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Valentine I'm jade's but you I'm editor of the local sunny magazine section and come to think of it I've always wanted to run a feature on you that crazy ad but I figured the true revelations of a turkey secret policeman had more family appeal and so I forgot about it anyhow this letter concerns a different matter Valentine I am going to make a report of you you're going to be the author of a serial on the tover emeralds what became of the exotic princess wedding stones did the eminent on ethologist and so fair weather find them or didn't day what was the mysterious curse that brought death to fair weather ten years ago read it the riddle of the two recluses why have the two big brothers refused to cross the threshold of their own gloomy mansion and for that very same ten years what is the mystery of number 37 Ashton Street well well isn't it the greatest story you ever heard well mr. McHugh I noticed you came trotting over here fast enough I tell you it's the best feature we've had for years since the last mommy sued King Turt for alienation of affections what well I always preferred the classic case history of the two headed were wolf now see here both oh come on now McHugh you've been mashing your own corn too long I gather all the purple double talk has something to do with a man named Ansel Fairweather well I looked him up he tied a rope around a chandelier and hung himself at 37 Ashton Street ten years ago ten years ago today in a gloomy brown control your local color he'd been to the Himalayas looking for rare birds once he was probably one himself and he talked about emeralds as strictly for the birds to ones like you well I may have overstressed that aspect a bit just a bit all right forget them look at the facts it took a jury to decide his death was suicide didn't it well there was a very unfair trial of his two cronies yes the Binks brothers and they still live in that same house never stepped out of it since oh we didn't know that I thought not that's the story the rest is all trimmings I'll admit big Jared Binks and little Tom Binks have holed themselves up for ten years in the place where Fairweather committed suicide why it only took two minutes for the jury to exonerate them as murder if that's what you're driving at Fairweather was sick to spawn and out of his mind no no no I'm not trying to say they killed him and to be unfairly accused of his murder might make anyone withdraw from the world a little you think I'm trying to make something out of nothing cook up a story that's a little too well we think you're an expert at it no offensive course not at all and of course you understand Mr. Valentine I would no more seriously think of hiring you even to write your own name then I would jump off the Golden Gate Bridge now that's better now that we get that off our chest what do you really want me for thanks for nine years I've tried to get a little anniversary story on Jared and Tom Binks why they're such reclusive are they really every reporter I ever sent and don't worry they've been clever about it too has been thrown out in his ear to my knowledge the brothers have never been outside that house and no visitor has ever been inside why you get the facts I'll write story you get paid to leave before I see you throw now Brooks here is saddest look you go and check on Fairweather's death would you here's the little one oh and how do you do Sam my name is Valentine how do you do I represent the city fire protection League Department of Fire Inspection Service in the interest of fire prevention I'm sure you won't mind my taking a few minutes of your time for an examination before I what's the matter friend you're not listening well perhaps they have a card here is that girl with you me no I was just asking directions you're not busy young man you're free for the next few hours perhaps well I thank heaven come in come in please do come in I am so glad to see you yes come right in oh Jared Jared where are you we have a visitor isn't that wonderful it's come right in Georgia you sure it's the right somebody's throwing curves now work fast when you angel I'll see you later good luck yes yes hurry Jared this way sir Valentine you say yes yes that's right your Tom Binks oh yes yes quite Tom Binks somehow she have here don't you ever open the shutters oh yes yes forgive the lack of furniture we've never bothered about the hallways and the parlor in them makes such a handy place to store things don't you think we're very informal here brother there's an understatement pile of magazines clothes boxed up books look out this way please I hear what's the matter afraid of a loose chain on the chandelier what well no no not at all yeah sure the chandelier that's what fair weather hung himself from isn't it I thought you said you were from the fire department where he hung himself one of it Mr. Merton what are you doing here young man well I invited him in there there's no reason you might answer the same question friend I thought these guys lived alone yeah the name is Merton Binks boys aren't crazy I am I handle their business affairs Mr. Merton is just on his way out yes you what