 Personal notice stanges my stock and trade if the job's too tough for you to handle you got a job for me George Valentine write full details Greetings mystery lover time for your dead time story That's right. Dead time This let George do an adventure has so many bodies in it. You'd think the black plague hit town It's called angels grotto, and I think you'll find it a heavenly tale As usual, it's all about George Valentine and his faithful companion, Bruxy companion oh Well, I better not tell you anymore as it might spoil the suspense and that we cannot do Dear mr. Valentine, you are fired. I know that's a clumsy way to put it But I've been a nurse too many years to learn parlor diplomacy Besides you've been here at the grotto farmhouse for almost a day now, and you haven't found anything Not a single thing Not that you should have Perhaps I was just hysterical this morning when I called you out here But now even the police seem to agree don't they? Mr. Muraga's death last evening Was an accident Yes, an accident And so much as I appreciate you're coming to help. Why should you stay on? Sincerely Emily flood You're listening to let George do it our adventure will continue in just a moment now back to let George do it and George Valentine almost flood Miss flood. Oh, here you are. We've been looking all over. Did you get my note? Yes back at the house But we wanted I don't like it back there. I came out what I was a little surprised after all I've barely even had a chance to talk to you since we got here. You see there's very little factual evidence of any car Did you check here there might have been fingerprints on the handrail at night? No, we checked all that best fingerprint man in the state found nothing to prove anything not even on the wheelchair No sign of a struggle. He hated that wheelchair Imagine a man only 45 or usually couldn't sit still for a minute Having to spend six months in that thing It was from a sailing accident the bone wouldn't heal Most of the nurses were scared to death of him but he liked me Because I wasn't good-looking and I didn't have an eye on his purse and He had told me about this grotto the angels grotto It's beautiful, isn't it all that mass and the furnace? Yes, I saw it first about the same time yesterday I just brought him out from the train and he had to come here first thing even before supper Did you try to find the angel like we did? Oh, it's just a legend Indians who used to work at the mission across the ranch angel of stone. They say Crossed by the waterfall, I guess. Yeah Only it's like all those things are the face and clouds the mountain shape like a man's head You can never really see it the angel of death He used to come out here and just sit when he was a little boy, you know Was all so different than he said the farm I mean Just a place in the woods and an exciting scary grotto for boys to tell stories about and dare each other to come close to the edge They were lovely boys, I guess Herman hadn't met the bottle and the blondes yet and That whiny stepbrother who still lives here was just like the real brothers and John hadn't taken up sailing or broken hips Or even gone out to the city to build his steel mills to become the richest man in the state Why all been murdered? Mr. Valentine All right, lady. We're sorry We we know you're upset Anyway, there aren't any facts But last night at supper Well, those guys aren't boys anymore. He hated his family. He said this was the last time he'd ever come back You want the rest of it if you're gonna fire me you want my report why I say murder go on What do you were there you and he and the boys last night remember you were all sitting around the table I don't want to talk anything. I'm tired Emily have you done my unpacking yet? Well, I thought as soon as supper is over while you sit outside for a while Oh, your nurse will take care of things John. Yeah, have another glass of wine. It's special. No, not all I said Farm isn't business. I only waited till you came John to talk about buying a new tractor instead of Oh for the love of my life, Jake. He's tired. Can't you hear what he said? Well, I got a setter coming around tonight. I got to get out there and help her with the pups I only thought if he could spare a thousand dollars or so leave him alone Jake you You'll just never understand us business. Well Farms a farm you can't operate on that both of you stop it I Came here for a one-day visit. That's all that day starts tomorrow. Sure Johnny sure we understand I don't come out of the old place often myself, but a little reunion is different. No, I wish I'd stayed in Florida Don't blame you all those classy nurses. Please mr. Maraca Johnny I know the farm isn't very important anymore to you, but all I want to say I'll get out to your barn. Go go be a midwife Whatever it is now you nurse see if you can't give the cook out there hand with the dishes I notice Mary is not as speedy as she used to be Jake. Stay where you are Emily Herman for your information. I'm sick and