October 7, 2025 • 29 mins
Rocky Jordan was a radio series about an American restaurateur in Cairo who each week became involved in some kind of mystery or adventure. The show was broadcast between 1948 and 1951. The two lead roles were Rocky Jordan and Captain Sam Sabaaya of the Cairo Police. For most of the show's history Jordan was played by veteran radio actor Jack Moyles, but he was later replaced by a movie star, George Raft, for the brief period in 1951. Jay Novello played Sabaaya throughout the entire series.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Time now for Rocky Jordan. Not far from the Musk
Sultan Hassan in Cairole stands the Cafe Tambourine run by
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Rocky Jordan. The Cafe Tambourine crowded with forgotten men alive
with a babble of many languages. For this is Cairole,
where modern adventure and intrigue unfold against a backdrop of antiquity.
Tonight's story Desert Betrayal.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
There are five times in a day when a foreigner
like myself tries to stay off the streets of Cairol.
That's at dawn, noon, late afternoon, sunset, and just after
dusk when the Muasan appears in his minaret to call
a faithful to pray it. At that moment all activity stops,
and that amout Moslem kneels on his rug facing mechot.
Keeping away from them at those times is one respect
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we can pay their religion, and they appreciate that respect.
But I guess I wasn't watching the clock. This particular evening,
My Cafe Tambourine still held the intense heat of the day,
so I got out and walked down the crowded Sharia
Nagoon toward the nile, try and catch a cool breeze.
I just stopped to a glance at a big poster
something about a rally for the politician El marmad Bay,
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when I heard the voice of the Muasian and the
minaret high above me. Suddenly, all sounds of activity stopped
as the natives faced east, their foreheads to the ground.
As quick as I could, I ducked back through a
narrow passage off the street that led to the winding
stairs of the minaret. I waited there until sounds from
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the street told me prayers were over and the carrines
were again about their business. Then I was about to
be on my way when the scream came from the minaret.
As I turned and looked up, I saw the bearded
Muazon in his flowing robes, stanger out of the tower,
pitch headlong down the winding stairway. He rolled over and over,
and he didn't stop till he sprawled at the bottom,
almost at my feet. It was like something out of
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a bad opera, and for a split second I couldn't move,
But the red splotches from stab wounds spreading across his
white robe snapped me out of it, and I rushed
over to him, all easy to try not to move.
Who did this? You've got to tell me, listen, who
did it? I guess he figured he was done for,
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and there was a look almost of ecstasy on his
kindly face. But I didn't want to give up that easy.
I made a move to try and stop the bleeding.
When I heard footsteps coming down the stairway. It was
another figure in the robes of a mousin, only he
had a black field boots on. Come on, hurry up,
will you help me with this? Manut up and get back.
We gotta work fast here. I'm not going anywhere again
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since winds and moways and carry a lugo.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Don't touch him.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
You've stepped in where it doesn't concern you.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Maybe it's lucky I did.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Think again, my friend, it's your misfortune.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
I felt the blow of his heavy lugur across my face,
and that was all only a roaring like a calm
scene on the desert, and me spinning with the wind
till it seemed to pitch me back down at the
foot of the minaret. The pain in my head drove
me to my senses, and when I opened my eyes.
It was pitch dark, the dead body of the kindly
mois and lay beside me. Just as I realized I
was clutching something tightly in my hand, a flashlight step
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right in my eyes. So it is you, mister Jordan,
get up at once, good honeing Grego who called you?
There was no police skull, Ali, get you.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
Take the knife from this smash knife, the one in
your hand, mister John. You need not feign surprise. You
do not deceive me.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Ideas already Gregor, hand over the knife, take it. I
don't use knives.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
Indeed, however, it was in your hands, stained with the
blood of the sacred Moaism lying dead by your side.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Look, don't you know a plant when you see one?
Speaker 6 (04:26):
It's time you have overstepped yourself, mister Joe.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Okay, irresh me get it over with.
Speaker 6 (04:30):
Perhaps that will not be necessary. I need only to
call the people in from the street to witness this thing.
Do you get in that when the new spreads that
their revered religious leader has met violent death by the
hands of an unbeliever, you will be disposed of very quickly.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
You like that, wouldn't you?
Speaker 6 (04:45):
I would be helpless against the mob you see, mister.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Get some sense now, Grego. If the Muasn's death gets out,
there'll be a lot of repercussions. You think, sirbayerd put
another stripe on your sleevery. That happened.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
I personal ambitions have nothing to do with this.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Take get over, mister Jordan.
Speaker 6 (05:01):
You will understand that I had no intention of disclosing
this to anyone as yet. Sure, greg Sure, Ellie, bring
another met. You would take them awaysun to the meat
I raped and hide his remains there. It would be
done at one moment, under no circumstances.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Would you breathe a word of this to anyone?
Speaker 7 (05:17):
Is that clear?
Speaker 8 (05:17):
It is?
Speaker 6 (05:17):
Sargeant Gregor, quickly not and you, mister Jordan, will come
with me.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Gregor waited only long enough to watch his age lift
them aways and carry him carefully up the steep, winding
steps to the tower. As they disappeared under the dark,
he gave me a shove and I walked her head
out in the street. Neither of a spoke a word
on our ride to head quarters. I was taken to
Sabias office and a couple of guards held me there
for maybe half an hour until Sam made his appearance.
Gregor was with him, and they motioned the guards outside.
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It was all just a little too deliberate. Greg O
been telling you things, Sam.
Speaker 6 (05:56):
He keeps silent until spoken to mister Jordan.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
And let's get at it, and I.
Speaker 7 (06:00):
Have Greco's statement.
Speaker 9 (06:02):
You were found at the foot of the mongar Mino
d beside the dead body of the Muaysim.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Did he tell you I'd been knocked out? Cole Sam
a trick captain.
Speaker 6 (06:09):
He was trapped and could do nothing but pretend that
he also had been attack.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Then explained the shape my faces in.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Gregor, your face is smashed up in many ways.
Speaker 7 (06:17):
One moment.
Speaker 9 (06:19):
Now, Jordan, I will hear your full explanation of this affair.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
I was standing at the foot of the tower stairs
during the last call of prayer.
Speaker 9 (06:26):
Did you an American, not know better than to be
there at such a time.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
I ducked in there to get off the street, go on,
and the Mowaysian rolled down the steps right up my
feet before I could get anything out. I'm somebody else
in the Mowaysian's robe showed up.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
There is no other Mawaism at the middle right.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
You're right, Gregor, he wasn't Amwaysian. He wasn't an Egyptian.
He had on German field boots and he carried alga.
