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I will not You may have read my husband's best-selling novel the awakening Everyone else seemed to have Well, I must know whether this particular woman is or is not the heroine of this tale of passion This should be an easy enough assignment for you Please call me at my home so we can arrange an immediate appointment at your office sincerely Victoria Beasley Now Bruxy, that's what I call a world-shaking problem Well, you wouldn't make so light of it my lad if you'd read Samuel Beasley's book It was banned in Boston one critic called it an emotional hot foot seven hundred pages long Well, I must get to this cultural milestone as soon as I've finished the Rover boys in the Indian country Right now I'm going to call mrs. Beasley Okay, mrs. Beasley, I'll just sit here and wait until you stop prancing up and down Mr. Valentine, you don't seem to appreciate the position my husband's placed me in with this this book Here mrs. Beasley have a chair nobody's made you look ridiculous Friends don't sticker and whisper behind their hands every time you pass look please So you can sit there with that superior smirk on your face. Well if I'm smirking It's because I'm trying not to laugh out loud. I didn't come here with someone like you mrs. B I've got to say what I mean to make a dent. Oh, Bruxy you read the society columns Oh, sure a girl's got to be improving a staff warfare, you know, all right now How is Victoria Beasley usually described at this time without the route really now mr. Bellin? Well without the routine Victoria Beasley Glacial beauty wondrous wit soul of poison He voked an almost audible gasp of admiration when she arrived at the duchess's party late as usual. I'm leaving Wait wait wait with him won't you admit this does call for a laugh a woman with all those assets getting green-eyed over a Fictional gal her husband dreamt up in a novel Sam is a broker not a writer Oh say that about Samuel Beasley on a quiz program and the man will come up with are too bad better luck next time I cured him of all his literary pretensions ten years ago when he married me Lord knows where he found time to write this book You did it out of sheer malice. You mean you thought you had a colorless milk toast character for a spouse And now he's the pop of a best-selling stealing all the limelight from you. No That's not it at all then what is it? The Diana in Sam's book actually exists everything that happened between her and the hero actually happened Almost every critic said it has the ring of truth. Oh, well, that doesn't mean that never whole situation a community like our own Dear Lake Park the description of Diana the cold distant wife who didn't know what was going on with ways your beauty You sound as though you knew the heroin I think I do and that's where I need your help to Valentine look haven't I tried to explain so many things So very clear now for instance every Thursday for the last year Sam's received a telephone call at 5 30 He's always made a point of answering it himself Well, does it have to be another woman? It could have been bookie that very punctual too once I reached the phone before he did The party hung up. I'm sure it was a woman. See woman. You'll recognize the perfume on top. Let me finish Every Thursday night. He's made an excuse to go into town and never once mentioned what he did Well, of course you keep salmon formed of all your mother that's a sight and point your commentary doesn't interest me I just want you to find out if Diana in Sam's book is or isn't Peggy Ruckerson and who's that lady? Her family has the estate next to ours at Dear Lake Park. She's always loved Sam Probably would have married him if I hadn't come along you mean except for the last year Peggy's been content to forget not forget Peggy is the kind of girl who's willing to wait things out She makes a career being naive wholesome and athletic and you think she's the Diana in the awake You may have seen miss Wilkinson in the sunny supplements. She's always carrying not one, but six tennis racket They tell me Mrs. Beasley. What's it gonna do for your pride to find out of all this is true? Or is it a little feminine mayhem you have in mind what I have in mind is none of your business? Question is are you interested in a flat fee? Valentine oh, yeah Riley. Oh, what's on your mind? What hey look start from the beginning with you and this time stop for the red lights Huh? Oh, no wait, I can't answer that looks like I'm gonna take the case so I might be violating the confidence of my client Okay, stop yelling with you. We'll be right out there Mrs. Beasley, yes, do you know a man named