September 6, 2025 • 54 mins
CBS Radio Mystery Theater was a noteworthy attempt to revive in American radio dramas like Inner Sanctum (1941-1952) and Suspense (1942-1962). Radio dramas were widely considered "dead" 12 years prior to this series. CBS Radio Mystery Theater, or simply Mystery Theater, was created by Inner Sanctum creator Himan Brown and ran on CBS from 1974-1982. The show, much like older radio dramas, was introduced by a host (E.G. Marshall in this program), who steers us through the creaking door to start the episode. Many voices from the golden age of radio were featured, including Richard Widmark, Bret Morrison, Agnes Moorehead and many more.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Eighty seven, the CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents Come in,
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You're welcome. I'm E. G. Marshall. When the Pyramids were
a thousand years old or somewhere about two thousand BC,
a tribe of wanderers, dissatisfied for their own reasons that
the restriction and poverty of their lives, chose to migrate
northward in search of a new and better life. The
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parallel between their migration and our own American drive westward
is evidenced in the beginning and the ending of this
classic story. And you just don't believe it. It was,
says all free choice, not my dear.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
I had to be your doing.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
And when I tell you the real truth, you won't
want any soil goods. She was my woman before she
ever turned her eyes on you.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
That's a lie.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
You take that back. It don't make no mind who
you are. You better reach for your gun. I don't
type nothing back, but what should belong to me? So
rich Our mystery drama The Mark of Kine, was written
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especially for the Mystery Theater by Ian Martin and stars
Ralph Bell. It is sponsored in part by Contact, the
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Smell surrounds you. You're a saber, feels the way it
looks tight. You turn the wheel a little, no wasted
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You rub your hand on the seat. Six people could
be really comfortable in here. You swing in the driveway,
your wife, the kids, the dog, everyone with a parakeet
descends on the car and gets in. Off you go,
and nowhere in particular, life and your Nuber Saber are great.
Maybe the dog shouldn't sit on the seats.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
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Speaker 3 (02:57):
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Speaker 1 (03:37):
For about fifty years, among the Plains States in the
middle of the nineteenth century, cattle was king, then bleeding
and buying their way from the Middle States, came the sheep.
What a horse has grazed, a steer can still feed on.
What a sheep has nibbled to the bare earth, no
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animal can serve. So a war was declared by the
cattle barons, but they were too wealthy and entrenched to
do their own fighting. It was easier to hire guns
for that, and the most dreaded gun in the West
was a man named Kan Tuck. I'm out here on
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the street because you called me out, mister, what I
wanted the game in tables fair and square, And I'll
tell you the same thing about aiming to draw down
on me. Mister, you don't stand a prayer. Don't move yet,
I'm just left in my hand. You see that mark,
the white feather hair over my left brown that marks
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me as a kne tuck, That marks my reputation. So
I've given you fair warning. You draw down on me,
May God have mercy on your soul. I give him
fair warning. Might be quiet, didn't kiss from behind me?
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Didn't folks nothing more to see it? Maybe someone better
see to the dead man. Wasn't he magnificent? Papa? You
were bloodthirsty, little Philly. I'll say that, like father, like daughter.
I'm not so sure i'd want you to be all
the way like me. Shall How can you help it?
Speaker 5 (05:26):
I've got your blood, my vegan. You know you think
that Nana calls himself kent Tuck.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
It's something very special.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
I see him as a killer. You're un simple.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Tell the truth now, Papa.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
He just might be the reason we took his side
trip away from the railroad into Peter so you could
talk to him.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
If I did young lady's business, and you're an old
part of it, you should never have seen what you
just did.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
But having seen it, I will never forget him.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
You better Sometimes when I see what the lack of
a mother to bring you up, and it's but you're
going back to the hotel. Tomorrow morning we shall be
heading for home.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
What about tonight?
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Tonight? As soon as I say, well, you I have business,
you would excuse me say, I'd like to buy you
a drink. Why I have some business I'd like to
discuss with you. I'd drink alone. Maybe you know this
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is nobody else around me. I'd sail like to buy
that drink. But after we can talk business in my
room with the hotels, my cards. Uh, Colonel jenerin Creighton
Adventure Ranch, Colonel run of Springs, And what are you
doing in this little tank town, Colonel Wells where I
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was on troop by railroad back from the springing my
daughter home from school. I believe you're just the man
I've been looking for. You've heard of me for eight
Many of us know Wells. They don't know your name,
mister king Duck, and your reputation, and yet you would
still seek me out. Yeah, well, maybe I will have
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that drink with you. Colonel One offer you jobs, Duck
Kentuck one name stands for Kentucky where I come from,
Uffing a second name. I shut that a long time
ago along with the power of other things. I do
some wide and fancy roman one name is good. No,
maybe it's time. He's tired of putting downs and roots.
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Who would want me? I wouldn't what form, And I
mentioned my name was Creighton, the per venture Ranch, the
p bar C. That's our brand. Perhaps you've uh heard
of it? My mind, it's mighty been spread and of
it is in the Colorado territory. Been in my family
for four generations as we cleared out the Indians. But
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now we got two other hostile groups having to move
in and our grating lands settler sheep man. Now you
ain't a loan all the way down from the Dakotas
to Texas, sitting as we can handle it. Some of
the sheep Analays and the bigger reckets in there's dock
and they're mighty hard to discourage. You know, I don't
like any man there's anything to do with sheep. I
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figured you to see things like that, right, thinking man,
So I wanted to offer you a job. You wanna
buy my gun? Oh, I can hire me a hundred guns.
The same on the other side, and the war goes on.
They just cancel each other out all I wanna buy
me is full time protection? You think I can offer
them link the name Kane Tuck and I reckon they
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I'll know enough not to tangle with you, and they'll
stay off my property. There's a little more to my reputation.
Perhaps you forgot kind of Creighton. Oh what that's a
I'm a loane on. I don't stop long no place
because well, let's say I got a cheap feed. I'm gambling.
Maybe that's because you never had an offer to stay
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on anywhere as before, and you're well in your business.
That's why I'm making you an office strong enough to
maybe tie you down. You don't know the arms your face,
and I'm willing to take my chances. By God, her said,
probably which have opened come out to receive five brother's blood,
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brough fine own and a fugitive and the bragamon shallt
thou be in the earth? He Doug, Doug, what is it?
You are right? I've suffered enough. I don't understand why.
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There's nothing to understand.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
Colonel looks so he's not gonna make it.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Daddy Toney's training is pretty near depart in time. I
didn't figure him to let me out.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
I don't see why I just didn't ride up here
to speak her with us on.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
The stagecoach, Honey, he heads another business up.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
It seems like old light horse fixing me. Couldn't you
get him to hold up just a piece for him?
Speaker 6 (10:09):
Now?
Speaker 2 (10:09):
You know?
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Appears to me you've got quite a bit of interest
in that kan Tucky.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
He's almighty help and kind.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Of old for little Eastern tender for just finished a school.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
He's not that old. I bet he isn't even thirty five.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Yet, Oh closer to forty, I reckon. Either ways, far
too old for you and outside your reach. Anyways, you
got a man waiting for you back hold.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
Hein't a Pedison. I'm late eyes on him here five years.
He ain't have a beard when I left.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
It's just a little boy.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Same age as me, yea, seem as you as right,
and just so long as he's on our side, trying
to get his father straightened out. Well, if anyone had
ever told me that Elisha Pedison.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Would tell me he isn't coming.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Uh, maybe just as well, thanks, I had on my mind.
If he here we come, Oh they kondel criton was
the changes about the leave? I thought maybe you ducked
out on our handshain. I don't never back out on
my word once given, get just the right price. My
horse held me up. Well, or we better get on board.
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Oh my apologies, I reckon. You have met my daughter,
my pleasure, Miss Creton.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
I'm honored, mister Tuck, just.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Plain Kentuck, ma'am. I got no family name. I ain't
got no family home.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
Well, looks like maybe you'll have some of a boat
from now on.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Well, keene duck, we joined up. He got me on
a railroad, first time ever traveled any other way, saving
on legs or horses, and never wanted it to come
to this. But the man has a ride and a
duty protect his property. You're buying me to cut down
any man who don't. I was a I'm buying you
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I hope to face down and discouraged man who might.
For twenty years more, we've had a Cattleman's Association of club.
Who you call it what you will. We've got to
protect the grees and lands, the threat the sheep, and
the man I counted on most is my friend, my neighbor,
the father of the boy. I thought my daughter would
marry to make a union between the two ranches, has
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turned on me. We not has heard and turned into
that abomination of the sheep. Why we can no longer
talk together? Well, I've come to the conclusion that he,
this man giving the only learn by example. That's why
I won't use my ranch boss as execution. If anyone
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won't tow the line as your representative. I forced him
to draw down on me. And when he dies, no, oh,
I don't want the reality, only the threat, the pressure,
the leverage. I don't want to kill him, No, no
one ever, Rid And does you bought yourself just what
you want? Colonel Bredon? I feel mighty sure I did. Kate.
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I can't help myself. It's the only way I have
to God my cross to bear. He sits there, facing
the colonel on the narrow train bench, two cold black eyes,
as empty and deep as the bottomless pit. His young,
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old face is placid, but a man looking at him
objectively could imagine that beneath the sun leathered skin, million
nerves wrise and torture themselves. Who is he, this man
who calls himself only Kim Tuck. I shall return shortly
with that too.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
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Speaker 1 (14:16):
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Speaker 7 (15:01):
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Speaker 1 (16:02):
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Speaker 9 (16:03):
Soon, he who hesitates has lost two hundred bucks.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
The ranch house of the v bar Sea sprawled on
two floors over a great area, massive windows opening to
the glory of the far away rockies. Between the mountains
and the house were miles and miles of prairie grazing lands.
This was Creighton Land, that is, if it was not
totally owned on paper, at least by grazing rights established
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for a hundred years till the railroad brought the settlers
and the sheep west. You sent for me, Colonel Crayton.