Speaker 7 (06:46):
Jordan, what fantastic tailor are you trying to make me?
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Listen to me? Sam? The guy wrapped me up against
the wall and slapped his gun across my face.
Speaker 6 (06:53):
Lying cab as, mister Jordan. How he got this knife
in his hand? You can see for yoursel.
Speaker 9 (06:58):
A knife on the desk, grego I. I do not
wish to look at it again.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
Yes, you wish the Moaysan had been stabbed four times?
I thought it beast under the circumstances to have his
body hidden in the Mira.
Speaker 7 (07:10):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, you acted most wisely, Greg.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
I was only doing my Dooday, Captain, spy.
Speaker 9 (07:15):
Her Jordan about this man with the luga. Would you
recognize him if you saw him again?
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Better?
Speaker 5 (07:21):
I would.
Speaker 7 (07:24):
You.
Speaker 9 (07:26):
You have told me everything that's right, and you can
explain nothing of the other similar acts of violence against
our Holy Man here in Cairo, Am and others. This
is the third Mowesden to die in the past month,
all by the knife.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Why Sam, what's it all about?
Speaker 9 (07:41):
I do not know, but I intend to find out.
Jordan there are things a man like you would not
understand that. My people take their religion most seriously. Quite
often our emotions become strongly involved.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Maybe I do understand same. Every man has a religion,
whether he knows and that.
Speaker 7 (07:59):
But there are different is sure.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
I've knocked around enough to learn to respect another man's beliefs.
That's why I get off the street.
Speaker 7 (08:05):
We will not go over that again.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Okay, but you can't hold me, say indeed I can, Jordan.
Speaker 9 (08:10):
You will be committed to jail pending for the investigation.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
So that's the way it is.
Speaker 7 (08:14):
That will we all?
Speaker 9 (08:16):
Greco, I must hurry to the elmrmat Bay political rally.
Speaker 7 (08:19):
We have promised him police protection. Put Jordan in a cell.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
This way, mister dog Oh Greco, you.
Speaker 9 (08:25):
Had best place him in the old cell block across
the alley and under heavy guard.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I know better than to try and figure out what
goes on in Sabia's mind. When I had a hunch
he was locking me up more than anything for my
own protection, and the old cell block would be the
last place a mob but try and hunt me out.
Greco made a big thing of it as he and
two others directed me down a corridor to the back door.
A dim bulb over the entrance was all that lit
the alley. Greco motioned across to a dingy sandstone building
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about thirty feet on down, and I moved ahead. I
had taken not more than a dozen steps when it
began to have them to A whole bunch of them
came out of noise. Everyone put it surrounded. Greco in
his cards, I may quick work once I come back.
One of the hooded men was out of the scuffle
and had me by the arm.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Get moving, judging what is this?
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Call it a rescue?
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Maybe I don't want to shut out your fool.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Now move.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
By that time they were all around me, dragging me
up the alley. Somewhere back I could hear an alarm
sounding and the shouts of more men running out of
the head quarters. But already we had reached the side street,
where a light field truck was waiting, its motor running.
The hooded figures piled me in, the driver put it
in gear, wheel spun. We were careening off down the narrow,
winding streets. Now we must have traveled every side street
and carol to shake the police. Finally, the truck roared
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across the Bulack Bridge of the Nile, through Giza on
west and north above the Nile Valleys, it meets the desk.
As the truck picked up speed, the men relaxed their
grip on peering ahead to the on rushing road, so
I had a chance to look them over.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Well.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
The top man call it to a rescue, but I
knew better. Every one of them was wearing German Field
boots and carrying a Luga. The jump was a risk.
I knew there was nothing alongside but soft sand, and
was the only way. I waited till we hit a sharp,
bumpy curve and I was off and rolling in the
fourth time over, I was on my feet, clawing my
way through the brush. Then they opened up the ditch
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with a wind knocked out in my state, my face
in the sun, waiting for me to flesh me out,
knowing exactly what would happen when we did.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
You are listening to Desert Betrayal Tonight's Adventure with Rocky
Jordan Travel to the Ends of the Earth Tomorrow Night
with Dick Powell and Sidney Hassel, who will recreate their
original screen rolls on CBS Radio Theater. To the Ends
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an international narcotics ring and makes for an exciting story.
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Remember Dick Powell and Sidney Hasso tomorrow Monday Night at six.
Now we return you to Cairo and tonight's adventure with
Rocky Jordan Desert Betrayal.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
It was a peaceful evening as I stood at the
foot of the minaret and listened to the Moasan's called
a prayer, and all that was changed a few seconds
later when the Mowasan lay dying at my feet. A
man wearing German field boots and a gun to match
planted the killing on me. Not long after, as I
was being taken to a jail cell, the same man,
with a lot of helpers, broke it up, dumped me
in a truck and roared it out into the desert.
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I remember jumping from the speeding truck, some gunshots, and
not much more till a breath of air hit me.
And it wasn't air off the desert. It smelled of
cheap gin, like my cafe tambourine after a hard night.
It came from somebody bending over me.
Speaker 10 (12:11):
Get up, monsieur, before they find tu. Where are they
searching the brush on the other side of the sand.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
Dune up with you? Now, where are we going to
my hut?
Speaker 10 (12:22):
Only a little way.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
I'm laying this say. Somehow she got me over a
hut and dropped me on a cot. The dive off
the truck must have joled me plenty, because right then
I passed out for a while. The next thing I know,
it was daylight and I was wide awake and choking
for breath. She was sharing her cheap gin with me.
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The gin it helps lespa ho they sell stuff that bad.
Speaker 10 (12:50):
Oh, so just champagne, you wish.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
I'm sorry, I woke up too quick.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
It is nothing.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Yeah, you took a lot of chances, sister.
Speaker 10 (13:00):
I am susette. Perhaps another drink?
Speaker 2 (13:05):
No, no, no, no thanks, I should wish. Okay, any
of those guys come.
Speaker 10 (13:12):
Around, No, monsieur, they went away.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Looks like you got a good hide out here.
Speaker 10 (13:18):
We all hide from something as far.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Yeah, me from too many things.
Speaker 10 (13:23):
You You do not tell me who.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
You are, monsieur. The name's Jordan.
Speaker 10 (13:29):
I'm an American who flees from many men with guns
on the desert.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
I have to have a truck. They were taking me someplace,
but why your guess is as good as mine.
Speaker 10 (13:39):
Many trucks have been going into the desert.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Eh where to Susan, I do not know.
Speaker 10 (13:46):
But something is going on out there. You were captured, Monsieur.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Oh rescued they called it.
