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 expense account,

he is an absolute genius.

Spence accounts, submitted by special investigator Johnny Dollar,

who's the Constant Sun Trading Company, Cairo Egypt.

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 rung 12,000 miles away by an old wartime frang.

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 jackpot.

France account, item one. $2,200. Air transportation from little old Connecticut to big old French into China,, or specifically Hartford to Hapenay.

That's why I got off the plane to take a breather.

But after smelling the air and getting hit in the face

with a bucket full of lukewarm rain drops,

I got right on another plane bound for my destination,

where I'd been summoned by an urgent cable, Calcutta.

Oh! destination, where I'd been summoned by an urgent cable, Calcutta.

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

It was like climbing up a waterfall, blindfolded.

We got chased up to 20,000 feet,

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