Why sure can't that? Come on, Johnny, sit down, have
some breakfast. I already the hands of the bunkhouse. Then
sit and have some coffee.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Mm.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
You all shook down and settled. I reckon anything else
you need? Nope, except uh, when do I take over? Well,
no hurry for that sign, I mean buck WILLI has
been my ranch boss a long time. No sense rushing
him off to pasture side. Guy, I got more important
plans for you right now, alright shooting or now, I'm
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hoping it won't have to come to that. I'm kind
of trusting to the sign of your name and your
reputation to avoid bluntsheed. Who's pressing your colonel? Hee, Dick.
Just look out from this room. That's creating land out there,
has been for over a century. That's cattle land. Now
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they call us cattle ballans. But the real world is
not stare. You can see it plumps wherever you look
long or short on this says his lamp. And now
there's a power. People try to want coach and want
me and my four bears carved out of the wilderness.
And I don't take kindly the poachers. I wanna drive
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them off with one gun. If it's a big enough one,
unpacks enough power. Those are ky outs, seating off what
men had the courage to conquer. It faces them down
and they're run. And if they don't cut 'em down,
were the West done? Oh? I'll give you all names.
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There's just one I want you to lay off of,
and that's Whosh Patterson. Why twenty five years we were friends,
closers that work mean while his son and my daughter
promised each other we were going to partner the ranches,
make us the biggest spread outside of Texas. And then
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what happened?
Speaker 10 (18:54):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Uh, give them as much credit. The crout has hit
them bad these last years. But I thought he turned
to sheep as he has a still to buy some
I thought of something too. I can't touch you, hover
just between us, I tell you the same. And I
carry enough secrets myself already. I have no need to
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take on anymore. And one reason I went back east
to bring Sharon home was I needed to check with them.
Fancy's the doctors like plumb. Sure I ain't got along
the leader, and I need to make thought and shure
'em my daughter's future secure. I thought I'd set it
up through it. I should have son Eni. Now I
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got to hedge that bet. You take your gun and
your reputation in the battle, and you saved the venture.
Spread and some day soon I promise you at least
a part if it's gonna be yours. You see boy gee, no,
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mister Knut, Miss Crayton, just uh plain Kane Tuck like
a tonan mm.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
I like it and you can call me Sharon.
Speaker 11 (20:10):
I wouldn't recognize my place, Miss Clayton. Easy, boys, and
how easy?
Speaker 5 (20:14):
Why do you keep avoided me?
Speaker 3 (20:16):
You've been here?
Speaker 5 (20:17):
Why I never see you?
Speaker 1 (20:18):
I've been busy.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
Oh, I know. I'm surprised to have time to shoe
a horse.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
I always shoe any horse. I ride myself.
Speaker 5 (20:25):
He liked to be a lone wolf, don't you.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
I never said I liked it. It's my way of life.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
You're a strange man.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Yes, I'm better that way.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Are you telling me the stories are true?
Speaker 1 (20:39):
What stories would those be?
Speaker 12 (20:40):
Ooh uh?
Speaker 5 (20:41):
Peter sent up i Colorado Springs. He got shot in
the head and his house burned to the ground.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
If you were asking me, did I do it?
Speaker 13 (20:50):
No?
Speaker 5 (20:50):
But everyone says you warned him off, told him to
build a fence to hold his sheep in. Yes, 'm
oh you mean yes? Hm?
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Did you tell him that?
Speaker 1 (20:59):
I surely d and I'm your father's ranch boss. It's
my job.
Speaker 5 (21:03):
It's not your job. Buck Willis has been ranch boss
ever since I can remember.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Yes, 'm, well, you.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
Stop saying that what is why? Because it pretends to
be something you're not. You are not inferior to me.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
I never did say I was.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
Well, you just wanna put me off.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Put you're off?
Speaker 5 (21:21):
What?
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Ma'am?
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Will you stop tying with me? I wanna know what's
going on.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
I don't know what you mean.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Who come on, Kent Tuck.
Speaker 5 (21:30):
You think you're pretty tough, Well let me tell you
so am I I am not a nice, genteel little lady.
My father sent me east to turn into I'm western
born and bred before my daddy's wanted to put a
brand on me.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
I'm a maverick still all the way.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
You know why.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
I'm back here.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Sure enough to marry up with Eno Patterson so the
Levi SA and the Circle Pete ranches can join up
and be the biggest spread north of things.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
That is my daddy's idea. But Enoch and his father
are too soft to hold a dinastay here in our country,
it takes a man to hang on to what he's
got and bite off a tire with a man like you.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
No, now, what do you mean now?
Speaker 1 (22:13):
You said it before?
Speaker 11 (22:16):
Oh maybe for just a moment, I thought I could rest,
But uh, you nail the.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Truth from the barn for me to read.
Speaker 11 (22:24):
I ain't no right for us, just what I've want work?
Then I what have you always been a killer man?
Speaker 1 (22:33):
No?
Speaker 11 (22:34):
So I know that you can't fight you now, defence
says in spite of me now on the fence.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
M Well, you can't say.
Speaker 11 (22:45):
I don't reckon anything. I could say it would make sense, Miss,
I wish I would, just like any other man.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
I surely do. But uh, the way things say, area,
I look at every work for you. What are you
doing down the crall?
Speaker 6 (23:01):
You're going right?
Speaker 5 (23:01):
And you God just talked to Kentuck.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
Oh yeah, Hi, you're the new hand, ranch boss, Ranch Boss.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
I thought it don't matter. I I got things to do.
Excuse me, ma'am. So that's the big bully boy.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Shit, be careful of him. The big mouth of the gun.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
Why he's no big mouth. You better respect his gun.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
I got no respect for any hired gun. You know
what they say he did to Lyle Peterson and Scrimbley
Shaw shot him from ambush.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
You have proof of that.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
No, but he called him out and knowing his reputation,
they wouldn't shoot it out with him. So so what
so he shot him in the back?
Speaker 1 (23:43):
What else?
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Either way, they didn't stand a chance.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
I don't believe kenull I never shot at him out
in the back. I'll never believe it.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Why not. It's the way he makes his living.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
I don't believe that either.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Everyone knows it.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Well, you been away in the east, yes, and.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
A lot of things have happened as I've been away.
What things a lot different between your father and mine.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Things are changing on the range.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
We have to move with the times.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
Now you and yours can make your own moves. Why
can't you leave my daddy alone?
Speaker 1 (24:13):
We'd like to if he'd leave us alone.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
And how does he interfere with you, Sharon?
Speaker 4 (24:20):
I didn't come over here to talk about I.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Ask you a question. Damn it, Sharon.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
He thinks he owns a whole territory. He's got to
wake up to respecting his own boundaries.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
It seems to me you're the one who don't respect him.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
Sharon, stay out of man's business. Your father only holds
title by law through a tenth of the land, he claims.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
The rest is anyone's territory.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
No, for a hundred years nobody ever claimed it.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
Why now, come on, Sharon, you've been east. It's a
growing country. People are pushing out.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
But they don't have to bring no smelly old sheep.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
The land's drying up.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
Sheep can live where cattle can wait a minut And
this has nothing to do with us, has it.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
But it's all so so different now, Enoch, because our
fathers are feuden well got and what.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
It isn't that King tuck, Sharon, don't be taken in.
He's no good.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
I can make up my own mind about that.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
He's a killer, a gun. That's all his hand against
every man, and every man's hand against his.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
You don't know it. I know his type.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
Sharing he's marked for what he is, as surely as
he's marked by that white streak in his hair.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
He can't help that.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Sometimes I wonder even about that. But for the rest, well,
he is what he is.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
Well, you talk mighty dig behind his back.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
You want me to set his face, he can call
me out.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
I'm no stranger to hand on a gun.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
Now, you just stopping he that kind of Just go
on about your business and leave me to mine.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
What about us, Sharon? When are we gonna be married?
Speaker 6 (25:58):
Or are we Edith?
Speaker 5 (26:00):
Would you give me a chance to set it back
in anyway? Right now? Til our fathers work out their differences.
It's no time to talk about that.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Uh By heaven, Jared, I've had enough. You can't dictate
to me any more, and you can to me Eliza.
You cancel that ship on the sheep, but you're gonna
serve up blood. The only one who's gonna stir up
bloodies you Jared, with your hired gun. The rest can
be talked out. There's nothing to talk about. There's this
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cattle country and I won't have a profane I can't
stop progress where both businessmen are.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
First duty is to survive.
Speaker 5 (26:40):
I have to bring in the sheep.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
You regret. There a lot of things in my life
I've regretted and will live to regret.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
I don't see this as one of 'em, except for.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
For the children.
Speaker 11 (26:52):
Don't turn our men mess their visit those sins o
the tiling God.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Lets face ourselves and our responsibilities. Neither of us has
much time left.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
It's well each secure what we have and make the
children's future safe. I said I'd buy marry and my
daughter to a man who betrayed his friend's whole. Answer
out in kind or in unkindness, as I moved to do.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
Just let me favor one point.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
If you won't give Sharon willing me to eat it,
who else in this still wilderness community which you offer
her too to a man who has enough guts to
protect her and her inheritance and are forced to back
it up to the man named kan Tuck or reneged
a children out there. I do not judge him that way,
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and you are blind.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
Look at him closely, the lean, dark, honored face, the
restlessness in him. Look at that shock of black hair
with the white plume street up above his left eyebrow.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
You think that's accident. We all turned gray? We bowl
God knock that way?
Speaker 2 (28:08):
To me, that is a special side.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
His vivid is the mark of Cain, it is said
in Genesis four, verse fifteen. And the Lord set a
mark on Cain lest any finding him should kill him.
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Is Kententuck a latter day Kane. Is he the killer
that he has represented? Has he no saving grace? I
shall return shortly with X three.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Think about it.