tired of the steel business, too You heard me mr. Vice president in charge of gas and wind. Oh, yes. Yes Get everybody out leave us brothers alone have some wine You don't want to talk business not old Herman Herman the diplomatic sponge Well, I wrote you I'm going to retire didn't I in the prime of life and why not? And that means for my family, too. I'm here to cut all strings at once Lazy relative steel mills old family homesteads the works. I'm sick and tired of supporting a worthless Please don't You're tired You'll upset yourself You said everything could wait till tomorrow Everything you have to say to this is all right. All right. I'm sorry You two fellas Wheelchair doesn't make a guy like me very friendly, but but I mean it. I'm moving to Florida for good only We'll talk tomorrow. Sure Johnny sure sure we We understand. Oh, you don't You're going to work for a living. I'm in Well, what's the matter with you Jake earn your own tractor? Me I'm tougher than all of you. I guess What's the matter? Want to murder me or something? And then miss flood you brought John Maraga out in his wheelchair to sit in the evening air You went back to do the unpacking and clean up the dishes for Mary the cook who was out helping Jake Brother Herman he went to his room. So the testimony says where he drank that wine all by himself Jake he came out and smoked a cigarette for a while with the impatient invalid Then went to the barn and was busy for some time delivering a litter of puppies So what so ten o'clock you came out to bring mr. Maraga in for the night and he was missing Because around nine o'clock according to police reports the doctors his wheelchair parked here overlooking the grotto Where you left him had a little bit too close to the edge But there wasn't any evidence you couldn't find anything no No, no evidence to show whether the brakes just slipped and the wheelchair rolled over or whether mr. Maraga was pushed off the edge 200 feet down to the rocks And all those hatreds and everything even motives But everybody's story seemed to check. Yeah, that's it. Nothing so far can be proved mr. Valentine You kicked that rock just now To see how I would react maybe Well, I think you should understand There won't ever be any evidence His death was an accident. I believe that now So get out get out Johnny couldn't have been too surprised mr. Valentine said he saw the angel clears death Omen I guess you'd call it. We smoked cigarette together down there, you know half hour for his death surprised at what Jake, huh? Well the brakes slipped on his chair. Don't you think? You figure he was unconscious when it happened. We don't even know that Look, we're leaving. I only asked his own fault one way had a fixation on that place. He did Or to be the devil's grata. I always claimed Or maybe we could blast the marble make a quarry see me mr. Valentine. Oh, yes, mr. Maraga Look Jake do you mind sure sure mr. Valentine sure Mr. Maraga Testimony show that last night your brother called you vice president charge of gas and wind Yeah Old Johnny was only one had any brains or are you part owner of the maraga steel mills or just a paid employee? You mean am I just the boss's brother? Yeah Yes, if you like And now that he's dead you're leaving mr. Valentine. Oh, no, no, don't get me wrong. Jake and I we appreciate what you've done But also we're tired of everybody looking cross-eyed at the guys who benefit I should have told that nurse. She was being a fishes to get you up here in the first place. She was badly upset. Well, so am I Johnny was my brother Yeah These little nurses to get more conscientious the richer the patient is Oh, oh, how dare you Mary listen to me. I will not and I won't leave here I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to hit you, but you can't talk like that to me I'll talk anyway. I please I've been here 15 years. I'll call you all the names I came All right, nursing now cut it out. Cut it out What'd she do to you Mary? What'd she do? Don't look at me that way. Hey, hey easy, please Miss flood know what she was up to mr. Maraga. She was firing me. Yes. She fired me She You what? Now look here miss flood. You've been fucking it. Take it easy with you here. Emily. You're all right It was the way she looked the way she I'm sorry, Mary I didn't you see mr. Maraga I happen to overhear this young lady and a policeman talking. No, you just found out the nurse is really a wife. Hey, Mary What's that george? Just guessing But it would explain why she could try to fire you Mary why you laugh at the word miss Not to mention some things john maraga said last night A why just a nurse should be so curious and hire me in pride mousey little Yes, yes We were married a week ago in florida. I did tell the police mr. Valentine. I wanted to tell you but I wanted to wait until Oh, just because i'm his nurse and he was wealthy just because Stop looking at me like that. Nobody's looking any way. They shouldn't I wondered what his big announcement today was going to be What