Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Big H Matter 05/31/1959

Summary

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Podcast Summary

Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Big H Matter (05/31/1959)

Choice Classic Radio Detectives | Old Time Radio

Release Date: November 3, 2025
Episode Theme:
Johnny Dollar investigates a mysterious call from a devoted listener in Morro Bay, California, leading to uncovering a narcotics smuggling operation and exposing those who would do anything to keep their crimes hidden.

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Main Theme/Purpose

This episode showcases Johnny Dollar, the intrepid freelance insurance investigator, responding to an urgent and cryptic call for help from a loyal fan, Helen Dana. What appears to be a personal plea quickly turns into a life-threatening investigation as Johnny uncovers a heroin smuggling ring on California’s coastline. The narrative highlights classical detective suspense, deception, and quick wits under duress.

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Key Discussion Points & Plot Breakdown

1. A Distressed Fan’s Call for Help

• [00:21–01:19]

  • Helen Dana contacts Johnny Dollar directly. She is a great admirer of his radio exploits and, out of fear for her own safety, reaches out to him instead of the police.
  • Memorable Quote:

    “Sometimes I just don't see how you do it.” —Helen Dana [00:41]

• She cryptically describes “terrible people” that she can’t report to the police for fear of their retaliation.

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2. Insurance Company Involvement and Mystery Deepens

• [02:54–04:23]
  • Johnny contacts Roy Harkins at Greater Southwest Insurance to check Helen Dana’s credentials and explain the situation.
  • Roy confirms Helen is a client, an elderly spinster, and notes she tried to reach Johnny earlier but didn’t say why.
  • Helen cannot be reached by phone, adding urgency and concern for her safety.

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3. Arrival in Morro Bay & Suspicious Circumstances

• [05:01–07:32]

  • Johnny travels cross-country, arrives in Morro Bay, and heads to Helen’s address.

  • Greeted by “Bessie Dana,” Helen’s purported sister, who claims Helen is out at the market. However, this does not align with local reports.

  • Market manager asserts Helen “hasn’t been out of that house for weeks,” contradicting Bessie.

    “Ms. Helen hasn’t been out of that house for weeks.” —Market Manager [08:11]

  • Johnny senses deception, especially after Bessie insists Helen just returned while Johnny was away.

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4. Revelation & Peril

• [10:12–14:49]
  • Johnny discovers Helen tied up, gagged, and terrified, while Bessie’s façade drops to reveal she is part of a criminal plot.
  • Helen explains, between sobs:

    “They’re smuggling in narcotics. Heroin from way down in Mexico.” —Helen Dana [12:22]

  • Bessie and an accomplice named Pete are ringleaders, using Helen’s dock for the illicit trade and threatening her with violence and drug use.

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5. Johnny’s Captivity & Resourcefulness

• [14:36–17:40]
  • Pete and Bessie decide to “take Johnny for a ride”—an ominous euphemism for murder.
  • Johnny employs classic detective ingenuity: while being held at gunpoint in the car, he feigns extracting a cigarette but instead dumps tobacco in Bessie’s eyes.
  • Memorable Moment:

    “My eyes. My eyes. Oh.” —Bessie Dana, blinded by tobacco dust [17:39]

  • Johnny recovers the gun and subdues Pete, with the help of a passing trucker and police intervention.

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6. Resolution & Aftermath

• [17:53–18:54]
  • Pete and Bessie are arrested; Helen is safe and “tickled pink” to testify against her tormentors.
  • Johnny wraps the case and prepares to return to Hartford.

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• Helen Dana’s fandom:

  “I never miss that radio program of yours where you tell all about those exciting cases you solve.” —Helen Dana [00:36]

• Roy’s warning:

  “She demanded your phone number… but she wouldn’t say why.” —Roy Harkins [03:47]

• Johnny’s suspicion:

  “There was something very funny here, but I wasn’t sure just what.” —Johnny Dollar [07:32]

• Helen, on the criminal scheme:

  “They’re smuggling in narcotics. Heroin from the way down in Mexico.” —Helen Dana [12:22]

• Johnny’s quick thinking:

  “Just digging out a cigarette, if you don’t mind.” —Johnny Dollar [15:22, 17:01]

• Johnny’s resolve:

