 Johnny tell him George Reed here. Well George house Floyd to London. How are you holding up in this hot weather Johnny all I can say I wish I could make a tip. Oh, what's that supposed to mean? I just received a transatlantic telephone call collect by the way from that underworld friend of yours in Paris to my sack Louie to my sack. Yes cause of selfless chagrige. That's right. The great cat. Why you ever chose to call himself that because at night All cats are great. Oh, he's hard to see in the dark. Well, bring it up yourself parents after dark My sack knows more about the dark alleys and stores and back streets But what he called you about George? He wants to talk to you about the only diamond the what? dollars worth of diamonds and necklaces Stolen from the Earl of only during a recent visit to the United States the chagrige has a lead on him He wouldn't say but if he has get them back Believe me, we shan't quibble over your expense account including whatever may be necessary to grease the palm of the my sack His information usually comes pretty high, you know And a bit of an allowance shall we say for my own entertainment while I'm there Your job in touch BBS radio brings you Bob Bailey in the exciting adventures of a man with the action-backed expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator. That's truly Johnny dollar Expense account submitted by special investigator Johnny dollar Deployments of London, North American office Hartford, Connecticut Following is the kind of expenses incurred during my investigation of the night in Paris matter Expense account item one twelve dollars even for a call to Paris France to a man I wouldn't trust any further than you could throw the Lou Louis de Marseille Oh Oldest and dearest friend One of the crookedest chiselingest connivers I ever met But George Reed says you have some information about the only diamond, which means you've got your hand out as usual You didn't hint around about those diamonds Well, perhaps I did make some very slight reference about yeah, you know where those diamonds are to my sec Well, okay, how much do you want this time? What else Oh sure, how much How much to my sex I Yeah, what I was nice to talk to you see around some time Only diamonds are worth millions of Frank's not dollars In that case I might be willing to part with say a thousand Maybe fifteen hundred If I actually get my hands on them, I'll give you a tool 3000 that's final Goodbye to my sec I said I Okay, 2000 bucks Yeah, I'm sure you did Yeah, I'm sure you will Listen if I take a plane out of New York a little after nine tonight I should get there tomorrow at 5 45 p.m. Paris time. I'll hang my hand at the Hotel of Y You know what that is Then I'll pick you up at that hovel of yours at the end of the odd of Yeah, the root of part of the moon. I'll be there Expensive con item two a thousand dollars worth of American Express travelers checks 428 ever went for plane fare high for it to New York to Paris The flight was uneventful except for the person who occupied the seat next to me and that was a name and that do boss and brother Well, he's 25 or 6 I guess Paul Brunette and beautiful Apparently has one of her own and I decided this trip to Paris wasn't a bad idea at all Johnny dollars. Yeah. Oh, I know who you are You're the insurance investigator. I hear about all the time on the radio. Oh, I don't look so shocked about it Tell me all about you. Oh, I'd a lot rather talk about you Planned to be a person long. Oh a couple of weeks. I guess just sort of a vacation And I'm all alone. I don't have any definite plan Have you Johnny? I have now Certainly don't beat around the bush, do you? You know something I like that. Well, good. Yeah, where'd you be staying? There's your song All right, then as soon as I get things cleared away, I'll call you Are you over here to work on some kind of a case? No, just to see an old friend of mine You buy any time staying at the Georgetown? The Levoix. It's over. I know where it is And as soon as you're free, you'll call me. Are you kidding me? What about that time the stewardess, but her heart came around with a champagne So what was one thing and another the time passed quickly? Then at exactly 5 45 p.m. First time we landed at Orly Item 3 5 20 American for a taxi to my hotel after dropping in that awful on the way I shaved and showered and took another cab to the dingy little apartment of Louis to my sack at the far end of the Ruda part of a moon You ask me is one of the most disreputable looking apartments in the whole city dirty swallowed ramshackle and of course the shot green had to live at the top of four long flights of stick When I finally get up there feeling slightly wounded I noticed that his door at the end of the gas went hallway was standing wide open What the my sack? Louie Louie to my sack The dingy dark apartment of Louis to my sack looked like a tornado had struck it It was a shambles as though somebody had come in and simply done as much damage as possible And yet at the same time was looking for something or someone as for the my sack. There was no sign of many where I Sit there for a moment wondering wondering what to do next Huh? Well, do you mind telling me what under the Sun happened of this joining yours? No, but there's enough light coming up in the street. Yeah, well, where are you? Yes, yes, I'm alone like who but where Okay, I'll find it Yes, sure. Sure. I'll grab a taxi Who are you? No, you When I came to I found myself propped up in the remains of a chair A bottle of cognac in a glass and a place on the table beside me. I helped myself And next to it a piece of paper scribbled on it with the words is your regret. I'm sorry Don't believe me if I ever catch up with him. He's gonna be a lot. Sorry Another snort of cognac and I felt able to navigate I went downstairs grab the taxi That's item for a couple of bucks and had him take me to the place to my second mention over the phone the shame of car And what a joint I've seen a few beating pads that were pretty crazy back in the states, but nothing to compare with this Was a smoky dark and dirty place the beatings packed into it with dirty tools Characters who made a business of being characters including a gone chick chanting some poetry in a corner Then a warmy little man sidled up to my table out of the shadows and proceeded to help himself to my drink Yeah, it was the massage for Chagri Do not do not seem to know me at first money Even when you come over and help yourself to my cognac in this place It is the custom but what happened to you when you hang up the telephone on me Well, somebody sneaked in and worked me over to my sock any idea who it might have been no I hope he did not hurt you too badly did all right, but why now why the crazy note He left saying he was sorry, but of course we should but of course what wait He must have thought you were me. Oh, we were because