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Rocky Jordan: Man from Damascus (EP1190s) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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the radio program that started my interest in old time Radio Rocky Jordan, so
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he is not a traditional detective, but I remember you've mentioned playing the show
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sometime in the future, and just to listen to any episode will make anyone
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agree. He fits into the hard boiled detective category, even in far away
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Egypt. Written in a time when many had no idea what such a place
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like downtown downtown Cairo was like I dream of one day walking the streets looking
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for the tambourine. Thank you for all your work providing background information on the
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episodes you present. My favorites are Johnny Dollar, Pat Novak, and Jeff
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Reagan. Thanks again, and we'll be glad to grant that request. And
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a little background on Rocky Jordan. Rocky Jordan actually began over the radio as
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a man named Jordan. The series aired during World War Two and was set
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in Istanbul rather than Cairo. In many ways, the series has got an
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almost Casablanca feel to it. You have an American cafe owner living in Cairo,
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unable to go home due to some undisclosed trouble, and stumbling into one
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amazing adventure after another. For all but the last season of the series run,
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the star of the program was Jack Moyles, who we hear on the
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lineup as Sergeant Carter. And really moyles career was mostly a series of character
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roles. This is his most famous starring role and he does quite well in
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that part. So for today's episode of Rocky Jordan, I've chosen the next
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episode I haven't listened to in that series. So here from June the twelfth
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of nineteen forty nine is The Man from Damascus final or Rocky Jordan. Not
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far from the Musque Sultan Hassan in Cairo stands the Cafe Tambourine run by Rocky
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Jordan. The Cafe Tambourine, crowded with forgotten men, live with the babble
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of many languages. For this is Cairo, where modern adventure and intrigue unfold
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against a backdrop of antiquity. To Night's story, The Man from Damascus Damascus,
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capital of Syria, population three hundred thousand or self. They say it's
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the oldest city in the world that people still live in. I wouldn't know,
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but I do know there's a street in Damascus named the street called Straight.
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And I also know I once met a man from Damascus and he was
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as twisted as they come. Go back to a hot Wednesday afternoon. Chris
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was at the bar serving up some arak, and I was standing at the
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front of the cafe looking out into the Cairo streets. That's when an old
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man dressed in a boy's postal uniform and riding a bicycle stopped in front of
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the tambourine. When he came in, he was carrying a wet envelope in
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his hand for the mister Jordan one special delivery letter. Did mister Jordan sign
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his name on his land mister Jordan, would thanks here, pap by yourself
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an ice cube shak. There was a white envelope with some dirty finger smudges
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and the Cairo postmark. There was no return address. I looked at it
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for a moment, then threw it open. The first thing I saw,
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flattened crisp, was a pack of Egyptian pound notes, and I did a
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quick tabulation one thousand Egyptian pounds five thousand American dollars and clip to the money
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was a short note partial payment for services to be rendered one thousand pounds.
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I'm waiting for you at sixteen Sharia el Nazar seven o'clock this evening will be
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fine and I was signed the Man from Damascus. Well, I don't take
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easily to somebody's bidding. Someone wants to see me, he comes to me,
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so I put the money in the safe. But figure that wasn't the
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end of the Man from Damascus. Exactly seven o'clock that evening, I knew
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I had figured, right, Rocky, what is it christ to see you?
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He's in your office. I tried to stop. Oh that's all right,
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and sort of expecting him. I mean looking guy. Want me to
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come with you? No, no, I'll handle it. Take over the
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till hello, jover, make yourself at home. Yeah, that's what I'm
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doing. For the good booze, too rich for your taste, party for
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the time. All right. You know, it's funny figured you differently.
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Everybody in Dan said you're a right guy. Maybe you've been talking at the
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wrong people. What do you want you? You have been talking at the
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wrong paper. Not for sale. A thousand pounds is just the start.
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There's more what that comes from, and there always is comand big shirt.
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Bottom up your shirt is seven o'clock. You got the point. I can't
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make it. That's a big mistake. Your man isn't a safe. You
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can have it back. That is not my instructions. Oh so you're just
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a like man something like that. You and me were working for the same
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man. All right, buddy, you're through talking, and there's the door.
