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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Time.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Now for Rocky Jordan, There's nothing I like better than
a good game of poker, and I get tired of
always drawing the straits that never filled. You have to
keep throwing your chips on the table. Only the last
card pays off if you're lucky enough to get it.
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This time I had to fill my straight.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
The stakes were too high.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Again, we bring you a story of adventure with Rocky Jordan,
proprietor of the Cafe Tambourine, which stands in a narrow
street off Cairo's Naked Quarter, within sight of the Mosque
Sultan Hassan. The Cafe Tambourine crowded with forgotten men from
the world's waterfronts, alive with the babble of many languages.
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Now Rocky Jordan and Tonight's story ace high Straight.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I had spent half the night before in a poker game,
and I always kept drawing the straits that didn't fill. Finally,
I cast in what chips I had left, wrote out
an IOU for plenty, and went on to the Tambourine
to pad. Even in my sleep, I kept drawing the
inside straits and outside straits that never filled. I got
up late the next morning, and knowing my gambling friend
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would soon be around for his dough, I took a
bag of money out of the safe in my office.
I just sat down at my desk to count it
out when Chris, my bartender, came in.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Hey, Rocky, a guy named Jack wants to talk to
you on the front pay phone.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Jack, who I don't know?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
You said, Jack wants to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Yeah, you said that. Why do you call me in
the payphone?
Speaker 5 (02:00):
I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I give him your office number.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
It smart thinking, Chris, do that.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
Sure, Rockey.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Oh, and there's a man been asking to see out front.
I told him he was busy.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
What's his name?
Speaker 6 (02:10):
Just the Queen?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Jack and Queen?
Speaker 6 (02:14):
Not bad?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
But the first two cards cards, Rocky, skip it. I
still got poker in the brain.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Do you want me to send him away?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
I'll see what he wants. Man as well, take the
phone call when I'm out there. I want you the
money on my desk to I get back in.
Speaker 7 (02:32):
Bringing.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
As I stepped out into the cafe, it sounded like
business was starting a little earlier. A big voice came
from the big mouth of a swozen, well dressed Egyptian
sitting at the rear end of the bar. I sidetracked
over his way.
Speaker 8 (02:47):
I will not be great this way, I dimand respect.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
What is amount of job?
Speaker 8 (02:51):
Bring him for me?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Right on tap, mister, Oh, name's Rocky Jordan. I own
the tambourine. What's the trouble?
Speaker 8 (02:57):
Big trouble everything?
Speaker 9 (02:58):
So I asked, what food or what do they bring me?
Speaker 10 (03:01):
Garbage?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Especially now?
Speaker 9 (03:03):
Drinks on abominable? Where is your bottender? The service is unspeakable?
Speaker 2 (03:07):
And try the hotel shepherd? Why like I'm slumming here?
Speaker 9 (03:09):
Oh you are insulting. Do you know who I am?
Speaker 5 (03:12):
I am Tom and King ever.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Heard of you? Take my advice and get some sleep?
Is the no chann.
Speaker 9 (03:19):
I will show you what I think of the cafe cambrine.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Okay, Kingpin, now we go bye bye?
Speaker 8 (03:25):
Come on stop it for your hand off me.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
I am w I twisted.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Tom and King's arm behind him, escorted in the full
length of the bar out the front door and to
scot at him with a shoved two doors down. He retreated,
still shouting incests. I brush my hands and strolled back
into the cafe. This routine. I was about to take
the call on a payphone when a smiling man of
uncertain nationality and thick glasses stepped up.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
But are you mister Jordan? Yeah, ah, I am mister Queen,
Milton Queen.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Oh sure, I've forgotten about you.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
I am a visitor in your city, mister Jordan, A chance,
a quaint and say, mister Willowby told me to look
you up when I came to Cairo.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Willoby, well, have a good time.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Oh, thank you. I am to meet my nephew, Junior Queen.
You should be here now. We are especially interested in
the mosques of Cairo. Could you direct me to the
Sultan Hassan.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Right down the street. I've got a phone call waiting.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
So well, just one more thing. Perhaps you can also
tell me how to get to the Mosque Azad.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Sorry I lost my tourist book.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Did you know the Mosque Lazars the first non Egyptian
use of the pointed arch? Interesting, very very.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Look what you need a guide? You'll final least three
hiding behind every lamp post.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
Oh yes, perhaps you are right, but you, being a
resident here, my friend suggested that you might.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Excuse me that phone call.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
Oh of course, thank you very much, mister Jordan.
Speaker 8 (04:58):
You have been most kind.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
I dragged myself away from Queen and went over to
the payphone. Whoever Jack was, he must have gotten tired
of waiting and hung up. I didn't blame him. Before
the smiling tourist with the thick glasses could buttonhold me again,
I headed for my office. I couldn't help thinking how
well my poker hand was filling out Jack, a queen,
and now a king. Then I opened the office door,
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lying face down on the floor and ugly umped the
size of an ostrich egg. Just behind his left ear
was Chris, my bartender. The money was gone from the desk,
and the back door of the alley swung open. I
ran out into the alley and up to the narrow
side street. There was no one inside except a Native woman.
Her somber brown eyes gave me a startled look. She
quickly drew a veil over her face and limped away.
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I've been around Carol long enough to know not to
look at a native woman twice. So I got back
to the office, and while the help tried to bring
Chris to his senses, I called the police and reported
the robbery. It took six pitchers of water and a
gin sling, but Chris finally sat up.
Speaker 6 (06:02):
Hey, hey, Rocky, you all right me?
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Of course, I am Chris. What happened?
Speaker 1 (06:08):
I don't know?
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Oh, come on, you gotta remember I left you here
to want some money in my desk.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Huh Oh yeah, Well I heard the yelling out front,
so I thought you needed help.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
So I put the.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Money in the safe. The safe, sure, and I heard
somebody come in the door behind me. I stood up
and somebody grabbed me. I stepped back on somebody's foot.
I think hard.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Did you see who it was?
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (06:31):
I guess that's when I got slugged.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
You're sure you put the money in the safe?
Speaker 6 (06:35):
I hate it there.
Speaker 10 (06:36):
I'm gonna have a look, Rocky.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Oh what do you know?
Speaker 2 (06:49):
The money was all there, every sentiment. We had a
look around the office, but so far as we could tell,
nothing had been touched. There was a knock at the door,
but before I could answer, and walked Sergeant Breco Carol Police,
the usual sour look on his face. What's this all about,
mister Jordan Greco? Where's Captain Sapia.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
Captain Siah is busy. He sent me to get the
details of the robbery.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Sorry to disappointed Grego, but it was all a mistake
one moment.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
I must make a full report.
Speaker 6 (07:15):
Now.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
How much money was involved?
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Oh, a few hundred pounds more or less. It's all here,
and what has been going on here? Nothing forget it.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
We do not take sluggings so lightly, mister Jordan.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Chris stumble over his own foot or somebody didn't like
his ugly face. Those things happen around here.
Speaker 6 (07:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
I didn't get a chance to turn around.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
But please, I will question you one at a time.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Look, Grego, I'll put in a good word for you
to sap and if you'll.
