 Personal notice changes 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 another let George do an adventure This one carries the alluring title of a visit from Merlin You all remember little old Merlin, but just in case you don't he was the lad who dealt in that old black magic back in King Arthur's day Now history doesn't state whether or not this fellow is known as the square of the round table But boy he must have had something on the ball because you should hear what he has up his sleeve for George Valentine My dear mr. Valentine Perhaps you have heard my name Arthur Thurston Renwick or just the Renwick collection of medieval art I don't like violence or violent people so you can imagine my shock at the following episodes a stranger mr. Valentine and I am habitually kind to strangers Ventured into my somewhat unusual domain Renwick manner a little man in attack a coat Due to certain circumstances. I was in the position of feeling it necessary to give him a small gift But before I could complete this friendly gesture the man halted me he gave me a gift It was a 10th century dagger mr. Valentine stolen from my own precious collection The dagger was covered with blood My husband is in here mr. Valentine George look a real suit of armor not my size miss Brooks. It isn't a house. It's a castle Huh, you should join my staff on dusting days. You'd find out He built it on the ruins of some Spanish grandies old fortress. That's why it's so English What? Oh, don't mind me You live out here on the ocean buried in the Middle Ages and about that far from civilization With nobody to talk to but King Arthur and all seem to be plenty of people here now Visiting day Thursday. My husband is a frustrated professor And so the curious come in to track up the floors and pretend they're interested in his lectures I'm sure he was short that adult code right in there behind you. I didn't see him. He was there I'm sure he was all of you. I'm sorry the tour is over. Excuse me, but the visiting hour is done It's well, it's the hour when we lock the castle gate 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 I'm nervous this little strange man. He haunts me, but why why and where did he disappear mr. Valentine? How look mr. Runway. I think you'd better start at the beginning and my wife She's sarcastic and complains, but we really get along quite well together. You've seen my house my castle It's strange and you say I'm eccentric because I am The antiquarian the man who ran away from the present so we see miss Brooks. I Think what I'm trying to tell you first is that despite all this worship of the past the Middle Ages I'm not crazy a man with a love. Yes a man to be laughed at No, nobody's laughing mr. Runway, but this now here's what happened This is a very peaceful place actually my only regret is the lack of interest shown by other people in the gray Dusty part of the history. That's my specialty So you can imagine my reaction about two months ago when a man one of the usual Visitors spoke up and corrected me on the point of English history free Norman, of course Well, I investigated the man was quite correct That's the same little tattered man. Yes. Yes, and when he showed up again the following. There's the eye complemented him You only showed the shoulders went off snooping around some more looking at everything. That's it He only looks He seems to want to study over everything. I have my entire collection of that hold of the second-wave, please I did a little research myself You have right here in your house several hundred thousand dollars worth of gems early bracelets crowns that sort of Valentine I may be eccentric, but I'm no fool the gem collection is not in the house. It's in the keep You yes, it's real authentic stone walls over the dungeon that sort of thing But guarded by my own private guards and they use the latest locks and latest guns I assure you Bond and men who've been with me for years listed with the police that that even they could get away with anything No, no, it's not that I'm afraid of but the dagger was stolen. Yes from this case right here But it's the man. I'm afraid of that guy You see he came back and came back the guards had several run-ins with him or trespassing But he always had an excuse then finally one day. He asked me for a job. Oh the day. I wrote you a job doing what lecturing He wanted to take my place as guide Imagine well his knowledge is sufficient, but of course I refuse But I was embarrassed He has strange eyes That's when I felt I might give him a gift Perhaps get rid of him once and for all only instead he handed you the dagger with blood on it I've never seen a man look so offended and angry, but only in his eyes. He said he belonged here Here I lock the dagger up in this Okay It's right, it's empty Looks like he got it again, huh? You're sure this is where you yes, I locked it up myself But I'm not surprised No, why should I be surprised? He said I had gone too far. I had turned him out I had collected too many pleasures of the past. I'd