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It's time now for Edmund O'Brien as.

Johnny Dollar.

I'll harper at Corinthian.

Johnny, I got a case here you won't like, but the commission will be good if we beat it.

How big is the policy?

Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars?

But you'll have to apply to Hong Kong.

Hey, you still haven't scared me?

Al?

Is there something you're leading out?

Yeah?

The policy holder Transpacific Import Export Company.

We've had trouble with them before.

Remember, Yeah, I send flowers to the widow.

You want to take a crack at it?

No, but I will.

Edmund O'Brien, in another transcribed adventure, The Man with the Action Packed Expense Account America's Fabulous Freelance Insurance Investigators.

Yours truly, Johnny Dollar.

Expense account submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar, two Home Office, Corinthian Liability and Risk, Hartford, Connecticut.

The following is an accounting of.

My expenditure during investigation of the Trans Pacific Import Export.

Company South China Branch expense account.

Einem won twelve hundred.

Dollars fair and incidental expenses between Hartford and Hong Kong, I realized three minutes after I got off the plane that there is no longer any simplicity in Hong Kong.

To fill the smallest one is a complicated problem.

There is a.

Shortage of transportation, food, water, and space.

Both the island and the city of Kowloon on the mainland have been swamped by the flood of millions of refugees moving.

Out of the interior.

I fought my way through the jam streets under the offices of the American counsil.

Oh.

Yes, true, life is very difficult here.

Where are they all going?

Many of them don't know?

Where is it affording to go?

Well?

What do they do?

How do they stay alive?

Many of them don't.

Yes, the gentleman from the States, Oh, yes, sir, mister Dallar, Yes, sir mister Grover is ready to speak with you.

Thank you as Connecticut.

Eh it sounds for it.

I suppose it were.

It's a pleasure.

Miss He'll sure it's a destigation.

Eh, it's.

All.

I don't suppose my problem will seem very important now here.

Yeah, I was thinking very same thing.

It's it's always the case.

On the fringe of war, very few individual problems are important, nor are the individuals themselves.

I trust you will keep that in mind while you are here.

And now what is your errand the Transpacific Import Export Company?

Oh yes, yes, will Meadows firm on the mainland destroyed by fire last month one dred percent according to the claim he sent the company that hired me two hundred thousand dollars.

Do you know this William Meadows.

I've met him at the American Club now and again.

The company isn't satisfied with the report on the cause of that fire.

It was blamed on vandalism.

Vandalism has become quite a popular pastime across in Kolon especially.

I take it you suspect fraud.

On Transpacific had a branch in Shanghai.

When the war closed in on them.

Up there, the same thing happened.

They came out far better by collecting on the insurance than they would have by standing the expense of liquidating.

I suppose coincidence won't quite do, Willard, What do you want from this office dollar?

I'd appreciate some phone calls or letters that would get me some support from the fire brigade and the police.

So we're back to the individual problem.

Yeah, but I'll do the best I care.

Thank you, mister Govin.

I won't take up any more of your time.

Let me know how you make out.

Oh had you found a place to stay?

No?

Not Janet?

Well don't father?

Were the accidental places?

They're jammed?

Would speak with my receptionist, mister Vadrus.

Yeah, I saw on the way in a vadress.

I thought she was Chinese half her father's Portuguese.

Here's accommodations about halfway up the peak on Singuang.

Charming girl, nice people.

Oh good, I'll ask and thanks again.

Oh dollar, Just a matter of interest, the case in Shanghai.

You say the insurance company was forced to meet the claim.

There, that's right.

The investigator Asanova was killed before he could build a case.

They blamed his death on more conditions too, said he was robbed a knife by starving refugees.

Nobody had time to dig up the truth.

Sing Wang is a street of steps that climbed from the waterfront to the plush European residences on top of Victoria Peak.

My accommodations were a room that looked out on a narry an iron bed, a chair, and a pitcher of water on a bamboo table.

There were no other non orientals in the building, but I seem to be the only one that noticed it.

I was suffering from a sort of claustrophobia and loneliness that night, and at first I was glad to learn it was she.

Who knocked at my door.

If you were comfortable, Oh, thank you, I am now, this is fine.

I don't have much to offer you, SIGRed Scotch, No.

Thank you.

I came because I am curious.

I'm in Hong Kong on business.

And that's what you mean.

It's better kept confidential right now?

Is it danger in this business?

Why do you ask that?

Because you were followed here?

You are being watched, you know.

