 From Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny dollar Hello, who is it? Hello Hello I don't know countless Maybe they weren't expecting a man to answer or at least not me. I would not know about that What about this guy who was lying unconscious in your closet? Would you know anything about that? No, Johnny? I didn't think you would I'll give another shot of those smelling salts I think he's coming too. Good. Maybe he'll know about some of these things. Yes, he will Some of them and of course he will tell you I Was hoping it would not be brought out. I did not want you to know murder is usually brought out sooner or later not murder Johnny It is not that simple Tonight in 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 Algiers, North Africa to the home office Transworld Fidelity Company Hartford, Connecticut Assignment the Lorco Diamonds matter expense account continued Item six nine dollars and thirty cents smelling salts in a bottle of scotch The smelling salts were needed for a double-talking fellow named Zeindorf who'd managed to get himself gassed half to death in a closet a Representative of your client who suffered the hundred thousand dollar loss Lorco Diamonds of Amsterdam the scotch was for me Johnny he doesn't like it. Should I go on holding them under his nose? Yeah, sure keep shoving them at him until he's strong enough to fight you off That's how smelling salts work a person has to come to and sheer self-defense nine nine stop Is more to play already? My nose is killed that no more maybe even poking it into the wrong places What were you doing in that closet mr. Zeindorf? It's nothing. I can tell you the entire thing in two words use more if you need But make it good Nobody is fine this beautiful diamond Nobody has to do anything so I'm come looking for my known self in that closet nine is only for hiding I am wait for everybody going away going at sleep. Then I am going to look in my apartment What made you think they would be here? You are pleased to forgive me for oiling, but I am not taking the chance I'm think to looking every place who turned on the gas out there. Do not ask yet. I I know nothing I I think I have sleeping some maybe and when I have waking I am died almost. Yeah Well, apparently somebody was out to get one of us at least Hey, what about that made of yours Maria or is the one of course she You know that is strange She disappeared about the time you arrived slipped out without a word. Does she live here? I think she lives up in the Casbah. I hire her through the agency. I see Do you think she did it? Oh the more I find out the less I'm sure of Maybe mr. Zeindorf did it trying to commit suicide over his missing trinkets. No Suicide is one thing. I am not and I I desist to listen no more I'm to leave here immediate. Oh By the way, mr. Zeindorf. Yeah, what is it as I understand it? You boys in the international jewelry business are ordinarily pretty cautious in your dealings. Yeah Yeah, the prudence my mayor always the entire prudence. That's what I mean You always investigate a new client thoroughly before you take any chances. Is that right? It's entire correct Johnny No, then why did you send a hundred thousand dollars worth of diamonds here to well jeers at the request of a woman who? doesn't have a cent to her name Why it is to me these things are always happen My dear dollar, I am the highest ethic of business. I cannot give you answering Well, why don't you better give me an answering? Oh, it is all right, mr. Zeindorf Please please you tell Contessa alright What is it trying to say Johnny is this it did not matter about my financial standing because I Wasn't not actually client. What do you mean? You ordered this? Yes several pieces on approval so I could make a selection anything up to $20,000 Somebody else was paying for it It was being given to me as a gift by home a fellow Contra man of yours a man named Charles Barrett He's been here for three months lives on his yacht mr. Zeindorf How did you know this man Barrett would pay for the diamond by the letter of my near what letter when I wrote to the local firm? I took the liberty of enclosing a letter written to me by mr. Barrett his own Authentical signings be investigated immediate what sort of a letter was he? promised to pay for a gift of jewelry up to $20,000 of my own selection in return for Certain What consideration romantic mine here it is a little present of the engagement is that what it was Maria an engagement present? I think I go now. It's too much has happened in this place. Is it all right to smoke? Yeah, sure the gas is clear Yeah, I wish you hadn't kissed me Johnny. I thought you said you liked it. I did That is why I wish you hadn't Are you trying to say that? Oh relax Johnny? I am not a child No, I have not fallen in love with you any more than you have with me very easily What about this man Barrett? What's he like? Oh an overbearing spoiled middle-aged little boy. The price sounds kind of high. What else is there ever think of working where at what? In Italy yes, but you know what's open there for an impoverished countess Yeah, no, and I suppose you can't get a work permit anywhere else. Is that it? Oh forget it Johnny All I know how to do