November 16, 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 (00:02):
Time now for Rocky Jordan. Not far from the Musk
Sultan Hassan in Cairo stands the Cafe Tambourine, run by
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Rocky Jordan. The Cafe Tambourine crowded with forgotten men, live
with the babble of many languages. For this is Cairo,
where modern adventure and intrigue unfold against a backdrop of antiquity.
To Night's story, the man from Damascus.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Damascus, capital of Syria, population three hundred thousand or so.
They say it's the oldest city in the world that
people still live in. I wouldn't know, but I do
know there's a street in Damascus named the street called Straight.
And I also know I once met a man from
Damascus and he was as twisted as they come. Go
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back to a hot Wednesday afternoon. Chris was at the
bar serving up some Arak, and I was standing at
the front of the cafe looking out into the Cairo streets.
That's when an old man dressed in a boy's postal
uniform and riding a bicycle stopped in front of the Tambourine.
When he came in, he was carrying a wet envelope
in his.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Hand for the mister Jordan one special delivery letter.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Did mister Jordan sign his name on his line?
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Mister Jordan would thank the mister. Here pap by yourself
an ice cube mtaka shakira. There was a white envelope
with some dirty finger smudges and the Cairo postmark. There
was no return address. I looked at it for a moment,
then threw it open. The first thing I saw, flat
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and crisp, was a pack of Egyptian pound notes, and
I did a quick tabulation one thousand Egyptian pounds five
thousand American dollars and clip to the money was a
short note partial payment for services to be rendered one
thousand pounds. I'm waiting for you at sixteen Sharia el nazzar,
seven o'clock this evening will be fine, And I was
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signed the Man from Damascus. Well, I don't take easily
to somebody's bidding. Someone wants to see me, he comes
to me. So I put the money in the safe,
but figured that wasn't the end of the Man from Damascus.
Exactly seven o'clock that evening. I knew I had figured right,
Rocky m what is it Chris All ought to see you? Well?
Speaker 3 (02:49):
He's in your office. I tried to stop him.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Oh that's all right, and sort of expecting him.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
I mean looking guy. Want me to come with you?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
No, no, I'll handle it. Take over the till will him. Hello, Jordan,
make yourself at home.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
Yeah, that's what I'm doing for the good.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Booze, too rich for your taste, party for the time.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
All right.
Speaker 6 (03:17):
You know it's funny figured you differently. Everybody in Dan
says you're a right guy.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Maybe eve been talking to the wrong people. What do
you want you? You have been talking at the wrong people,
and not for sale.
Speaker 6 (03:30):
A thousand pounds is just a start. There's more what
that comes from, and there always is. Come on, big shirt,
bottom up, your shirt is seven o'clock. You got the point.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I can't make it.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
That's a big mistake.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Your money is in the safe. You can have it back.
Speaker 6 (03:46):
That is not my instructions. Oh so you're just a
like mans something like that. You and me were working
for the same man. All right, buddy, you're through talking
and there's the door.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Get away from the door, Jordan, I'll pin you to
the wall.
Speaker 6 (04:03):
Seven inch blade, Jordan, the mesca Steele got it.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
I got it all right. Put the knife away, you'll
cut your hand. I'll come with you if your boys
wants to see me that badly. I wasn't gonna argue
with a seven inch double edged blade, especially the way
that monkey was waving it in the air well. We
left the tambourine, climbed into his car and drove through
the Cairo streets out one of the city gates. We
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ended up in front of a place called the House
of Sand Jordapan called the Pile of Scrap because that's
what it looked like, but the knife man said it
was a hotel. Two minutes later, my pal knocked on
the door of Room twelve.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
Who is there, Jordan. He's come for the rest of the.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Door taking a lot for granted, busty quite all right
to me.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Let him come in.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
Gone in Jordan to meet your new bolls.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I walked inside. My pal with a knife, shut the
door behind me and stayed outside. Then I saw him,
a man from Damascus. He was tall and big, but
I couldn't tell what he looked like. His whole face
was wrapped in bandages, and he reminded me of those
pictures I once saw the Invisible Man.
Speaker 7 (05:10):
Hello, mister Jordan. Nice of you to come sit.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Down, eh, I'll take it standing.
Speaker 7 (05:17):
Well, let's go to meet again, is it not, mister Jordan?
Again you do not remember, but you should Damascus nineteen
thirty nine. Well maybe it's my new appearance. I had
a face.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Then what do you got? Now?
Speaker 7 (05:36):
Let's talk about Damascus all right?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
You wish you drink?
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Oh? I just gave it up.
Speaker 7 (05:42):
Mister Jordan. You wronged me in Damascus.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
I did.
Speaker 7 (05:48):
Yes, you wronged me most civiely, so seviely that I've
never forgotten. And I said to myself that someday I
would come for you. Well I am here. Welcome to Cairo, Jordan.
I'm not just talking for pleasure. You're sure you get
the right guy, and do not try to tell me
you do not remember. You are the right men and
you know it. But you are fortunate, mister Jordan.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
How's that figure?
Speaker 7 (06:12):
I'm going to give you a chance to erase our
difference and make a little money. Besides, you see, there's
someone in Cairo that I want even more than you.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
So how I figure you are going to bring him
to me.
Speaker 7 (06:26):
His name is Alexako.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Zako is pretty big, order I know, but I think
you can do it. Police have had a dragnet out
for two weeks trying to track him down.
Speaker 7 (06:35):
I want to get to him before they do. I
think you can bring him to me. You know Cairo
better than any man I know of. You know where
men like zak Or would hide and how to get
to him.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Ah. Sorry, friend, you've got the wrong Gert Jordan.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Listen to me.
Speaker 7 (06:51):
I would find him myself if I could. I just
do not know Cairo. But I cannot go wandering around
like this. I'm giving you a chance to square a
dirty deal and make a little money on the side.
I will double that thousand pounds and call off our
little difference.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
What have you got against Sarko?
Speaker 7 (07:10):
He took something from me? What my face? I want
to find him, Jordan.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
I must.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
Do not know what it is to feel that you
can never walk the streets again without a covering and
the thing you once called a face. Well, but about it,
mister Jordan.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Huh, no deal. You got a private vendetta with Zako.
Keep it that way. Heah, there's your thousand pounds back.
