 From Hollywood. It's time now for John Lund as Johnny Donald you won't like but the commission will be good if we beat it. How big is the policy $200,000 I am afraid to tell you the rest. Why it's in Hong Kong. You have to travel, honey You haven't scared me yet. Is there something you're leaving out policy holders are people? We've had trouble with before remember the Trans Pacific import-export outfit Yeah, I sent flowers to the widow Trans Pacific was in Shanghai then this is their Hong Kong place Want to take a crack at it? No But I will good Al yeah, I'm scared now Tonight and every weekday night John Lund in the transcribed adventures of a man with the action-packed expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator yours truly Johnny dollar Expense accounts submitted by a special investigator Johnny dollar to home office Corinthian liability and risk Hartford, Connecticut The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the Trans Pacific matter I found Hong Kong to be a city without simplicity burden with the tragic complexities of war To fill the smallest wand is a difficult and almost always expensive task as a shortage of everything food water health places to live Both the island and the city of Kowloon and the mainland burst with thousands of refugees who have moved from the interior Over the bobbing head of my rickshaw boy I watched many of them lining the streets wailing for arms as we made our way to the offices of the American consulate Life is very difficult here. Where are they all going many of them do not know Where is the foreign to go? What do they do? How do they stay alive many of them do not? It is not like this in your America No, how did they open? Well, there was a civil war once The books I read say that at times it was pretty bad But not like this never Yes, mr. Grover Louisa with just mr. Dollar step in place. Yes, sir Mr. Grover is ready to speak with you. Thanks Connecticut sounds for it. I Suppose it would yeah, it's a pleasure, mr. Dollar same here, mr. Grover sit down Insurance investigation, huh? Yes Well, what's your iron and what can this office do for you? I'm here to investigate a claim filed by the Trans Pacific import-export company. No, yes, yes, of course Will meadows firm they're destroyed for fire last month 100 percent or $200,000 worth to my company Do you know this William meadow, mr. Grover met him at the American Club now and then that's about all Hey Insurance investigators are hired when the company isn't satisfied with something about the claim On this one the fire was blamed on vandalism. Well vandalism has become quite a popular past time cross and colon especially Do you suspect some sort of fraud frankly? We do mr. Grover Trans Pacific once had a branch in Shanghai Mm-hmm when the war closed in on them up there their warehouse burnt to the ground just like this one here I see and it occurred to a number of people in my home office that Trans Pacific did much better by collecting on the insurance at that time and by going through the expense of liquidating Mm-hmm. I suppose Coincidence won't quite do it will it Well, how can I help well? I'd appreciate some phone calls or letters that would give me some support from the fire department the police Mm-hmm. I Don't suppose my problem seems very important out here. Just thinking that very thing It's always the case mr. Dollar on the fringe of war Very few individual problems seem very important nor are the individuals themselves in the end I trust you'll keep that in mind as you conduct your investigation here, huh? I'll try to and getting help even time from the police or fire brigade is one of those individual problems But I'll do what I can for you. Well anything will help mr. Grover. I Won't take up any more of your time. Yeah Elections must have been quite exciting back home. Oh, yes, they were I miss that part of home very much Oh, be sure to leave your number with my girl I'll let you know about the official assistance. Well, I came right here from the airport. I don't have a number yet. Oh well Pretty tough. Yeah, it's a matter of fact almost impossible the Occidental places it always felt it. I'll tell you you speak with my receptionist miss Vadres Vadres. Yes, her father's half Portuguese. He might have accommodations. She's a charming girl. They're nice people Oh good. I'll ask her and thanks again. Oh Mr. Dollar just a matter of interest. Yes, the case of the Trans Pacific import in Shanghai You say your company was forced to meet the claim there. That's right. Was it investigated the investigator They sent over was killed before he could build a case. Oh They blamed his death on war conditions, too. I said he was robbed in life by starving refugees Nobody had time to dig up the truth Miss Vadres arranged for accommodations at her father's place on a street called sing long a Hill of steps that climbs from the waterfront to the plush European residences on the top of Victoria Peak. I Had a room that looked out on an alley There was an iron bed a chair and a pitcher of water on a bamboo table There were no other non Oriental's in the building But I seem to be the only one that noticed it the first night there. I was suffering from a combination of claustrophobia and loneliness Feelings which at first made me glad to learn that it was she who knocked at my door Hello, Miss Vadres Mr. Grover contact the man named Harrison. He's at the fire control office here Mr. Grover asked me to tell you that mr. Harrison. We see you tomorrow morning. Oh, that's good Won't you come in? Are you comfortable? Oh, thank you. Yes, I am. This is fine. I