Speaker 13 (28:44):
Is your fire extinguisher within easy reach? And do you
really know how to use it? Last year, over two
and a half million kitchen fire victims wish they had
thought about it. Unfortunately, many small fires that start here
in the kitchen turn into devastating blazes underwriters Laboratories. Field
engineer Ray McNabb says that's because people try to fight
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kitchen fires with water cooking.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Fire is caused by fat, oil or grease should be smothered,
not soapd The best.
Speaker 13 (29:13):
Way to smother a fire is with a fire extinguisher.
Only problem is most folks hide their extinguishers.
Speaker 6 (29:19):
They serve no purpose.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Hidden in a closet or in an area where a
fire may start, like above a stove. Place it where
you can see it and grab it.
Speaker 13 (29:27):
Remember, get everyone outside, call the fire department.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Start your extinguisher and aim the nozzle at the base
of the fire, sweeping from side to side, and watch
out for a reflash.
Speaker 13 (29:38):
Think about it. A public service from ULL and the station.
Speaker 12 (29:43):
Alove your people give you a lovely self the stage today.
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You are.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
From the United States Travel Service. Behold thou hast driven
me out this day from the face of the earth,
and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in
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the earth. Genesis four fourteen, and a man named King
Tuck migrated from his native state to end up in
the territory of Colorado, a man who was a wanderer
by destiny and a killer by trade, and who, for
the first time in his life, was about to be
offered the love he had always been denied.
Speaker 5 (31:21):
Ye're so quiet tonight.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Gosh, what is it? Ud?
Speaker 1 (31:24):
A load on my mind? Sir?
Speaker 5 (31:27):
Well, we could always share it before his husband and wife?
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Why not now?
Speaker 1 (31:31):
He ain't a woman's business, which.
Speaker 5 (31:33):
Means fighting and killing?
Speaker 1 (31:35):
What else? Isn't h darling?
Speaker 4 (31:38):
There was enough of that in her life, wasn't there?
I thought we'd been able to bury the past, but
it seems we haven't.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Why lotch 'em eh.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
Jerr it has signed himself on a new hand, A
bully boy already, though we can't prove it, this man
has been guilty of, or at least responsible for the
deaths of three, maybe four of those of us who
opposed Jared.
Speaker 5 (32:07):
Oh, why do you let him get away with it?
Why don't you make up a post run this hide
killer out of the territory.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Hm? Why not?
Speaker 4 (32:15):
Except that we consider ourselves men of honor and abide
by the rules.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Of our society.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
As I said, in most cases we can't prove he
killed the men, and in the one case we can
it was a fair fight.
Speaker 5 (32:31):
Fair fight, like my abe was killed all those years ago.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
I thought we'd put all that by.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Oh, darling Dysha, guess of course we have.
Speaker 5 (32:40):
You know I'm all yours. You're my ownly true love,
and that Enoch thinks of you as his own father.
Even though I.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Should shush sh that's past history.
Speaker 4 (32:53):
Troubled, bad and forgotten, just as I want you to
forget the ones I brought up today.
Speaker 5 (32:58):
But I'm afraid for you. If you're not next, you
must be on the list, and you're a no gun handler.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
I'm less afraid for myself than I am for Enich.
Speaker 5 (33:07):
Why him?
Speaker 2 (33:08):
And I think this gun.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
Slinger, though he's old enough to be her father, has
caught Sharon's eye, and with Jared turned against me the
way he is, he just might favor the King Tuck
over Enich who kan Tuck? The name he goes by
the only name he uses, probably afraid to let a
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body know his real one.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Wh What is it, sir?
Speaker 2 (33:36):
You've gone?
Speaker 7 (33:36):
What?
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Why is it?
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Cheat? You alright, honey, I'm alright. I tell me. Would
this King Tuck be at the Venture ranch today?
Speaker 1 (33:50):
I reckon? Why?
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Nothing?
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Nothing?
Speaker 5 (33:53):
I just like to see what a real killer looks like.
Speaker 12 (34:03):
Can job up? Hold up?
Speaker 6 (34:05):
Check?
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Watch anything wrong? Miss Crayton?
Speaker 8 (34:11):
No?
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Where you headings or just riding out of place?
Speaker 1 (34:14):
If I join you, I'm kind of hanker to be alone.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Oh that's not polite. Didn't you like me?
Speaker 1 (34:21):
That's beson the poet?
Speaker 12 (34:22):
I think?
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Can I ride with you if you can keep up here?
Speaker 5 (34:32):
Now?
Speaker 12 (34:32):
You chat me?
Speaker 5 (34:34):
You think you can show me?
Speaker 12 (34:35):
Or you can't jump?
Speaker 5 (34:36):
Your dad?
Speaker 12 (34:36):
Right?
Speaker 5 (34:37):
God back?
Speaker 12 (34:40):
Sure? Sure?
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Sharon? Sharon?
Speaker 5 (34:52):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Are you all right? Sherry?
Speaker 5 (34:56):
Can't tuck out the class you called me by? I
give him name?
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Never mind that? Are you all right?
Speaker 2 (35:02):
I never felt better.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
You little fool. You almost lost your head when that
horse hit that go.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
For who I lost my head a long long while
before that.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
What are you talking about? You?
Speaker 5 (35:15):
First time I ever saw you. I fell in love
with you. Oh why do you run from the Kentuck?
Why do you run from the world.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
A man does what he has to tell.
Speaker 5 (35:26):
A woman changes his mind. Can I change yours? Hold
me the way you did when you carried me to
this place, Holy close, this time instead of touching my
lips with water from the stream.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Kiss me, my darling, kiss me, Sharon.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
I am not for you. I am not for any woman.
I'm I'm like any man who sinned. Even more so,
I'm an outcast. I have no right.
Speaker 5 (36:01):
You'll have every right to to this.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
There.
Speaker 5 (36:09):
Then tell me you don't love me. After that, I do.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
But there can't be anything between us, or between me
and anyone. You don't understand me.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
Tell me who are you?
Speaker 5 (36:29):
What are you running from?
Speaker 1 (36:32):
I never thought to speak about it again, But here
with you, I begin to wonder if maybe I maybe
I could be forgiven a crime that stained my whole life.
You see, there were the two of us, Me the
first born, dark, lonely man. Words come hard to I'm
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my brother aide the opposite, molding hair, eyes blue. It
was everyone's favorite. My mother Eve, my father Adam. My
name was Manning. We had a farm. I worked in
the fields and with the horses. But Abe he was
the shepherd, cause we had the biggest flock of merinos
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in Kentucky. Oh, my father's tried and joy Abe and
the sheep. Everything come easy to Abe and hard to
me except one thing. There was a girl named Sarah,
and she and me we loved each other so much.
I lost my head and I took advantage of her
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once and things were never the same again. She turned
from me to Abe, and that way everything that lay
between us buried. Come to math. Hey, I my brother,
what brings you my way? I got so things to
talk over with your little brother, So join me some coffee.
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It's gooding black and strong and smells of sheep. Is
that so bad? My loving brother? Whose answer always turns away? Wrath? Oh?
What are you sad about? What reason that jump on me?
Speaker 7 (38:18):
Now?
Speaker 1 (38:18):
What reason? All my life? A fair haired boy who
can do no wrong? The chosen?
Speaker 2 (38:26):
What do you mean that chose?
Speaker 1 (38:27):
That's been obvious enough for all our lives. I got
to break my back of my fields while you haven't
easy hurting these dumb animals. Not that i'd want your job,
And why I complain? Have I ever before. I don't know.
I always thought we got along pretty well. Why wouldn't
you since you always had the best mama's boy. Now,
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way do you have of our father's eye? You sneffling
little Tody. You don't care for church or Bible spewing
anymore than I do, But you have to go pretend
every Sunday just to keep it mom and Pop's good graces. Oh,
I don't have to answer you how I feel about God.
As for keeping in mom and Pop's good graces. Even
if I didn't feel my own pool of religion, I'd
never tried to hurt their feelings. It's little enough return
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for all they've done for us. You know, it's really
got stuck in my craw and brought me here today, Sarah. Oh,
why she's spoken to you? Yes, and I won't have it.
I'm the elder ever since you were born. You always
got the best of it. But taking my woman, I
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won't stand for arizone free choice and not my dude.
It had up me you're doing And when I tell
you the real truth, you won't want no soil goods.
She was mine before she ever turned her eyes on you.
Now that said, I you take that back or it
don't make no mind who you are. You better reach
for your gun. I don't take nothing back, but what
should belong to me? So rach I stood there, the
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gun still smoking in my hand, and I looked down
on my fair skinned brother, whom I had slain. There
was a black fog in my mind. I was more
than half mad. I was blind and deaf to a
world I wanted to turn off. And suddenly that great
and terrible voice first sounded in my ear. What hast
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thou done? A voice a by brother's blood crieth to
me from the ground. And now art thou curst from me?
And I shall set a mark upon thee lest anyone finding.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
You should kill you.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
I left my home, covering my tracks, took only the
name Kentuck to myself. I never wanted ever since, every
man's hand against me, waiting and praying for death. Only
that's the one thing the Lord will let no man
bring me.
Speaker 5 (41:11):
Poor Kentuck, no wonder you hide from everyone, but you
can't hide from me.
Speaker 1 (41:17):
I gotta it's time for me to move on again.
Speaker 5 (41:20):
Then I'll go with him.
Speaker 1 (41:21):
Don't tempt me.
Speaker 2 (41:22):
You won't get the chance. You know what are you
doing here? So you follow him? So I followed you.
Now you stay out of this. Oh no, this is showdown.
T you mean you can't treat me like.
Speaker 5 (41:33):
Some kind of possession. Where I go, what I do
is my own business, my own decision.
Speaker 3 (41:37):
It is none to you.
Speaker 4 (41:39):
There are other people to protect against this man.
