Personal notice stangers my stock and trade if the job is too tough for you to handle you got a job for me George Valentine right full detail Oh Standard oil company of California on behalf of independent Chevron gas stations and standard stations throughout the West Invites you to let George do it A visit from Merlin another adventure of George Valentine My dear mr. Valentine perhaps you have heard my name Arthur Thurston Renwick or just the Renwick collection of medieval art I don't like violence or violent people so you can imagine my shock at the following episode a stranger mr. Valentine and I am habitually kind to strangers Ventured into my somewhat unusual domain Renwick Manor a little man in a tattered coat Due to certain circumstances. I was in a position of feeling it necessary to give him a small gift But before I could complete this friendly gesture the man halted me. He gave me a gift It was a 10th century dagger. Mr. Valentine stolen from my own precious collection The dagger was covered with blood My husband isn't here mr. Valentine. Thanks. Mrs. Renwick. It's a certain unusual house. Yeah Oh George look a real suit of armor not my size. Miss Brooks. It isn't a house. It's a castle You should join my staff on dusting days. You'll find out He built it on the ruins of some Spanish grandies old fortress. That's why it's so English What? Oh, don't mind me You live out here on the ocean buried in the Middle Ages and about that far from civilization With nobody to talk to but King Arthur and all seem to be plenty of people here now visiting day Thursday My husband is a frustrated professor and so the curious come in to crack up the floors and pretend they're interested in his lectures Wait, wait, there's a little man standing there. I'm sure he was short tattered old coat right in there behind you I didn't see it. He was there. I'm sure he was all of you. I'm sorry the tour is over Excuse me, but the visiting hour is done. It's well, it's the hour when we lock the castle gate I Am nervous this little strange man. He haunts me but why why and where did he disappear? Mr. Valentine? Oh look, mr Renwick, I think you'd better start at the beginning and you met my wife She's sarcastic and complains but we really get along quite well together. You've seen my house my castle It's strange and you say I'm eccentric because I am The antiquarian the man who ran away from the present. So we see this book. I Think what I'm trying to tell you first is that despite all this worship of the past the Middle Ages I'm not crazy a man with a love. Yes a man to be laughed at No, nobody's laughing. Mr. Renwick, but the study now here's what happened This is a very peaceful place Actually, my only regret is the lack of interest shown by other people in the gray dusty part of the history That's my specialty So you can imagine my reaction about two months ago when a man one of the usual Thursday visitors spoke up and corrected me on a point of English history pre-norman, of course But well, I investigated the man was quite correct. That's the same little tattered man Yes, and when he showed up again the following Thursday, I complimented him He only shrugged his shoulders went off snooping around more looking at everything. That's it. He only looked He seems to want to study over everything. I have my entire collection. Hold on. Hold on a second Will you please I did a little research myself You have right here in your house several hundred thousand dollars worth of gems early bracelets crowns that sort of Valentine I may be eccentric but I'm no fool The gem collection is not in the house It's in the keeper you get real authentic stone walls over the bend and that's all thing But guarded by my own private guards and they use the latest locks and latest guns I assure you bond and men who've been with me for years listed with the police with the dot even they could get away with anything No, no, it's not I'm afraid of but the dagger was stolen. Yes from this case right here But it's the man I'm afraid of You see he came back and came back the guards had several run-ins with him for a crack-packing But he always had an excuse then finally one day he asked me for the job Oh the day I go to the job doing what lecturing the book He wanted to take my place as guide imagine Well his knowledge is sufficient, but of course I was used But I was embarrassed He has strange eyes That's when I felt I might give him a kiss Perhaps get rid of him once and for all only instead he handed you the dagger with blood on it I've never seen a man look so offended and angry but only in his eyes. He said he belonged here Here I locked the dagger up in this cabinet