Speaker 7 (07:37):
Just now, mister Jordan, did you strike No, I told
you there's no complaint. For the last time, I would
take it. Get away from that phone, greg Go, it's
for me, st Greco speaking. Oh oh Captain Spire, Yes, yes,
oh by all means sir, Yes, yes, Jordan is here.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Yeah, I'll take it.
Speaker 7 (07:55):
He is not at all cooperative, so yes, yes, yes, sir,
I will ask him.
Speaker 9 (08:00):
Of course.
Speaker 7 (08:00):
Of course you can't depend on me completely. I will
handle everything at once.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Don't hang up that phone. Let me talk to you, Jordan.
What it's a buyer want?
Speaker 5 (08:11):
Jordan, when did you last see Ace Warner?
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Don't tell me I drew an ace. Answer my question,
I I uh played poker with him about three o'clock
this morning. Remind me not to send him a greeting
card this year?
Speaker 9 (08:23):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Oh you want a little too easily, I thought, but
I asked for it. I'll pay him off.
Speaker 7 (08:28):
You want Jordan's ace. Warner was just found in his casino,
shot to death.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Maybe somebody will give me a black time for Christmas.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
I believe you are on a forty five caliber automatic, Jordan.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Look, Grego, you can do better than that.
Speaker 7 (08:41):
I am instructed to conduct their routine investigation.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
Let me see the gun.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Okay, I keep in my desk drawer. I haven't touched
it in six weeks. Well Jory, yeah, Greco, and you'll
find my fingerprints on it.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Having fun, Greco.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
There's not been fired recently.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
A disappointed?
Speaker 6 (09:02):
Now what is in this other drugs?
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Recose drawers? I get a search warrant?
Speaker 9 (09:08):
Another gun?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
George, how did that get there? Let me see it?
Don't touch it? Mm hmm.
Speaker 7 (09:16):
A definite smell of cord died, two shells missing. This
automatic has been fired within the last twelve hours. Shall
plan if I ever saw I would deliver this gun
to Captain Sabaiah for his inspection, and under the circumstances,
you Jordan will accompany me to the Cairo jail.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Rocky Jordan will be back in just a moment. Remember
over your CBS station every Sunday night you'll hear not
only Rocky Jordan, but Sam Spade, Dashall Hammett's Great Private
Eye and The Whistler, one of the most popular shows
on the air. Remember this half hour each Sunday evening
is the time for Rocky Jordan. Now back to tonight's story,
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Ace High Street.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
I was well on my way to an Ace High
Street a phone call from a guy named Jack who
didn't wait for me to answer, allowed Egyptian named King,
and a smiling tourist named Queen, and finally a murdered
gambler named Ace. I wondered when the ten would show
up to fill my straight. It was no secret that
Ace Warner had my iou for plenty of money won
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on a poker game the night before. But when a
forty five automatic recently fired turned up in my desk drawer,
I was taking a headquarters. Captain Sam Sabaya sent the
gun to Ballistics two doors down kept me in his armors.
Speaker 11 (10:52):
Jordan, I had hoped there would someday be a murder
in Cairo in which you were not involved.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Just keep trying, Sam.
Speaker 11 (10:59):
Now you were about to give me one of your
fantastic theories.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Nothing fantastic about it. The killer knew I owed Ace
Warner too much dough after the poker game last night,
so he planted his gun in my desk to throw
the blame on me.
Speaker 11 (11:11):
You seem quite certain that gun killed Ace Warner.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
What's your right is?
Speaker 5 (11:15):
Never mind?
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Go on?
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Somebody contrived to get me out of my office while
his accomplice entered it from the alley. He didn't count
on finding Chrystal. Where was I?
Speaker 12 (11:27):
Calm yourself, Jordan, Ballistics must fire the gun to compare bullets.
Jordan's supposing you are right, can you suggest who contrived
to get you out of your office?
Speaker 2 (11:38):
It could be any one of three. Somebody named Jack
called me on the front payphone just before this happened, Jack,
who I don't know. By the time I answered, he'd
hung up. Then a swarthy Egyptian named Tom and King
started a phony one man riot in the cafe. I
had to throw him out.
Speaker 8 (11:52):
Tom King and the third.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Then after I got rid of k Sam how many times?
So they have to go on. Jordan and a tourist
with thick glasses named Milton Queen button holed me at
the door. I had trouble getting rid of him. Any
one of those three could have given the accomplished plenty
of time to get in the alley door to my off.
Speaker 11 (12:12):
One moment, so I speaking, you are sure, no, no,
not at present?
Speaker 6 (12:21):
That will be all.
Speaker 11 (12:23):
Caught him out, Sam, Jordan Ace Warner was killed with
the gun found in your desk drawer. Surprised and I
suppose you continue your story all of it.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
I told you everything, Sam, how about talking to Chris
for one thing? He thinks he stepped on somebody's foot.
Speaker 11 (12:39):
He's a big fire, heavy statement, Jordan, I will release
you for the President.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
In the meantime, let me so, Jaid.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
I gave up a weekend of my country estate. Sure, Sam,
I'll stay in Cairo watch me. I got out quick
before Sam had changed his mind and was on my
way back to the tambourine. Now all I had to
do was find a handspot to fill my straight I
also wanted a better look at a couple of cards
named King and Queen. As I walked into my cafe,
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Chris nodded his head painfully toward a man sitting in
the front table. The man got up and drooped his
way toward me like an underfed dog with its tail
between its legs. The Egyptian one man, Riot, Tom and King.
Speaker 13 (13:21):
Mister Jordan, I've been waiting to see you get the
glasses off the bar.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Chris.
Speaker 9 (13:25):
Oh please, mister Jordan, I want to apologize.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Why didn't you bring your whole card with you? I
don't understand your help her who delivered the gun? Mister Jorton,
I am afraid you are confused. I created a disturbance
here this morning. My actions were inexcusable. I could phrase
it a different way.
Speaker 13 (13:42):
You see, I had been drinking all night. There have
been things on my mind like murder. Oh please, worries
why I came to the tambourine.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
I do not know a lot of people wonder then,
mister Jorton, I am a respectable person. It's one man's opinion.
Speaker 13 (13:58):
You can understand why I would not want a discreaseful
affair like this to reach the papers. I did considerable
damage I wish to pay for everything.
Speaker 9 (14:08):
Would one hundred pounds be sufficient?
Speaker 2 (14:11):
One hundred that's your last office.
Speaker 9 (14:14):
I realized that I am in no bargaining position.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Well, then give me your card. I'll send you an
itemized bill, a very kind and mister children, and you
will tell Noah, Well that depends. Keep in touch with me. King.
He handed me his card and backed out the door,
bowing all the way. I asked Chris if the guy
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named Jacket called again.
Speaker 8 (14:40):
He hadn't.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
There was a chance I could learn something about Ace
Warner to help me find my ten. So I taxied
over to his gambling john on the other side of
town alone. Policeman was on guard out front, but he
let me in. One of ass boys was in a
back room testing a roulette wheel a Maxine.
Speaker 6 (14:57):
Hell higher Rock watch your thirteen to watch it see thirteen.
What'd I tell you?
