 Personal notice, danger is 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, Mr. Lover. Time for another Let George Do It adventure. This one is called Spring Session, and it's all about a home economics teacher who was so busy minding other people's business that it took everything that George Valentine had to keep her from getting her goose cooked. I think you'll like it. Dear Mr. Valentine, if we all minded our own business, it wouldn't improve the world much. In fact, it would probably make life even lonelier than it is. And I, for one, am certainly not going to stand by and watch tragedy occur to a neighbor without butting in to yell for help, your help. And it's needed immediately before our lovely little campus here at Manzanita College is exploded into every headline in the country or before my neighbor is himself exploded. Sincerely, Miss Norma Flinders, instructor of home economics, Manzanita College. Those are certainly lovely roses, Miss Flinders. Yes, yes, I wanted you to see them. And I've had the nicest sweet peas on faculty row every spring for years. It's the fertilizer, I think. Miss Flinders, we've been here for nearly half an hour now, and you still haven't said one word about your letter. Of course not, Mr. Valentine. Why should I? Well, if you mean that something's changed since you wrote it, this tragedy that you talk... Nonsense. Nothing's changed. If anything, it's worse. What is? Well, the whole situation. Good heavens. Ah, what situation? Mr. Valentine, will you please drink your coffee and eat your cake? I know perfectly well... Oh, there now. Excuse me. At least you've learned all about the college, haven't you? Aren't you interested in higher education? Quite a place this time of year, you know. Oh my, yes. George, what kind of a person is this? Ah, my dear Miss Flinders. Also, what a surprise. Come right in, Professor. Please, come in, come in. Worst surprise? Did you ask me to drop by, or has my secretary mixed up with you? Some old friends of mine just dropped in from the city. Miss Brooks, Mr. Valentine. This is Professor Otto Ringel. Here's our dean of libraries here. How do you do? Yes, yes. The man who chases the bookworms. Pleasure, young lady. You too, sir. But I guess there aren't many bookworms this time of year, are there? Or this time of day? Spring. Libraries empty every night. Finest book collection in the state. What good is it? Colleges should be locked up in the spring. Oh, you mean the students find other things to do besides homework? Even the faculty. Even the what, Professor? Well, well, no importance, no importance. Well, I say, lovely sweet piece out there, Flinders. Mr. Valentine, perhaps I should explain. Professor Ringel is my neighbor. What? Oh, that's nice. Oh, yeah, I understand. Anything wrong with that? Sit down, sit down, sir. We were just talking about the college. No, no, no, I'm sorry, young man, sorry, but I'm in sort of hurry. You are? Why? Well, I have work to do this evening. I only dropped by because you asked me... Your new secretary brought back the keys to my car, Professor. She said she'd used it to run an errand for you. Well, yes, yes, of course, that's right, yes, thank you very much. I just wondered, you hadn't mentioned it yourself. Oh, didn't I? Blast it, nuisance, not owning a car, you know. Well... Sometimes it's hard to work a car into the budget. There's so many other things to spend money on. Now, if you'll just sit down, I'll cut you a piece of cake that I baked myself. No, no, no, no, no, I have to be going. Really, it's been a pleasure, Miss Brooks, Mr. Valentine, but no thank you, no, no. Why not? You have nothing else to do... No, no, really, really, I'm so sorry, but some other time. Good night, really, good night. He never used to work in the evening. All right, Miss Flinders. So that's the guy you wrote the letter about. But would you tell me what... The lady's very had taken my car using his name. He didn't know she used it to meet a strange man. Miss Flinders, please, listen to me, would you? You claimed a tragedy was brewing that would hit every headline in the country. Mr. Valentine, we exaggerate our own importance here at college. I know that, but I don't exaggerate what I see, what I know. Well, this professor seems perfectly all right. Oh, his pale, stumpy, didn't you notice? He's working at night when he's never done that in his life before. He avoided talking to you. He did. Oh now wait a minute. Look. He has a new secretary. Her name is Maria Snodgrass What she's here for one purpose and she's admitted as much to find the man with the most money on the campus She's a working girl, but she's got a brand new mink coat. She won't let people see it, but I've seen it She's got a platinum wristwatch. She doesn't wear in public. She's up to no good. Yeah, sure I see but miss Flinders. I'm afraid that we're not to wrangle is up to something too But he's a fool and the professor's good name is about all he's got in a place like this Well, if you mean he's mixed up with his secretary borrowed my car to go to a town three miles away I got another one and followed her she met and picked up a man who already had a car of his own a huge Cadillac from the city, but they parked