Latest / Old Time Mystery Radio | Old Time Radio / Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar - ”The Night in Paris Matter” (Old Time Radio, 1959)
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- 0:03Speaker 1: Johnny, George reed here. Well, George, how's Floyd to London?
- 0:07Speaker 1: And how are you holding up in that hot weather? Johnny?
- 0:09Speaker 2: All I can say is I wish I could make
- 0:11Speaker 2: a trip to friends at somebody else's expense.
- 0:13Speaker 1: Now, what's that supposed to me?
- 0:14Speaker 2: I just received the transatlantic telephone call collect by the way,
- 0:17Speaker 2: from that underworld friend of yours in.
- 0:19Speaker 1: Paris, A my sack, Lloyd de Mysak, Yes, cause himself
- 0:23Speaker 1: with chagrin.
- 0:23Speaker 2: That's right, the great cats. Why you ever chose to
- 0:26Speaker 2: call himself that?
- 0:27Speaker 1: Because at night all cats are gray.
- 0:29Speaker 2: So he's hard to see in the dark.
- 0:31Speaker 1: Well, free enough yourself, parents, after doc and I my
- 0:34Speaker 1: sack knows more about the dark alleys and stores and backstreets.
- 0:38Speaker 1: But what do you call you about, George?
- 0:39Speaker 2: He wants to talk to you about the only diamonds
- 0:42Speaker 2: three quarters of a million dollars worth of diamonds and
- 0:45Speaker 2: necklace that was stolen from the Earl of all Nea during.
- 0:47Speaker 1: A recent visit to the United States. The chagre has
- 0:50Speaker 1: a lead on him, he wouldn't say, But.
- 0:51Speaker 2: If he has, he can get them back. I'll believe me.
- 0:54Speaker 2: We shan't qubble.
- 0:55Speaker 1: Over your expense account, including whatever may be necessary to
- 0:58Speaker 1: grease the palm of Demasaq. His information usually becomes pretty high.
- 1:02Speaker 1: You know, I understand that, and a bit of an allowance,
- 1:05Speaker 1: shall we say, for my own entertainment while I'm there.
- 1:08Speaker 2: Well, don't go overboard, Johnny.
- 1:10Speaker 1: You're a jobby in touch. CBS Radio brings you Bob
- 1:21Speaker 1: Bailey in the Exciting Adventures of the Man with the Action.
- 1:24Speaker 1: Back to expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator as
- 1:29Speaker 1: true Johnny Dollar. Expense accounts of meited by Special Investigator
- 1:48Speaker 1: Johnny Dollar, the Florence of London, North American Office, Hertford Connecticuts.
- 1:52Speaker 1: Following is an account of expenses incurred during my investigation
- 1:55Speaker 1: of the night in Paris. Matter expense account out of
- 2:03Speaker 1: one twelve dollars even for a call to Paris. Friends,
- 2:06Speaker 1: to a man I wouldn't trust any further than you
- 2:08Speaker 1: could throw the lure Louis to my sac We miss you, darn.
- 2:13Speaker 1: This is your oldest, your dearest ringing, the shock oldest
- 2:17Speaker 1: and dearest friend, one of the crookedest, chiselingest canniveris I
- 2:22Speaker 1: ever met. But George Reid says, you have some information
- 2:25Speaker 1: about the only diamonds, which means you've got your hand
- 2:28Speaker 1: out as usual.
- 2:29Speaker 2: Don't believe me. I only told him that I wished
- 2:32Speaker 2: to speak to you about something.
- 2:34Speaker 1: You didn't hint around about those diamonds.
- 2:37Speaker 2: Well, perhaps I did make some very.
- 2:39Speaker 1: Slight efforts about him.
- 2:40Speaker 2: Yeah, when he objected to my phony him what you
- 2:43Speaker 2: call pleg You.
- 2:45Speaker 1: Don't where those diamonds are? Of my sack? Well? Okay,
- 2:51Speaker 1: how much do you want? This time?
- 2:53Speaker 2: You are speaking of money?
- 2:55Speaker 1: What else.
- 2:57Speaker 2: You hurt me? You touched me to the queen?
- 3:00Speaker 1: Oh? Sure? How much one might thing?