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Yeah, I say, works something like that poker game I
was in last night.
Speaker 6 (15:07):
Uh yeah, Rock, Sorry about that. We had to fix
the clean out a couple of the other boys. They
had some tricks too. There was too much dough on
the table.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Ace couldn't afford you no aces dead.
Speaker 6 (15:16):
Yeah twenty three this time watch it.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
What do you know about the killing?
Speaker 6 (15:20):
I turn your rock he watch it now? Twenty three
killing her twenty three?
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Just like I said, come on, what do you know
about the killing?
Speaker 6 (15:28):
Nothing in rock, not a thing?
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Who was enemies? Who's the angel behind this affair?
Speaker 6 (15:31):
Ain't you? It's funny how you know?
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Know what?
Speaker 6 (15:35):
That was his girlfriend? He'smatterring in France at someplace. Quite
a dish, Rocky. He was getting rid of her dough
Why he got most of anything? She's too jumpy, scared
her husband's show up.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
You know what the husband's name was?
Speaker 6 (15:49):
And see now I forgot for I do.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
I remember, Maxie? Was it King? Maybe?
Speaker 6 (15:55):
King? Yeah? King? That's it? Now?
Speaker 2 (15:57):
You know I didn't where's Angela? These days?
Speaker 6 (16:00):
I had no idea.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Hey wait, Rock's sorry, Maxie. Time for the next deal.
Things were beginning to jail now, and I still needed
a tend to fill my straight. I figured i'd find
it back to back with a king Tom and King
had given me his address down toward the river on
the other side of the bazaar. It takes a taxi
all day to get through the bazaar, so I walked. Ordinarily,
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I like to take in the bazaar, get a kick
out of his snake charmers always play a little louder
when a tourist walked by. I tossed a tanned musician
a couple of fiasts, and I saw a familiar looking
veiled Native woman coming up from behind. She limped like
the one I saw on the Science Street off the
tambourine that morning. I wasn't sure she saw me, so
I dodged into a pooth and waited for it to pass.
Speaker 8 (16:46):
There. You like my rug?
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Yeah, sure, but not this time.
Speaker 6 (16:49):
Only two Egyptian pounds offendy for this feeler beeh, not interested?
Speaker 7 (16:53):
Sorry, I see you bargain whale af indy only for
you one pound.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Look, I got a rug now, don't bother the fenda.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
You will ruin me half a pound and forty pas.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
I'm not buying anything.
Speaker 6 (17:02):
Go very well of joy for uf ending half a
pound north less, not a million, lest.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Wit Wa'll come back. By the time I got out
of the booth and shook the excited peddler off, a
veil Native woman was way down the street. I thought
I saw a turn in somewhere. I wasn't sure. Anyhow,
I couldn't have followed her like I said, foreigner doesn't
look at a veiled woman twice every values his life.
So I hurried on down the street. As I passed
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an open air cafe, I changed my course again, another
one of my cards. It turned up. He sat at
a secluded table sipping tea. Across from him side a shy,
brown eyed boy of uncertain age. I went up to
the table.
Speaker 14 (17:45):
Why by, mister Jordan, mister Milton, Queen, I believe this,
This is a pleasure, and may I present my nephew,
junior Queen.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
How do you do, sir?
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Yes, we met, we had by.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
Oh no, I was to meet him this morning, but
he had not arrived when I talked to you.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Oh yeah, yeah, of course.
Speaker 5 (18:05):
A logical mistake.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Ever play poker, mister queen.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
Poker. No, no, I'm so sorry. It's so kind of
you to invite me. I just thought you might know
Ace Warner Warner Ace, No, no, I'm afraid not. But
I would enjoy meeting him. There are so many many
friendly people in Cairo. Oh, mister Jordan, I must confess
a very foolish mistake.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
You must.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
You will recall I said the Moscow as Art was
the first Egyptian example of the pointed arch.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
I was wrong.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
It was the Ahmed Ibn Toulon, stupid of me.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
But thank nothing of its queen. You too, Junior, goodbye, sir.
Oh won't you have some tea?
Speaker 5 (18:51):
But ask mister Jordan tea?
Speaker 2 (18:53):
No, no, thanks kills the taste of the lemon. Because
I left the table, I wondered why. I said I
had met Junior before. I thought I had a good
memory for faces. Well, I found Tom and King's address,
a large brownstone modern apartment house, but King wasn't in.
The clerk said he'd been out most of the day.
I waited around the lobby for a while and stepped
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into a phone both and called the tambourine by tambourine, Chris,
this is Rocky. That fellow named Jackie had called me back.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Oh, I never did, but somebody else called. Oh, I
don't know, hey bo survey alright, just a minute, you said,
if you wanted to find Angel, try ten Dahabier and Habier.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
What else?
Speaker 8 (19:40):
That's all?
Speaker 1 (19:41):
I hung up.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Great, now you can do something, what Rocky hang up? Well,
it looked like I finally had that ten to fill
my ace. I straight I remember the paddle streamers along
the nile are known as Dahabia's And I thought again, smike,
little houseboats anchored along the nile, I call the same
thing if I've been at walk from King's place took
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me to do hobby at number ten. I walked up
the narrow, on ing covered gang plank that led to
the little deck and knocked at the door.
Speaker 8 (20:16):
Who is it?
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Names Jordan?
Speaker 7 (20:18):
I don't want to see anyone.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Wit Sorry, blue eyes, I got to talk to you.
Speaker 10 (20:24):
Who did you say you were, Rocky Jordan?
Speaker 2 (20:26):
I was a friend of Ace Warner's. Oh well, how
did you find me here? Oh? Just fill the straight
and there you were.
Speaker 9 (20:34):
I don't understand straight.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
Oh will?
Speaker 7 (20:39):
If you mean you want a drink, it's on the side,
Kevin is go ahead.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Thanks, I believe I will.
Speaker 8 (20:46):
I'm sorry I wouldn't get it for you. But you
see my foot?
Speaker 6 (20:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (20:52):
I noticed.
Speaker 8 (20:53):
Why Why did you come here, mister.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Jordan to uh find your husband?
Speaker 5 (21:00):
My husband?
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Did you know you had one?
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Well?
Speaker 2 (21:04):
I have not seen him since I left board Doux.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
You had better go, mister Sjutan.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Oh sure, but the next time you see mister King
tell him, I said alone, mister King, who is he
isn't that his name? I don't know what you're talking about.
Now kindly get out of here. I'm going Oh one
more question, Angel, what happened to your foot? A camel
stepped on it? It seemed almost too easy, But just
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in case Sam Sabai I hadn't already found the answer,
I figured i'd throw in my two bits, so at
the nurse payphone, I put in a hurry up called
the headquarters. Captain Sam's rocky.
Speaker 8 (21:46):
Well, Georgian, you did stay in, Cayer.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
I'll make it short and sweet in case you still
want to know who killed Ash Warner.
Speaker 8 (21:52):
You mean you can tell me all wrapped up neat.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Like a package from Santa Claus. Try a man named
Tom and King at eleven fourteen fingall.
Speaker 8 (21:59):
Play, Jordan, I have already talked to me.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
And next look up a blue eyed beauty named Angel.
