August 9, 2025 • 30 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Time now for Edmund O'Brien as.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Johnny Dollar. Why in the world are you down here, Donard?
Speaker 3 (00:09):
You can't leave for.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Forty five minutes, and I'm taking a quick refresher course
in ancient history. You're sending me out to find a
missing archaeologist, aren't you. Well. I want to be able
to talk his language in case I find him alive.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Edmund O'Brien in a transcribed Adventure of the Man with
the Action Packed Expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Yours truly, Johnny Dalla expense account submitted by special Investigator
Johnny Dollar to Great Corinthian Life and Liability Company, Hartford, Connecticut.
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The following is an accounting of my expenditures during my
investigation of the disappearance of Bruce Lampet, the archaeologist who
never should have left his tomb. Expense account Item one
seven dollars and fifty cents railway and taxi fare from
my Hertford apartment to Room three seventeen Bright Arms, New
York City, a hotel who's front rooms had a depressing
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view of an eighty first Street mortuary.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Miss Lambert, Yes, please come in mister Dollar.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
She was tall, without awkwardness, had the physique of an athlete,
but still with softness, and a golden tan made her
seem out of place, set against the snow heaped on
the sill outside the windows.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Thank you for coming, mister Dollar. I realized that mine
was a rather unusual request to make of an insurance company.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
At all, Miss Lambert. The company doesn't want to lose
a policy holder anymore than you want to lose a brother.
But there are a lot of good private detectives in
New York.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
I couldn't afford one. I had thought of notifying police,
but I realized that Bruce's case would be just one
of many. To their they're so impersonal. If there's a
chance of any notoriety.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Miss Lambert, if you mean that, for some reason, you'd
rather the police didn't find him, you'd better tell me
about it.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Yes, of course I was going to. I don't see
how it could make any difference. Please sit down.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Maybe we'd better start way back at the beginning. Huh.
That would be in Egypt, wouldn't it.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Yes, in the desert, some hundred miles west of Thebes.
My brother's an archaeologist and he'd uncovered some ruins. It
was quite an important discovery, something about the Twelfth dynasty.
I I don't know much about it. You were with him, yes,
I didn't spend much time at the excavation side. I
stayed in the village. But the reason the police might
make it difficult is that Rose discovered some relics that
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he didn't declare to the authorities.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
There you mean he swiped them?
Speaker 4 (02:51):
And if you're in the habit of using extreme bluntness,
I suppose you could put it that way. All right,
I'm please, mister Dollard, this is quite unpleasant for m
If Bruce had stolen all the relics, you wouldn't expect
it to make any difference in how I felt about
his disappearance, would you.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Oh, I'm afraid I can't do anything for you. I've
got to know these things that I'm gonna help him.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Wait, I'm I'm sorry. I'll tell you everything I know.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Alright. What were those relics that your brother didn't declare?
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Well, I'm not sure how many there were. And there
was some statuary in obsidian head of some old king.
And then there was a scarab it was supposed to
have been the official seal of this king.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
You know how valuable this stuff is. I'm afraid that it.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Might be very valuable in some circles. That's what I
was afraid of, that someone harmed Bruce or even But
there's so many things to be afraid of 'em. He
isn't strong, maybe even his mind. He was injured quite
severely in a traffic accident in Alexandria just before we
left Egypt. I've got to find out what could have
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happened to it?
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Oh, come on, we we can't find out this way.
What does your brother look like? A light or dark?
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Here's a snap shot.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
M He's blonde.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
His hair is straight and was quite long when I
last saw him.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
And that was four days ago.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Yes, they are ship docked. I was arranging for my luggage.
He just disappeared.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
What else? What's his bill? Slight? Medium, heavy, slight? I'd say,
what about his clothes?
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Well, he was wearing a dark blue suit and a
gray overcoat. The right sleeve of both would be empty
because his right arm and shoulder and a cast.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Uh huh a traffic accident.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Yes, both were fractured. I wish I were able to
be more help but I've told you everything I know.
He just vanished.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Did he Did he have any enemies that you know of?
Speaker 4 (05:02):
No, there's not even that. I can't let myself lose hope.
But what can we do? How do you start looking
for somebody with so little to go on?
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Before I answered the question, we started at the beginning again.
The second run through was pretty much like the first,
But disappearance from a foreign ship in the port of
New York is not as easy as the telling of it.
I left the troubled marsha checked into an eighth floor
room in the Brighton Arms, where a phone call told
me the north Fleet had already sailed. No hope of
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information there, so I headed for the US Customs office.
Good afternoon, it's a Nixon yesh. My name is Dollar.
I'm an insurance investigator. The girl outside said you could
help me. I'd like to get some information on a
passenger who arrived from Alexandria on the north Fleet. In
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north Fleet, Well, i'd have to know o the day
of arrival and the name of the line. It was
four days ago they'd made it. Uh, that would make
it the twentieth It's a British ship in north Fleet. Uh.
What was the passenger's name planted Bruce Lamber the uh
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clarony luggage through customer Bruce slamberd Yump witnessed the examination
of one piece of luggage, suitcase, personal effects, one piece
of statu where he purchased in Alexandria and no duty.
Uh what address did he give you, Bruce Lambert?
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (06:38):
No street number? A hotel the Brighton arm right now, Well,
don't count on that expense account item two thirty dollars,
which would my id cod helped him press the cab
drivers who worked the entrance to the pier where the
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north Fleet at docked. Checking these caves took the whole afternoon,
and midway through it, I realized I wasn't the only
one interested in that particular hackstand. I wasn't sure at
what moment I had actually noticed him. He was doing
a very bad job of hiding behind a journal American
on the other side of the street. All I could
see was the lower half of an overcoat, the same
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of some razor sharp trousers with some pointed shoes. But
I began to feel his eyes looking at me as
I went on with my questioning that finally paid off
through the mouth of driver number seven eighty two.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
You know, you meet all canes in this business. Some
you forget and some others you remember.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Now, well, do you remember a guy with his arm
and shoulder in a cast?