Oh, I know this street.

I've seen this meant he has not been here before.

Where is it?

Maybe you can see him from a window.

Wait a minute, you tell me where he is.

I'll look shop.

On the other side.

The box is pile near the door.

Well, thanks for telling me about Do you know who he is?

No, I didn't think anybody knew I was in town.

Let's talk about something else.

What is that?

Music is a love song.

There's about two lonely people who meet near a river.

Oh, in America, they're different.

Yes, I know I liked him.

You know many Americans.

Yes, I want to marry one.

He's a lucky American.

Oh no, I don't mean there's only one.

I want to marry an American who would take me from China.

There's no other way.

You hate it that much.

There's nothing else to do.

But he did.

There's no good, always trouble.

Chinese are very patient people, but I am not all Chinese.

I can't make myself be patient any longer.

I want to go.

What about your Portuguese people?

They are gone.

You think I am bad to be this way?

Only three I didn't say that.

I am not bad.

I hope you find your American newsvaders.

You want need to go now.

I think you're better.

I'll see you tomorrow.

Yes, good night.

Three things interfered would sleep that night A watcher who is still at the station across the street when I turned out my life, the fleeting in the eyes of the girl, and the smells and sounds that drifted into me from the restless.

Crowded city.

There was four am before I dropped off, and at ten I was walking up the gravel drive that led to the residence of mister William Meadow.

The watcher had changed, but I was still being followed.

Oh ya saw mister Meadow at home.

Oh your saw, you will give them.

My name is Dollar, mister Meadow.

I'm from Corinthian Liability, Hartford office.

Well, so they said, another snoop.

Let the man limb, you'll come in.

What did you say?

Your name was Dolla.

What's the matter with that company?

Anyway?

This doesn't have to be unpleasantness to They sit.

Back there in Hartford with nothing to worry about but Sunday's golf game.

They don't know anything about the conditions we're working in there.

They do know that your fire here pretty much follows the pattern of the one in Shanghai.

Of course it does.

The conditions are the.

Same, including the starming refugees who killed and robbed the investigator.

Careless people are dying here every day.

And I'll say what you have to say to me and get out of here.

Well, it's very little.

I came here to get my reaction to you.

I have you jumped to the conclusion you were under suspicion before I got through the door.

You're on the defensive, so you must have a reason to be and more important, you are having me followed, So you must be afraid of me.

Have your dreams dollar but out of someplace else.

I get out of here, go Snoop through the ashes.

They're cold.

Expensing gun item too, approximately four dollars American taxi and rich show affairs.

Legwork is strenuous enough in a familiar city and Hong Kong.

It took me the whole afternoon to locate three people who had worked in the office of the Trans Pacific Company.

The first was Franklin Abatt, accountant.

Please find enclosed transcript of his statement signed before witnesses.

Well, I didn't give a thought to how it's starting to tell you the truth.

I just went to work on there.

It was ashes.

Had they made any preparations?

They're going out of business?

No.

How about the rest of the firms in that section, it was all closing.

We might just as well have There wasn't no tried.

But still they hadn't moved any of their merchandise.

That's right.

The storehouse was full as.

Well as your books were destroyed to Oh yes, sir, everything went.

It must have been a vicious place.

How about the other companies they them burned out.

No, huh, I hadn't thought of that.

The other storehouse is over there, the empty ones.

There wasn't no vandals burning them.

The people broke in and lived in them separately.

The other enclosed statements aren't very strong evidence either, the night watchman who was discharged just before the night of the fire and the clerk who had seen William Meadow burning a confidential memo from Transpacific's head office in San Francisco.

But with the three together in my hand, I could begin to see a case building against them.

I was dog tired that night when I climbed the steps of my Sing Wong Street to my hotel.

What are you doing in here?

Nothing wrong?

I came to wait for you.

Why because I am curious, Because I thought of you today.

I wondered where you weren't what you thought?

Because I was so bold last night.

I've been busy.

You didn't think.

Yes, I thought she still watching a different one, but still watching?

Are you writing?

I don't know.

It's nerve wracking.

I haven't followed all day.

Are you a criminal?

Mm hmm, no, but you're right, I'm acting like one because I feel uneasy in your.

City, and I'm trying to do a job another man tried to do in Shanghai and got himself killed.

Why do we not asking any more?

If that hadn't happened, I could take you someplace tonight, I'd be with people.

I can't take a chance.

I have to stay here in my room and hide.

Oh.