Or didn't you know Tom and King was her husband?
Speaker 8 (22:07):
VC's news Jordan.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
All right, added up Sam. While King got me out
of my office at the Tambourine with his drunk act,
Angel put the gun on my desk. She still has
a sore foot.
Speaker 8 (22:15):
That lovely creature knocked grease out.
Speaker 9 (22:17):
Well.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
She had to then made her get away disguised as
an Arab woman.
Speaker 8 (22:21):
Maybe ridiculous, Jordan, how do you explain I am?
Speaker 2 (22:23):
If I figure this any father, you'd have to put
me on your payroll. Come on, better be on your
way from there on. It was Sam's baby ten Dahabier
did it. My first four cards had been people instead
of a house address, but I was satisfied. I found
myself walking back through the bazaar, and this time I
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was enjoying it. I slowed down to listen to the
tattered bega musician. I was about to put in a
request for the Saint Louis blues when I saw her again,
right behind me, this time still following me. The Faale
native woman limped, but this time I figured I knew
who she was. She hesitated, her somber brown eyes flicked
my way, then she quickened her pace and went on by.
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I stood there, puzzled. Then it hit me. My house
of cards collapsed like a tent and a sandstorm. Rocky Jordan,
the prize sucker of Cairol. Sure I figured it just
enough to leave a girl named Angel at the mercy
of a killer. You get another murder wrap pend On me.
This time, I didn't dare let the veiled woman get
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out of sight again. I turned and started after him.
Three natives eyed me suspiciously and fell in behind. She
saw me coming and limp faster. Then she began running
so that I and with every step I picked up
another native bent on Mayhew.
Speaker 8 (23:39):
The we went a.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Veiled woman, followed by me, followed by a pack of mousms,
right through the Bazaarre Cairol.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
Rocky Jordan returns in a matter of seconds with the
ending of tonight's story. Here's the note of importance to
you listeners who like top flight adventure mysteries. Rocky Jordan
joined Sam Spade and The Whistler to make this CBS
threesome the best mystery adventure listening on the air. Remember
that this is the time you will hear Rocky Jordan
(24:14):
every Sunday night, and you'll want to hear too. Sam
Spade and the Whistler top notch mystery on CBS. Now
for the ending of tonight's story, Ace high Straight.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
If you're ever in Carl and crave excitement, try following
a bailed woman. You'll get it. I did better than that.
I chased this woman of a dead run, past the
beggars and the snake charmers and the street vendors of
the trial of bazaar. A pack of natives on my tail.
We're beginning to close in. One big boy tried to
plot my pants and pull him over and gather street again.
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I'd picked up free blocks and thirty more natives when
I caught her. She gave me quite a touch of
p the turn around, turn around and face him. Oh
my coming off quick and everything. Look her over, folks,
She's not a native, and she's.
Speaker 8 (25:10):
Not a woman.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
He's uncle's little nephew, Junior Queen. Right then, the cop
in the corner kept pushing through the crowd. I turned
Junior Queen over door him for safe keeping and gave
him a message for Sabay. Within two minutes, the pack
of natives had faded away like a snowman in the
desert well. I kept moving backtracked through the bazaar, grabbed
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a roving taxi and directed it to Dahaby at ten
on the double. We got there in record time. I
hit the pier, running, crossed it and went up the
canopy gangplank and led to angels his little houseboat on
the aisle. I didn't stop to knock. He seems I
was just in time.
Speaker 5 (25:51):
Closed the door, mister Jordan.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
And lock it.
Speaker 5 (25:53):
This is most convenient.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
I see I found another gun.
Speaker 10 (25:57):
Queen.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Yes, I know a Maxi's memory was bad. Your husband's
name is queen, not king. Yes, natural mistake. Now that
you not makes no difference. Naturally you kill Aswarna, and
he wants to kill me.
Speaker 5 (26:12):
You rat and I will. Her husband doesn't appreciate his
wife leaving him, especially when she takes his last sentence
gives to a no good gambler.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Now you kill him and plan at the gun in
my office. And he sent me here to Angel's planning
to kill her after I left. You were a little slow, Queen.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
Not at all, Jordan. Now that you are here, it
will be even more simple. I don't know why.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
You came back now, just to clear up a mistake, Queen.
I thought Angel's address filled my straight I was wrong.
I should have known. I was holding the joker all
the time, very wild joker.
Speaker 8 (26:43):
Joker.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Yeah, Junior, Queen, your shy little nephew.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
He he is not my nephew.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
No, no, no, You hired him to disguise himself as a
native woman, knowing I wouldn't dare follow him. He planned
at the gun at my desk, but when the buyer
released me, you had Junior keep up the mask of
raid and tail me just in King.
Speaker 5 (26:59):
Now quite well, Jordan, what comes next?
Speaker 2 (27:02):
When you introduced me to Junior in the bazaar, I
was sure i'd seen that brown eyed face before I
finally remembered it was the face on the native woman
on the side street off my cafe this morning. Junior
was careless with his veil.
Speaker 5 (27:13):
I will reprimand you the police will enjoy such an
incredible story, Jordan, after they find Angel dead and know
that you have been here, iad Queen, shoot it, get
it over with. What you what are you saying?
Speaker 8 (27:29):
Please?
Speaker 2 (27:29):
What do you think Sam Sabay has been doing since
he talked to Junior?
Speaker 5 (27:32):
Good Junior?
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Where is he locked up in the Carrol jail? No,
the police know everything, Queen. Your doubt may look out
the front window.
Speaker 8 (27:40):
Oh I don't you.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
It's an old trick, but it worked. As Queen turned
toward the front, I reached out, knocked off his thick
class or. He whirled and started firing blindly. I grabbed
over the floor but the bullets didn't hit anywhere nearse.
Just then, Sam Sabah started planning on the front door.
The Queen dropped the gun ran through the back room.
The last I saw him, he was disappearing through an
open Wentywhere.
Speaker 6 (28:01):
O Dardan you here?
Speaker 8 (28:06):
Where's Milton? Queen?
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Get out your water wings? Sam? Nothing went for a swim.
Speaker 5 (28:10):
Creco yet after him, But Captain I cannot swim.
Speaker 11 (28:12):
It is an order, Crego.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
All right, don't worry, Grego. It's only three feet deep.
You'll find queen among the bulrushes.
Speaker 8 (28:18):
Now, Jordan, about Angel issue.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
No, she's not dead, she's passed out. I must have
stepped on my sore foot when I pulled her down.
Speaker 6 (28:26):
Yeah, yes, she's suffering only mile shock. You know.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
That's something I'm still trying to figure out. Sam. How
did she hurt that foot?
Speaker 8 (28:35):
Her foot?
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Jordan?
Speaker 8 (28:36):
Why?
Speaker 6 (28:37):
I received a full report on the accident yesterday?
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Eh? What happened?
Speaker 8 (28:42):
A camel stepped on it?
Speaker 4 (29:07):
Rocky Jordan is presented from Columbia Square in Hollywood and
stars Jack Moyles in the title role. Tonight's story was
written by Gohmer Cool and was produced and directed by
Cliff Powell with original music by Milton Charles. This is CBS,
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the Columbia Broadcasting System.
