 From Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny dollar Hello I'm calling from the airport in Dallas Yep, all right, and I know why you're calling the answers. No, we still haven't found any trace of Constance Lanfair So why don't you come on back here and start from scratch because I have found some trace of Connie Lanfair Oh, it's Connie now. It sure is brother. What's that supposed to mean? Pat, she just happened to occupy a seat aboard the plane right next to mine Patrick every year of killing two birds with one stone And every weekday night Bob Bailey in the transcribed adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator yours truly Johnny dollar From special investigator Johnny dollar location Bluefields, Nicaragua to the Universal Adjustment Bureau Hartford, Connecticut Following as an accounting of expenses incurred during my investigation of the sea legs matter Expense account item 8 525 late supper at the Dallas airport for Connie and myself during the wait for our midnight plane to Mexico City Which we finally boarded and which finally took off And on this trip I learned no more no less from Connie than I had on the flight from New York to Dallas For instance other than I was so close in everything same friends the same interests That's why we always took the long yachting trips together did everything to get it As a matter of fact, I felt that her somewhat overdone assurances of how much she loved her late husband could have been to throw off any Suspicion I might have that she'd done him in Another for instance, I still can't get over the coincidence of our both deciding to go to Nicaragua at the same time But believe me Johnny mr. Dollar I'm just as anxious to clear up this whole thing as you are the more I thought about it the more certain I was that it was not just coincidence that it put her on the same plane with me and the more leery I felt I know the country so well, too I think I told you the sea legs was built in a small shipyard in San Juan del Parro at South of Bluefields Yeah, that's at the lower end of the East Coast, isn't it you do know something about Nicaragua, don't you? Only what I've seen on the maps. Oh Let's see we can get a plane from an Agua to the East Coast. Oh, yes Nicaragua boasts two or three commercial airlines I'm sure at least one of them makes a direct flight to Bluefields That's where we put in with the sea legs, you know before before she was Before the beautiful thing went down between those awful Baldero Islands and took your husband with her. Oh Yes Poor duck There it was again More apparent concern over the loss of the sea legs than over the husband. She claimed to have loved so much and Still no explanation of why she decided to go back to Nicaragua Her decision must have been sudden too right after I'd seen her at her home on Long Island From Mexico City, we took a deluxe four-engine plane to Monagua But the last leg to the city of Bluefields was in a two-engine something that looked like war surplus tied together with bailing wire At midnight we signed in as the Providence sea hotel and after a hearty meal retired to our respective rooms to make up for loss sleep I Had not planned to wake up at 6 a.m. But fate decreed otherwise What yeah, sure just a minute. I'll get up and open the door There you see there was no need to disturb Well, just a minute who are you Oscar Patrick Vladimir Pascarro at your service Oscar Patrick what? Hey, you my dear mr. Dollar may just call me Oscar and now that we are working together working together Don't do Nicaragua and no matter what your needs. I Oscar Patrick Vladimir Pascarro will provide them for you For a small financial pittance, of course Let me straighten your pillow. Hey look wait Wait a minute wait a minute, where did you get the key you just used to open the store as you can see mr. Dollar I am prepared for everything. That is why I could be of such Unesteemable service to Breakfast I ordered for you, of course Here my good man. I will take you today. Let me dip some other time Get lost This is a gag of some kind How can you say such a thing after I just saved you paying that meanest serve of the big tip Here now tomato juice orange juice cream chip if on toast eggs Benedict rum chop scrabble eggs little sausages toast honey jam and coffee you expect me to eat all of that If I am to be of help to you in this important campaign I must keep my strength up Oh, I beg your pardon and at my expense, of course, of course after all nowhere else in Central America Can you get such unvaluable help as I can give you yeah, well just what gives you the idea? I may need your help. Ah-ha a good question Let me prop you up on your pillow so that you can enjoy it is the lack of There you are. Oh The cheap beef on toast. It doesn't look so good this morning, so I shall take that and the lamp. Ask you Would you please do business while you enjoy your breakfast that is? Please don't wait for me mr. Dollar look to begin with how did you know my name? Easy you signed the hotel register Okay, but then how did you know who has not heard of the famous freelancing insurance Instigator with such a lovely big fat expense account lock in that So that's what appealed to you. Of course and who am I Oscar Patrick? Exactly who am I thought I shouldn't learn a couple of tricks or two from such a great man Oh brother seems to me you've learned plenty already Thank you, and that is why I should be of such magnitude and a persistence to you in the sea legs method You for a pittance you understand me say a hundred dollars a day How about 10? 