August 1, 2025 • 24 mins
Set in a frontier town, this series follows a U.S. Marshal as he maintains law and order. The show combines action with moral dilemmas of the Old West.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
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territory on West. There's just one way to handle the
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and the smell of gun Smoke. Gun Smoke, starring William Conrad,
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The France Blood story of the violence that moved west
with Young America and the story of a man who
moved with it.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshal, the first
man they look for and the last they want to meet.
It's a chancy job, and it makes a man watchful
and a little lonely.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Good evening minute, I'll tack.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
I've been waiting for you.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
I'll set Ah.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
Might as well put away that cribbage board. It won't
be playing tonight.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
Oh why not? You found an easier mark?
Speaker 6 (02:01):
No, but you're gonna hid tail it up the street
once you hear the news.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Eh, Matt Bell's back. Well, Belle who Bell?
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Who?
Speaker 5 (02:13):
Belle Angsley.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
That's so you got a mighty short memory.
Speaker 7 (02:17):
For a man who used to eat dinner out of
her place two or three times a week.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Ah, she was a good cook, that's all. Besides, I
was three years ago.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Match you know, dog gone will Why don't you forget it? Doc?
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Is just Crider with her?
Speaker 3 (02:34):
No, she's come back alone. Now.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
That's too bad, too bad?
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Why just Criter's no good?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
That's just why he was wanted three years ago when
he left here with her, and he's wanted even more
now here. I can't take a look at this bulletin
from Whicher two hold up of the Stockman State Bank,
wanting two bank guards, Santa Fe, three counts of highway robbery, Lordsburg,
hold up of the Butterfield stage driver killed.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
All right, So just Cryder's a thieving killer.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Everybody knows that.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
That's why I'd like to see him come back. Mister Yeah,
what is it?
Speaker 5 (03:04):
Chester?
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Guess who is back?
Speaker 6 (03:06):
Mister Dillon?
Speaker 4 (03:08):
I already know Chester.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Yeah, but that ain't all Chester.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
If one more person comes in here and tells me
about Belle Aanslasa will help me out.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
You're what matts Belle?
Speaker 4 (03:22):
She was right outside. I was gonna say, well, come.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
On, come on, Chester out by your beer.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Well, gosh, well, I'll see you later, mister Dillon.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
Oh are you Matts?
Speaker 4 (03:40):
I'm fine, Belle? Are you m M a little older?
Are you visiting or are you? I do not staying?
Speaker 8 (03:52):
Well, I'm staying. It's the town will let me.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Uh what about Eskrider?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Where is he?
Speaker 8 (03:59):
But I don't know and I don't care. I left
him in Durango. I'm through with him, Matt. I see,
I want to stay here with my father. He's getting old,
and my kid's sister, Phyllis, she's grown into a young
woman since I went away.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
And pretty better. I understand when I come see you.
Speaker 8 (04:23):
She'll get over it. Everybody will if you'll help me, Matt,
help you. Three months after I left, I came back,
if you remember, and I found the good people of
Dodge had already tried and condemned me. What could I
do but go back to Jess.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
You chose to run off with him in the first place.
Speaker 8 (04:43):
Sure, who knew whether I had? Who bothered to ask you?
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Anybody?
Speaker 4 (04:49):
What are you saying, Matt.
Speaker 8 (04:51):
I rode out of Dodge, thrown across the back of
Jess Crider's saddle, with a gag in my mouth. And
my hands tight.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Why didn't you tell somebody.
Speaker 8 (05:02):
That who'd have believed it?
Speaker 4 (05:06):
But he didn't keep your hands tight for three years.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Ago, Matt.
Speaker 8 (05:10):
A woman has to have somebody, somebody wants her, and
nobody here did as bad as he was. Just was
my man.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Yeah, what do you want me to do?
Speaker 8 (05:26):
Just tell people, that's all. If you believe me, just
tell him how it happened.
Speaker 9 (05:47):
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Speaker 5 (05:58):
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Speaker 2 (06:34):
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Speaker 9 (06:37):
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Speaker 4 (07:13):
Hello, Matt, even kidding, lords, you got all the.
