not trying to get away. Oh, it's the use. You'd never believe me Why should I you lied to me? I lied to you once Only once when I told you I'm here on a vacation. I'm not surprised the truth is I'm stranded down here Stranded. Oh, sure. That's why you're staying at the play of Del Mar the most expensive hotel in town. I don't mean no money. I Mean no passport It's true You got a cigarette Johnny. Yeah, thanks Yeah I've been stuck in this ratty town for four months now Just hoping every day that I could figure out some way or Find somebody to help me get back to the state. How come you picked this town assuming? I believe you because I heard that fugitives from the state sometimes came here I've been drifting around for a year from place to place I guess I thought my luck had changed here. What hasn't How'd you lose your passport in the first place? I'll tell you if you really want to know Johnny Personally, I'd rather skip it It's a long story and not a very pretty one. It's all in the past Let's just say I have made a mistake about a guy. Okay, glory. Okay But there's one little item you haven't told me why you were searching my room just now because I was trying to find out something about you Johnny The reason why you're down here. Why? So maybe I could make a deal with you deal You helped me get a passport And I'll help you how can you help me? You're looking for Alvin Summers, aren't you? Oh, am I? Six months ago. He embezzled seventy-five thousand dollars up in the States and took off go on you came down here to find him You're an insurance investigator keep talking. That's all that's it Now maybe you wouldn't mind telling me how you know all of oh Sure that report in my suitcase in the picture Alvin Summers, I know him I can help you Johnny. Where is he? First I've got to know if you'll help me passport the passport What do you expect me to do about that in your business Johnny? You must meet a lot of people all kinds Maybe one of them has an extra passport or two for a price. Maybe All right, I'll see what I can do That's the best you can say that's the best take it or leave it I'll take it. I haven't any choice now about Alvin Summers. I'll take you there to Summers place. Where is it? Down the beach about a mile below town then into the jungle a little way. How come you know where it is? I met Alvin Summers a couple of months ago here in Santa Tomas. Yeah, I went there once for dinner Okay, you take me there Gloria first. I'd better go up to the hotel and change Country's pretty rough on clothes. Okay. I'll meet you at your hotel in half an hour Johnny I only lied to you about one thing the reason I was down here The rest of it I meant Last night on the terrace and on the beach. I meant all of it Really Johnny And I mean this you know I'm kind of glad you told me that See in half an hour. I stayed there a while after she left going over the case of my mind Maybe she was telling me the truth But whether she was or not I had to follow up any lead I could find because I was getting nowhere the way things were Half an hour later as I was starting out of my room to go pick her up my phone It was a long-distance call from the States Hi Fred Fishing a matter of fact it hasn't been so good so far Fred. Oh there. What's eating you? Well, you got a great sense of humor you should see this place vacation What do you think I've been doing I've been looking for whoever it was the telephones you and said he had information on Alvin Summers He what hey look Fred this guy is not easy to find believe me, and I think I know why Obviously somebody doesn't want him to talk and that somebody could be Alvin Summers about one jump behind him Could be I'm leaving right now to find out. I've got a lead on where he lives There's somebody at the door. I'll call you when I get anything fishing oh Lieutenant Gomez well look I'm in sort of a hurry right now this will not take long Okay, what is it lieutenant early this morning one of my main funds in your cross in the alley How is he feeling he had been badly beaten it would not tell us anything But it was fairly obvious who had on this to him so So the last time we talked in your dollar I warned you not to attempt to take the law into your own hands now listen Gomez if you think I'm gonna take a pistol Whipping like he gave me and not do anything about it. Do not misunderstand. I care nothing about Kraus personally or what happens to him I'm thinking about something more important for instance You are looking for Alvin Summers a man who quite obviously does not want to be found so So when you find him it is quite possible that there will be trouble granted But let's face a few facts lieutenant you and your boys can't help me You're in charge of the Santa Tomas police force all two men And I imagine you've got a few other things on your mind besides an ambassador from the