I don't want to go anywhere are because.

If I can keep myself alive, I might be able to save two hundred and fifty thousand dollars for a company with fifty million and declared assets.

Now, let's talk about you.

I'm glad you waited for me.

I think the toughest part of the case was the memory of the murder of that.

Other insurance investigator in Shanghai.

I made every group of Hong Kong Chinese potential assassins, and every doorway or potential andbush gathering the actual evidence almost easy.

The next afternoon, with.

A supervisor from one of the fire brigades, I went to the scene of the fire on the outskirts of Cooloun's.

Actually mister Dollar.

Under the present circumstances here in China, arson can hardly be crossed as crime in the face of war, destruction of material is a common defensive maneuver.

I see what you mean, unless, of course, criminal intent can be proved, and even then with an American pyramids rock.

Or awkward, prosecution will be up to you people.

What I want is evidence that will stand up and caught against their claim in the company.

How do you think the fire started to inside the structure without a doubt and by means of apparatus, one would hardly find in the position of common bandits.

What timing devices?

You have proof of this?

We recovered fragments chess or can I get photographs of these things and sworn statements from you?

He is?

Certainly it's a place to be of service to you, ye.

Expenser con item three approximately forty five dollars American a case of Scotch, and knew of payment for the photo lab and clerical work the supervisor and as men did for me.

By the time we were through the company at least was protective pictures and photostats of all the statements had been posted to the heart that often.

It was well after nine that night when.

I started to climb toward the hotel, and I noticed that for the first time since I checked.

In I wasn't being followed.

I took it for a good omen until I got there and saw the man who should have.

Been following me standing inside the door.

I said, away from a medical man I don't pot for.

But she's don't miss me.

She go to him aside, she went or my quiet, don.

Quiet done?

I say, what's this?

What are you doing at the open?

Did you lose me?

Crying on con police?

It's been probably a mister Dallas.

What happened?

His daughter has been killed?

Shop, she's in your room.

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Shots were fired through the window, shade was drawn.

She must have been right in front of it.

Light behind her.

How well did you know her just for a couple of days?

A jealous suitor?

Perhaps she was beautiful?

How come you were following me?

Constable orders direct from the Inspector General.

Request came from a mister Grover at the American Consulate, said you needed protection, and then you know better than to mention a jealous suitor.

She was killed because with only a shadow behind that shade, they thought it was me.

Where were you when it happened?

I was waiting for you outside Brigade headquarters when I heard about it.

When did it happen?

No, moan, fifteen minutes ago?

Fifteen minutes.

Why couldn't we have been here?

Fifteen too late to bother yourself with what might have happened.

Besides, it's not the same as it would have been if she was a British name.

Shut up?

Thank you?

Take me down.

Herelutenano, Superintendano, whoever he is of I'll make my statement of him.

Yes, Oh is Ukraine?

Good evening, sir, This is the American Chapanister Dollar.

Oh yes, yes, Superintendent Claide, pleasure to meet you, sir, Thank you.

I want to make a statement on the Vader's shooting.

Vadru I don't think it's got to you yet, sir.

What with all of them these days?

Chinese girl fathers are Portuguese.

Hey, she, you're in possession of information pertaining to this case, mister dollar information.

I know who's guilty.

I'm not sure who fired the gun, but an American national named William Meadow is guilty.

Mightn't stop me.

She was killed in my room.

She was killed because she was mistaken for me.

I've been here three days collecting evidence of attendant insurance brought against Meadow, and that's why she was killed, because they mistok her for me.

He's got to be a arrested tonight.

Good lord, sir.

I can't trace a man under arrest on the basis of a statement like that, certainly not an American.

I have proof of a motive here.

The evidence of fraud is right there, photographs, statements.

Look at him, beg your pardon, sir.

It was a Chinese girl who was killed by mistake.

Rather difficult to prove.

I'm afraid she was in my room.

My dear Chap, do you have proof that this this Meadow fellow knew where you lived, which room was yours?

Oh?

How do you approve things like that.

Unfortunately, there are certain niceties of jurisprudence which we must respect, right or wrong.

Sir, I'm convinced of your sincerity.

I appreciated.

That's good.

If you help me look up the phone number of mister Grover's home, I have to see him.

Constable Crane will help you and see you safely there.

This why sap, mister Dollar, your evidence, you've forgotten it.

Well, it's too weak to make you believe me.

I don't need it anymore.

Yeah, here we are, sir.

Will he be with mister Grover along?

