WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:04.240 Personal notice, that is my stock and trade. 00:04.240 --> 00:08.640 If the job is too tough for you to handle, you got a job for me, George Valentine. 00:08.640 --> 00:15.640 Write full details. 00:15.640 --> 00:22.640 Standard Oil Company of California invites you to let George do it. 00:22.640 --> 00:29.640 Standard Oil Company of California invites you to let George do it. 00:44.320 --> 00:47.640 In just a moment we'll begin tonight's adventure of George Valentine. 00:47.640 --> 00:52.080 Say, did you forget a Christmas present for your car? 00:52.080 --> 00:57.720 One of the nicest gifts I know is a complete changeover to new RPM motor oil, the oil that 00:57.720 --> 01:02.280 doubles engine life between major overhauls due to lubrication. 01:02.280 --> 01:04.920 Don't forget to replace the filter element too. 01:04.920 --> 01:10.200 You'll be giving yourself a gift of smoother driving and top engine protection all year 01:10.200 --> 01:16.480 round by getting new RPM motor oil at independent Chevron gas stations or standard stations 01:16.480 --> 01:23.480 where they say and mean, we take better care of your car. 01:23.480 --> 01:44.480 And now tonight's story, the last payoff, another adventure of George Valentine. 01:53.480 --> 01:55.480 Say, who did this? 01:55.480 --> 01:58.480 What in the... 01:58.480 --> 02:09.480 The whole room is torn apart. 02:09.480 --> 02:10.480 Why? 02:10.480 --> 02:11.480 Who? 02:11.480 --> 02:16.480 What are they trying to do to me? 02:16.480 --> 02:19.480 What's that guy's name again? 02:19.480 --> 02:24.480 Ada Valdez Valentine. 02:24.480 --> 02:38.480 That's it, George Valentine. 02:38.480 --> 02:40.480 Okay, okay Bartel, stop shaking. 02:40.480 --> 02:42.480 So somebody ransacked your place here. 02:42.480 --> 02:44.480 And yet you say nothing was taken. 02:44.480 --> 02:46.480 Yeah, yeah that's right Miss Brooks. 02:46.480 --> 02:47.480 Well? 02:47.480 --> 02:48.480 Well don't you understand? 02:48.480 --> 02:50.480 It's why did anybody take this place apart? 02:50.480 --> 02:52.480 What are they trying to do to me? 02:52.480 --> 02:53.480 What do you mean do to you? 02:53.480 --> 02:56.480 I...I can't afford any trouble. 02:56.480 --> 02:57.480 I'm an ex-con. 02:57.480 --> 03:00.480 Oh, a little matter you forgot to mention when you wrote to me, eh Buster? 03:00.480 --> 03:01.480 Yeah, I forgot. 03:01.480 --> 03:02.480 Isn't that terrible? 03:02.480 --> 03:05.480 I figured I'm entitled to get a little help like any other human being. 03:05.480 --> 03:07.480 Wasn't that a lot of nerve for me to think that? 03:07.480 --> 03:09.480 Okay, okay, skip the dramatics. 03:09.480 --> 03:11.480 What were you in jail for? 03:11.480 --> 03:13.480 I stole a car. 03:13.480 --> 03:15.480 Got drunk and stole a car. 03:15.480 --> 03:17.480 It was my second offense. 03:17.480 --> 03:19.480 Spent 18 months in the pen. 03:19.480 --> 03:23.480 So I figured I'd find me a small town somewhere and make a new start. 03:23.480 --> 03:25.480 Why this particular small town, Lenfield? 03:25.480 --> 03:27.480 Because I knew someone here. 03:27.480 --> 03:29.480 Someone I thought might give me a hand. 03:29.480 --> 03:30.480 Clear that up will you? 03:30.480 --> 03:32.480 Man, my wife and I met in Chicago. 03:32.480 --> 03:34.480 That's where I come from. 03:34.480 --> 03:37.480 Big fat guy, nice, good connections. 03:37.480 --> 03:38.480 John Logan. 03:38.480 --> 03:40.480 We hit it off fine. 03:40.480 --> 03:42.480 Said if I ever needed help I should look him up. 03:42.480 --> 03:44.480 I suppose your wife is here with you. 03:44.480 --> 03:46.480 You suppose wrong lady. 03:46.480 --> 03:48.480 She left me flat while I was in jail. 03:48.480 --> 03:50.480 She's someplace in Europe. 03:50.480 --> 03:52.480 From the chorus line of a girlie show. 03:52.480 --> 03:54.480 Ruthie is the loyal kind. 03:54.480 --> 03:56.480 Why make a big mystery of all this? 03:56.480 --> 03:58.480 Sneak that got in here, you surprised him. 03:58.480 --> 04:00.480 He knocked you out and ran. 04:00.480 --> 04:02.480 No, that's not the answer, Valentine. 04:02.480 --> 04:04.480 Somebody was looking for something special. 04:04.480 --> 04:06.480 Looked in every little place. 04:06.480 --> 04:08.480 Even went through my pockets when I was dead to the world. 04:08.480 --> 04:10.480 Ripped open the lining of my jacket. 04:10.480 --> 04:11.480 Look. 04:11.480 --> 04:12.480 See? 04:12.480 --> 04:13.480 Uh-huh. 04:13.480 --> 04:16.480 The only thing I own that's worth anything is this wrist watch. 04:16.480 --> 04:17.480 It's a good one. 04:17.480 --> 04:19.480 But the guy didn't take it, did he? 04:19.480 --> 04:21.480 No, it was no sneak thief. 