Michael Waldron? I do and you left my telephone number and Casey wanted to get in touch with you That's right. We were supposed to have lunch in town together today. How do you know? Who was that on the phone? Lieutenant Riley homicide. What's the tie up George? Well, what did he say? Enough to take this out of the class of a family brawl Mrs. Beasley Somebody tried to kill your husband Well while we're waiting for miss Brooks to get here with miss Wilkinson, what about some drinks? Oh Sally Yes, right away. They're just a minute here. Yes, Lieutenant. Mrs. Beasley Suppose we forget about the social graces until we get rid of the business at hand The business being to prove I took a pot shot at Beasley here. Take it easy Walton. Hey Lieutenant Mr. Beasley has been strangely quiet. Would you mind him telling us what happened? Oh, that's going to be just dandy He'd like nothing better than a pinot on me Michael, please. Let's face it Vicki. He resented every moment We've been together. Why should I Walden your five years younger than my wife our friends applaud her choice for a companion When I'm occupied you're handsome very charming. Okay. Okay. Okay. You guys can knife each other some other time Are you sure nobody wants anything? What are you still here? I told you that No Sally, nobody wants anything I was talking to mr. Beasley you can go now Sally just as you say Mr. Valentine the moment ago you asked me for my version of what happened here in my study Yeah, it seems to have been lost in the shuffle. I can be very brief about it. I Was sitting there at my desk typing doing some work on a new story suddenly there was a shot through those French doors I didn't see anybody and I assure you I didn't stop to investigate. I get it I made a beeline for the drawing room and Strangely enough a minute later in walk Walden here we go. Let me ask you something Beasley I'll ask the questions if you don't mind Valentine and when I'm through I've got something to ask you Why are you mixed up in this at all? I? Mrs. Beasley, I don't think I can be a much help lieutenant when I left to mr. Valentine's office Sam was here in the study I decided I wouldn't bother him didn't you even tiptoe up and peek in to say goodbye. I told you he was working I could hear him at the typewriter as far as I'm concerned. I was merely dropping by to pick Vicki up for lunch I didn't even hear a shot Of course it might have been one of my readers expressing a critical opinion. Please mr. Beasley don't try to be funny You know you people ranked pretty high socially in our fair city. That's why I'm here Ordinarily you'd have to be a corpse before I arrived just one minute mrs. Beasley. I'll take that What do you mean? Whatever it is you're trying to slip into your pocketbook. I'd like to see it You haven't anything to hide have you mrs. Beasley? Well, I know this is just a a gold cigarette lighted Yes, I must have docked it over there by the doors. Hi very interesting Initials MW a lieutenant you needn't look at me like that. It's not mine Yeah, well, we'll see about that MW and you weren't supposed to have been here in the study But that's all right Vicki they can think whatever they want, but they'll never prove anything I'm sure that's a world of consolation to my wife. Isn't it my dear well Suppose we go back downtown together Waldron while we check on this lighter You and I have a few things to talk about why not all lieutenant. Yeah I admit this lighter might point very definitely to Waldron, but it doesn't stop there All right. All right. Where does it stop? I'll be able to tell you better when Brooks he gets here Now miss Wilkinson as I told you there's no reason to be nervous the lieutenant has to ask these questions But I don't understand. I knew nothing of what happened to Sam until miss Brooks told me Oh, but I didn't tell you miss Wilkinson. I made it a point not to I Well, I couldn't help guessing something was wrong Lieutenant must we drag Peggy into this you got Waldron in the other room to take down to headquarters Why this in position Valentine and your wife dragged this young woman into this mess not me surely Sam You can't object to us doing everything we can to find out who tried to kill you. You're concerned for me as very touching Victoria Mr. Beasley, whether you know it or not Your wife has a theory that the heroine of your book is modeled after miss Wilkinson Mr. Valentine that was supposed to be a matter of competence between us attempted murder changes all that Touring you really believe that me the Diana and the awakening that Irresistible creature who unleashed that raging passion in a man. Sam is so carried away couldn't