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Get away from the door, Jordan, or a pin you to the
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wall. Seven inch blade, Jordan, the mesca steel, got it,
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I got it, all right. Put the knife away. You'll cut your
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hand, I'll I'll come with you if your boys wants to see me that
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badly. I wasn't gonna argue with a seven inch double edged blade, especially
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the way that monkey was waving in the air well. We left the tambourine,
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climbed into his car and drove through the Cairo streets out one of the
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city gates. We ended up in front of a place called the House of
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Sand shut up. Been called the Pile of Scrap because that's what it looked
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like, But the knife man said it was a hotel. Two minutes later,
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my pal knocked on the door of Room twelve. Who's that, Jordan.
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He's come for the rest of the door, taking a lot for granted,
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busty all right to me, let him come in. Gone in Jordan
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and meet your new bolls. I walked inside my pal with a knife,
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shut the door behind me and stayed outside. Then I saw him, a
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man from Damascus. He was tall and big, but I couldn't tell what
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he looked like. His whole face was wrapped in bandages. Reminded me of
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those pictures I once saw the Invisible Man. Hello, mister Jordan. Nice
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of you to come sit down. Ah, I'll take it standing. Well,
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let's go to meet again, is it not, mister Jordan again?
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You do not remember? You should the Mascus nineteen thirty nine. Well maybe
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it's my new appearance. I had a face. Then what do you got?
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Now? Let's talk about da Mascus all right? You wishould drink?
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Oh? I just gave it up, mister Jordan. You wronged me in
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the Mascus, I did, Yes, you wronged me most Civie, so
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severely that I've never forgotten. And I said to myself that some day would
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come for you. Well I am here, Welcome to Cairol, Jordan.
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I'm not just talking for pleasure. You sure you get the right guy,
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and do not try to tell me you do not remember. You are the
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right men and you know it. But you are fortunate mister Jordan, how's
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that figure? I'm going to give you a chance to erase our difference and
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make a little money. Besides, you see, there's someone in Cairo that
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I want even more than you. So how I figure you are going to
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bring him to me. His name is Alexako. Zako is pretty big order,
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I know, but I think you can do it. And police have
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had a dragnet out for two weeks trying to track him down, and I
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want to get to him before they do. I think you can bring him
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to me. You know Cairo better than any man I know of. You
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know where men like zak Or would hide and how to get to him.
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Ah. Sorry, friend, you've got the wrong Jordan, listen to me.
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I would find him myself if I could. I just do not know
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Cairo. I cannot go wandering around like this. I'm giving you a chance
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to square a dirty deal and make a little money. On the side.
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I will double that thousand pounds and call off our little difference. What have
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you got against Sarko? He took something from me? What my face?
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Oh? I want to find him, Jordan, I must. I do
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not know what it is to feel that you can never walk the streets again
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without a covering the thing you once called a face. Well, what about
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it, mister Jordan, Uh, no deal. You got a private vendetta
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with Zako. Keep it that way. Yeah, there's one thousand pounds back
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by yourself, another boy. I walked out of the House of Sam and
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the knife man was gone. I found a taxi and headed back for the
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Tambourine. Alec Sarko, Yeah, all around, no good guy. The
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Egyptian police wanted him on an attempted assassination Espina's work with an assorted killing or
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two thrown in. The police had all the roads covered, the trains and
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the flights out of the city. They figured they had him bottled up pretty
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well. It was just a matter of time before they bundled him. At
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the tambourine, I drew myself a beer, found the back table and did
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some thinking about the man and the bandages in the city of Damascus. What's
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up Rom? Oh nothing, Chris, just thinking, Hey, you do
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you ever hear me talk about Damascus? Damascus? Yeah, spent nine months
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there once, working for an oil company. I don't remember saying anything about
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it. Why nothing, He's trying to bring back a little memory. Drop
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it, it doesn't matter. I'll get back me. Gentlemen, you are
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mister Jordan. That's right. May I talk with you please? It will
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take for a moment, all right, Chris, I'll talk to you later
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now, Thank you, mister Jordan. I did not wish to trouble you,
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but I found that I had no other course. My name is Sandra
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Marr. I'm from Damascus in Syria. You're traveling and Cairo's on the Grand
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Tour. This is not a trip for pleasure. I'm looking for someone.