Speaker 10 (13:55):
You'll make a strange.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Oh yeah, it's a beauty. I'm always in a stab
to death in Kiro, not the first to be killed.
But whoever did it? Figured? I knew too much before
the police could solve me away. This gang grim here.
Speaker 6 (14:06):
What were they like?
Speaker 2 (14:07):
And they weren't Muslims, men who speak good English and
carry lugas you got it, figured Susan.
Speaker 10 (14:14):
Always it is the same. So it was with the
betrayal of France. Always I do not realize he's talking
about Monsieur. In France they called me a tritor. It
was not so. I did not know I was being
used by the enemy.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
It makes some sense now.
Speaker 6 (14:31):
I am a poor.
Speaker 10 (14:32):
French woman in Egypt without credentials. I must exist as
best I can. When there is an opportunity to sell
munitions and guns into Egypt, what can I do?
Speaker 2 (14:44):
The trucks are taking munitions into the desert, but I
did not Who's the deal with Susante, it is a
bad deal. I come on, never mind the gin. Who'd
you sell the stuff to? There?
Speaker 10 (14:56):
There is a man named Frank Cruller.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Where do I find him?
Speaker 8 (14:59):
Eh?
Speaker 10 (15:00):
Hosport under Nia da be are sixteen.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Let's have some more, monsieur.
Speaker 10 (15:07):
I have said too much you rust Now you will
need much strength for what is ahead.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
So I waited out the burning heat of the day
in her hut. All the time I tried to get
more out of her about Crueler and the munitions going
into the desert. How that tied in with the Muwaisan's death.
But from then Hans Susette closed up, tied it in
the cap on a bottle of coke. Well, with a
little food and a lot of sleep, I was ready
to go by sundown. Susette helped me into Geezer. From
then on I was on my own. I thumbed a
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ride across the bridge, but before I went down along
the river, I decided on a phone.
Speaker 7 (15:42):
Call Captain Siah speaking.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Hello Sam Jordan. So you I just didn't want you
to worry about me.
Speaker 7 (15:50):
Where are you? What are you doing?
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Relax?
Speaker 2 (15:52):
I'm all right, I tell you don't have to rescue
me rescue you.
Speaker 7 (15:55):
Indeed you will return your headquarters at one.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Sorry, you got a big date.
Speaker 7 (15:59):
Where are you going to see?
Speaker 2 (16:00):
A guy named Crueler Cruler? Frank Cruler and the objection same.
Speaker 7 (16:04):
Jordan, Listen to me. There are things you do not understand.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Why not.
Speaker 9 (16:07):
You are not immussel, but I am, and I can
tell you that you are in great danger.
Speaker 7 (16:11):
For your own protection, come back to Gee.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Thanks for the advice. See you, lady Sam Georgian for
the last time. And I was on my way to
see Crueler. I couldn't have missed his Dahabia on the
nile up i'd tried. It was a floating palace, all
lit up, with music coming from someplace, and real important
looking people going on board, with the day's growth of
beard and so on. I wasn't exactly in shape for
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a party, but I went anyhow. Only a big pile
of muscles at the entrance stood in my way.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Retrace your steps, oh.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Get upset, But I didn't come to see.
Speaker 8 (16:46):
You state your business here.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Maybe I got invited those of influence and wealth come
here tonight. Something real special, eh, the.
Speaker 8 (16:58):
Reception of the great El marmad Bay.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
I've known bigger politicians. Yeah, back to the streets with
you English until I see Frank Kruler is not here.
Let's look around, show what is going on here. Somebody
was coming through the light of doorway. Tortoise, the one
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man I wanted to see more than anyone else. I'd
last seen him under the manorat as he slapped a
logo in my face.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Who is this man?
Speaker 8 (17:30):
Is no one? I tell him to go away.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
I will handle him, Jerub. So it is you, Jordan.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Yeah, I take it to your crueler.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
I am you.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Know, Jordan.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
He interested me.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
I'll bet you made good.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
You escaped last night.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
Is it not foolhardy to walk back into another trip?
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Not if it gets some answers.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
So it happens that I would like to talk to
you too, Come this way.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Oh no, talk here.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Sorry, I fear you have no choice.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
A glance at the shadows told me there were others
besides Jaru covering for Kruler. So I followed along with
Jaro close behind. We went down some steps away from
the party going on above, through an arrow corridor to
a door the crooler open. He motioned me in. I
was face to face with a guest of honor, one
Napoleon sized, puffy gimblodied Egyptian politicians sporting a monocle. El
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Mahamad Bay.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Who is this man cruder?
Speaker 5 (18:33):
The person who persists in making trouble for us at
Mahamad Bay?
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Of course, excellent?
Speaker 2 (18:41):
You the top man in this deal, mammat Day.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Perhaps more than you know what odacious motive brings you here.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
A lot of question marks about guns and munitions. You
get your hands on stuff that's being hatched down in
the desert somewhere most interesting.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
From whom did you this?
Speaker 2 (19:00):
I'll escape it moment. I'm not on your side yet.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
I had hardly hoped for that.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
What else you know, Jodan, Just that you're playing for
something pretty big, killing Masdom lead. It is dangerous business.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
What are a few lives if they serve my purpose?
Speaker 4 (19:17):
You tell me, El Mahmad Bay, your time is most valuable.
The others are waiting.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
As you say, crueler. The hour grows short.
Speaker 11 (19:25):
Finding the source of your information and how much of
it you have devilged to others is most important to
make cause well, But it.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Is we have ways of getting it from you.
Speaker 11 (19:35):
With a logo, great curler Jodan, who else knows you
have come on this?
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Have yet a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
It is possible. Let him go, Curler, what happens to
this man after he leaves here?
Speaker 4 (19:51):
You ma de side, of course, bring the others. Throw
this man out.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Once you up to it yourself, crueler, No, no, not.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Out the window.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
Perhaps drown the waters of the Nile will drive you
to your senses.
Speaker 7 (20:09):
Spit for it's too late.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
I got plenty of nile water, all right, but I
didn't head for the shore. I saw them moving along
the bank waiting for me, and a little boat took
off downstream, trying to pick me up. But they didn't
know I was hanging out of the anchor. Change a
little while. I was pulling myself back into the little room.
It was empty now. The noise of the party upstairs
covered for me, and I started looking around. A couple
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of shoves and I had a closet drawer open. What
was inside didn't surprise me. Stack of small arms, lugers
man like a rifles and cases of ambunition. Next, I
tried the desk in the corner. The minute I cracked
the top drawer, I had what I wanted. There was
a list of various Muisins and Carol. The top three
names were scratched out, and I figured they were the
ones who had already. Maybe the rest were next, but
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I didn't say why. I folded the sheet and shoved
at my pocket. Suddenly there was a soft step from behind.
