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Fri, Apr 30, 1954
While visiting friends working for a circus, Lanyard becomes aware of an insurance investigator who has been assigned to the circus trying to discover where a large sum of money from a robbery might be. Lanyard wants no part of the investigation, but circumstances give him little choice.
Fri, May 14, 1954
Lanyard is recruited by the Govt. to find out where all the top criminals have been disappearing to. He is to contact an agent named Anson is New York. Upon contact Anson is killed and the only lead he leaves Lanyard is key to the Blue Lantern dance hall. The attempt to infiltrate fails and his next gamble takes him to the Blue Lantern in New Orleans where he is more successful and the final key to the puzzle leads him to the Copper Mountain Lodge in Nevada.
1955
Lanyard flies into Beverly Hills from Reno and checks into the Beverly Hills Hotel. The clerk informs him he's already checked in...by his wife. Mrs. Michael Lanyard is waiting in his room with a story that they married in Reno and a license to prove it. Lanyard plays along for awhile as he tries to figure out who is playing the joke on him. The game stops being amusing when one of his friends is furious with him and Lanyard has no idea why.
1954
Micahel Lanyard arrives on a small Pacific Island after receiving a cable for help from an old friend named Suva Polege. He is an islander who is a Yale graduate and a credit to his country. After some inquiries to his whereabouts Lanyard is detained and questioned by the police. They claim that Suva has reverted to the savage ways of his ancestors and is stirring up the natives with barbaric rituals. Lanyard can't believe this of his friend and will have to find him to get to the truth.