our little deal on the statue that I made a week ago In my business with some of the terrible people I have to deal with this sort of thing happens all the time But then when this man he discovered here make a mistake that you were not me Oh, sure. What can you the American know of the art the poetry of today? What brought that on yeah, I will translate for you then my lovely my beautiful old to not see oh Listen to my every magnificent word on our way down Nothing nothing nothing nothing nothing nothing Nothing nothing. Oh, now look for the myself. Come on down to work It is all right now. All right. It was for the benefit of the man who came by the people who looked at us Oh, yeah, I noticed him. He was very curious about us like a spy Spy yes, of course. He may have been from my dear friend. Mr. Francois do this on wait a minute Francois do this on isn't he the friends who got hold of that painting that was stolen from Vincent Price a while back Yeah, I helped you to recover for a slight fee and it was through him that you located the blue mud down I was taken from the gallery in Philadelphia The same and now it is different on who have you on the diamond? You're sure that I am sure Also, it was do the song for a race to have them stolen back in your United States. You're a good friend But you're perfectly willing to double-cross him why because you will pay me so well if I get my hands on the time Oh, I have it all arranged. So if you would like to pay me now Yes, the five thousand dollars American when I get my hands on them and it's only two thousand remember We are cheated myself. Okay. Now. How do I get them? I have told him the truth here That you are very rich that you will pay him 15 million francs 15. Well, that's close to thirty thousand dollars All right, well, I find him as much as possible. He will come to you with a diamond He knows my name. Well, I told him that you are Mr Why would mess you from Texas? Yeah, good and I'll have to take another role under that name But of course and you're sure he doesn't know who I really am my business No, no, not because only I could tell him that all right now look to my sack if you have any idea double-crossing You are my oldest my dearest And yet if you were to find out Three thousand Okay to my sack if it all goes off without a hitch, but if it doesn't have no fear money Journal is a kind of shady deal to make to have to make one of the circumstances What else and people simply don't realize how most of the crimes in this world are solved Not by Sherlock Holmes type of detective work not by the kind of stuff you read in the mystery magazines But through informants and one way or another they all have to be paid off otherwise Look at this case if do a song I would have know who I really am I'd stand a chance of not only losing the case for my life as well On the way back to my hotel I began to wonder again about the man who'd attacked me there at the massacres apartment Who'd apparently been there before looking for someone or for me? Did he really think I was the massacres? I was at all just a warning to leave this case alone There was only one way to find out Right in my hotel. I arranged for another rum under the name of Robert Matthews from Texas USA It was a rumour joining my own with a connecting door and it's using my best Texas draw I'd meet Francois Dubasson when he came at midnight with the only diamonds 15 million Frank to my socket told him little enough for a necklace where three quarters of a million But I've never yet paid a thief for the return of stolen goods and I had no intention of doing so this time I settled down to wait for midnight and then I suddenly realized why I felt only half dressed ever since I was attacked over in The massacres apartment sure my gun was missing without it And if you were sound was wise to me with the phone in the other room the one where I'd act out the part of the rich Texan If there was any point Say I've been waiting to hear from you. You don't think I'd let anybody else in on our little deal. Do you? Yeah, anytime you say I'm just laying here in bed reading the monster Just finished taking it out of the hotel safe But I must inform you I will come to your room prepared for any shall we say Now what's that the gun I carry it has a silence I'll be here. I suddenly had an idea that might that might possibly work out of a small rug a pair of shoes And a couple of other things I fashioned a dummy laid it carefully in the bed in the other room after making sure the head of that Bed was toward the door I found up a couple of pillows so that even if they're really been someone in it only the outline under the covers would be visible Out of the cigarette burning in a naster a prop of amazing From the doorway then they'd look like someone lying there reading and smoking. I hoped I Unscrewed a light bulb then stood behind a slightly open adjoining door Come in man. Come in You are very foolish Mr.. Dollar to say you are playing the money from the hotel safe the night clerk has informed me otherwise Also, he confessed it was you who took both of these rooms. Are you anything to say? I told you dollar was here because of the jewel transfer We must have it So I net you may dispose of him once and for all close the door. No Look, there's a dummy in that bed. I see you're right But dollar has no gun now And it's here Take care of my shit. Don't worry. First we try that other room I'm not just opening adjoining door with everything. I had I pitched the light bulb across the room at the far wall And I dove in low at the first of my can reach Bad mistake Johnny Because I have begun. Yeah, I suppose I should have known and that's the last mistake Because of this silence there. Nobody will ever know I'm sorry, ma'am. She'll Dear Thanks to my suck like the u.s. Marine, but such a pity miss you Huh that I should stoop so low as to strike a beautiful woman. Of course the fact that it saved my life 5000 sure 5000 Of course, there'll be some fancy international legal procedure necessary But I'm sure the company can arrange for return of the necklace to the United States As for do the song and the lovely but treacherous in that Well, the Paris police are making the arrangements for them and I'm sure they won't be very pleasant ones Expense account total including a couple of nights on the town 5000 for dim a sock and deluxe transportation back home 5,878 dollars even Wow Oh, incidentally, I met a luscious little blonde on that return trip. Who was she now? Let's not go into that yours truly Johnny dollars Are to tell you about next week's story next week a foggy night on the Embarcadero in San Francisco in the shadows a killer 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 for us Lewis G family Jones Tony Barrett Bill James and Gus Bay Be sure to join us next week same time and station for another exciting story of yours truly Johnny dollar