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But now, from June fifteenth, nineteen fifty eight, here is the delectable damsel matter.

From Hollywood.

It's time now for.

Johnny Dellar, Ralph Single, Johnny Modo Guarantee Insurance Company.

Oh higher rip.

How's Hollywood's most eligible bachelor?

Listen?

Do you know who Hildegard Ransom is?

Are you kidding that Gal's coming out party hit the society column of every newspaper in the country.

Yeah?

I know, So how'd you like to have a date with her?

Hey?

Wait a minute, weren't you dating the luscious Hilly Ransom a while back?

Hey?

Yeah, I was, but I threw her over.

Oh riff, You just don't appreciate the finer things of life.

Oh no, but if you had to put up with some of her wild ideas or crazy.

At So what what difference does it make?

All that beauty, all that money?

I ask you, you want to date with it at.

Company expense for?

How?

Why not then grab the first plane you can and fly on out it?

Okay, I'm on my Uh what's the catch?

Rip, I'll meet you at the Los Angeles International Airport.

Yeah?

Fine, I suppose you give me some idea.

Hmmm, huh huh.

Bob Bailey and the Exciting Adventures of the Man with the Action Packed Expensive Out America's fabulous freelance insurance Investigators.

Truly Johnny Dollar.

Expense accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar the Mono Guarantee Insurance Company, Los Angeles Office.

Following is an acount of expense has incurred during my investigation of the delectable Damsel Matter expense account out.

I won one hundred and seven dollars even Hartford to New York and a DC seven main line at the Los Angeles Single is a good name for Rip.

He has a knack for meeting wealthy, important people, particularly women.

Yeah, they practically swoon under his spell, and he sells them insurance.

I'm not sure I approve his love him and leading tactics, but it's no wonder he knew Hildy Ransom heirs to a couple of million bucks high Johnny, but he hadn't told me why he wanted me to meet her, and I was sure it wasn't just for a date.

Okay, dreaming, Jenny, h your baggage is right here on the wreck.

Come on, I'll help you put in the car.

And we'll take off.

Oh hi, rep sure, where's the car.

Over here in the parking lot?

Hey, what were you dreaming about there at the luggage pickup?

Oh?

Hildy guard Ransom?

Who else?

And I take if you're a little romance with her?

The one hit the headlines a while, bag, it's all over?

Oh sure, sure?

But I got our insurance business, all of it, and Johnny, if I had to, I could live off the premiums of that one account.

Alone, and I must be pretty big, because if I remember the way you live, fancy close, fancy apartment, Well you can't.

Take it with you, boy, Besides, it's all good for my business.

Here we are.

Hey, you like this little truck?

The little old truck was a brand new Eldorado B a Ritz special paint job, gold fittings instead of chrome, every accessory you can think of, including a bar in the backseat.

Yeah, playboy, party boy, rip single hadn't changed a bit.

And if you make contacts, make him right where the money is.

And if it's a pretty girl that has the money and you can charm her into your arms, maybe you made us.

Okay, Okay, now tell me Rep Johnny.

Did you ever hear a cape star?

Was that?

Well, it's an emerald as big as a Robin's egg in a fourteen at mounting, loaded with diamonds and rubies, a brooch value nearly three hundred thousand plans.

That's hilly guide ransom onsen Uh huh?

Or did how'd she lose it?

Well, all I know is that she called me and she said it was missing, and that she wants me to.

Go out and have a look out where.

Well, I don't want that wacky dame to get her hands on me again.

You heard of some of her crazy escapades, like at the time she flooded half of the bell Air estates.

What well, she didn't like the looks of.

A fire plug on her five acres up there, so she had the gardener plant some dynamite under it.

Oh, brother, I gotta do something for the laugh, she said, the old story of the idle rich with too much time on her hands.

Huh, that's right.

What kind of stuff can lead to trouble sometimes?

Or is she ripped?

Bell Air?

Did you say?

Well when she's home, which isn't awful?

Right now?

I think?

What the sam?

Hell?

Oh sure, sure?

All it comforts a home here?

Not hello?

All right?

Just one one too one, that's right, operator Mama.

Please I have a call for you.

Oh thanks, brother.

When I get rich and to put a mobile phone in my car, it doesn't cost much as.

A matter of every single Are you coming out here to see.