it in a garage where it couldn't be seen She brought him back and he's out here someplace on the campus right now Well, your story picks up a little at last mr. Valentine Haven't you ever heard of the old army game? She's met that man secretly before He's ugly and he smokes a cigar. I bet he's a partner. I bet he's her husband 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 Sure, right about one thing the library is as empty as a morgue. Yeah, I guess the officers are through here No lights angel And wait something in this room reserve research study sections see librarian for permission Heck with him. It's her. I want to see what yeah look down by the glass cases That's I love you. I love you Get out of here. Listen, Maria, please I can't go out with you tonight. Maria. It's all right. I'm not there. Yeah, but you can't lock up until I leave, can't you? I will resume work on my thesis Mrs. Snodgrass Open up your precious Sheridan manuscripts in case be Only what you have driven me to you stop that thesis two weeks ago. You gave it up. You've got no more Stopped when I met you the world stopped when I met you All right, all right, all right closing time at the zoo kids The keeper only the lady says beat it. So I'll have you know I am a master of literature a graduate research fellow and I am not in the habit of You His name is Avery he's in love with me. He's jealous. Yes, he was a little subtle, but I got that impression He's funny. He's really nice. He wants me to marry him. Well, I thought you were already married. What me? Well, the other guy you picked up in the car downtown. I told you what Miss Linda said, oh, Mr. Valentine You're worse than Avery you know that man is the man with the cigar His name is friends Barker and he's a book dealer from Boston just one of the hundreds who do business with Professor Hengel Well as Professor wrangle himself this Barker has a car of his own and you left it left his car in the garage in town to be greased Okay, so you don't have a husband and that's for professor. I think my boss is Hello, very sweet old buddy daddy, and he's certainly not in any kind of mind. I'll finish it There's nothing happening. You're a nice girl and the season is spring And in the spring Miss Flinders falls in love with Professor wrangle her next-door neighbor, right? Oh every spring from what I hear she spies on the poor guy the poor guy can't stand it She bakes cakes and cooks up stories about him because he won't eat them In short, she's a nosy busybody who's ten times as jealous as your boy Avery could ever be and never mind don't answer me I got the idea Come on Angel. We're going home love love love Everybody thinks the world turns on it Everybody who doesn't have it thinks that people who do or up to something mysterious I Want you to step on me this all brother come on friend come on your feet. There's no place for a love-lorn suicide Now buster you sure sobered up in a hurry. Oh Oh, yeah, I guess so Getting knocked over the head does that for a man doesn't it by what a lamppost? Well, I was gonna kill the guy She wouldn't go out with me and I thought he was the reason Miss Flinders told me he was Maria's husband. Oh, not you too. You mean it was that mr. Bartholomew I'm stupid, but he's no more a book dealer than I am. I can tell you that what uses diction like a racetrack tout And there's something else. I was crazy. I guess he was just walking here But he tried to get away from me. So I tackled him in. Oh, oh here one of them dropped What are you looking for? Oh, yeah Yeah, sure look here. Can you see it? It's a bill his wallet must $1,000 bill. Yeah, he had a large roll of them done up like a package Why I don't know and he grabbed it back up Didn't think I saw it I guess but before he ran off I I Mean when he slugged me What did he do with the butt of a gun? George there's Maria the lights still on in the same room. She still hasn't locked up. Yeah Hey, Maria Maria your senior boyfriend yet. He doesn't look very pretty We stopped by your room after I went to see Miss Flinders to apologize for not believing at least some of her stuff Only she wasn't home either. So we're back to hear the truth from you instead of George Maria Come on sister stand up She's dead Yeah, the beautiful beautiful spring is over for Maria You are listening to let George do it our adventure will continue in just a moment now back to George Valentine Spring session at Manzanita College when everyone's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love That's the way it was with Miss Flinders For instance the things she imagined about her neighbor the dean of libraries But Professor Rangel has a secretary and if your name is George Valentine when you think of her And you must turn to thoughts of murder Yeah, that's right sergeant. She was beaten strangled just sitting there in the chairs Yeah, I know I told you that guy from Boston has a gun, but he yeah Parker. That's his name. That's the guy All right, sure springtime a crime of passion only get out here. Will you the door is locked a patrolman's got the keys It's all yours. Well, did you get her in the phone angel? Miss Flinders is back home George It's only down the next block. Oh, yeah campus drugstore