Speaker 6 (07:46):
And something you learn in this business that's to read
people's faces. You get to know a deadbeat before he
gets a chance to dead beat you, and you catch
on if the guy is scared of something.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Well, if he was afraid of something, it's not me.
He's been reported missing by his sister. I've been hired
to find him. How much is ten bucks by? You know?
Speaker 6 (08:09):
Maybe he don't want to be fouled, Is that what
you think? Sure he paid me more to climb up
than you often.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
I've got more. What are you going to do with him?
I want to talk to him. I want to find
out if he's all right. If he wants to stay lost,
that's his business, not mine. I was twenty five.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
Get in, my boy, get very far from here.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Our destination turned out to be an old red brick
hotel near very ninth Street between tenth and eleventh Avenue,
and it occurred to me that as an archaeologist, Lambert
was running through to form. He even used some ruins
to hold up in. One five dollar bill brought the
information from the room clerk that Lambert was out of
his room, and another bought a pass key that let
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me in. The first thing to catch my eye when
I switched down the light was a black piece of
statuary shining dully on a chipped bureau, A crowned head
with exaggerated features, sculptured and obsidian. I posed myself this riddle.
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If it was so valuable, why didn't Lambert take better
care of it? But before I had a chance to
try for the answer, a foot nudged The door opened
behind me. As might be expected, it was wearing a
pointed shoe, and was followed into the room by a
slight yellow ivory skinned band who rather resembled the black statue.
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I must thank you for leaving us to the hiding pace.
Where is he? All that depends on who he's hiding from.
It looks like it's you. Perhaps it is that you
do not know where he is. Yeah, perhaps I followed
your taxi after you talked with those drivers. That was
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very smart. Where did you think I expected you to go?
What's your interest in? Lambert?
Speaker 5 (10:18):
You were employed by the girl to find him. How
much does.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
She pay you? I never talk money with a stranger.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
And perhaps we will not be strangers for long. The
point of importance is that you have not yet found him.
Mister Drummond will pay you two thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
To do so. Mister Drummond is generous, But what makes
you so sure. I haven't found Lambert because he is
not here, but that only means he's someplace else.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
Please, I have no wish for violence.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
And put that thing away. And the first place, gunfire,
even in this neighborhood, is gonna bring the law. The
second place, it's a lady's gun, one of those handbag
jobs you know you ought to be ashamed of yourself
for carrying.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
Please, I have no wish to use it, and get.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Rid of it. I hate little men who try to
play bully. There was more than that behind my fist.
I figured I could learn to know him better if
he was quietly stretched out on the floor. I was
half right. An Egyptian passport told me that his name
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was Ammon Hixas, hometown Alexandria. There was nothing else I
could turn Hixsas over to the police. On an assault charge.
Or I could wait until he woke up and try
knocking some information out of him. But I didn't do either.
I left him there in the lobby. I gave a
message to the room clerk for Lambert, telling him to
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stay out of his room when he came back, and
to phone me at the bright Uns. Who is it, Dollar?
Speaker 4 (12:02):
Oh just a second, he is there? Any news? Did
you learn anything, mister Dollar? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (12:09):
I made some progress. I met Ammon Hixs. You told
me a brother didn't have any enemies. That little Egyptian
is out looking for him with a gun. Why'd you
lie to me?
Speaker 4 (12:19):
I have no right to ask you to believe me now.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
That's so true, But I wish you would.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Please come here and sit down.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Oh no, thanks, You sit there, and I'll stand here.
I I think I'll be less inclined to believe you
from here.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
That's not fair. I know I wasn't fair with you either.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
I won't to be.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
But there are some things I just can't tell you.
Why not I can't tell you that?
Speaker 2 (12:46):
I oh nuts. Women like you make everything tougher than
it should be. You demand all, but you give nothing.
You ask to be trusted and you won't trust. You
make yourselves look soft. When you're as hot as steel.
You've got warmth, but you you only turn it on
when you're get something out of it. You're wrong.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
I was trying to help him or us. I had
to lie.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Look, I started this thing wanting to help you. Uh,
there was something personal about it. But you wanted me
to do things your way and not mind. Well we
just stopped doing that alone.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
Just go away, go back to heart, but forget you
wherever here.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
I wish I could. And I'm working for an insurance
company looking for a missing policyholder. Well, I'll be up
in my room if you decide to help me find it.
Speaker 7 (13:41):
Mm.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Yeah, is this mister Dollar? That's right?
Speaker 3 (14:01):
This is Bruce Lambert. I got your message to call
or are you now? Not so fast? There were two
attempts on my life while I was on my way
here from Alexandria. I'm not anxious to tell anybody where
I am. How did you get into this?
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Marsha called your insurance company when you took a run out.
They hired me. Good for Marcia? Is she all right?
Well that depends on your point of view. I suppose
she's being the helpful sister to you, But for me,
she's done nothing but act mysterious. I don't get it.
You won't tell the truth about you. I hope you
do better.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
She told you she was my sister.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
I'm sure she did. Why shouldn't she.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Oh, I can't see why she do that.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
She isn't your sister.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
I don't understand it. She's my fiance. I don't understand
it at all. Where is she? I better talk to her.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
That's a good idea, Room three seventeen, brighton arms. I'll
be there with her, waiting for you, which, in a
way was how it worked out, except that I waited
for him in the corridor outside her room. I left
Marsha where I found it. She was on the bathroom floor,
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where she died from wounds inflicted by the proverbial blunt instrument,
and where her eyes had died with her.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
In just a moment, we will return to the second
act of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
But first.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
And now, with our star Edmond O'Brien, we returned to
the second act of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Ruse lamba, Yeah, it's alright. I'm Dollar didn't take you
on and get here. Where's your phone from? Just around
the corner bar? Why do you wask where's Marsha? Marsha's dead.