live to regret it Hey, wait a minute. What kind of a thing is Valentine I think I expected this That it would disappear again. You dare. I don't know what compelled me yesterday as he left. I spoke one word. I said Merlin You said what? Well, and you heard me. I called him that and he smiled. Oh, you mean Merlin like the sorcerer at King Arthur's court stop looking at me that way both of you We don't know what's possible. We haven't even scratched the surface of the Middle Ages the superstitions the beliefs Of course, I don't think he's really Merlin But he follows me He watches me. Why? He's always here. Why? And his peculiar knowledge why how I tell you it's right Keep your shirt on boss. We got him What yeah, we got him I tell you the little squint nobody in the crowd here that they even noticed he's in the town jail Jails just a two-bit like bingo boy. That's all he is. So cool off. It's all over You Valentine yeah, that's right. The Joe's my chief guard, but Joe you shouldn't he was in the crowd again boss You've seen him, but he lifted one of them old salt shakers off at a mantle and both of my boys seen that Yeah Pretty neat that six months, but that'll keep Merlin. Oh out of your head. What? What what did you call him Merlin? Oh says he's a member of the magicians Union How's that one for laughs? Oh The boss is a nervous Nelly that's all I gather here only a couple of cells down this way nice to wait for you understand, but a Little on the crack, but this Marlino seems to have him scared pretty badly I don't know why the boys bothered you though, mr. Valentine If I couldn't handle a guy like him with both hands I just want to talk to this guy. Yeah. Well, yeah Here he is. This is where he was locked That's all I don't see anybody Now Joe cool off. I didn't turn him loose. I tell you I don't know how he could get out a great sheriff Let me ask the question. No, neither one of you are going to I was home eating supper You bring a man down here for me to lock up without charges or evidence. Don't blame me if you did without what? Without evidence Yeah, here's Merlino now. Oh, yeah, what's all the leather about? I guess I forgot to lock that cell door on you No, no, you locked it, but I was hungry myself. I'm just in my way back Yeah, but but if the sheriff locked the cell how in the name of please young man, I just walked out I'm a magician. Is that Joe? Well, let's try out Joe cut it out Sure, if you said there was no evidence clean that up. Would you know we searched him when he got here So did the guards just waiting to tell you Joe. There wasn't any salt shaker on this guy. What? But I seen him take it myself. I see he searched I tell you there wasn't Of course, it's not of my business. I'm just a visitor in your town live at the boarding house as I told you Suppose I have been kind of a pest to mr. Renwick But if you ask me sure if anyone is stealing out there, well, he's guard here He's the one I think you should why why you little have all that you're easy. What wish? Oh, what's the matter? Salt shake In my pocket Alright slight a hand artist, but I haven't been there. That's right Valentine. He hasn't not even bringing him in I told her boss. I get rid of you. I will I'll show you some magic I'll put rabbits in your hat you can cut it out cut it out I'm the sheriff around here now beat it all of you magician's private cops go on get out get out of my hair Here's your teletype mr. Valentine I guess I better run the little guy out of town for him, but I kind of hate to landlady says he's real nice Depends on who you talk to doesn't it? You don't suppose mr. Renwick and his guards are trying to frame him for something Do you they're all crazy out there from my money? Yeah, Chicago says he served a sentence once small-time theft He didn't steal today. I'm sure of that. They say he worked carnivals in the Midwest for a while. Why is he here? Oh, George, it's getting late. Yeah, come on. You want me to go back out of the house with you Well, if he wouldn't just shrug his shoulders and walk off like that as well, you know, I'd like to talk Mr. Valentine, Mr. Renwick, what's the matter? What's happened? He got it. He got every bit. It's gone. What's gone Hey, stop shaking. What are you talking about the gem collection the bracelets jewelry Milena's taken everything Brother, I thought that place was impregnable. So did I but not against the man like him I don't take it easy. Will you there's nothing supernatural about the gems were often that crazy stone place You call the keep weren't they? He said I own too many things. He wanted me. I should have all right All right get back in the car. Come on. Let's go. We'll find out what happened and it won't be magic either won't it? Valentine, I know how he managed it. My wife saw from my room upstairs Over the wall in the moonlight. Yes, I think we found that dagger again, too. What she saw it and came running and screaming Joe's body up there in the moonlight with the media evil dagger in it You are listening to let George do it our