04:21.480 --> 04:23.480 But who else could it be? 04:23.480 --> 04:24.480 And why? 04:24.480 --> 04:28.480 I don't suppose your landlady noticed any strange men crowling around here? 04:28.480 --> 04:29.480 No. 04:29.480 --> 04:32.480 As I figure it, whoever it was climbed in through the window. 04:32.480 --> 04:34.480 Hey, tell me. 04:34.480 --> 04:36.480 How long has it been raining hard like this? 04:36.480 --> 04:37.480 Hmm? 04:37.480 --> 04:39.480 Oh, a couple of days now. 04:39.480 --> 04:42.480 This time of the year it always rains in this place, they tell me. 04:42.480 --> 04:44.480 What are you driving at, George? 04:44.480 --> 04:46.480 Those footprints near the window. 04:46.480 --> 04:48.480 You're pretty small, Bartell. 04:48.480 --> 04:49.480 That's what I meant. 04:49.480 --> 04:51.480 Those aren't my footprints. 04:51.480 --> 04:53.480 Must be the man who ransacked my room. 04:53.480 --> 04:54.480 Some kind of red clay. 04:54.480 --> 04:56.480 Must have been somewhere where there's red clay. 04:56.480 --> 04:58.480 That's not too much to go on. 04:58.480 --> 04:59.480 No. 04:59.480 --> 05:04.480 Say, Bartell, suppose you tell me about this Mr. Logan, the good Samaritan turned sour. 05:04.480 --> 05:06.480 Well, it isn't really like that. 05:06.480 --> 05:08.480 I just haven't been able to get a hold of him yet. 05:08.480 --> 05:10.480 I spoke to Mrs. Logan a couple of times. 05:10.480 --> 05:11.480 She said she'd give him a message. 05:11.480 --> 05:15.480 And if that has anything to do with any of this, he seems to be the only one you know here in Linfield. 05:15.480 --> 05:17.480 That's what's driving me batty. 05:17.480 --> 05:19.480 I don't know why anybody should be interested in anything I might have. 05:19.480 --> 05:21.480 Tell me, do you think Mr. Logan might be home now? 05:21.480 --> 05:22.480 I don't know. 05:22.480 --> 05:23.480 I saw him this morning. 05:23.480 --> 05:24.480 You did? 05:24.480 --> 05:27.480 Yeah, I was on a bus and it passes the back of his house. 05:27.480 --> 05:31.480 I noticed Mr. Logan burning something in the incinerator in his backyard. 05:31.480 --> 05:33.480 So I thought here's my chance to talk to him. 05:33.480 --> 05:34.480 Yeah, go on. 05:34.480 --> 05:37.480 Well, by the time I got off the bus, Mr. Logan was gone. 05:37.480 --> 05:40.480 I asked his wife where he went and she said downtown. 05:40.480 --> 05:44.480 I went to his office, figuring I'd just barge in and get to see him once and for all. 05:44.480 --> 05:45.480 But he wasn't there. 05:45.480 --> 05:47.480 And the girl said she didn't know where he might be. 05:47.480 --> 05:49.480 The elusive Mr. Logan. 05:49.480 --> 05:53.480 I know all this sounds mixed up and not too important, Valentine, but it's important to me. 05:53.480 --> 05:55.480 I want to know what's going on. 05:55.480 --> 05:56.480 I want to go straight. 05:56.480 --> 05:58.480 I don't want any trouble. 05:58.480 --> 06:02.480 I don't have much money, but I'll pay what I can for you to help me. 06:02.480 --> 06:04.480 All right, Bartown, you got me curious. 06:04.480 --> 06:06.480 You stay here. 06:06.480 --> 06:20.480 I can find out something. 06:20.480 --> 06:25.480 No, Mr. Valentine, Mr. Reese and I are quite through talking. 06:25.480 --> 06:27.480 Oh, Mrs. Logan, I could wait in the next room. 06:27.480 --> 06:28.480 No, it's all right, young man. 06:28.480 --> 06:30.480 Mrs. Logan is right. 06:30.480 --> 06:32.480 Talking doesn't do much good. 06:32.480 --> 06:35.480 You will convey my message to Mr. Logan, won't you? 06:35.480 --> 06:38.480 Of course, although frankly, I don't understand it. 06:38.480 --> 06:39.480 He'll understand. 06:39.480 --> 06:41.480 That's the important thing. 06:41.480 --> 06:43.480 And I know he'll listen to you very carefully. 06:43.480 --> 06:44.480 Really? 06:44.480 --> 06:48.480 Oh, you might also tell him I'm a patient man. 06:48.480 --> 06:52.480 Very patient, but my patience is wearing thin. 06:52.480 --> 06:53.480 I'll tell him. 06:53.480 --> 06:55.480 I know he'll understand that. 06:55.480 --> 06:56.480 Good day. 06:56.480 --> 07:00.480 No, no, no, I'll let myself out. 07:00.480 --> 07:01.480 No. 07:01.480 --> 07:04.480 Where were we before we were interrupted by Mr. Reese? 07:04.480 --> 07:07.480 You assured me you didn't know a thing about that client of mine, Mr. Bartell. 07:07.480 --> 07:08.480 That's right. 07:08.480 --> 07:14.480 And I certainly didn't know a thing about his wife, his young, pretty wife, as I gather now. 07:14.480 --> 07:17.480 So, that's that, I guess. 07:17.480 --> 07:22.480 Surely, Mr. Valentine, if you really want to know about Mr. Bartell, our local police will help you. 07:22.480 --> 07:24.480 Our sheriff is a very efficient man. 07:24.480 --> 07:27.480 As a matter of fact, my assistant, Miss Brooks, is checking that angle. 