help dropping some unmistakable clues How long has this been going on just the last year for the whole time? We've been married now Victoria How many people have known it all along laughing at me. This is ridiculous Peggy is the last person anybody would picture is the femme fatale. She's the outdoor time much too wholesome for that sort of thing Just just to look at her anybody can tell that why stop there Sam you with your marvelous knack with words Why don't you say I'm just about as glamorous as a dish of cottage cheese? I use life boy in my tub instead of perfume bath salt the direct opposite of the striking and glamorous Victoria Just where were you all morning miss Wilkinson? I have no airtight alibi if that's what you mean I was out horseback riding all by myself. Oh look look. Let's stop sparring, huh? I look Valentine you said you were going to pull some kind of rabbit out of the hat. Well, come on. Come on. Let's have it Okay, do you happen to own a cigarette lighter Margaret? Well, yeah, I didn't know there was any law against that could this be it The initials mw could stand for Margaret Wilkinson as well as Michael Walton Now while you were out horseback riding you might have taken a slight detour And you might have wanted to kill Beasley because he wouldn't get a divorce and marry you Well, miss Wilkinson Very well, why shouldn't I admit it? It's all true about this morning and the book Yes, and I don't care oh this will really cause a sensation the wholesome colorless Peggy Wilkinson turns out to be the fabulous and much Discussed Diana. Oh, and I'll love it. You heard all of you this tweed little thump It's been making a fool of me me. Well, miss Wilkinson. I guess we'd better get into town I'm afraid not lieutenant Riley because I'm not going to press charges. What George? Did you hear the man? Yeah, I came here to make an arrest and that's what I'm going to do I refuse to prosecute as far as I'm concerned Peggy was Outhunting squirrels and her marksmanship was incredibly bad. I think you're right Sam, but I don't I want the world to know that You couldn't hold a man Victoria And of all things you're lost in the maze. I think that washes everything up lieutenant Thank you very much for your trouble. If you were anybody else Beasley, I'd I'd I'd I'd I'd better get out of here before I lose my Peggy. I'd better take you home. Oh, yes, Victoria You'd better go and reassure Walden that he's a free man. I'll do that Sam. I'll be right back. Mr. Valentine. Yeah Well, where does that leave us George? I don't get any point in hanging around now Oh very important point broxene a particularly fat and juicy bill Oh, that's what she wanted to know. So sit down at the great office typewriter and make it out. Okay What about shall I make it George? Oh, I Big your pardon. I was looking for Mrs. Beasley. This is my day off. I I was just leaving Well, so long selling I Was in the next room before I couldn't help over hearing Mrs. Beasley say Mr. Beasley was using the typewriter when She left this morning. So The reason the typewriter man was here was to bring this this new machine Goodbye, Mr. George. Yeah, broxene. This is a noiseless machine Then she couldn't hurt it with the doors of the study club. Why did she lie? You mean Victoria took a shot at her husband and then came to us. 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Okay, Walden. Where is she that's what I'd like to know Valentine What did you say to Victoria she just brushed past me told me to stay here until she got something cleared up once and for all Yeah, that's what I was afraid Where was she going? What was she gonna do? That's all she said but you've got to stop hounding of Valentine me hounding You're a little mixed up. Mr. Walden Victoria came to why there's no time to go into detail Why don't you admit it her husband hired you to spy on this you can't do that to the kind of person Victoria is she's easily upset and I'm not going to let you now look buster I got places to go on a hurry. You're not going anywhere. You're going to leave Victoria alone You're a big well-built land Walden, but don't try to maul me. You're staying right here. Even if I have to sorry But you've forced me into this corner pal. I Told you I got places to go Don't keep looking around like that for help Peggy. I waited till Sam left so I could be alone with you I'm here to kill you in your own house Victoria put that gun away. You don't know what you're doing Oh, yes, I do in the presence of others you admitted that you came between me and my husband It was you who were phony every Thursday at 5 30 the other details are all there for the whole world to