Time.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Now for Rocky Jordan, There's nothing I like better than
a good game of poker, and I get tired of
always drawing the straits that never filled. You have to
keep throwing your chips on the table. Only the last
card pays off if you're lucky enough to get it.
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This time I had to fill my straight.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
The stakes were too high.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Again, we bring you a story of adventure with Rocky Jordan,
proprietor of the Cafe Tambourine, which stands in a narrow
street off Cairo's Naked Quarter, within sight of the Mosque
Sultan Hassan. The Cafe Tambourine crowded with forgotten men from
the world's waterfronts, alive with the babble of many languages.
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Now Rocky Jordan and Tonight's story ace high Straight.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I had spent half the night before in a poker game,
and I always kept drawing the straits that didn't fill. Finally,
I cast in what chips I had left, wrote out
an IOU for plenty, and went on to the Tambourine
to pad. Even in my sleep, I kept drawing the
inside straits and outside straits that never filled. I got
up late the next morning, and knowing my gambling friend
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would soon be around for his dough, I took a
bag of money out of the safe in my office.
I just sat down at my desk to count it
out when Chris, my bartender, came in.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Hey, Rocky, a guy named Jack wants to talk to
you on the front pay phone.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Jack, who I don't know?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
You said, Jack wants to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Yeah, you said that. Why do you call me in
the payphone?
Speaker 5 (02:00):
I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I give him your office number.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
It smart thinking, Chris, do that.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
Sure, Rockey.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Oh, and there's a man been asking to see out front.
I told him he was busy.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
What's his name?
Speaker 6 (02:10):
Just the Queen?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Jack and Queen?
Speaker 6 (02:14):
Not bad?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
But the first two cards cards, Rocky, skip it. I
still got poker in the brain.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Do you want me to send him away?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
I'll see what he wants. Man as well, take the
phone call when I'm out there. I want you the
money on my desk to I get back in.
Speaker 7 (02:32):
Bringing.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
As I stepped out into the cafe, it sounded like
business was starting a little earlier. A big voice came
from the big mouth of a swozen, well dressed Egyptian
sitting at the rear end of the bar. I sidetracked
over his way.
Speaker 8 (02:47):
I will not be great this way, I dimand respect.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
What is amount of job?
Speaker 8 (02:51):
Bring him for me?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Right on tap, mister, Oh, name's Rocky Jordan. I own
the tambourine. What's the trouble?
Speaker 8 (02:57):
Big trouble everything?
Speaker 9 (02:58):
So I asked, what food or what do they bring me?
Speaker 10 (03:01):
Garbage?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Especially now?
Speaker 9 (03:03):
Drinks on abominable? Where is your bottender? The service is unspeakable?
Speaker 2 (03:07):
And try the hotel shepherd? Why like I'm slumming here?
Speaker 9 (03:09):
Oh you are insulting. Do you know who I am?
Speaker 5 (03:12):
I am Tom and King ever.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Heard of you? Take my advice and get some sleep?
Is the no chann.
Speaker 9 (03:19):
I will show you what I think of the cafe cambrine.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Okay, Kingpin, now we go bye bye?
Speaker 8 (03:25):
Come on stop it for your hand off me.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
I am w I twisted.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Tom and King's arm behind him, escorted in the full
length of the bar out the front door and to
scot at him with a shoved two doors down. He retreated,
still shouting incests. I brush my hands and strolled back
into the cafe. This routine. I was about to take
the call on a payphone when a smiling man of
uncertain nationality and thick glasses stepped up.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
But are you mister Jordan? Yeah, ah, I am mister Queen,
Milton Queen.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Oh sure, I've forgotten about you.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
I am a visitor in your city, mister Jordan, A chance,
a quaint and say, mister Willowby told me to look
you up when I came to Cairo.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Willoby, well, have a good time.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Oh, thank you. I am to meet my nephew, Junior Queen.
You should be here now. We are especially interested in
the mosques of Cairo. Could you direct me to the
Sultan Hassan.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Right down the street. I've got a phone call waiting.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
So well, just one more thing. Perhaps you can also
tell me how to get to the Mosque Azad.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Sorry I lost my tourist book.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Did you know the Mosque Lazars the first non Egyptian
use of the pointed arch? Interesting, very very.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Look what you need a guide? You'll final least three
hiding behind every lamp post.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
Oh yes, perhaps you are right, but you, being a
resident here, my friend suggested that you might.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Excuse me that phone call.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
Oh of course, thank you very much, mister Jordan.
Speaker 8 (04:58):
You have been most kind.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
I dragged myself away from Queen and went over to
the payphone. Whoever Jack was, he must have gotten tired
of waiting and hung up. I didn't blame him. Before
the smiling tourist with the thick glasses could buttonhold me again,
I headed for my office. I couldn't help thinking how
well my poker hand was filling out Jack, a queen,
and now a king. Then I opened the office door,
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lying face down on the floor and ugly umped the
size of an ostrich egg. Just behind his left ear
was Chris, my bartender. The money was gone from the desk,
and the back door of the alley swung open. I
ran out into the alley and up to the narrow
side street. There was no one inside except a Native woman.
Her somber brown eyes gave me a startled look. She
quickly drew a veil over her face and limped away.
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I've been around Carol long enough to know not to
look at a native woman twice. So I got back
to the office, and while the help tried to bring
Chris to his senses, I called the police and reported
the robbery. It took six pitchers of water and a
gin sling, but Chris finally sat up.
Speaker 6 (06:02):
Hey, hey, Rocky, you all right me?
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Of course, I am Chris. What happened?
Speaker 1 (06:08):
I don't know?
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Oh, come on, you gotta remember I left you here
to want some money in my desk.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Huh Oh yeah, Well I heard the yelling out front,
so I thought you needed help.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
So I put the.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Money in the safe. The safe, sure, and I heard
somebody come in the door behind me. I stood up
and somebody grabbed me. I stepped back on somebody's foot.
I think hard.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Did you see who it was?
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (06:31):
I guess that's when I got slugged.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
You're sure you put the money in the safe?
Speaker 6 (06:35):
I hate it there.
Speaker 10 (06:36):
I'm gonna have a look, Rocky.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Oh what do you know?
Speaker 2 (06:49):
The money was all there, every sentiment. We had a
look around the office, but so far as we could tell,
nothing had been touched. There was a knock at the door,
but before I could answer, and walked Sergeant Breco Carol Police,
the usual sour look on his face. What's this all about,
mister Jordan Greco? Where's Captain Sapia.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
Captain Siah is busy. He sent me to get the
details of the robbery.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Sorry to disappointed Grego, but it was all a mistake
one moment.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
I must make a full report.
Speaker 6 (07:15):
Now.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
How much money was involved?
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Oh, a few hundred pounds more or less. It's all here,
and what has been going on here? Nothing forget it.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
We do not take sluggings so lightly, mister Jordan.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Chris stumble over his own foot or somebody didn't like
his ugly face. Those things happen around here.
Speaker 6 (07:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
I didn't get a chance to turn around.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
But please, I will question you one at a time.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Look, Grego, I'll put in a good word for you
to sap and if you'll.