07:27.480 --> 07:30.480 I asked her to call me back here, if you don't mind. 07:30.480 --> 07:32.480 Not at all. 07:32.480 --> 07:37.480 You have no idea where Mr. Logan might be right now. 07:37.480 --> 07:38.480 Oh, yes. 07:38.480 --> 07:40.480 He's out buying a raincoat. 07:40.480 --> 07:41.480 A raincoat? 07:41.480 --> 07:47.480 Well, he was simply soaked when he got to the office this morning, so I told him I wasn't going to have him come down with a cold, or worse. 07:47.480 --> 07:49.480 So, he's out buying a raincoat. 07:49.480 --> 07:50.480 I see. 07:50.480 --> 07:55.480 Would you like a cup of tea, Mr. Valentine, if you're going to wait? 07:55.480 --> 07:58.480 No, thanks, don't bother. 07:58.480 --> 08:04.480 I'm afraid I'm a very poor hostess, but I have been rather upset. 08:04.480 --> 08:05.480 Really? 08:05.480 --> 08:12.480 I know it can't possibly matter to you, but Mr. Logan has been so, well, not himself lately, so nervous. 08:12.480 --> 08:16.480 I know it's ridiculous, because money is no problem with us. 08:16.480 --> 08:19.480 But now he seems to be worried about owing people money. 08:19.480 --> 08:21.480 People like Mr. Reese. 08:21.480 --> 08:25.480 This is one time he won't listen to me, talk to me about it. 08:25.480 --> 08:29.480 Perhaps I could help. 08:29.480 --> 08:30.480 I'm sorry. 08:30.480 --> 08:33.480 Tell you what, maybe we will have that cup of tea. 08:33.480 --> 08:35.480 It might cheer up both of us. 08:35.480 --> 08:38.480 And this constant rain might be good to have a cup of... 08:38.480 --> 08:42.480 Excuse me. 08:42.480 --> 08:43.480 Hello. 08:43.480 --> 08:44.480 Hello. 08:44.480 --> 08:45.480 May I speak to Mr. Valentine, please? 08:45.480 --> 08:46.480 This is Claire Brooks. 08:46.480 --> 08:47.480 Of course. 08:47.480 --> 08:48.480 Just a minute. 08:48.480 --> 08:49.480 It's for you, Mr. Valentine. 08:49.480 --> 08:52.480 Oh, thanks. 08:52.480 --> 08:55.480 Yeah, Brooksie, did you find anything about our friend Bartell? 08:55.480 --> 08:56.480 No, George. 08:56.480 --> 08:58.480 I'm afraid the police are in too much of a dither to be much help. 08:58.480 --> 08:59.480 Dither? 08:59.480 --> 09:00.480 What are you talking about? 09:00.480 --> 09:02.480 Most of them are down at the only place in town where there's clay. 09:02.480 --> 09:03.480 What? 09:03.480 --> 09:04.480 That's right, red clay. 09:04.480 --> 09:16.480 And George, there's been a murder there. 09:16.480 --> 09:18.480 The car is parked right over there, George. 09:18.480 --> 09:21.480 I didn't want to talk in front of Mrs. Logan, but tell me more about the murder. 09:21.480 --> 09:22.480 Who is the victim? 09:22.480 --> 09:23.480 Police don't know yet. 09:23.480 --> 09:28.480 A weasel-faced little man who was seen coming here to Linfield every month or so for almost 09:28.480 --> 09:29.480 a year. 09:29.480 --> 09:30.480 Yeah. 09:30.480 --> 09:31.480 Very interesting thing, George. 09:31.480 --> 09:34.480 There were some footprints leading away from the clay pits, large footprints. 09:34.480 --> 09:36.480 Oh, a ransacking friend, maybe, huh? 09:36.480 --> 09:37.480 Could be. 09:37.480 --> 09:38.480 Oh, there was something else. 09:38.480 --> 09:39.480 Oh, what? 09:39.480 --> 09:43.480 Some woman walking in the street a couple of hundred yards away from the clay pits was 09:43.480 --> 09:45.480 scared by a man hurrying away from there. 09:45.480 --> 09:48.480 A big fat man in a dark blue raincoat, she said. 09:48.480 --> 09:52.480 Or at least, that's what a boy who runs a service station not far from there reported. 09:52.480 --> 09:54.480 Ah, come on, come on. 09:54.480 --> 09:55.480 Come on, where? 09:55.480 --> 09:56.480 This way. 09:56.480 --> 09:58.480 But that goes to Logan's backyard, George. 09:58.480 --> 10:00.480 I'm playing a long, long shot, Angel. 10:00.480 --> 10:01.480 Oh. 10:01.480 --> 10:02.480 Careful with the puddles. 10:02.480 --> 10:06.480 Bartel told us he saw Mr. Logan burning something in the incinerator this morning, didn't he? 10:06.480 --> 10:07.480 Well, yes. 10:07.480 --> 10:10.480 And Logan is a big man, and his wife told me he's buying a new raincoat this morning. 10:10.480 --> 10:12.480 Well, what happened to his old one? 10:12.480 --> 10:14.480 Oh, there's the incinerator over there. 10:14.480 --> 10:15.480 Yeah, now wait. 10:15.480 --> 10:18.480 Now, here's some kind of a poke in it. 10:18.480 --> 10:21.480 Yeah, this will do. 10:21.480 --> 10:23.480 You see anything, George? 10:23.480 --> 10:26.480 Everything pretty well burned to ashes. 10:26.480 --> 10:27.480 Everything's sink. 10:27.480 --> 10:28.480 What is it? 10:28.480 --> 10:32.480 Oh, it's a piece of metal. 10:32.480 --> 10:33.480 Belt buckle. 10:33.480 --> 10:35.480 Still covered with some cloth. 