Buy yourself another boy. I walked out of the House
of Sam and the knife man was gone. I found
a taxi and had a bank for the tambourine. Alexako, Yeah,
all around, no good guy. The Egyptian police wanted him
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on an attempted assassination. Espinag's work with an assorted killing
or too thrown in. The police had all the roads covered,
the trains and the flights out of the city. They
figured they had him bottled up very well. It was
just a matter of time before they bundled him well.
Back at the tambourine, I drew myself a beer, found
the back table and did some thinking about the man
and the bandages in the city of Damascus.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
What's up rom?
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Oh nothing, Chris, just thinking, Hey you do you ever
hear me talk about Damascus?
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Damascus?
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Yeah, spent nine months there once, working for an oil company.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
I don't remember her saying anything about it.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Why nothing, I was trying to bring back a little memory.
Drop it, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
I'll get back.
Speaker 8 (08:34):
Excuse me, gentlemen. You are mister Jordan.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
That's right.
Speaker 8 (08:37):
May I talk with you please?
Speaker 2 (08:38):
It will take for a moment, all right, Chris, I'll
talk to you later.
Speaker 7 (08:42):
Sit down, Thank you, mister Jordan.
Speaker 8 (08:47):
I did not wish to trouble you, but I found
that I had no other course. My name is Sandra
Marr and I'm from Damascus in Syria.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
You're traveling and Cairo's on the Grand Tour.
Speaker 8 (08:57):
This is not a trip for pleasure. I'm looking for someone.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
If his name is Alexanko, you got lots of company.
Speaker 8 (09:03):
No, his name is not Alexanko. It is Paul Mar.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
It is my husband, Paul Mar. I don't know anyone
by that name.
Speaker 8 (09:11):
You may not know him by his name, mister Jordan.
I am positive that you have met him.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
And how do you figure that?
Speaker 8 (09:18):
Paul said he had some business in Cairo. He left
Damascus four days ago with a man whose name I
do not know. But he was the same man who
left the tambourine with you earlier to night. It is
my belief that he took you to see Paul.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Oh, I get it.
Speaker 8 (09:34):
I tried what I was not able to follow you
through the streets of Cairo, so I've waited outside your
cafe til you returned. I must see Paul. Would you
take me to him?
Speaker 4 (09:44):
No?
Speaker 8 (09:46):
Would you tell me then where he is, mister Jordan.
Paul's business, as he calls it, it is the trouble,
some terrible sort of trouble. I know.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Oh, you're right there.
Speaker 8 (09:59):
He's a fine and mister Jordan a wonderful man, but
things have not gone well since his face. He's in
trouble and I've got to help him.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
He's got a revenge young lady with a guy named
Zarko and me. There's nothing fine about that revenge.
Speaker 8 (10:15):
Poor Oh no, it must be something else. He's not
that kind of man.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Then you don't know him very well.
Speaker 8 (10:23):
It is true we have not been married for long.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Look, why don't you just go back to Damascus and
forget it. You're in for trouble here, something's gonna happen.
Speaker 8 (10:32):
Where is poor mister Jordan.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
A place called the House of Sand, out of the city,
through the gate of the Bar El Nazar. TAXI will
take it.
Speaker 8 (10:42):
Thank you, mister Jordan. I shall not forget the help
you've given me.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
She walked out of the tambourine, and I hope that
that'll be the last I'd see of her. And the
man from Damascus and alex Argo. How vain can your
hopes be? Sometimes? Well, we roll the last on the
cuff customer out of the tam about one fifteen in
the morning. Chris threw the lack in the front door
and I doused the lights.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
I'll just screw out the backway, all right, Chris, night
lay tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Rocky for go.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Iind the goud it can't quick and Jance Jordam venduance.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Rocky, you're hey, jdah hit Christian. Well if you do,
and you are not Dad, and I will come for
you again.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
You are listening to the Man from Damascus An Adventure
with Rocky Jordan. Remember that five o'clock Sunday afternoon is
the new time for Rocky Jordan. So join us each
Sunday at five and plan to tune in thirty minutes
earlier to hear call the police at four thirty, so
you will have a full hour of excitement and action.
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And now we take you back to Cairo for another
adventure with Rocky Jordan, the Man from Damascus. Well, after
the Man from Damascus threw those slugs at me, I
took out after him, chasing him through the darkened streets.
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But it's easy to lose someone in the whining Cairo streets.
And that's just what I did.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
I get back to the cafe tambourine about forty five
minutes later, and Chris wasn't there alone. Captain Sam Sabayah
Cairo police was there too, waiting for me. Well, Jordan,
so you've returned, I Sam brings you here this time
of night.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
I phoned him Rock. I told him I thought you'd
be better.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
All right, Chris, see you tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Sure?
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Good night, Ken, good night, hell Geordian. I'm waiting waiting
for what's that? For you to tell me what this
is all about?
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Nothing to say, Jordan.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
The man who shot at you from the alley called
out vengeance. This not Chris told me. Therefore, I can
assume that this man is after you for some hurt
he believes you have inflicted upon you.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
It's close.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
What is it that you have done to in Jordan?
Teach me, Sam, Jordan, how can you expect me to be?
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Sam? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Then I shall let that pass. Jordan. Who is this
man who shot at you?
Speaker 2 (13:30):
I'm afraid that's my business. I'll just handle it my
own ways. Don't stop worrying about it. You got your
hands full with Alexako.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Fear not, we will capture Alexaker. Tell me has Zarko
something to do with this shooting.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
You mean, did he throw those slugs at me?
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Now I meant exactly what I said. Does Zarco have
anything to do with the shooting?
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Maybe?
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Jordan, You you are most exasperating, just.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
A little trick I've picked up in my travels.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Very well, very well. I cannot force you to speak. However,
I I wish to warn you that if someone else
is injured, some innocent party drawn into this private conflict
of yours, I shall hold you responsible.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Oh thanks, Sam, that's swell of him. No one will
get hurt, believe me, except maybe the friend of mine.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
For your sake, I hope you are arrived. I would
not wish to use my office, Jordan, to have you
expelled from Cairo.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
I started out bright and early the next morning to
see if I could find the man from Damascus. Stop
number one was the House of Sand, Room twelve. I
pounded on the door, no answer. I rattled the doorknob,
and the door came open. I went in. I could
see why no one had bothered to throw the lock.
The room was empty. Paul mar the man from Damascus,
had done a quick checkout. I moved down at the
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front desk, to see if I could get a forwarding address.
Sitting in a rocking chair rolling back and forth was
a wrinkled relic left over from the days of the Pharaohs.
