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Well, it makes enough sense to show that Gilbert dresser is pretty panicky I know George, but there's something too strange to comprehend unworldly sounds like he's having trouble with band shoes Whatever is source of trouble. It's our source of income, but how do people let themselves get into this kind of situation? This kind of situation pays the rent so let's go find out what's on Gilbert dresser's unhappy mind In my ten years on the desert mr. Valentine. I've witnessed events that would freeze the very marrow in your bones Yes, I'm not doubting your word. Mr.. Terrifying events Things that are only spoken about in whispers behind locked doors. Yes, but let's be a little more specific magic Boodoo if you will an evil beyond evil They're right here in your own city, but why are you hiring us? Yes, mr. Dressler You mentioned something about a fiancee in your letter. What about her? Yes, Gabrielle. I love her Oh, we're sure of that mr. Dressler, but you also wrote something about fearing for her continued sanity What makes you think her sanity won't continue? Margo Margo, what's that supposed to mean to me? No, forgive me. I was referring to my damn Margo She claims she's a medium. I claim she's a purveyor of black magic Well, now we're getting somewhere you're trying to tell us Gabrielle your fiance is somehow being influenced by this madam Margo Yes, how why why she's taking all her money away from her? Oh, how long has this been going on since Gabrielle's mother? Mrs. Turner died. Oh, what happened? Maddie Turner was cleaning her hunting rifle and it went off Very unfortunate the sporting world lost a great devotee because of Mrs. Turner's accident. All right. What do you want us to do? Expose madame Margo. That's what I want you to do expose it certainly I've arranged for you to visit madame Margo this very afternoon here This is her card and tonight you shall attend the seance at the Turner mansion a George is nothing. I like better than an evening cavorting with the spirit world Okay, Brooks. He will give it a whirl. I never saw a ghost yet who didn't scream when it was pinched But there's madame Margo's place George 214. Yep, I'll pull up in front One thing I'll say for George is not squeamish about operating in a tough neighborhood Well, it looks all very proper Bruxy even to the neat little sign on a window Madame Margo clear-voided metal is seances by a form of it. Okay. Let's go. We'll ring the bell George That's a very good idea. Oh Oh great listen to that local color will you in a joint like this? I'll settle for nothing less than a swami. Yeah You have been expected. Please enter side This way if you please Madame Margo offers herself to meditation However, she will receive you shortly great new turban George Do you mind if we sit down mr. Ruff? Haseem on this level that is the name by which I am known. Please be seated. Yes, thanks Now Haseem will leave you seek to attune yourself to the vibration of the fear. Oh sure. We'll do just that Haseem Well, there's your swami George. I wonder what bottle he floated out of I'll bet when that towel around his head is unwrapped It reads Oasis Motel Hey Madam Margo must do all right with the jade vases Carp teeth. Look at this wrong. Oh, Brooksy for a candy bar in North Africa during the war I could have filled a barracks bag with this junk junk why some of these things are price I can basement gadgets Brooksy part of a pitch. Well, I don't want to argue with you But I look look Claire. I haven't heard of a setup like this yet There wasn't phony a shrewd operator in a bathrobe and a crystal ball can make a fortune feeding customers the things I want to hear. Yes, but this matter. I'm Margo is supposed to be uncanny Anyway, that's what Mr. Dressler seems to think. I don't know what her act is Brooksy But I'm making book that Margo's got a huge investment in trapdoors and mirrors and one of these days She's going to trip over her own act of pleasure. George Dressler sent you to me he gave no reason for the arrangement except that you are his friend Oh, well, mr. Dressler just likes to be mysterious I understand that ten years on the desert can do that to a person He is obsessed with the idea that I bring harm to Gabrielle Turner He is a stupid man. Yeah. Well, uh, what about this crystal ball here? What can it tell you about me? Very well Seek yourself in the past and the future Margo will seek with you Believe Margo and the dimness in the crystal will be swept away and will become as a sudden burst of light Revealing all Even now the shadows clear the image asserts itself There has been violence and terror in your life No, I can't see you wrong about that as if many men had come together to do you harm In a vastness too great for the eye to scan a vastness in the desert perhaps Many men and many machines Yes, it is a desert and you are wearing a uniform George. That's amazing Can you tell me where this desert is in what country? Should it startle you that I know to Margo the crystal has no secrets It is the Sahara North Africa, huh? Of course, mr. Valentine What made you ask that? Oh Come off it kiddo. How