  “If it hasn’t [happened], I’ve got to do everything I can to prevent it.” —Johnny Dollar [05:35]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Distressed Call: [00:21–01:19]
• Insurance Contact & Suspicion: [02:54–04:23]
• Arrival & Misdirection: [05:01–08:11]
• Confrontation in the House: [10:12–12:49]
• Exposition of Smuggling Ring: [12:22–13:47]
• Johnny's Capture: [14:36–15:56]
• Escape & Police Intervention: [17:34–18:54]
• Wrap-up: [18:54–19:22]

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Overall Tone & Style

The episode maintains the brisk, suspenseful storytelling and crackling dialogue typical of classic radio detective dramas. Johnny Dollar is wry, unflappable, and resourceful, while the villains are sharp and menacing. Helen’s vulnerability and bravery add a touch of humanity and warmth to the otherwise taut plot.

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For Listeners Who Missed the Episode

This episode is a quintessential example of "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar," featuring a seamless weave of real danger, quick-witted heroics, and the personal touch of a fan reaching out to her radio hero. In under 20 minutes, the story races from a cryptic call for help to a perilous encounter, a clever escape, and the restoration of justice.

If you love tight plotting, clever twists, and the golden-age detective charm, this episode delivers all that and more.

Transcript

[Announcer]

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[Johnny Dollar]

Johnny Lawler.

[Helen Dana]

Hi there, Johnny. This is Helen Dana.

[Johnny Dollar]

Helen Dainer.

[Helen Dana]

That's right. I live out here in Morro Bay, California.

[Johnny Dollar]

I. I see insurance with one of.

[Helen Dana]

The companies you represent, the Greater Southwest Insurance Company.

[Johnny Dollar]

Oh, yeah. I do a lot of work for them.

[Helen Dana]

But also Johnny. Do you mind if I call you Johnny?

[Johnny Dollar]

Well, no, not at all, Ms. Dana. Or is it Mrs.

[Helen Dana]

It's Miss. Or better still, just Helen. As I started to say, I not only have that insurance, but Johnny, I never miss that radio program of yours where you tell all about those exciting cases you solve. Sometimes I just don't see how you do it.

[Johnny Dollar]

Well, I hope you never find out about the ones I miss out on. But now, Ms. D, I don't think.

[Helen Dana]

I've missed a single one of your programs.

[Roy Harkins]

Good.

[Helen Dana]

I'm your most loyal listener and I think you're wonderful.

[Johnny Dollar]

Well, thanks.

[Helen Dana]

And that's why I'm calling you instead of the police about this.

[Johnny Dollar]

Well, look, Ms. Dana, I. Oh, yes. Calling about what, Johnny?

[Helen Dana]

If the police weren't able to nab them. Isn't that what you say? Nab them?

[Johnny Dollar]

Yeah, sure, but go on.

[Helen Dana]

Well, Johnny, these terrible people might suspect that I'm the one who told the police about them.

[Johnny Dollar]

What people, Ms. Stainer?

[Helen Dana]

And if that happened, well, I guess you can just imagine what they might do to me.

[Johnny Dollar]

Who are these people you're talking about? And just what is it they're up to?

[Helen Dana]

All right, Johnny, now listen carefully.

[Market Manager]

Yeah.

[Johnny Dollar]

Yes, Ms. Dana. Hello?

[Pete]

Hello? Hello? Hmm.

[Johnny Dollar]

Come on now, Dollar, don't be a sucker for a. And yet I wonder.

[Narrator]

Bob Bailey in the exciting adventures of the man with the action packed expense account, America's fabul freelance insurance investigator.

[Johnny Dollar]

Yours truly, Johnny Dollar.

[Narrator]

Oh, act one of yours truly, Johnny.

[Roy Harkins]

Dollar.

[Johnny Dollar]

Expense account submitted by special investigator Johnny Dollar to the Greater Southwest Company home office, Los Angeles, California. Following is an account of expenses incurred during my investigation of the big H matter expense account item 1275. Long distance telephone call to Hollywood 82124. That is to say, the office of Royal J. Harkins. Contact man at Greater Southwest Insurance in Los Angeles. It was late in the day, but luckily he was still in his office.

[Roy Harkins]

Nice to hear from you again, Johnny. What can I do for you, Roy?

[Johnny Dollar]

I'm putting this call on expense account.

[Pete]

That ain't all.

[Johnny Dollar]

If I could make connections down to New York. Well, let's see. There's a plane leaving for the West Coast a little after midnight, so I'd arrive in LA early in the morning.