90 20 then 70 40 30 15 20 a day and not one penny more Sorry Oscar, but you are not hired Mr. Dollar you bleed me to the quick how else could you solve this case without me? Do you really know something about the sea legs and how did you know I came here to investigate it in the second place? What else was such a distinguished instigator be doing than the case of the American boat lost in the Bullnara islands? Especially coming here with mrs. Land here all right go on and in the first place because I know all about it All right. All right Oscar tell me this Do you think there's anything phony about the loss of the sea legs? I am sure of it. It was a crime of the first and second water. Why because you are here You can do better than that all right because I am always sure there is something crooked going on until the guilty ones are proved Otherwise or until the innocent ones are proved whatever is left which is besides the point because I was sure of it in the first place Yeah, anyhow the first thing for you to do is make a trip to port a guard The last point of contact with the sea legs before she was wrecked exactly have a plane ready and waiting for your own personal use playing how else a 150 miles by Oscar or both well no no no first. However, I'd like to contact the authorities here in Bluefield What do the authorities know about crime me? I know all about it. Yeah, I'm beginning to think you do Oscar too much probably Thank you, mr. Dollar. I respect your high opinion of myself. All right. I don't know yet. What your racket is That I can make plain to you in two words Money, okay. Look if you can get me a small plane here Good sir is the address to give to the taxi driver when you are ready to go to the airfield where I shall be waiting for you Oh, not the big airport. No, no, no that is for the lady. Mrs. Lanthair would expect you to look for transportation I'll see you are the craziest. Thank you. I knew you wouldn't want her coming long And if she ever gets in your way during your company, you'll keep her out of my life. Yes at my expense What else I'll tell you something Oscar If there is a wrong angle to this case, I can't help wondering if she isn't a part of it You read my mind. You see we are like brothers under the chin. You say you have a plane already to go Then we can be on our way before Mrs. Lanthair knows we've left. Hey, you want to set the tray over there so I can get up Hey, wait a minute, what are you going through my pockets for? Oh Just accepting a small tip for bringing up your breakfast Thank you If only half of what Oscar said was true, it was conceivable that he could be of help to me I checked with the hotel manager in the local police They knew Oscar well and told me that he pretty much lived on the occasional American tourists who showed up They acted as guides show for a pilot anything for a price that he could be trusted implicitly By whoever happened to be paying him at the moment and which was important to me He knew the country and his people inside out was a font of information about anything and anybody So I decided to let him tag along for a while the federal maritime a Well the equivalent of our coast guard had headquarters in the harbor area and I found a captain there who spoke fair English I'm sorry said your dollar, but you know as much as we do We sent the board of course, but we find no sign of the sea legs or the poor people who go down with her Nothing. Yeah Well, I'm thinking of going up to Porto Gardo where she took off on her last trip You know the excellent idea from there you can fly out of the Baldado Islands where the rake did occur That's what I was thinking but in addition to an airplane you must also need a pilot and a guide You have someone to suggest I see there is but one is in your Oscar Patrick Vladimir Pascarro precisely I Am 9 20 cents American for a three-mile ride and an old model T Ford to the little private a strip where true to his word Oscar had rented an almost brand-new two-place plane for us. He had it warmed up and ready to go You sure you can fly this thing asking I am defined as pilot in the garage. Well, maybe in the whole world I'm even a copilot Just how much is the use of this plane costing me Oscar for me a special right, so don't worry about it here We go into the how much the usual price is $35 a day American But me I always have a deal and that's on account of I give the field for much business Oscar how much 45 dollars a day And do you see what the beautiful view we have 45 look the Bay and the Caribbean on one side and the flat On the other minute look $35 a day is a regular rate. What's so special about 45 for me? Oh, no, Mr. Dollar for me Surely you wouldn't expect the finest pilot in the whole entire world to work for nothing. Why you Okay, okay, but what took you so long getting to the airfield mr. Dollar Oh a couple of calls. I wanted to make us all why why you have Disappointed me at all the time. I thought you had the uttermost confidence me now What's that supposed to mean first you tell me you do not want the lady to know you're awake and up and going Mrs. Lanfear yes, and then what happens you tell her all about it What makes you think that by else that you come tearing out of the airfield while I was waiting for you I don't meant to rent herself a plane and take off in it. What she took off just a couple of minutes before we did Hey Lanfear Chottering a plane Why and to go where? And after her offer to stick by me and help me why would she do it without letting me know There were a lot of questions to be answered in this case and most of them to be answered by Connie Lanfear Oh, here's our star to tell you about tomorrow's episode of this week's story tomorrow The sea the rocks and dear old mother nature bring some pretty startling facts to light and the case takes a sudden twist Join us. Won't you yours truly Johnny dollar a Johnny dollar starring Bob Bailey is transcribed in Hollywood. It is produced and directed by Jack John Stone who also wrote this week's story Be sure to join us tomorrow night same time and station for the next exciting episode of yours truly Johnny dollar Roy Rowan speaking