Speaker 2 (41:41):
What are the people?
Speaker 1 (41:43):
My father?
Speaker 2 (41:44):
I don't want him shot in the back.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
Like the others. The boy. You listen to me, and
listen good. I shoot no man in the back. I
don't have to face to face. No man can kill me.
So don't get any idea.
Speaker 2 (41:55):
I already got him. I'm calling you out, and I
warn you.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
I'm nearly twenty years younger than you and pasture on
the drawer. This time you meant more than your man.
I'll try to test it up.
Speaker 12 (42:07):
Don't you do it?
Speaker 5 (42:08):
You know you don't have or no gun talk, sir,
h You still recognize me after all these years, you.
Speaker 1 (42:21):
Still recognize me.
Speaker 5 (42:23):
If I didn't know any other way, I would know
you for the mark you carry the.
Speaker 2 (42:27):
Mark of shame.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
Yes, twenty years I've carried it is in no.
Speaker 6 (42:35):
Way I can work it out.
Speaker 5 (42:37):
You could attempt and ask God to stretch his hand
out to you in mercy.
Speaker 1 (42:41):
Why should I? Since he was the one who wrote
his vengeance on me.
Speaker 5 (42:46):
He were born at dinner, you wanna.
Speaker 6 (42:48):
Live his one. I was born like everyone else, I
was married at dinner. And since I'm doing the kill anyone.
Speaker 1 (42:56):
But myself, I ride a hard on the road. I
ask nothing from any one, and I give nothing in return.
Speaker 4 (43:01):
Forget him, mother, there's no saving him, only the rest
of us.
Speaker 5 (43:04):
You can't save us, Enoch.
Speaker 2 (43:06):
Why not.
Speaker 4 (43:07):
He's old and tired and ready to be taken, and
he deserves to die. I'm calling you out again, Oh man,
your time is come, Edock.
Speaker 5 (43:17):
You are no match for him. Talk talk, I beg
you don't do this thing.
Speaker 1 (43:22):
In God's name and God's name, I have no choice. Okay, boy,
let's have done with it. I've traveled along the route
long enough. Sharon offers me sanctuary and home at last.
I'm ready to fight for it, even if you have
to die your own son.
Speaker 4 (43:40):
For your gun.
Speaker 1 (43:44):
What did you say?
Speaker 2 (43:45):
Who took me against my will?
Speaker 5 (43:46):
The son I bore was not by my present husband, oh,
by Abe, who never even knew me. Edoch is your own.
Speaker 2 (43:53):
Flesh, and.
Speaker 1 (43:56):
Don't don't draw son awake, No truly.
Speaker 4 (44:00):
If I can't have Sharon, damn you you never will
for her sake, We're all better off dead.
Speaker 1 (44:08):
Draw No, God, please no not kill my son. Have
I not suffered enough?
Speaker 2 (44:16):
Have you no mercy?
Speaker 1 (44:25):
I couldn't draw against my own son. My dear Lord,
Let me come home to rest at myrs get usher.
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Give me your love, but only as it should be
a daughter. Take my son and become my daughter, and
live in happiness.
Speaker 2 (44:58):
You never do your gun.
Speaker 1 (45:01):
Thank you for drawing yours my son. For now, the
end of a long road that had no ending. It's
here I can go to my real my real home.
Speaker 2 (45:20):
I rushed, I I killed him. I killed my own father.
Speaker 5 (45:28):
No, en, you brought him the chance to reach for God,
to live hereafter.
Speaker 2 (45:35):
I never knew him. I always thought he meant nothing
to me except I.
Speaker 5 (45:44):
Never killed a man before, and I hope never will again.
But you couldn't have killed a man who would thank
you for it more.
Speaker 2 (45:53):
Ah, Look at you.
Speaker 5 (45:55):
Look at his hair or black, all black as it
was before when he was young. The white feather, the
mark of his crime against God is gone. At last
we can all find.
Speaker 1 (46:13):
Peace, the Lord, our God may be a god of vengeance,
but he is also merciful. I quote Ecclesiastes twelve, verse one,
Remember now, thy Creator, in the days of thy youth,
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when the evil days come, not or ever the silver
cord be loosed, for the golden bowl be broken. Then
shall the dust return to the earth as it was,
and the spirit shall return to God who gave it.
I shall be back shortly.
Speaker 5 (46:52):
Wonderful, daily, living alone the sentences. Maybe He'll take you,
you bum up, Where.
Speaker 2 (47:02):
The girls fly on ribbons and bones, where babies float.
Speaker 1 (47:07):
By just counting their toes, while some babies float by
counting their toes. And this country endewers are reported one
million cases of child abuse every year, and at least
two thousand children die at.
Speaker 12 (47:19):
The beginning or is it deed?
Speaker 1 (47:23):
It goes in and.
Speaker 2 (47:24):
Comes out and starts sober?
Speaker 1 (47:27):
Oh? What volunteer groups and child abuse crisis centers can
help prevent these needless, painful deaths. For more information on
child abuse and how you can help right prevent child
abuse Box two eight sixty six, Chicago, Illinois, six six
nine to zero. What would you do today? That's more important?
A public service message of this station. The advertising Council
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and the National Committee for Preventional Child Abuse. The story
you have heard will not have been exactly new to you.
We have retold it in its present form because it
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is as basic and real and true as humanity itself.
The story of canaan Abel is from chapter four of Genesis.
We have, with reverence and some license, brought you a
modern version because we truly believe that four thousand years
have not changed one iota basic conflicts and human relationships.
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The Bible, its story, and its teachings are as alive
today as they were two thousand years ago. Our cast
included Ralph Bell, Marionceldi's, Ian Martin, and Bob Caliban. The
entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown and
now a preview of our next tale.
Speaker 2 (48:56):
She flirts with death?
Speaker 10 (48:59):
Why that night and every night I went to the
gilded cage, and I sat there breathless in a mistake.
Speaker 2 (49:11):
How can I say it? Delicious terror?
Speaker 10 (49:15):
As the leaful knives flew through the air and came
to rest against but not in her body, forming a
deadly halo around her head, a leafful color around her neck. Finally,
one evening, scarcely knowing what I was doing. I found
myself backstage at Monsieur de la Crois dressing room door.
Speaker 6 (49:34):
How I got there I could never tell you.
Speaker 1 (49:37):
I'm basically a very shy person, but there I was,
and before I knew it, I had knocked on the
door and it opened. Radio Mystery Theater were sponsored in
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Until next time, Pleasant stream. This is eighty seven Www
and Orleans.
Speaker 2 (50:19):
King Edward Cigar. Time is seven minutes after eight o'clock.
Speaker 1 (50:25):
Today.
Speaker 14 (50:25):
In business, Saudi Arabia gets ready to start pumping oil.
I'm Ray Brady reporting on the CBS Radio network.
Speaker 1 (50:33):
The Middle East Economic Survey.
Speaker 14 (50:35):
A highly respected oil weekly, reports that Saudi Arabia is
getting ready to boost its production of oil. The pumping
will start going up in the first quarter of next year,
the weekly says, rising from eight and a half million
barrels to ten million barrels a day. The rise is
a key move in the Saudi Arabian decision to fight
a ten percent price increase by the other oil producers.
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Saudi Arabia is raising its prices by just five percent,
and the heavy flood of its oil, such as its planning,
could force the other nations either to ease up on
their price increase or to cut back on their.
Speaker 15 (51:07):
Own production more after this, I'm watercron Guide. CBS News
nineteen seventy six wrote many new and important pages of
history as the Supreme Court wrestled with capital punishment and
a same bribery had become a way of life for
some American companies overseas. It was a political year and
a bi centennial year. Join me in my CBS News
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colleagues for twenty eight reports on seventy six in review
our first weekend special of the new year. January eighth,
the ninth on the CBS Radio Network.
Speaker 14 (51:40):
Still on oil, the chief executive officer of the oil
exporting countries was asked today if the other oil producing
nations might haul their increase in prices to just five percent,
the same boost as Saudi Arabia. The executive then said
it was possible that the oil Cartel might hold a
special session to talk about oil prices. That Oil News,
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along with rumors of a split in the stock of
IBM gave Wall Street a real holiday kind of session.
The Dow Jones Industrial average swept upward by nearly ten
and a half points to nine to ninety six point
oh nine. Volume was pretty good, over twenty million shares,
and Townshend Brown, the second of the investment firm of
Woodstruthers in Winthrop, says, there was a lot about today's
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market that's bullish.
Speaker 6 (52:23):
Well, it was a generally pretty much across the board rally.
The motor stocks were active, the blue chips were active,
also were some secondary stocks. I would say that it
was a generalized rally that Franchet Apoli advancers were about
two and a half times as many as the cline
and the up volume was around fourteen million versus only
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three million in the dad side. You can't just pick
a single group. It was a general, very strong market.
Speaker 14 (52:50):
That brings the market, of course to within four points
about one thousand level, a level that has reached and
then tumbled from many times this year. But Brown is
optimis the party's not over.
Speaker 1 (53:01):
We've got a ways to go here, and what the
market is telling as is that both economic and political
news is capable.
Speaker 14 (53:09):
President elect Jimney Carter says he'll decide by the end
of this week on the outline of a program to
stimulate the economy. Carter says that that program, once it's unveiled,
will include a tax cut and a jobs program. In
Miami Beach, it's turning into a chili winter for guests
at the luxury hotels being struck by the Union of
Hotel service employees. The latest of the hotels struck the
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massive fart and Blue today began hiring non union maids,
waiters veilment. The Oceanfront Hotel books solid with holiday vacationers,
is the seventh resort hotel in the Miami area to
be striped. Found Recapping that stock market, the Dow Jones
Industrial average today went sailing up by roughly.
Speaker 1 (53:48):
Ten and a half points.
Speaker 2 (53:50):
The blue chips were especially strong, with.