- 3:03Speaker 2: Get our slave and suffer and wish my life on
- 3:05Speaker 2: your being? Only for money?
- 3:07Speaker 1: How much to my sex shake?
- 3:11Speaker 2: Ten thousand dollars American?
- 3:13Speaker 1: Yeah, well I was nice to talk. Do you see
- 3:15Speaker 1: around sometimes?
- 3:16Speaker 3: No?
- 3:16Speaker 2: No, no, no wait wait, The only diamonds are worth.
- 3:19Speaker 1: Millions millions of francs, not dollars.
- 3:22Speaker 2: But if I could care you where you may find it?
- 3:25Speaker 1: In that case, I might be willing to part. Would
- 3:28Speaker 1: say a thousand, maybe fifty.
- 3:31Speaker 2: Hundred five thousand.
- 3:33Speaker 1: If I actually get my hands on them, I'll give
- 3:35Speaker 1: you two four three thousand. That's final thirty five Come
- 3:40Speaker 1: by to my second, No, twenty five hundred, I said,
- 3:43Speaker 1: I huh two thouss do okay? Two thousand bucks? Yeah?
- 3:49Speaker 2: And oh and I think what what you shay cost
- 3:53Speaker 2: myself up?
- 3:54Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure you did.
- 3:56Speaker 2: But doing not to worry monan me, do not to
- 3:58Speaker 2: worry hour do the same with you.
- 4:01Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure you will. I'll listen. If I take
- 4:04Speaker 1: a plane out of New York a little after nine tonight,
- 4:06Speaker 1: I should get there tomorrow at five forty five pm
- 4:08Speaker 1: Paris time. I'll hang my hat at the Hotel of
- 4:11Speaker 1: Guay you know what that is, and I'll pick you
- 4:13Speaker 1: up at that hovel of yours at the end of
- 4:15Speaker 1: the Yeah, the rude pantola.
- 4:20Speaker 2: Thank you, and bring the money for me.
- 4:22Speaker 1: I'll be there. Expense a con item two one thousand
- 4:28Speaker 1: dollars worth of American Express travelers checks four hundred and
- 4:31Speaker 1: twenty eight. If it went for a plane fair Highford
- 4:33Speaker 1: to New York to Paris, the point was uneventful except
- 4:37Speaker 1: for the person who occupied the seat next to me.
- 4:40Speaker 1: And that was her name, and that Dubamba and brother. Well,
- 4:45Speaker 1: she's twenty five or six, I guess Paul Brunette and
- 4:49Speaker 1: beautiful apparently has money. Of her own, and I decided
- 4:52Speaker 1: this trip to Paris wasn't a fat idea at all?
- 4:56Speaker 4: Johnny dlly, Yeah, I know who knew. I you're the
- 5:00Speaker 4: insurance investigator I hear about all the time.
- 5:02Speaker 1: On the radio CD. All looks so shocked you by it? Shocked?
- 5:06Speaker 1: I'm thrilled.
- 5:08Speaker 5: Tell me all about you.
- 5:09Speaker 1: Ah, I'd a lot rather talk about you plan to
- 5:12Speaker 1: be a parason? Oh?
- 5:14Speaker 5: A couple of weeks, I guess, just sort.
- 5:16Speaker 4: Of a vacation and I'm all alone, So I don't
- 5:21Speaker 4: have any definite plans?
- 5:23Speaker 1: Uh?
- 5:24Speaker 2: Have you? Johnny?
- 5:26Speaker 1: I have no.
- 5:28Speaker 4: M certainly don't beat around the bush.
- 5:30Speaker 1: Do you.
- 5:32Speaker 4: You know something I like that?
- 5:34Speaker 1: Oh? Good? Good? Now? Where do you be staying?
- 5:37Speaker 2: Is George Sons?
- 5:38Speaker 1: Alright? Then as soon as I get things cleared, ory,
- 5:40Speaker 1: I'll caught you.
- 5:41Speaker 4: Are you over here to work on some kind of a.
- 5:43Speaker 1: Case, No, just to see an old friend of mine?
- 5:47Speaker 4: Do you buy any tame things to George sown?