10:35.480 --> 10:36.480 Blue cloth. 10:36.480 --> 10:38.480 That's it, all right. 10:38.480 --> 10:50.480 Logan burned his dark blue raincoat. 10:50.480 --> 10:52.480 George, I thought you wanted to go to the police station. 10:52.480 --> 10:54.480 I told you before it's down the other block. 10:54.480 --> 10:56.480 I know, but I'm still playing that long shot. 10:56.480 --> 10:57.480 Now, what's that supposed to mean? 10:57.480 --> 10:59.480 Just be patient, please, Angel. 10:59.480 --> 11:03.480 That clothing store down there, Wilson's, that looks like the largest one in town. 11:03.480 --> 11:04.480 All right, I agree. 11:04.480 --> 11:05.480 But what if they happen? 11:05.480 --> 11:10.480 Well, let's pass it just once again and then we'll... 11:10.480 --> 11:12.480 All right, so you can stop on a dime. 11:12.480 --> 11:13.480 Now what? 11:13.480 --> 11:16.480 A big fat man just coming out in a brand new yellow raincoat. 11:16.480 --> 11:17.480 Mr. Logan? 11:17.480 --> 11:18.480 I wouldn't be surprised. 11:18.480 --> 11:19.480 Stay here, Angel. 11:19.480 --> 11:21.480 I still have a client, remember? 11:21.480 --> 11:23.480 I want to talk to Logan before we stick the police on him. 11:23.480 --> 11:24.480 Now, George, be careful with him. 11:24.480 --> 11:28.480 Yes, sure, okay, okay. 11:28.480 --> 11:30.480 Mr. Logan? 11:30.480 --> 11:31.480 Mr. Logan, wait a minute. 11:31.480 --> 11:32.480 Hey, please, wait. 11:32.480 --> 11:33.480 What do you want? 11:33.480 --> 11:34.480 I don't know you. 11:34.480 --> 11:35.480 My name's George Valentine. 11:35.480 --> 11:36.480 Never heard of you, please. 11:36.480 --> 11:37.480 I'm in a hurry. 11:37.480 --> 11:38.480 I'm very busy. 11:38.480 --> 11:41.480 I came to Linfield because a man named Bartell wrote to me. 11:41.480 --> 11:42.480 What? 11:42.480 --> 11:43.480 I'll kill you. 11:43.480 --> 11:46.480 I'll kill you with my bare hands. 11:46.480 --> 11:47.480 Now, take it easy, friend. 11:47.480 --> 11:48.480 You're out of your class. 11:48.480 --> 11:50.480 What else do you want from me? 11:50.480 --> 11:51.480 Haven't you done enough? 11:51.480 --> 11:52.480 Leave me alone. 11:52.480 --> 11:53.480 Leave me alone. 11:53.480 --> 11:57.480 I just want some straight answers to a few questions, that's all. 11:57.480 --> 11:59.480 We can talk right there in that car. 11:59.480 --> 12:00.480 Look at your shoes, Mr. Logan. 12:00.480 --> 12:01.480 What? 12:01.480 --> 12:04.480 There are still traces of red clay on them, see? 12:04.480 --> 12:05.480 No, no. 12:05.480 --> 12:09.480 I want to talk to you about a clay pet and murder, Mr. Logan. 12:09.480 --> 12:12.480 Now, will you come along? 12:12.480 --> 12:13.480 Yes. 12:13.480 --> 12:16.480 Yes, I'll go with you. 12:16.480 --> 12:19.480 I must talk to somebody. 12:19.480 --> 12:23.480 Anybody, please talk to me. 12:23.480 --> 12:24.480 Help me. 12:24.480 --> 12:31.480 Please help me. 12:31.480 --> 12:46.480 In just a moment, we'll return to tonight's adventure of George Valentine. 12:46.480 --> 12:49.480 Over the hills and through the woods to grandmother's house we go. 12:49.480 --> 12:54.480 Well, that's a well-known saying that has always been appropriate during the holiday season. 12:54.480 --> 13:03.480 This year, perhaps you'll be one of the many thousands of Western motorists who will be driving home for Christmas and New Year's, driving over the hills and through the woods. 13:03.480 --> 13:18.480 That's why I think this is an especially good time to remind you that for top performance under all driving conditions, for the kind of driving you do, where you do it, your car needs a gasoline with many different performance qualities. 13:18.480 --> 13:32.480 Any gasoline can be made to stress one performance feature at the expense of others, but Chevron Supreme is designed to give you not one, not two, but all eight high-performance qualities in correct balance. 13:32.480 --> 13:42.480 Power, warm-up, starting, mileage, anti-knock, vapor lock prevention, acceleration, and area blending. 13:42.480 --> 13:52.480 You'll feel the difference from the very first tankful of Chevron Supreme. For smoother, all-around top performance, be sure to get the gas that gives you all eight. 13:52.480 --> 14:04.480 Just drive in and say, fill her up with Chevron Supreme at any standard station or independent Chevron gas station, where they say, and mean, we take better care of your car. 14:04.480 --> 14:30.480 A next convict, Ray Bartel, pleads that he's trying to go straight, hires you to find out who ransacked his room and why. 14:30.480 --> 14:41.480 Only the case is complicated by the murder of a man the police haven't been able to identify, and the fact that the leading suspect is one of the town's leading citizens, John Logan. 