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

Johnny Dollar.

Lieutenant Van Tile of the Cape Town Police.

I was just gonna call you, Lieutenant.

Something the matter, you sound very strange.

Probably from nursing a lump on my head

that had put the star of Cape Town to shame.

I don't understand. You found the diamond?

No. To put it politely, somebody slugged me here in my room a while ago.

Why?

To keep me from sailing on the Southern Empress, she just shoved off, and I've got a strong hunch

that diamond is aboard.

That bears out what we've learned from Julio Biak.

Did he confess to force murder?

No, but we're fairly certain he's involved.

However, he swears he does not pair of the diamond.

Either he passed it to somebody aboard the Southern Empress,

or he was chasing whoever's got it.

Lieutenant, I've got to get on that ship.

You say, it is now on the way?

And out of the harbor.

He wouldn't happen to have a stray helicopter around, would you? I can make arrangements for one with the military. Can you be at the airfield in 15 minutes?

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