I don't believe you. I wanna go in there. She
isn't dead. Let me in there. Come on, use your
head when ye there's nothing? Oh you're on. I'm sorry. Look,
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you don't wanna go in there. Believe me, you don't.
There's nothing you can do for her. Sh she can't
be dead. She can't be Come on, where? Wh wh why?
I want you to come up to my room with me.
You've gotta do two things. Hurst give me every reason
you can think of why this should have happened. And
then before the police get here, you had better start
rehearsing the story of your own. Now I'm at the
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first hole in marsha stories that she wasn't in thieves
while you were working on your ruins. That's right. I
didn't even know her.
Speaker 8 (17:11):
Then I met her in the hospital in Alexandria after
my accident.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
I was there for two months. You see. She was
my nurse. But she did know about the relics, that
statue and the scarab that I haven't seen. Oh yes, yes,
here it is this is the scarab.
Speaker 8 (17:25):
Oh, yes, she knew we talked about my little deceit.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Well, how little is it really? You talk about two
attempts on your life. Now we have actual murder. You'd
better let me have that scab. Oh yes, yes, of course.
But surely you don't think the relics are at the
bottom of this. They're rare, but not valuable enough for
this unless someone knows more about them than I do.
I doubt that I have made a pharaoh study of
a twelfth dynasty and king Amendem at the third it's
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a carving his head. What do you know about a
man named Ammon Hixas and another whose last name is Drummond.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Hixos Ammon Hixas.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
You know him? Does it ring any canna of a bell?
Speaker 8 (18:00):
No, I I I'm afraid not.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Drummond means nothing. M alright, let's try the two attempts
on your life? What about then?
Speaker 8 (18:09):
Well, h they happened on the nights of the seventeenth
and the eighteenth.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Both of them could have been.
Speaker 8 (18:14):
Accidental, except that, well, the same small man stood near
me both times.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
It would be too much for me to hope you
you could describe him, I said, well if he was dark. Well,
both times I was on the promenade deck and something
heavy was thrown or pushed from the deck above. I
reported the second one, and the ship's officer apologized for
the carelessness. Which you thought enough of it to disappear? Oh, well,
I certainly did instead of going to the police. Yes, oh,
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I suppose it was wrong, but you must understand I
was desperate. Well, we'd better go down to the third floor.
I I hope the police think more of your story
than I do. In twenty minutes, Room three seventeen really
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looked like a murder scene. The place was swarming with
New York's finest white with fingerprint powder, and blinding with
flash flows. The lieutenant to whom I made my statement
looked as if he thought I was as crazy as
I thought everybody else in the mess was. But then
he changed his mind. Holla, hey, where is that insurance stake? Uh? Here,
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I am in the bathroom. Oh there you are all?
Speaker 9 (19:27):
Yeah, find as soon as I noticed something, what'd you
say that name was? I'm in uh uh Hixes? Yeah, Well,
I guess there aren't too many ways to spill that one,
so this must be it. Pill box. Let me see
that prescription from Alexandria.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Doctor, I'm in Hixes.
Speaker 9 (19:44):
We'll put a trace around that phone number you took
off the first thing in the morning.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Yeah, hey, are you gonna take Lambert in for questioning?
Speaker 9 (19:54):
I guess we'd better Routie.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
He's clear as far as I can see. We'll do
something that me. Will it? Have your doctors run a
test of that plastic cast of his and call me
in my room. Huh A test for what I'll just
look it over. It would make a handy blunt instrument,
if nothing else. Expensive gun item three seven fifty A
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few late cocktails, a rare steak, and coffee in the
Brighton Arms dining room, after which I picked up an
armful of extra editions so I could catch up on
what I'd been doing. I self operated my way to
the eighth floor and started toward my room. I was
looking forward to a hot shower, but I didn't get it.
I was still looking forward put into a familiar gun muzzle.
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This is the gun, ayes, mister Della, May I introduce myself,
Sir Garrett Drummond, at your service. Our meeting has been
postponed too long. Well there's a difference of opinion on
that you will please open your door? How can I refuse?
Who's that pine sized invitation you're still carrying after you, sir?
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And I need to remind you that my friend here
is prepared for any rash move up on your part. Look,
I'm tired. I don't have a rash move left in me.
Close the door, emont. I suggest that you sit there,
mister Dollery in that unsightly straight backed chair. Thanks a lot.
And now, sir, I shall plunge right to the point.
There is that scoundrel Bruce Lambert. Well, I think I
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just decided that I don't know. We we have no
wish for violent you always say that with a gun
in your hand. Well, let's get started. You make your pitch,
I'll make my refusal, and we'll see where we go
from there. I have already met what I consider to
be a generous offer for so unimportant a bit of
information as merely the whereabouts of Lambert two thousand dollars.
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But if it will expedite matters, I am prepared to
expand my offer by another thousand. I'm the sponsor, you
bid the greedier, I guess what makes Lambert so important
to the problem which is entirely out of your province?
My boy, how much do you know of Egyptian legend? Sir?
Speaker 4 (22:10):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (22:10):
No, more than a dollar's worth. Pity the fascinating subject, well, Sir, Bruce.