14:41.480 --> 14:50.480 And as you sit with him in your car on a rain-swept street, you know he's close to the breaking point. That is, if your name is George Valentine. 14:50.480 --> 15:02.480 If you're sort of a private detective, Mr. Valentine, then you're just what I, what I may need. And you, Miss Brooks, you seem so understanding. It's been so long since I could really talk to anybody. 15:02.480 --> 15:04.480 Please, Mr. Logan, you must calm down. 15:04.480 --> 15:10.480 No, Mrs. Logan is a fine woman. Fine and good, but I couldn't talk to her, not after what I've done to her. 15:10.480 --> 15:15.480 Now look, look, we're not going to get anywhere until you get a hold of yourself and tell us what happened in some sort of order. 15:15.480 --> 15:18.480 If things happen in life in any order, do they make any sense? 15:18.480 --> 15:24.480 Mr. Logan, you were seen leaving the claypits. Your footprints there were photographed by the police. 15:24.480 --> 15:28.480 Don't you understand? I didn't kill Joe. When I got there, Joe was already dead. 15:28.480 --> 15:32.480 Oh, so that was the name of the murdered man. The police were unable to identify him. 15:32.480 --> 15:38.480 Joe, that was the only name he ever gave me. You'd think for all the money he got from me, he'd at least give me his full name. Joe, the collector. 15:38.480 --> 15:41.480 Joe, the tormentor. Joe, the despot. 15:41.480 --> 15:44.480 Mr. Logan, Joe. 15:44.480 --> 15:46.480 Yes, I, I'm sorry. 15:46.480 --> 15:49.480 All right then. When did you first meet this Joe, whoever he is? 15:49.480 --> 15:53.480 When I, I first made such a fool of myself over Ruthie. 15:53.480 --> 15:54.480 Ruthie Bartell? 15:54.480 --> 15:58.480 I have no excuse for being a fool, but I also have suffered enough so I don't have to be kicked around anymore. 15:58.480 --> 15:59.480 When is Joe finished? 15:59.480 --> 16:09.480 Well, I, you see, back in those days, I, I saw Joe following me around and I realized that somebody had snapped a picture of Ruthie and me. 16:09.480 --> 16:13.480 I was sure that Joe was a detective hired by my wife. 16:13.480 --> 16:15.480 Of course, I stopped seeing Ruthie. 16:15.480 --> 16:19.480 I died a thousand deaths waiting for the showdown. 16:19.480 --> 16:22.480 But it never came, huh? Not for Mrs. Logan, is that it? 16:22.480 --> 16:32.480 Yes, I was wrong about who we worked for, you see, because then I got a blackmail note presented to me by Joe. I was to pay and go on paying each month. 16:32.480 --> 16:33.480 And you paid and paid. 16:33.480 --> 16:43.480 What else could I do? I was already a failure as far as my wife is concerned. I didn't tell her, but I made bad, stupid deals and I gambled money away with a Carl Reese. 16:43.480 --> 16:44.480 Reese? 16:44.480 --> 16:55.480 Yes. Best I could only pay back half my debts, but if Mrs. Logan and Martha found out about Ruthie, she'd never forgive me. I couldn't let her know that, don't you see? 16:55.480 --> 16:57.480 Well, didn't you suspect Bartell, Ruthie's husband? 16:57.480 --> 17:10.480 I did, I, I did, but by then he was in prison. I didn't know what to think. And I decided Joe was the only blackmailer. I can't let Martha find out about Ruthie. The police mustn't time eat any of this. They mustn't. 17:10.480 --> 17:12.480 I'm afraid that's sort of wishful thinking, Mr. Logan. 17:12.480 --> 17:24.480 They'll find out that you just bought this new raincoat, that you burned your old one, and they'll be curious to say the least. You went right from the clay pits to Bartell's, ransacked his room, looking for the blackmail evidence, whatever that was. Isn't that right? 17:24.480 --> 17:34.480 Yes, yes, you see, Joe got in touch with me yesterday afternoon. I thought I was all through paying him. He promised me I was, but you're never through, are you? 17:34.480 --> 17:36.480 I'm afraid not, Mr. Logan. 17:36.480 --> 17:46.480 He told me to come out to that, that little shack in the clay pits. That's where the payoff, payoff always took place out there, and when I got there he was dead. Shot to death. 17:46.480 --> 17:47.480 What did you do? 17:47.480 --> 17:59.480 Well, I, I suddenly realized just what an awful spot I was in. Bartell was trying to contact me. Perhaps he was the blackmailer, after all. So I had to find the evidence before the police found it. 17:59.480 --> 18:01.480 And did you find it at Bartell's place? 18:01.480 --> 18:10.480 No, not a trace of it. It wasn't on him either. Mr. Valentine, what can I do? How can I get out of this terrible mess? 18:10.480 --> 18:15.480 I'm afraid there's only one thing you can do. Turn yourself over to the police and have the whole thing brought out into the open. 18:15.480 --> 18:19.480 I can't? Martha will never believe me. She'll never forgive me. 18:19.480 --> 18:22.480 George, look, there's a policeman coming over this way. 18:22.480 --> 18:23.480 What's that? Oh, they'll never get me. 18:23.480 --> 18:24.480 You'd be reasonable, Logan. 