Me or aunt you?

Oh?

Well, now, Hildy, is fifth.

Time I've called and rip.

If you don't do something about my loss of the Cape Star, you call.

The police, Well, sure of course.

I might have known you would, so they'll tell the papers.

More publicity for you in that lousy insurance business.

For Hildy, I always notify the police you know what that means.

It means reporters, photographers, cops, half the town falling all over themselves.

When I get in, you're somebody else.

And I don't mean the cops.

If you don't get out, I'll cancel every policy I have with you.

My own.

The house is the cars, this old tom everything here.

You take this, Johnny Hash sure, Hello, not all?

Didn't you hear what I said?

Miss?

Uh?

What sad?

Johnny Dollar?

Johnny, So we got you.

Well, now we'll have some actions because you'll come out here away, won't you.

Well, that depends.

I don't know what to do.

James Starr, Emerald gone and Rip so busy can't leave his office.

Johnny, you have to complete Well, look.

I knew you would, honey, and I'll be waiting for you, Rip con tell you how to get here.

Good bye?

Uh yeah, don't be fool Johnny.

She really is that charming when she wants to be.

Okay, Rip take me to her.

Uh not quite.

That old tub she mentioned is our one hundred and sixty five foot diesel yacht.

Why and near as I can guess, it's about four score and seventy miles off shore.

Do you expect me to walk.

Oh, she also has a cruiser, a fifty eight footer parked down at Balboa.

You can go in that.

And you had better swing around, brother, we're driving north.

Oh, there's a private airport up here, off to the pub of Boulevard where I keep my plane.

Your own plane, sure, holy smokeing.

Act two of Yours, Truly, Johnny Dollar.

In a moment, our flag.

Now numbers fifty stars, and behind each star there stands yet another flag representing one of the fifty states.

Mississippi's state flag is a horizontal tricolor blue, white and red.

In the upper corner on.

A field of red is the blue cross of Saint Andrew bearing thirteen white stars for the original states of the Union.

This cross, made in the form of an X or saltier, was adopted from the national flag of Scotland.

It is also found on the state flags of Georgia and Alabama.

Mississippi state flag, the flag of the twentieth state to enter the Union, was adopted on February seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety four.

And now Act two of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar and the Delectable Damsel matter.

During the ride from Los Angeles to Balboa and rip Single's private plane.

He admitted to me that he hadn't made all his money in the insurance business.

Seems a rich uncle had conveniently died some years before Lucky Stiff a rip.

I mean, look, all I know, Johnny, is that Hildy took the Cape Star Emil along with her on this yachting trip, and.

Now it's gone.

Yeah, how much of a trip.

Oh?

Lord knows where she's been.

She said, she might have en up in China, the Philippines, most anywhere.

You see, she has the money, she has the time.

She's done everything under the sun that normal people do.

So now she keeps looking for the unusual, anything for through.

Yeah.

Well, when did she discover the stone was missing?

She radioed to me today from out on the high seat.

Yeah.

She says she was certain she had it the day before that because she warned, and then when she went to look for it, it was gone.

Some remember the crudeut pots.

I don't know.

Maybe she dropped it.

Overboard, you mean, purposely to collect the insuran.

Who knows.

Oh, look, she has so much money, who knows.

Maybe maybe she hasn't lost it at all.

She just wants company.

Oh look, there's Newport and Balboa down below.

I'll circle Hildy's little summer house before we land.

Hildy Ransom's little summer house turned out to be a mansion right on the waterfront, and tied up to the long dock was not only the cruiser, but a snappy little speedboat, a small sailboat and a couple of out boards.

Oh very nice, Not so, the skipper of the cruiser.

No, my order is the last time I spoke to the Hill tomorrow were to take you out to a mister single nobody else.

Look, we just talked him as Ransom by radio, and she wants you to take mister dollarant that.

And I tell you my last daughter, what cat your last order?

Hey look, hey, wait a minute, please, Skipper, have you got a radio on this cruiser?

All right, then make contact with the Hill tomorrow find out for yourself.

Okay, I'll do it at the same time.

You can get a position.

Okay, we'll see.

Well, give dear hildem my love or whatever else you can think of, anything that will keep her from switching her insurance to somebody else.

You are allow, Serence.

You don't like you did.

