I always say if you take a trip halfway around the world you've got to expect you'll get your

ticket punch.

This is another in the adventures of America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator, Johnny

Dollar.

At insurance investigation, Johnny Dollar is only an expert.

At making out his immense account.

He is an absolute genius. Spent account submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar.

News, the Constant Sun Trading Company, Cairo Echeus.

And may I say this is an unexpected pleasure.

The one thing I didn't expect to bump into

during this case was somebody to pay the bill. It started out being my answer to a fire alarm run 12,000 miles away by an old wartime friend.

It wound up being a game of who gets chilled first, with a bunch of guys who suddenly declared themselves a small peacetime war.

The difference of opinion arose over a little hassle, I might call, the expiring nickels and the Egyptian jackpines.

The transit out, item one.

$2,200.

Air transportation from Little Old Connecticut to Big Old French Indo, China.

Or specifically in Hartford to Hapony.

That's why I got off the plane to take a breather, but after smelling the air and getting

hit in a place with a bucket full of lukewarm raindrops, I got right on another plane

bound for my destination, so I'd been summoned by an urgent cable, Calcutta.

We took off on instruments in the downpour of a drenching monsoon

was like climbing up a waterfall blindfolded.

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