 From Hollywood, it's time now for Johnny Deller Oh Garcia Tell me have you Which means you haven't found him yet every man the police is active alert I'm happy to hear it Have you found any trace of him Thank you very much, do you know where he's headed? Do you have any idea at all what's happened to Ed Morgan? 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 Deller From special investigator Johnny Deller location Panama To the home office eternity mutual insurance company Hartford, Connecticut Assignment the confidential matter expense account final page Item 15 a dollar and 10 cents taxi from my hotel to Plaza Boulevard in the office of Captain Garcia commandante of police It had been over an hour and a half since I'd let Ed Morgan point a gun at me and escaped from the tiny fishing boat Where he'd been hiding out for the past month. I'd expected the police to capture him within 30 minutes There were only two highways out and they'd both been blockaded immediately But somehow Ed driving a stolen police car had escaped the net In fact, he'd done more than merely escape as I discovered when I walked into the massive stone police headquarters Senior dollar pleased to sit you down. Thanks the most surprise thing is a course in your what do you mean? You will remember you say is a fine idea to keep watch at the hotel at the senior about it Yeah, I thought Ed might try to get in touch with when I see so I do this thing I sent two men and they watched for one hour Okay, Bobo's they're fools. Why so they do not see this senior Morgan They do not see the senior about it, but only after one hour Do they think to talk with the manager? You know what he say what senior Morgan come five minutes before they do and he take The senior away in the car what the devil for getting savvy senior Driving a stolen car and just one jump ahead of the police and he risks his neck to go after her Why where's that this is a little more of well below conumbria meaning this love is sometime Make a man crazy in the head. How about that one? It's something. I am not understand so good senior. What's that? How is it you are know all about this criminal? He wasn't always a criminal Garcia. He was one of my best friends for 12 years Then I am much sympathy with your senior is too unfortunate that you are have the job for arresting Well, I didn't know he was alive when I took the job Get these the company ran an audit on his books and found an 80 grand shortage I went to San Francisco to find out what happened to the money Ed was supposedly dead at the time We all thought so then I do not understand why you have come here to Panama I came to talk to this Nikki Barrett the woman he'd been running around with I stumbled on to him by luck or Accident or whatever you want to call it. Okay? Curious as love either to leave is like to fish senior when he's never certain what he may pull up on the hook Well, I pulled up one here and I'd like to throw it back. I Guess you don't have much choice Well, huh Get this a See see you say circuit Delmar Santa mother get on the house. What is it? I see Lost him. She could either be in Venemos ahorita. See adios. What's wrong? What's happened senior Morgan and the senora? They have been found where They have tried to escape by the old road on the cliff is abandoned very dangerous They are miss one bad curve and go into the ocean into the ocean see senior the car is under 10 meters of water There is no sign of life Expense account item 16 75 dollars charity fee and one power launch This included the services of a diver in line tender We were just plain lucky on this one a salvage company happen to be working in the port and had a man and equipment free at the moment We took off along the coastline and in less than an hour We dropped anchor over the wreck and the diver had been lowered beneath the surface The sea was calm against the rocks But the water wasn't clear enough to see more than just the outline of the car lying over 30 feet down on the bottom While we waited for the diver to come back up by glance toward the high cliff towering above us a Month ago. There'd been another cliff like that in San Francisco Like I said, senior life is too strange sometimes So is death this man this woman they meet they look one at each other and what are they think a lot of things maybe But not that they end up here like this Who can ever know if one day he will come a second the dive is coming up See he's too bad. He doesn't have the system of telephone in this case. We can talk from the water He didn't have time to rig it up. I Will soon know I guess I am not sorry for you, senior dollar that your friend has to die like this I faced the idea of his death a month ago and accepted it Then I had to face some other things about him Another shark now doesn't seem to have much meaning just a matter of it is the diver. He's up to the rail