I mean I've been trying to leave the past three hours now Tom kicks me out oh no no but I think all about that's because you walked in I make one visit a year to this place I spend the rest of the year calming down I don't follow you but I guess that's all right of course you don't who could you don't know it but you've been tapped to take my place holding hands what now now mr. Valentine is interested in our work and I was just going to show him to the house all your son you scare the boogeyman for a while the boogeyman make a good story for you now come on tell the truth what newspaper you from newspaper none but what's the story I don't really care who you are Tom where's my coat oh I'll get it boogeyman that's the story you know it's a haunted house okay buster I'm dumb what's going on so my valuable property but kept in a mess good securities but all gummed up a couple of loony clients that's all look around here nuts lived alone so long they imagine hey what's the matter the light cord mutton look a jerry jerry oh for the love of what well you see another not it's tied in a knot like the others the light cord in the closet here tied in a hangman's not a noose he's found some others around like that well now who's the practical joke of the day that's it none of us ties those knots what is it Tom what is it look look here I didn't do it well of course you didn't and no one did oh Jared this is mr. Valentine I asked him I could hear you from upstairs I could hear I don't think it is good to ask people in there you see young fella I'm gonna card to the club like I have you have finished your business mr. Martin get out Jared now wait I know what happens when people come in but I'm not afraid of any nooses there is nothing for anybody to be afraid of please Jared perhaps you tie the nooses yourself Tom what perhaps you don't know that you do but it's all right there's nothing to be afraid of no no I don't it occurred to me when I saw the shadow on the stairway from this same noose I suppose what shadow stairway and oh no this door was shut oh brother now take it easy Tom look yes you can see it on the wall it's a shadow of a noose this time yeah sure I'm upstairs here only place it could have come from there is nobody else in the house mr. Valentine hey now you can't see the shadow anymore down there Jared that doesn't I'm getting out of your telephone there's one in the library but we don't want any policeman this is nothing to be upset about who sent anything about police hey they've got an extension listen while you call come on we'll meet the drugs let him listen I'm like you are Jared I'm not nervous I don't get a gilly feeling when I look at a noose not yet operator get me mr. Valentine broxy everything's funny I was just gonna call you on the world cave then I was gonna take hey Tom brings looks like he fainted or something George for heaven's sake he's crazy they're all crazy the whole place is crazy broxy so am I now listen Angel I was gonna tell you the marquee out here was too thick to be true but I guess I'm wrong I guess I was saved by the bell when you called tell me how everybody sees nooses out here well now I do too yeah Angel there's one made out of rope neatly draped around my neck turn to tonight's adventure of George Valentine in just a moment in the next few seconds I'm going to tell you a short story in sound effects listen that's the artificial wind your car creates when you're driving around 30 miles an hour now that's the sound of tiny particles of road dirt and dust hitting the body of your car and that's the sound of a drop of water on the body of your car after it's been exposed to the Sun's heat for a few hours now those are the three 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himself ten years ago now the binks brothers are seeing the shadow of a noose light cords and sash cords have been tied with hangman's knots well if your name is george valentine the whole thing looks a little wild to you that is until you yourself get knocked out and come to with a rope around your neck angel i don't know what hit me i tell you george you saw a neck though if i had killed you skipper william all right what did you find well all the ones they've ever found have been in kansas just one or two well you make a lot of sense how it's to be lost somewhere in india i mean someone must have found them yeah only the police don't know who that's right and there's nothing illegal anyway they were found somebody just so angel i love you you're fitting the first piece into the jigsaw only this house out here is such a big barn of a place with so many rooms and so much junk that we that i'll call you back in 15 minutes hello who are you cleaning lady at the booby hatch lady with jokes on i worked in a real booby hatch once come in to bring their week's food for the binks that that's all i'm a long order cook now i must got to eat don't they only say what did you do to tom there nothing he fainted he's all right yeah any a funny one spends all of his time drawing birds looks kind of like a spare what are you doing put him down i know where i'm at i was a nurse once i'm all right no please every time i come to this