 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 Standard oil company of California on behalf of independent Chevron gas stations and standard stations throughout the west Invite you to let George do it the tears of sorrow another adventure of George Valentine Dear mr. Valentine You ever hear a little Malayan with black earrings and white smiling teeth bust out laughing like you just won a lottery and say Look at me boss. I'm so happy. Yes. Yes. I got tears of sorrow Yeah, I know you think I'm crazy So do I So does the Western milk and separator company. That's the outfit I work for Traveling farm supplies the district is east in California, Arizona, New Mexico But Valentine is one place on my route. I can't stay away from it's the dullest saddest poorest loneliest place on all a route 113 gas hamburgers Motel and the Malayan Place is called stillman's last chance brother it is Listen last time I was there. I bumped into the wrong cabin by mistake I never see what happens except I get a knife in my face a foot in my stomach and a fist on the jaw Next thing I know I'm waking up between my own proper sheets and nobody will say who put me to bed Nobody will explain a note I find in my pocket, which says stop asking questions or you'll have a worse accident Valentine I'm going back to that place, but I'm no hero. I need your help Have you could come meet me there Woman's last chance, huh? Last chance at what? Last chance at stillman's going broke. That's all I get it man. Notice your license plates California, huh? I got friends in Hollywood. That's all sure. I thought of going out there sometimes There's one fella. He says I'm a type. They don't get very often. He was just passing through when he seen me. I Don't know. Well, you're very attractive. Of course. This dress is a little tight It's pretty hard keeping your skin like this with all the dust. I think a girl owes it to herself no matter where she is Yes, yes, of course so do I I Guess your husband ain't much interested in these abstractions is he he's not my husband. Oh well He'd like some coffee, mister Hey, look lady if you'd like to go back and wash your hands or anything Excuse me Yeah, Mac here. I am. I told you there was My name's Lucy George. Shall I tell her you're a casting director? Thanks a lot. Let's look around and find this crazy salesman Well, mr. Guthrie, I've seen what the attraction is here Lucy Yeah, I wonder you couldn't stay away from this place now now just because I'm a traveling salesman Yeah, wait, I get a little music on there so they can't hear us That's Lucy there. She's his wife. What? You mean that older man? Sure. Yeah, it's all of course That's Mac still many owns place makes no bones about it either and don't forget. He owns the girl with the wandering eyes, too It's like the movies, isn't it? Middle-aged man with a frizzle top young wife way out in the middle of nowhere You wouldn't be wanting to rescue her would you she could be talked into running away? I imagine Whatever made you start getting me wrong now look We drove a long way bus to just on the basis of some double talk in your lettuce So let's start getting you right double talk nothing Even worse when I wrote you it will sneak out the side here while the music makes them think we're still in the bar Okay, it's still money watches me like a hawk this time. Where are we going here? Outside of the path in See I figured out which cabinet was that one I stumbled into before And still man. I think it was him wrote me the note telling me to stop being nosy. All right, mr. Detective Valentine. I got beat up I could prefer charges, but we're gonna figure it out instead Yeah, turn right Now this place is broke see not a penny and those two in there they hate each other the only other person The only one who's happy it's the cook Swear they never paid him a penny wait a minute the cook had Charlie George Washington What they've been here six or eight months Malayan little guy takes an awful beating from still man They always comes back with a grin just like the old the secret of the world tears of sorrow So all that stuff wasn't just a game Of course not the Malayan and you also mentioned a knife in your face Yeah, Valentine. It was Charlie's cabin when I stumbled into here. This is it Curtains are all drawn always up Long time ago still man told me Charlie'd never let anybody near his room I should have had it two and two faster wait a minute where you're going isn't Charlie here now That's his day off some big chicken rats is down the valley. He always goes over to visit with his oriental friends curtains all drawn doors locked tighter than the drum This morning I found that if you squeeze in the space between this and the empty cabin next door