It's right it's empty Well Looks like he got it again, huh? You're sure this is where you yes. I locked it up myself But I'm not surprised No Why should I be surprised? He said I had gone too far. I had turned him out I have collected too many treasures of the past. I've lived to regret it. Hey. Hey, wait a minute. What kind of a thing is this? Mr. Valentine I think I expected this That it would disappear again. You dare? I don't know what compelled me Yesterday as he left I spoke one word I said Merlin You said what? Merlin You heard me I called him that to need a little help I called him that and he smiled. Oh, you mean Merlin like the sorcerer at King Arthur's Court. Stop looking at me that way both of you We don't know what's possible We haven't even scratched the surface of the middle ages the superstition of the beast Of course, I don't think he's really Merlin But he follows me He watches me why? He's always here why? And his peculiar knowledge why how I tell you what strikes me. I'm keep your shirt on boss. We got it What? Yeah, we got him. I tell you a little squeak nobody in the crowd here today even noticed he's in the town jail Jail just that two-bit light thinker boy. That's all he is. So cool off. It's all over You valentine? Yeah, that's right. The joe's my keep god. Oh joe you shouldn't have he was in the crowd again boss You seen him, but he lifted one of them old salt shakers up at the mantle and both of my boys seen that yeah Pretty neat, huh? Six months for that. That'll keep Merlino out of your head. What? What what did you call him? Merlino says he's a member of the magician's union Nice how's that one for laughs? Oh The boss is a nervous nelly. That's all miss brooke. So I gather here Uh only a couple of cells down this way nice to work for you understand, but uh A little on the crack for this marlino seems to have him scared pretty badly I don't know why the boss bothered you though. Mr. Valentine if I couldn't handle a guy like him with both hands tied Okay. Okay. I just want to talk to this guy. Yeah. Well, yeah Here he is This is where he was locked This is he was that's all Where? I don't see anybody Oh Oh now now joe cool off. I didn't turn him loose. I tell you I don't know how he could get out A great sheriff you uh, don't let me ask the question. No, neither one of you are going to I was home eating supper You bring a man down here for me to lock up without charges or evidence. Don't blame me if he without what without evidence He said What? Yeah, here's merlino now What's all the leather about? I guess I forgot to lock that cell door on you. No, no you locked it But I was hungry myself I'm just on my way back. Yeah, but if the sheriff locked the cell how in the name of please young man I just walked out I'm a magician. Is that so? Well, let's play out joe cut it out What sheriff you said there was no evidence clean that up. Would you well we searched him when he got here So did the guards just waiting to tell you joe. There wasn't any salt shaker on this guy What? But I seen him take it myself. I seen he searched I tell you there wasn't Of course, it's none of my business. I'm just a visitor in your town live at the boarding house as I told you Suppose I have been kind of a pest to mr. Renwick But if you ask me sheriff if anyone is stealing out there, well Is god here? He's the one I think you should serve. Why? Why you little half? Hold it joe easy. What? What's the matter? Salt shaker In my pocket All right slighter hand artist, but I haven't been there yet. That's right valentine. He hasn't not even bringing him in I told the boss I get rid of you. I will i'll show you some magic I'll put rabbits in your hack. You can cut it out cut it out I'm the sheriff around here now beat it all of you magicians private cops. Go on get out get out of my hair Well, there's your teletype mr valentine I guess I better run the little guy out of town for him, but I kind of hate to landlady says he's real nice Depends on who you talk to doesn't it? You don't suppose mr Renwick and his guards are trying to frame him for something. Do you they're all crazy out there for my money? Yeah, chicago says he served a sentence once small time theft. He didn't steal today I'm sure of that they say he worked carnivals in the midwest for a while. Why is he here? Oh george, it's getting late. Yeah, come on. You want me to go back out the house with you? Well, if he wouldn't just shrug his shoulders and walk off like that, it's merlino. I'd like to talk Sheriff mr valentine sheriff mr renly what's the matter? What's happened? He got it. He got every bit. It's gone. What's gone? Hey, stop shaking. What are you talking