Before I could move, there was a silken cord around
my neck, drawn tighter and tighter, and once more thick
blackness poured in. I was slow in coming out of it.
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First I thought I was still lying at the minaret
besides the dead Moison. Then I was in a ditch
with a gin silk woman bending over me. Finally I
opened my eyes. The light from a window almost blinded me.
Outside I could see other buildings, and I knew we
were in some abandoned army camp. I tried to move,
and I realized I was tied securely to a chair.
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The bare room held just me and Frank Crueler.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Ab salute you, Jordier, for a chance Adverseri. You have
proved quite formative.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
I skipped the build up. Crueler.
Speaker 5 (21:59):
Where to the south is the Gauatara Depression. It was
used as an anchor in the battle for Egypt and.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
You're using the place for something else.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
As a temporary hideout.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
It serves our purpose, and ammunition's done to spare your strength, Jordan,
you'll need.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
It like for what El Mahmad by mister Jordan awaits
you well, Jordan, for a man with big plans my mind,
you give me lots of attention.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Why because I wish to know what people are in
possession of certain information? Who are they?
Speaker 2 (22:37):
I'll give you an answer, but to my question, not yours.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Because I soon will become master of Egypt. Yeah, it
will be done.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
El Mahmat is it wise?
Speaker 7 (22:47):
Let him know there.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Are but three of us. Crueller, He has no means
of escape but the eternal sand.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Thanks, my man, I know about ammunitions and guns. Now
where's your army?
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Tho Erricans are indeed naive.
Speaker 11 (23:04):
Superior intelligence is more powerful than armies.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Your brains and who else?
Speaker 11 (23:09):
At this moment, my loyal fellowers are at strategic points
in Cairo and elsewhere in Egypt.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Awaiting the howl. You think that's all it takes.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Clive took in the up with only one hundred and
twenty three men.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Mister Jordan, head it right, didn't I? You start out
killing a few Mowasians one by one. Nothing upsets Amuslim
quicker than an offensive towards leaders.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
And now more of the Meresins are to die.
Speaker 11 (23:33):
When the people see their government is unable to cope
with the atrocities, they will rise up and overthrow it.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
You get it all figured out, haven't you already?
Speaker 11 (23:41):
There have been incidents. Soon the anger of the populace
will move it to frenzy.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
There will be uprisings growing and violent.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
That's when you step in.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Yes, at that moment, the great El Marma Bay will
appear as their liberator.
Speaker 8 (23:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
The only turbule is it won't work in the.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Again, the mind of the West finds the mind of
the East an insoluble redder.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Don't get me wrong, Mamay. You might use the religion
if your people are get into power. Only you've forgotten
one thing.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
Yes, what is that?
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Your people will still have their religion, and only you
think they'll be fool We Americans have a saying for that.
If you're interested, I am not.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Your interest, Jordan is in your own welfare.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Think about it. When the people find out they've been duped,
what do you think happens to you?
Speaker 11 (24:29):
At that time, my power over them will be assured.
Egypt will enter an ero greater than the pharaohs.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Ever knew that Marmad like that idea with some more figures.
Give me one example of a tyranny founded on religious oppression.
This ever last, it's the job.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Then.
Speaker 11 (24:44):
The fact of the moment is that you will die.
Tell us what we wish to know, and that will
be swift and painless.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
And if I don't, death.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
In the desert is very slow. No man has ever
withstood the heat or the sound in his eyes. Need
I say more?
Speaker 2 (25:04):
I get the general idea.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
What is your answer, Jordan, I.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Told you it won't work.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
M very well, Krilla take came outside.
Speaker 9 (25:17):
I suggest that you turn your attention to me and
marmont Bay.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
At first I didn't recognize him without his uniform, but
it wasn't a miarage was Captain Sam Sabaian crueler grabbed
his looka from the table as Sam kept walking right
on here.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
How did you get here?
Speaker 7 (25:33):
That's important?
Speaker 2 (25:34):
What's that look?
Speaker 3 (25:35):
As? Sam? I'm tired here.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
I can't help you.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
That will so Captain Sabaiah the desert must claim another victim.
Speaker 7 (25:41):
That we shall soon see al.
Speaker 9 (25:43):
Malmont Bay had no way of knowing. Not everything, but
certain things have come to my attention. When Jordan told
me he was going to cruel it to Habia, I
followed along, and I've been following ever since.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Do you think your authority amongst or anything here?
Speaker 9 (25:58):
My authority in my uniform and remain in Cairo. I
come here only as a Moslem to write a grievous
offence to my religion.
Speaker 5 (26:06):
You come to this first saken place alone without even
the proof.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
You can find proof, Sam, look at the other buildings.
I loaded with arms, search Cruder's houseboat in good time.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Georgian croulla dispose of this man at once.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
Very great pleasure.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Crueler raimed, and then it happened quicker than I could find.
Sam's foot came out a second before the shot, and
the gun clouded across the room. Crueler drived in. Sam
crouched like a panther, and then slammed Crueler over his head.
Arms and Marma pay and they went down. And I'd
always thought Sam was pudgler in slow moving, but he
gave me the show of my life. He was every
trick on those two guys, I'd have known a lot more.
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Second time Arma came up. His stomach got mixed up
on the left when he was finished, but Crueler tried
for more all the time. I couldn't move. Crueler went
to work with his heavy boots, and that's where he
made another big mistake. Sam foot them into a cooler
or he piloted like a snack of tenpins, and suddenly
it was all over. Hey, I could book you for
a main events.
Speaker 7 (27:07):
You will make no joke about this.
Speaker 9 (27:09):
Such tactics a most distasteful to me.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Okay, how about getting me loose here?
Speaker 7 (27:15):
Eh?
Speaker 9 (27:17):
Well you will, you will tell no one of this incident? Sure, sure,
just don't tie me, You know, Georgian, there are many
things that you do not comprehend.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Sam, get me out of here. Well, Sam finally untied me.
We got al Marmot Bay and cruel her back into Carrol,
and from then on Sam was his old official self.
Didn't take them long to round up all the Bay's
loyal followers, and I don't have to tell you what
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happened to them after that. I was gonna send whose
a case of good Gin, but she'd done a fade
out and nobody tried very hard to find it.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Me.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
I've learned a few things. Sam Sabis given me jiu
jitsu lessons.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
It's CBS again at this same time next week for
another story of adventure and intrigue, when we take you
back to Cairo and the Cafe Tambourine run by Rocky Jordan.