Speaker 7 (07:37):
Just now, mister Jordan, did you strike No, I told
you there's no complaint. For the last time, I would
take it. Get away from that phone, greg Go, it's
for me, st Greco speaking. Oh oh Captain Spire, Yes, yes,
oh by all means sir, Yes, yes, Jordan is here.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Yeah, I'll take it.
Speaker 7 (07:55):
He is not at all cooperative, so yes, yes, yes, sir,
I will ask him.
Speaker 9 (08:00):
Of course.
Speaker 7 (08:00):
Of course you can't depend on me completely. I will
handle everything at once.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Don't hang up that phone. Let me talk to you, Jordan.
What it's a buyer want?
Speaker 5 (08:11):
Jordan, when did you last see Ace Warner?
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Don't tell me I drew an ace. Answer my question,
I I uh played poker with him about three o'clock
this morning. Remind me not to send him a greeting
card this year?
Speaker 9 (08:23):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Oh you want a little too easily, I thought, but
I asked for it. I'll pay him off.
Speaker 7 (08:28):
You want Jordan's ace. Warner was just found in his casino,
shot to death.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Maybe somebody will give me a black time for Christmas.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
I believe you are on a forty five caliber automatic, Jordan.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Look, Grego, you can do better than that.
Speaker 7 (08:41):
I am instructed to conduct their routine investigation.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
Let me see the gun.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Okay, I keep in my desk drawer. I haven't touched
it in six weeks. Well Jory, yeah, Greco, and you'll
find my fingerprints on it.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Having fun, Greco.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
There's not been fired recently.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
A disappointed?
Speaker 6 (09:02):
Now what is in this other drugs?
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Recose drawers? I get a search warrant?
Speaker 9 (09:08):
Another gun?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
George, how did that get there? Let me see it?
Don't touch it? Mm hmm.
Speaker 7 (09:16):
A definite smell of cord died, two shells missing. This
automatic has been fired within the last twelve hours. Shall
plan if I ever saw I would deliver this gun
to Captain Sabaiah for his inspection, and under the circumstances,
you Jordan will accompany me to the Cairo jail.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Rocky Jordan will be back in just a moment. Remember
over your CBS station every Sunday night you'll hear not
only Rocky Jordan, but Sam Spade, Dashall Hammett's Great Private
Eye and The Whistler, one of the most popular shows
on the air. Remember this half hour each Sunday evening
is the time for Rocky Jordan. Now back to tonight's story,
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Ace High Street.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
I was well on my way to an Ace High
Street a phone call from a guy named Jack who
didn't wait for me to answer, allowed Egyptian named King,
and a smiling tourist named Queen, and finally a murdered
gambler named Ace. I wondered when the ten would show
up to fill my straight. It was no secret that
Ace Warner had my iou for plenty of money won
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on a poker game the night before. But when a
forty five automatic recently fired turned up in my desk drawer,
I was taking a headquarters. Captain Sam Sabaya sent the
gun to Ballistics two doors down kept me in his armors.
Speaker 11 (10:52):
Jordan, I had hoped there would someday be a murder
in Cairo in which you were not involved.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Just keep trying, Sam.
Speaker 11 (10:59):
Now you were about to give me one of your
fantastic theories.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Nothing fantastic about it. The killer knew I owed Ace
Warner too much dough after the poker game last night,
so he planted his gun in my desk to throw
the blame on me.
Speaker 11 (11:11):
You seem quite certain that gun killed Ace Warner.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
What's your right is?
Speaker 5 (11:15):
Never mind?
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Go on?
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Somebody contrived to get me out of my office while
his accomplice entered it from the alley. He didn't count
on finding Chrystal. Where was I?
Speaker 12 (11:27):
Calm yourself, Jordan, Ballistics must fire the gun to compare bullets.
Jordan's supposing you are right, can you suggest who contrived
to get you out of your office?
Speaker 2 (11:38):
It could be any one of three. Somebody named Jack
called me on the front payphone just before this happened, Jack,
who I don't know. By the time I answered, he'd
hung up. Then a swarthy Egyptian named Tom and King
started a phony one man riot in the cafe. I
had to throw him out.
Speaker 8 (11:52):
Tom King and the third.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Then after I got rid of k Sam how many times?
So they have to go on. Jordan and a tourist
with thick glasses named Milton Queen button holed me at
the door. I had trouble getting rid of him. Any
one of those three could have given the accomplished plenty
of time to get in the alley door to my off.
Speaker 11 (12:12):
One moment, so I speaking, you are sure, no, no,
not at present?
Speaker 6 (12:21):
That will be all.
Speaker 11 (12:23):
Caught him out, Sam, Jordan Ace Warner was killed with
the gun found in your desk drawer. Surprised and I
suppose you continue your story all of it.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
I told you everything, Sam, how about talking to Chris
for one thing? He thinks he stepped on somebody's foot.
Speaker 11 (12:39):
He's a big fire, heavy statement, Jordan, I will release
you for the President.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
In the meantime, let me so, Jaid.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
I gave up a weekend of my country estate. Sure, Sam,
I'll stay in Cairo watch me. I got out quick
before Sam had changed his mind and was on my
way back to the tambourine. Now all I had to
do was find a handspot to fill my straight I
also wanted a better look at a couple of cards
named King and Queen. As I walked into my cafe,
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Chris nodded his head painfully toward a man sitting in
the front table. The man got up and drooped his
way toward me like an underfed dog with its tail
between its legs. The Egyptian one man, Riot, Tom and King.
Speaker 13 (13:21):
Mister Jordan, I've been waiting to see you get the
glasses off the bar.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Chris.
Speaker 9 (13:25):
Oh please, mister Jordan, I want to apologize.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Why didn't you bring your whole card with you? I
don't understand your help her who delivered the gun? Mister Jorton,
I am afraid you are confused. I created a disturbance
here this morning. My actions were inexcusable. I could phrase
it a different way.
Speaker 13 (13:42):
You see, I had been drinking all night. There have
been things on my mind like murder. Oh please, worries
why I came to the tambourine.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
I do not know a lot of people wonder then,
mister Jorton, I am a respectable person. It's one man's opinion.
Speaker 13 (13:58):
You can understand why I would not want a discreaseful
affair like this to reach the papers. I did considerable
damage I wish to pay for everything.
Speaker 9 (14:08):
Would one hundred pounds be sufficient?
Speaker 2 (14:11):
One hundred that's your last office.
Speaker 9 (14:14):
I realized that I am in no bargaining position.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Well, then give me your card. I'll send you an
itemized bill, a very kind and mister children, and you
will tell Noah, Well that depends. Keep in touch with me. King.
He handed me his card and backed out the door,
bowing all the way. I asked Chris if the guy
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named Jacket called again.
Speaker 8 (14:40):
He hadn't.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
There was a chance I could learn something about Ace
Warner to help me find my ten. So I taxied
over to his gambling john on the other side of
town alone. Policeman was on guard out front, but he
let me in. One of ass boys was in a
back room testing a roulette wheel a Maxine.
Speaker 6 (14:57):
Hell higher Rock watch your thirteen to watch it see thirteen.
What'd I tell you?