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If his name is Alexarko, you got lots of company. No, his
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name is not Alexako. It is Paul Mar. It is my husband,
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al Mar. I don't know any one by that name. You may not
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know him by his name, mister Jordan. I am positive that you have
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met him. How do you figure that? Paul said he had some business
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in Cairo. He left Damascus four days ago with a man whose name I
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do not know, but he was the same man who left the tambourine with
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you earlier to night. It is my belief that he took you to see
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Paul. Oh, I get it. I tried what I was not able
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to follow you through the streets of Cairo. So I've waited outside your cafe
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till you returned. I must see Paul. Would you take me to him?
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No? Would you tell me then? Where he is, mister Jordan.
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Paul's business, as he calls it, It is the trouble, some
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terrible sort of trouble. I know. Oh, you're right there. He's
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a fine man, mister Jordan, a wonderful man, but things have not
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gone well since his face. He's in trouble and I've got to help him.
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He's got a revenge young lady with a guy named Zarko and me.
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There's nothing fine about that venge. Poor Oh no, it must be something
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else. He's not that kind of man. Then you don't know him very
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well. It is true we have not been married for long. Look,
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why don't you just go back to Damascus and forget it. You're in for
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trouble here, something's gonna happen. Where is Paul, mister Jordan. A
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place called the House of Sand, out of the city through the gate of
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the Bar El Nazer. TAXI will take it. Thank you, mister Jordan.
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I shall not forget the help you've given me. She walked out of
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the tambourine, and I hope that that'll be the last I'd see of her.
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And the Man from Damascus and Alexargo. How vain can your hopes be?
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Sometimes? Well, we rolled the last on the cuff customer out of
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the tam about one fifteen in the morning. Chris threw the lock on the
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front door, and I douse the lights. I'll just go out the backwater,
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all right, Chris. Right, Rocky, the cow hind the god
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can't quick an Jance Jordham Vengance, Rocky, you're in Jonah White Christian.
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Well if you do, and you are not, Dad and I will come
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for you again. You are listening to the Man from Damascus An Adventure with
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Rocky Jordan. Remember that five o'clock Sunday afternoon is the new time for Rocky
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Jordan. So join us each Sunday at five and plan to tune in thirty
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minutes earlier to hear call the police at four thirty. So you will have
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a full hour of excitement and action. And now we take you back to
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Cairo for another adventure with Rocky Jordan, the Man from Damascus. Well after
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the Man from Damascus threw those slugs at me. I took out after him,
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chasing him through the darkened streets. But it's easy to lose someone in
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the whining Cairo streets, and that's just what I did. I get back
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to the Cafe Tambourine about forty five minutes later, and Chris wasn't there alone.
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Captain Sam Sabayah Cairo police was there too, waiting for me. Well,
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Jordan, so you've returned. Sam brings you here this time of night?
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I phoned him rock I told him I thought you'd be better, all
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right, Chris, see you tomorrow. Sure, good night, Captain,
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good night. Well Jordan, I'm waiting, waitning. What's it for you
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to tell me what this is all about. There's nothing to say, Jordan.
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The man who shot at you from the alley called out vengeance. This
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much, Chris told me. Therefore, I can assume that this man is
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after you for some hurt he believes you have inflicted upon you. It's close.
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What is it that you have done to in Jordan? Teach me,
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Sam, Jordan, how can you expect me to pay? Sam? I
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don't know. Then I shall let that pass. Jordan. Who is this
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man who shot at you. I'm afraid that's my business. I'll just handle
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it my own ways. Don't stop worrying about it. You got your hands
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full with Alexako. Fear not, we will capture Alexarker. Tell me,
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has Zarko something to do with this shooting? You mean that he throw those
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slugs at me? Now I meant exactly what I said. Does Zarco have
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anything to do with the shooting? Maybe? Jordan, you you are most
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exasperating, just a little trick I picked up in my travels. Very well,
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very well. I cannot force you to speak. However, I wish
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to warn you that if someone else is injured, some innocent party drawn into
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this private conflict of yours, I shall hold you responsible. Oh thanks,
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Sam, I swell of you. No one will get hurt, believe me,
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except maybe the friend of mine. For your sake, I hope you
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arrived. I would not wish to use my office, Jordan, to have
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you expelled from Cairo. I started out bright and early the next morning to
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see if I could find the man from Damascus. Stop number one was the
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House of sand Room twelve. I founded on the door. No answer.
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I rattled the doorknob, and the door came open. I went in.