Jack Moyles plays the title role. With tonight's script by
Larry Roman and Gomer Cool from a story by E.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Jack Newman.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Rocky Jordan is produced and directed by Cliff Howell, with
original music by Richard Rant Larry Poor speaking. This is CBS,
the Columbia Broadcasting System
Time now for Rocky Jordan. Not far from the Musk
Sultan Hassan in Cairole stands the Cafe Tambourine run by
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Rocky Jordan. The Cafe Tambourine crowded with forgotten men alive
with a babble of many languages. For this is Cairole,
where modern adventure and intrigue unfold against a backdrop of antiquity.
Tonight's story Desert Betrayal.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
There are five times in a day when a foreigner
like myself tries to stay off the streets of Cairol.
That's at dawn, noon, late afternoon, sunset, and just after
dusk when the Muasan appears in his minaret to call
a faithful to pray it. At that moment all activity stops,
and that amout Moslem kneels on his rug facing mechot.
Keeping away from them at those times is one respect
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we can pay their religion, and they appreciate that respect.
But I guess I wasn't watching the clock. This particular evening,
My Cafe Tambourine still held the intense heat of the day,
so I got out and walked down the crowded Sharia
Nagoon toward the nile, try and catch a cool breeze.
I just stopped to a glance at a big poster
something about a rally for the politician El marmad Bay,
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when I heard the voice of the Muasian and the
minaret high above me. Suddenly, all sounds of activity stopped
as the natives faced east, their foreheads to the ground.
As quick as I could, I ducked back through a
narrow passage off the street that led to the winding
stairs of the minaret. I waited there until sounds from
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the street told me prayers were over and the carrines
were again about their business. Then I was about to
be on my way when the scream came from the minaret.
As I turned and looked up, I saw the bearded
Muazon in his flowing robes, stanger out of the tower,
pitch headlong down the winding stairway. He rolled over and over,
and he didn't stop till he sprawled at the bottom,
almost at my feet. It was like something out of
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a bad opera, and for a split second I couldn't move,
But the red splotches from stab wounds spreading across his
white robe snapped me out of it, and I rushed
over to him, all easy to try not to move.
Who did this? You've got to tell me, listen, who
did it? I guess he figured he was done for,
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and there was a look almost of ecstasy on his
kindly face. But I didn't want to give up that easy.
I made a move to try and stop the bleeding.
When I heard footsteps coming down the stairway. It was
another figure in the robes of a mousin, only he
had a black field boots on. Come on, hurry up,
will you help me with this? Manut up and get back.
We gotta work fast here. I'm not going anywhere again
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since winds and moways and carry a lugo.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Don't touch him.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
You've stepped in where it doesn't concern you.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Maybe it's lucky I did.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Think again, my friend, it's your misfortune.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
I felt the blow of his heavy lugur across my face,
and that was all only a roaring like a calm
scene on the desert, and me spinning with the wind
till it seemed to pitch me back down at the
foot of the minaret. The pain in my head drove
me to my senses, and when I opened my eyes.
It was pitch dark, the dead body of the kindly
mois and lay beside me. Just as I realized I
was clutching something tightly in my hand, a flashlight step
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right in my eyes. So it is you, mister Jordan,
get up at once, good honeing Grego who called you?
There was no police skull, Ali, get you.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
Take the knife from this smash knife, the one in
your hand, mister John. You need not feign surprise. You
do not deceive me.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Ideas already Gregor, hand over the knife, take it. I
don't use knives.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
Indeed, however, it was in your hands, stained with the
blood of the sacred Moaism lying dead by your side.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Look, don't you know a plant when you see one?
Speaker 6 (04:26):
It's time you have overstepped yourself, mister Joe.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Okay, irresh me get it over with.
Speaker 6 (04:30):
Perhaps that will not be necessary. I need only to
call the people in from the street to witness this thing.
Do you get in that when the new spreads that
their revered religious leader has met violent death by the
hands of an unbeliever, you will be disposed of very quickly.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
You like that, wouldn't you?
Speaker 6 (04:45):
I would be helpless against the mob you see, mister.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Get some sense now, Grego. If the Muasn's death gets out,
there'll be a lot of repercussions. You think, sirbayerd put
another stripe on your sleevery. That happened.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
I personal ambitions have nothing to do with this.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Take get over, mister Jordan.
Speaker 6 (05:01):
You will understand that I had no intention of disclosing
this to anyone as yet. Sure, greg Sure, Ellie, bring
another met. You would take them awaysun to the meat
I raped and hide his remains there. It would be
done at one moment, under no circumstances.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Would you breathe a word of this to anyone?
Speaker 7 (05:17):
Is that clear?
Speaker 8 (05:17):
It is?
Speaker 6 (05:17):
Sargeant Gregor, quickly not and you, mister Jordan, will come
with me.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Gregor waited only long enough to watch his age lift
them aways and carry him carefully up the steep, winding
steps to the tower. As they disappeared under the dark,
he gave me a shove and I walked her head
out in the street. Neither of a spoke a word
on our ride to head quarters. I was taken to
Sabias office and a couple of guards held me there
for maybe half an hour until Sam made his appearance.
Gregor was with him, and they motioned the guards outside.
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It was all just a little too deliberate. Greg O
been telling you things, Sam.
Speaker 6 (05:56):
He keeps silent until spoken to mister Jordan.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
And let's get at it, and I.
Speaker 7 (06:00):
Have Greco's statement.
Speaker 9 (06:02):
You were found at the foot of the mongar Mino
d beside the dead body of the Muaysim.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Did he tell you I'd been knocked out? Cole Sam
a trick captain.
Speaker 6 (06:09):
He was trapped and could do nothing but pretend that
he also had been attack.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Then explained the shape my faces in.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Gregor, your face is smashed up in many ways.
Speaker 7 (06:17):
One moment.
Speaker 9 (06:19):
Now, Jordan, I will hear your full explanation of this affair.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
I was standing at the foot of the tower stairs
during the last call of prayer.
Speaker 9 (06:26):
Did you an American, not know better than to be
there at such a time.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
I ducked in there to get off the street, go on,
and the Mowaysian rolled down the steps right up my
feet before I could get anything out. I'm somebody else
in the Mowaysian's robe showed up.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
There is no other Mawaism at the middle right.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
You're right, Gregor, he wasn't Amwaysian. He wasn't an Egyptian.
He had on German field boots and he carried alga.
Speaker 7 (06:46):
Jordan, what fantastic tailor are you trying to make me?
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Listen to me? Sam? The guy wrapped me up against
the wall and slapped his gun across my face.
Speaker 6 (06:53):
Lying cab as, mister Jordan. How he got this knife
in his hand? You can see for yoursel.