[Roy Harkins]

You're coming out here?

[Johnny Dollar]

Unless somebody's been pulling my leg. Roy, do you have a policyholder named Helen Dana lives somewhere?

[Roy Harkins]

We certainly do.

[Johnny Dollar]

Well, now, what's that mean?

[Roy Harkins]

She's an elderly woman, a spinster, who lives up in the little town of Morro bay. That's about 200 miles north of here. Johnny, she called this office early this afternoon. She demanded your phone number there in Hartford.

[Market Manager]

And?

[Roy Harkins]

Well, I didn't give it to her.

[Johnny Dollar]

Why not?

[Roy Harkins]

Because she wouldn't say why. She wanted to get in touch with you.

[Pete]

Oh, fuck.

[Roy Harkins]

And knowing how busy you always are. Well, just a few minutes ago I began to wonder about it.

[Johnny Dollar]

Yes?

[Roy Harkins]

Well, after all, if she wanted to contact you about some insurance matter.

[Pete]

Yeah, what?

[Johnny Dollar]

Well, did you call her back?

[Roy Harkins]

Yes. Since we handle all her insurance, that is. I tried to, but I got no answer.

[Johnny Dollar]

Then, Roy, I'm gonna grab that plane I was talking about.

[Roy Harkins]

Well, now, wait. Did she get to you? Did you talk to her?

[Johnny Dollar]

Yes.

[Roy Harkins]

And it has something to do with her insurance.

[Market Manager]

Plenty.

[Johnny Dollar]

So I'm flying out there right at your company's expense.

[Roy Harkins]

Now just a minute.

[Johnny Dollar]

Unless, of course, you'd rather pay off her insurance to some beneficiary.

[Roy Harkins]

Johnny.

[Johnny Dollar]

Then just be sure to have a rental car waiting for me when I pull into the airport. Item 2, 162, 85, plane fare. The big mainliner took off from New York's International airport promptly at 12:30am At 6:30 Pacific Time I stepped off the plane at LA International. $.

[Narrator]

Over this way.

[Pete]

Oh, hi, Roy.

[Johnny Dollar]

I didn't exactly expect you to be here in person this early in the morning.

[Pete]

Well, I am.

[Roy Harkins]

Got a rental car ready and waiting for you out at the curb.

[Pete]

Good, good.

[Roy Harkins]

But listen, you still haven't told me.

[Johnny Dollar]

What this is all about because I'm not too sure myself.

[Roy Harkins]

But you sounded over the phone as.

[Narrator]

Though something's happened to the old lady.

[Roy Harkins]

Ms. Helen Dana.

[Johnny Dollar]

I mean, that's exactly the way I meant it to sound.

[Narrator]

And since I still haven't been able.

[Roy Harkins]

To get her on the telephone. Well, what.

[Narrator]

What's happened to her?

[Johnny Dollar]

I don't know. This my car?

[Roy Harkins]

That's right. Oh, start making some sense, will you?

[Johnny Dollar]

I wish I could.

[Roy Harkins]

Well, do you actually know that Something's happened to Ms. Dana?

[Pete]

Nope.

[Johnny Dollar]

But if it hasn't, I've got to do everything I can to Prevent it, Johnny. Prevent what, Royal? I only wish I knew.

[Roy Harkins]

Johnny.

[Bessie Dana]

Johnny.

[Johnny Dollar]

Thanks to an excellent highway and light traffic, I made good time through Santa Monica, then Santa Barbara, even past the famous Pismo Beach. It was just afternoon when I pulled into Morro Bay. When I stopped for gas, that's item three, 420. I looked up Ms. Helen Dana's address in the local phone book. It turned out to be a modest little frame house about half a mile south of Morrow Rock on the landward side of the bay. It had some nice, well kept flower beds in front and at the back I could see a small, rather decrepit dock that stuck out into the bay. A brand new, expensive automobile was parked on the street in front of the place. Hardly the kind of car you'd expect a sweet old lady to be driving along. Well, there was only one way to find out.

[Bessie Dana]

Yes?

[Johnny Dollar]

Ms. Helen Dana?

[Bessie Dana]

No, I'm Bessie Dana, Helen's sister. And who are you, young man?

[Johnny Dollar]

Johnny Dollar. I'm from Hartford, Connecticut. Is your sister.