Hey, let me give you a hand with that faceplate I'll work on this side It's very complicated. There's diving business. Yeah Well, this is kind of an old-fashioned rig. They got suits now with self-contained oxygen independent control Stuff the frogmen developed during and after the war Yeah, there's all right, there we go All right, I'm what you find oh Let me get a breath of Royer first But I get that compressor motor fixed throws down more CO it knocks you on come on how to look Dollar it's a mess that car must have rolled over a dozen times coming down that cliff all cracked up Yeah, but what about one doors half off and flattened back on the glasses slivered Looks like it had been bombed instead of just wrecked Seniors the other body of the woman is inside But it's no chance to get it out without dropping a grappler and seeing if we can roll the car over and the man is he Nope Just a woman That's the only one down there Again the same pattern a car plunging off a cliff into the ocean and a body missing from it But this time I was sure it wasn't faked Ed wouldn't have done a thing like that to Nikki not to Nikki And yet his body was not in the wreck I Looked again at the high wall of the cliff steep but not vertical a Car would have rolled and bounce coming down as the diver had set and one door was torn half off the glass was smashed out It was a possibility as far as I could see the only possibility I had the captain run the launch in close then I jumped onto the rocks and started to climb The slope was gentler than it had looked from the water and the surfers was broken by ravines Trumps and thickets of tropical plants clung to the shelves and the going was rough a long ways were impossible I've made it halfway to the top when I found them jammed in the trough of a gully Broken badly hurt and still alive barely You Johnny. Yeah He's an eye. Let me get a foot holding We didn't make it Johnny. You didn't have a chance had you should have realized and Maybe I knew all along better not try to talk It's Kind of funny when you think about it. I Mean what happened here? Just like we did it in San Francisco Only this time it's real Lost control this time. It's real Now you lie still there and there are police on the road up above we'll get some ropes down have you out of here before you Know forget it Johnny It's no use The mall smashed Inside I can't even move. All right. Maybe you got a broken bone it too, but that's no reason to don't lie to me Johnny I'm dying We both know it Am I right or not? Yeah, I'm afraid you're right Doesn't matter anymore Tell me this Is Nikki she's dead You're right about her Johnny forget it. Would you forget it? I? Made her come with me in the car held a gun on her Since she got mad scared She's built a whole story and it doesn't make any difference now funny I thought she came down here before she was supposed to Because she just couldn't wait to join me Which he only came to get the rest of the money She wasn't planning to stay listen to me at this kind of talk. She didn't love me never did She admitted it Right before we went off the cliff, but I thought she did Johnny for a while And nobody else ever let me even think it please Ed. Why don't you try to forget about it? You know something Johnny if I was to go back I Think I'd do the same thing again Nikki the way she could be when she wanted to it gets you Got me anyway It's crazy Maybe there's just no answer for a guy like me except this I Don't know it. I'm not a judge kind of figures, you know Nikki dying to I bought her and Paid for I At least ought to be able to take her with me After all I Money once left of it. It's inside my coat Give it to more John, I'm sorry Make him understand. He will that You too Johnny I'm sorry, I guess I don't know what else to say Forget it, but I still think I do it all over again Crazy There are times we all go a little crazy. I got no right to ask If you would I sure appreciate it. I mean if you just shake hands with me Sure, honey. I Can't find your hand it's dark. I Can't see where right here right here I shake you ugly old son of a gun Thanks Johnny. Thanks for nothing For another It's a wrong item 17 $487 and 25 cents hotel and incidentals and Panama and transportation back to the States Expense account total $912 and 61 cents and Forwarding under separate cover by American Express ensured $62,112 and 30 cents and of account and a report remarks No more it's not on this one Ed Morgan was my friend the report stands Yours truly Johnny dollar Now here is our star to tell you about next week story next week the imperfect alibi matter a real weirdy Or a big lie turns out to be the one real truth in the case Join us. Won't you yours truly Johnny dollar yours truly Johnny dollar starring Bob Bailey was transcribed in Hollywood Written by Les Crutchfield. 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