- 5:49Speaker 1: Thelevoir? It's over all, I.
- 5:51Speaker 4: Know where it is.
- 5:52Speaker 1: And as soon as your freezer will call me? Are
- 5:55Speaker 1: you kidding? What about that time the Stewardess bless her
- 6:01Speaker 1: Heart came around with a Champagne, so what with one
- 6:04Speaker 1: thing and another? The time passed quickly. Then, at exactly
- 6:08Speaker 1: five forty five pm Paris time, we landed at Doorley
- 6:11Speaker 1: and I'm three five twenty American for a taxi to
- 6:14Speaker 1: my hotel. After dropping a net off along the way,
- 6:17Speaker 1: I shaved and showered and took another cab to the
- 6:19Speaker 1: dingy little apartment of Louis to my sack at the
- 6:21Speaker 1: far end of the Rue de pat dela MoU, you
- 6:24Speaker 1: asked me, It's one of the most disreputable looking apartments
- 6:26Speaker 1: in my whole city, dirty swallowed ramshackle, and of course
- 6:31Speaker 1: Leshak Gree had to live at the top of four
- 6:33Speaker 1: long flights of steer. When I finally get up there,
- 6:36Speaker 1: feeling slightly wounded, I noticed that this door at the
- 6:39Speaker 1: end of the gas lit hallway was standing wide open.
- 6:43Speaker 1: What to my sac, Louis, Oh, to my sac, The dingy,
- 7:08Speaker 1: dark apartment of Louis de Massaque looked like a tornado
- 7:11Speaker 1: had struck it. It was a shambles, as though somebody
- 7:13Speaker 1: had come in and simply done as much damage as possible,
- 7:16Speaker 1: and yet at the same time was looking for something
- 7:18Speaker 1: or someone. As for Demassak, there was no sign up anywhere.
- 7:23Speaker 1: I stood there for a moment, wondering, wondering what to
- 7:25Speaker 1: do next.
- 7:26Speaker 3: Huh hello, hello, yeah for you?
- 7:37Speaker 2: You free? For friends?
- 7:40Speaker 1: Or do you mind telling me what under the sun
- 7:42Speaker 1: happened to this joining yours?
- 7:44Speaker 2: You have turned on the lights?
- 7:45Speaker 1: No, but there's enough light coming up of the street.
- 7:47Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, now you must your dances there?
- 7:50Speaker 1: Oh?
- 7:50Speaker 2: Yes, come quickly and meet me here. You'll please? You
- 7:53Speaker 2: will do that?
- 7:54Speaker 1: Or worry you? Yes?
- 7:57Speaker 2: Yes, I'm alone and you must leave before somebody find you?
- 8:00Speaker 1: Like who here is.
- 8:01Speaker 2: No time to talk? When you mean can't.
- 8:03Speaker 1: Please meet me here where.
- 8:05Speaker 2: I met the cafe? Change your man? What you call him?
- 8:11Speaker 4: Beat?
- 8:11Speaker 1: Okay, I'll find it. Yeah, sure, sure, I'll grab attention.
- 8:16Speaker 1: Huh oh are you crossant? No? You don't. Yeah. When
- 8:33Speaker 1: I came to I found myself popped up in the
- 8:36Speaker 1: remains of a chair I love kangnac in the glass
- 8:38Speaker 1: and a placed on the table beside me. I helped
- 8:40Speaker 1: myself and next to a piece of paper scribbled on
- 8:44Speaker 1: it with the words is your regret? I'm sorry. He'll
- 8:47Speaker 1: believe me if I have a catch up with him,
- 8:48Speaker 1: and he's going to be a lot Sorry. Another snort
- 8:51Speaker 1: of kangnac and I felt able to navigate it. I
- 8:54Speaker 1: went downstairs, grabbed a taxi that said him forore a
- 8:56Speaker 1: couple of bucks, and had him take me to the place,
- 8:58Speaker 1: to my second mansion over the phone. The shame of
- 9:00Speaker 1: out and what a joint. I've seen a few Beatnik
- 9:04Speaker 1: pads that were pretty crazy back in the States, but
- 9:07Speaker 1: nothing to compare with this. It was a smoky, dark
- 9:11Speaker 1: and dirty place. The Britnicks backed into what were dirty too.