A shortling sound was coming from her throat, and then
I saw why she was re reading a US comic
book called A Phantom Menace. A lady, A lady, you
got a customer.
Speaker 9 (15:06):
A young man.
Speaker 10 (15:08):
You are observing an old lady being devoured by pleasure.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Well, I'm certainly glad you're having fun, but could you
give me a minute?
Speaker 10 (15:15):
Oh, the phantom mana is captured brick brawn trusteaming wire
and is dipping him head first into a bartrel of
pickle brine one hundred times.
Speaker 9 (15:27):
If I'm being consumed with.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
You, well, if you can grab hold of yourself for
a minute, you can earn a pound.
Speaker 9 (15:32):
Note in my left It suddenly left me fine.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Look, I'm trying to get a forwarding address on number twelve.
Speaker 10 (15:40):
That would be a short, fat man with a board spot,
a cellar of fly paper.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
That'll be a big man with bandages on his face,
a cellar of death.
Speaker 9 (15:50):
This comes higher than fly paper. Could you make it
two pounds?
Speaker 10 (15:55):
I could lash now that I find a fortunate my fingertips,
I cannot claim it.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
What does that mean?
Speaker 10 (16:03):
I do not know where your friend has gone, and
indeed you're not the only one who is seeking him.
Speaker 9 (16:10):
A young lady came this morning.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
She said she was his wife.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Where she go I gave.
Speaker 10 (16:15):
Her room ten. She said she would wait to see
if her husband returned. If you wish to see her,
I can call it.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
No, no, no, What time did number twelve leave six
this morning? How by taxi?
Speaker 4 (16:27):
I called one?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Do you know the driver?
Speaker 9 (16:29):
Do I know he may help him?
Speaker 3 (16:31):
No? Good?
Speaker 10 (16:32):
Evil talk name hally Ama residents three or three shari shaming.
Speaker 9 (16:42):
It is worth two pounds just to mention his name.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
A hey, keep it and thanks.
Speaker 10 (16:47):
Going back to your reading, shall I shall once again
pet in xt?
Speaker 2 (16:55):
And she did. I left her sitting there waiting the
pages looked up. Holly am. I cost me two more
pounds to open him up, and only could say it
was that he left mar off at an all night
dive called the Harem. So that was my next stop.
A couple of hundred pounds of fact was pushing a
wet rag over the counter in slow motion. Redheaded englishman
deep in his Cups was throwing dots at a picture
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of a deam short of clothes. What I was looking
at was a guy at the end of the bar,
tilling a bottle of beer. It was the knife man
who had first taken me to see Paul Marr. I
moved his way, but he saw me and let out
for the back door. I took out after him, fast,
like the super chief on a down grade. He took
me through the backyard, over a fence, across an empty lot.
But I put a stop to the marathon with the
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flying tackle. When we rolled into a mound hole, he
reached for his knife, but I need him new. Fight
started to go out of him.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
All right?
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Where is he?
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Who? You know? Who?
Speaker 2 (17:46):
That Damascus friend of yours, Paul.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
Mar How did you know he's Nate?
Speaker 2 (17:49):
It doesn't matter. I went now it's his address.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
Not worry, Jordan. He will come to you, and.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
I can't wait.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
I'll give it.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Your knee the air dress. I canna death. You'll try
a face full of muddy.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
All right ahead? It did.
Speaker 6 (18:12):
One forty two Sharifaka a small hotel by the name
of Little Nile.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Okay, I'm gonna put you on ice at the tambourine,
Chris will take care of. You'll have a chance to
tell to your boss alone. The little nile was a
termite trap on Sharifakar, and Mar was holed up the
second floor back. I stood in front of his door
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a few minutes later, listening, trying to catch any sounds
from inside. Right in near a thing, I tried the
doorknob easily, The door was locked, so I took a
deep breath, kicked it, and all the rock and wood
gave way. First thing I saw in the darkened room
was the figure sitting in a chair across the room,
facing the door. The second thing I saw with the
bandages around his face, so I knew it was poor Omar.
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And the third thing I saw was the Italian made
gun in his hand, pointing towards me.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
What has kept you so long?
Speaker 7 (19:07):
Jordan?
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Oh right, sorry, I didn't know you were waiting.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
I would not advance.
Speaker 7 (19:12):
Taught me any more steps, Jordon. That is wise. Well
you have come. I had assumed that if I did
not kill you last night, would come to me. It
saved me parading my conspicuous appearance through the Cairo streets.
So you have found me. But Unfortunately I have the gun.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
You're not going to kill me here. Mar Sabayan knows
you're after me. You'll never get out of the city
with those bandages.
Speaker 7 (19:38):
You may be right, Jordan, Perhaps I will not kill you.
My original proposition still holds. Bring Alexako to me, and
our little difference shall be forgotten.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
I've forgotten it already.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Sure, then, I want Zacho.
Speaker 7 (19:52):
I want him more than I want you or anything else.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Bring me to.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Sundra's in town. Your wife, she's in Cairo looking for you.
She's at the House of Sam right now, waiting for
you to come back. No, I, sir, she came to
me to ask about you. You know she thinks a
lot of you. She doesn't believe you're the kind of
a guy to have a vendetta on. She doesn't believe
you could kill me or Zako, regardless of what he did.
Speaker 7 (20:18):
You stop a juddy, Do not unnerd me. Do not
attempt to change the subject. I want Zacho even more
than you. I will let you go if you help me. Yes,
I shall show you my good faith by throwing my
gun into the corner.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
There was a mistake. Mar. You know I can't help
you I told you once already, and that still goes.
I'm not bunning into a private feud.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
What I am, George say?
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Wow, get around, don't you.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
I know you well enough, Jordan to realize that you
would not allow someone to shoot at you and then
forget it. So when you would not tell me who
had done it, I knew too that if I followed
you long enough, you would lead me to him. You
always do.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Look, Sam, this is a private thing. But in March
I have.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Told you once, Jordan, violence is not a private matter.
I will not allow killing if I can help it,
and I will not allow you, Jordan or mister Mar
to interfere with the police capture of Alexarko.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
And you haven't got him yet, eh no, but I
shall have him in time.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
Mister Marshall, not mister Maher. You will please remove the
bandages from your face. I said that you will please
remove your bandages.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Letter do it?
Speaker 2 (21:25):
SAME's not killing?
Speaker 7 (21:28):
Very well, very well? Then I shall remove my band address.