I don't know always did in the john get a breath of it?

Beeffully off the tize.

Oh, come in, come in.

It's dreadful news.

You heard it, yes, yes, terrible shock.

Come in here for your brandy.

Did you hear about my part of it?

No?

No, just just a bad tale.

The father was hysterical.

Oh, I tell him it's the Grover.

This thing is driving me crazy.

It's my four she's dead.

Here, my boy.

We got to know each other.

Pretty well during those two days.

I don't know quite how it happened.

This has been a bad job for the nerves.

With my mind on what happened to the man in Shanghai.

She was there and I got there yesterday after a bad day.

I didn't know who was following me.

I guess I needed somebody to be with, so she stayed for a while.

Tonight she was waiting for me in the room.

That's why she was killed.

They thought it was me.

You're sure of this.

I'm positive, as sure as if i'd had a camera on the whole thing.

But I can't move the police.

It's not enough that they have to be cautious.

Look, something's got to be done.

I can't have it left like this.

I can't come into a life for two days and be responsible for her death and then see nothing done.

I'm afraid it's too late to accomplish anything.

Tonight in the morning, when I was thinking, look clear, stop it.

Stop it, will you?

You're not going to tell me to go back to that room.

I'm sorry you see I at least am muddled.

Of course you can stay here.

Oh I didn't mean that.

I I'd rather try.

To think this thing out by myself.

How can I get rid of that constable?

I'm liable to kill him as I hear anymore of his cheery words a simply where he's going.

Place just wore.

I'll let you out by the rear door.

If you want to rest, please come back here all right, I will, and please be careful.

It's not too wise to be on the streets at night anymore.

It's a picture i'll never walk out of my mind, the girl who had wanted to leave China, lying with her head on one arm, as though.

She were asleep.

I don't think I knew I would when I left Drover, but I did go back to the hotel and enter the room.

Her body was gone, but there were chalk marks on the floor where she lay.

I transferred an automatic from my luggage to a coat pocket, and I walked some more.

Meadow, who is the dollar?

I was here yesterday?

Let me in?

You wait?

Oh hello, miss Metal, you're not here?

Not sure you wait?

He's not here, Miss He's not there here.

Meadow, not here?

You come back?

Where is he?

He said?

He come back two three days.

I gotta find him.

If you know where he is, tell me, oh, no, he come back.

Listen.

I don't want to hurt you, you understand, do not?

I will hurt if I don't find out where he is.

It's important.

All he go coloon and you go with me and he's not there?

Then I heard her.

I've got to find him.

Where is he?

All right?

I tell you Repulse Obey what Repulse Bay?

Repulse Bay on the other side of the island, where the big hotel is.

I can call there on the telephone.

Is he at the hotel or.

No, he has the cottage or numbers Haven.

Or last one?

Where's the telephone?

Please?

You will not tell how you learn he goes that country?

Four on cong police.

I want to talk to the superintendent, Superintendent Kite.

Will you believe a confession from William Meadow?

Who's this mister?

He's at Repulse Bay Cottage seven.

I'm going after him.

They want that confession.

Have some men there outside in an hour.

And quiet until it's finished.

A taxi got me there in forty minutes when I was a few yards in front of his cottage when the police cars slid without lights and cut moments.

Meadow Meadow, who is it?

It's Dollar?

Who are you Dollar?

Is that hard to believe?

That was somebody else in the hotel room.

I want you to go back into town with me.

Will you come out or shall I come in.

Meadow Meadow.

I don't suppose it could be called hewing to the niceties of jurisprudence, since Meadow was dead.

He could neither speak nor write his confession.

But there were two police car loads of expert witnesses who took the fact that he had opened fire as an acceptable admission of guilt.

The same thing cleared me legally on the grounds of self defense.

I had hoped that it would help clear my mind, but it hasn't.

Nothing good came out of.

The assignment, except saving your company some money that it didn't.

Know it had spends.

Account Item four same as Item one.

Spenser count total three five hundred and forty four dollars.

Yours, Truly, Johnny.

Dallas, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar stars Edmund O'Brien in the title roles and is written by Gil Dowd and David Ellis, with music composed and conducted by Leith Stevens.

Edmund O'Brien may currently be seen starring in the Columbia Pictures production seven eleven Ocean Drive.

Featured in tonight's cast were Tutor Owen, Lillian Baiev, hi Everback, Robert Griffin, hal marsh and Dan O'hurleahey, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar is produced and directed by him.

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