Speaker 14 (53:52):
Exxon up by a point, General Motors up by one
and an eight points. A lot of the market's entire move, though,
was sparked by rumors that IBM may footed stock. The
computer company itself finished out the session at two seventy
seven and three quarters, which means that stock was up
by more than six points on the day. That's Today
in Business, I'm Ray Brady, CBS News
Eighty seven, the CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents Come in,
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You're welcome. I'm E. G. Marshall. When the Pyramids were
a thousand years old or somewhere about two thousand BC,
a tribe of wanderers, dissatisfied for their own reasons that
the restriction and poverty of their lives, chose to migrate
northward in search of a new and better life. The
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parallel between their migration and our own American drive westward
is evidenced in the beginning and the ending of this
classic story. And you just don't believe it. It was,
says all free choice, not my dear.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
I had to be your doing.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
And when I tell you the real truth, you won't
want any soil goods. She was my woman before she
ever turned her eyes on you.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
That's a lie.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
You take that back. It don't make no mind who
you are. You better reach for your gun. I don't
type nothing back, but what should belong to me? So
rich Our mystery drama The Mark of Kine, was written
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especially for the Mystery Theater by Ian Martin and stars
Ralph Bell. It is sponsored in part by Contact, the
Twelve Hour Cold Capsule and Buick motor division. I'll be
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You aren't your Buick dealers about to drive home, and
you brand you Buick Glassaver. It's lean and trim as
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it lines. It looks quite unlike any full size Buick
you can remember. You get in the heavy U car.
Smell surrounds you. You're a saber, feels the way it
looks tight. You turn the wheel a little, no wasted
motion in this car, and big brush metallic gauges look
back at you. That D six engine is doing great.
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You rub your hand on the seat. Six people could
be really comfortable in here. You swing in the driveway,
your wife, the kids, the dog, everyone with a parakeet
descends on the car and gets in. Off you go,
and nowhere in particular, life and your Nuber Saber are great.
Maybe the dog shouldn't sit on the seats.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
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Speaker 1 (03:37):
For about fifty years, among the Plains States in the
middle of the nineteenth century, cattle was king, then bleeding
and buying their way from the Middle States, came the sheep.
What a horse has grazed, a steer can still feed on.
What a sheep has nibbled to the bare earth, no
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animal can serve. So a war was declared by the
cattle barons, but they were too wealthy and entrenched to
do their own fighting. It was easier to hire guns
for that, and the most dreaded gun in the West
was a man named Kan Tuck. I'm out here on
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the street because you called me out, mister, what I
wanted the game in tables fair and square, And I'll
tell you the same thing about aiming to draw down
on me. Mister, you don't stand a prayer. Don't move yet,
I'm just left in my hand. You see that mark,
the white feather hair over my left brown that marks
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me as a kne tuck, That marks my reputation. So
I've given you fair warning. You draw down on me,
May God have mercy on your soul. I give him
fair warning. Might be quiet, didn't kiss from behind me?
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Didn't folks nothing more to see it? Maybe someone better
see to the dead man. Wasn't he magnificent? Papa? You
were bloodthirsty, little Philly. I'll say that, like father, like daughter.
I'm not so sure i'd want you to be all
the way like me. Shall How can you help it?
Speaker 5 (05:26):
I've got your blood, my vegan. You know you think
that Nana calls himself kent Tuck.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
It's something very special.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
I see him as a killer. You're un simple.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Tell the truth now, Papa.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
He just might be the reason we took his side
trip away from the railroad into Peter so you could
talk to him.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
If I did young lady's business, and you're an old
part of it, you should never have seen what you
just did.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
But having seen it, I will never forget him.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
You better Sometimes when I see what the lack of
a mother to bring you up, and it's but you're
going back to the hotel. Tomorrow morning we shall be
heading for home.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
What about tonight?
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Tonight? As soon as I say, well, you I have business,
you would excuse me say, I'd like to buy you
a drink. Why I have some business I'd like to
discuss with you. I'd drink alone. Maybe you know this
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is nobody else around me. I'd sail like to buy
that drink. But after we can talk business in my
room with the hotels, my cards. Uh, Colonel jenerin Creighton
Adventure Ranch, Colonel run of Springs, And what are you
doing in this little tank town, Colonel Wells where I
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was on troop by railroad back from the springing my
daughter home from school. I believe you're just the man
I've been looking for. You've heard of me for eight
Many of us know Wells. They don't know your name,
mister king Duck, and your reputation, and yet you would
still seek me out. Yeah, well, maybe I will have
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that drink with you. Colonel One offer you jobs, Duck
Kentuck one name stands for Kentucky where I come from,
Uffing a second name. I shut that a long time
ago along with the power of other things. I do
some wide and fancy roman one name is good. No,
maybe it's time. He's tired of putting downs and roots.
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Who would want me? I wouldn't what form, And I
mentioned my name was Creighton, the per venture Ranch, the
p bar C. That's our brand. Perhaps you've uh heard
of it? My mind, it's mighty been spread and of
it is in the Colorado territory. Been in my family
for four generations as we cleared out the Indians. But
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now we got two other hostile groups having to move
in and our grating lands settler sheep man. Now you
ain't a loan all the way down from the Dakotas
to Texas, sitting as we can handle it. Some of
the sheep Analays and the bigger reckets in there's dock
and they're mighty hard to discourage. You know, I don't
like any man there's anything to do with sheep. I
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figured you to see things like that, right, thinking man,
So I wanted to offer you a job. You wanna
buy my gun? Oh, I can hire me a hundred guns.
The same on the other side, and the war goes on.
They just cancel each other out all I wanna buy
me is full time protection? You think I can offer
them link the name Kane Tuck and I reckon they
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I'll know enough not to tangle with you, and they'll
stay off my property. There's a little more to my reputation.
Perhaps you forgot kind of Creighton. Oh what that's a
I'm a loane on. I don't stop long no place
because well, let's say I got a cheap feed. I'm gambling.
Maybe that's because you never had an offer to stay
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on anywhere as before, and you're well in your business.
That's why I'm making you an office strong enough to
maybe tie you down. You don't know the arms your face,
and I'm willing to take my chances. By God, her said,
probably which have opened come out to receive five brother's blood,
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brough fine own and a fugitive and the bragamon shallt
thou be in the earth? He Doug, Doug, what is it?
You are right? I've suffered enough. I don't understand why.
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There's nothing to understand.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
Colonel looks so he's not gonna make it.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Daddy Toney's training is pretty near depart in time. I
didn't figure him to let me out.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
I don't see why I just didn't ride up here
to speak her with us on.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
The stagecoach, Honey, he heads another business up.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
It seems like old light horse fixing me. Couldn't you
get him to hold up just a piece for him?
Speaker 6 (10:09):
Now?
Speaker 2 (10:09):
You know?
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Appears to me you've got quite a bit of interest
in that kan Tucky.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
He's almighty help and kind.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Of old for little Eastern tender for just finished a school.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
He's not that old. I bet he isn't even thirty five.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Yet, Oh closer to forty, I reckon. Either ways, far
too old for you and outside your reach. Anyways, you
got a man waiting for you back hold.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
Hein't a Pedison. I'm late eyes on him here five years.
He ain't have a beard when I left.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
It's just a little boy.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Same age as me, yea, seem as you as right,
and just so long as he's on our side, trying
to get his father straightened out. Well, if anyone had
ever told me that Elisha Pedison.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Would tell me he isn't coming.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Uh, maybe just as well, thanks, I had on my mind.
If he here we come, Oh they kondel criton was
the changes about the leave? I thought maybe you ducked
out on our handshain. I don't never back out on
my word once given, get just the right price. My
horse held me up. Well, or we better get on board.
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Oh my apologies, I reckon. You have met my daughter,
my pleasure, Miss Creton.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
I'm honored, mister Tuck, just.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Plain Kentuck, ma'am. I got no family name. I ain't
got no family home.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
Well, looks like maybe you'll have some of a boat
from now on.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Well, keene duck, we joined up. He got me on
a railroad, first time ever traveled any other way, saving
on legs or horses, and never wanted it to come
to this. But the man has a ride and a
duty protect his property. You're buying me to cut down
any man who don't. I was a I'm buying you
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I hope to face down and discouraged man who might.
For twenty years more, we've had a Cattleman's Association of club.
Who you call it what you will. We've got to
protect the grees and lands, the threat the sheep, and
the man I counted on most is my friend, my neighbor,
the father of the boy. I thought my daughter would
marry to make a union between the two ranches, has
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turned on me. We not has heard and turned into
that abomination of the sheep. Why we can no longer
talk together? Well, I've come to the conclusion that he,
this man giving the only learn by example. That's why
I won't use my ranch boss as execution. If anyone
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won't tow the line as your representative. I forced him
to draw down on me. And when he dies, no, oh,
I don't want the reality, only the threat, the pressure,
the leverage. I don't want to kill him, No, no
one ever, Rid And does you bought yourself just what
you want? Colonel Bredon? I feel mighty sure I did. Kate.
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I can't help myself. It's the only way I have
to God my cross to bear. He sits there, facing
the colonel on the narrow train bench, two cold black eyes,
as empty and deep as the bottomless pit. His young,
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old face is placid, but a man looking at him
objectively could imagine that beneath the sun leathered skin, million
nerves wrise and torture themselves. Who is he, this man
who calls himself only Kim Tuck. I shall return shortly
with that too.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
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Speaker 1 (14:16):
Got no time for it.
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Speaker 7 (15:01):
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Speaker 1 (16:02):
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Speaker 1 (16:20):
The ranch house of the v bar Sea sprawled on
two floors over a great area, massive windows opening to
the glory of the far away rockies. Between the mountains
and the house were miles and miles of prairie grazing lands.
This was Creighton Land, that is, if it was not
totally owned on paper, at least by grazing rights established
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for a hundred years till the railroad brought the settlers
and the sheep west. You sent for me, Colonel Crayton.