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I could see why no one had bothered to throw the lock. The room
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was empty. Paul mar the man from Damascus, had done a quick checkout.
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I moved down to the front desk to see if I could get a
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forwarding address. Sitting in a rocking chair rolling back and forth was a wrinkled
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relic left over from the days of the Pharaohs. A shortling sound was coming
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from her throat, and then I saw why she was reading a US comic
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book called The Phantom Menace. A lady, Hey lady, you got a
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customer man. You are observing an old lady being devoured by pleasure. Well,
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I'm certainly glad you're having fun, but could you give me a minute?
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Oh the Phantom man it is captured the brick Brawn thrust team in wire
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and is dipping his head first into a barrel of pickle brine. One hundred
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times I have been consumed with you. Well, if you can grab hold
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of yourself for a minute, you can earn a pound note in my lefter.
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It suddenly left me fine. Look, I'm trying to get a forwarding
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address on number twelve. That would be a short fat man with a board
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spat a cellar of fly paper. That'd be a big man with bandages on
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his face. Cellar of death. This comes higher than fly paper? Could
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you make it two pounds? I could lash now that I find a fortune
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and my fingertips I cannot claim it. What does that mean? I do
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not know where your friend has gone, and indeed you I'm not the only
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one who is seeking him. A young lady came this morning. She said
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she was his wife. Where she go I gave her room ten. She
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said she would wait to see you for her husband returned. If you wish
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to see her, I can call no, no, no, What time
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did number twelve leave? Six this morning? By taxi? I called one?
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You know the driver? Do I know he may help him? No?
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Good? Evil talk name halli Ama residents three or three shari shaming.
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It is worth two pounds just to mention his name. He keep it and
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thanks? Going back to your reading, shall I shall once again beating X?
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And she did. I left her sitting there waiting. The pages looked
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up Holly. Ama cost me two more pounds to open him up, and
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only could say it was that he left mar off at an all night dive
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called the Harem, so that was my next stop. A couple of hundred
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pounds of back was pushing a wet rag over the counter in slow motion.
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Redheaded englishman deep in his cups was throwing dots at a picture of a deame
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short of clothes. What I was looking at was a guy at the end
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of the bar, tilling a bottle of beer. It was the knife man
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who had first taken me to see Paul Marr. I moved his way,
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but he saw me and let out for the back door. I took out
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after him, fast, like the super chief on a down grade. He
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took me through the backyard, over a fence, across an empty lot,
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but I put a stop to the marathon with the flying tackle, and we
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rolled into a mound hole. He reached for his knife, but I need
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him new. Fight started to go out of him. All right, where
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is he? Who? You know? Who? Let Damascus? Friend of
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yours? Paul mar How did you know he's Nate? It doesn't matter.
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I went Now it's this address. You're not worry, Jordan. He will
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come to you and I can't wait. I'll give it your knee the address
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I can not death you'll try a face full of money. All right ahead,
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they did one dozen forty two Sharaiafaca a small hotel by the name of
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Little Nile. Okay, I'm gonna put you on ice at the Tambourine.
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Chris will take care of You'll have a chance to tell to your boss alone.
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The Little Nile was a termite trap on Sharifakar, and Mar was holed
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up the second floor back. I stood in front of his door a few
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minutes later, listening, trying to catch any sounds from inside. Right near
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a thing, I tried the doorknob easily. The door was locked, so
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I took a deep breath and all the rock and wood gave way. First
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thing I saw in the darkened room was the figure sitting in a chair across
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the room, facing the door. The second thing I saw with the bandages
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around his face, so I knew it was Paul Mar. And the third
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thing I saw was the Italian made gun in his hand, pointing towards me.
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Why has kept you so long? Drod, Oh right, sorry,
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I didn't know you were waiting. I would not advance. Taught me any
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more steps, Jordan, that is wise. Well you have come I had
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assumed that if I did not kill you last night, would come to me.
