 standard of california on behalf of independent chevron gas stations and standard stations throughout the west invite you to let george do it a matter of doubt another adventure of george valentine personal notice dangerous my stock and trade if you're in a tight squeeze and crying uncle won't get you out you got a job for me george valentine rightful details here mister valentine recently my young son steven has been hurt twice and what he insists were just accidents it's true they were the kind of things that might have happened to any active youngsters but i refuse to accept that explanation and i believe all this goes back to the time steven told a fantastic story to the police about an altogether different matter it's this very story that keeps them from believing what i suspect now that something terrible is happening to my son i'm sure if you let me talk to you you'll realize i'm not just imagining things and signed elinor roland read this park that new development for x gm is out in the new lot section that's right george i wonder why mrs roland's wasn't more specific about about the class steven had with the police frankly angel i think this whole thing is nothing more than the overstimulated fear that every mother has for a young one oh maybe you're right why don't you do the easiest and obvious thing call the tenant riley and find out what trouble steven's had with the police go ahead and that's the last thing in the world you want me to do isn't a book see didn't say no but the way you didn't say i simply meant we've gone this far let me go on reading your mind you being a woman can tell the mother isn't just clucking like a hand after all i am a potential mother myself and if i do decide to look into this hazy hassle i should get all the dope first hand for mrs roland's itself i don't want you to feel i'm talking to you into this oh no no no no thing like that come on grab that undernourished garden you call it and let's get going potential mother mister valentine that's the story exactly the way steven told it to the police isn't it steven i haven't anything else to say what am i going to do with him mister valentine make him explain why he told a story like that you're certainly not going to do it by raising your voice mrs roland that's right and come on yes i guess i better the fact remains steven said he was on his way home from school cutting across the fields he saw a man who'd been shot he told me he made a bandage to stop the bleeding then ran a couple of blocks to a service station to call the police uh-huh and when they came he reversed himself and told him he made it all up i know my boy better than that he doesn't lie he doesn't make things up not to me mother and his son couldn't be closer than we are this is just the two of us steven's not just another boy he thinks like a man maybe you've had me pegged wrong mom like the cops i read too many comic books i i just want a little excitement but steve when the squad car came you were caught running away you put yourself right on the spot by saying you made it all up now why you look like you're a smarter boy than that that's how it is just can't get anything out of it well all right kids you've got us all on the run now i'm not asking you to tell us in so many words what's behind this but you can at least shake your head yes or no you can do that for a fella can't you well did something happen to you that day that made you so scared you can't talk didn't those accidents you told your mother about have something to do with what happened to you that day you lied when you said chuck foster beat you up tried to hornet on my paper but your mother checked and chuck said he had nothing to do with and just another boy couldn't have worked you over like that steve and you didn't break your wrist slipping down into that ravine why you've been coming home that way for the last two years you couldn't be that careless where's the way it happened it's no use it's no use oh look ladies would you mind leaving me along with steve just for a few minutes oh yes george mrs rollins i think you and i can do with a good cup of coffee let's go in the kitchen you fellas join us when you're ready huh well steve that was pretty quick thinking being able to fix up a man's wound when you found a bleeding like that i keep telling you that never happened well but if it did happen you you could have done a good job after all you're a boy scout and you won your first aid badge your mother told me all about it how proud you were of it that doesn't prove anything um maybe not see how about this newspaper out she got business good good enough good enough to bring a little something into the house each week to help your mother i don't know what you're driving at well i'm driving at this steve you're not the kind of kid who lies and gets himself into a mess like this with the cops that i'm sold on look look now that we got rid of the gals we can talk sort of man to man steve tell me just what's going on in your mind come on i'll open up what are you thinking you did the best you could sonny you can't can't patch me up just remember sandiego mercantile frost red tensy he he got me remember didn't you hear me steve what why were you running away when the cops picked you up why were you putting on an act didn't think i'd still be alive when you come back a kid you did a better job with your thought now listen forget everything i said before if you'll say a word to anybody i'll get your mother get your mother remember come on shake out of it steve don't stare at me like that when i'm talking to you i'm not telling you anything get that straight look don't you see you've got to get it off your chest son your mother believes in you you've got to do it for her sake if you're in