Why sure can't that? Come on, Johnny, sit down, have
some breakfast. I already the hands of the bunkhouse. Then
sit and have some coffee.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Mm.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
You all shook down and settled. I reckon anything else
you need? Nope, except uh, when do I take over? Well,
no hurry for that sign, I mean buck WILLI has
been my ranch boss a long time. No sense rushing
him off to pasture side. Guy, I got more important
plans for you right now, alright shooting or now, I'm
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hoping it won't have to come to that. I'm kind
of trusting to the sign of your name and your
reputation to avoid bluntsheed. Who's pressing your colonel? Hee, Dick.
Just look out from this room. That's creating land out there,
has been for over a century. That's cattle land. Now
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they call us cattle ballans. But the real world is
not stare. You can see it plumps wherever you look
long or short on this says his lamp. And now
there's a power. People try to want coach and want
me and my four bears carved out of the wilderness.
And I don't take kindly the poachers. I wanna drive
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them off with one gun. If it's a big enough one,
unpacks enough power. Those are ky outs, seating off what
men had the courage to conquer. It faces them down
and they're run. And if they don't cut 'em down,
were the West done? Oh? I'll give you all names.
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There's just one I want you to lay off of,
and that's Whosh Patterson. Why twenty five years we were friends,
closers that work mean while his son and my daughter
promised each other we were going to partner the ranches,
make us the biggest spread outside of Texas. And then
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what happened?
Speaker 10 (18:54):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Uh, give them as much credit. The crout has hit
them bad these last years. But I thought he turned
to sheep as he has a still to buy some
I thought of something too. I can't touch you, hover
just between us, I tell you the same. And I
carry enough secrets myself already. I have no need to
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take on anymore. And one reason I went back east
to bring Sharon home was I needed to check with them.
Fancy's the doctors like plumb. Sure I ain't got along
the leader, and I need to make thought and shure
'em my daughter's future secure. I thought I'd set it
up through it. I should have son Eni. Now I
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got to hedge that bet. You take your gun and
your reputation in the battle, and you saved the venture.
Spread and some day soon I promise you at least
a part if it's gonna be yours. You see boy gee, no,
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mister Knut, Miss Crayton, just uh plain Kane Tuck like
a tonan mm.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
I like it and you can call me Sharon.
Speaker 11 (20:10):
I wouldn't recognize my place, Miss Clayton. Easy, boys, and
how easy?
Speaker 5 (20:14):
Why do you keep avoided me?
Speaker 3 (20:16):
You've been here?
Speaker 5 (20:17):
Why I never see you?
Speaker 1 (20:18):
I've been busy.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
Oh, I know. I'm surprised to have time to shoe
a horse.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
I always shoe any horse. I ride myself.
Speaker 5 (20:25):
He liked to be a lone wolf, don't you.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
I never said I liked it. It's my way of life.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
You're a strange man.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Yes, I'm better that way.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Are you telling me the stories are true?
Speaker 1 (20:39):
What stories would those be?
Speaker 12 (20:40):
Ooh uh?
Speaker 5 (20:41):
Peter sent up i Colorado Springs. He got shot in
the head and his house burned to the ground.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
If you were asking me, did I do it?
Speaker 13 (20:50):
No?
Speaker 5 (20:50):
But everyone says you warned him off, told him to
build a fence to hold his sheep in. Yes, 'm
oh you mean yes? Hm?
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Did you tell him that?
Speaker 1 (20:59):
I surely d and I'm your father's ranch boss. It's
my job.
Speaker 5 (21:03):
It's not your job. Buck Willis has been ranch boss
ever since I can remember.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Yes, 'm, well, you.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
Stop saying that what is why? Because it pretends to
be something you're not. You are not inferior to me.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
I never did say I was.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
Well, you just wanna put me off.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Put you're off?
Speaker 5 (21:21):
What?
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Ma'am?
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Will you stop tying with me? I wanna know what's
going on.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
I don't know what you mean.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Who come on, Kent Tuck.
Speaker 5 (21:30):
You think you're pretty tough, Well let me tell you
so am I I am not a nice, genteel little lady.
My father sent me east to turn into I'm western
born and bred before my daddy's wanted to put a
brand on me.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
I'm a maverick still all the way.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
You know why.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
I'm back here.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Sure enough to marry up with Eno Patterson so the
Levi SA and the Circle Pete ranches can join up
and be the biggest spread north of things.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
That is my daddy's idea. But Enoch and his father
are too soft to hold a dinastay here in our country,
it takes a man to hang on to what he's
got and bite off a tire with a man like you.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
No, now, what do you mean now?
Speaker 1 (22:13):
You said it before?
Speaker 11 (22:16):
Oh maybe for just a moment, I thought I could rest,
But uh, you nail the.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Truth from the barn for me to read.
Speaker 11 (22:24):
I ain't no right for us, just what I've want work?
Then I what have you always been a killer man?
Speaker 1 (22:33):
No?
Speaker 11 (22:34):
So I know that you can't fight you now, defence
says in spite of me now on the fence.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
M Well, you can't say.
Speaker 11 (22:45):
I don't reckon anything. I could say it would make sense, Miss,
I wish I would, just like any other man.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
I surely do. But uh, the way things say, area,
I look at every work for you. What are you
doing down the crall?
Speaker 6 (23:01):
You're going right?
Speaker 5 (23:01):
And you God just talked to Kentuck.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
Oh yeah, Hi, you're the new hand, ranch boss, Ranch Boss.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
I thought it don't matter. I I got things to do.
Excuse me, ma'am. So that's the big bully boy.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Shit, be careful of him. The big mouth of the gun.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
Why he's no big mouth. You better respect his gun.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
I got no respect for any hired gun. You know
what they say he did to Lyle Peterson and Scrimbley
Shaw shot him from ambush.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
You have proof of that.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
No, but he called him out and knowing his reputation,
they wouldn't shoot it out with him. So so what
so he shot him in the back?
Speaker 1 (23:43):
What else?
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Either way, they didn't stand a chance.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
I don't believe kenull I never shot at him out
in the back. I'll never believe it.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Why not. It's the way he makes his living.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
I don't believe that either.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Everyone knows it.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Well, you been away in the east, yes, and.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
A lot of things have happened as I've been away.
What things a lot different between your father and mine.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Things are changing on the range.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
We have to move with the times.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
Now you and yours can make your own moves. Why
can't you leave my daddy alone?
Speaker 1 (24:13):
We'd like to if he'd leave us alone.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
And how does he interfere with you, Sharon?
Speaker 4 (24:20):
I didn't come over here to talk about I.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Ask you a question. Damn it, Sharon.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
He thinks he owns a whole territory. He's got to
wake up to respecting his own boundaries.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
It seems to me you're the one who don't respect him.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
Sharon, stay out of man's business. Your father only holds
title by law through a tenth of the land, he claims.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
The rest is anyone's territory.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
No, for a hundred years nobody ever claimed it.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
Why now, come on, Sharon, you've been east. It's a
growing country. People are pushing out.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
But they don't have to bring no smelly old sheep.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
The land's drying up.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
Sheep can live where cattle can wait a minut And
this has nothing to do with us, has it.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
But it's all so so different now, Enoch, because our
fathers are feuden well got and what.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
It isn't that King tuck, Sharon, don't be taken in.
He's no good.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
I can make up my own mind about that.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
He's a killer, a gun. That's all his hand against
every man, and every man's hand against his.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
You don't know it. I know his type.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
Sharing he's marked for what he is, as surely as
he's marked by that white streak in his hair.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
He can't help that.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Sometimes I wonder even about that. But for the rest, well,
he is what he is.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
Well, you talk mighty dig behind his back.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
You want me to set his face, he can call
me out.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
I'm no stranger to hand on a gun.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
Now, you just stopping he that kind of Just go
on about your business and leave me to mine.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
What about us, Sharon? When are we gonna be married?
Speaker 6 (25:58):
Or are we Edith?
Speaker 5 (26:00):
Would you give me a chance to set it back
in anyway? Right now? Til our fathers work out their differences.
It's no time to talk about that.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Uh By heaven, Jared, I've had enough. You can't dictate
to me any more, and you can to me Eliza.
You cancel that ship on the sheep, but you're gonna
serve up blood. The only one who's gonna stir up
bloodies you Jared, with your hired gun. The rest can
be talked out. There's nothing to talk about. There's this
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cattle country and I won't have a profane I can't
stop progress where both businessmen are.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
First duty is to survive.
Speaker 5 (26:40):
I have to bring in the sheep.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
You regret. There a lot of things in my life
I've regretted and will live to regret.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
I don't see this as one of 'em, except for.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
For the children.
Speaker 11 (26:52):
Don't turn our men mess their visit those sins o
the tiling God.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Lets face ourselves and our responsibilities. Neither of us has
much time left.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
It's well each secure what we have and make the
children's future safe. I said I'd buy marry and my
daughter to a man who betrayed his friend's whole. Answer
out in kind or in unkindness, as I moved to do.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
Just let me favor one point.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
If you won't give Sharon willing me to eat it,
who else in this still wilderness community which you offer
her too to a man who has enough guts to
protect her and her inheritance and are forced to back
it up to the man named kan Tuck or reneged
a children out there. I do not judge him that way,
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and you are blind.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
Look at him closely, the lean, dark, honored face, the
restlessness in him. Look at that shock of black hair
with the white plume street up above his left eyebrow.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
You think that's accident. We all turned gray? We bowl
God knock that way?
Speaker 2 (28:08):
To me, that is a special side.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
His vivid is the mark of Cain, it is said
in Genesis four, verse fifteen. And the Lord set a
mark on Cain lest any finding him should kill him.
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Is Kententuck a latter day Kane. Is he the killer
that he has represented? Has he no saving grace? I
shall return shortly with X three.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Think about it.