No, were you ever really serious with her rip?

Yeah, I'm sure, but I'm just not the marrying kid.

So Johnny, the field is clear for you.

And if you want to latch on to a few million bucks, she's really mighty sweet attractive gal.

Well, let me know how you make out, Johnny, and please find that Emerald.

I beg your pardon, sir.

Yeah, we're ready to say or whenever the gentleman's ready.

Okay, skipper, let's go.

The Closer turned out to be a dilly luxury from Stemda Stern, and the trip out to the Hildemora took much longer than I expected, in spite of the powerful engines that sent us through the water at over eighteen knots.

It was well after dawn the next morning we hold too alongside the Hill of Morning, and that one hundred and sixty five foot diesel yacht made the cruis.

It looked like a broken down robot.

As for Hildy Ransom five foot six or seven.

She was blonde, and she was beautiful, with quick blue eyes that had fun and laughter sparkling at it and a figure.

Well, come on, Johnny, come aboard, and Madi you give your grover around in case you forgotta wants to go ashore again.

Hi, Johnny, welcome aboard the old tub.

You call this floating promis a tub well.

After the holes, but got shot into it, so wonder we're still afloat.

You've been shot in?

Oh, for mosta on the China coast, we had a bar for a while.

I thought some of the Red aircraft were going to strap us one night old, but it got too dark for them, and the captain, the old fuddy duddy, turned off all our running lights and we headed out to.

See you again under the sun.

You're doing off the China Coastmas.

Ransom, Hildy, Oh, just finding out what goes on in the world.

You know what I really wanted to do.

Why they have visited Joe in lie the Red General why not?

But they wouldn't let us ashore along enough without a lot of fuss and bother.

So now let's go in to my quarters and talk about the kpstock.

Yeah, okay, I could kill that Rip single for not coming out here.

But I'm so glad you could.

Oh you're even better looking than i'd heard.

Ah.

Are you as much of a wolf as Rip says you are.

Oh well, no, wait a minute, eh.

I'll find out for myself.

Might be fun finding out Johnny.

For a minute, I began to wonder, maybe Rip wasn't the only one in this affair who turned on the charm to further his own ends.

Hildy Ransom, Let's face, it was wealthy there to well, who'll do anything for thrill?

Couple her with a character like riff single, yeah, I wondered.

But then walking along the deck with her, I saw something that suddenly changed my mind.

One of the crew who ducked into a doorway when he spotted me who I wasn't sure, but I had a sudden metal image of his eyes somewhere in the past, looking at me over the sights of a gun.

Act three.

If yours truly Johnny Dollar in a moment.

Let me ask you a question.

What is the most important thing to a fighting man?

His gun?

You may answer, You might also answer the Code of conduct of the men of the Armed Forces of the United States, because you know it is something just as necessary to the fighting man as his gun.

And just as he keeps his gun cleaned and oil because his life may depend on it, so does he keep ever forward in his mind his code of conduct, because his life and honor depend on it.

Part of the code reads quote, I will never surrender of my own free will.

If in command, I will never surrender my men while they still have means to resist unquote.

During the bloody and costly campaign on the Island of Saipan and World War II, the code of the soldier meant something to the men, and to one man in particular, essentially a quiet, peace loving man.

Sergeant Thomas A.

Baker, while with a hundred fifth Infantry Regiment of the United States Army, was up against it one night in nineteen forty four when the enemy launched an attack which called for them to die in honor.

Sergeant Baker proved a good work both ways.

The enemy attack fell like a saber blow and continually hurled Baker's company back with each savage thrust.

During the ensuing days of action, Baker wiped out an enemy position with a Bezuokah, killed fourteen of the enemy in a machine gun ambush using only his M one rifle and a couple of grenades, and then killed six more a little farther on in a last ditch stand.

One night the company dug in to withstand the next furious assault in the dark.

As the enemy rolled over them in a thunderous attack of firepower, Sergeant Baker suffered a mangled leg from a grenade.

Shooting and clubbing the enemy with his rifle, he dragged himself out of the foxhole.

Three of his men tried to give him aid.

Two of them were shot.

From the third man, Baker got a cigarette and the pistol and told him to leave.

As the rest of the company moved back, Baker propped himself against a telephone pole, calmly puffed on his cigarette and blazed away with his automatic.