about? The gem collection the bracelet jewelry Merlino's taken everything Brother, I thought that place was impregnable. So did I but not against a man like him. I told you take it easy Will you there's nothing supernatural about yeah, the gems were off in that crazy stone place. You called the keep weren't they? He said I owned too many things from the past. He warned me I should have all right. All right, get back in the car Come on, let's go. We'll find out what happened and it won't be magic either. What's it? Valentine I know how he managed it. My wife saw from my room upstairs over the wall in the moonlight Yes, I think we found that dagger again, too What she saw it and came running and screaming joe's body Up there in the moonlight with the medieval dagger in it In just a moment, we'll return to tonight's adventure of george valentine That's what my wife does about Picture 이번에 for all her better than porcelain Wood ch screenshot of our old Yu B primo Bitati Peach ju june OK repair garages for overhaul, we were able to determine the causes of engine wear. The next step was to decide on the conditions under which new motor oil formulas were to be tested. We wanted to develop our new oil under conditions simulating the toughest test an engine gets. Tonight, we are going to show you how we arrived at that decision. 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This is the condition you have in your engine under normal, everyday, short hops, stop and go driving, motoring through traffic. Hear that faster clicking? Yes, that's what we found. When it comes to engine wear, cold operation is the toughest test a motor gets. And in the toughest test a motor gets, new RPM cuts in half the wear rate of critical engine parts. Doubles engine life between major overhauls due to lubrication. Stop in for the new RPM at independent Chevron gas stations and standard stations where they say and mean we take better care of your car. And now back to tonight's adventure of George Valentine. A man named Merlino, just a small time magician, a smiling, limping little man who says he doesn't want to cause anyone any trouble. But he warned Mr. Renwick that the millionaire had collected too many valuable mementos of the past. Now the most valuable ones have disappeared. And he warned the hot headed guard named Joe not to try anything rough with him. But Joe did. And now the method of theft has been explained for Mrs. Renwick to have seen Joe's body. Joe has been stabbed. It was just as plain as daylight. I went up to my room, my look out. He was still on the roof. What good does a guard do up on a roof Mr. Renwick? Just the iron door down there has always kept locked. I came running to find you as fast as I could. George, how could Merlino get through the door and up here to stab the guard? How, how, how does Merlino do anything? The name's Merlino Buster. Calm down will you? Just show me where this body is. It's right up there. You can see it. All right, all right Mrs. Renwick. Get out of the way please. Let me get through. There! Oh! Oh! Yeah. I don't see a body. What if it was? I could see. I'm not lying. And the knife on the moonlight. Disappeared. I'm not surprised. Merlin could easily... No, stay where you are all of you, will you? Pretty clumsy magic I'd say. Here's a knife right here. What? Let me see. Stay where you are, will you? Yeah. Joe's body's disappeared all right. But it must have been a hasty job. A good sorcerer would have wiped off the blood. Here's Valentine. The blood, Joe's all right. Doctor says he's sure. There was a record of Joe's type in the file. Okay, come on. Where George? Why would anyone move a body after they... Get rid of the evidence, Miss Brooks. But the knife was left behind. No fingerprints, no nothing. Mr. Renwick, come here will you? What is it? My men are going to start searching your whole place. They won't find anything. Yeah, yeah, that fog coming in off the ocean. Look, Mr. Renwick, I think it's about time you and I stop this silly superstitious... Mr. Valentine, I don't want to sound like a fool. I don't want to believe such things. I don't. But you think we'll never find the body and we'll never find Merlin again. I know you won't. I can't help knowing he disappears, he makes things disappear. I know how it sounds, but he got what he came for. He carried out his plan. You've been in the Middle Ages too long for it. Look out, Angel. Well, I'll be... Hello there. Did someone call me? Call Merlina? I said answer my questions. Please, please, gentlemen. I don't know anything about bodies out of my life. For Pete's sake, you admitted you were around here, didn't you? Of course, of course. There