Speaker 7 (07:16):
Crowd, the tail heads in the bar, double d from
the panhandle. Huh I understand an old friend of yours
came back last week.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
You know, a man tips his hat twice to a
woman around here and he's married.
Speaker 7 (07:34):
Is that really all you did, Matt? Tip your hat twice?
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Just upun have you talked about in passing?
Speaker 7 (07:43):
I heard a story.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
You believe it, man, that's possible. It's kind of a thing,
just crier to do. I don't know for sure.
Speaker 7 (07:52):
Well, if it did happen that way, and she's left
him for good, and I guess maybe she's got some
sympathy coming to her. Yeah, she sure didn't get much
at home.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Now, what do you mean?
Speaker 7 (08:03):
Well, she moved back in at the ranch. Yes, I
heard she was all right with her father, probably on
account of a cooking. Oh you remember her cooking, Mat.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
I remember old man Ainsley well enough. He worked both
those girls after death.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
Well, anyway, I guess her sister really raised Kine.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Well.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
I figured that had happened.
Speaker 7 (08:22):
She's hated Bell ever since the night she ran away
with Crider was taken away, But I didn't think she'd carry.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
It so far.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Now, what do you mean?
Speaker 7 (08:31):
Phillis left the ranch yesterday and moved into town. Mat,
She's got her room over the dodgehouse.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
What uh, huh a fifteen year old kid living here alone?
Speaker 7 (08:42):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
I'll go see her and talk to her, but I
don't think it'll do any good.
Speaker 11 (09:09):
Well, good evening, Marshall, chesters are you doving? Some of
my guests been kicking up their heels, had the dobby.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
I understand that the youngest Ainsley girl, Phillis, took her
room here yesterday.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Is that right?
Speaker 5 (09:20):
Yeah, she certainly did.
Speaker 11 (09:22):
I wanted to get away from that environment, I reckon.
I can't say I blame her, Marshall. I know if
my sister had been cavorting around.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
For three years with a cutthroat like just cried her lobby.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Would you mind telling the girl that I'd like to
talk to her?
Speaker 5 (09:35):
And I can't very well do that Marshall.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Oh why not?
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Because she up and left this evening?
Speaker 11 (09:40):
Why yep, I've already let the room somebody else that
she's leaving the country and wasn't coming back.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Leave on the country. I was she alone?
Speaker 11 (09:49):
Well, now, she walked out alone, but I kind of
had the impression there was some man waiting for her outside.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
You let her go.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
There was nothing I could do about it.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Well, you could have told somebody her family or me.
She's only fifteen, don't we.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Well that's growed up the way I look at it. Anyway,
I figured it's just another case like our sister Bell.
Speaker 11 (10:10):
Sure ain't none of my responsibility.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Chester and I saddled up and rode out to the
Ainslie ranch or a homestead. It was actually a broken
back spread with a flinty range and short water. When
we got there, we sat and talked with Belle and
her father, all polite and formal like, and nobody's saying
much of what they meant. Chester kept looking at me
funny because I didn't mention young Phyllis, but I'd decided
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against that. Two minutes after we walked in, and I
still hadn't said anything. When we left, Belle came out
into the yard with us.
Speaker 8 (10:55):
It was nice of you to ride out, Mattest. Well,
I'm nobody else in town's even been near the place.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Now.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
There's slow people to change bell and take some a while,
And I guess they got to get over feeling kind
of awkward around you.
Speaker 8 (11:09):
I guess, Oh, it's not only the outsiders you feel
awkward around me. Oh well, I guess you wondered where
Phillis was she's moved out, Matt, she took a room
in town.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Well she'll get over and the girl can be pretty flatty.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
At that age, I suppose.
Speaker 8 (11:27):
So well, thanks for coming out.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Sure you're ready to ride Chester? Yes, sir, we'll see
you again, bo I hope.
Speaker 8 (11:38):
So good night, Matt, Good night, Catn. What you're doing.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
You didn't say one word about Phillis.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Wait a minute, Chest, we're gonna ride away from here now,
but we're coming back later to night. What didn't you
notice how they act? Old man Ainsley was scared to
death and Bell was jumping as a young colt. I
did note that Bell didn't come back home alone. Chester
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just criders around somewhere.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Why don't you.