I shall step into the light, gentlemen, so that you
may see all, so that you may see what was
once a face.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
I watched Paul Mar unwind the bandages, uncovering first what
once was a chin, then the battered skin around the cheeks,
the nose over the forehead. Then I noticed his stare, peculiar,
hard kind of stare, and I saw it came from
a left eye that couldn't blink.
Speaker 7 (22:03):
There there you have it. Now you can see why
I feel as I do about Alexako.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
I am most sorry I had to subject you to this,
mister Mar, but I still cannot allow a personal revenge
to interfere with my execution of the law. It is
customary and Cairo in affairs of this nature to use
the following procedure. There is a train leaving Cairo for
Alexandria in one hour. In five minutes, you will please
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be on the train same and you, Jordan, shall remain
in my custody until mister Marr has left the city.
Speaker 7 (22:39):
And what about Alexako.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
He is and shall remain my problem. You have then
one hour, mister ma I will meet you at the
Cairo station to make certain you have boarded the train.
Now you may put the bandages back on your face.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
Well.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Sam and I left Paul Mar at the hotel and
headed for police headquarters. We didn't talk much about Paul
wasn't anything to say. I was still trying to figure
out in my mind what I could possibly have done
to him in Damascus, but nothing came, and seeing him
or what was left of him stirred no memory. At headquarters,
Sam had a few things to do, so did I.
I put in a call in the House of Sand
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and asked for Sandra Mar. Yes, this is Sandra Mar
mims Mar. This is Rocky Jordan.
Speaker 8 (23:27):
Oh, how did you know I was here?
Speaker 2 (23:29):
I never mind that. It's something I want to tell you.
How about Paul sort of throw your clothes in a
suitcase and go back to Damascus.
Speaker 8 (23:37):
Oh, I thought you had some good news for me.
I thought you understood. I will go no place without Paul.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Well, you're not going to find him in Cairo. The
police are moving him out.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
The police.
Speaker 8 (23:47):
What have the police to do with Paul.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Paul will tell you if he wants to. Now go on.
You got a better chance of seeing him again in
Damascus and see if he can keep him out of trouble.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Huh, good luck.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
That was that. All the remains to see Paul Marr
climb on the train for Alexandria and hope he gets
straightened himself out and hope too that he and his
wife Sandra would get together well. A little while later,
I drove to the train station with Sam still in
police custom. There weren't many people there on the holiday afternoon.
Standing near the end of the platform, next to a
large sign of the flying red Horse that accented his
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white bandages was the man we were looking for, Paul
mar Sam and I walked up to him, and he
glared at us through the slits in his wrappiness.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
Well, Mistermorrow, you will be leaving Cairo in a few moments.
If after a year has passed you wish to return
to our city, write me a letter explaining your reasons,
and I still see what can be done to make
Cairo available to you once more.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Mar nod. As he climbed on the train and had
headed out of the city, Sam and I turned and
started back to his car. That's when it hit me
and I took off in double time. Georgn w a
train ride. I didn't get.
Speaker 7 (24:56):
Gotta come on.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
I chased on the platform and taught the train. Corner
of my eye, I could see Sam climb under the
train found down the line. Then I shouted through the
cars going from one to another looking for the man
in bandages. I trambled through four cars before I finally
spotted out. When he saw me, I guess he figured
what I had on my mind, because he took off
fast going the other way, but I kept right after him.
The train had picked up speed, urching him from side
to side, then going around the band The momentum pinned
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him momentarily against the seat, and I was on him.
His fish started working the solid mind we had ourselves
and find a little fight there, rolling around the floor
of the moving train till Sam Sabajah caught up with
this and pulled the gun. I put a quick stop
to the fight.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
Georgie, you would please explain what the meaning of this is?
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Sure, glad to Sam, I have him take off his bandage,
But Georgia and I hid. I don't take off the bandages,
and I think you will verywhere.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
You would please remove the bandages, mister marr A.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Take him off, buddy, I'll take him off for it.
Yeah that's just stuff. Yeah, just a little more. Let
Sam see who you really are. Well, I said, not
Paul mar at all, but the guy you've been looking
for for weeks. The guy who's been trying to escape
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your dragnet and get out of the city. Meet Alex Xarko. Well,
the thing came apart at the seams. It was all
an elaborate plan of Zarko's. A police had him trapped
in the city, needed a way out, so he got
his knife man to dig up Paul Marr in Damascus
bring him to town. Then he had Mar all wrapped
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up in bandages, create a fuss like his revenge against me,
which was strictly a phony, nothing too serious, just enough
to get himself run out of Cairo. Then Zarcho takes
his place, wraps himself in the bandages, and starts to leave,
almost with a police escort. It would have worked fine
except for one thing. Mar's disfigured face and his left
eye that couldn't blink. Zarcho couldn't control his and standing
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on the platform of the train station, he blinked his
eye once and that was once too awful. Well, all
that remained was Almar and his face, and Sandra later
in Sabaya's arms. We've got talking about.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
That, Jordan, where do you suppose Paul Mary is now?
Speaker 2 (27:14):
The house of sand I told him Sandra was there
waiting for him.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
You realize, of course, that I must send some men
to apprehend here.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
Why do you suppose he allowed himself to aid Alexako?
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Put yourself in his place, face like his and a
lot of desperation. He was working a business deal, getting
money anyway he could, figuring he'd use the dough of
plastic surgery job and make him look like a human being.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
Again, Yes, quite so, you understand, mar we'll have a
jail sentence to serve for aiding a cremin room, and
it may be possible for me to confiscate the money
Zako gave you.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Sure, if you worked on it, you could possibly take
the dough from that is, if you don't forget that
he's got.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
Are you suggesting, Jordan, that I deliberately allow myself to
forget that if financial arrangement existed between Martin Sarcole, I
tried to Jordans I have always suspected you are an
unscrupulous man.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
It's sure, I am remember the time I tried to
sell that mate, Carlo Swindler a half interest in the
tombs of Memooks.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
Remember, No, No, I guess I've forgotten. Perhaps I am
getting old. My memory is not what it used to be.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Thanks see you soon.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
It's CBS again at the 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's.
Rocky Jordan's, starring Jack Moyles in the title role, is
produced and directed by Cliff Powell, with original music by
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Richard Durant. Tonight's story by Adrian Jondeau and Larry Roman.