[Bessie Dana]

Oh, yes, I've heard Ellen speak of you. You're no friend of hers, aren't you?

[Johnny Dollar]

Well, yes, I guess.

[Bessie Dana]

Won't you come in?

[Johnny Dollar]

Well, is she here, Ms. Dana?

[Bessie Dana]

She ought to be back from the market any minute.

[Johnny Dollar]

The market?

[Bessie Dana]

She hasn't been at all. Well, you know, that's why I've come to live with her. Sort of take care of her.

[Johnny Dollar]

I see.

[Bessie Dana]

But I did think it was all right to let her walk down to the market this morning. Would you like to come in and wait for her?

[Johnny Dollar]

Which market, Ms. Dana?

[Bessie Dana]

Well, it's the first one down the street. Do you see it? That little supermarket just two blocks away.

[Johnny Dollar]

Oh, yeah, I see.

[Bessie Dana]

So if you'd like to come in and wait.

[Johnny Dollar]

No, thanks. I'll pick her up there.

[Bessie Dana]

Well, but Mr. Dollar. Thank you very much, Mr. Dollar.

[Johnny Dollar]

There was something very funny here, but I wasn't sure just what. Or maybe I just fallen for some gag on the part of a fan on my radio program who wanted to see her favorite hero in person. In any event, there was once your way to find out from Ms. Helen Dana herself and if she was still at the market. But as it turned out, I got that well known kick in the face.

[Market Manager]

Why, of course I know Miss Helen Norwell, sir.

[Johnny Dollar]

Now, would you please point her out to me?

[Market Manager]

Ms. Helen? Ms. Helen Dana?

[Johnny Dollar]

That's right.

[Market Manager]

Oh, but she isn't here, sir.

[Johnny Dollar]

Oh, then perhaps she went to some other store.

[Market Manager]

Most certainly not, sir.

[Pete]

What?

[Market Manager]

We deliver everything that she orders to her little house up the street?

[Johnny Dollar]

Well, that still doesn't flow.

[Market Manager]

Well, you see, Ms. Helen hasn't been out of that house for weeks. Hasn't Buzz?

[Johnny Dollar]

You're. You're sure of that?

[Market Manager]

Why, of course I'm. What's the matter?

[Pete]

S.

[Narrator]

And now act two of yours truly, Johnny Dollar and the big H matter.

[Johnny Dollar]

If old Ms. Helen Dana, who telephoned me in Hartford, asked me to come out here tomorrow Bay in California. If Ms. Dana hadn't budged from her little house in weeks, why had her sister told me she was at the market? Could all this somehow tie in with the people, the terrible people she tried to tell me about on the telephone? I jumped into my car and drove back to the little home on the bay.

[Bessie Dana]

Oh, Mr. Dowling.

[Johnny Dollar]

That's right. Now where is Helen Dana?

[Bessie Dana]

Oh, sister came back while you were gone.

[Pete]

Came back?

[Johnny Dollar]

Without my seeing her? Now listen, I was.

[Bessie Dana]

Yes?

[Johnny Dollar]

Well, the manager of that market said she hasn't been out of this house for weeks.

[Market Manager]

What?

[Bessie Dana]

Oh, you must have gone to the supermarket.

[Johnny Dollar]

Well, where else?

[Bessie Dana]

And just because she isn't shopping there anymore.

[Johnny Dollar]

Now look, Ms. Dana, you told me.

[Bessie Dana]

Why don't you come in? I think she'll be terribly disappointed if you don't. You see, she's told me all about you.

[Johnny Dollar]

Now, in the couple of minutes I.

[Bessie Dana]

Was away from here, an insurance investigator. I think it's awfully thrilling. But now come in and see her. I think she's been kind of expecting you.

[Johnny Dollar]

Yeah, and if you'd like to know what I think, Miss.

[Pete]

Good lord.

[Johnny Dollar]

In the middle of the tiny living room was a heavy open armchair. Sitting in it, tied down to it, was a sweet looking gray haired lady of maybe 70 or 75. A handkerchief was lashed tightly across her mouth and the eyes behind her old fashioned steel rimmed glasses were filled with tears and a look of utter despair. I swung around to her so called sister and was struck by two things. She seemed to have suddenly lost about 20 years. Her face wore an unpleasant smirk and in her right hand was a.38 aimed at me.