read No, Victoria. No jury will convict me for trying to protect the sanctity of the American I'll be a heroine a noble figure I never could stand for being lost it. I'm willing to do anything to put an end to that you've got to believe me I lied to that lieutenant. I didn't try to kill Sam and I'm not the Diana in his book You expect me to believe that I said it only because I'm human I'm tired of being a doubty thing that I am Can't you understand what it would mean if people thought that I had all the glamour that you have and more I haven't been waiting around for 10 years to get Sam. Sorry Peggy. I'm all through talking. I'm sorry about this How did you she was going to kill me? It's all right now Your wrist will hurt for a couple of days, Mrs. Beasley, but you're lucky to get away this easy Well, I get on my knees and thank you most humbly. No, no and you better not bother picking up that gun either What did you get it anyway? It's Sam. I took it from the drawer in his shipper. Oh, I see Okay, come on, Mrs. Beasley you too miss Wilkinson where we going right back where we started Who knows if I'm lucky I may come up with another rabbit out of the hat Well, ladies and gentlemen, I I don't like hogging the floor But the time has come when you're going to have to do the lesson. Well get it over with mr. Valentine I'm sick of this whole thing. I'm sure the ladies too are anxious to hear what you have to say Well, you should be more than anxious mrs. Beasley You should be shaking with fear over what you might have done. You mean committing murder I had every intention to Tori you can't go on feeling that way about me. I told you you're all wrong Snivelling Peggy, you're safe. I doubt if I could work myself up to the same fever pitch again Oh now you're just being an old softy What I meant to say is that if miss Wilkinson is right You would have killed the wrong woman and paid for it with your life I'm just as sure as ever that she's the Diana Sam wrote about and about that attempt on your life, mr. Beasley Oh, yes, we mustn't forget that miss Wilkinson has recanted her confession and Walden here is staunch in his denying I certainly am that leaves only you mrs. Beasley Oh, you place much too much importance on my hearing Sam's typewriter I only said that to make my story sound more convincing. I didn't want to be implicated in something I had nothing to do with well It seems we're right back where we started from with a poor blown mystery on our hand. Maybe it would be best just to forget I don't know about that Stay where you are Victoria. No, I'll answer that. Oh, yes, but I I Same call same time every week. Yeah, the other woman. Hello. Is that you Sam? No Now, but I've got a question for you lady Yes, mrs. Beasley there is a real life Diana and that was she on the phone Okay, who is she Beasley? If a writer learns nothing else he learns the value of compounding and bewildering the reader That's the way I choose to leave it now. Oh Peggy I couldn't help believing what I did and a mr. Valentine had Yes, get on the phone and tell Riley to get back here. Oh, he's gonna just love that That's only right that he should be in on the payoff same rabbit in the same hat. No, no You've heard about how those long-eared critters increase in multiply But at this point, there's a whole slew of the little beasties. Oh, in other words, ain't Joan now We've got all the answers Valentine I get the picture of what happened between mrs. Beasley and mrs. I'm not going to do anything about it Certainly under the circumstances. I'm not going to do anything about it. Oh Most certainly there have been two murder attempts, and we're supposed to just laugh it off I'll turn into I still have to hang around as far as I'm concerned. You can't really wall run You don't want to miss the exciting explanation Valentine's promises. Yes, why don't you say something mr. Valentine? What have you got on your mind? I don't think you can store much longer down Okay, okay. I admit. I have been stalling but for a very good reason Still if the time has come Beasley hmm You stage this whole business Nobody tried to kill you why you fired that shot through the French doors They're going to have trouble proving an obvious absurdity like that Okay, if someone really wanted to kill you some person in this room who knew you He would have walked right up to you and let you have it not resort to any hit-or-miss tactics That makes sense Valentine go on the gun your wife wanted to use on miss Wilkinson your gun has one bullet missing from it And that's the bullet embedded in the wall over your desk. Are you sure that quite sure Mr. Beasley was so convinced that suspicion