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The Star of Capetown Matter - Ep 3

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar · July 18, 1956 · 14 min · 2,370 words

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From Hollywood it's time now for Johnny dollar Vantile of the Cape Town Police I was just gonna call you lieutenant You sound very strange probably from nursing and lump on my head that it put the star of Cape Town to shame No to put up a lightly somebody slug me here in my room a while ago

To keep me from sailing on the southern Empress She just shoved off and I've got a strong hunch that diamond is aboard Did he confess to Fosmurta? No, but we are fairly certain he's involved.

However, he swears he does not pay the diamond. Either he pears 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?

Man out of the harbor. He wouldn't happen to have a stray helicopter around, would you? I can make arrangements for one with a military. Can you be at the airfield in 15 minutes? Make it 10.

Tonight and every weekday night, Bob Bailey Bob Bailey in 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 Cape Town, South Africa, to the home office, traced and endomated the associates, assignment, the star of Cape Town matter, expense account continued.

I don't make care for it at the airfield where the helicopter was waiting for me. I don't know which was throbbing the most, the helicopter engine on my head. On the way out to sea I had time to try to put the pieces together.

But as usual, they didn't fit. A playboy named Andrew Forbes, and here it's a diamond called the Star of Cape Town with 150 Gs. The insurance company gets fidgety at the way Forbes is flashing the stone around.

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