Life with Luigi will be heard tonight at eight over
most of these stations, Larry Thor speaking. This is CBS,
the Columbia Broadcasting System
Time now for Rocky Jordan. Not far from the Musk
Sultan Hassan in Cairo stands the Cafe Tambourine, run by
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Rocky Jordan. The Cafe Tambourine crowded with forgotten men, live
with the babble of many languages. For this is Cairo,
where modern adventure and intrigue unfold against a backdrop of antiquity.
To Night's story, the man from Damascus.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Damascus, capital of Syria, population three hundred thousand or so.
They say it's the oldest city in the world that
people still live in. I wouldn't know, but I do
know there's a street in Damascus named the street called Straight.
And I also know I once met a man from
Damascus and he was as twisted as they come. Go
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back to a hot Wednesday afternoon. Chris was at the
bar serving up some Arak, and I was standing at
the front of the cafe looking out into the Cairo streets.
That's when an old man dressed in a boy's postal
uniform and riding a bicycle stopped in front of the Tambourine.
When he came in, he was carrying a wet envelope
in his.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Hand for the mister Jordan one special delivery letter.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Did mister Jordan sign his name on his line?
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Mister Jordan would thank the mister. Here pap by yourself
an ice cube mtaka shakira. There was a white envelope
with some dirty finger smudges and the Cairo postmark. There
was no return address. I looked at it for a moment,
then threw it open. The first thing I saw, flat
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and crisp, was a pack of Egyptian pound notes, and
I did a quick tabulation one thousand Egyptian pounds five
thousand American dollars and clip to the money was a
short note partial payment for services to be rendered one
thousand pounds. I'm waiting for you at sixteen Sharia el nazzar,
seven o'clock this evening will be fine, And I was
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signed the Man from Damascus. Well, I don't take easily
to somebody's bidding. Someone wants to see me, he comes
to me. So I put the money in the safe,
but figured that wasn't the end of the Man from Damascus.
Exactly seven o'clock that evening. I knew I had figured right,
Rocky m what is it Chris All ought to see you? Well?
Speaker 3 (02:49):
He's in your office. I tried to stop him.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Oh that's all right, and sort of expecting him.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
I mean looking guy. Want me to come with you?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
No, no, I'll handle it. Take over the till will him. Hello, Jordan,
make yourself at home.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
Yeah, that's what I'm doing for the good.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Booze, too rich for your taste, party for the time.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
All right.
Speaker 6 (03:17):
You know it's funny figured you differently. Everybody in Dan
says you're a right guy.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Maybe eve been talking to the wrong people. What do
you want you? You have been talking at the wrong people,
and not for sale.
Speaker 6 (03:30):
A thousand pounds is just a start. There's more what
that comes from, and there always is. Come on, big shirt,
bottom up, your shirt is seven o'clock. You got the point.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I can't make it.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
That's a big mistake.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Your money is in the safe. You can have it back.
Speaker 6 (03:46):
That is not my instructions. Oh so you're just a
like mans something like that. You and me were working
for the same man. All right, buddy, you're through talking
and there's the door.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Get away from the door, Jordan, I'll pin you to
the wall.
Speaker 6 (04:03):
Seven inch blade, Jordan, the mesca Steele got it.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
I got it all right. Put the knife away, you'll
cut your hand. I'll come with you if your boys
wants to see me that badly. I wasn't gonna argue
with a seven inch double edged blade, especially the way
that monkey was waving it in the air well. We
left the tambourine, climbed into his car and drove through
the Cairo streets out one of the city gates. We
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ended up in front of a place called the House
of Sand Jordapan called the Pile of Scrap because that's
what it looked like, but the knife man said it
was a hotel. Two minutes later, my pal knocked on
the door of Room twelve.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
Who is there, Jordan. He's come for the rest of the.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Door taking a lot for granted, busty quite all right
to me.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Let him come in.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
Gone in Jordan to meet your new bolls.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I walked inside. My pal with a knife, shut the
door behind me and stayed outside. Then I saw him,
a man from Damascus. He was tall and big, but
I couldn't tell what he looked like. His whole face
was wrapped in bandages, and he reminded me of those
pictures I once saw the Invisible Man.
Speaker 7 (05:10):
Hello, mister Jordan. Nice of you to come sit.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Down, eh, I'll take it standing.
Speaker 7 (05:17):
Well, let's go to meet again, is it not, mister Jordan?
Again you do not remember, but you should Damascus nineteen
thirty nine. Well maybe it's my new appearance. I had
a face.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Then what do you got? Now?
Speaker 7 (05:36):
Let's talk about Damascus all right?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
You wish you drink?
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Oh? I just gave it up.
Speaker 7 (05:42):
Mister Jordan. You wronged me in Damascus.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
I did.
Speaker 7 (05:48):
Yes, you wronged me most civiely, so seviely that I've
never forgotten. And I said to myself that someday I
would come for you. Well I am here. Welcome to Cairo, Jordan.
I'm not just talking for pleasure. You're sure you get
the right guy, and do not try to tell me
you do not remember. You are the right men and
you know it. But you are fortunate, mister Jordan.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
How's that figure?
Speaker 7 (06:12):
I'm going to give you a chance to erase our
difference and make a little money. Besides, you see, there's
someone in Cairo that I want even more than you.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
So how I figure you are going to bring him
to me.
Speaker 7 (06:26):
His name is Alexako.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Zako is pretty big, order I know, but I think
you can do it. Police have had a dragnet out
for two weeks trying to track him down.
Speaker 7 (06:35):
I want to get to him before they do. I
think you can bring him to me. You know Cairo
better than any man I know of. You know where
men like zak Or would hide and how to get
to him.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Ah. Sorry, friend, you've got the wrong Gert Jordan.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Listen to me.
Speaker 7 (06:51):
I would find him myself if I could. I just
do not know Cairo. But I cannot go wandering around
like this. I'm giving you a chance to square a
dirty deal and make a little money on the side.
I will double that thousand pounds and call off our
little difference.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
What have you got against Sarko?
Speaker 7 (07:10):
He took something from me? What my face? I want
to find him, Jordan.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
I must.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
Do not know what it is to feel that you
can never walk the streets again without a covering and
the thing you once called a face. Well, but about it,
mister Jordan.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Huh, no deal. You got a private vendetta with Zako.
Keep it that way. Heah, there's your thousand pounds back.