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That saved me parading my conspicuous appearance through the Cairo streets. So you
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have found me, but unfortunately I have the gun. You're not gonna kill
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me here. Ma Sabaya knows you're after me. You'll never get out of
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the city with those bandages. You may be right, Jordan, perhaps I
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will not kill you. My original proposition still holds. Bring Alexako to me,
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and our little difference shall be forgotten. I've forgotten it already. Sure,
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then I want Zacho. I want him more than I want you or
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anything else. Bring me to Sundra's in town. Your wife, she's in
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Cairo looking for you. She's at the House of sand right now, waiting
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for you to come back. No I saw she came to me to ask
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about you. Know. She thinks a lot of you. She doesn't believe
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you're the kind of a guy to have a vendetta on. She doesn't believe
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you could kill me or Zarko regardless of what he did. You think,
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Stop it, Juddy, not unnerve me. Do not attempt to change the
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subject. I want Zacho even more than you. I will let you go
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if you help me. Yes, I shall show you my good faith by
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throwing my gun into the corner. It was a mistake. Mar You know
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I can't help you. I told you once already and that still goes.
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I'm not punning into a private feud what I am, George say, Wow,
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get around, don't you. I know you well enough Jordan to realize
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that you would not allow someone to shoot at you and then forget it.
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So when you would not tell me who had done it, I knew too
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that if I followed you long enough, you would lead me to him.
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You always do. Look, Sam, this is a private thing between March.
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I have told you once, Jordan. Violence is not a private matter.
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I will not allow killing if I can help it, and I will
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not allow you, Jordan or mister mar do interfire with the police capture of
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Alexako and you haven't got him yet, eh No, but I should have
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him in time, mister Marshall, not mister Maher. You will please remove
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the bandages from your face. I said that you will please remove your bandages.
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Letter do it? SAME's not killing very well? Very well? Then
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I shall remove my band address. I shall step into the light, gentlemen,
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so that you may see all, so that you may see what was
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once a face. I watched Paul Mar unwind the bandages, uncovering first what
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once was a chin, then the battered skin around the cheeks, the nose
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over the forheat. Then I noticed his stare, a peculiar, hard kind
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of stare. Then I saw where it came from a left eye that couldn't
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blink. There, there you have it. You can see why I feel
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as I do about Alexako. I am most sorry I had to subject you
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to this, mister Mar, but I still cannot allow a personal revenge to
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interfere with my execution of the law. It is customary and Cairo in affairs
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of this nature to use the following procedure. There is a train leaving Cairo
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for Alexandria in one hour. In five minutes, you will please be on
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the train, Sam and you Jordan, shall remain in my custody until mister
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Marr has left the city. And what about Alexako, He is and shall
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remain my problem. You have then one hour, mister ma I will meet
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you at the Cairo station to make certain you have boarded the train. Now
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you may put the bandages back on your face. Well, Sam and I
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left Paul Mar at the hotel and headed for police headquarters. We didn't talk
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much about Paul, was nothing to say. I was still trying to figure
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out in my mind what I could possibly have done to him and Damascus.
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But nothing came, and seeing him or what was left of him stirred no
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memory. At headquarters, Sam had a few things to do, so did
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I. I put in a call in the House of sand and asked for
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Sandra Mar. Yes, this is Sandra Mar mis Mar, This is Rocky
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Jordan. Oh, how did you know I was here? Never mind that,
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it's something I want to tell you. How about Paul sort of throw
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your clothes in a suitcase and go back to Damascus. Oh, I thought
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you had some good news for me. I thought you understood. I will
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go no place without Paul. Well, you're not going to find him in
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Cairo. The police are moving him out. Police what had the police to
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do with Paul? Paul will tell you if he wants to. Now go
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on, you got a better chance of seeing him again in Damascus and see
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if he can keep him out of trouble. Huh, good luck. Well,
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that was that. All the remains to see Paul mar climb on the
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train for Alexandria and hope he could straightened himself out, and hope too that
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he and his wife Sandra would get together. Well. A little while later
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I drove to the train station with Sam still in police customers. There weren't
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many people there on the holiday afternoon, and standing near the end of the
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platform, next to a large sign of the flying red Horse that accented his
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white bandages, was the man we were looking for, Paul Mark. Sam
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and I walked up to him and he glared at us through the slits in
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his wrappings. Well, mister Maro, you will be leaving Cairo in a
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few moments. If after a year has passed you wish to return to our
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city, write me a letter explaining your reasons, and I still see what
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can be done to make Cairo available to you once more. Mar nod As
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he climbed on the train and had headed out of the city. Sam and
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I turned and started back to his car. That's when it hit me and
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I took off in double time. Doesn't well before a train ride. I
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didn't given a come on, I chased down the platform and caught the train.