Don't have much to offer you a cigarette scotch. No, no, thank you I am very curious About what? Why you are here Business if that's what you mean It's a better kept confidential right now Danger in this business Why do you ask that because you are followed here and you are being watched? How do you know? Well, I know sing long street. I have seen this man, but not here. Where is he? Perhaps you can see him from the window. Wait a minute You tell me where he is. I'll look the shop on the other side The boxes pile near the door Yeah You say you've seen him Where I can't remember that. I have just seen him Mm-hmm. Well, no need to worry. There won't be any trouble here I have the advantage right now he doesn't know that I know he's there Well, thanks for telling me about Perhaps you know who he is No, I didn't think anybody knew I was in town You will let this go on the watching hmm not much choice But let's talk about something else, huh? What's that music? Oh That is love song Two lonely people who meet in your river. Oh In America the songs are different. Oh, yes. I know I like them Do you know of many Americans? Oh, yes at the consulate office. I see them all the time. I Want to marry one. Well, I'd say he was a very lucky American. You misunderstand. I do not mean there's only one I Want to marry an American who would take me from China There is no other way You hate it that much. There's nothing else to do but hate There's no good here always trouble The Chinese are patient people but I'm not all Chinese and I cannot make myself impatient any longer. I Want to go to America where people thrive on inpatient see You know, I would think from what I've seen of them Americans are the most impatient people in the world. They say we kill ourselves that way Heart and stomach, but still you live longer and better Uh, what about your Portuguese people? Oh, they're gone You think I'm bad to be this way. Oh, no. No, I didn't say that I'm not bad. I Hope you find your American miss Bader's You want me to go now? Well, I I think you'd better I'll see you tomorrow Good night Three things interfered with sleep that night the pleading in the eyes of the girl The smells and sounds that drifted into my room from the restless crowded city and the watcher Who was still at his station across the street when I turned out my light? The toughest part of the case was that failure in Shanghai where the agent had been killed It was a sobering memory and for that reason every face on Singh Wong Street was a suspicious one In every group of Hong Kong Chinese a potential assassin with my watcher the first to be reckoned with Gun in hand eyes on the street. I fell asleep that night watching him The next morning there was a different man in his place I was followed to the office of Harrison the chief of the fire brigade who had developed couldn't see me after all So with a morning on my hands, I decided to talk to William Meadow the head of Trans Pacific Mr. Meadow at home My name is dollar mr. Meadow, I'm from Corinthian liability Hartford office all the way from the states. That's right Oh, you come in please Won't you say your name was Dollar me what's the matter with that company? Anyway, this doesn't have to be any Nothing to worry about but Sunday's golf game. They don't know anything about the conditions We're working under they do know that your fire here pretty much follows the pattern of the one in Shanghai And of course it does the conditions are the same including the starving refugees the kill-and-rob the investigator. I Tell you this now Careless people are dying here every day. It can happen pretty easy Now say what you have to say to me and get out of here. It's very little mr. Meadow I came here mainly to get my reaction to you. I have You jumped at the conclusion that you were under suspicion before I got through that door You're on the defensive. So you must have a reason to be sure him out. You come down, mr. Dollar Wait more important. You're having me followed So you must be afraid of me mr. Dollar hold on I'm not afraid of you dollar or what you can find or what you might try to do Corinthian liability means no more to me than a bill I authorized payment on at the beginning of the year My firm burned down here and that dandy little company of yours is going to pay the claim True, I don't like you snooping around. I don't like you coming here to my house like this. Do you know it? No man would That's the biggest parcel of information you'll ever get from me, but I'll go elsewhere. Good idea Have your dreams dollar and have them someplace else go snoop through the ashes They're cold mainly Just get out of here. How much did the love please I can find the door Two things came out of that conversation with William Meadow one a reasonable platform to build a suspicion on to a Veiled threat in his reference to the agent who had been killed in Shanghai Let me elaborate on that Most all of what Meadows was saying to me was this is my town and I run things anybody who gets in my way can get hurt Hmm. It was a real nice situation. All right. I'd been threatened and I was being followed Expense account item two seven dollars for scotch. I Rick shot back to my hotel locked myself in and took up my vigil by the window same watcher same kind of night In a city where life was supposedly so cheap Mine began to grow expensive Be sure to hear tomorrow's episode of yours truly Johnny dollars starring John Lund Who can currently be seen in the universal international picture just across the street? Yours truly Johnny dollar is written by E. 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