Buy yourself another boy. I walked out of the House
of Sam and the knife man was gone. I found
a taxi and had a bank for the tambourine. Alexako, Yeah,
all around, no good guy. The Egyptian police wanted him
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on an attempted assassination. Espinag's work with an assorted killing
or too thrown in. The police had all the roads covered,
the trains and the flights out of the city. They
figured they had him bottled up very well. It was
just a matter of time before they bundled him well.
Back at the tambourine, I drew myself a beer, found
the back table and did some thinking about the man
and the bandages in the city of Damascus.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
What's up rom?
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Oh nothing, Chris, just thinking, Hey you do you ever
hear me talk about Damascus?
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Damascus?
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Yeah, spent nine months there once, working for an oil company.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
I don't remember her saying anything about it.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Why nothing, I was trying to bring back a little memory.
Drop it, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
I'll get back.
Speaker 8 (08:34):
Excuse me, gentlemen. You are mister Jordan.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
That's right.
Speaker 8 (08:37):
May I talk with you please?
Speaker 2 (08:38):
It will take for a moment, all right, Chris, I'll
talk to you later.
Speaker 7 (08:42):
Sit down, Thank you, mister Jordan.
Speaker 8 (08:47):
I did not wish to trouble you, but I found
that I had no other course. My name is Sandra
Marr and I'm from Damascus in Syria.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
You're traveling and Cairo's on the Grand Tour.
Speaker 8 (08:57):
This is not a trip for pleasure. I'm looking for someone.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
If his name is Alexanko, you got lots of company.
Speaker 8 (09:03):
No, his name is not Alexanko. It is Paul Mar.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
It is my husband, Paul Mar. I don't know anyone
by that name.
Speaker 8 (09:11):
You may not know him by his name, mister Jordan.
I am positive that you have met him.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
And how do you figure that?
Speaker 8 (09:18):
Paul said he had some business in Cairo. He left
Damascus four days ago with a man whose name I
do not know. But he was the same man who
left the tambourine with you earlier to night. It is
my belief that he took you to see Paul.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Oh, I get it.
Speaker 8 (09:34):
I tried what I was not able to follow you
through the streets of Cairo, so I've waited outside your
cafe til you returned. I must see Paul. Would you
take me to him?
Speaker 4 (09:44):
No?
Speaker 8 (09:46):
Would you tell me then where he is, mister Jordan.
Paul's business, as he calls it, it is the trouble,
some terrible sort of trouble. I know.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Oh, you're right there.
Speaker 8 (09:59):
He's a fine and mister Jordan a wonderful man, but
things have not gone well since his face. He's in
trouble and I've got to help him.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
He's got a revenge young lady with a guy named
Zarko and me. There's nothing fine about that revenge.
Speaker 8 (10:15):
Poor Oh no, it must be something else. He's not
that kind of man.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Then you don't know him very well.
Speaker 8 (10:23):
It is true we have not been married for long.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Look, why don't you just go back to Damascus and
forget it. You're in for trouble here, something's gonna happen.
Speaker 8 (10:32):
Where is poor mister Jordan.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
A place called the House of Sand, out of the city,
through the gate of the Bar El Nazar. TAXI will
take it.
Speaker 8 (10:42):
Thank you, mister Jordan. I shall not forget the help
you've given me.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
She walked out of the tambourine, and I hope that
that'll be the last I'd see of her. And the
man from Damascus and alex Argo. How vain can your
hopes be? Sometimes? Well, we roll the last on the
cuff customer out of the tam about one fifteen in
the morning. Chris threw the lack in the front door
and I doused the lights.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
I'll just screw out the backway, all right, Chris, night
lay tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Rocky for go.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Iind the goud it can't quick and Jance Jordam venduance.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Rocky, you're hey, jdah hit Christian. Well if you do,
and you are not Dad, and I will come for
you again.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
You are listening to the Man from Damascus An Adventure
with Rocky Jordan. Remember that five o'clock Sunday afternoon is
the new time for Rocky Jordan. So join us each
Sunday at five and plan to tune in thirty minutes
earlier to hear call the police at four thirty, so
you will have a full hour of excitement and action.
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And now we take you back to Cairo for another
adventure with Rocky Jordan, the Man from Damascus. Well, after
the Man from Damascus threw those slugs at me, I
took out after him, chasing him through the darkened streets.
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But it's easy to lose someone in the whining Cairo streets.
And that's just what I did.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
I get back to the cafe tambourine about forty five
minutes later, and Chris wasn't there alone. Captain Sam Sabayah
Cairo police was there too, waiting for me. Well, Jordan,
so you've returned, I Sam brings you here this time
of night.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
I phoned him Rock. I told him I thought you'd
be better.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
All right, Chris, see you tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Sure?
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Good night, Ken, good night, hell Geordian. I'm waiting waiting
for what's that? For you to tell me what this
is all about?
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Nothing to say, Jordan.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
The man who shot at you from the alley called
out vengeance. This not Chris told me. Therefore, I can
assume that this man is after you for some hurt
he believes you have inflicted upon you.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
It's close.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
What is it that you have done to in Jordan?
Teach me, Sam, Jordan, how can you expect me to be?
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Sam? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Then I shall let that pass. Jordan. Who is this
man who shot at you?
Speaker 2 (13:30):
I'm afraid that's my business. I'll just handle it my
own ways. Don't stop worrying about it. You got your
hands full with Alexako.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Fear not, we will capture Alexaker. Tell me has Zarko
something to do with this shooting.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
You mean, did he throw those slugs at me?
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Now I meant exactly what I said. Does Zarco have
anything to do with the shooting?
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Maybe?
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Jordan, You you are most exasperating, just.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
A little trick I've picked up in my travels.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Very well, very well. I cannot force you to speak. However,
I I wish to warn you that if someone else
is injured, some innocent party drawn into this private conflict
of yours, I shall hold you responsible.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Oh thanks, Sam, that's swell of him. No one will
get hurt, believe me, except maybe the friend of mine.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
For your sake, I hope you are arrived. I would
not wish to use my office, Jordan, to have you
expelled from Cairo.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
I started out bright and early the next morning to
see if I could find the man from Damascus. Stop
number one was the House of Sand, Room twelve. I
pounded on the door, no answer. I rattled the doorknob,
and the door came open. I went in. I could
see why no one had bothered to throw the lock.
The room was empty. Paul mar the man from Damascus,
had done a quick checkout. I moved down at the
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front desk, to see if I could get a forwarding address.
Sitting in a rocking chair rolling back and forth was
a wrinkled relic left over from the days of the Pharaohs.