gullible do you expect one man to be? What are you talking about mr. Valentine? Madame Margo if you get paid for this sort of thing I'm going out and rent a sarong and a Turkish towel. That's all I need for an easy life That and a detective phone with a hidden mic get out of here now wait a minute I've got a couple of other things that I would get out of here Hussain, why don't you let that poor guy alone Margo making him stand behind those drapes all this time? I have one day you will love yourself to death on your poor humor mr. Valentine. George. He's got a gun. Don't worry, Brooksy Madame Margo can't afford to get rough this kind of melodrama sometimes leads to scandal that wouldn't be good business for her He worries me with his glibness Hussain You should have kept looking in your crystal ball Margo, then you could have warned your number one boy Always keep that gun close to his side Let's get out of here, Brooksy. Okay George. You will regret this. Oh look honey. Don't go dramatic on me Save those pear-shaped tones for Gabriel Turner. I don't understand George How did she know you were in North Africa because she had us tuned in with her little detective phone before she came into the room? Brooksy when I was telling you about it. I lied to you purposely. I saw in North Africa once from an airplane 10,000 feet up at night time Well now that we know that Margo reads past presents and futures by direct wire. What are we gonna do? Have dinner Brooksy? Oh fine, and we've got a date with a few assorted ghosts. Oh fine But how about the rest of these people here mr. Dressley are they friends of the family too a cult of vultures mr. Valentine parasite of the late Maddie Turner whose interest in spiritualism is heightened by the free champagne served before every seance Oh Gabriel Gabriel my dear. This is mr. Valentine and miss Brooke. How do you do? I suppose you're welcome here both of you Even though you've come to sneer at us. Oh, I wouldn't put it that way Gabriel We're just here to take a look there have been scoffers before Please understand that you've been invited only because Gilbert insisted upon it Have you explained to Gilbert's guests how stupid they are hey, where do you get all your information lady? I am Gabrielle's aunt young lady Vita Patterson Oh, I happened to concern myself with a caliber of people with whom Gabrielle is forced to associate What makes you think miss Brooks is a bad influence miss Patterson? Oh Gabrielle is emotionally high strung People like you people from the outside Obsessed half on the outside My dear the rest of the party is going into the sanctuary Madame Margot is waiting. Oh George not again. Yep. Let's give the old gal another rumble. Hey, George Here on the back of my neck is gonna look funny with my permanent Yeah with all the trimmings This sanctuary is a great backdrop for Dracula Candlelight and polka music for a vampire have the courtesy to be quiet Nothing must have stirred matter Margot while she reaches her control control. What's that a voice miss Brooks? Margot is linked with the spirit world. You'll see it's very weird the voice with which Margot speaks Will not be her voice at all. Oh, Gilbert. Why did you bring these people here? Hush child. Hush listen to me Gilbert It's Janice this is impossible. Please listen to me Gilbert Janice. What are you doing here? I thought you ran off to Cairo with Cecil rid yourself of those who would bring the harm to Margot. They are evil Remember Gilbert. I've always known what's best for you my dear. They haven't changed a bit. Have you Janice? Always showing up at the wrong time and knowing what's best Janice go away get rid of them Get rid of those who do us harm You never mentioned a girl named Janice was always interfering always I hardly expected her to pop up again my dear What is he child? I've never seen anything like this in my life. 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Yeah, it's a wordy isn't it lieutenant Well, maybe your boys just didn't feel like being clever the day. Mrs. Turner was murdered. Is that why you called it a hunting accident? Oh, look miss Brooks. I'm not perfect like your boyfriend Valentine. I'd be the first one to admit that But as a matter of fact, I personally contribute to the support of you guys a little thing called taxes I'm just perfect enough to want a little action for my money Valentine three months ago. We were called in by Vita Patterson to investigate the death of her sister Maddie Turner We called it an accident because that's the way the setup looked because there wasn't any reason to call it murder Well, whatever happened about suspicious nature of yours lieutenant. Yeah a prominent society woman is found dead shot a woman Who surrounds herself with a house full of sponging friends. Don't you remember what your correspondence course says about a situation like that? Look look when a person is found dead with her finger on the trigger We consider the reports of ballistics medical examiner and a dozen other experts Then we fumbling police arrive at certain conclusions in the death of Mrs. Turner that conclusion was accidental death here here Bravo