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Speaker 3 (13:31):
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Speaker 11 (13:54):
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Speaker 6 (13:58):
You cring right there in the house tonight when we
was mister done.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
No, he couldn't have been Chester. There's no place for
him to hide. Probably hold up in the barn. Who
will look there first?
Speaker 6 (14:09):
Yes, there's a ladder and burning inside.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Now you wait here and keep me covered out edge
to the door, and then going fast you be careful.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Rider, jes uh, come on and Chester, you ain't here. No,
but he has been. You see that blanket on that
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straw there, it's made up for a bed.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
And well maybe.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
He's up at the house now, I don't think so.
The only horse in here is that old spavin. Marri
Range lay uses on the buckboard, just crider to have
the best mandic could lay his hands on.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
Maybe the two of 'em got swooped up and made
a run for it, and maybe, but I don't think so,
get your hands.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
Up, mack well uh YouTube chest.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Oh yes, yes, forget that bow. He's too far away.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
By now they hear you.
Speaker 8 (15:25):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Take a look around. Didn't you have a couple of
horses in here?
Speaker 3 (15:30):
For sure? We did.
Speaker 8 (15:32):
Now, don't move either, wanted?
Speaker 4 (15:36):
He gone, yes, yes, you might as well save your breath.
Speaker 8 (15:41):
Though he took both saddles and the packs.
Speaker 7 (15:46):
You know where you went?
Speaker 2 (15:46):
I I can't guess where. When's the last time he
saw him?
Speaker 4 (15:50):
This evening, just before dark?
Speaker 8 (15:52):
I brought him out some coffee and he said he
was going to try to sleep. Matt, where'd he go?
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Tell me?
Speaker 4 (15:57):
There's not much point in the holding a gun on us.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
No, stay back, man, let's have it bell, No.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
Thanks.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
No man can breathe a mighty easier without that thing
stirring him in the face.
Speaker 8 (16:10):
What's happened to Jess?
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Tell me what do you care? You've left him and
you you said you hadn't.
Speaker 8 (16:15):
Oh, I only came and told you that so you
wouldn't get suspicious. Jess caught a bullet and that hold
up at Elko. It was bothering him something. We had
to find a place to stay for a while, so.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
You brought him home to the family.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Huh, And in less than a week, your kid's sister
ran away from home.
Speaker 8 (16:30):
She didn't run away. I send her into town.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
And why what's the difference.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Why because Jess was bothering her?
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Is that?
Speaker 4 (16:38):
And what are you saying? He's always been known for it?
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Bell?
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Was that the reason?
Speaker 5 (16:42):
All right?
Speaker 8 (16:43):
That was a reason. She's my sister, Matt.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
She's only fifteen, and Jess as your man. Isn't that
what you told me when you came to my office?
Speaker 8 (16:53):
Sure, that's what I told you. But never mind that. Now,
I want to know what's happened to.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Jess, the same thing that happened to Phyllis. I guess
she checked out of the dodge house. That he said
she was leaving the country for good. What a man
was waiting for her outside? And Jess Crider left here
with two horses.
Speaker 8 (17:12):
Get him at go after him and get him.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
You know where he might be.
Speaker 8 (17:18):
Of course I know I know everything about him. I've
had three years to learn, haven't I. All Right, he'll
only ride at night, he'll stop at sun up. There's
an abandoned shack about a mile west of where Little
Deer Creek runs into the Arcand.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Yeah, another place, Well, that's where he'll be.
Speaker 8 (17:34):
We've used it before, we stopped there on our way in.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
All right, Bell, that business about your hands being tied
being thrown across the back of Cryder's saddle.
Speaker 8 (17:51):
That part was true, Matt, All right, Bill.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Come on, just tell let's ride.
Speaker 6 (18:15):
He might not come out of that shack all day.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
What'd you doing?
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Hey, well Chester, they just got here. Those horses are
still sweating them. He won't leave them standing there saddled
for long.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
He wouldn't be too hardy choy to slip up through
that pump ticket there at the back.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
No, if he fights, I don't want the girl in it.