Speaker 13 (28:44):
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kitchen fires with water cooking.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Fire is caused by fat, oil or grease should be smothered,
not soapd The best.
Speaker 13 (29:13):
Way to smother a fire is with a fire extinguisher.
Only problem is most folks hide their extinguishers.
Speaker 6 (29:19):
They serve no purpose.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Hidden in a closet or in an area where a
fire may start, like above a stove. Place it where
you can see it and grab it.
Speaker 13 (29:27):
Remember, get everyone outside, call the fire department.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Start your extinguisher and aim the nozzle at the base
of the fire, sweeping from side to side, and watch
out for a reflash.
Speaker 13 (29:38):
Think about it. A public service from ULL and the station.
Speaker 12 (29:43):
Alove your people give you a lovely self the stage today.
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You are.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
From the United States Travel Service. Behold thou hast driven
me out this day from the face of the earth,
and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in
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the earth. Genesis four fourteen, and a man named King
Tuck migrated from his native state to end up in
the territory of Colorado, a man who was a wanderer
by destiny and a killer by trade, and who, for
the first time in his life, was about to be
offered the love he had always been denied.
Speaker 5 (31:21):
Ye're so quiet tonight.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Gosh, what is it? Ud?
Speaker 1 (31:24):
A load on my mind? Sir?
Speaker 5 (31:27):
Well, we could always share it before his husband and wife?
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Why not now?
Speaker 1 (31:31):
He ain't a woman's business, which.
Speaker 5 (31:33):
Means fighting and killing?
Speaker 1 (31:35):
What else? Isn't h darling?
Speaker 4 (31:38):
There was enough of that in her life, wasn't there?
I thought we'd been able to bury the past, but
it seems we haven't.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Why lotch 'em eh.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
Jerr it has signed himself on a new hand, A
bully boy already, though we can't prove it, this man
has been guilty of, or at least responsible for the
deaths of three, maybe four of those of us who
opposed Jared.
Speaker 5 (32:07):
Oh, why do you let him get away with it?
Why don't you make up a post run this hide
killer out of the territory.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Hm? Why not?
Speaker 4 (32:15):
Except that we consider ourselves men of honor and abide
by the rules.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Of our society.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
As I said, in most cases we can't prove he
killed the men, and in the one case we can
it was a fair fight.
Speaker 5 (32:31):
Fair fight, like my abe was killed all those years ago.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
I thought we'd put all that by.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Oh, darling Dysha, guess of course we have.
Speaker 5 (32:40):
You know I'm all yours. You're my ownly true love,
and that Enoch thinks of you as his own father.
Even though I.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Should shush sh that's past history.
Speaker 4 (32:53):
Troubled, bad and forgotten, just as I want you to
forget the ones I brought up today.
Speaker 5 (32:58):
But I'm afraid for you. If you're not next, you
must be on the list, and you're a no gun handler.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
I'm less afraid for myself than I am for Enich.
Speaker 5 (33:07):
Why him?
Speaker 2 (33:08):
And I think this gun.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
Slinger, though he's old enough to be her father, has
caught Sharon's eye, and with Jared turned against me the
way he is, he just might favor the King Tuck
over Enich who kan Tuck? The name he goes by
the only name he uses, probably afraid to let a
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body know his real one.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Wh What is it, sir?
Speaker 2 (33:36):
You've gone?
Speaker 7 (33:36):
What?
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Why is it?
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Cheat? You alright, honey, I'm alright. I tell me. Would
this King Tuck be at the Venture ranch today?
Speaker 1 (33:50):
I reckon? Why?
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Nothing?
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Nothing?
Speaker 5 (33:53):
I just like to see what a real killer looks like.
Speaker 12 (34:03):
Can job up? Hold up?
Speaker 6 (34:05):
Check?
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Watch anything wrong? Miss Crayton?
Speaker 8 (34:11):
No?
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Where you headings or just riding out of place?
Speaker 1 (34:14):
If I join you, I'm kind of hanker to be alone.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Oh that's not polite. Didn't you like me?
Speaker 1 (34:21):
That's beson the poet?
Speaker 12 (34:22):
I think?
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Can I ride with you if you can keep up here?
Speaker 5 (34:32):
Now?
Speaker 12 (34:32):
You chat me?
Speaker 5 (34:34):
You think you can show me?
Speaker 12 (34:35):
Or you can't jump?
Speaker 5 (34:36):
Your dad?
Speaker 12 (34:36):
Right?
Speaker 5 (34:37):
God back?
Speaker 12 (34:40):
Sure? Sure?
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Sharon? Sharon?
Speaker 5 (34:52):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Are you all right? Sherry?
Speaker 5 (34:56):
Can't tuck out the class you called me by? I
give him name?
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Never mind that? Are you all right?
Speaker 2 (35:02):
I never felt better.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
You little fool. You almost lost your head when that
horse hit that go.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
For who I lost my head a long long while
before that.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
What are you talking about? You?
Speaker 5 (35:15):
First time I ever saw you. I fell in love
with you. Oh why do you run from the Kentuck?
Why do you run from the world.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
A man does what he has to tell.
Speaker 5 (35:26):
A woman changes his mind. Can I change yours? Hold
me the way you did when you carried me to
this place, Holy close, this time instead of touching my
lips with water from the stream.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Kiss me, my darling, kiss me, Sharon.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
I am not for you. I am not for any woman.
I'm I'm like any man who sinned. Even more so,
I'm an outcast. I have no right.
Speaker 5 (36:01):
You'll have every right to to this.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
There.
Speaker 5 (36:09):
Then tell me you don't love me. After that, I do.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
But there can't be anything between us, or between me
and anyone. You don't understand me.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
Tell me who are you?
Speaker 5 (36:29):
What are you running from?
Speaker 1 (36:32):
I never thought to speak about it again, But here
with you, I begin to wonder if maybe I maybe
I could be forgiven a crime that stained my whole life.
You see, there were the two of us, Me the
first born, dark, lonely man. Words come hard to I'm
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my brother aide the opposite, molding hair, eyes blue. It
was everyone's favorite. My mother Eve, my father Adam. My
name was Manning. We had a farm. I worked in
the fields and with the horses. But Abe he was
the shepherd, cause we had the biggest flock of merinos
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in Kentucky. Oh, my father's tried and joy Abe and
the sheep. Everything come easy to Abe and hard to
me except one thing. There was a girl named Sarah,
and she and me we loved each other so much.
I lost my head and I took advantage of her
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once and things were never the same again. She turned
from me to Abe, and that way everything that lay
between us buried. Come to math. Hey, I my brother,
what brings you my way? I got so things to
talk over with your little brother, So join me some coffee.
(38:04):
It's gooding black and strong and smells of sheep. Is
that so bad? My loving brother? Whose answer always turns away? Wrath? Oh?
What are you sad about? What reason that jump on me?
Speaker 7 (38:18):
Now?
Speaker 1 (38:18):
What reason? All my life? A fair haired boy who
can do no wrong? The chosen?
Speaker 2 (38:26):
What do you mean that chose?
Speaker 1 (38:27):
That's been obvious enough for all our lives. I got
to break my back of my fields while you haven't
easy hurting these dumb animals. Not that i'd want your job,
And why I complain? Have I ever before. I don't know.
I always thought we got along pretty well. Why wouldn't
you since you always had the best mama's boy. Now,
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way do you have of our father's eye? You sneffling
little Tody. You don't care for church or Bible spewing
anymore than I do, But you have to go pretend
every Sunday just to keep it mom and Pop's good graces. Oh,
I don't have to answer you how I feel about God.
As for keeping in mom and Pop's good graces. Even
if I didn't feel my own pool of religion, I'd
never tried to hurt their feelings. It's little enough return
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for all they've done for us. You know, it's really
got stuck in my craw and brought me here today, Sarah. Oh,
why she's spoken to you? Yes, and I won't have it.
I'm the elder ever since you were born. You always
got the best of it. But taking my woman, I
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won't stand for arizone free choice and not my dude.
It had up me you're doing And when I tell
you the real truth, you won't want no soil goods.
She was mine before she ever turned her eyes on you.
Now that said, I you take that back or it
don't make no mind who you are. You better reach
for your gun. I don't take nothing back, but what
should belong to me? So rach I stood there, the
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gun still smoking in my hand, and I looked down
on my fair skinned brother, whom I had slain. There
was a black fog in my mind. I was more
than half mad. I was blind and deaf to a
world I wanted to turn off. And suddenly that great
and terrible voice first sounded in my ear. What hast
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thou done? A voice a by brother's blood crieth to
me from the ground. And now art thou curst from me?
And I shall set a mark upon thee lest anyone finding.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
You should kill you.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
I left my home, covering my tracks, took only the
name Kentuck to myself. I never wanted ever since, every
man's hand against me, waiting and praying for death. Only
that's the one thing the Lord will let no man
bring me.
Speaker 5 (41:11):
Poor Kentuck, no wonder you hide from everyone, but you
can't hide from me.
Speaker 1 (41:17):
I gotta it's time for me to move on again.
Speaker 5 (41:20):
Then I'll go with him.
Speaker 1 (41:21):
Don't tempt me.
Speaker 2 (41:22):
You won't get the chance. You know what are you
doing here? So you follow him? So I followed you.
Now you stay out of this. Oh no, this is showdown.
T you mean you can't treat me like.
Speaker 5 (41:33):
Some kind of possession. Where I go, what I do
is my own business, my own decision.
Speaker 3 (41:37):
It is none to you.
Speaker 4 (41:39):
There are other people to protect against this man.
Speaker 2 (41:41):
What are the people?
Speaker 1 (41:43):
My father?
Speaker 2 (41:44):
I don't want him shot in the back.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
Like the others. The boy. You listen to me, and
listen good. I shoot no man in the back. I
don't have to face to face. No man can kill me.
So don't get any idea.