Come on. Yeah, okay. We're still with you. What's those nails there? I don't know. I'm all right, George I just had some idea of why we're squeezing this book says a window in here with curtains that afraid You can see through them. What? Hey, you see inside Charlie's room man Look at the way it shines And the fancy carving on it George. It must be solid silver a silver casket Well with a little cook like that ever get enough money to take plenty to buy it There's something else Doesn't it make you kind of wonder? What's inside the casket? The Milan what? Not even a mark on him Yes, there is a little bruise on his jaw But there is Brooks. He did In his own silver casket Mr. Valentine Charlie George Washington was not a young man look doctor look you've seen the coffin I've told you how the people liked it and there's that bruise so somebody hit him or maybe he pumped into a door I Treated this man once Valentine and the coffin fits in surely he must have bought it for himself The philosopher I guess You see his chest was weak his heart was worse He acted like the Lord of the world at the same time knew down while he was dying Quite a guy all right, but doctor you can't kid me that last night me straight Valentine I Think he was murdered too But my testimony won't help you much. I Can't prove the shock of a tap on the jaw did it anymore than you can prove that he had a buried treasure of some kind Oh, no, he didn't I tell you I know how do you know mr. Stoneman because I looked for it in his shack in His clothes even followed him to see if he ever buried anything Of course, that's why I try to chase people away from him because I wanted to find it myself only I didn't So but I didn't do nothing wrong. Did I all right all right? Lucy, let me ask you don't know no more about it than I do mr. You see it's too bad now Charlie's dead. That's always an accident sure Maybe all the doughy ever had was invested in that fancy box You know I might agree with you if Charlie was still alive if they hadn't still been reason for somebody to slug him last night Gosh, I didn't even see him last night Oh, no, no, of course not Who else was staying here besides Guthrie? Nobody Mac if you're gonna nobody I said well now look don't argue about it You're uh You're jealous of your wife man. Can't you she's nice looking? It uh, it wouldn't have been somebody that Right under his nose Now look mr. We've been helpful enough as an empty cabin next to Charlie's Guthrie says he saw you bringing fresh linen to it this morning, huh? And it's happened before yeah He says he counted for dirty plates once when there were only three people look at maybe I slept in that other cabin scene Okay, and I'll get excited Buster Couple of customers if you'll pardon us He'll excuse you Hello Yeah, that's all the doctors caught our friends here. Yeah cabin 14 officer. What's happened accident up the highway Almost got me pepper to here. Hello pepper. Hey, I got some people hurt out In the car in need me any more. You want some help? No, no, no, no, I'll drive them up the cabin for the dark Hey, put some coffee in that guy will you almost got his cock turned up Yeah, come on tell us pepper. Holy smoke. I can't stand the sight of them things. Oh Thanks, mr. Stillman got a piece of your fresh pie never mind coffee's too hot Maybe it's whiskey. I want a friend calm down. Well, it's my egg drug. See I run the pickup right out of here for the Poultry outfits it was an hour ago Maybe two we've been working to get them people out Tourists car coming from the east. Yeah. Yeah. Well, what was it? Who got hit? Well, I see this car behind me coming like a bat out of that Oh, hey, excuse me, mr. Stillman. Yeah, what? Well, it was up in the curbs You know these mountains Anyway, there's crazy galooters in such a hurry bowels right past me on a curb and this other cars coming from the east right head on Copies right behind the eastern car. I slam into a ditch and he skid sideways across the road. Oh brother Yeah, it's tough. It's tough. All right This this guy going so fast. He was coming from this direction and Mac before the cop gets back here is something I got to tell you Well, what do you mean? Well gosh? I'm sorry, but this guy was speeding who passes me the cop says he somebody broke up her Oh, what are you talking about? Take it easy The cop says it's both stillman a cousin of yours. What? Yeah Yeah, Mike the cop seems to think Bo must have come from here I just wanted to warn you the cop says you bet you were hiding Bo out again. Yeah, but where is Bo? What happened to he? He he's dead Mike Other people only got injured Bo's dead. Oh So There was somebody here in the empty cabin last night your cousin And now he dies by a real accident while