Lambert has in his possession a certain object of great importance,
both culturally and economically. Certain landowners in Egypt hold it
in such high esteem, Sir, that as a reward for
its return to them, they would throw open to exploitation
untapped oil fields, the richness of which would shake the
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very foundations of world economy? Are they shaky enough as
it is? My boy? Think what it would mean to
a civilization fast approaching the depletion of its petroleum sources.
New horizon, Sir, A brave new world. Lambert owes to
us all relinquishment of this object so that it may
serve humanity. You're right, and it may be easier than
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you think. A splendid sir. Where is he? Which relic?
Is it? The black statue your playmate could have picked
up for free? It is king I might have met
scareb that I would discuss with Lambert. I demand to
know where he is. Why waste time on him. I've
got the scarab. I find that most difficult to believe,
mister Dollar. Well, no, no, no, keep your hands away
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from your buckets, Ammon will say to the trouble, Ammon.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
These remains too, mister Dollar.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
My wish is called peaceful, sure right coat pocket, he
speaks truly, Garret here he's the matter, Garret. You don't
have that brave New world look anymore. Ah, I should
be the first to admit so that the lie has
been put to the tail I created upon this useless
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geekll but mister Dollar, now, but we are forced to
fall back upon the truth. I remind you that it
sometimes hurts. Your position has not. But the desk knows.
I'm up here, answered mister Dollar. But be cautious. Unfortunately,
I do not share Ramon's a version to violence.
Speaker 9 (24:08):
Yeah, Dollar, that's right, this is Lieutenant Black. Say was
that a hunch you had about that cast of Lambert's?
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Why do you ask all? If it was? It was
a good one.
Speaker 9 (24:18):
The doctors won't let us take it off, but we
cut into it. It was put on in three layers.
The middle one was wrapped narcotics. Yeah, don't be so
modest dollar, there must be three hundred thousand bucks worth.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Now, sometimes it's a whole month before we get that much.
Speaker 9 (24:35):
Looks like the work of your friend, doctor Ramon Hixsas. Yeah,
I'll wake up dollar. I want to check Lambert's.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Statement with yours.
Speaker 9 (24:42):
I'll have you there in ten minutes.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Goodbye, Okay. I commend you, sir upon your show of intelligence.
Who was it the police they're looking for, Lambert? Oh,
and what did they give as their reason? Narcotics? The
story of a man bound from America who cracked up
in a car, and while he was unconscious of being patched,
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said narcotics were put in his cast by a doctor
Ammon Hixas, probably assisted by a nurse named Marsha. But
there's no proof, Ammon, We who waste no time on evasion. Yes,
we use the boy a courageous scheme, But for that
silly goose of a girl, she was the true conspirator
and the traitor as well. She having a fall in
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love with the guy. Are the romantic Atlantic crossing? An
empty proposal of marriage suddenly becomes more important than actual
coin of the realm. But enough of that, the police
are looking for him and aunt teeth, So am I
very is he? I don't know, Ammon, call his hotel
in thirty ninth Street. No wait, my friend, the police
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must be watching that, are they, mister Dollan, Well, that's
where his personal things are. If I were the police,
I'd be watching. Yes, we seem to find ourselves in
such a position that we must at least pretend to
see ee two eyes. Uh, very well, we shall wait here.
The chips are down, so to speech, Ammon, years gonna
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take the pistol into the bathroom medial with the door
slightly ajar, you shall have a splendid command of the
arena as it were years.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
Got it?
Speaker 2 (26:16):
And remember the stakes are high.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
Yes, get it, and I will remember.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
No, mister Diller, Which seemed that little roommains but to waiting.
The waiting was more than the Drummond settled himself on
the bed and facing the door, his pudgy hands folded
over his bulging waist. I was still in the desk chair,
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facing him as usual. The police were late. Twenty minutes
passed before we heard the knock on the door. You guess,
mister Doller. Come, we shall go to the door together.
Now keep your back to me. It's your party, Drummond,
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come in, Lambert got Lambert.
Speaker 9 (27:10):
The police haven't shooting, I haven't listen down.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Drummond's wound wasn't half as excruciating as his call for help.
The doctor's report that his shoulder will be in a
cast that as soon as the State of New York
can gather a jury, he will stand trial on the
charge of first degree murder. The body of Amen Hicks's
was taken to the mall. As an insurance company, you
are probably less interested in that than in the fate
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of your policy holder, Bruce Lambert. That's explained an expense
account item for two hundred and eighty dollars hospital bill
paid in advance in view of the possibility that there
may be others interested in that three hundred thousand dollar
cash of narcotics. He has to carry around with him
until his arm is okay. I thought it would be
safer to keep him under wraps. Oh, by the way,
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while he was lying there helpless, I sold him a
policy for you covering the scab and that carved head.
Expense account total four hundred and fifty six dollars and
ninety cents. Yours truly Johnny Dolla.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar stars Edmund O'Brien in the title
role and is written by Paul Dudley and Gildawd with
music by Leith Stevens. Edmund O'Brien can currently be seen
starring in Harry M. Popkins United Artists Production DA. Featured
in our cast were Virginia Gregg, Janevello, Ed Begley, John
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week when Edmund O'Brien returns in another adventure of.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Fifty four thousand dollars is burning a little old hole
in that little old jackpot of singing again this week,
just waiting for somebody to light up the right answer
and drop the cash and prizes in his lap or
her lap. Dan Seymour gives the gals the same chance
he gives the fellas when he starts putting in those
calls from coast to coast. So be listing this Saturday
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when sing it again and the fifty four thousand dollars
phantom boys come your way. On most of these same
CBS station. This program was transcribed in Hollywood, Roy Rowan speaking,
this is CBS where yours truly. Johnny Dollar meets Adventure
every Friday night the Columbia Broadcasting System
Time now for Edmund O'Brien as.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Johnny Dollar. Why in the world are you down here, Donard?