He was later found in that position with eight of the enemy dead around him, one for each shot, and the empty gun in his lifeless hand.

Sergeant Baker didn't consider the medal of honor he might get.

He considered the job that had to be done.

His honor was at stake.

Surrender wasn't in his code of conduct.

Now Act three of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar and the delectable Damsel matter.

I suppose I could have waited till we got in to report the loss of the Emerald.

Just sit down, Johnny, and I'll have some drinks brought in.

Okay, thanks, I'll listen.

Because of where we've been on this trip, we'll have to go through customs and there'll be the police and the reporters and so on, and whoever took the Cape Star might have a chance to do.

Well.

What's the matter that drawer where.

I kept it?

I'm sure I left that closed after I'd hunted for it.

And excuse me, Johnny.

Yeah, look, look it's here, the Cape Star.

It's back.

You're sure, yes, of course, here, look at it, and you're sure it wasn't there before.

Of course I am.

I turned this cabin upside down.

Hildy.

This isn't some kind of a gag, isn't it?

What I mean?

You're having me come all the way out here to find something that wasn't lost after all?

Johnny, Oh, Johnny, how can you say such a thing?

Of course not.

Now that you are here and the Star is safe and sound, I think we'll have fun together, Hildy.

I've got so tired of the other guests I have on board, and stuffy old Professor Randolph and he's boring wife, and Jolly Burton and that girl he's always pawning over.

The cape Star was actually missing.

I swear it, Johnny.

All right, then, I still have a job to do.

I want to meet these guests of yours.

Also.

I want to talk to the.

Crew, of course, John.

But later I'll have some drinks brought in and plan.

I saw the ball between now and when we put onto port.

Yes, Miss Ransom, Yes, captain.

One of the men one of the crew names McCarty.

It looked like appendicitist, ma'am, and I took the liberty of sending him ashore in the cruiser.

It'll get there long before weekend.

Of course, Captain, you've done exactly right.

Why mite, I'm not so sure that.

Hi, Johnny mccartty, huh, short dark with a scar on his chin.

Yes, sir, they've already left.

What Yes, tender one, That McCatty is the man I want, john Nellie, we got to stop.

A radio called at the cruiser brought no response, and I had a sneaking suspicion the skipper of it had a gun in his back, a gun held by the supposedly sick McCarty, and the yacht to spider size and power could never catch up with that cruiser in a thousand years.

If you're right, mister Dollar, we'll radio to the coast guard.

He intercepted it, but I couldn't be sure that I was right.

And then I noticed the speedboat slung between debits on the yachts after deck.

Of course, John, and I'll go after them with you.

Oh no, you want?

Yes?

The kid com please no?

Then sixth sake ten minutes later, however long it took to get the speedboat overside, the first mate and I were tearing across the ocean in pursuit of the cruiser.

That cruiser will do an even twenty knots if he opens her wife, mister dollar, but she's no match for this baby, and pour it on.

Come on, you see him?

Yeah, sure, dude, get ahead, Yeah yeah, I see him too.

But where's a snipper.

McCarty's up in the bridge a load.

He look out that pump of smoke.

He' shooting at us.

And hang on, I'm gonna stir around.

But he never hit us at this range anyhow, hay out low.

He might get lucky.

You got a gun to answer him.

No, it was a very crystoe.

Use it for shooting up the steps players.

Where is it this cabinet under the dash?

You see it?

Yeah right, it's no match for a thirty eight.

But if you can swerve us in close enough, keep swerving right, Hey, look having to ring load and get us in there.

Crass.

Here we go.

We'll let him have it.

Let him have it.

Yeah, you're good him, You got him.

Come on, give mean not the law here right here?

Watch him.

Huh he's taking courts.

Hey, you're right, but good.

He's turning, he's.

Turning it on.

I kind of pieced things together after the yacht, the Hildemara picked us up.

My sheer luck, my shot with a flare gun had struck mccartty full on.

He was badly burned.

And after the smash up, the mate had pulled me out of the drink.

By then the yacht caught.

Up with us.

And did you know what he was doing, Johnny, that man who called himself McCarty a oh hi hi healthy, smuggling narcotics that he picked up in China.

He knew he'd never get through customs when we came to.