any kind of trouble yeah for her sake this man you helped it he gave you that beating you blamed on chuck why did he do it there was no man okay okay how about accident number two who gave you the assist that sent you to the bottom of that ravine so that you needed the doctor to take care of you now think about that a minute before come on pick yourself up kid you're gonna get worse than this if you don't talk i'm the guy who messed up the job killing that rat you found me red kenzie why'd you lie to the cops where's he hiding out better come clean now you got both of us on your tail okay steve okay i see it rather tired than say anything and maybe you think you got your own good reason yeah get your mother get your mother steve you're gonna find out that i can be a pretty stubborn character too alentine you can't say i'm not cooperative you asked for information on the capers of that kid steve rollins and i got it for you here thanks lieutenant rally well not much i didn't know before nothing we didn't know before just that he called and faked a story about finding a man shot in the neck on new blots road my good good friends i'm sorry i can't enlarge on the kids antics just to please you he got off flight as it was playing games like that with the police okay rally okay take it easy would you this wasn't meant to be an invitation to apoplexy yeah how about those accidents you just answered your own question miss brooks they were just accidents accidents and the jittery mother who's imagining a lot of boogie men out to harm her little chick lieutenant did it ever occur to you that mothers have a certain instinct about such things and did it ever occur to you that i ought to know something about mothers having had one myself from the way you act you'd think mrs rollins was just put on earth to keep your colleagues from enjoying their pinocchio in their various precinct stations is that so well let me tell you that i oh yeah say what's going on here anyway valentine why had your girlfriend suddenly decided to swarm all over me rally you touched a sore point with brooksy implying even the slightest fault in the mother who who me well there are only the three of us here and i've learned by experience to keep my mouth shut on the subject why i'm the staunchest defender motherhood ever had why when i hear mammy sung on the radio i'm no good for days your sarcasm has all the grace of an elephant with a sprained angle kids time off lest we forget one steven rollin yeah i wish i was allowed to forget him riley i know a scared kid when i see one i'm convinced there was a man that day and steve was handed a load of dynamite he's too young to know how to handle well if that's what you think there's nothing i can do about granted but if i can find something that seems to confirm what i believe would you hop on the wagon with me well you know better than that of course i will good okay come on brooksy we gotta get back to regis park now the police will believe you mr valentine the car deliberately tried to run steven down wonder this happened this just about an hour ago when he was coming home to school would you recognize the car if you saw it again steven no miss brooksy i wasn't looking where i was going he was just an accident mom's just imagining things mr croff had the druggist happened to be looking out of his window he says the automobile kept coming right at you you had all you could do to get out of the way it's nothing to worry about i only got a scrape in the out of it these accidents keep happening to you steven even faster now still you're holding back i'm just telling you what happened mr valentine so afraid i'm so afraid come on don't the reason i dropped by was to see if you take a walk with me over to new lots road but the whole thing started do you think you're up you don't need me the police told you where they found me son please be honest mr valentine do what he says he's trying to help you were running away when the squad car picked you up now i want to know the exact spot where you found that man what man well steve i guess you win this round too we'll just have to see how far we can get without you brooksy if the man was so seriously wounded it stands to reason i had to be some sign of violence on the scene lucky we didn't have any rain the last couple weeks yeah but george we're a good block away from new lots road and donnie boulevard where they picked up steve i know angel i know the man probably was lying in all this tall grass and couldn't be seen from the road but steve would be cutting across these fields and is way home from school yeah i see what you mean just a kid is way home from school like any other day minding his own business and walking into something like this whatever it is just like we walked into something hey that looks like a part of a man's shirt the collar of a man's shirt blood on it of course he was shot in the neck steve must have torn the collar off so you get to the womb this didn't come from any dollar ninety eight job either it's part of a silk $20 creation our mr x is somebody in the chips too bad we don't have the rest of the shirt one like that usually sports a monogram over the left hand pocket anyway it's what's a label jonathan's that's the shop where they look down their noses if your bill runs under $200 no question about how fast we have to work now now broxy every minute we don't find the answer to all this is another minute steve's life is worth under two cents we'll return to tonight's adventure of george valentine in just a moment in an average day's driving how many times do you think you cut the ignition part for a while and then start out again if you say ten times then let me tell you how to be sure of ten fast starts just switch to that great chevron