Speaker 3 (00:09):
You can't leave for.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Forty five minutes, and I'm taking a quick refresher course
in ancient history. You're sending me out to find a
missing archaeologist, aren't you. Well. I want to be able
to talk his language in case I find him alive.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Edmund O'Brien in a transcribed Adventure of the Man with
the Action Packed Expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Yours truly, Johnny Dalla expense account submitted by special Investigator
Johnny Dollar to Great Corinthian Life and Liability Company, Hartford, Connecticut.
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The following is an accounting of my expenditures during my
investigation of the disappearance of Bruce Lampet, the archaeologist who
never should have left his tomb. Expense account Item one
seven dollars and fifty cents railway and taxi fare from
my Hertford apartment to Room three seventeen Bright Arms, New
York City, a hotel who's front rooms had a depressing
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view of an eighty first Street mortuary.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Miss Lambert, Yes, please come in mister Dollar.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
She was tall, without awkwardness, had the physique of an athlete,
but still with softness, and a golden tan made her
seem out of place, set against the snow heaped on
the sill outside the windows.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Thank you for coming, mister Dollar. I realized that mine
was a rather unusual request to make of an insurance company.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
At all, Miss Lambert. The company doesn't want to lose
a policy holder anymore than you want to lose a brother.
But there are a lot of good private detectives in
New York.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
I couldn't afford one. I had thought of notifying police,
but I realized that Bruce's case would be just one
of many. To their they're so impersonal. If there's a
chance of any notoriety.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Miss Lambert, if you mean that, for some reason, you'd
rather the police didn't find him, you'd better tell me
about it.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Yes, of course I was going to. I don't see
how it could make any difference. Please sit down.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Maybe we'd better start way back at the beginning. Huh.
That would be in Egypt, wouldn't it.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Yes, in the desert, some hundred miles west of Thebes.
My brother's an archaeologist and he'd uncovered some ruins. It
was quite an important discovery, something about the Twelfth dynasty.
I I don't know much about it. You were with him, yes,
I didn't spend much time at the excavation side. I
stayed in the village. But the reason the police might
make it difficult is that Rose discovered some relics that
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he didn't declare to the authorities.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
There you mean he swiped them?
Speaker 4 (02:51):
And if you're in the habit of using extreme bluntness,
I suppose you could put it that way. All right,
I'm please, mister Dollard, this is quite unpleasant for m
If Bruce had stolen all the relics, you wouldn't expect
it to make any difference in how I felt about
his disappearance, would you.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Oh, I'm afraid I can't do anything for you. I've
got to know these things that I'm gonna help him.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Wait, I'm I'm sorry. I'll tell you everything I know.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Alright. What were those relics that your brother didn't declare?
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Well, I'm not sure how many there were. And there
was some statuary in obsidian head of some old king.
And then there was a scarab it was supposed to
have been the official seal of this king.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
You know how valuable this stuff is. I'm afraid that it.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Might be very valuable in some circles. That's what I
was afraid of, that someone harmed Bruce or even But
there's so many things to be afraid of 'em. He
isn't strong, maybe even his mind. He was injured quite
severely in a traffic accident in Alexandria just before we
left Egypt. I've got to find out what could have
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happened to it?
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Oh, come on, we we can't find out this way.
What does your brother look like? A light or dark?
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Here's a snap shot.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
M He's blonde.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
His hair is straight and was quite long when I
last saw him.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
And that was four days ago.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Yes, they are ship docked. I was arranging for my luggage.
He just disappeared.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
What else? What's his bill? Slight? Medium, heavy, slight? I'd say,
what about his clothes?
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Well, he was wearing a dark blue suit and a
gray overcoat. The right sleeve of both would be empty
because his right arm and shoulder and a cast.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Uh huh a traffic accident.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Yes, both were fractured. I wish I were able to
be more help but I've told you everything I know.
He just vanished.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Did he Did he have any enemies that you know of?
Speaker 4 (05:02):
No, there's not even that. I can't let myself lose hope.
But what can we do? How do you start looking
for somebody with so little to go on?
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Before I answered the question, we started at the beginning again.
The second run through was pretty much like the first,
But disappearance from a foreign ship in the port of
New York is not as easy as the telling of it.
I left the troubled marsha checked into an eighth floor
room in the Brighton Arms, where a phone call told
me the north Fleet had already sailed. No hope of
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information there, so I headed for the US Customs office.
Good afternoon, it's a Nixon yesh. My name is Dollar.
I'm an insurance investigator. The girl outside said you could
help me. I'd like to get some information on a
passenger who arrived from Alexandria on the north Fleet. In
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north Fleet, Well, i'd have to know o the day
of arrival and the name of the line. It was
four days ago they'd made it. Uh, that would make
it the twentieth It's a British ship in north Fleet. Uh.
What was the passenger's name planted Bruce Lamber the uh
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clarony luggage through customer Bruce slamberd Yump witnessed the examination
of one piece of luggage, suitcase, personal effects, one piece
of statu where he purchased in Alexandria and no duty.
Uh what address did he give you, Bruce Lambert?
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (06:38):
No street number? A hotel the Brighton arm right now, Well,
don't count on that expense account item two thirty dollars,
which would my id cod helped him press the cab
drivers who worked the entrance to the pier where the
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north Fleet at docked. Checking these caves took the whole afternoon,
and midway through it, I realized I wasn't the only
one interested in that particular hackstand. I wasn't sure at
what moment I had actually noticed him. He was doing
a very bad job of hiding behind a journal American
on the other side of the street. All I could
see was the lower half of an overcoat, the same
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of some razor sharp trousers with some pointed shoes. But
I began to feel his eyes looking at me as
I went on with my questioning that finally paid off
through the mouth of driver number seven eighty two.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
You know, you meet all canes in this business. Some
you forget and some others you remember.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Now, well, do you remember a guy with his arm
and shoulder in a cast?