Port, so he stole the Cape Star just long enough to make sure the cruiser would come out to us.

He knew I'd sent for somebody.

Oh yeah, I get it.

Then he played sick to go back on the cruiser that way avoid customs and the police.

Yeah, Tony, or is he now?

Hellow locked up?

After the way you hit him with that player.

Well now he is sick, don it.

We didn't have to get him into a doctor.

Gee, Johnny, you and I could cruise around and.

Well it will be two or three days before we get support.

Three days and what are three days?

But oh well, expensive count total including transportation back to high for two hundred and thirty dollars.

Ether remarks.

It's funny, isn't he.

You never know what you're going to get into when you take on even the most routine kind of case.

Yours truly, Johnny dog.

Our star will return it in just a moment.

Our flag now numbers fifty stars, and behind each star there stands yet another flag representing one of the fifty states.

Iowa's state flag was adopted from a design made during World War One for use by the state regiments.

An eagle stands on a field of white with wings outspread, in the manner used by the American Indians to signify speed and wisdom.

In his beak is a blue streamer inscribed with the state's motto our liberties we prize and our rights We will maintain.

Iowa's state flag, the flag of the twenty ninth state to enter the Union, was adopted on March twenty ninth, nineteen twenty one.

And now here's our star to tell you about next week's story.

Next week.

Well, the case is called the Virtuous Mobster Matter.

And if you can't figure what that means, well join us, won't you?

Yours truly, Johnny Dollar.

Yours truly, Johnny Dollar.

Starrying Bob Bailey originates in Hollywood and is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone, who also wrote today's story.

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Welcome back.

Well, just as a general rule, if you bark at a woman during narration, you probably shouldn't give her a hay Now if she suggests you're a wolf, I gotta say that that rip guy was a bit of a trip.

I mean, just so much luxury, his own private plane.

And can you imagine this guy had a phone in his car.

Can you imagine going around everywhere with.

A phone.

In all series?

And this is one of the earlier portrayals of the car phone that I've encountered.

Now.

Of course, a lot of the smart private detectives would have them on television in the nineteen sixties, not really notable at all.

And then of course you had in the seventies mister Frank Cannon played by the great William Conrad, who had that as a standard part of his equipment.

And I think that was throughout the entire run of that series.

All right, well, listener comments and feedback now, and we start out over on Instagram where Brains Benton wrote, just finished listening to the Road to the Valentine Matter.

What a fun ride.

I really enjoyed seeing how the same story could be told in so many different ways.

Jeff Reagan's version was classic, hard boiled, straight forward and gritty, not be leaning into the melodrama in the best way, and William Conrad's performance was a standout lunch dollar didn't quite land for me, maybe because the Gangster's already dead when it starts, or maybe because Lunch Johnny can't help but pale next to Bailey's.

The Valentine Matter was a treat.

As a serial with five episodes, the characters had room to breathe and grow.

Maybe an unfair advantage when trying to pick a fave, but it may for rich listening experience.

Thanks for putting this together.

It was such an interesting way to explore storytelling across formats and voices.

Well, thank you so much.

Appreciate the comment, Brains.

Then we turned to YouTube, where James wrote, regarding the episode The Midnight Sun Matter, what an excellent episode, perhaps the most thrilling one I've heard yet.

Johnstone did a great job of keeping the listener at the edge of the seat.

Thanks for all you do, Adam, and thank you.

And then one comment here, this one regarding the Falcon episode The Case of the Snappy Snapshot?

Ron wrote, do you think I could still send for the Baseball Book?

Well, Ryan, sir, you can try, and I will admit that I've had moments listening to various old time radio programs hearing the promotion and you just need to send in the stamp request.

I've thought, yeah, that's pretty good.

I wish I could do that.

And I'll be honest that I think that if I was ever given a chance to time travel, I would probably waste it messing around with whole time radio stuff.

I'm going to get things set up so I can finally get those Superman pens.

I really want those things and without paying seventy dollars on eBay.

Thanks so much, Ryan, sir.

And now it is time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day, and I want to go ahead and thank Ronda, as this is our first Friday in October.

Ronda has been one of our Patreon supporters since October twenty twenty, and again, thank you so much for your support over the last five years.

Really appreciate it, Ronda.

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What other white men?

Asking?

Acquired Lasa?

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