speeding away. All right All right. All right. All right, mr. Sure Only look, I want to explain. Never mind Mike not now Besides you better look after your wife She just fainted We'll return to tonight's adventure of George Valentine in just a moment How come neighbor Brown who has a car several years older than yours drives past you with a big broad smile on his face? Well, looks like he's got that new car feeling and how did he get it? Not by using a gasoline that contains engine-sticking gum. That's for sure So it's a safe bet that neighbor Brown is using Chevron Supreme the gasoline that's super refined to get rid of engine-sticking gum this Troublemaker gum comes from the impurities that are naturally present in most raw Gasolines and Chevron Supreme is the gasoline in the West that's super refined to eliminate gum Just try it on your own car You'll get and keep that new car feeling try it tomorrow for fast starting smooth pickup, ping-free power on hills and for full mileage in the kind of driving you do Ask for super refined Chevron Supreme 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 I so happy I got tears of sorrow Those were the words of Charlie George Washington the enigmatic little Malayan cook who was the only happy person at Stillman's last chance The only happy person yet in his room. He had an ornate silver casket waiting But now that Charlie is dead you can't believe somehow that he wasn't murdered But by whom max stillman his wife Lucy with the wandering eyes Jeff Guthrie the salesman who hired you You settle on the prime suspect a cousin of max stillman's hiding out from the law The only trouble is that cousin is now dead too this time from a real accident out on the highway And so you talked to the highway patrolman who was there? I must have Valentine I told her how it happened oh and the pepper here so I better than I did just streaking up the road He was come past me just I want to know as why I wasn't such a hurry Well, the law wasn't closing in on him or anything. That's what you mean Yeah, we didn't even know what part of the state he was in Somebody said he broke for all that's right in Tucson. Yeah, it was one of those guys. That's always in trouble Max stillman in there claims. He was surprised to see both show up here And just pulled in late last night and asked for a bed then drove off first thing this morning harboring a criminal Well, yeah, sure to be technical Oh, but max all right. He never done anything himself. I know Pepper you know these people pretty well the stillman's well I've been making egg pickups for the big ranchers over here for a couple of years out of Williams and flagstaff only well I know all I mean is maybe you know some gossip about them. Hmm. Oh, what are you driving it? Well How about Lucy stillman and max cousin bow? I make any sense Remember she fainted once you heard about her Both stillman 60 years old at the face he never shaves and a mouthful of tobacco Okay, we'll throw that one out. Mrs. Stillman. Well, she smiles at just about everybody mister. Well, that's what intrigues me That'll be the best cover-up for the fact that there really is some man beside her husband Well, the gossips haven't got it pegged yet and I'll tell you this I don't hang around enough to find out my wife sees to that Yeah, and I'm in the same boat. Wait a minute pepper. Where you going? Well, gosh Hey, you got a load of eggs standing out in the sun there You know, I'll run pepper back up to where we left his truck and then get back to my job on a highway Doc's getting an ambulance for those other people from the accident They're taken care of so You think the law isn't needed anymore, and I'm just stalling you Well, I am officer and I'll tell you the reason You're right here, Brooks. Did you get them? Well, just the secretary on duty, but she'll locate her boss and have him call us back. Hey, wait a minute What's all this a funeral parlor in Phoenix officer the outfit whose nameplate is on that silver coffin of Charlie's Huh? Oh, what did they say? Oh, you mean you are interested George? It was only sent to him on consignment. At least that's what the girl's record showed but she said her boss So Charlie hadn't paid for the thing yet, or if he had it was only a deposit. Oh Now there's a crime isn't there? Because how could Charlie have expected to pay for that thing or the funeral parlor expected to be paid Unless he did have some money hidden away and where is it now? Well, where was it in any time? Oh, I've heard those stories People wondering why I was so happy betting. He had some hidden away Mac looked all over for the treasure and never found sure and we've done a Little looking ourselves only in the wrong places, Brooks. He we've never