18:24.480 --> 18:26.480 They won't. Hey, stop that. Wait. 18:26.480 --> 18:27.480 Don't you stop me. Don't. 18:27.480 --> 18:28.480 I'll get him. 18:28.480 --> 18:29.480 No, George, the police will catch him. 18:29.480 --> 18:30.480 Hey, hey, hey, wait. 18:30.480 --> 18:31.480 Sorry, officer, I can't. 18:31.480 --> 18:32.480 Hey, stop, I said. 18:32.480 --> 18:34.480 You don't understand. That man will get away. 18:34.480 --> 18:38.480 Yeah, but you're not getting away. You think that sign is just there for amusement? 18:38.480 --> 18:39.480 Huh? 18:39.480 --> 18:43.480 You're over parked here ten minutes, Mac. Have a ticket. 18:52.480 --> 18:57.480 Don't worry, Valentine. The pickup order is out on Logan. He seems to be our man, all right. 18:57.480 --> 18:59.480 Is there any additional information about this man, Joe, Sheriff? 18:59.480 --> 19:03.480 Not much. Typical blackmailer, shifty, covered his tracks. 19:03.480 --> 19:04.480 Anything on the gun? 19:04.480 --> 19:08.480 We'll know when we find it. Thirty-eight. Two bullets fired. 19:08.480 --> 19:09.480 Thanks, Sheriff. 19:09.480 --> 19:10.480 Where are you going, George? 19:10.480 --> 19:13.480 The sheriff's got his murder, but we still have a client, remember? 19:23.480 --> 19:24.480 Gone? 19:24.480 --> 19:25.480 Yeah. 19:24.480 --> 19:25.480 My tail's gone. 19:25.480 --> 19:27.480 If he beat it, it was just a minute ago. 19:27.480 --> 19:28.480 What? 19:28.480 --> 19:30.480 It's still warm. It must have been just turned off. 19:30.480 --> 19:31.480 Where are we? 19:35.480 --> 19:36.480 Okay, Bartell, slow down. 19:36.480 --> 19:41.480 No. Let go of me. I'm not sticking around, Valentine. This place is too hot. 19:41.480 --> 19:42.480 Blackmailer, you mean? 19:42.480 --> 19:43.480 Huh? 19:43.480 --> 19:45.480 Never heard the naughty word before, huh? 19:45.480 --> 19:48.480 Okay, it has to do with Ruthie and Logan. 19:48.480 --> 19:51.480 Ruthie? You mean that little... and Logan? 19:51.480 --> 19:54.480 Well, I don't know anything about it. And you're not going to get me in the middle of it. 19:54.480 --> 19:55.480 Nobody will! 19:55.480 --> 19:58.480 Oh, now, I'm going to try again. But still... 19:58.480 --> 20:02.480 And you're going to the Logan home with me, friend, after we pick up one more passenger. 20:10.480 --> 20:13.480 Yes, I'm a gambler. Is there anything wrong with being a gambler? 20:13.480 --> 20:15.480 Well, let's leave that to the kefava committee, Reese. 20:15.480 --> 20:18.480 But Mr. Logan owed you a large gambling debt, didn't he? 20:18.480 --> 20:19.480 As a matter of fact, he did. 20:19.480 --> 20:20.480 He didn't pay it, huh? 20:20.480 --> 20:21.480 Not yet. 20:21.480 --> 20:25.480 Uh-huh. I think we'd better take a little trip to the Logan's, Mr. Reese. 20:25.480 --> 20:28.480 This whole thing needs some clear light thrown on it. 20:40.480 --> 20:43.480 He's gone. He's running from the police. 20:43.480 --> 20:45.480 But where is he running? 20:45.480 --> 20:48.480 Here, Mrs. Logan. Please drink some of this coffee. 20:48.480 --> 20:51.480 Bartell and Reese are in the living room with one of the sheriff's men. 20:51.480 --> 20:55.480 All right, Angel. We'll wait for the sheriff before we talk any more to them. 20:55.480 --> 20:57.480 Thank you, my dear. 20:59.480 --> 21:02.480 I wish I could cry like other women. 21:02.480 --> 21:05.480 Cry for John and cry for me. 21:05.480 --> 21:08.480 Cry because I must have failed him so awfully. 21:08.480 --> 21:10.480 He couldn't come to me and talk to me. 21:10.480 --> 21:13.480 You have no idea where he might have gone, Mrs. Logan? 21:13.480 --> 21:14.480 No, no. 21:14.480 --> 21:18.480 In the state of mind he was in, it would be better if the police knew where he was. 21:18.480 --> 21:23.480 He came in and he told me all he's done about that Mrs. Bartell 21:23.480 --> 21:27.480 and all the money he paid in blackmail and all the money he owes 21:27.480 --> 21:30.480 as though money were the most important thing in the world. 21:30.480 --> 21:32.480 He told me all that and... 21:32.480 --> 21:34.480 and he cried. 21:34.480 --> 21:38.480 Mr. Valentine, John isn't a murderer. That much I know. 21:38.480 --> 21:39.480 I hope you're right. 21:39.480 --> 21:42.480 I told him not to run, but he wouldn't listen to me. 21:42.480 --> 21:45.480 He packed his bag and he kissed me and he ran out. 21:45.480 --> 21:49.480 If they catch up with him and he tries to get away from them, they'll... 21:49.480 --> 21:50.480 They'll... 21:50.480 --> 21:53.480 All right, Mrs. Logan. 