adventure will continue in just a moment Oh back to George Valentine a man named Merlino just a small-time magician smiling limping little man who says he doesn't want to cause anyone any trouble But he warned mr. Renwick that the millionaire had collected too many valuable mementos of the past Now the most valuable ones have disappeared And he warned the hot-headed guard named Joe not to try anything rough with him But Joe did and now the method of theft has been explained for Mrs. Renwick to see Joe's body Joe has been stabbed It was just as plain as daylight. I went up my room. I looked out. He was there on the roof What good does it guard do up on a roof mr. Renwick, but the iron door down there has always kept locked I came running to find you as fast as I could How could Merlino get through the door and up here to stab the girl how how how does Madden do anything? The name is Merlino Buster calm down. Well, you just show me where this it's right up there. You can see all right All right, Mrs. Renwick get out of the way. Please. Let me get through there. It's right. Oh Yeah, I Don't see a body Disappeared I'm not surprised Madden could easily stay where you are all of you will you Pretty clumsy magic. I'd say here's a knife right here. Let me see stay we are with you Joe's body's disappeared. All right, there must have been a hasty job a Good sorcerer would have wiped up the blood Here's Valentine the blood Joe's all right. Doctor says he sure there was a record of Joe's type in the files Okay, come on before George. Why would anyone move a body right at the evidence, mr. Brooks The knife was left behind no fingerprints no no mr. Renwick come here with you What is it? My men are gonna start searching your whole place. They won't sign anything. Yeah, yeah that fall coming in off the ocean I look mr. Renwick. I think it's about time you and I stopped the silly superstitious of Valentine I don't want to sound like a fool. I don't want to believe such things I don't but you think we'll never find the body and we'll never find Merlino again. I know you won't I Can't help knowing he disappears. He makes things disappear I know how it sounds But he got what he came for he carried out his stress. You've been in the Middle Ages too long for it. Look out Angel Hello there Did someone call me? Call Merlina I Said answer my questions Please gentlemen, I don't know anything about bodies Out of my life for Pete's sake you admitted you were around here. Didn't you of course of course There are things here. I'd like to steal But not tonight. No, really. I haven't done anything. You've searched me, haven't you? No keys. No jewels Ask my landlady. I was with her at the time this poor man was killed I'm afraid if I did it, I've committed a perfect crime Spot of blood in the garage floor yeah entire tracks Renwick says this is where they kept that farm truck only now it's gone. Where's Merlino Sheriff? He's taken care of don't worry. The perfect crime step one. Come on. Let's go Just ditched it in the woods, huh? Not so far from the house either in a straight line. Now. This is the truck. All right. Use the flashlight George Okay, let me do this or blood all right. What a couple of little spots Yeah, only no body. No, but there's room for it to have been carried there, right? Sure, sure. So from here we move on foot backwards back the way this truck came It's perfect all right. Oh, yeah, sure. There were the tracks on the road, but they're insane I can't prove their Merlino's was not But they're deep. He was carrying something. They don't come back So we probably walk back on the rocks. That's the fast way And this is the only place you can get down to the beach easily from the road too to this cove deep heavy tides The perfect place all right to carry your body to throw it in the ocean It's a hard job to convict a man of murder without a body Well, you'll find other evidence Merlino can't just oh, yes, he can angel because what other evidence even hinted in an alibi Didn't you catch that everything he's done is practically a confession But you don't think we'll find fingerprints in that truck. Do you but if he hid the things he stole somewhere around there You don't think we'll ever find them either. Do you he's not supernatural. I don't know what he is Oh, come on. It's practically done. Let's go back. Maybe we can shake it out of him better than mine jail, huh Part of the original old Spanish place regular dungeon for the inquisition You have to climb down here now I gave the sheriff my key when he locked him up, mr. Valentine Damp earth floors. I hope he's got pneumonia by this time here. All right, son You seem a little calmer mr. Runwick. I've been with the sheriff's men all night Yes, yes, I've up decided your perfect crime theory is correct Solid iron door Oh, will you see the walls solid rock all the way around the cell 60 thick and no windows melina he Yeah, he's done it again He's gone Everything he's done is impossible A human being couldn't get out of there. I had the only key myself