The Laughing Matter - Ep 5

From Hollywood it's time now for Johnny dollar would you ask? Was there some doubt about it? No, but I was falling cat and parral. He's out of his office at the moment What's the matter Burton somebody shooting at you again? That's not funny mr. Dollar who's laughing Anything but a laughing I said who's laughing and except for the whims of fate

It might well be me lying good at this moment and that's really why you're upset isn't it Burton because it might have been you You're not really concerned about Al's death. I was extremely fond of the boy.

You were no fonder of him than he was of you, so save that good old lovable Charlie business for your television audience. I never did buy it myself. Dollar, may I remind you that your position- I know my position in it.

I'm an ensignator to protect your life, because some company was crazy enough to write a half million dollar policy on you. All right, you're still alive, aren't you? Goodbye, Burton. Tonight and every weekday night, Bob Bailey and the transcribed adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account, America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator.

Yours truly? Johnny Dollar. From Special Investigator Johnny Dollar, location in Sonata, Mexico, to the home office, Union State's casualty company Hartford, Connecticut. Assignment? The Laughing Matter. Expense account final page. Item 12. 50 cents. Two bottles of beer.

One for myself and one for Capitan Parral. We sent him his office in the commandancia day police and drank them slowly and watched the sun sink behind the sink behind the headlines across the bay, and we waited. The daytime heat reluctantly loosened its grip, and the town, pushing off the lethargy of afternoon, stirred to the quickened pace of