made that hotheaded sucker want to sell his business cut us off go gallivant and off get out of here Every one of you. This is my house now get out. So you're married a week and now he's dead. Yes He's dead He's dead Don't look that way. Can't you understand? I loved him And he loved me don't give me that. Oh, I wish I were dead too Leave me alone or I will be Good act Good act mr. Maraga Are you changing your mind? I thought you were so sure your brother's death was an accident You're listening to let george do it Our adventure will continue in just a moment now back to george valentine angels grotto a place of great beauty a place where a man fell 200 feet to his death on the rocks below A man in the wheelchair sitting alone in the moonlight But according to the police that death was an accident. There's no further reason for you to stay around Still if your name is george valentine Well, what can you do except stall for time pretend you can't start your car Say you look at jake. Is there some rope around here? I may need a one the mechanic comes to give me a tow And the shed over there helps out. Oh, okay. Thanks. Get out of way. Good idea So that fool emily won't hang herself There's a good one Come on, broxy. Let the rest of them think we've gone. You realize how short our time is you mean what he just said about emily george, I want to go back in and talk to you. We got to find evidence before somebody else gets murdered The tracks are right broxy And here's where the wheelchairs to george. You and the police went over at inch by inch Well, jake gave me an idea He was wondering earlier if john maraga was conscious when he fell remember. Yes Okay. Now look, I'm john maraga. I'm in a wheelchair. See and I'm sitting here. I'm a strong guy strong George john had been laid up for six months. Well, that's not long enough to break down a dynamo like him The point is when he was sitting here, it would have been pretty hard to take him by surprise You mean somebody slugged him first or there's no sign of a struggle Police thought he might have fallen asleep george Suppose he'd been drunk. I mean remember that wine last night at seven? Oh, yeah, I thought of that But it's like everything else nothing left to show Nothing left but the tracks of the two wheels here and Hey broxy, look They just go and practically a dead straight line all the way out to the edge and over Okay, broxy, throw me that rope there. Oh george. It's all right now. It's all right. This tree you'll hold me George take it easy There we are This is one thing we didn't check but they combed every rock down below there When I kick that rock loose this afternoon remember what happened it bounced Okay, I'll find out what happened last night and I won't bounce either I hope Hey, broxy I can see the angel from down here Yeah, it really does look like one, you know across by the George your ropes twist. I'm all right. There's some stuff to hang on to here Angel of death, huh? I can't even see you anymore. Broxy. What'd you say george? Hey, not so long I was just looking down before It's a watch No, no piece of watch chain Sure, sure. He did hit here before he dropped to the rocks. I thought so the way the cliff curves out It's don't go on if you watch chain. It doesn't tell you anything. Oh, doesn't it Hook down a little twig some scrub trees here growing in a crevice. Well, you know, it doesn't have any bark Yeah, that's right two places here. No bark I'll tell better in the daylight But broxy, there are kick marks too He grabbed here as he fell must have hung on for some time several minutes. Maybe before his strength gave out Hey, I called you but I didn't hear you answer it. Well, I went to see george. I listen. Listen, what? It's gone now. Okay. Come on. Get this rope out of sight here. Duck back here bushes That's better George, I hate high places. You're crazy. But I learned something broxy the fact he clung there proves john moraga was conscious He couldn't have grabbed on there unless he was perfectly all right when he went over He wasn't slugged Doped anything just pushed but those straight line trial. I can think of a person. He might have trusted Never guess what was going to happen until the last minute George Any of them could have come down here without being seen his shouts when he was hanging there wouldn't have been hurt Broxy look stop evading it. You know who I'm talking about all those tears don't hide or motive george I just can't believe that a girl would You see what I see Little emily george. She's crying. That's what I heard before Walking like she didn't know where she was George She was she were dead too. She was hysterical, but she's I'm like jake. I didn't take it seriously She's going where we were george grab her. She's gonna stop. It's herman Beautiful night, isn't it? Mr. Murg What are you doing down here anyway? You know Don't you Why do you ask all I I didn't believe a Good-looking girl like you with her head and their shoulders. It's seriously thinking of carrying out a