Speaker 9 (06:58):
A knife on the desk, grego I. I do not
wish to look at it again.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
Yes, you wish the Moaysan had been stabbed four times?
I thought it beast under the circumstances to have his
body hidden in the Mira.
Speaker 7 (07:10):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, you acted most wisely, Greg.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
I was only doing my Dooday, Captain, spy.
Speaker 9 (07:15):
Her Jordan about this man with the luga. Would you
recognize him if you saw him again?
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Better?
Speaker 5 (07:21):
I would.
Speaker 7 (07:24):
You.
Speaker 9 (07:26):
You have told me everything that's right, and you can
explain nothing of the other similar acts of violence against
our Holy Man here in Cairo, Am and others. This
is the third Mowesden to die in the past month,
all by the knife.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Why Sam, what's it all about?
Speaker 9 (07:41):
I do not know, but I intend to find out.
Jordan there are things a man like you would not
understand that. My people take their religion most seriously. Quite
often our emotions become strongly involved.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Maybe I do understand same. Every man has a religion,
whether he knows and that.
Speaker 7 (07:59):
But there are different is sure.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
I've knocked around enough to learn to respect another man's beliefs.
That's why I get off the street.
Speaker 7 (08:05):
We will not go over that again.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Okay, but you can't hold me, say indeed I can, Jordan.
Speaker 9 (08:10):
You will be committed to jail pending for the investigation.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
So that's the way it is.
Speaker 7 (08:14):
That will we all?
Speaker 9 (08:16):
Greco, I must hurry to the elmrmat Bay political rally.
Speaker 7 (08:19):
We have promised him police protection. Put Jordan in a cell.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
This way, mister dog Oh Greco, you.
Speaker 9 (08:25):
Had best place him in the old cell block across
the alley and under heavy guard.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I know better than to try and figure out what
goes on in Sabia's mind. When I had a hunch
he was locking me up more than anything for my
own protection, and the old cell block would be the
last place a mob but try and hunt me out.
Greco made a big thing of it as he and
two others directed me down a corridor to the back door.
A dim bulb over the entrance was all that lit
the alley. Greco motioned across to a dingy sandstone building
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about thirty feet on down, and I moved ahead. I
had taken not more than a dozen steps when it
began to have them to A whole bunch of them
came out of noise. Everyone put it surrounded. Greco in
his cards, I may quick work once I come back.
One of the hooded men was out of the scuffle
and had me by the arm.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Get moving, judging what is this?
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Call it a rescue?
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Maybe I don't want to shut out your fool.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Now move.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
By that time they were all around me, dragging me
up the alley. Somewhere back I could hear an alarm
sounding and the shouts of more men running out of
the head quarters. But already we had reached the side street,
where a light field truck was waiting, its motor running.
The hooded figures piled me in, the driver put it
in gear, wheel spun. We were careening off down the narrow,
winding streets. Now we must have traveled every side street
and carol to shake the police. Finally, the truck roared
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across the Bulack Bridge of the Nile, through Giza on
west and north above the Nile Valleys, it meets the desk.
As the truck picked up speed, the men relaxed their
grip on peering ahead to the on rushing road, so
I had a chance to look them over.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Well.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
The top man call it to a rescue, but I
knew better. Every one of them was wearing German Field
boots and carrying a Luga. The jump was a risk.
I knew there was nothing alongside but soft sand, and
was the only way. I waited till we hit a sharp,
bumpy curve and I was off and rolling in the
fourth time over, I was on my feet, clawing my
way through the brush. Then they opened up the ditch
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with a wind knocked out in my state, my face
in the sun, waiting for me to flesh me out,
knowing exactly what would happen when we did.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
You are listening to Desert Betrayal Tonight's Adventure with Rocky
Jordan Travel to the Ends of the Earth Tomorrow Night
with Dick Powell and Sidney Hassel, who will recreate their
original screen rolls on CBS Radio Theater. To the Ends
of the Earth is the story of the explosa of
an international narcotics ring and makes for an exciting story.
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Remember Dick Powell and Sidney Hasso tomorrow Monday Night at six.
Now we return you to Cairo and tonight's adventure with
Rocky Jordan Desert Betrayal.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
It was a peaceful evening as I stood at the
foot of the minaret and listened to the Moasan's called
a prayer, and all that was changed a few seconds
later when the Mowasan lay dying at my feet. A
man wearing German field boots and a gun to match
planted the killing on me. Not long after, as I
was being taken to a jail cell, the same man,
with a lot of helpers, broke it up, dumped me
in a truck and roared it out into the desert.
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I remember jumping from the speeding truck, some gunshots, and
not much more till a breath of air hit me.
And it wasn't air off the desert. It smelled of
cheap gin, like my cafe tambourine after a hard night.
It came from somebody bending over me.
Speaker 10 (12:11):
Get up, monsieur, before they find tu. Where are they
searching the brush on the other side of the sand.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
Dune up with you? Now, where are we going to
my hut?
Speaker 10 (12:22):
Only a little way.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
I'm laying this say. Somehow she got me over a
hut and dropped me on a cot. The dive off
the truck must have joled me plenty, because right then
I passed out for a while. The next thing I know,
it was daylight and I was wide awake and choking
for breath. She was sharing her cheap gin with me.
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The gin it helps lespa ho they sell stuff that bad.
Speaker 10 (12:50):
Oh, so just champagne, you wish.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
I'm sorry, I woke up too quick.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
It is nothing.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Yeah, you took a lot of chances, sister.
Speaker 10 (13:00):
I am susette. Perhaps another drink?
Speaker 2 (13:05):
No, no, no, no thanks, I should wish. Okay, any
of those guys come.
Speaker 10 (13:12):
Around, No, monsieur, they went away.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Looks like you got a good hide out here.
Speaker 10 (13:18):
We all hide from something as far.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Yeah, me from too many things.
Speaker 10 (13:23):
You You do not tell me who.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
You are, monsieur. The name's Jordan.
Speaker 10 (13:29):
I'm an American who flees from many men with guns
on the desert.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
I have to have a truck. They were taking me someplace,
but why your guess is as good as mine.
Speaker 10 (13:39):
Many trucks have been going into the desert.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Eh where to Susan, I do not know.
Speaker 10 (13:46):
But something is going on out there. You were captured, Monsieur.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Oh rescued they called it.
Speaker 10 (13:55):
You'll make a strange.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Oh yeah, it's a beauty. I'm always in a stab
to death in Kiro, not the first to be killed.
But whoever did it? Figured? I knew too much before
the police could solve me away. This gang grim here.
Speaker 6 (14:06):
What were they like?