Speaker 2 (41:55):
I already got him. I'm calling you out, and I
warn you.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
I'm nearly twenty years younger than you and pasture on
the drawer. This time you meant more than your man.
I'll try to test it up.
Speaker 12 (42:07):
Don't you do it?
Speaker 5 (42:08):
You know you don't have or no gun talk, sir,
h You still recognize me after all these years, you.
Speaker 1 (42:21):
Still recognize me.
Speaker 5 (42:23):
If I didn't know any other way, I would know
you for the mark you carry the.
Speaker 2 (42:27):
Mark of shame.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
Yes, twenty years I've carried it is in no.
Speaker 6 (42:35):
Way I can work it out.
Speaker 5 (42:37):
You could attempt and ask God to stretch his hand
out to you in mercy.
Speaker 1 (42:41):
Why should I? Since he was the one who wrote
his vengeance on me.
Speaker 5 (42:46):
He were born at dinner, you wanna.
Speaker 6 (42:48):
Live his one. I was born like everyone else, I
was married at dinner. And since I'm doing the kill anyone.
Speaker 1 (42:56):
But myself, I ride a hard on the road. I
ask nothing from any one, and I give nothing in return.
Speaker 4 (43:01):
Forget him, mother, there's no saving him, only the rest
of us.
Speaker 5 (43:04):
You can't save us, Enoch.
Speaker 2 (43:06):
Why not.
Speaker 4 (43:07):
He's old and tired and ready to be taken, and
he deserves to die. I'm calling you out again, Oh man,
your time is come, Edock.
Speaker 5 (43:17):
You are no match for him. Talk talk, I beg
you don't do this thing.
Speaker 1 (43:22):
In God's name and God's name, I have no choice. Okay, boy,
let's have done with it. I've traveled along the route
long enough. Sharon offers me sanctuary and home at last.
I'm ready to fight for it, even if you have
to die your own son.
Speaker 4 (43:40):
For your gun.
Speaker 1 (43:44):
What did you say?
Speaker 2 (43:45):
Who took me against my will?
Speaker 5 (43:46):
The son I bore was not by my present husband, oh,
by Abe, who never even knew me. Edoch is your own.
Speaker 2 (43:53):
Flesh, and.
Speaker 1 (43:56):
Don't don't draw son awake, No truly.
Speaker 4 (44:00):
If I can't have Sharon, damn you you never will
for her sake, We're all better off dead.
Speaker 1 (44:08):
Draw No, God, please no not kill my son. Have
I not suffered enough?
Speaker 2 (44:16):
Have you no mercy?
Speaker 1 (44:25):
I couldn't draw against my own son. My dear Lord,
Let me come home to rest at myrs get usher.
(44:46):
Give me your love, but only as it should be
a daughter. Take my son and become my daughter, and
live in happiness.
Speaker 2 (44:58):
You never do your gun.
Speaker 1 (45:01):
Thank you for drawing yours my son. For now, the
end of a long road that had no ending. It's
here I can go to my real my real home.
Speaker 2 (45:20):
I rushed, I I killed him. I killed my own father.
Speaker 5 (45:28):
No, en, you brought him the chance to reach for God,
to live hereafter.
Speaker 2 (45:35):
I never knew him. I always thought he meant nothing
to me except I.
Speaker 5 (45:44):
Never killed a man before, and I hope never will again.
But you couldn't have killed a man who would thank
you for it more.
Speaker 2 (45:53):
Ah, Look at you.
Speaker 5 (45:55):
Look at his hair or black, all black as it
was before when he was young. The white feather, the
mark of his crime against God is gone. At last
we can all find.
Speaker 1 (46:13):
Peace, the Lord, our God may be a god of vengeance,
but he is also merciful. I quote Ecclesiastes twelve, verse one,
Remember now, thy Creator, in the days of thy youth,
(46:35):
when the evil days come, not or ever the silver
cord be loosed, for the golden bowl be broken. Then
shall the dust return to the earth as it was,
and the spirit shall return to God who gave it.
I shall be back shortly.
Speaker 5 (46:52):
Wonderful, daily, living alone the sentences. Maybe He'll take you,
you bum up, Where.
Speaker 2 (47:02):
The girls fly on ribbons and bones, where babies float.
Speaker 1 (47:07):
By just counting their toes, while some babies float by
counting their toes. And this country endewers are reported one
million cases of child abuse every year, and at least
two thousand children die at.
Speaker 12 (47:19):
The beginning or is it deed?
Speaker 1 (47:23):
It goes in and.
Speaker 2 (47:24):
Comes out and starts sober?
Speaker 1 (47:27):
Oh? What volunteer groups and child abuse crisis centers can
help prevent these needless, painful deaths. For more information on
child abuse and how you can help right prevent child
abuse Box two eight sixty six, Chicago, Illinois, six six
nine to zero. What would you do today? That's more important?
A public service message of this station. The advertising Council
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and the National Committee for Preventional Child Abuse. The story
you have heard will not have been exactly new to you.
We have retold it in its present form because it
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is as basic and real and true as humanity itself.
The story of canaan Abel is from chapter four of Genesis.
We have, with reverence and some license, brought you a
modern version because we truly believe that four thousand years
have not changed one iota basic conflicts and human relationships.
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The Bible, its story, and its teachings are as alive
today as they were two thousand years ago. Our cast
included Ralph Bell, Marionceldi's, Ian Martin, and Bob Caliban. The
entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown and
now a preview of our next tale.
Speaker 2 (48:56):
She flirts with death?
Speaker 10 (48:59):
Why that night and every night I went to the
gilded cage, and I sat there breathless in a mistake.
Speaker 2 (49:11):
How can I say it? Delicious terror?
Speaker 10 (49:15):
As the leaful knives flew through the air and came
to rest against but not in her body, forming a
deadly halo around her head, a leafful color around her neck. Finally,
one evening, scarcely knowing what I was doing. I found
myself backstage at Monsieur de la Crois dressing room door.
Speaker 6 (49:34):
How I got there I could never tell you.
Speaker 1 (49:37):
I'm basically a very shy person, but there I was,
and before I knew it, I had knocked on the
door and it opened. Radio Mystery Theater were sponsored in
part by Buick Motor Division and contact the twelve hour
Cold Capsule Missus E. G. Marshall inviting you to return
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Speaker 2 (50:19):
King Edward Cigar. Time is seven minutes after eight o'clock.
Speaker 1 (50:25):
Today.
Speaker 14 (50:25):
In business, Saudi Arabia gets ready to start pumping oil.
I'm Ray Brady reporting on the CBS Radio network.
Speaker 1 (50:33):
The Middle East Economic Survey.
Speaker 14 (50:35):
A highly respected oil weekly, reports that Saudi Arabia is
getting ready to boost its production of oil. The pumping
will start going up in the first quarter of next year,
the weekly says, rising from eight and a half million
barrels to ten million barrels a day. The rise is
a key move in the Saudi Arabian decision to fight
a ten percent price increase by the other oil producers.
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Saudi Arabia is raising its prices by just five percent,
and the heavy flood of its oil, such as its planning,
could force the other nations either to ease up on
their price increase or to cut back on their.
Speaker 15 (51:07):
Own production more after this, I'm watercron Guide. CBS News
nineteen seventy six wrote many new and important pages of
history as the Supreme Court wrestled with capital punishment and
a same bribery had become a way of life for
some American companies overseas. It was a political year and
a bi centennial year. Join me in my CBS News
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colleagues for twenty eight reports on seventy six in review
our first weekend special of the new year. January eighth,
the ninth on the CBS Radio Network.
Speaker 14 (51:40):
Still on oil, the chief executive officer of the oil
exporting countries was asked today if the other oil producing
nations might haul their increase in prices to just five percent,
the same boost as Saudi Arabia. The executive then said
it was possible that the oil Cartel might hold a
special session to talk about oil prices. That Oil News,
(52:00):
along with rumors of a split in the stock of
IBM gave Wall Street a real holiday kind of session.
The Dow Jones Industrial average swept upward by nearly ten
and a half points to nine to ninety six point
oh nine. Volume was pretty good, over twenty million shares,
and Townshend Brown, the second of the investment firm of
Woodstruthers in Winthrop, says, there was a lot about today's
(52:21):
market that's bullish.
Speaker 6 (52:23):
Well, it was a generally pretty much across the board rally.
The motor stocks were active, the blue chips were active,
also were some secondary stocks. I would say that it
was a generalized rally that Franchet Apoli advancers were about
two and a half times as many as the cline
and the up volume was around fourteen million versus only
(52:43):
three million in the dad side. You can't just pick
a single group. It was a general, very strong market.
Speaker 14 (52:50):
That brings the market, of course to within four points
about one thousand level, a level that has reached and
then tumbled from many times this year. But Brown is
optimis the party's not over.
Speaker 1 (53:01):
We've got a ways to go here, and what the
market is telling as is that both economic and political
news is capable.
Speaker 14 (53:09):
President elect Jimney Carter says he'll decide by the end
of this week on the outline of a program to
stimulate the economy. Carter says that that program, once it's unveiled,
will include a tax cut and a jobs program. In
Miami Beach, it's turning into a chili winter for guests
at the luxury hotels being struck by the Union of
Hotel service employees. The latest of the hotels struck the
(53:30):
massive fart and Blue today began hiring non union maids,
waiters veilment. The Oceanfront Hotel books solid with holiday vacationers,
is the seventh resort hotel in the Miami area to
be striped. Found Recapping that stock market, the Dow Jones
Industrial average today went sailing up by roughly.
Speaker 1 (53:48):
Ten and a half points.
Speaker 2 (53:50):
The blue chips were especially strong, with.
Speaker 14 (53:52):
Exxon up by a point, General Motors up by one
and an eight points. A lot of the market's entire move, though,
was sparked by rumors that IBM may footed stock. The
computer company itself finished out the session at two seventy
seven and three quarters, which means that stock was up
by more than six points on the day. That's Today
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