- 9:15Speaker 1: Characters are made a business of being characters, including a
- 9:18Speaker 1: gawne chick chatting some poetry in a corner. Then a
- 9:21Speaker 1: warmy little man sidled up to my table out of
- 9:23Speaker 1: the shadows and proceeded to help himself to my drink. Yeah,
- 9:26Speaker 1: it was to massac with schobery do.
- 9:30Speaker 5: Not seem to know me at first?
- 9:31Speaker 1: When he means even when you come over and help
- 9:34Speaker 1: yourself to my cognact in this place, it is to
- 9:36Speaker 1: crust to me. But what happened to you when you
- 9:39Speaker 1: hang up to get telephone on me? Or somebody sneaked
- 9:41Speaker 1: in and worked me over to my soac? Any idea
- 9:44Speaker 1: who it might have been? No, I hope he did
- 9:46Speaker 1: not great you too bad? He did, all right, But
- 9:49Speaker 1: why now? Why the crazy nought? He left saying he
- 9:51Speaker 1: was sorry? What of course, but of course what wait.
- 9:55Speaker 2: He must have taught you were me?
- 9:56Speaker 1: Oh we because you're a little deal.
- 9:59Speaker 5: On the statute made a week ago in my business
- 10:02Speaker 5: with some of the terrible people I have to deal with.
- 10:05Speaker 5: This sort of thing happened all the time. But then
- 10:08Speaker 5: when this man he discovered he had make a mistake
- 10:10Speaker 5: that you were not to me.
- 10:12Speaker 1: Oh sure, what can you the American? Go up the
- 10:16Speaker 1: art the poetry of today? And what brought that up? Yeah?
- 10:19Speaker 1: I will translate for you, then, my lovely, my.
- 10:22Speaker 6: Beautiful old do nothing, oh nothing, listen to my every
- 10:26Speaker 6: magnificent word. Oh wait, I'm nothing nothing nothing nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing,
- 10:34Speaker 6: nothing nothing.
- 10:36Speaker 1: A lot for I said, come on down the world.
- 10:38Speaker 5: Wait, which really it is all right now, all right.
- 10:41Speaker 5: Really it was for the benefit of the man who
- 10:44Speaker 5: came by the people.
- 10:45Speaker 1: Who looked at us. Oh yeah, I understand he was
- 10:47Speaker 1: very curious about us, like a fine as fine he's.
- 10:51Speaker 5: Of course, he may have been from my dear friend
- 10:54Speaker 5: Monsieur Francois.
- 10:55Speaker 1: Do this song. Wait a minute, Francois Duba song listen,
- 10:59Speaker 1: either friends who got hold of that tinting that was
- 11:01Speaker 1: stolen from Vincent Price a while back. Yet I helped
- 11:03Speaker 1: you to recover fresh Light fee and I was through
- 11:07Speaker 1: him that you located the Blue Madonna that was taken
- 11:09Speaker 1: from the gallery in Philadelphia. They read this scene, and
- 11:11Speaker 1: now it is Diperson who has the only diamonds.
- 11:14Speaker 5: You're sure that, I am sure also it was Dipissan
- 11:18Speaker 5: who arranged to have them stolen back in your United States.
- 11:21Speaker 1: Your good friend. Ah, not a tough course. But you're
- 11:25Speaker 1: perfectly willing to double crossing. Why because you will pay
- 11:29Speaker 1: me somewhere if I get my hands enough time. Oh,
- 11:32Speaker 1: I have a dollar range.
- 11:34Speaker 5: So if you will like to pay me now.
- 11:37Speaker 1: The five thousand dollars American when I get my hands
- 11:41Speaker 1: on them, and it's only two thousand. Remember I cheated myself. Okay,
- 11:47Speaker 1: Now how do I get them?
- 11:48Speaker 5: I have pulled him that you're here, that you are
- 11:51Speaker 5: very rich, that you will pay him fifteen million, fact.
- 11:54Speaker 1: Fifteen Well, let's close to thirty thousand dollars. It is
- 11:57Speaker 1: better than we lost you, all right? Where'll I find him?