A shortling sound was coming from her throat, and then
I saw why she was re reading a US comic
book called A Phantom Menace. A lady, A lady, you
got a customer.
Speaker 9 (15:06):
A young man.
Speaker 10 (15:08):
You are observing an old lady being devoured by pleasure.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Well, I'm certainly glad you're having fun, but could you
give me a minute?
Speaker 10 (15:15):
Oh, the phantom mana is captured brick brawn trusteaming wire
and is dipping him head first into a bartrel of
pickle brine one hundred times.
Speaker 9 (15:27):
If I'm being consumed with.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
You, well, if you can grab hold of yourself for
a minute, you can earn a pound.
Speaker 9 (15:32):
Note in my left It suddenly left me fine.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Look, I'm trying to get a forwarding address on number twelve.
Speaker 10 (15:40):
That would be a short, fat man with a board spot,
a cellar of fly paper.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
That'll be a big man with bandages on his face,
a cellar of death.
Speaker 9 (15:50):
This comes higher than fly paper. Could you make it
two pounds?
Speaker 10 (15:55):
I could lash now that I find a fortunate my fingertips,
I cannot claim it.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
What does that mean?
Speaker 10 (16:03):
I do not know where your friend has gone, and
indeed you're not the only one who is seeking him.
Speaker 9 (16:10):
A young lady came this morning.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
She said she was his wife.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Where she go I gave.
Speaker 10 (16:15):
Her room ten. She said she would wait to see
if her husband returned. If you wish to see her,
I can call it.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
No, no, no, What time did number twelve leave six
this morning? How by taxi?
Speaker 4 (16:27):
I called one?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Do you know the driver?
Speaker 9 (16:29):
Do I know he may help him?
Speaker 3 (16:31):
No? Good?
Speaker 10 (16:32):
Evil talk name hally Ama residents three or three shari shaming.
Speaker 9 (16:42):
It is worth two pounds just to mention his name.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
A hey, keep it and thanks.
Speaker 10 (16:47):
Going back to your reading, shall I shall once again
pet in xt?
Speaker 2 (16:55):
And she did. I left her sitting there waiting the
pages looked up. Holly am. I cost me two more
pounds to open him up, and only could say it
was that he left mar off at an all night
dive called the Harem. So that was my next stop.
A couple of hundred pounds of fact was pushing a
wet rag over the counter in slow motion. Redheaded englishman
deep in his Cups was throwing dots at a picture
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of a deam short of clothes. What I was looking
at was a guy at the end of the bar,
tilling a bottle of beer. It was the knife man
who had first taken me to see Paul Marr. I
moved his way, but he saw me and let out
for the back door. I took out after him, fast,
like the super chief on a down grade. He took
me through the backyard, over a fence, across an empty lot.
But I put a stop to the marathon with the
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flying tackle. When we rolled into a mound hole, he
reached for his knife, but I need him new. Fight
started to go out of him.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
All right?
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Where is he?
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Who? You know? Who?
Speaker 2 (17:46):
That Damascus friend of yours, Paul.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
Mar How did you know he's Nate?
Speaker 2 (17:49):
It doesn't matter. I went now it's his address.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
Not worry, Jordan. He will come to you, and.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
I can't wait.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
I'll give it.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Your knee the air dress. I canna death. You'll try
a face full of muddy.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
All right ahead? It did.
Speaker 6 (18:12):
One forty two Sharifaka a small hotel by the name
of Little Nile.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Okay, I'm gonna put you on ice at the tambourine,
Chris will take care of. You'll have a chance to
tell to your boss alone. The little nile was a
termite trap on Sharifakar, and Mar was holed up the
second floor back. I stood in front of his door
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a few minutes later, listening, trying to catch any sounds
from inside. Right in near a thing, I tried the
doorknob easily, The door was locked, so I took a
deep breath, kicked it, and all the rock and wood
gave way. First thing I saw in the darkened room
was the figure sitting in a chair across the room,
facing the door. The second thing I saw with the
bandages around his face, so I knew it was poor Omar.
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And the third thing I saw was the Italian made
gun in his hand, pointing towards me.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
What has kept you so long?
Speaker 7 (19:07):
Jordan?
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Oh right, sorry, I didn't know you were waiting.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
I would not advance.
Speaker 7 (19:12):
Taught me any more steps, Jordon. That is wise. Well
you have come. I had assumed that if I did
not kill you last night, would come to me. It
saved me parading my conspicuous appearance through the Cairo streets.
So you have found me. But Unfortunately I have the gun.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
You're not going to kill me here. Mar Sabayan knows
you're after me. You'll never get out of the city
with those bandages.
Speaker 7 (19:38):
You may be right, Jordan, Perhaps I will not kill you.
My original proposition still holds. Bring Alexako to me, and
our little difference shall be forgotten.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
I've forgotten it already.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Sure, then, I want Zacho.
Speaker 7 (19:52):
I want him more than I want you or anything else.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Bring me to.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Sundra's in town. Your wife, she's in Cairo looking for you.
She's at the House of Sam right now, waiting for
you to come back. No, I, sir, she came to
me to ask about you. You know she thinks a
lot of you. She doesn't believe you're the kind of
a guy to have a vendetta on. She doesn't believe
you could kill me or Zako, regardless of what he did.
Speaker 7 (20:18):
You stop a juddy, Do not unnerd me. Do not
attempt to change the subject. I want Zacho even more
than you. I will let you go if you help me. Yes,
I shall show you my good faith by throwing my
gun into the corner.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
There was a mistake. Mar. You know I can't help
you I told you once already, and that still goes.
I'm not bunning into a private feud.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
What I am, George say?
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Wow, get around, don't you.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
I know you well enough, Jordan to realize that you
would not allow someone to shoot at you and then
forget it. So when you would not tell me who
had done it, I knew too that if I followed
you long enough, you would lead me to him. You
always do.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Look, Sam, this is a private thing. But in March
I have.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Told you once, Jordan, violence is not a private matter.
I will not allow killing if I can help it,
and I will not allow you, Jordan or mister Mar
to interfere with the police capture of Alexarko.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
And you haven't got him yet, eh no, but I
shall have him in time.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
Mister Marshall, not mister Maher. You will please remove the
bandages from your face. I said that you will please
remove your bandages.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Letter do it?
Speaker 2 (21:25):
SAME's not killing?
Speaker 7 (21:28):
Very well, very well? Then I shall remove my band address.