been obvious enough Give me that letter the salesman wrote us to bring us here We can either wake up Angel Here we are Dear mr. Valentine You ever hear a little Malayan, you know the type Where's black earrings and white smiling teeth and so forth and so forth you mean Black earrings, but he always wore on Valentine just black buttons. Oh, no, he didn't Not when we found the body George, you're right. There were just the marks on his ears. Yeah, where is there any used to be? Well, I'll grant you I never saw Charlie without him before There'd be a pretty good joke on people if his treasure were right in front of them and listen to this I So happy I got tears of sorrow. I got the tears of sorrow pearls maybe Tears shape pearls Bruxy, do you have any idea what a fortune a pair of matched black pearls would be worth? Holy smoke. I am. I guess you're not leaving now. Yeah, officer. Oh, oh, hey pepper I'll fight a car to take you back to your truck. Okay, Valentine We're gonna call in this place from kitchen to towel. Okay, friend. We'll look for earrings. All right But it's the person who knocked Charlie down and took them off him that I want It's Charlie's murderer that we're going to find a lot of my line The old-fashioned snow. Oh, it happens to anybody and with all the excitement going on here Honey, you don't know how mixed up and upset you can get when you're married to a police dog like that. I Guess that isn't any worry of yours Did you see Bo Stillman when he was here last night? Gosh, no, I mean it was a complete surprise when I found he was here, but I didn't talk to him or anything Sit down. Won't you? Oh, thank you This is a nice room You didn't see your Charlie last evening. I did you not after dinner dishes and I did some bacon Mack he was asleep already. I went out for a walk. Mm-hmm Poor little Charlie Mack was rough with him sometimes, but I never was I was Hey, why'd you come in here? What do you want? Well, I told you Just to see how you were feeling. No, you didn't you thought I was up front in the lunchroom. All right Have it your own way. Well, what do you want? What do you come snooping here for? Lucy What's in the little bag behind the door there? Hey, you get out of there. You get out of there I'm sorry miss Brooks when he please don't open that that there's nothing important in there I'm sorry too Lucy. I feel right Isn't what I was looking for I Just thought what gaudy decorations a pair of pearls would make for a gaudy girl. Is that what you were gonna say? No, hi Well, anyway, they're not here Only a change of underwear flip roll of 30 40 50 dollars extra stockings When were you planning on running away? None of your business But the bell George she was Mr. Valentine. We was just having a car come on, Brooks. He never mind Mrs. Stillman a deputy sheriff's gonna stay here until we get back to make his job easy We'll take Guthrie with us George we're going for a ride with a highway patrol angel Lucy that husband of yours got away. He must have taken out of here faster than his cousin ever drove Well, here's where the wreck was mr. Valentine Don't say any dodge parked around that's what Mac drives. Yes George if Mac stopped here. He's already gone. How about it? You see any tracks officer? I Can't tell a thing they Wreck on the ambulance the picked up bull must have backed all over the shoulders here That's what Mac must be following the wreck itself and the ambulance the body of bull Yeah, if the pearls were in the wreck, I don't see how they could have got thrown clear Must still be in the wreck car someplace or in bulls pocket Halfway under mountain view, but now Valentine. Maybe I'm just a thick-headed You know, I think it's a very simple crime that's piled up like a snow ball simple with silver caskets and Malay It all boils down to this Charlie had something worth money and one or more people figured that out Well, I grant you that both stillman spent the night in the cabin next door to Charlie's. Oh I get it the winter. He could have looked in spot of the coffin got curious and gone obviously That's what Mac thinks happened. Come on. Let's get after him. I must be getting on him, sir There's pepper is a truck up ahead. Well, come on off as a step on all right Can't you get by the truck now? I can't see how I'll give pepper a touch of the sirens or let us pass it You know, I'm thinking about Lucy away. She's been acting all nervous Nellie. Oh, I doubt if she tapped Charlie on the jar self But suppose her accomplice did a boyfriend Valentine. I told you once before I never so much as that guy officer Shoulders do software pepper to pull over and let us buy listen Guthrie listen Suppose Lucy's nervous because everything's going wrong a tap on the jaw didn't just