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On the corner of my eye, I could see Sam climb under the
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train father down the line. Then I shouted through the cars, going from
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one to another, looking for the man and bandages. I traveled through four
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cars before I finally spotted up when he saw me. I guess he figured
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what I had on my mind, because he took off fast going the other
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way, but I kept right after him. The train had picked up speed,
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perching him from side to side, then going around the band The momentum
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pinned him momentarily against the seat, and I was on it. His fish
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started working in the solid mind. We had ourselves to find a little fight
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there, rolling around the floor of the moving train till Sam Sabajah caught up
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with this and pulled the gun. I put a quick stop in the fight.
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George, you would please explain what the meaning of this is? Sure,
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glad to Sam. I have him take off his bandage, But Georgie
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and I don't take off the bandages, and I think you will verywhere.
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You would please remove the bandages, mister mar take him off, buddy,
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I'll take him off for it. Yeah, that's just stuff. Yeah,
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just a little more, let Sam see who you really are. Well,
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yea, I said, not poor Mar at all, but the guy you've
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been looking for for weeks, the guy who's been trying to escape your dragnet
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and get out of the city. Meet Alex Zarko. Well, the thing
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came apart at the seams. It was all an elaborate plan of Zarko's.
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The police had him trapped in the city, needed a way out, so
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he got his knife man to dig up Paul Mar in Damascus bring him to
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town. Then he had Mar all wrapped up in bandages, create a fuss
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like his revenge against me, which was strictly a phony, nothing too serious,
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just enough to get himself run out of Cairo. Then Zarcho takes his
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place, wraps himself in the bandages, and starts to leave, almost with
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a police escort. It would have worked fine except for one thing. Mars
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disfigured face and his left eye that couldn't blink. Zarcho couldn't control his and
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standing on the platform of the train station, he blinked his eye once and
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that was once too awful. Well, all that remained was Paul Mar and
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his face, and Sandra and later in Sabayah, we've got talking about that,
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Jordan. Where do you suppose Paul Mary is now in the house of
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sand I told him Sandra was there waiting for him. You realize, of
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course, that I must send some men to apprehend him. Yeah. Why
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do you suppose he allowed himself to aid elk Zarko. Put yourself in his
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place, face like his and a lot of desperation. He's working a business
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deal, getting money anyway he could figuring he use the dough of plastic surgery
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job make him look like a human being. Again, Yes, quite so,
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you understand, mar We'll have a jail sentence to serve for aiding a
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criminal, and it may be possible for me to confiscate the money Zarko gave
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you. Sure, if you worked on it, you could possibly take the
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dough from That is, if you don't forget that he's got Are you suggesting,
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Jordan, that I deliberately allow myself to forget that a financial arrangement existed
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between Martin Sarko. That's try to say, Jordan, I have always suspected
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you are an un scrupulous man. It's sure, I am remember the time
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I tried to sell that many Carlo Swindler a half interest in the Tombs of
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Memooks. Remember no, no, I guess I've forgotten. Perhaps I am
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getting old. My memory is not what it used to be. Thanks,
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see you soon. It's CBS again at the same time next week for another
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story of adventure and intrigue, when we take you back to Cairo and the
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Cafe Tambourine run by Rocky Jordan's. Rocky Jordan's, starring Jack Moyles in the
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title role, is produced and directed by Cliff Powell, with original music by
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Richard Durant. Tonight's story by Adrian Jondeau and Larry Roman. Light with Luigi
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will be heard tonight at eight over most of these stations. Larry Poor speaking,
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This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System. Welcome back. Well,
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just a great episode. Here I mentioned that for all but the last season,
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Jack Moyles played the role of Rocky Jordan. The series was canceled in
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nineteen fifty and returned as a summer replacement in nineteen fifty one from June through
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August with George Raft starring in the role, and Raft did an audition in
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the script he used from for the audition was actually the Man from Damascus.
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Rocky Jordan was so well beloved that it was one of those series CBS really
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took a look at bringing back for five day a week serials, and in
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the case of Rocky Jordan, it had that background of being on five days
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a week for two years from forty five to forty seven as a man named
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Jordan. And in that case, for the revived Rocky Jordan, they had
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Jackie Jack Moyles once again do the audition, though it didn't quite make it
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