21:53.480 --> 21:57.480 The evidence against your husband is quite strong, but maybe we can still help him. 21:57.480 --> 21:58.480 Maybe... 21:58.480 --> 22:00.480 Help? 22:00.480 --> 22:02.480 Do you think we can? 22:02.480 --> 22:03.480 Really? 22:03.480 --> 22:06.480 Joe was a blackmailer. Mr. Logan was being blackmailed. 22:06.480 --> 22:10.480 The obvious conclusion was that there was a fight and Mr. Logan killed him. 22:10.480 --> 22:12.480 Well, then, George? 22:12.480 --> 22:15.480 But suppose Mr. Logan was right and Joe was only the go-between 22:15.480 --> 22:18.480 and Joe proved difficult to his employer, the real blackmailer. 22:18.480 --> 22:21.480 But who could that be? How could we ever find that out? 22:21.480 --> 22:25.480 Well, it could be Bartell. Even though he was in prison, he could have kept in contact with Joe. 22:25.480 --> 22:28.480 All this business about coming here to get a job and going straight is so many lies. 22:28.480 --> 22:30.480 Maybe you're right, Mr. Valentine. 22:30.480 --> 22:33.480 Well, perhaps it was even somebody like Mr. Reese who was the real blackmailer. 22:33.480 --> 22:35.480 Mr. Reese? Aren't you reaching a little now, George? 22:35.480 --> 22:38.480 Oh, why? Mr. Logan had quite a bit of money, all right, 22:38.480 --> 22:41.480 but not enough to pay all his legal debts and his gambling debt, 22:41.480 --> 22:44.480 which, by the way, couldn't be collected legally. 22:44.480 --> 22:48.480 So Mr. Reese could take a rather unorthodox but effective way of collecting his debt 22:48.480 --> 22:50.480 by blackmailing the money out of your husband, Mrs. Logan. 22:50.480 --> 22:53.480 And there could be others, then, who might possibly be the blackmailers. 22:53.480 --> 22:55.480 John wouldn't be the only one with the motive for killing Joe. 22:55.480 --> 22:57.480 Uh-huh, that's exactly what I meant. 22:57.480 --> 22:59.480 Why, bring me here, Sheriff. 22:59.480 --> 23:00.480 Never mind. 23:00.480 --> 23:01.480 John! 23:01.480 --> 23:02.480 They've caught up with him, George. 23:02.480 --> 23:03.480 Well, this is it, Brooksie. 23:03.480 --> 23:05.480 All right, Logan, just sit here. 23:05.480 --> 23:07.480 John, John, are you all right? 23:07.480 --> 23:10.480 I didn't do it. I didn't kill anybody. No one will believe me. 23:10.480 --> 23:14.480 You already told me about his being blackmailed, and he was running. 23:14.480 --> 23:17.480 And that makes him as good a suspect as we need, Valentine. 23:17.480 --> 23:19.480 At this point, I don't know myself what to think. 23:19.480 --> 23:21.480 John, John, you mustn't say that. 23:21.480 --> 23:24.480 You can leave that release here, Logan. You won't need it anymore. 23:24.480 --> 23:25.480 No. No, wait. 23:25.480 --> 23:26.480 What? 23:26.480 --> 23:29.480 You were holding onto that release for dear life. 23:29.480 --> 23:31.480 There was no money on the dead blackmailer. 23:31.480 --> 23:33.480 Here, let me see what's in it. 23:33.480 --> 23:42.480 Hmm. Ties, rose shirts, underwear, pajamas, socks, extra suit. 23:42.480 --> 23:44.480 Hmm. All nice and neat. 23:44.480 --> 23:47.480 And 100 bedroom slippers and... 23:47.480 --> 23:48.480 And what? 23:48.480 --> 23:49.480 And a gun. 23:49.480 --> 23:50.480 What? Gun? 23:50.480 --> 23:52.480 A.38, two bullets missing. 23:52.480 --> 23:55.480 No! John, there must be some awful mistake. 23:55.480 --> 23:59.480 I have an idea. We'll find the gun is the one that killed Joe. 23:59.480 --> 24:00.480 And then... 23:59.480 --> 24:00.480 And then... 24:00.480 --> 24:04.480 It'll put the final coffin nail in the case against you, Mr. Logan. 24:04.480 --> 24:07.480 George! What did you say, Mr. Valentine? 24:07.480 --> 24:09.480 Yes, you, Mrs. Logan. 24:09.480 --> 24:13.480 Your husband was so afraid you might find out about him and Mrs. Bartel, 24:13.480 --> 24:15.480 and still it was you who blackmailed him. 24:15.480 --> 24:18.480 How can you say anything like that, George? Why would she do it? 24:18.480 --> 24:22.480 Well, now that's two questions, Angel, and I think I have some pretty definite answers to both. 24:22.480 --> 24:24.480 Well, come on, let's have them. What's all this? 24:24.480 --> 24:27.480 Well, strangely enough, Sheriff, it's what you said about the balloon. 24:27.480 --> 24:30.480 What's all this? 24:30.480 --> 24:33.480 When you opened it, it intrigued me even more than the presence of the gun. 24:33.480 --> 24:34.480 What's that? 24:34.480 --> 24:35.480 Would you make sense? 24:35.480 --> 24:38.480 All right, Mr. Logan is a man. More than that, a very upset and distraught man. 24:38.480 --> 24:39.480 Yeah. 24:39.480 --> 24:42.480 Would he stop to pack the police so carefully? 24:42.480 --> 24:45.480 No, he'd just throw some things together. 24:45.480 --> 24:48.480 Yeah, a woman packed that bag. She wanted you to run, Mr. Logan. 