Speaker 2 (14:07):
And they weren't Muslims, men who speak good English and
carry lugas you got it, figured Susan.
Speaker 10 (14:14):
Always it is the same. So it was with the
betrayal of France. Always I do not realize he's talking
about Monsieur. In France they called me a tritor. It
was not so. I did not know I was being
used by the enemy.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
It makes some sense now.
Speaker 6 (14:31):
I am a poor.
Speaker 10 (14:32):
French woman in Egypt without credentials. I must exist as
best I can. When there is an opportunity to sell
munitions and guns into Egypt, what can I do?
Speaker 2 (14:44):
The trucks are taking munitions into the desert, but I
did not Who's the deal with Susante, it is a
bad deal. I come on, never mind the gin. Who'd
you sell the stuff to? There?
Speaker 10 (14:56):
There is a man named Frank Cruller.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Where do I find him?
Speaker 8 (14:59):
Eh?
Speaker 10 (15:00):
Hosport under Nia da be are sixteen.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Let's have some more, monsieur.
Speaker 10 (15:07):
I have said too much you rust Now you will
need much strength for what is ahead.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
So I waited out the burning heat of the day
in her hut. All the time I tried to get
more out of her about Crueler and the munitions going
into the desert. How that tied in with the Muwaisan's death.
But from then Hans Susette closed up, tied it in
the cap on a bottle of coke. Well, with a
little food and a lot of sleep, I was ready
to go by sundown. Susette helped me into Geezer. From
then on I was on my own. I thumbed a
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ride across the bridge, but before I went down along
the river, I decided on a phone.
Speaker 7 (15:42):
Call Captain Siah speaking.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Hello Sam Jordan. So you I just didn't want you
to worry about me.
Speaker 7 (15:50):
Where are you? What are you doing?
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Relax?
Speaker 2 (15:52):
I'm all right, I tell you don't have to rescue
me rescue you.
Speaker 7 (15:55):
Indeed you will return your headquarters at one.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Sorry, you got a big date.
Speaker 7 (15:59):
Where are you going to see?
Speaker 2 (16:00):
A guy named Crueler Cruler? Frank Cruler and the objection same.
Speaker 7 (16:04):
Jordan, Listen to me. There are things you do not understand.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Why not.
Speaker 9 (16:07):
You are not immussel, but I am, and I can
tell you that you are in great danger.
Speaker 7 (16:11):
For your own protection, come back to Gee.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Thanks for the advice. See you, lady Sam Georgian for
the last time. And I was on my way to
see Crueler. I couldn't have missed his Dahabia on the
nile up i'd tried. It was a floating palace, all
lit up, with music coming from someplace, and real important
looking people going on board, with the day's growth of
beard and so on. I wasn't exactly in shape for
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a party, but I went anyhow. Only a big pile
of muscles at the entrance stood in my way.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Retrace your steps, oh.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Get upset, But I didn't come to see.
Speaker 8 (16:46):
You state your business here.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Maybe I got invited those of influence and wealth come
here tonight. Something real special, eh, the.
Speaker 8 (16:58):
Reception of the great El marmad Bay.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
I've known bigger politicians. Yeah, back to the streets with
you English until I see Frank Kruler is not here.
Let's look around, show what is going on here. Somebody
was coming through the light of doorway. Tortoise, the one
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man I wanted to see more than anyone else. I'd
last seen him under the manorat as he slapped a
logo in my face.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Who is this man?
Speaker 8 (17:30):
Is no one? I tell him to go away.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
I will handle him, Jerub. So it is you, Jordan.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Yeah, I take it to your crueler.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
I am you.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Know, Jordan.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
He interested me.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
I'll bet you made good.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
You escaped last night.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
Is it not foolhardy to walk back into another trip?
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Not if it gets some answers.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
So it happens that I would like to talk to
you too, Come this way.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Oh no, talk here.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Sorry, I fear you have no choice.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
A glance at the shadows told me there were others
besides Jaru covering for Kruler. So I followed along with
Jaro close behind. We went down some steps away from
the party going on above, through an arrow corridor to
a door the crooler open. He motioned me in. I
was face to face with a guest of honor, one
Napoleon sized, puffy gimblodied Egyptian politicians sporting a monocle. El
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Mahamad Bay.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Who is this man cruder?
Speaker 5 (18:33):
The person who persists in making trouble for us at
Mahamad Bay?
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Of course, excellent?
Speaker 2 (18:41):
You the top man in this deal, mammat Day.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Perhaps more than you know what odacious motive brings you here.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
A lot of question marks about guns and munitions. You
get your hands on stuff that's being hatched down in
the desert somewhere most interesting.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
From whom did you this?
Speaker 2 (19:00):
I'll escape it moment. I'm not on your side yet.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
I had hardly hoped for that.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
What else you know, Jodan, Just that you're playing for
something pretty big, killing Masdom lead. It is dangerous business.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
What are a few lives if they serve my purpose?
Speaker 4 (19:17):
You tell me, El Mahmad Bay, your time is most valuable.
The others are waiting.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
As you say, crueler. The hour grows short.
Speaker 11 (19:25):
Finding the source of your information and how much of
it you have devilged to others is most important to
make cause well, But it.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Is we have ways of getting it from you.
Speaker 11 (19:35):
With a logo, great curler Jodan, who else knows you
have come on this?
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Have yet a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
It is possible. Let him go, Curler, what happens to
this man after he leaves here?
Speaker 4 (19:51):
You ma de side, of course, bring the others. Throw
this man out.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Once you up to it yourself, crueler, No, no, not.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Out the window.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
Perhaps drown the waters of the Nile will drive you
to your senses.
Speaker 7 (20:09):
Spit for it's too late.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
I got plenty of nile water, all right, but I
didn't head for the shore. I saw them moving along
the bank waiting for me, and a little boat took
off downstream, trying to pick me up. But they didn't
know I was hanging out of the anchor. Change a
little while. I was pulling myself back into the little room.
It was empty now. The noise of the party upstairs
covered for me, and I started looking around. A couple
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of shoves and I had a closet drawer open. What
was inside didn't surprise me. Stack of small arms, lugers
man like a rifles and cases of ambunition. Next, I
tried the desk in the corner. The minute I cracked
the top drawer, I had what I wanted. There was
a list of various Muisins and Carol. The top three
names were scratched out, and I figured they were the
ones who had already. Maybe the rest were next, but
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I didn't say why. I folded the sheet and shoved
at my pocket. Suddenly there was a soft step from behind.
Before I could move, there was a silken cord around
my neck, drawn tighter and tighter, and once more thick
blackness poured in. I was slow in coming out of it.