supreme gasoline it's specially blended to give faster starts and faster warm-ups so you're off to a good start every time you press the starter chevron supreme gives your car new alertness and traffic to gives ping-free power that lifts you over the hills in fact for today's high compression engines you can't buy a better gasoline another thing 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shirt and like george valentine you try to make the most of it hodges yes yes indeed i haven't ever said shirts where you certainly come to the right person i wouldn't be the head of this department here at jonathan's if i didn't know the importance of the shirt to the man oh mr valentine agrees with you so completely he wouldn't think of going out in the morning without putting one on exactly but i oh i see the fact is i'm very anxious to locate a friend who bought a shirt here sometime ago maybe you can help me always glad to cooperate that's our motto here jonathan's you know caveat emptor that's latin the customer is always right i do hope that when your friend mentioned our shirts he had nothing but praise for them yes except for one small item what did you say a flaw in one of our shirts a jonathan's shirt well uh mr hotkiss it seems they pick up stains so easily especially around the collar hey i take a look oh oh please don't pay mr hotkiss it's only blood hold on to the counter friend just think of it as red ink and you'll pull through this like a hero right out of rugged kip yes you're you're so right sir i i'll try to be strong now uh just how can i help okay any chance of you remembering the man you sold this shirt to uh just from this this color well i know it'd be a small miracle if you had an answer but still that's what i gotta know a boy's life depends on it i'm sorry but we sell dozens of shirts with a collar like this every week well look at it carefully something may occur to you something to make you remember who bought it uh uh no no miss i'm afraid there's nothing i can tell you okay well broxy that's a gold star forever in any way thanks just the same mr hotkiss right you are oh one moment yeah jonathan's never puts this size of the shirt on the collar to pb and you know but i can tell at a glance this is the smallest size we sell size 14 well what about it well the man who wears this size would have to be of a very small stature indeed yeah yeah but can you remember such a man of course there were several 14s in the last month or two but but one man does seem to stand out from the other oh give mr hotkiss give is there a sales check on record his his name or address no no young lady he merely pointed to the shirts he wanted and paid for them in cash i thought it was a bit off well could you're recognize him if you saw him again he was a small dark eyed ferrity gentlemen not at all like a usable clientele here at jonathan's breeding you know still i doubt if i could be sure about the identification does that help at all buster we're fighting against time anything might help that's most gratifying indeed broxy remind me to send this gentleman a shirt for christmas hey angel go over to the window and let us know when steve turns into the block okay lieutenant riley are you sure nothing can happen to my boy while he's out to the store not unless i have a very dumb flat foot shadowing him and i haven't missed ronalds when valentine told me about finding that collar i made up my mind if it's the last thing i do nothing else is going to happen to steve besides we had to get him out of the house to the bakery for a while so he gets set up this plan of mine yes now uh now are you sure you still want valentine to go through with it do you think there can be any question for weeks i've been frantic about whether steve would come home alive this has got to stop now he can't go around with a bodyguard the rest of his life no matter what mr valentine has to do to trick steven into telling us who's threatening him it has to be done well i realize it's a drastic step we're taking lieutenant but well i'd like to avoid but you think there's any chance of us going through the files and finding someone like this small dark eyed ferrity individual now now not a chance any harness bull can name you a dozen bookies in pool room shocks that would fit that description yeah i guess so well nothing to do but wait now no sign of him yet the squad cars here all right now look as soon as the boy gets in sight the empty ambulance will street back to town and i'll go out and hop in the squad car with the boys it's so hard to understand mr valentine why my own son wouldn't confide in me no matter what trouble he was in look i tried to tell you mrs roland's if steve refused to talk it was not because he was afraid for himself but for the only other person in the world who he cares a thing about you his mother and that's the way i figured it that's the way i'm playing it now with lieutenant royally making it possible george come here quick yeah what is it broxy steve no that car just going around the corner well i thought it was funny the way it was parked there and the man at the wheel staring at this house what about this brooks well he didn't stick around a second after the squad car showed the driver anything like the description hotchkiss gave us no just the opposite george almost took up the whole front seat oh great great that's all we need another interested party pops into the picture wait a minute lieutenant here comes steve and now okay riley give the ambulance a nod oh yeah yeah sure but broxy makes sure mrs roland stays away from the window yeah don't worry about that i'll beat it out the side door and the rest is up to yeah and that makes me feel just oh steve just a minute i i want to talk to you what happened