24:48.480 --> 24:49.480 You're insane. 24:49.480 --> 24:52.480 Think back, Mr. Logan. You didn't really pack that bag, now did you? 24:52.480 --> 24:56.480 Well, I don't know. I guess maybe I didn't. 24:56.480 --> 25:01.480 And since Mrs. Logan had the gun to put in, she's the one who used it on Joe, the man she hired as the go-between. 25:01.480 --> 25:03.480 Any more proof, Valentine? 25:03.480 --> 25:08.480 A woman identified the fat man running away from the clay pits is wearing a dark blue raincoat. 25:08.480 --> 25:10.480 So what? Logan himself admitted he was there. 25:10.480 --> 25:12.480 How could you tell the color in the dark? 25:12.480 --> 25:15.480 That's right. And it was raining. We just looked black. 25:15.480 --> 25:18.480 Only one woman could say what she did. 25:18.480 --> 25:21.480 The wife who knew the color of the raincoat her husband wore. 25:21.480 --> 25:25.480 And the reason you were out there, Mrs. Logan, is because you had that argument with Joe and you killed him. 25:25.480 --> 25:27.480 Make him stop saying that, John. Please. 25:27.480 --> 25:29.480 No, no. Let him go on. 25:29.480 --> 25:33.480 I was wondering why you were so careful to point attention to your husband having to buy a new raincoat. 25:33.480 --> 25:37.480 But what would be the motive, Valentine? A wife blackmailing her own husband? 25:37.480 --> 25:41.480 Oh, we've discussed some unusual causes for blackmail before, haven't we, Mrs. Logan? 25:41.480 --> 25:45.480 And you understood very well. A little matter of revenge. 25:45.480 --> 25:51.480 Your husband failed you, squandered your money, played around, and you had to get your revenge. 25:51.480 --> 25:54.480 And you did. Made his life a hell. 25:54.480 --> 25:55.480 You didn't. Tell him you didn't. 25:55.480 --> 25:58.480 And you got most of the money, too, didn't you? But you killed Joe. 25:58.480 --> 26:01.480 And in desperation, tried to blame your husband for his murder, and you almost succeeded. 26:01.480 --> 26:03.480 Arthur, Martha, don't let him go on saying that. 26:03.480 --> 26:05.480 And now that we know what to look for, we'll find the money, Mrs. Logan. 26:05.480 --> 26:06.480 Stop it! Stop! 26:06.480 --> 26:07.480 Arthur. 26:07.480 --> 26:11.480 Stop looking at me like that. You cheat. You silly fool. 26:11.480 --> 26:27.480 I'm glad. Whatever torture I brought you, I'm glad. Do you understand? I hate you. Hate you! 26:27.480 --> 26:30.480 George, there isn't any reason to stay here any longer. 26:30.480 --> 26:33.480 A house can be so cold when hate has lived in it. 26:33.480 --> 26:46.480 Here, Brooksy, we're going. I still have to straighten out something with my client. 26:46.480 --> 26:56.480 Holiday time is jingle bell time, and a good time to remind you that new RPM motor oil doubles engine life between major overhauls due to lubrication, 26:56.480 --> 27:01.480 and more than meets the heavy-duty motor oil requirements of every car manufacturer. 27:01.480 --> 27:08.480 New RPM helps cut unnecessary repair bills and puts the jingle back in your pocket where it belongs. 27:08.480 --> 27:29.480 Get new RPM motor oil for your car at independent Chevron gas stations and standard stations where they say, and mean, we take better care of your car. 27:29.480 --> 27:30.480 An apology? 27:30.480 --> 27:35.480 Yeah, frankly, Bartell, I didn't buy that. I want to go straight, but somebody won't let me routine. 27:35.480 --> 27:36.480 But then why did you go to work for me? 27:36.480 --> 27:40.480 Mr. Valentine just has a deeper version to being led down the garden path. 27:40.480 --> 27:47.480 Yep. Life is full of surprises, all right. You did come to Linfield just to see a kindly friend of the family. 27:47.480 --> 27:57.480 Yeah. Ruthie was a doll, a real doll. But then look at Mrs. Logan, what she did to her husband. I'll tell you, I learned one thing. 27:57.480 --> 28:02.480 Stay away from women, friend. All women. Far away. 28:02.480 --> 28:03.480 You don't say. 28:03.480 --> 28:08.480 Have nothing to do with them, especially those that look cute and smile sweet. 28:08.480 --> 28:11.480 Uh, are you coming, George? 28:11.480 --> 28:13.480 What's the matter, Angel? He doesn't mean you. 28:13.480 --> 28:14.480 No, of course not. 28:14.480 --> 28:34.480 Well, that's different. Hey, wait a minute. What's the matter with my smile? 28:34.480 --> 28:45.480 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. 28:45.480 --> 28:49.480 Robert Bailey is starred as George with Virginia Gregg as Brooksy. 28:49.480 --> 28:54.480 Let George Do It was written by David Victor and Jackson Gillis and directed by Kenneth Webb. 28:54.480 --> 29:04.480 Lee Patrick was heard as Mrs. Logan, Kenny Ross as Logan, Byron Cain as Bartel, Al K. 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