[Bessie Dana]

Don't move, Mr. Dollar. This gun is not only loaded, but cocked and it has a hair trigger. Stand perfectly still because it'll be right in the middle of your back. So while I take away your gun. All right, now sit over there in that chair against the wall. You better do as I say, Mr. Dollar. Now we may have to wait a little while, so get one thing straight. Any move, any tricks and I pull this trigger.

[Johnny Dollar]

Mind telling me what we're waiting for?

[Bessie Dana]

You'll see.

[Johnny Dollar]

And why, you've tied her up that way. That is Helen Dana, isn't it?

[Bessie Dana]

Why, what's the matter, honey? Getting a little short of breath with that gag in your mouth? Then why don't I take it out for you? No, $. Not a single move.

[Johnny Dollar]

Just crossing my legs.

[Pete]

Sure.

[Bessie Dana]

Here now, honey. Don't want you to conk out on it. After all, you may be of some use before we're through with this caper. There you are, Johnny.

[Helen Dana (tied up)]

Johnny, I don't know what. These terrible people. They sneaked in while I was phoning you.

[Johnny Dollar]

Yeah, Helen, I guessed that.

[Helen Dana (tied up)]

If only you hadn't come. But I thought you. I thought maybe they're smugglers, Johnny, of the worst possible kind.

[Bessie Dana]

You tell them, honey. They ought to kill time while we're waiting for Pete and Dolla.

[Pete]

Okay, okay.

[Helen Dana (tied up)]

They're smuggling in narcotics. Heroin from the way down in Mexico.

[Johnny Dollar]

Oh, pretty smart, picking a spot as far up the coast as this.

[Helen Dana (tied up)]

If only I'd known. When this man Pete asked if he could use my dock, he said it was to tie up his boat at night when he came in from fishing.

[Johnny Dollar]

How did you get on with them, Helen?

[Helen Dana (tied up)]

When they saw I turned my lights out so early every night, they thought I was asleep. But I wouldn't notice. He wasn't taking fish off his boat, but little cans of heroin.

[Pete]

Heroin?

[Helen Dana (tied up)]

Then Bessie here, who can look so sweet when she wants to.

[Bessie Dana]

Why, Helen, I thought I was pretty sweet.

[Helen Dana (tied up)]

Then Bessie would meet him with her car.

[Johnny Dollar]

How did you know it's heroin?

[Helen Dana (tied up)]

Because they told me they'd use it on me if I don't. If I don't behave myself, which is.

[Bessie Dana]

A lot better than you'll get.

[Helen Dana (tied up)]

Dollar and besides, Johnny. Johnny.

[Johnny Dollar]

Yeah.

[Helen Dana (tied up)]

I found a little of it that was spilled on the dock. And I remembered how you described it once when you caught a man bringing in the terrible stock.

[Bessie Dana]

Yeah, she's a real smart old biddy. Except when she phoned to you. Dollar and we caught her at it. We can handle her all right with a little H in her veins. We can even let the neighbors see her now and then with me acting as her sister, taking care of her. Oh, listen, here he comes now from the dock. Just relax.

[Helen Dana (tied up)]

$.

[Pete]

Well, well, what a charming little party.

[Helen Dana (tied up)]

You're going to need this.

[Johnny Dollar]

Nice work, Betty.

[Pete]

Dollar, huh?

[Bessie Dana]

That's right. You want to take care of him, Pete?

[Pete]

So you made the mistake of coming out here. Believe me, mister, it was a mistake.

[Bessie Dana]

I said, are you going to take care of him?

[Pete]

Why, of course. Right away. We don't want him lying around here. Which is to say, $, we're gonna do something I haven't thought of since the old days in Chicago. You and I are gonna take a little ride.

[Narrator]

Act three of yours truly, Johnny Dollar.

[Johnny Dollar]

Take a little ride, huh?

[Pete]

That's right.

[Johnny Dollar]

Chicago style.

[Pete]

Exactly.

[Johnny Dollar]

$.

[Helen Dana (tied up)]

Oh, Johnny, don't you see what that means? He's going to take.

[Bessie Dana]

All right, all right, honey, just keep out of there.

[Helen Dana]

No, I won't.

[Helen Dana (tied up)]

Pete's going to kill him.

[Bessie Dana]

That's right. Now shut up.

[Johnny Dollar]

Not just about you.