threat. You think I'm ugly We said so A stupid flat healed nurse Uh, oh Really, it isn't no stay where you are I don't think there's room for both of us here mr. Murg. All right. All right I loved your brother I love john I'm 35. I'm not pretty. I know what I am But he loved me too Please don't touch me Don't come any closer. Oh, it's all right. I know how you feel It was an accident leave me alone. You're just an accident. That's all I told you Don't touch me Right into it didn't you look out of my arm I've handled patience ten times as tough as you are Look out the edge because leave what I said didn't you Believe that come down here and be thinking of jumping when it's you Come on, let's see step on it. He's the one who's live. It'll be key Get back here. I said get back Okay All right. All right. Take it easy all of you lord. What's the matter with you? She would have killed me she was trying to push me I know I know we saw It was going to be the other way around. Oh, I never occurred to me She has the same motive for getting rid of you mr. Moraga. You're the only real brother You're in her way too. Hey Herman for the love of Pete. What the close of little fool? I thought that she was Showed me she was she tried to touch it Yeah, yeah, that's right. We prevented a murder now. I can prove it murder number two Hey, did you find out something? Mr. Fallon, would you stop crying for one minute, please I didn't say you killed your husband. You didn't kill John Moraga Emily the tragedy we prevented tonight was you killing for vengeance because you thought the murder would never be solved The police couldn't find any clues for you, but you were like I was You know it had to be murder and so you tricked harmin into following you down here The only trouble was when you tried to take the law on your own hands. You picked the wrong person I What yeah, that's right He didn't do it. He's demonstrated that pretty well right now, hasn't he? Only uh Hey, you well, what's your name cook? Mary? Oh Did you ever see the angel did did I what come on come on the angel in the rocks? You've lived around here 15 years. You said you've heard the legend. Oh that no No, I don't know what you're talking about. There's no angel in the rocks valentine. That's just oh, yes There is because I saw it And john moraga said he saw it too. Oh, no No, after you left him down here. Emily. He supposedly said it while smoking a cigarette With you jake. Yeah, wait a minute. I never said it. Oh, yes, you did I remember it and that was your mistake Because buster that angel turns out to be a real angel of death You can't see that rock formation from any place except halfway down a straight cliff Now wonder the indians had a legend So when could john possibly have seen it except when he was climbing down there after he'd been shoved Clinging there hanging there Why did john scream out that he saw the angel? Was he pleading with you to help him and did you just stand there and laugh at him jake? No, you're crazy me. I'm just a farmer. I'm sure you're a big strong guy And that's why the tracks of the wheelchair were nice and straight brooksy A man strong enough could just tip it back loading all and give it a roll Now you listen to me. I was up with that setter of mine. I was clean out in the barn Mary help me Mary Do you know what the penalty is for providing a false alibi in a murder case? No, no, I don't even know what you're talking about. You better tell me fast lady How many of those puppies you delivered mr. Valentine? How much of that two hours jake really spent with you and that barn? Hey get it. She's running. No, no, we'll get her. All right. Don't believe anything. That's all jake Back to the conclusion of our let george do it adventure in just a moment Angels grotto and the angel really did solve it Well, brooksy the weak need accomplished didn't help jake much Mary wasn't really mixed up but she started the ball rolling I'll be honest. He could do but confess after that I suppose she wanted to keep the farm as much as he did and maraga was going to take it away sell everything The thing it all started with our being fired And we tried to do it the right way george She hired you to find evidence of what she thought had happened by woman's intuition So just on the basis of that she tries to play angel of destruction of vengeance. It was crazy and wrong But she loved john maraga. Those tears were all true She told us how much she loved him first and only love of her life. I could tell And he loved her just as much. I know I know love love love Hey, how come you're such an authority on the subject brooksy? With you around I'll be darned if I know You have just heard angels grotto another let george do it adventure Robert bailey was starred as george valentine with virginia gregis brooksy David victor and jackson gillis wrote the story with music by eddie dunsteader Now, this is yours truly inviting you to another visit with valentine when you will again hear what happens when you let george do it