knock Charlie out it killed him And then there was both still the cabin next door and suppose he didn't do it himself But suppose he saw it done look I'm still telling you a little crime with everything going wrong and snowballing and the ones who did it scared to death running Oh these blasted curves these slow trucks there there pepper's waiting to come on. He can see yeah Yeah, it's a nice guy Hang on hit the brakes. It wasn't shot. He was murdered. It was both still much pepper's a nice guy, huh? He can see if there's any cars No cars coming, huh Well, it's not the kind of a murder you could plan But for a guy running a guy scared to death. Yeah, it could have messed us up pretty bad Almost as badly as both still Oh, let me do the driving officer. You want to be free to use a gun on that guy pepper Yeah, yeah, I'll get out mr. Valentine Gee I back there. I didn't see that other car coming. Oh, not much time. I was just on your legs Stop wobble. Look, I haven't done nothing. Oh, you just tapped a guy in the jaw to get some pearls for a girl Huh? I should have guessed you were Lucy's boyfriend pepper. You've been on this run for a couple of years You said pick up fresh eggs so you have to come out at night Lucy said she went for a little walk last night did some baking too. She said I remember you seem to know She had fresh pies look mr. Valentine. I'd never kill anybody as long as I live unless you got scared No, no, how that bowl of jelly in your head works Last night you got the pearls only both stillman saw you and you know it So instead of you and Lucy running away right then you wait until morning knowing bowl try to get you alone for a little shake Valentine listen you gotta find you follows you down the highway You know, he'll try to pass you so he can flag you down Well, now, maybe you didn't plan it that way, but you got the nastiest idea I ever heard of You waved him to pass on when you could see another car was coming Well, Valentine you gotta believe me you gotta what else could I do when I hit Charlie? He died when his day off was over what people would have gone in and found he'd been murdered. You're wrong pepper They wouldn't have what it never could have been proof. What's that the doctor told me that But Buster you overheard the carpet me figuring out the pearls and talking about a murderer And then when you heard the siren and saw the red light and that's right behind you the temptation was too much I think you proved your fit to hang George that service was really something and she was all right People wearing top hats the works none of these people even knew the little guy Charlie George Washington wasn't quite the usual man little lonely sick fella Wonder what he thought about. He was a pretty sharp operator He made a good deal with the funeral parlor had them send out his coffin in advance He arranged for all this. Yeah, look what it cost him his pearls his earrings He'd already signed them over to this outfit He asked me might have cashed him in earlier and enjoyed his life Maybe he just wanted to Enjoy something else the bluebird, huh the pot of gold at the end of the rain. That's what I mean. I Guess only Charlie had the answer. Yeah, keep it in the future the dream yes, darling, but You can overdo this future business, you know, huh? What is this? Well, it's just a private little joke Guthrie Drop you someplace If your car has an oil filter, don't forget that it's a real money saver for you But only if it has serviced every six to eight thousand miles Neglect the oil filter beyond that mileage and it readily becomes a liability By letting dirt, grit, and carbon circulate through precision fitted engine parts You can actually see and feel the difference by comparing a new filter element with one that's used up You'll find the new one weighs less than a pound and the old saturated one may easily weigh four or five pounds A new oil filter element by the way is not only the surest way to keep fresh oil clean longer and to protect your motor It's also the most economical So if you haven't had that where saving filter cartridge replaced in 8,000 miles, why not do it tomorrow? It's another protective car saver service You can get at independent chevron gas stations and standard 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 Let George do it is written by David Victor and Jackson Killis and directed by Don Clark Virginia Greg appeared as Bruxy Alan Reed was heard as Guthrie Louise Arthur as Lucy Larry Dobkin as Mack Phil Boucher as the officer and Walter Burke as Pepper The music is composed and presented by Eddie Dunstetter your announcer John Heaston Listen again next week same time same station to let George do it This is the mutual Don Lee broadcasting system