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Yeah, I say, works something like that poker game I
was in last night.
Speaker 6 (15:07):
Uh yeah, Rock, Sorry about that. We had to fix
the clean out a couple of the other boys. They
had some tricks too. There was too much dough on
the table.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Ace couldn't afford you no aces dead.
Speaker 6 (15:16):
Yeah twenty three this time watch it.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
What do you know about the killing?
Speaker 6 (15:20):
I turn your rock he watch it now? Twenty three
killing her twenty three?
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Just like I said, come on, what do you know
about the killing?
Speaker 6 (15:28):
Nothing in rock, not a thing?
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Who was enemies? Who's the angel behind this affair?
Speaker 6 (15:31):
Ain't you? It's funny how you know?
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Know what?
Speaker 6 (15:35):
That was his girlfriend? He'smatterring in France at someplace. Quite
a dish, Rocky. He was getting rid of her dough
Why he got most of anything? She's too jumpy, scared
her husband's show up.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
You know what the husband's name was?
Speaker 6 (15:49):
And see now I forgot for I do.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
I remember, Maxie? Was it King? Maybe?
Speaker 6 (15:55):
King? Yeah? King? That's it? Now?
Speaker 2 (15:57):
You know I didn't where's Angela? These days?
Speaker 6 (16:00):
I had no idea.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Hey wait, Rock's sorry, Maxie. Time for the next deal.
Things were beginning to jail now, and I still needed
a tend to fill my straight. I figured i'd find
it back to back with a king Tom and King
had given me his address down toward the river on
the other side of the bazaar. It takes a taxi
all day to get through the bazaar, so I walked. Ordinarily,
(16:25):
I like to take in the bazaar, get a kick
out of his snake charmers always play a little louder
when a tourist walked by. I tossed a tanned musician
a couple of fiasts, and I saw a familiar looking
veiled Native woman coming up from behind. She limped like
the one I saw on the Science Street off the
tambourine that morning. I wasn't sure she saw me, so
I dodged into a pooth and waited for it to pass.
Speaker 8 (16:46):
There. You like my rug?
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Yeah, sure, but not this time.
Speaker 6 (16:49):
Only two Egyptian pounds offendy for this feeler beeh, not interested?
Speaker 7 (16:53):
Sorry, I see you bargain whale af indy only for
you one pound.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Look, I got a rug now, don't bother the fenda.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
You will ruin me half a pound and forty pas.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
I'm not buying anything.
Speaker 6 (17:02):
Go very well of joy for uf ending half a
pound north less, not a million, lest.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Wit Wa'll come back. By the time I got out
of the booth and shook the excited peddler off, a
veil Native woman was way down the street. I thought
I saw a turn in somewhere. I wasn't sure. Anyhow,
I couldn't have followed her like I said, foreigner doesn't
look at a veiled woman twice every values his life.
So I hurried on down the street. As I passed
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an open air cafe, I changed my course again, another
one of my cards. It turned up. He sat at
a secluded table sipping tea. Across from him side a shy,
brown eyed boy of uncertain age. I went up to
the table.
Speaker 14 (17:45):
Why by, mister Jordan, mister Milton, Queen, I believe this,
This is a pleasure, and may I present my nephew,
junior Queen.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
How do you do, sir?
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Yes, we met, we had by.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
Oh no, I was to meet him this morning, but
he had not arrived when I talked to you.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Oh yeah, yeah, of course.
Speaker 5 (18:05):
A logical mistake.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Ever play poker, mister queen.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
Poker. No, no, I'm so sorry. It's so kind of
you to invite me. I just thought you might know
Ace Warner Warner Ace, No, no, I'm afraid not. But
I would enjoy meeting him. There are so many many
friendly people in Cairo. Oh, mister Jordan, I must confess
a very foolish mistake.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
You must.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
You will recall I said the Moscow as Art was
the first Egyptian example of the pointed arch.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
I was wrong.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
It was the Ahmed Ibn Toulon, stupid of me.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
But thank nothing of its queen. You too, Junior, goodbye, sir.
Oh won't you have some tea?
Speaker 5 (18:51):
But ask mister Jordan tea?
Speaker 2 (18:53):
No, no, thanks kills the taste of the lemon. Because
I left the table, I wondered why. I said I
had met Junior before. I thought I had a good
memory for faces. Well, I found Tom and King's address,
a large brownstone modern apartment house, but King wasn't in.
The clerk said he'd been out most of the day.
I waited around the lobby for a while and stepped
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into a phone both and called the tambourine by tambourine, Chris,
this is Rocky. That fellow named Jackie had called me back.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Oh, I never did, but somebody else called. Oh, I
don't know, hey bo survey alright, just a minute, you said,
if you wanted to find Angel, try ten Dahabier and Habier.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
What else?
Speaker 8 (19:40):
That's all?
Speaker 1 (19:41):
I hung up.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Great, now you can do something, what Rocky hang up? Well,
it looked like I finally had that ten to fill
my ace. I straight I remember the paddle streamers along
the nile are known as Dahabia's And I thought again, smike,
little houseboats anchored along the nile, I call the same
thing if I've been at walk from King's place took
(20:05):
me to do hobby at number ten. I walked up
the narrow, on ing covered gang plank that led to
the little deck and knocked at the door.
Speaker 8 (20:16):
Who is it?
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Names Jordan?
Speaker 7 (20:18):
I don't want to see anyone.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Wit Sorry, blue eyes, I got to talk to you.
Speaker 10 (20:24):
Who did you say you were, Rocky Jordan?
Speaker 2 (20:26):
I was a friend of Ace Warner's. Oh well, how
did you find me here? Oh? Just fill the straight
and there you were.
Speaker 9 (20:34):
I don't understand straight.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
Oh will?
Speaker 7 (20:39):
If you mean you want a drink, it's on the side,
Kevin is go ahead.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Thanks, I believe I will.
Speaker 8 (20:46):
I'm sorry I wouldn't get it for you. But you
see my foot?
Speaker 6 (20:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (20:52):
I noticed.
Speaker 8 (20:53):
Why Why did you come here, mister.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Jordan to uh find your husband?
Speaker 5 (21:00):
My husband?
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Did you know you had one?
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Well?
Speaker 2 (21:04):
I have not seen him since I left board Doux.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
You had better go, mister Sjutan.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Oh sure, but the next time you see mister King
tell him, I said alone, mister King, who is he
isn't that his name? I don't know what you're talking about.
Now kindly get out of here. I'm going Oh one
more question, Angel, what happened to your foot? A camel
stepped on it? It seemed almost too easy, But just
(21:34):
in case Sam Sabai I hadn't already found the answer,
I figured i'd throw in my two bits, so at
the nurse payphone, I put in a hurry up called
the headquarters. Captain Sam's rocky.
Speaker 8 (21:46):
Well, Georgian, you did stay in, Cayer.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
I'll make it short and sweet in case you still
want to know who killed Ash Warner.
Speaker 8 (21:52):
You mean you can tell me all wrapped up neat.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Like a package from Santa Claus. Try a man named
Tom and King at eleven fourteen fingall.
Speaker 8 (21:59):
Play, Jordan, I have already talked to me.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
And next look up a blue eyed beauty named Angel.
