From Hollywood, it's time now for...

Johnny Dollar. Hi, Johnny. This is Steve Kilmer, Providential Life and Casualty. Steve, it's been a couple of years. Yeah, I know. Listen, Johnny, how'd you like to attend a wedding? Well, why not as long as it isn't mine? Yeah, I know what you mean. Oh, you're a bachelor, too, huh?

Well, I would be, if it weren't for a wife, four kids, and a couple of grandchildren. Whoops. Johnny, do you by any chance remember Martha Mayfield, Merriman? The old gal down in New York who owns Consolidated Tire and Rubber Company? Yeah, and a half a dozen other companies. Well, sure, one of my old sweethearts.

Don't you remember back in 57 when I cleared up that false report of her death?

I thought she rigged out herself in order to make a killing in the stock market. Well, of course she did. But Steve, she must be 73 or four years old. Seventy-four. Well, don't tell me she's getting married again. No, it's her son, Edgar. Oh. But she insists that you be among those present at the ceremony. Well, now, that's kind of funny.

I wonder why. again. No, it's her son, Edgar. Oh. But she insists that you be among those present at the ceremony.

Well, now, that's kind of funny.

I wonder why.

Yeah, so do I.

And I wonder why she'd have me call you,

unless she anticipates trouble of some kind.

Johnny?

Okay, Steve.

I'll run on down there.

Bob Bailey, in the exciting adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account,

America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator.

Yours truly, Johnny Dollar.

And now, Act 1 of yours truly, Johnny Dollar.

Expense accounts submitted by special investigator johnny dollar to the providential life and casualty insurance company home office hartford connecticut following as an

account of expenses incurred during my investigation of the shankar diamond matter

expense account item 1780 trained in new Shankar Diamond Matter.

Expense account item one, 780,

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