The Model Picture Matter

That's a cracking Johnny universe, look just from Pure Home. Oh hi, Pat, what's in your mind? A beautiful model, name of Darcy Blair. Ooh, hey, wait. The girl with a million dollar face? That's the one.

Well, you probably got company. Mm-hmm. She's on a lot of people's minds. Well, she's no daydream to me. She's a nightmare. Oh, go. Well, that face of hers may not be worth at least 100 followers.

So? The policy? No. That's her? Sure, I'll be right over. Oh, what? Bob Bailey in the exciting adventure of the man with the action-packed expense account. America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator. Yes, truly.

Johnny Dollar. Act 1 of yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Expense account submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar. To the Home Office, Universal Adjustment Bureau, Hartford, Connecticut.

Following his kind of expenses and courage during my investigation of the model picture matter. Expense account item 1, $1.20 for taxi for a taxi from my apartment to your office, Pat, where I picked up Dorothy Blair's address and headed for New York. That's item 23620. I arrived at her apartment just as the doctor

left. Even with a couple of bandages on her face, I think you got a bargain, Pat, ensuring it for only a hundred thousand. I guess I'm lucky, Mr. Dollar. My doctor says he won't be any permanent scars.

Well, just what happened, Miss Blair? Well, I came home last evening about dinner time. I opened the door to my apartment here and started to reach for the light switch and suddenly I saw a shape beside me in the door.

Ah, and? Before I could do anything, he hit me on the side of the head. I think it was a gun. It stunned me and I fell to the floor. Then what? I remember hearing the door slam.