Speaker 6 (07:46):
And something you learn in this business that's to read
people's faces. You get to know a deadbeat before he
gets a chance to dead beat you, and you catch
on if the guy is scared of something.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Well, if he was afraid of something, it's not me.
He's been reported missing by his sister. I've been hired
to find him. How much is ten bucks by? You know?
Speaker 6 (08:09):
Maybe he don't want to be fouled, Is that what
you think? Sure he paid me more to climb up
than you often.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
I've got more. What are you going to do with him?
I want to talk to him. I want to find
out if he's all right. If he wants to stay lost,
that's his business, not mine. I was twenty five.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
Get in, my boy, get very far from here.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Our destination turned out to be an old red brick
hotel near very ninth Street between tenth and eleventh Avenue,
and it occurred to me that as an archaeologist, Lambert
was running through to form. He even used some ruins
to hold up in. One five dollar bill brought the
information from the room clerk that Lambert was out of
his room, and another bought a pass key that let
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me in. The first thing to catch my eye when
I switched down the light was a black piece of
statuary shining dully on a chipped bureau, A crowned head
with exaggerated features, sculptured and obsidian. I posed myself this riddle.
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If it was so valuable, why didn't Lambert take better
care of it? But before I had a chance to
try for the answer, a foot nudged The door opened
behind me. As might be expected, it was wearing a
pointed shoe, and was followed into the room by a
slight yellow ivory skinned band who rather resembled the black statue.
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I must thank you for leaving us to the hiding pace.
Where is he? All that depends on who he's hiding from.
It looks like it's you. Perhaps it is that you
do not know where he is. Yeah, perhaps I followed
your taxi after you talked with those drivers. That was
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very smart. Where did you think I expected you to go?
What's your interest in? Lambert?
Speaker 5 (10:18):
You were employed by the girl to find him. How
much does.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
She pay you? I never talk money with a stranger.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
And perhaps we will not be strangers for long. The
point of importance is that you have not yet found him.
Mister Drummond will pay you two thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
To do so. Mister Drummond is generous, But what makes
you so sure. I haven't found Lambert because he is
not here, but that only means he's someplace else.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
Please, I have no wish for violence.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
And put that thing away. And the first place, gunfire,
even in this neighborhood, is gonna bring the law. The
second place, it's a lady's gun, one of those handbag
jobs you know you ought to be ashamed of yourself
for carrying.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
Please, I have no wish to use it, and get.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Rid of it. I hate little men who try to
play bully. There was more than that behind my fist.
I figured I could learn to know him better if
he was quietly stretched out on the floor. I was
half right. An Egyptian passport told me that his name
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was Ammon Hixas, hometown Alexandria. There was nothing else I
could turn Hixsas over to the police. On an assault charge.
Or I could wait until he woke up and try
knocking some information out of him. But I didn't do either.
I left him there in the lobby. I gave a
message to the room clerk for Lambert, telling him to
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stay out of his room when he came back, and
to phone me at the bright Uns. Who is it, Dollar?
Speaker 4 (12:02):
Oh just a second, he is there? Any news? Did
you learn anything, mister Dollar? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (12:09):
I made some progress. I met Ammon Hixs. You told
me a brother didn't have any enemies. That little Egyptian
is out looking for him with a gun. Why'd you
lie to me?
Speaker 4 (12:19):
I have no right to ask you to believe me now.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
That's so true, But I wish you would.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Please come here and sit down.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Oh no, thanks, You sit there, and I'll stand here.
I I think I'll be less inclined to believe you
from here.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
That's not fair. I know I wasn't fair with you either.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
I won't to be.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
But there are some things I just can't tell you.
Why not I can't tell you that?
Speaker 2 (12:46):
I oh nuts. Women like you make everything tougher than
it should be. You demand all, but you give nothing.
You ask to be trusted and you won't trust. You
make yourselves look soft. When you're as hot as steel.
You've got warmth, but you you only turn it on
when you're get something out of it. You're wrong.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
I was trying to help him or us. I had
to lie.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Look, I started this thing wanting to help you. Uh,
there was something personal about it. But you wanted me
to do things your way and not mind. Well we
just stopped doing that alone.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
Just go away, go back to heart, but forget you
wherever here.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
I wish I could. And I'm working for an insurance
company looking for a missing policyholder. Well, I'll be up
in my room if you decide to help me find it.
Speaker 7 (13:41):
Mm.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Yeah, is this mister Dollar? That's right?
Speaker 3 (14:01):
This is Bruce Lambert. I got your message to call
or are you now? Not so fast? There were two
attempts on my life while I was on my way
here from Alexandria. I'm not anxious to tell anybody where
I am. How did you get into this?
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Marsha called your insurance company when you took a run out.
They hired me. Good for Marcia? Is she all right?
Well that depends on your point of view. I suppose
she's being the helpful sister to you, But for me,
she's done nothing but act mysterious. I don't get it.
You won't tell the truth about you. I hope you
do better.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
She told you she was my sister.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
I'm sure she did. Why shouldn't she.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Oh, I can't see why she do that.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
She isn't your sister.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
I don't understand it. She's my fiance. I don't understand
it at all. Where is she? I better talk to her.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
That's a good idea, Room three seventeen, brighton arms. I'll
be there with her, waiting for you, which, in a
way was how it worked out, except that I waited
for him in the corridor outside her room. I left
Marsha where I found it. She was on the bathroom floor,
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where she died from wounds inflicted by the proverbial blunt instrument,
and where her eyes had died with her.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
In just a moment, we will return to the second
act of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
But first.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
And now, with our star Edmond O'Brien, we returned to
the second act of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Ruse lamba, Yeah, it's alright. I'm Dollar didn't take you
on and get here. Where's your phone from? Just around
the corner bar? Why do you wask where's Marsha? Marsha's dead.