place something crazy happens um there's a man out back to see you mr binks what's that maple that man who owns the house that fair weather fair weather man who owns any of your business mister don't just go tell Amanda wait why you're losing your job as nurse get out i never trusted anyone mr. valentine i was tried for murder once jerry deny but we hadn't done anything do you know what it's like to be tried sure sure mr banks but i'm only trying to help there's nothing secret about our work all those crates of specimens downstairs birds that's what they are we've collected them from all over the world and i am drawing them jerry deny for 10 years oh we will take much much longer than that we don't work very fast and there are more than seven thousand yes sure i get the idea an answer fair weather was your partner in that work he was an ornithologist i remember so now explain who this other fair weather is who's alive and waiting for you out back a cousin of ansel's he's been trying to get the house maybel said he owned it he has some old deed that ansel gave him he says it's quite valuable property that's why we're moving moving what didn't you know that's why the birds are all created we're being thrown out of the house next week oh why didn't you buy it why'd you let him get it you guys have money don't you or something worth money maybe now see here young man you told me it was some sort of a fire inspector i asked you into the house and all you do is ask questions just like all the rest jerry told me not to talk to people he warned me every time anyone gets it easy take it easy only suppose i go out and talk to the new landlord huh hey all this stuff on the back porch do you suppose it's going to mr fair weather how should i know a couple of blame crack parts i have the house torn down soon as they get out yeah sure go over an inch by inch what's that mr valentine never mind you're a real estate man huh business deal business deal that's all i know i met that lawyer or whatever he is of theirs oh merton sure just saw him down to drug store and he's smart he won't even eat their food he didn't offer to buy the place for them though huh mac a cousin of mine i never met used to live with these bird birds here that's ancient history but a friend of mine discovered this old deed and i found i could get the place so why not so i've got it got a key to i suppose to go in and out anytime 30 rooms three stairs an army could be wandering around trash bro what's eating you anyway just because i won't sell the house to loony and goonie banks well sure they offered to buy it one of it i'm in real estate i got plans for the whole block yeah yeah yeah yeah sure just stop justifying yourself flashlight oh go jump in the lake hey how long do you figure to take to tear this house apart if a man wanted to find some emeralds oh that old story you're just another loony yourself uh well i'm in business friend and i don't have so blame much junk isn't there here ever see a flashlight rigged up like this what's that wire thing found in the trash barrel when you put the button on see the wires twisted around in a circle makes a nice shadow out there in the back wall shadow of a noose jared jared what in the name of jared tom why are you what's happened chandelier the noose he's dead he's dead tom come back here come back here tom oh you crazy idiot who says he's dead huh just as well be i suppose you hung yourself sure oh brother you're not heavy or anything are you sure tom hey anybody okay come on hermit let's get you out of here you need help fast hey you you're the pharmacist yes that's right what do you have get out to that car as fast as you can there's a man been choked hit over the head too what yeah of course uh joe you too come on go on i'll be with you in a minute well hello no well well sit down sit down have a piece of pie no thanks mr merton so he had enough brian around in the booby hatching hermit's hollow once a year is all i can stand sure sure whose taxi is that out there oh waiting for me i got a job back in real life as they call it to worry about see the house from here but nothing happening yet what are you talking about what's the matter come on come on let's wait in the taxi hey what are all those guys doing around that car across the street police will be here in a minute what come on get the kid wait till mac no place jared binks may be dead or alive i don't know he was hanging from the chandelier jared but now look only person strong enough around there to lift him up for it is that woman i guess that mabel get your eyes off of my muscles oh you weren't there i haven't got any muscles unless jared hung himself but that's a fair chance besides i've got a sore neck too i'll look around that rope around he wasn't pulled tight and i don't know what knocked me out but if mabel was telling the truth if she had been a nurse and worked around in asylum well it's one way to quiet somebody in a hurry slap him in the back of the neck healer the hand and what are you guys talking about just keep turned around driver i'd like to know what you're talking about too well why wasn't the rope around me pulled tight why wasn't i killed go