I shall step into the light, gentlemen, so that you
may see all, so that you may see what was
once a face.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
I watched Paul Mar unwind the bandages, uncovering first what
once was a chin, then the battered skin around the cheeks,
the nose over the forehead. Then I noticed his stare, peculiar,
hard kind of stare, and I saw it came from
a left eye that couldn't blink.
Speaker 7 (22:03):
There there you have it. Now you can see why
I feel as I do about Alexako.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
I am most sorry I had to subject you to this,
mister Mar, but I still cannot allow a personal revenge
to interfere with my execution of the law. It is
customary and Cairo in affairs of this nature to use
the following procedure. There is a train leaving Cairo for
Alexandria in one hour. In five minutes, you will please
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be on the train same and you, Jordan, shall remain
in my custody until mister Marr has left the city.
Speaker 7 (22:39):
And what about Alexako.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
He is and shall remain my problem. You have then
one hour, mister ma I will meet you at the
Cairo station to make certain you have boarded the train.
Now you may put the bandages back on your face.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
Well.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Sam and I left Paul Mar at the hotel and
headed for police headquarters. We didn't talk much about Paul
wasn't anything to say. I was still trying to figure
out in my mind what I could possibly have done
to him in Damascus, but nothing came, and seeing him
or what was left of him stirred no memory. At headquarters,
Sam had a few things to do, so did I.
I put in a call in the House of Sand
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and asked for Sandra Mar. Yes, this is Sandra Mar
mims Mar. This is Rocky Jordan.
Speaker 8 (23:27):
Oh, how did you know I was here?
Speaker 2 (23:29):
I never mind that. It's something I want to tell you.
How about Paul sort of throw your clothes in a
suitcase and go back to Damascus.
Speaker 8 (23:37):
Oh, I thought you had some good news for me.
I thought you understood. I will go no place without Paul.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Well, you're not going to find him in Cairo. The
police are moving him out.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
The police.
Speaker 8 (23:47):
What have the police to do with Paul.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Paul will tell you if he wants to. Now go on.
You got a better chance of seeing him again in
Damascus and see if he can keep him out of trouble.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Huh, good luck.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
That was that. All the remains to see Paul Marr
climb on the train for Alexandria and hope he gets
straightened himself out and hope too that he and his
wife Sandra would get together well. A little while later,
I drove to the train station with Sam still in
police custom. There weren't many people there on the holiday afternoon.
Standing near the end of the platform, next to a
large sign of the flying red Horse that accented his
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white bandages was the man we were looking for, Paul
mar Sam and I walked up to him, and he
glared at us through the slits in his wrappiness.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
Well, Mistermorrow, you will be leaving Cairo in a few moments.
If after a year has passed you wish to return
to our city, write me a letter explaining your reasons,
and I still see what can be done to make
Cairo available to you once more.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Mar nod. As he climbed on the train and had
headed out of the city, Sam and I turned and
started back to his car. That's when it hit me
and I took off in double time. Georgn w a
train ride. I didn't get.
Speaker 7 (24:56):
Gotta come on.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
I chased on the platform and taught the train. Corner
of my eye, I could see Sam climb under the
train found down the line. Then I shouted through the
cars going from one to another looking for the man
in bandages. I trambled through four cars before I finally
spotted out. When he saw me, I guess he figured
what I had on my mind, because he took off
fast going the other way, but I kept right after him.
The train had picked up speed, urching him from side
to side, then going around the band The momentum pinned
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him momentarily against the seat, and I was on him.
His fish started working the solid mind we had ourselves
and find a little fight there, rolling around the floor
of the moving train till Sam Sabajah caught up with
this and pulled the gun. I put a quick stop
to the fight.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
Georgie, you would please explain what the meaning of this is?
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Sure, glad to Sam, I have him take off his bandage,
But Georgia and I hid. I don't take off the bandages,
and I think you will verywhere.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
You would please remove the bandages, mister marr A.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Take him off, buddy, I'll take him off for it.
Yeah that's just stuff. Yeah, just a little more. Let
Sam see who you really are. Well, I said, not
Paul mar at all, but the guy you've been looking
for for weeks. The guy who's been trying to escape
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your dragnet and get out of the city. Meet Alex Xarko. Well,
the thing came apart at the seams. It was all
an elaborate plan of Zarko's. A police had him trapped
in the city, needed a way out, so he got
his knife man to dig up Paul Marr in Damascus
bring him to town. Then he had Mar all wrapped
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up in bandages, create a fuss like his revenge against me,
which was strictly a phony, nothing too serious, just enough
to get himself run out of Cairo. Then Zarcho takes
his place, wraps himself in the bandages, and starts to leave,
almost with a police escort. It would have worked fine
except for one thing. Mar's disfigured face and his left
eye that couldn't blink. Zarcho couldn't control his and standing
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on the platform of the train station, he blinked his
eye once and that was once too awful. Well, all
that remained was Almar and his face, and Sandra later
in Sabaya's arms. We've got talking about.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
That, Jordan, where do you suppose Paul Mary is now?
Speaker 2 (27:14):
The house of sand I told him Sandra was there
waiting for him.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
You realize, of course, that I must send some men
to apprehend here.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
Why do you suppose he allowed himself to aid Alexako?
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Put yourself in his place, face like his and a
lot of desperation. He was working a business deal, getting
money anyway he could, figuring he'd use the dough of
plastic surgery job and make him look like a human being.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
Again, Yes, quite so, you understand, mar we'll have a
jail sentence to serve for aiding a cremin room, and
it may be possible for me to confiscate the money
Zako gave you.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Sure, if you worked on it, you could possibly take
the dough from that is, if you don't forget that
he's got.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
Are you suggesting, Jordan, that I deliberately allow myself to
forget that if financial arrangement existed between Martin Sarcole, I
tried to Jordans I have always suspected you are an
unscrupulous man.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
It's sure, I am remember the time I tried to
sell that mate, Carlo Swindler a half interest in the
tombs of Memooks.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
Remember, No, No, I guess I've forgotten. Perhaps I am
getting old. My memory is not what it used to be.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Thanks see you soon.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
It's CBS again at the 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's.
Rocky Jordan's, starring Jack Moyles in the title role, is
produced and directed by Cliff Powell, with original music by
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Richard Durant. Tonight's story by Adrian Jondeau and Larry Roman.
Life with Luigi will be heard tonight at eight over
most of these stations, Larry Thor speaking. This is CBS,
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