Hey, nice Helm line streets. Those are eucalyptus. All right. All right be literal But is this peaceful place gonna blow sky high Miss Flinders isn't I told her about Maria She was upset of course, but she also said I told you so. Yeah. Yeah Speak of the witch cross the lawn George This house All right, what's the matter? There's a wrangle, of course. This is his house. I ran over the minute you fall. Oh, yeah, the professor He's the murderer naturally. Well, I don't know. Do you okay? I'm sorry. Come on. I'm right here. Thank you right here Hello, she told you about it. I can't believe it Maria was already told mr. Valentine what kind of a person that girl was like telling me she was married to that guy Barker I may have exaggerated just a bit once or twice or three or four times. No, no, no, please I told you something awful was happening. Stop it Where was Maria just sitting in a chair besides some empty glass cases the library. Yeah, that's right But listen, I got to work fast. Where can I find that man Parker? Parker I don't know he was out here tonight to see you wasn't he? Yes, but I Don't know Otto you must have some idea. Be quiet. Will you leave me alone? Sure leave Malone his girlfriend's dead Professor who is Parker anyway? Just a man. I do some business with that's all what kind of business. I won't tell you I Can't tell you Maria told me once he was some sort of a sale. Quiet for heaven's sake be quiet That's right. He might be Ms. Flinders Kind of a salesman who sells notes, maybe your letters or pictures I don't know who killed Maria leave me alone kind of a guy you might make a big payment to no wonder you can't afford a car Yeah, you might have paid off just tonight in thousand dollar bills I have nothing to say That's what I meant all along. Mr. Valentine blackmail Otto why don't you know the kitchen scallion be quiet? Oh the reputation Miss All a man has in hands like yours one tiny mistake could be stretched until the world exploded You've already done a pretty good job. I don't understand. I will not tell you anything, Mr. Valentine I don't need to I did not murder the girl But someone must know something about how long it takes a man to walk three miles Wait, where are you going to drive the same distance to try to get the other side of whatever story you'll make up While I'm gone. Oh, I'd forgotten that car hurry up Angel Barker is the boy we want Only garage in town George. It must be the one Maria claimed he left his Cadillac here to be greased I guess the Lou bentons is around in the George. Look the story Jackson Yeah, maybe we did make it in time just in time. Come on. It's a Cadillac the man driving smoking a cigar Oh, Roxy back to our car. Yeah All right, Roxy stay there in the shower, but you can't stop him George. He's already Yes, I can't All right, get off the horn friend. What's a big idea Mac you turn there get out of my way Take it easy. Take it easy. I just want to find out if your name is Barker. That's all if it's what? Who are you because if it is my car stays here until get that hand out of your pocket get out of my way Don't be so anxious Buster All right, don't hit me back. That's better But I'll hold a gun, huh? I got a permit. See you don't need to see go through his car before we call a cop Hey, what's the idea you got no, I still would you the pockets? That's all I want nothing in the dash compartment or in the back George, what kind of a public hold up behind the seats would you Pants pockets to friend. Yeah, the name's really Parker. All right, isn't it take off that coat. I want to see the lining What's your real business Buster? What are you here to see wrangle for I don't have to tell you anything What do you know about Maria? Oh, was she your wife? How long you've been running your little shakedown racket? I got a lawyer. I got my rights nothing out of the hat band See, are you interested in the penalty for blackmail or shall I talk about murder? So I'm dumb So who's dead? Oh, you're dumb. All right, there isn't a thing in the car. There's not a sign of that money in the car Money what money? Oh shut up. You'll be for it And that's the last pocket Angel he's right. What money? He must have taken a pay off tonight from so you got nothing on me So I say nothing. Okay say nothing in jail, too. I don't need you Nothing officer just figuring out a murder that's all Barker could have switched that package of money to somebody else Yes, I thought of that every if there really was a big bundle of money in the first place Oh now wait a minute. I saw it. I told you sure sure, but it was a crime of passion What's that got to do with it? And how about that thousand dollar bill? I didn't just dream that every just don't get so passionate about it. That's all will you? Not on the porch lights aren't on either. Maybe they went back to mr. Linder's house Cops are at the library. I guess they're not over wait a minute. Wait a minute. Hmm. I don't back there Come on cut across the lawn through here on the drive. They're getting in her car Swindies All right, I'll take the keys instead. Yeah, everybody wants to go for a ride tonight. Well, I don't drive She was just I was going to take you to see his lawyer if auto's mixed up in