ahead watch the house i can see the alien what for oh we're not waiting for mabel to show up that's a police job by now she must be blocks from here so they don't mind it's pretty clear i got the flashlight off her service porch i don't know who else could have been upstairs to throw that shadow of the noose and then duck in a hurry well stop looking so sad mabel's a hired hand that's all a female thug oh brilliant but what i'm not sure of is who she works for hey look there he is there's tom well yeah the little man himself with a suitcase follow right along driver okay yeah i guess jared had all the courage it's a cinch tom couldn't ever face the police again so he's finally running what's that no the guy's walking up there just keep your mind in the front seat driver and that's what the rope was put on me for i guess same reason as the hangman's knots in the shadow of the noose to scare the binks boys only what happened with jared he catch on who was doing it that why he was strung up to put the final friend of the time and make him run oh stop driveling tom hey tom well who is it it's me merton over here tom if there were any emeralds in that house nobody'd ever find them the binks has never talked about them what's been pretty hard on you merton wondering how you can get your hands on you're smart enough to know a gun when you see it i hope hey what if you too shut up oh hello tom hop in well i don't know it's all right tom you can tell me some things like who this guy merton really i told you tom tom get in here get in of course hello merton don't point that gun at me you see merton's been so careful to get himself an alibi taxi already and waited shut up i told you and merton told me he came to see you men once a year to handle your business affairs well i have one of it once a year in april one month after income tax does that make any sense for a business manager all right genius you said enough goodbye well merton give me that suitcase come on a step on it yes no no you get out from behind the wheel and turn around hey what am i i'm leaving you right now get your hands off that get in the suitcase banks it has the emeralds right isn't at the point of the whole business to scare you into running and when you run the one thing you take with you is the emeralds that a man could spend his life searching for in that house that a man could get one at a time you mean once a year and that's who i am i handle a business all right one at a time once a year but never a glimpse of the rest of them well now i've got the whole mess get out of my way you're gonna mess all right buster but look out i'll kill them not in april sweetheart mr valentine yes yes that's all give me the suitcase then tom this guy's safe for the police i want to find how your brother but people will come and they'll bother me there'll be policemen and photographers there's nothing wrong with you having the rest of the emeralds but jarrod and i only use the emeralds to carry on our work now this suitcase you you open it is there anything wrong mr valentine well no not from your point of view friend but in a few minutes i gotta date with miss brooks and a guy named mcqueen at my office i'm gonna find out how they can take a surprise on chevron supreme to give you all eight gasoline qualities you need for dependable all around driving be sure you get not one not two but all eight gasoline qualities area blending mileage power anti knock vapor lock prevention starting warm-up and acceleration ask for chevron supreme at standard stations and independent chevron gas stations where they say and mean we take better care of your car bird feathers you heard me mcqueen skins of birds that's what he carried netsuke uh-huh yeah if tom could take one thing of value from the house that was it after all what are emeralds compared to birds jarrod banks will be all right george good brook see that's fine the police got that woman mabel she had been working for merton birds yeah you see mcqueen merton finally got an itchy palm and ganged up with mabel to try and scare the boys in a running that's the only way they get excited enough to tip where they'd hidden them bird feathers they had over a hundred emeralds and how many did merton sell for them through the years seven what's the matter what are you sure about he wants to know where the rest of them are george but tom and jurid will never tell mr mcqueen we got your story for you what if we didn't find the emeralds it's certainly a better story than the usual vampire scotland yard confessions of a werewolf that you usually printed that so yes yes yes yes yes yes yes but it's a little wild don't you think the noose hangs high hmm see what i mean who will ever believe it 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 daily has starred as george with virginia greg as brook see let george do it is written by david victor in jackson gillis and directed by don clark bob griffin was heard as tom forest lewis as jared ted osburn as mcqueen larry dobkin as merton noreen gammill as mabel and tim graham as jake the music is composed and presented by eddy dunstetter your announcer 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