would never fall on him He was all let's say careless enough to put the gun back in his room where his wife found Why would Sam do such a thing? I'll tell you why he'd make the headlines more publicity for that book of his yes Dear that thought did occur to me sensation the awakening cause was beginning to die down Something like this would have started people talking all over again make me seem even more ridiculous It was fit payment for the ten years you lorded it over me making me a lapping stock among our friends And I was to be the patsy in the deal. I've been waiting for this Beasley and I was a good putt buster and the lighter Sam We're going to purposely implicate me. No Peggy. I never thought of you as Margaret when I planted that lighter with the initials MW I Wanted to point to Waldron, but I never intended to press charges Oh, there must be something in the books that applies to a case like this There's got to be and I'm going to find it. Look Beasley. I don't care how you are tenant Huh, you haven't heard the whole story. I don't think I can take any more Oh, you don't know about rabbit through tenant and how they increase and multiply miss Brooks There's an awful lot of things. I don't know but I'm going to find out right now Beasley, I didn't know you had company. What's shelly? I just wanted to tell you I was back in case you needed me, but Sally this is your night off I'm sure she'll be a detailed report some other time, but now tenant Riley. You should be ashamed of yourself. What's that? That's no way to talk about the almost legendary Diana. You know what you're talking about. You must be out of your mind I was trying to stall till Sally got here, but how did he find out Mr. Beasley? I'm sure he's coming to that right now, Sally. You mean my own maid in my own house. Yes, Mrs. Beasley Those mysterious phone calls every Thursday Thursday the traditional maids day off Sam couldn't keep his appointment tonight. I can't help myself Victoria, but it is funny But not to me Michael you can get out and stay out Victoria. I'm truly very sorry Of course you began tying things up George when Sally made those pointed remarks about the new typewriter. Frankly I'm glad it's all out in the open. Yeah, me too Victoria Although this must necessarily add to your humiliation after our divorce Sally and I are going to be married That's impossible But what do you mean impossible selling? Well, I'm already married, but Joe's been in San Quentin for the life This time Michael I can laugh with you Sam. I'm very sorry. You look so hurt Sally you you might have told me instead of making such a fool of me Mr. Beasley, we just went to the movies and and dinner every Thursday night. Oh Brother and after all it isn't every girl who has such a beautiful book written about her. Oh, I don't know Riley I think the whole thing's pretty understandable. Oh, don't you even talk to me about the business? The press middle-aged man turns an innocent little affair into a literary heat wave the book Victoria kept him from writing for ten years Yeah This seems to be the night for laughing jacks What goes with you power well Sam's book should have an aftermath the awakening is complete I'll come while I'm betting Victoria is gonna feel sorry for her spouse now and after ten years They're really gonna get together. Yeah, who cares? Well, that's the beautiful part about marriage Riley It really can't take a beating and still survive. Oh, you're so right darling more people ought to try it Am I being too subtle again? Oh Oh Well, what I really manage. It was the death. 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We'll hear him saying to brooksy Well Looks like we walked into something brooksy What that looks like part of a man's shirt the color of a man's shirt with blood on it Steve amongst the torn the collar off so he could cover the wound when the shirt came from Jonathan's That's the shop where they look down their noses if your bill runs under $200 then we better work faster Yeah, because young Steve's life is worth under two cents Nice 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 Robert Bailey is starred as George with Francis Robinson as Claire Wally mayor appears as lieutenant Riley. Let George do it is written by David Victor and Herbert little junior and directed by Don Clark Also heard in the cast were Lee Patrick as Victoria Frank Martin as Sam Peter Leeds as Waldron Mary ship as Peggy and Bernice Barrett as Sally the music is composed and presented by Eddie Dunstetter Your announcer John Easton listen again next week same time same station to Let George do it. This is the mutual Don Lee broadcasting system