- 12:01Speaker 1: As I'm talking? But it will come to you with
- 12:04Speaker 1: a diamond wish at you will get to not have
- 12:07Speaker 1: di die. You know it's my name, Well, I told
- 12:09Speaker 1: him get you. I'm sure why would mask you some
- 12:11Speaker 1: ticks shay? Yeah, good, And I'll have to take another
- 12:14Speaker 1: realm under that name. But of course, and you're sure
- 12:16Speaker 1: he doesn't know who I really am? My business? No, no,
- 12:19Speaker 1: not because only I could kill him that all right?
- 12:21Speaker 1: I looked at my sock. If you have any idea
- 12:23Speaker 1: the other crossing, you.
- 12:25Speaker 5: Are my oldest, my DearS h And yet if.
- 12:29Speaker 1: You were to find hab that okay to my sack,
- 12:36Speaker 1: if it all goes off without a hitch, but if
- 12:39Speaker 1: it doesn't have no fearing any sure, it was a
- 12:51Speaker 1: kind of shady deal to make, to have to make
- 12:54Speaker 1: another of the circumstances of what else. And people simply
- 12:57Speaker 1: don't realize how most of the crimes in this world
- 12:59Speaker 1: are sold, not by Sherlock Holmes type of detective work,
- 13:02Speaker 1: not by the kind of stuff you read in the
- 13:04Speaker 1: mystery magazines, but through informants, and one way or another
- 13:08Speaker 1: they all have to be paid off otherwise we look
- 13:12Speaker 1: at this case, if Dubisant were to know who I
- 13:14Speaker 1: really am, I'd stand a chance of not only losing
- 13:16Speaker 1: the case, but my life as well. On the way
- 13:19Speaker 1: back to my hotel, I began to wonder again about
- 13:21Speaker 1: the man would attack me there at the Musak's apartment,
- 13:24Speaker 1: who had apparently been there before looking for someone or
- 13:26Speaker 1: for me. Did he really think I was demosac or
- 13:30Speaker 1: was at all just a warning to leave this case alone.
- 13:34Speaker 1: There was only one way to find out bag in
- 13:44Speaker 1: my hotel, I arranged for another rum under the name
- 13:46Speaker 1: of Robert Matthews from Texas, USA. It was the rum
- 13:50Speaker 1: adjoining my own with a connecting door, and it's using
- 13:52Speaker 1: my best Texas drawl. I'd meet Francois Dubissant when he
- 13:55Speaker 1: came at midnight with the only diamonds fifteen million. Franc
- 13:58Speaker 1: Demusaka told him little enough for a necklace worth three
- 14:01Speaker 1: quarters of a million. But I've never yet paid a
- 14:04Speaker 1: thief for the return of stolen goods, and I had
- 14:05Speaker 1: no intention of doing so this time. I settled down
- 14:08Speaker 1: to wait for midnight, and then I suddenly realized why
- 14:11Speaker 1: I'd felt only half dressed ever since I was attacked
- 14:14Speaker 1: over into Mossok's apartment. Sure my gun was missing without it,
- 14:18Speaker 1: and if you the sound was wise to me With
- 14:21Speaker 1: the phone in the other room, the one where i'd
- 14:22Speaker 1: act out the part of the rich Texans if there
- 14:25Speaker 1: was any pointer. Hello, miss Hugh Matthews. Yep, my name
- 14:35Speaker 1: Miss Duisson.
- 14:37Speaker 3: Say.
- 14:37Speaker 1: I've been waiting to hear from you.
- 14:38Speaker 2: You are a loan this year.
- 14:40Speaker 1: Don't think I'd let anybody else in on our little deal,
- 14:43Speaker 1: do you?
- 14:44Speaker 2: I hope not. I can be there in five minutes.
- 14:46Speaker 1: Yeah and a time, you say. I'm just laying here
- 14:48Speaker 1: in bed reading of myself.
- 14:50Speaker 2: You have the necessary money.
- 14:53Speaker 1: Just finished taking it out of the hotel safe.
- 14:56Speaker 2: If we're able to make what you call a d show,
- 15:00Speaker 2: can wai? But I must inform you I will come
- 15:02Speaker 2: to your home prepared for any shall we say exigency?