Well it just weightill he comes out and I'm gone.
Speaker 6 (18:36):
If I can understand women are tall that you're doing.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
I've had the same trouble myself a time or two.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
The jester.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
But why would that nice young girl wanna go running
off with them murdering out of law?
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Like Jess cried.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Maybe it's more a matter of hitting the back of
her sister. She's let her hate for bell or build
up till it's driven her half crazy.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
I guess somebody's coming out it.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Tam Yeah, easy, Now we'll just let him get clear
of the cabin.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
You stay down there, all right, Haul it righter, you're
under arrest.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
He's going.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Your way, okay.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
Trust Yeah, he looks like maybe he got out of hanging.
Speaker 8 (19:32):
Yeah, you killed him. Why should you have killed him?
Why do you.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Know what you've done?
Speaker 4 (19:40):
I know, Fellas.
Speaker 8 (19:41):
No, No, you don't.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
Yes I do.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
I've kept you from making an even bigger fool of
yourself than you already have.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
What are you saying?
Speaker 8 (19:48):
I love him, We were gonna be married where.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
We were, Fellas, you better go home and talk to
bell about that.
Speaker 8 (19:57):
I'll never say a word to her again as long
as I live.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Now, you listen to me, Pellis, you got to get
rid of that hate of yours. If your don't, it's
gonna run your life for good. Now you go home
and you talk to Belle and you listen to what
she's gotta say before you judge it.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
No, I won't go.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
Back, Yes you will.
Speaker 5 (20:17):
I can't not.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Now nobody'll ever know about this, Fellows, I promise you, Jess,
Crider was alone when I found him.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Now there's your horse and he's still settled.
Speaker 7 (20:32):
I can't. I don't want to.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
I know what you need, young lady. You see that
plum bush over there, Well, I'm gonna cut me a
switch off of that, And if You're not out of
here in one minute.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
You wouldn't, Oh, I wouldn't you Just watch me, Marshall.
Speaker 8 (21:01):
Yeah, I've been thinking Marshall. Maybe I'll go home after all.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
In a moment, Our Star William Conrad learn more now,
earn more later. That's a motto CBS Radio wishes every
college student would paste inside his or her wallet. A
lot of those collegiate wallats are a good deal fighter
than usual these days thanks to summertime jobs, and as
a result, quite a few young men and women are
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finding themselves tempted to forget about school this fall and
keep on with that job. This isn't such a smart
idea as it may seem. It's a plain and simple
fact that dropouts from college are less likely to find
and keep better paying jobs. Quit school before you finished,
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dollars of possible future income. Finish college, get all the
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that school's about to open. Don't decide against your future.
Go back and remember, learn more now, earn more later.
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And now, William Conrad, you.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Know when men on the frontier were able to prove
up some good land, they were usually content. But next week,
after building a prosperous ranch, two lifelong friends merely lose everything,
even their lives, because of some side meat.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
And homily grits. And that was the West.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Gun Smoke, produced and directed by Norman McDonald, stars William
Conrad as Matt Dillon U S.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
Marshall.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
The script was specially written for gun Smoke by Les Crutchfield,
with editorial supervision by John Meston. The music was composed
and conducted by Rex Cory, sound patterns by Ray Kemper
and Bill James. Featured in the cast were Virginia Christine,
Ralph Moody and Sammy Hill, Harley bear Is Chester, Howard
mcneer is Doc, and Georgia Ellis is kidding. Join us
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again next week for another specially transcribed story on gun Smoke, Inc.
Gun Smoke, brought to you by Ellen m the modern
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territory on West. There's just one way to handle the
killers and the spoilers, and that's with the US Marshall
and the smell of gun Smoke. Gun Smoke, starring William Conrad,
(01:00):
The France Blood story of the violence that moved west
with Young America and the story of a man who
moved with it.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshal, the first
man they look for and the last they want to meet.
It's a chancy job, and it makes a man watchful
and a little lonely.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Good evening minute, I'll tack.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
I've been waiting for you.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
I'll set Ah.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
Might as well put away that cribbage board. It won't
be playing tonight.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
Oh why not? You found an easier mark?