this thing And of course he is then he we've got something else to do first. I'll get him a lawyer. Don't worry Oh, no, let's not anybody worry. Holy smoke professor. It's awful, isn't it? I mean, I thought I was in love with Maria But I thought I was being blackmailed and that's he gets legal protection the newspapers will get hold of it Linda's you're acting like you think the professor killed her. Oh, oh, no I'm offering to drive him someplace and maybe disappear someplace if you can make it before the police come for questioning That's not true, but it could work both ways. Couldn't it get away for either person in the car Ms. Flinders the professor was mixed up with his secretary Anybody who'd come nearer would be sure he was all right. I can tell you Achieving nothing tonight a payoff was made lots of money in cash I got the guy I was mixed up in at Barker. No, and he'll talk soon enough But Ms. Flinders if the professor made a payoff would he then murder Maria? There's a man who's being blackmail both pay the money demanded and then kill the cause of his blackmail He might do one of the other but would he do both I don't know I'm confused so in this blackmail murder professor Rangel couldn't be the murderer could I was a fool gullible suck on I don't try so hard professor That's a poor straw to grab it Because the next deduction is that you were not being blackmailed what now? There's a much simpler explanation for instance that Barker is a book dealer that guy a little different type book dealer That's all because here's point to Book see something that you said a while ago, and then I remember noticing Maria was sitting in a chair beside some empty glass bookcases empty ones Well often our books in that room are being repaired or loaned out. Oh, yeah Sure, I imagine any student or even a member of the faculty a staff would believe it if you told them that professor You could in time cover up any books missing from the reserve section That's right George, but not if there's a man around who's trying to use those books and writing a thesis He'd raise a little noise wouldn't he me? What are you talking about? So come on pile out of the car. Let's go to the library and see what we can find out But but weren't those manuscripts in every there was nothing in those cases when you were there either You just weren't in shape to notice when you pounded on the glass and told Maria to open up the pressure Sheridan manuscripts in case be holy smoke so that's why she made a play for me now You're getting it Buster I suppose you stop working on your thesis using those manuscripts as reference when Maria first made a play for you In other words, she was sicked on to you by the professor to get you out of the way the one guy who might cause trouble Valentine all this talk about books a man. Hey Sheridan. He was a playwright wasn't the 18th century and Manuscript that means that he wrote it in his own hand Well the stuff on the glass cases ought to be worth a good deal more than a thousand dollars, shouldn't it? Thousand brother that library has stuff worth 20 or 30 or 40,000. I'm sorry professor wringle But a little while ago. I was looking for money in the wrong place. What do you mean George? Yeah? You see we've been looking at this whole thing upside down. That's all Barker came out here tonight to give you some money professor. Oh stop it. Let go give me that You don't need money anymore Buster Maria can't use any more main coats So what happened tonight? Was that why she was up in the library? Did she find out where you were getting the money to give her things? She didn't know I was selling rare items from the library Tonight she found out you mean she accused you of it. You had a fine. No, you Holy smoke, what's the matter with him? I didn't do anything to warn me spring spring get me away from him, mr. Spring session Understand what? What did he try to kill me nothing nothing come on wrangles, but mr. Valentine forget it kid forget it yes Forget it. It's Bring that's all Miss flinders why hurt people who don't need to be hurt You and miss Brooks meet me at your place in a couple of minutes I think you'll understand what happened back to the conclusion of our let George do an adventure in just a moment You say Maria fell in love with that boy Avery sure miss flinders That was the real reason wrangle killed her couldn't stand at that song and he was the one who got him together And why hurt Avery by telling him that but Avery's poor Maria was so much Don't do what the professor did. He underestimated the season. That's all There's no fool like an old fool. No, I guess the professor couldn't help himself miss. Oh No, no, I was talking about myself. Hmm. Oh Well, at least you were right and almost everything you told us George don't be so blind I Pursued that man for a great many years. I understand Whoa, so do I really I was just trying to get away from the subject of spring and romance. That's all I was merely I'm What's the matter Angel? We'll talk about your bad habits in private darling You have just heard spring session another let George do an adventure Robert Bailey was started George Valentine with Virginia Greg is 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