Or didn't you know Tom and King was her husband?
Speaker 8 (22:07):
VC's news Jordan.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
All right, added up Sam. While King got me out
of my office at the Tambourine with his drunk act,
Angel put the gun on my desk. She still has
a sore foot.
Speaker 8 (22:15):
That lovely creature knocked grease out.
Speaker 9 (22:17):
Well.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
She had to then made her get away disguised as
an Arab woman.
Speaker 8 (22:21):
Maybe ridiculous, Jordan, how do you explain I am?
Speaker 2 (22:23):
If I figure this any father, you'd have to put
me on your payroll. Come on, better be on your
way from there on. It was Sam's baby ten Dahabier
did it. My first four cards had been people instead
of a house address, but I was satisfied. I found
myself walking back through the bazaar, and this time I
(22:45):
was enjoying it. I slowed down to listen to the
tattered bega musician. I was about to put in a
request for the Saint Louis blues when I saw her again,
right behind me, this time still following me. The Faale
native woman limped, but this time I figured I knew
who she was. She hesitated, her somber brown eyes flicked
my way, then she quickened her pace and went on by.
(23:06):
I stood there, puzzled. Then it hit me. My house
of cards collapsed like a tent and a sandstorm. Rocky Jordan,
the prize sucker of Cairol. Sure I figured it just
enough to leave a girl named Angel at the mercy
of a killer. You get another murder wrap pend On me.
This time, I didn't dare let the veiled woman get
(23:27):
out of sight again. I turned and started after him.
Three natives eyed me suspiciously and fell in behind. She
saw me coming and limp faster. Then she began running
so that I and with every step I picked up
another native bent on Mayhew.
Speaker 8 (23:39):
The we went a.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Veiled woman, followed by me, followed by a pack of mousms,
right through the Bazaarre Cairol.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
Rocky Jordan returns in a matter of seconds with the
ending of tonight's story. Here's the note of importance to
you listeners who like top flight adventure mysteries. Rocky Jordan
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every Sunday night, and you'll want to hear too. Sam
Spade and the Whistler top notch mystery on CBS. Now
for the ending of tonight's story, Ace high Straight.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
If you're ever in Carl and crave excitement, try following
a bailed woman. You'll get it. I did better than that.
I chased this woman of a dead run, past the
beggars and the snake charmers and the street vendors of
the trial of bazaar. A pack of natives on my tail.
We're beginning to close in. One big boy tried to
plot my pants and pull him over and gather street again.
(24:53):
I'd picked up free blocks and thirty more natives when
I caught her. She gave me quite a touch of
p the turn around, turn around and face him. Oh
my coming off quick and everything. Look her over, folks,
She's not a native, and she's.
Speaker 8 (25:10):
Not a woman.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
He's uncle's little nephew, Junior Queen. Right then, the cop
in the corner kept pushing through the crowd. I turned
Junior Queen over door him for safe keeping and gave
him a message for Sabay. Within two minutes, the pack
of natives had faded away like a snowman in the
desert well. I kept moving backtracked through the bazaar, grabbed
(25:33):
a roving taxi and directed it to Dahaby at ten
on the double. We got there in record time. I
hit the pier, running, crossed it and went up the
canopy gangplank and led to angels his little houseboat on
the aisle. I didn't stop to knock. He seems I
was just in time.
Speaker 5 (25:51):
Closed the door, mister Jordan.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
And lock it.
Speaker 5 (25:53):
This is most convenient.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
I see I found another gun.
Speaker 10 (25:57):
Queen.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Yes, I know a Maxi's memory was bad. Your husband's
name is queen, not king. Yes, natural mistake. Now that
you not makes no difference. Naturally you kill Aswarna, and
he wants to kill me.
Speaker 5 (26:12):
You rat and I will. Her husband doesn't appreciate his
wife leaving him, especially when she takes his last sentence
gives to a no good gambler.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Now you kill him and plan at the gun in
my office. And he sent me here to Angel's planning
to kill her after I left. You were a little slow, Queen.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
Not at all, Jordan. Now that you are here, it
will be even more simple. I don't know why.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
You came back now, just to clear up a mistake, Queen.
I thought Angel's address filled my straight I was wrong.
I should have known. I was holding the joker all
the time, very wild joker.
Speaker 8 (26:43):
Joker.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Yeah, Junior, Queen, your shy little nephew.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
He he is not my nephew.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
No, no, no, You hired him to disguise himself as a
native woman, knowing I wouldn't dare follow him. He planned
at the gun at my desk, but when the buyer
released me, you had Junior keep up the mask of
raid and tail me just in King.
Speaker 5 (26:59):
Now quite well, Jordan, what comes next?
Speaker 2 (27:02):
When you introduced me to Junior in the bazaar, I
was sure i'd seen that brown eyed face before I
finally remembered it was the face on the native woman
on the side street off my cafe this morning. Junior
was careless with his veil.
Speaker 5 (27:13):
I will reprimand you the police will enjoy such an
incredible story, Jordan, after they find Angel dead and know
that you have been here, iad Queen, shoot it, get
it over with. What you what are you saying?
Speaker 8 (27:29):
Please?
Speaker 2 (27:29):
What do you think Sam Sabay has been doing since
he talked to Junior?
Speaker 5 (27:32):
Good Junior?
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Where is he locked up in the Carrol jail? No,
the police know everything, Queen. Your doubt may look out
the front window.
Speaker 8 (27:40):
Oh I don't you.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
It's an old trick, but it worked. As Queen turned
toward the front, I reached out, knocked off his thick
class or. He whirled and started firing blindly. I grabbed
over the floor but the bullets didn't hit anywhere nearse.
Just then, Sam Sabah started planning on the front door.
The Queen dropped the gun ran through the back room.
The last I saw him, he was disappearing through an
open Wentywhere.
Speaker 6 (28:01):
O Dardan you here?
Speaker 8 (28:06):
Where's Milton? Queen?
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Get out your water wings? Sam? Nothing went for a swim.
Speaker 5 (28:10):
Creco yet after him, But Captain I cannot swim.
Speaker 11 (28:12):
It is an order, Crego.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
All right, don't worry, Grego. It's only three feet deep.
You'll find queen among the bulrushes.
Speaker 8 (28:18):
Now, Jordan, about Angel issue.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
No, she's not dead, she's passed out. I must have
stepped on my sore foot when I pulled her down.
Speaker 6 (28:26):
Yeah, yes, she's suffering only mile shock. You know.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
That's something I'm still trying to figure out. Sam. How
did she hurt that foot?
Speaker 8 (28:35):
Her foot?
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Jordan?
Speaker 8 (28:36):
Why?
Speaker 6 (28:37):
I received a full report on the accident yesterday?
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Eh? What happened?
Speaker 8 (28:42):
A camel stepped on it?
Speaker 4 (29:07):
Rocky Jordan is presented from Columbia Square in Hollywood and
stars Jack Moyles in the title role. Tonight's story was
written by Gohmer Cool and was produced and directed by
Cliff Powell with original music by Milton Charles. This is CBS,
(29:29):
the Columbia Broadcasting System.
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