[Pete]

Sit down, Bessie. Be sure you keep the gun on him.

[Bessie Dana]

Don't worry, Pete. If I had a silencer, though, I'd get rid of him here and now.

[Johnny Dollar]

Has it occurred to you, Pete, that I may have left word with them that if I'm not heard from.

[Pete]

Ah, don't try to be cute. Duller. Sure it occurred to me. I dismissed it for the simple reason that you couldn't possibly have had any reason to know what you were getting into out here. So forget it.

[Bessie Dana]

What are you gonna do with him, Pete?

[Pete]

Well, whatever it is, it'll have to wait till after dark when this one horse town closes up for the night.

[Bessie Dana]

Well, then what?

[Johnny Dollar]

Well, I've got to be sure the.

[Pete]

Dollar's body won't be found until I shut up until we're through with this operation. That means a weaker. Wait, I got it.

[Bessie Dana]

What, Pete?

[Pete]

Up on Cayucas Beach.

[Bessie Dana]

Cayucas?

[Johnny Dollar]

Yeah, the little town five or six.

[Pete]

Miles north of here. There's a big pile of rocks, a big cave in them. Nobody'd ever think of looking in there. So as soon as. What are you doing?

[Johnny Dollar]

Just digging out a cigarette, if you don't mind.

[Pete]

No, sure, go ahead. But this is one time the condemned man won't enjoy a hearty meal.

[Helen Dana (tied up)]

Johnny. Johnny, isn't there anything. To think I got you into this?

[Helen Dana]

Toes. Shut up.

[Narrator]

Listen, I told you and are you.

[Johnny Dollar]

Don't.

[Bessie Dana]

Finish him off, Pete.

[Pete]

No. Now we'll wait for dark and do it right.

[Johnny Dollar]

I guess he had really slugged me because by the time I fully came to, it was night. I was in the back seat of a car driving along the highway beside the ocean. Pete was at the wheel. Beside him, leaning over the back of the seat, watching me, was Bessie, and the.38 in her hand was aimed straight at my head. You're sure the old lady won't be able to work herself loose, Bessie?

[Bessie Dana]

I'm sure we'd had any sense, Pete, we would have brought her along on this ride, too. Would have Saved us a lot of trouble late. Oh, so you've woke up $.

[Johnny Dollar]

Yeah, yeah.

[Bessie Dana]

Just stay put in that back seat. Any funny business? I said any funny business?

[Johnny Dollar]

Just. Just trying to dig out a cigarette.

[Bessie Dana]

Stay back in that seat.

[Johnny Dollar]

Yeah, yeah. She didn't take her eyes off me for a second. Or the gun either. As clumsily as possible, I struggled with a pack of cigarettes, rolling and squeezing it and hoping the tobacco was plenty dry. Then, having apparently failed to pull out a cigarette, I turned the pack upside down over my hand. Yeah? The fine tobacco poured into its. I took a deep breath.

[Bessie Dana]

The matter, Dolly? You need some help with that? No, no. My eyes. My eyes. Oh.

[Johnny Dollar]

Instinctively, she dropped the gun, put her hands to her eyes, now filled with tobacco dust. With what little strength I had, I picked up the gun and slammed it against the side of Pete's head. It was a commercial trucker driving one of those big interstate trailer jobs who pulled off the highway to give us a hand. Yeah, somehow those boys are always around when you need them. And he used his head when he found my credentials in my pocket. He saw the whole picture in a flash. So he hailed down the first police car that came along and turned both Pete and Bessie over to them. Ms. Helen Deaner. Bless her heart. This funky little old character was tickled pink to be involved in the whole thing. Yeah, she just can't wait to go to court and testify against those two. Expense account total, including the trip back to Hartford. 447.45. Yours truly, Johnny Doll.

[Narrator]

Now here is our star to tell you about next week's story. Next week?

[Johnny Dollar]

Well, so help me, it's the wildest case I ever got messed up with. Join us, won't you? Yours truly, Johnny Dollar.

[Narrator]

Yours truly, Johnny Dollar, starring Bailey, originates in Hollywood and is written, produced and directed by Jack Johnstone. Heard in our cast were Peggy Weber, Virginia Greg, Bartlett Robinson, Joseph Kearns and Russell Thorson. Be sure to join us next week, same time and station, for another exciting story of yours truly, Johnny Dollar. This is Dan Coverley speaking.