lieutenant, but how could so many people fumble about the same thing? Yeah, does that confession mean that Gabrielle is gonna stand trial for murder lieutenant? I doubt it in that household of crazy people She's the squirreliest of the lot unless her aunt Mrs. Patterson isn't just a little bit ahead of it Then Gabrielle will be committed to an institution. Yep. Yeah, she's home now under the care of a physician and under police guard She can't even remember confessing much less how or why she killed anybody You wouldn't mind if Claire and I dropped in on the Turner family. Would you lieutenant? Well sure go ahead you'd be in good company But take my advice and hide when the wagon comes those young interns sometimes have trouble figuring who fits the straight jacket Lieutenant, I secretly love all men who say nice things like that. It's you two You need to hope that I'd only hired you in a dream look Gilbert Let's both get real grown-up and face facts. You really did hire me and we're both stuck I'm not in the habit of paying people who bungle their jobs It must be quite obvious that I don't need your alleged services any longer But we haven't finished our job. Mr. Dressler. So if you will return my fee, which you have not done. Oh, yeah Yeah, well, that's chat Gilbert. Why don't we come inside? I certainly do. Thanks a lot. Close the door, proxy Now look Gilbert you hired me to do a job. I'm not backing out of it. Why should you you admit you failed? Don't you you don't have much room to talk? Mr. Dressler. Who is that Janice you were talking to last night? Janice is dead. She died nearly 10 years ago 10 years Then how did she dislike to say it but even I am now convinced that Margot is not a fraud How could she have known about Janice? Oh, it's very simple. You blurted out Janice's name as soon as Margot began to broaden her age Yeah, it's a good thing Margot didn't drop her H's mr. Dressler You might have come up with a name of some little barmaid in Soho. You're not very amusing young lady now What about Gabriel? Where is she? They've taken her away, mr. Valentine Poor girl. I was deeply attached to her. Uh-huh. I'll bet her aunt has overcome, too Vita Patterson is a remarkable woman. She buries her sorrow in her books or sledges. It'd be a better word Where is she in the library? She explicitly informed me that she wishes to greet. Well, that's very touching. Come on, Claire It's absolutely necessary. Oh Oh, it's the intruders again. Yes, I hate to take you away from your tears mr. Patterson But there are a few questions. I want to ask you and by what right you're not the police Oh, this won't take long. Just a moment of your lonely time and you can go right back to eating your heart out What is it you want? I want to know a little bit more about the murder of Maddie Turner. It was murder, wasn't it? Imagine the ingratitude of the child Killing my poor sister after all the wonderful things we've done for her. Oh, yes Yes, she was so overcome by those wonderful things. She can't even remember killing your sister Oh, Gabrielle has lapses of memory an unfortunate trait which she inherited from her father's side of the family Oh, well this wealth you were talking about what happens to that How could you mention money at a time like this? Well, let's mention it anyhow. Who gets it? Well, of course Gabrielle inherited the mother's estate and now that she would be declared insane. Why I suppose I Well, I don't know why I've never given her the thought. No, I'll just bet you haven't well Thanks a lot, Miss Patterson. I just know it'll kill you every time you spend a penny of all those Thousands of dollars get out of here. Miss Patterson doesn't like us George. Yeah, we've got crazy ideas, Brooks. He all right. Come on Let's go see whether one of them will pay off What makes people like that George if you're talking about the zanies and wandering and out of the Turner mansion the answer is money From here. That's the only way the rag makes sense Well, I don't want to crowd you with funnies George, but there's Hassem again Yeah, he's planted up ahead there the corner of the house this time like that in the shadow Let's find out what he's got on this one Still looks sinister even in a pinstripe suit. Yeah Well, Hassem doing a little snooping on your own you go to great lengths to involve yourself in difficulty My rad friend brace yourself. Hassem. You're no friend of mine furthermore. You are in our way Watch it You shouldn't carry such things around after dark Hassem and so it doesn't accidentally go off and hurt somebody I'll just take out the clip and the extra bullet in the chamber You will be sorry you did this. There you are. Take your play thing. I'll keep the bullets now Why did Madame Margot send you here? I know nothing. You're so right Okay, take off nature boy beat it. I'm tired of playing patty cake with people out of story books You know what it adds up there. It really does it does huh? Brooks see I want you to get down to headquarters as soon as possible tell Lieutenant Riley to get that whole crew together all those Pixies who were at the seance last night including the spirits George including Gabriel