The Alder Matter - Ep 5

From Hollywood it's time now for Johnny darling Good No, I want to telephone with extensions No, no, I don't then you will come in for yourself. Yeah, just as fast as I can get there 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

Yara's truly Johnny Dollar From special investigator Johnny Dollar location Caracas Venezuela to the home office worldwide mutual insurance company Hartford Connecticut Assignment the older matter expense account continued at the cable office I ran into another dead-end Vic Kelly back in Hartford had come up with absolutely nothing on either Dora Janssen who called herself Dora's coal or Arthur Singer the little man she'd

hurried off an incoming liner yesterday complete strikeout I headed outside caught a glimpse of Mrs. Billy Alder watching me from across the street social life changing Mrs. Alder does being my hostess include tailing me does being on like your street constitute tailing you preserve me from amateur detectors Good morning, Mr. Dolly.

No, come on. You rushed out of the house so fast you couldn't possibly have eaten. I'll buy you a breakfast. I knew it was curiosity that made her take me up. She just couldn't resist the thought that maybe I'd give something away, let something slip.

She ate warily, tentatively. We must have looked like two boxes in a close fight sitting on the edge of their stools, waiting for the last round. The one that would decide the winner. You're staring.

Thinking. You love your husband, Mrs. Alder? There's better be a reason for a question like that. Let's stop sparring, huh? You know why I'm down here. Do I? You told me you did the other day.