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First I thought I was still lying at the minaret
besides the dead Moison. Then I was in a ditch
with a gin silk woman bending over me. Finally I
opened my eyes. The light from a window almost blinded me.
Outside I could see other buildings, and I knew we
were in some abandoned army camp. I tried to move,
and I realized I was tied securely to a chair.
(21:47):
The bare room held just me and Frank Crueler.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Ab salute you, Jordier, for a chance Adverseri. You have
proved quite formative.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
I skipped the build up. Crueler.
Speaker 5 (21:59):
Where to the south is the Gauatara Depression. It was
used as an anchor in the battle for Egypt and.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
You're using the place for something else.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
As a temporary hideout.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
It serves our purpose, and ammunition's done to spare your strength, Jordan,
you'll need.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
It like for what El Mahmad by mister Jordan awaits
you well, Jordan, for a man with big plans my mind,
you give me lots of attention.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Why because I wish to know what people are in
possession of certain information? Who are they?
Speaker 2 (22:37):
I'll give you an answer, but to my question, not yours.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Because I soon will become master of Egypt. Yeah, it
will be done.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
El Mahmat is it wise?
Speaker 7 (22:47):
Let him know there.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Are but three of us. Crueller, He has no means
of escape but the eternal sand.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Thanks, my man, I know about ammunitions and guns. Now
where's your army?
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Tho Erricans are indeed naive.
Speaker 11 (23:04):
Superior intelligence is more powerful than armies.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Your brains and who else?
Speaker 11 (23:09):
At this moment, my loyal fellowers are at strategic points
in Cairo and elsewhere in Egypt.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Awaiting the howl. You think that's all it takes.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Clive took in the up with only one hundred and
twenty three men.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Mister Jordan, head it right, didn't I? You start out
killing a few Mowasians one by one. Nothing upsets Amuslim
quicker than an offensive towards leaders.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
And now more of the Meresins are to die.
Speaker 11 (23:33):
When the people see their government is unable to cope
with the atrocities, they will rise up and overthrow it.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
You get it all figured out, haven't you already?
Speaker 11 (23:41):
There have been incidents. Soon the anger of the populace
will move it to frenzy.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
There will be uprisings growing and violent.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
That's when you step in.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Yes, at that moment, the great El Marma Bay will
appear as their liberator.
Speaker 8 (23:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
The only turbule is it won't work in the.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Again, the mind of the West finds the mind of
the East an insoluble redder.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Don't get me wrong, Mamay. You might use the religion
if your people are get into power. Only you've forgotten
one thing.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
Yes, what is that?
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Your people will still have their religion, and only you
think they'll be fool We Americans have a saying for that.
If you're interested, I am not.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Your interest, Jordan is in your own welfare.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Think about it. When the people find out they've been duped,
what do you think happens to you?
Speaker 11 (24:29):
At that time, my power over them will be assured.
Egypt will enter an ero greater than the pharaohs.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Ever knew that Marmad like that idea with some more figures.
Give me one example of a tyranny founded on religious oppression.
This ever last, it's the job.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Then.
Speaker 11 (24:44):
The fact of the moment is that you will die.
Tell us what we wish to know, and that will
be swift and painless.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
And if I don't, death.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
In the desert is very slow. No man has ever
withstood the heat or the sound in his eyes. Need
I say more?
Speaker 2 (25:04):
I get the general idea.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
What is your answer, Jordan, I.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Told you it won't work.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
M very well, Krilla take came outside.
Speaker 9 (25:17):
I suggest that you turn your attention to me and
marmont Bay.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
At first I didn't recognize him without his uniform, but
it wasn't a miarage was Captain Sam Sabaian crueler grabbed
his looka from the table as Sam kept walking right
on here.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
How did you get here?
Speaker 7 (25:33):
That's important?
Speaker 2 (25:34):
What's that look?
Speaker 3 (25:35):
As? Sam? I'm tired here.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
I can't help you.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
That will so Captain Sabaiah the desert must claim another victim.
Speaker 7 (25:41):
That we shall soon see al.
Speaker 9 (25:43):
Malmont Bay had no way of knowing. Not everything, but
certain things have come to my attention. When Jordan told
me he was going to cruel it to Habia, I
followed along, and I've been following ever since.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Do you think your authority amongst or anything here?
Speaker 9 (25:58):
My authority in my uniform and remain in Cairo. I
come here only as a Moslem to write a grievous
offence to my religion.
Speaker 5 (26:06):
You come to this first saken place alone without even
the proof.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
You can find proof, Sam, look at the other buildings.
I loaded with arms, search Cruder's houseboat in good time.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Georgian croulla dispose of this man at once.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
Very great pleasure.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Crueler raimed, and then it happened quicker than I could find.
Sam's foot came out a second before the shot, and
the gun clouded across the room. Crueler drived in. Sam
crouched like a panther, and then slammed Crueler over his head.
Arms and Marma pay and they went down. And I'd
always thought Sam was pudgler in slow moving, but he
gave me the show of my life. He was every
trick on those two guys, I'd have known a lot more.
(26:46):
Second time Arma came up. His stomach got mixed up
on the left when he was finished, but Crueler tried
for more all the time. I couldn't move. Crueler went
to work with his heavy boots, and that's where he
made another big mistake. Sam foot them into a cooler
or he piloted like a snack of tenpins, and suddenly
it was all over. Hey, I could book you for
a main events.
Speaker 7 (27:07):
You will make no joke about this.
Speaker 9 (27:09):
Such tactics a most distasteful to me.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Okay, how about getting me loose here?
Speaker 7 (27:15):
Eh?
Speaker 9 (27:17):
Well you will, you will tell no one of this incident? Sure, sure,
just don't tie me, You know, Georgian, there are many
things that you do not comprehend.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Sam, get me out of here. Well, Sam finally untied me.
We got al Marmot Bay and cruel her back into Carrol,
and from then on Sam was his old official self.
Didn't take them long to round up all the Bay's
loyal followers, and I don't have to tell you what
(27:49):
happened to them after that. I was gonna send whose
a case of good Gin, but she'd done a fade
out and nobody tried very hard to find it.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Me.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
I've learned a few things. Sam Sabis given me jiu
jitsu lessons.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
It's CBS again at this same time next week for
another story of adventure and intrigue, when we take you
back to Cairo and the Cafe Tambourine run by Rocky Jordan.
Jack Moyles plays the title role. With tonight's script by
Larry Roman and Gomer Cool from a story by E.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Jack Newman.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Rocky Jordan is produced and directed by Cliff Howell, with
original music by Richard Rant Larry Poor speaking. This is CBS,
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