states and an insurance investigator That's me. That means I've got to do it on my own Very well, sir your dollar This morning I attended the funeral of Benito in Skansa who was killed because he had information about Alvin Summers If you find Summers and take the law into your own hands again, I fear I may have to attend another funeral Yours That's what I liked about Gomez. He was the cheerful type Well, I picked up Gloria at her hotel and we headed for Summers place We walked down the beach about a mile below town The beach kept narrowing as the jungle crowded closer and closer to the water Places in from the beach a ways It's a little path pretty soon that leads in you can walk right by it and never see it Here it is and that's just what we'll do. Hmm walk right by it. I don't want to lead anyone else here There's nobody else on the beach. I'm not talking about the beach That's a regular jungle in there 20 people could be watching us. We'd never see them. Oh, I guess so Okay We're going here then work our way back to the path. This is pretty thick in here. Yeah You're walking through six brush like this. You always feel like somebody's watching you Imagination gets pretty strong sometimes. I think it's a little more than imagination. What do you mean stop a minute? listen I don't hear you Yeah, somebody's tailing us again. Look keep moving straight ahead. I'm gonna circle and see if I can intercept him All right, but be careful Gloria moved on and I started circling to the right every few seconds. I'd stop and listen Yeah, he was still there. I pegged the direction of the sound and started edging toward it slowly then my foot caught on a bar I Scramble to my feet and kept going in the same direction There was a small clearing ahead. I reached it stopped and listen Nothing Whoever I was chasing seemed to know the country better than I did he disappeared I caught up with Gloria couple of hundred yards farther along the trail Any luck Johnny? No, whoever it is is pretty good at keeping on a site. Are you sure it was a person? It might have been some kind of animal. Yeah, maybe You can see a corner of Alvin summer's hut from here Past that big tree. Yeah, come on and stay behind me. All right. There's any trouble. I think there will be look a guy Who's this careful about hiding doesn't usually welcome visitors? Right now. No sign of life Keep back against the wall. I'm gonna open the door. Okay, Gloria. Nobody home, huh? Nobody home Well He seems to have a pretty comfortable place here. You like to live in jungles Yeah What looks like he hasn't been around for several days the food in these cupboards pretty moldy Yeah, I guess they've cleared out they He and whoever was here with him what makes you think someone was for one thing two sets of dirty dishes over there Maybe he just wasn't neat. He'd have to have been awfully neat to use two toothbrushes and two kinds of toothpaste and Two people have been eating at this table. See the crumbs Maybe there's something around here that could give you a clue to where he might be now Maybe If he's still alive What do you mean? You think he isn't oh, I don't know But if somebody else was living here, too, it could mean he had a partner in this deal And it's a funny thing about that kind of playmates sooner or later. They start quarreling about who's gonna hold the marbles $75,000 worth in this case Johnny if he is dead that leaves you nowhere maybe not it is What yeah Sounds like a shadow is somewhere outside keep talking glory a normal tone. I'm going out the back way and see if I can spot him Why don't you look around the hot John? Gloria kept up a line of pattern while I slipped out the back door and into the brush. I listen Nothing with the sound of glories voice He had to be somewhere near where I Worked my way around at the front of the cabin still in the cover. No sign. I Kept on around the other side Then as I started to climb over a fallen tree trunk I saw a shadow out of the corner of my eye hold it Don't turn around the voice was behind me I could see the rest of the shadow now a hand with a gun and I knew it was zeroed in on my backbone. I said hold it I'm holding drop your gun Kick it backwards quick. Hey look, whoever you are don't turn around Okay, and don't try to move I'm telling me keep your eyes straight ahead any move any move at all. It'll be your last There'll be the final exciting episode in our story of the Alvin Summers matter tomorrow Yes, tomorrow how to find out what you've been looking for the hard way Join us. Won't you yours truly Johnny dollar? Yours truly Johnny dollar starring Bob Bailey is transcribed in Hollywood written by Robert Reif It is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone Be sure to join us tomorrow night same time in station for the next exciting episode of yours truly Johnny dollar Roy Rowan speaking