Valentine he's a cripple. He couldn't run very fast. Come on. Let's get down at the beach before murlin climbs back into the middle ages There he is yeah, yeah, he's running some cripple fakes everything doesn't he at least got a big head start turning down the sand there This fog George Lord, where is he? He was the end of the cold he disappeared right into the fog in the water. Come on run. No along the road this way Sure, Merlin's a ghost all right. What's what's beyond this cold another one, isn't it? Sure You can't see it from above just a couple of hundred yards better load your gun then This is no ghost we're after now Yeah, a little tiny one I think one man could carry that sheriff So back at the other place those heavy tracks could be made by a man carrying a boat instead of a body Brooksy there hasn't been a single bit of magic performed tonight. It's all been illusion Things are impossible. Okay, I believe it. They are impossible They just turn the checkerboard around look at the black squares instead of white watch it This is rock. You might slip George now you're crazy almost but not quite now think back Brooksy Everything Merlin has done steal a dagger plant a salt cell around Joe break loose from jail Get at Joe on the roof spill his blood then let Joe's body be seen and then make it disappear Wait, there he is coming out of the water. Sure Sure, of course. He swam around those rocks. That's all He stands still. He can't see us. They'll come this way to the boat. No, that's right But I better warn both of you Don't be too surprised when you see it's Joe himself. What here he comes Hey, grab him look out for that gun. Let go of that. Oh, no you don't Ah Conclusion of our let George do an adventure in just a moment Every bit of the loot right there in the boat enough crowns for a whole chest sure sure for the big king here Shut up the bright boy who figured it all out how to rob his boss without having all the bloodhounds in the world after him Okay, you got me. So what so I want some more You hired Merlin. Oh, didn't you to put the scare act into your boss That set himself up as the man of mystery to brag that he was out to rob it But George the murder or what mrs. Renwick thought was one in the blood. Oh sure sure broxy. That was the neat part Joe knew her habits When she'd be likely to look out and see him lying there playing dead And he cut his fingers fill some blood maybe too bad. I didn't use your sense nice little trail of blood Yeah, Joe, so there'd be no doubt in anybody's mind that Joe the guard was dead Nobody'd look further for the man with the loot you and Merlino working together And then he lets himself look like the suspect But I'll bet in the final pinch Merlino's alibi would have been perfect sheriff He would have got off the hook joined up with bright eyes here And Renwick would have thought it was all magic I almost did myself George if Joe did all that well He could have let Merlino out of that dungeon thing too. I mean chief guard. He'd still have a key the biggest impossible of all Yeah, sure Only where's Merlino now? And why let out a guy whose story is all fixed Alibi and everything and why do you suppose Joe here didn't leave hours ago in his little boat? That must have been the plan. I don't know where Merlino is. I don't care what I do It's a difference between a grand larceny rap and a bigger rap for murder What now look friend only reason I can think of Joe sticking around is he like the jewels all for himself After all he was dead And Merlino could always disappear by magic. I didn't touch him. I didn't it was risky getting down to that dungeon, Joe But it would have been riskier bringing Merlino outside to kill. Oh, no, that's a quiet place And nobody would ever think of looking under Nice dirt floor wasn't it Joe? No, no, I don't care if I told you Merlin was a ghost Maybe we better do some digging there before he puts a haunt on King Arthur's castle And there he was Merlin Buried in the loose dirt in the floor of the castle Merlin Merlin the name's Merlino Bruxy And anyway, the story's all over Oh, I don't blame you though. I was always a sucker for that stuff too The knights and the charges. I bet Mr. Renwick isn't not anymore. I mean But he takes up stamp collecting after this I sell out to the British Museum Yeah, King Arthur himself You know, uh, I always imagine myself as more of the Sir Gwane type. What? Yeah. Well, there's a kid You know, George. He was romantic Gwane was the one who was always rescuing a damsel or making love To some maiden. Oh, no, no, no, not always. He slew dragons. He sat at the round table and Oh, what's the matter? What do you like? Oh round table Oh, I was just thinking When it comes to romance darling You're more of a square You have just heard a visit from Merlin another let George do an adventure Robert Bailey was starred as George Valentine with Virginia Gregg as Bruxy David Victor and Jackson Gillis wrote the story with music by Eddie Dunstetter 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