- 15:07Speaker 3: Now, sir, the gonna carry it does silenself, I'll be here.
- 15:18Speaker 1: I suddenly had an idea that might that might possibly work.
- 15:22Speaker 1: Out of a small rug, a pair of shoes, and
- 15:24Speaker 1: a couple of other things, I fashioned a dummy, laid
- 15:26Speaker 1: it carefully in the bed in the other room, after
- 15:28Speaker 1: making sure the head of that bed was toward the door.
- 15:31Speaker 1: I pot of a couple of pillows, so that even
- 15:33Speaker 1: if there really been someone, and if only the outline
- 15:35Speaker 1: under the covers would be visible. I'd have the cigarette
- 15:38Speaker 1: burning in an ash tray, propped up a magazine from
- 15:41Speaker 1: the doorway. Then it looked like someone lying there, reading
- 15:43Speaker 1: and smoking, I hoped. I unscrewed a light bulb and
- 15:46Speaker 1: then stood behind a slightly opened Johnny door. Come in, man,
- 15:52Speaker 1: come in. You are very foolish, Mathew. Do to say
- 15:56Speaker 1: you are playing the money from the hotel safe? The
- 15:59Speaker 1: night clock informed me otherwise. Also, he confessed it was
- 16:03Speaker 1: you took both of these homes. Wait tell you anything
- 16:07Speaker 1: to say?
- 16:08Speaker 4: I told you Dalla was here because of the jewel, Francois.
- 16:11Speaker 1: I'm not a shepherd, so I net you may dispose
- 16:15Speaker 1: of him once and thought close the door.
- 16:17Speaker 4: No, look, there's a dummy in that there, right, Dalla
- 16:25Speaker 4: has no gun now and if he's here, Fransoise, don't worry.
- 16:31Speaker 4: First we cry out of the room.
- 16:34Speaker 1: I nudged open the adjoining door and want everything I had.
- 16:36Speaker 1: I pitched the light bulb across the room at the
- 16:38Speaker 1: fire wall.
- 16:39Speaker 6: No I didn't here.
- 16:40Speaker 1: Then I drove in lower. At the first time I
- 16:42Speaker 1: can reach.
- 16:49Speaker 4: A bad mistake, Dunny, because I have begun, I.
- 16:55Speaker 1: Suppose I should have known an actually.
- 16:57Speaker 4: The last mistake because of the silent said, nobody will
- 17:00Speaker 4: ever know.
- 17:01Speaker 1: I'm sure, I'm sure, oh dear, thanks to my sack,
- 17:11Speaker 1: like the US arrangements, But such a pity, monsieur, huh,
- 17:15Speaker 1: that I should stoop so low as to strike a
- 17:17Speaker 1: beautiful woman. Of course, the fact that has saved my
- 17:20Speaker 1: life five thousand, sure, five thousand. Of course there'll be
- 17:33Speaker 1: some fancy in the national legal procedure necessary, but I'm
- 17:36Speaker 1: sure the company can arrange for return of the necklace
- 17:38Speaker 1: to the United States as dubasan and the lovely but
- 17:41Speaker 1: treacherous Anette. Well, the Paris police are making the arrangements
- 17:44Speaker 1: for them, and I'm sure they won't be very pleasant. Ones.
- 17:48Speaker 1: Expense account total in putting a couple of nights on
- 17:50Speaker 1: the town five thousand and four demosak and deluxe transportation
- 17:53Speaker 1: back home fifty eight hundred and seventy eight dollars even wow. Oh, incidentally,
- 17:59Speaker 1: I met a luscious little on that return trip who
- 18:01Speaker 1: was and let's not go into that, yours truly, Johnny Dollar,
- 18:18Speaker 1: here's our star to tell you about next week's story.
- 18:21Speaker 1: Next week, A foggy night on the Embarcadero in San
- 18:24Speaker 1: Francisco in the shadows a Killer. Join us, won't you?
- 18:28Speaker 1: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. Yours Truly Johnny Dollar, starring Bob Bailey,
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- 18:46Speaker 1: Jack Johnstone. Heard in our cast were Virginia, Greg Boris Lewis,
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- 19:03Speaker 4: Yeah.