is be highly ornamental say the right things to the right people do the right things at the right time And eat by stealing caviar at cocktail parties You go hungry a lot that way Yeah, I guess it's rough Well, don't let it throw you honey. You're not the first girl who married for money. I guess you don't understand Nobody has said anything about the marriage I see Well Johnny I Imagine you will be leaving now So Good night Johnny Goodbye for all the progress I'd made in the case. I might as well have stayed at home another fish off the hook Logical suspect number one had been the customs property agent Andre Jardine But the blow in the head that sent him to the hospital hadn't been faked and that plus the fact the diamond courier had shown symptoms of poisoning Before the plane even landed seemed to leave Andre in the clear and now number two Maria Contest at Delia was apparently able to supply another answer every time she needed one and her answers were backed up by Hand signed off Lorco's own representative We were short-cutting through the harbor district when I began to realize that the same car had been behind us ever since we'd left Maria's it was a low-slung English job expensive and easy to recognize Driver leave us here. Get the gas a little harder. See if you can shake that car behind me. We The other car picked up speed to match ours and still held the same distance They track up the fast corners. I want to make sure yeah The next place where the street narrows down stop fast swing crosswise block off the road I want to stop that guy and have a talk with him. Hey, you understand what I mean Just like any movies. Yeah, well something like that. It is a place coming up. Let's let's have a go at it You do not worry. I will do it good. I only hope we've seen the same movies I was out of the cab fast and running back down the street The other driver had jammed on his brakes and finally skidded to a stop against the curb I reached for the handle jerked the door open and the man inside came on swinging a Big man little on the beefy side but plenty tough I didn't know him never seen it before he fought silently and fought hard, but he was a sucker for a left I knelt down in the pavement and started to go through his pockets. I hadn't even noticed the other car pull up Do you merely plan to rob him or do you also intend to cook him and eat him? Oh, you really get around inspector the policeman must socialize monsieur. It broadens the outlook come We walk my chauffeur will take care of reviving your victim. Do you happen to know the victim? May we? Is monsieur Charles K. Berry out chicago Maria's ex-boyfriend Something of the sort I believe how did you happen to get here so conveniently? Oh, I was following you further back, of course Then why didn't you pitch in when the fight started and spoiled such a remarkable display of fisticuffs? Okay, okay, it is true. The footwork was mediocre, but the verb the enthusiasm the violence Superb, monsieur. I can't quite figure you inspector. Well, sometimes we must talk about it Monsieur you will be most happy to know that we have identified the person who occupied the plane seat next to the diamond courgette They shared a bottle of wine during the flight Undoubtedly that is how the poison was administered and who is the person a man named bobo bobo We he is well known in the cas bar. He is a thief smuggler dope peddler and it is said He can be hired as a killer. Have you picked him up yet? Well, I have not tried to why not Why not monsieur in the cas bar at the site of uniform everyone vanishes Like rabbits in their holes the cas bar another thing the property agent who was struck on the head Andre jordine He has disappeared from the hospital disappeared. How his window was open. The room was upset It was very odd Yeah, look inspector, uh, I think I'll get on back to the hotel and get some sleep As you wish. Yeah, I'll talk to you tomorrow. Oh There is one more thing, uh, monsieur dollar I think perhaps I should warn you of something in the event you should call again on the contest Warn me of what? Well two days ago. I installed a dictaphone in her apartment You what I must admit I found your conversation this evening most entertaining Inspector You are a rat. Oh, please do not concern yourself in the least. I am the soul of discretion. Maybe monsieur I am a Frenchman Twice tonight the cas bar had been mentioned The strange mysterious native quarter on the steep hill behind the city Maria had said her maid lived there and now bobble who'd given poison wine to the diamond courier I had an angle and I had some ideas The picture was finally starting to make sense But I needed some more answers And the trail then into the cas bar There'll be another intriguing episode in our story of the lorco diamonds matter tomorrow tomorrow A bungling fool a tightening net and a violent death in a crooked alley of the cas bar Join us won't you yours truly johnny dollar Yours truly johnny dollar starring bob bailey is transcribed in hollywood Written by les crutchfield. It is produced and directed by jack john stone Be sure to join us tomorrow night same time and station for the next exciting episode of yours truly johnny dollar Roy roan speaking