From Hollywood, it's time now for... Johnny Dollar. Dollar, this is Fred Starkie. Starky? Worldwide Mutual out here in Columbus, Ohio. Oh, sure, Fred. How are you? Like, Dollar, if you're free for a couple of days, I'd like to have you come one out here. Oh, what's it all about? Mrs. George Hemingway Tilford.

Ever hear of her?

Telford? No, I don't think so. Pretty wealthy, especially since a fire a few months ago. It destroyed a big lumberyard that her husband left to her. And, and, Donna, she wants to see you right away. Did she tell you why? No, she's being very mysterious about it. Hmm, something to do with that lumberyard fire, I suppose.

Well, she simply wouldn't say about it. Something to do with that lumberyard fire, I suppose.

Well, she simply wouldn't say, but she insists on having you come out to see her. Well, as long as your company won't quibble over the expense account. As, I guess we're stuck for it. Plus, my usual fee, of course. Well, now, that depends on what you mean by usual. Let's talk about it when I get there.

CBS Radio brings you 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.

Please. fabulous freelance insurance investigator. Yours truly. Johnny Dollar. Expense accounts submitted by special investigator Johnny Dollar

to the worldwide mutual insurance company Columbus, Ohio office.

Following as an account of expenses incurred during my investigation of the lost by a hair matter.

Expense account item 1, 4175, plane fare from Hartford to New York to Columbus, Ohio.

It was after 2 a.m. on the Big Silverbird dropping off at Port Columbus Airport. Item 2.250 for a taxi into the Deshler Hilton. There was no time to rouse Fred Starkey out of bed, so item 3, 1420 for a nightcap, a comfortable room there in the hotel, and the kind of brunch late the next morning. So late, as a matter of fact, that I had to wait for Starkey to come back from his lunch before I could see him at the Office of Worldwide Mutual. See him and ask him questions. Sorry, darling, but she just won't say. Yeah, well, now look, Fred, I like to know something about a case I've come this far to handle. And not even sure there's a case here. Well, you told me that she owned a big lumberyard, that it burned down some months ago. Exactly nine weeks ago. All right, how much insurance? Dollar was a total loss. It cost the company 330,000. Wow, way. Fortunately, it was underinsured. Underinsured? Now, these days, the ground alone out there is worth that much. How'd where? It's near Minerva Park. Arson by any chance? No. No sign of it whatsoever. She, uh, possibly need the money? Hardly. Her husband left her over a quarter of a million on securities when he died a couple of years ago. No. Nothing suspicious at all, huh? Except that suspicious mind of yours. Listen, Johnny, I didn't say her wanting to see you has anything to do with that fire. That was your idea. Maybe she just wants to look at you. The great admirer of yours, I understand. Oh, sure. Well, do you always expect to find arson, fraud, or murder, some sort of crime whenever somebody called on you? No, not always.

Well, that's the way it usually turns out. But don't you see if this had something to do with her insurance, she would have said as much? But if it hasn't, why did she ask for me? Well, I told you. You told me what? I don't know. I don't know why she wants to see you, but I'm willing to bet that it has nothing to do with that fire.

500 bucks?

500. Oh, I don't know. I don't know why she wants to see you, but I'm willing to bet that it has nothing to do with that fire.

500 bucks?

500 bucks.

Friend, how do I get there?

Item four, a $50 deposit on a rental car,

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