I don't believe you. I wanna go in there. She
isn't dead. Let me in there. Come on, use your
head when ye there's nothing? Oh you're on. I'm sorry. Look,
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you don't wanna go in there. Believe me, you don't.
There's nothing you can do for her. Sh she can't
be dead. She can't be Come on, where? Wh wh why?
I want you to come up to my room with me.
You've gotta do two things. Hurst give me every reason
you can think of why this should have happened. And
then before the police get here, you had better start
rehearsing the story of your own. Now I'm at the
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first hole in marsha stories that she wasn't in thieves
while you were working on your ruins. That's right. I
didn't even know her.
Speaker 8 (17:11):
Then I met her in the hospital in Alexandria after
my accident.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
I was there for two months. You see. She was
my nurse. But she did know about the relics, that
statue and the scarab that I haven't seen. Oh yes, yes,
here it is this is the scarab.
Speaker 8 (17:25):
Oh, yes, she knew we talked about my little deceit.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Well, how little is it really? You talk about two
attempts on your life. Now we have actual murder. You'd
better let me have that scab. Oh yes, yes, of course.
But surely you don't think the relics are at the
bottom of this. They're rare, but not valuable enough for
this unless someone knows more about them than I do.
I doubt that I have made a pharaoh study of
a twelfth dynasty and king Amendem at the third it's
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a carving his head. What do you know about a
man named Ammon Hixas and another whose last name is Drummond.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Hixos Ammon Hixas.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
You know him? Does it ring any canna of a bell?
Speaker 8 (18:00):
No, I I I'm afraid not.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Drummond means nothing. M alright, let's try the two attempts
on your life? What about then?
Speaker 8 (18:09):
Well, h they happened on the nights of the seventeenth
and the eighteenth.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Both of them could have been.
Speaker 8 (18:14):
Accidental, except that, well, the same small man stood near
me both times.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
It would be too much for me to hope you
you could describe him, I said, well if he was dark. Well,
both times I was on the promenade deck and something
heavy was thrown or pushed from the deck above. I
reported the second one, and the ship's officer apologized for
the carelessness. Which you thought enough of it to disappear? Oh, well,
I certainly did instead of going to the police. Yes, oh,
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I suppose it was wrong, but you must understand I
was desperate. Well, we'd better go down to the third floor.
I I hope the police think more of your story
than I do. In twenty minutes, Room three seventeen really
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looked like a murder scene. The place was swarming with
New York's finest white with fingerprint powder, and blinding with
flash flows. The lieutenant to whom I made my statement
looked as if he thought I was as crazy as
I thought everybody else in the mess was. But then
he changed his mind. Holla, hey, where is that insurance stake? Uh? Here,
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I am in the bathroom. Oh there you are all?
Speaker 9 (19:27):
Yeah, find as soon as I noticed something, what'd you
say that name was? I'm in uh uh Hixes? Yeah, Well,
I guess there aren't too many ways to spill that one,
so this must be it. Pill box. Let me see
that prescription from Alexandria.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Doctor, I'm in Hixes.
Speaker 9 (19:44):
We'll put a trace around that phone number you took
off the first thing in the morning.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Yeah, hey, are you gonna take Lambert in for questioning?
Speaker 9 (19:54):
I guess we'd better Routie.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
He's clear as far as I can see. We'll do
something that me. Will it? Have your doctors run a
test of that plastic cast of his and call me
in my room. Huh A test for what I'll just
look it over. It would make a handy blunt instrument,
if nothing else. Expensive gun item three seven fifty A
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few late cocktails, a rare steak, and coffee in the
Brighton Arms dining room, after which I picked up an
armful of extra editions so I could catch up on
what I'd been doing. I self operated my way to
the eighth floor and started toward my room. I was
looking forward to a hot shower, but I didn't get it.
I was still looking forward put into a familiar gun muzzle.
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This is the gun, ayes, mister Della, May I introduce myself,
Sir Garrett Drummond, at your service. Our meeting has been
postponed too long. Well there's a difference of opinion on
that you will please open your door? How can I refuse?
Who's that pine sized invitation you're still carrying after you, sir?
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And I need to remind you that my friend here
is prepared for any rash move up on your part. Look,
I'm tired. I don't have a rash move left in me.
Close the door, emont. I suggest that you sit there,
mister Dollery in that unsightly straight backed chair. Thanks a lot.
And now, sir, I shall plunge right to the point.
There is that scoundrel Bruce Lambert. Well, I think I
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just decided that I don't know. We we have no
wish for violent you always say that with a gun
in your hand. Well, let's get started. You make your pitch,
I'll make my refusal, and we'll see where we go
from there. I have already met what I consider to
be a generous offer for so unimportant a bit of
information as merely the whereabouts of Lambert two thousand dollars.
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But if it will expedite matters, I am prepared to
expand my offer by another thousand. I'm the sponsor, you
bid the greedier, I guess what makes Lambert so important
to the problem which is entirely out of your province?
My boy, how much do you know of Egyptian legend? Sir?
Speaker 4 (22:10):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (22:10):
No, more than a dollar's worth. Pity the fascinating subject, well, Sir, Bruce.
Lambert has in his possession a certain object of great importance,
both culturally and economically. Certain landowners in Egypt hold it
in such high esteem, Sir, that as a reward for
its return to them, they would throw open to exploitation
untapped oil fields, the richness of which would shake the
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very foundations of world economy? Are they shaky enough as
it is? My boy? Think what it would mean to
a civilization fast approaching the depletion of its petroleum sources.