what's the matter look don't fly off the handle kid why are you talking to me this way tell me you're not giving me a chance i'm not blind i just saw that ambulance drive away i know steve i i know and the police car in front of our house what's it doing there well i was coming to that you don't have to bother something happened to my mother and they just took her away that's it isn't it if you'll just hold it a minute i did everything that man told me to kept my mouth shut but that wasn't enough for him he hurt my mother anyway it is my mother no it should be all right but who is this person you're talking about steve now you got to tell me we have to work fast no i'm not going to tell you anything i've got some place to go look steve you've got to tell me i'm tired of being a good boy with marbles now i'm going to be a bad boy with a knife hey wait a minute come back here you're crazy you're not going to stop me nobody what is it george what happened oh the kids will be a curve a mile wide instead of telling me the name of the guy with a punch of neck he's on his way to take care of things himself we've got to stop it come on hurry brooksy get in the car you take the wheel yeah but take it slow and make sure you keep steve in sight obviously he knows where our man lives okay hey man what's up no time to explain riley just follow us this must be the street george steve's flowing up yeah hibiscus drive my name for a street line with nothing that runs on rooming houses one look the same as another number 21 23 george just want to be already enjoying the moment he picks out the house i gotta be right on top so i can take it from there number 31 slower brooks and slowly surprised if this is where steve got the beating that's why he knows where he's going george look this is it yeah that's all for you steve i told you now go over there and stay with miss brooks down down the street now what's the guy's name so i can win there and get him i don't know i just call him the weasel because the way he talks up hey that man running in the house yes steve that's the other man red kenzie he tried to make me tell about the weasel okay let him get in the house this looks like more fireworks it is rally now george that man who just went in he was the one in the car in front of mrs roland brooks you should have stayed where you were the guy inside wants to shoot it out here rally our sergeant keep the people out the street and take care of these two come on rally let's go well you make a snappy lady what rooms this guy better down in how can i tell you mister if you don't even know the name of the tenant you're looking for what's the answer to that one well he's gonna be a small skinny run dark eyes probably looks like the really ratty is oh yeah i know what you mean the man in room six oh one less to worry about you can drop that arsenal now brother can i give out a kenzie man i hear of stuff for me against our after cuts that's why even if it isn't going to change your destination and this guy here's cold turkey and so we should have been a couple of weeks ago when i plugged him and left him in that field out there and reaches what kind of game were you kids playing anyway oh you're trying to get out of about 200 000 bucks we got from a san diego bank they supposed to meet me later but he double crossed me he's got all of its stash somewhere sure sure the san diego job we've had you on the pick up list for that deal and that must be mitchell i would have let that punk live he did told me where he had to go he just stood there flapping his mouth with no words coming out you know kenzie you're going to get the business because of a dirty trick you played on yourself how many you've beaten the best just this your friend here was trying to tell you but he couldn't make with the words you forget you shot him through the neck that's mr valentine it was kenzie who pushed me down a sovereign scotch and i recognize the weeks when he tried to run me down today they really had you between the betwixt didn't they yeah and i don't know what i'd have done if it weren't for you miss brooks but i just couldn't let anything happen to mom we're looking back on it now steve don't you think you should have confided in your mother she would have found an answer that's what mothers are for corny's it sometimes sounds mothers do know best sure i uh i think i'd better warn you busty you're going to be on the losing end of this argument you're tangling with an authority on that particular subject don't listen to him steve mr 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rpm is another reason why it's first choice in the west better get rpm tomorrow get it at independent chevron gas stations and at standard stations where they say and mean we take better care of your car next week when we catch up with george valentine as he is doing a little investigating at a mother load town we'll hear him saying and i'll look sheriff isn't there something you can tell us about this case hey come on sheriff george i think he's good i've got a book mr steven's anybody get a doctor quick i won't do much good broxy what the sheriff seems to have had too much to drink too much poison night'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 robert bailey is starred as george with francis robinson as claire moley meir appears as lieutenant reilly let george do it is written by david victor and herbert little jr and directed by don clark also heard in the cast were virginia braggess mrs roland jeffrey silver as steven herbert letton as kinsey and bob riff and his hotchkiss the music is composed and presented by eddie dunsteader your announcer john heston listen again next week same time same station to let george do it this is the mutual don broadcasting system