are things here I'd like to steal, but not tonight. No, really, I haven't done anything. You've searched me, haven't you? No keys, no jewels. Ask my landlady. I was with her at the time this poor man was killed. I'm afraid if I did it, I've committed a perfect crime. Hey, Sheriff, Sheriff, come here! Well, spot of blood in the garage floor. Yeah, entire trucks. Well, the police says this is where they kept that farm truck. Only now it's gone. Where's Merlino, Sheriff? He's taken care of, don't worry. The perfect crime, step one. Come on, let's go. Sure, sure. Just ditched it in the woods, eh? Not so far from the house either, in a straight line. Yeah, this is the truck, all right. Give me flashlight, George. Okay, let me do this. More blood, all right. What? A couple of little spots. Yeah, only no body. No, but there's room for it to have been carried there, right? Sure, sure. So from here we move on foot, backwards, back the way this truck came. It's perfect, all right. Oh, yeah, sure. There are the tracks and the road. But they're insane. I can't prove they're Merlino's. Of course not. But they're deep and was carrying something. They don't come back, then we probably walk back on the rocks. That's the fast way. And this is the only place you can get down to the beach easily from the road, too. To this cove. Deep. Heavy tides. The perfect place, all right. To carry a body, to throw it in the ocean. It's a hard job to convict a man of murder without a body. Well, you'll find other evidence. Merlino can't. Oh, yes he can, Angel. Because what other evidence? He even hid it in an alibi. Didn't you catch that? Everything he's done is practically a confession. But you don't think we'll find fingerprints in that truck, do you? But if he hid the things he stole somewhere around there, then... You don't think we'll ever find them either, do you? He's not supernatural. I don't know what he is. Oh, come on, it's practically dawn. Let's go back. Maybe we can shake it out of him. A little better than my jail, huh? Part of the original old Spanish place. Regular dungeon for the Inquisition. You have to climb down here now. I gave the sheriff my key when he knocked him up at the Paladine. Damn earth-fowlers. I hope he's got pneumonia by this time. Here, I'll reach that. You seem a little calmer, Mr. Renwick. I've been with the sheriff's men all night. Yes, yes, I've about decided your perfect crime theory is correct. Solid iron door. Oh, will you see the walls? Solid rock all the way around the cell. Six feet thick and no windows. Merlino, he... Yeah, he's done it again. He's gone. Impossible. Everything he's done is impossible. A human being couldn't get out of there. I had the only key myself. Valentine from the... He's a cripple. He couldn't run very fast. Come on, let's get down to the beach. Before Merlin climbs back into the Middle Ages. There he is. Yeah, yeah, he's running. He's a common cripple. Takes everything, doesn't he? He's got a big head start tying down the sand there. Is this fog? George. Lord, where is he? He was at the end of the cove there. He disappeared right into the fog and the water. Come on, run. No, along the road, this way. But Valentine... Sure, Merlin's a ghost, all right. What's beyond this cove? Another one, isn't it? Sure, you can't see it from above. Just a couple of hundred yards. Better load your gun, then. This is no ghost we're after now. Hey, there's a boat there on the beach. Yeah, a little tiny one. Think one man could carry that, Sheriff? Sure, easy. So back at the other place, those heavy tracks could be made by a man carrying a boat instead of a body, huh? George, what on earth are you driving at? Look, see, there hasn't been a single bit of magic performed. Tonight it's all been illusion. Things are impossible, okay? I believe it. They are impossible. You just turn the checkerboard around, look at the black squares instead of white. Watch it, this is rock. You might slip. George, now you're crazy. Almost, but not quite. Now think back, Booksy. Everything Merlin has done. Steal a dagger, plant a salt cellar on Joe, break loose from jail. Get at Joe on the roof, spill his blood. Then let Joe's body be seen and then make it disappear. Wait, wait, there he is, coming out of the water. Sure, sure, of course. He swam around those rocks, that's all. Stay still, he can't see us. He'll come this way to the boat. Uh-huh, that's right. Better warn both of you. Don't be too smart. But I'd better warn both of you, don't be too surprised when you see it's Joe himself. What? Here he comes. Hey, grab him, let go of that gun. Let go of that? Oh no, you don't. Every bit of the loot right there in the