Turner tell the lieutenant to bring them all back to the sanctuary But why if there really was a murder Brooksy? I won't be able to live with myself until I find out the reason for it right now I've got a date with a crystal ball and maybe I'll get a preview Margot in the jar get on the street your chances aren't worth a dime stop speaking in riddles. Mr. Valentine What's on your mind? You are Margot madam accessory after the fact Margot the fact being murder if I were acquainted with your brand of Humor, perhaps I would be immune. I doubt it. Look, you're worried, honey That's why you tag that small time Sven golly on me You can be sent to jail for years and years and that's really something to worry about What are you trying to say? Well? I hate to sell you those shell like yours with nasty words Margot But just take my advice and be my buddy for the next few hours Why do you speak to me like this as if I'm if you're a phony and you are you can throw your voice pretty Well, but last night you threw it a little too far. What do you want me to do? I want you to finish that seance you started it never did get done, but for what reason? So you can turn state's evidence now a clever girl like you can appreciate a good twist Yes, I think you do so let's not keep the cult waiting Margot besides lieutenant Riley is a very impatient man Valentine if you can figure out how this girl murdered Maddie Turner by asking Maddie Turner how she did it I'm gonna turn in my badge by a turban and a crystal ball and apprehend criminals while I sit in my easy chair Just stick around lieutenant this Margot will give you a lesson. You'll never forget You know, that's the wonderful thing about being a police lieutenant every amateur I meet wants to give me lessons But Margot is no amateur all these people think she's the greatest thing that ever happened to them They believe whatever Margot says Valentine haven't you been the cause of enough suffering for poor miss Patterson? I feel it is my obligation to defend her against your ill manners Yes, and I demand to know by foot authority. You have ended my house. Why have you brought Gabrielle here? I'll have the law already have it lieutenant. This is miss Patterson. She lives here. You got troubles miss Patterson But I know it's just that it's Gabrielle Gabrielle's okay. She's in the sanctuary with the doctor. I wouldn't worry about her Maybe we'd better go in Margot said plenty of time to get wound up. Okay Hello, Gabrielle. How do you feel? I don't understand This all happened before long ago a Very long time ago. Yes, now you're all right. Just take it easy. I really didn't mean to I didn't hate my mother You know just sit tight Gabrielle. Whatever happens. Don't say anything. You understand. Don't say anything. Of course Of course, I understand I Killed her but I didn't mean to Is this one you dragged me here Valentine I know a ventriloquist when I hear one being a lot more than the rest of these people just get this picture The party miss Patterson, why don't you relax? About that Bruxy a killer trap by a ghost only there wasn't any ghost George if I've got to say it and I've got to say you're a genius Oh, that's okay, Bruxy. You can say it But all I had to know was if Margot was a phony and Vita Patterson thought Margot was always on the level except once A star me genius. What do you mean except one Vita paid Margot to produce Maddie Turner and frightened Gabrielle into confessing Why should Gabriel confess to a murder? She didn't do Bruxy There's a lot of evil people in this world Vita Patterson is one of them She knew her niece had a memory blank the night of the murder so all this time She's been making Gabrielle believe that she killed her own mother the world you did was make Margot produce Maddie Turner Yep, only this time Maddie smoke when Vita heard an imitation of her sister's voice She thought it was the real thing. It was too much for her Well, there's just one thing I still don't understand George. What happened when you went back to see Margot? Oh, she read my palm Yeah, she said I had a wonderful heartline. Oh, Margot looked at my hand and said I was a lover. Oh I got a pretty good heartline myself. Look at it George Yeah You know what I think George. No, tell me what you think. 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We're gonna stage a little drama, Bruxy, with a cast of two a carnation and Art Gary And I have a hunch the carnation will be the star of the show Tonight's adventure of George Valentine has been brought to you by standard of California On behalf of independent Chevron gas stations and standard stations throughout the West Let George do it stars Robert Bailey as George with Francis Robinson as Claire Wally Mayor appears as Lieutenant Riley Tonight's story was written by Morton Fine and directed by Don Clark Also heard in the cast were Don Morrison as Gilbert, Irene Tedros Margot, Sarah Selby as Vita Gene Bates as Gabrielle and Lalchon Meira as Hassan The music is composed and conducted by Eddie Dunstetter, your announcer John Heaston Listen again next week, same time, same station to let George do it Mutual Don Lee Broadcasting System