Speaker 6 (02:01):
No, but you're gonna hid tail it up the street
once you hear the news.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Eh, Matt Bell's back. Well, Belle who Bell?
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Who?
Speaker 5 (02:13):
Belle Angsley.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
That's so you got a mighty short memory.
Speaker 7 (02:17):
For a man who used to eat dinner out of
her place two or three times a week.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Ah, she was a good cook, that's all. Besides, I
was three years ago.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Match you know, dog gone will Why don't you forget it? Doc?
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Is just Crider with her?
Speaker 3 (02:34):
No, she's come back alone. Now.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
That's too bad, too bad?
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Why just Criter's no good?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
That's just why he was wanted three years ago when
he left here with her, and he's wanted even more
now here. I can't take a look at this bulletin
from Whicher two hold up of the Stockman State Bank,
wanting two bank guards, Santa Fe, three counts of highway robbery, Lordsburg,
hold up of the Butterfield stage driver killed.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
All right, So just Cryder's a thieving killer.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Everybody knows that.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
That's why I'd like to see him come back. Mister Yeah,
what is it?
Speaker 5 (03:04):
Chester?
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Guess who is back?
Speaker 6 (03:06):
Mister Dillon?
Speaker 4 (03:08):
I already know Chester.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Yeah, but that ain't all Chester.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
If one more person comes in here and tells me
about Belle Aanslasa will help me out.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
You're what matts Belle?
Speaker 4 (03:22):
She was right outside. I was gonna say, well, come.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
On, come on, Chester out by your beer.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Well, gosh, well, I'll see you later, mister Dillon.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
Oh are you Matts?
Speaker 4 (03:40):
I'm fine, Belle? Are you m M a little older?
Are you visiting or are you? I do not staying?
Speaker 8 (03:52):
Well, I'm staying. It's the town will let me.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Uh what about Eskrider?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Where is he?
Speaker 8 (03:59):
But I don't know and I don't care. I left
him in Durango. I'm through with him, Matt. I see,
I want to stay here with my father. He's getting old,
and my kid's sister, Phyllis, she's grown into a young
woman since I went away.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
And pretty better. I understand when I come see you.
Speaker 8 (04:23):
She'll get over it. Everybody will if you'll help me, Matt,
help you. Three months after I left, I came back,
if you remember, and I found the good people of
Dodge had already tried and condemned me. What could I
do but go back to Jess.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
You chose to run off with him in the first place.
Speaker 8 (04:43):
Sure, who knew whether I had? Who bothered to ask you?
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Anybody?
Speaker 4 (04:49):
What are you saying, Matt.
Speaker 8 (04:51):
I rode out of Dodge, thrown across the back of
Jess Crider's saddle, with a gag in my mouth. And
my hands tight.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Why didn't you tell somebody.
Speaker 8 (05:02):
That who'd have believed it?
Speaker 4 (05:06):
But he didn't keep your hands tight for three years.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Ago, Matt.
Speaker 8 (05:10):
A woman has to have somebody, somebody wants her, and
nobody here did as bad as he was. Just was
my man.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Yeah, what do you want me to do?
Speaker 8 (05:26):
Just tell people, that's all. If you believe me, just
tell him how it happened.
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Speaker 4 (07:13):
Hello, Matt, even kidding, lords, you got all the.
Speaker 7 (07:16):
Crowd, the tail heads in the bar, double d from
the panhandle. Huh I understand an old friend of yours
came back last week.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
You know, a man tips his hat twice to a
woman around here and he's married.
Speaker 7 (07:34):
Is that really all you did, Matt? Tip your hat twice?
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Just upun have you talked about in passing?
Speaker 7 (07:43):
I heard a story.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
You believe it, man, that's possible. It's kind of a thing,
just crier to do. I don't know for sure.
Speaker 7 (07:52):
Well, if it did happen that way, and she's left
him for good, and I guess maybe she's got some
sympathy coming to her. Yeah, she sure didn't get much
at home.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Now, what do you mean?