New horizon, Sir, A brave new world. Lambert owes to
us all relinquishment of this object so that it may
serve humanity. You're right, and it may be easier than
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you think. A splendid sir. Where is he? Which relic?
Is it? The black statue your playmate could have picked
up for free? It is king I might have met
scareb that I would discuss with Lambert. I demand to
know where he is. Why waste time on him. I've
got the scarab. I find that most difficult to believe,
mister Dollar. Well, no, no, no, keep your hands away
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from your buckets, Ammon will say to the trouble, Ammon.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
These remains too, mister Dollar.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
My wish is called peaceful, sure right coat pocket, he
speaks truly, Garret here he's the matter, Garret. You don't
have that brave New world look anymore. Ah, I should
be the first to admit so that the lie has
been put to the tail I created upon this useless
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geekll but mister Dollar, now, but we are forced to
fall back upon the truth. I remind you that it
sometimes hurts. Your position has not. But the desk knows.
I'm up here, answered mister Dollar. But be cautious. Unfortunately,
I do not share Ramon's a version to violence.
Speaker 9 (24:08):
Yeah, Dollar, that's right, this is Lieutenant Black. Say was
that a hunch you had about that cast of Lambert's?
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Why do you ask all? If it was? It was
a good one.
Speaker 9 (24:18):
The doctors won't let us take it off, but we
cut into it. It was put on in three layers.
The middle one was wrapped narcotics. Yeah, don't be so
modest dollar, there must be three hundred thousand bucks worth.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Now, sometimes it's a whole month before we get that much.
Speaker 9 (24:35):
Looks like the work of your friend, doctor Ramon Hixsas. Yeah,
I'll wake up dollar. I want to check Lambert's.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Statement with yours.
Speaker 9 (24:42):
I'll have you there in ten minutes.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Goodbye, Okay. I commend you, sir upon your show of intelligence.
Who was it the police they're looking for, Lambert? Oh,
and what did they give as their reason? Narcotics? The
story of a man bound from America who cracked up
in a car, and while he was unconscious of being patched,
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said narcotics were put in his cast by a doctor
Ammon Hixas, probably assisted by a nurse named Marsha. But
there's no proof, Ammon, We who waste no time on evasion. Yes,
we use the boy a courageous scheme, But for that
silly goose of a girl, she was the true conspirator
and the traitor as well. She having a fall in
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love with the guy. Are the romantic Atlantic crossing? An
empty proposal of marriage suddenly becomes more important than actual
coin of the realm. But enough of that, the police
are looking for him and aunt teeth, So am I
very is he? I don't know, Ammon, call his hotel
in thirty ninth Street. No wait, my friend, the police
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must be watching that, are they, mister Dollan, Well, that's
where his personal things are. If I were the police,
I'd be watching. Yes, we seem to find ourselves in
such a position that we must at least pretend to
see ee two eyes. Uh, very well, we shall wait here.
The chips are down, so to speech, Ammon, years gonna
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take the pistol into the bathroom medial with the door
slightly ajar, you shall have a splendid command of the
arena as it were years.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
Got it?
Speaker 2 (26:16):
And remember the stakes are high.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
Yes, get it, and I will remember.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
No, mister Diller, Which seemed that little roommains but to waiting.
The waiting was more than the Drummond settled himself on
the bed and facing the door, his pudgy hands folded
over his bulging waist. I was still in the desk chair,
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facing him as usual. The police were late. Twenty minutes
passed before we heard the knock on the door. You guess,
mister Doller. Come, we shall go to the door together.
Now keep your back to me. It's your party, Drummond,
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come in, Lambert got Lambert.
Speaker 9 (27:10):
The police haven't shooting, I haven't listen down.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Drummond's wound wasn't half as excruciating as his call for help.
The doctor's report that his shoulder will be in a
cast that as soon as the State of New York
can gather a jury, he will stand trial on the
charge of first degree murder. The body of Amen Hicks's
was taken to the mall. As an insurance company, you
are probably less interested in that than in the fate
(27:46):
of your policy holder, Bruce Lambert. That's explained an expense
account item for two hundred and eighty dollars hospital bill
paid in advance in view of the possibility that there
may be others interested in that three hundred thousand dollar
cash of narcotics. He has to carry around with him
until his arm is okay. I thought it would be
safer to keep him under wraps. Oh, by the way,
(28:10):
while he was lying there helpless, I sold him a
policy for you covering the scab and that carved head.
Expense account total four hundred and fifty six dollars and
ninety cents. Yours truly Johnny Dolla.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar stars Edmund O'Brien in the title
role and is written by Paul Dudley and Gildawd with
music by Leith Stevens. Edmund O'Brien can currently be seen
starring in Harry M. Popkins United Artists Production DA. Featured
in our cast were Virginia Gregg, Janevello, Ed Begley, John
Dayner and Pat mcgeon. Yours Truly Johnny Dollar is produced
(29:02):
and directed by Hime del Vai. Join us again next
week when Edmund O'Brien returns in another adventure of.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Fifty four thousand dollars is burning a little old hole
in that little old jackpot of singing again this week,
just waiting for somebody to light up the right answer
and drop the cash and prizes in his lap or
her lap. Dan Seymour gives the gals the same chance
he gives the fellas when he starts putting in those
calls from coast to coast. So be listing this Saturday
(29:53):
when sing it again and the fifty four thousand dollars
phantom boys come your way. On most of these same
CBS station. This program was transcribed in Hollywood, Roy Rowan speaking,
this is CBS where yours truly. Johnny Dollar meets Adventure
every Friday night the Columbia Broadcasting System
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