boat, enough crowns for a whole chest. Sure, sure, for the big king here. Shut up. I'll get you a good night boy who figured it all out. How to rob his boss without having all the bloodhounds in the world after him. Okay, you got me, so what? So I want some more. You hired Merlino, didn't you, to put the scare act into your boss. To set himself up as the man of mystery, to brag that he was out to rob him. But George, the murder, or what Mrs. Renwick thought was one in the blood. Oh sure, sure, Bruxy, that was a neat part. Joe knew her habits. One she'd be likely to look out and see him lying there, playing dead. And he cut his fingers, spilled some blood maybe. Too bad I didn't use your since then. Nice little trail of blood, yeah Joe. So there'd be no doubt in anybody's mind that Joe the guard was dead. Nobody'd look further for the man with the loot. You and Merlino working together. And then he lets himself look like the suspect. But I'll bet in the final pinch Merlino's alibi would have been perfect, Sheriff. He would have got off the hook, joined up with bright eyes here, and Renwick would have thought it was all magic. I almost did myself. George, if Joe did all that, he could have let Merlino out of that dungeon thing too. I mean Chief Guard, he'd still have a key. The biggest impossible of all, yeah sure. Only where's Merlino now? And why let out a guy whose story is all fixed, alibi and everything? And why do you suppose Joe here didn't leave hours ago in his little boat? That must have been the plan. I don't know where Merlino is, I don't care. Well I do. It's a difference between a grand last-in-the-rap and a bigger rap for murder. Now look, friend. The only reason I can think of Joe sticking around is he liked the jewels all for himself. After all, he was dead. And Merlino could always disappear by magic. I didn't touch him, I didn't. It was risky getting down to that dungeon, Joe. But it would have been riskier bringing Merlino outside to kill him. No, no, that's not what I... And of course that was a quiet place. And nobody would ever think of looking under... Nice dirt floor, wasn't it Joe? No, no, I didn't. Sheriff, I told you Merlino was a ghost. Maybe we better do some digging there before he puts a haunt on King Arthur's castle. And there he was, Merlin. Buried in the loose dirt in the floor of the castle. Merlin, Merlin, the name's Merlino, Brooksie. And anyway, the story's all over. Oh, I don't blame you though. I was always a sucker for that stuff too. The knights and the charges. I bet Mr. Renwick isn't, not anymore, I mean. I bet he takes up stamp collecting after this. I'd sell out to the British Museum. Yeah, King Arthur himself. You know, I always imagine myself as more of the Sir Gwaine type. What? Yeah, well, as a kid, you know how kids are. But George, he was romantic. Gwaine was the one who was always rescuing a damsel or making love to some maiden. Oh, no, no, no, not always. He slew dragons. He sat at the round table and... Oh, what's the matter? What do you like? Oh, round table. Oh, I was just thinking. When it comes to romance, darling, you're more of a square. Oh, great. Earlier in the broadcast, you heard California Research Corporation scientists explain the conditions under which engines show the greatest wear. Cold operation, the kind you have in your car during short hops, stop and go driving in traffic. In tests that simulate these conditions, new RPM motor oil was compared against the best conventional premium type motor oils as designated by the American Petroleum Institute. The results were amazing. New RPM cuts in half the wear rate of critical engine parts. It maintains the low oil consumption of average engines twice as long. It's sold with a money-back guarantee of satisfaction. Ask for new RPM at standard stations and independent Chevron gas stations where they say and mean, we take better care of your car. Tonight's adventure of George Valentine has been brought to you by Standard Oil Company of California on behalf of independent Chevron gas stations and standard stations throughout the West. Robert Bailey is starred as George with Virginia Gregg as Brooksy. Let George Do It is written by David Victor and Jackson Gillis and directed by Don Clark. Ted Osborne was heard as Renwick. Howard McNeer as Merlino, Florence Raveno, Mrs. Renwick. Ed Max as Joe and Joe DeVall as the sheriff. The music is composed and presented by Eddie Dunstetter, your announcer, John Heston. Listen again next week, same time, same station to Let George Do It. It costs less to keep a boy out of trouble than to pay for his stay in reform school. 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