Speaker 7 (08:03):
Well, she moved back in at the ranch. Yes, I
heard she was all right with her father, probably on
account of a cooking. Oh you remember her cooking, Mat.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
I remember old man Ainsley well enough. He worked both
those girls after death.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
Well, anyway, I guess her sister really raised Kine.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Well.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
I figured that had happened.
Speaker 7 (08:22):
She's hated Bell ever since the night she ran away
with Crider was taken away, But I didn't think she'd carry.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
It so far.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Now, what do you mean?
Speaker 7 (08:31):
Phillis left the ranch yesterday and moved into town. Mat,
She's got her room over the dodgehouse.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
What uh, huh a fifteen year old kid living here alone?
Speaker 7 (08:42):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
I'll go see her and talk to her, but I
don't think it'll do any good.
Speaker 11 (09:09):
Well, good evening, Marshall, chesters are you doving? Some of
my guests been kicking up their heels, had the dobby.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
I understand that the youngest Ainsley girl, Phillis, took her
room here yesterday.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Is that right?
Speaker 5 (09:20):
Yeah, she certainly did.
Speaker 11 (09:22):
I wanted to get away from that environment, I reckon.
I can't say I blame her, Marshall. I know if
my sister had been cavorting around.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
For three years with a cutthroat like just cried her lobby.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Would you mind telling the girl that I'd like to
talk to her?
Speaker 5 (09:35):
And I can't very well do that Marshall.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Oh why not?
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Because she up and left this evening?
Speaker 11 (09:40):
Why yep, I've already let the room somebody else that
she's leaving the country and wasn't coming back.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Leave on the country. I was she alone?
Speaker 11 (09:49):
Well, now, she walked out alone, but I kind of
had the impression there was some man waiting for her outside.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
You let her go.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
There was nothing I could do about it.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Well, you could have told somebody her family or me.
She's only fifteen, don't we.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Well that's growed up the way I look at it. Anyway,
I figured it's just another case like our sister Bell.
Speaker 11 (10:10):
Sure ain't none of my responsibility.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Chester and I saddled up and rode out to the
Ainslie ranch or a homestead. It was actually a broken
back spread with a flinty range and short water. When
we got there, we sat and talked with Belle and
her father, all polite and formal like, and nobody's saying
much of what they meant. Chester kept looking at me
funny because I didn't mention young Phyllis, but I'd decided
(10:43):
against that. Two minutes after we walked in, and I
still hadn't said anything. When we left, Belle came out
into the yard with us.
Speaker 8 (10:55):
It was nice of you to ride out, Mattest. Well,
I'm nobody else in town's even been near the place.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Now.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
There's slow people to change bell and take some a while,
And I guess they got to get over feeling kind
of awkward around you.
Speaker 8 (11:09):
I guess, Oh, it's not only the outsiders you feel
awkward around me. Oh well, I guess you wondered where
Phillis was she's moved out, Matt, she took a room
in town.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Well she'll get over and the girl can be pretty flatty.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
At that age, I suppose.
Speaker 8 (11:27):
So well, thanks for coming out.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Sure you're ready to ride Chester? Yes, sir, we'll see
you again, bo I hope.
Speaker 8 (11:38):
So good night, Matt, Good night, Catn. What you're doing.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
You didn't say one word about Phillis.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Wait a minute, Chest, we're gonna ride away from here now,
but we're coming back later to night. What didn't you
notice how they act? Old man Ainsley was scared to
death and Bell was jumping as a young colt. I
did note that Bell didn't come back home alone. Chester
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Speaker 6 (13:58):
You cring right there in the house tonight when we
was mister done.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
No, he couldn't have been Chester. There's no place for
him to hide. Probably hold up in the barn. Who
will look there first?
Speaker 6 (14:09):
Yes, there's a ladder and burning inside.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Now you wait here and keep me covered out edge
to the door, and then going fast you be careful.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Rider, jes uh, come on and Chester, you ain't here. No,
but he has been. You see that blanket on that
(14:55):
straw there, it's made up for a bed.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
And well maybe.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
He's up at the house now, I don't think so.
The only horse in here is that old spavin. Marri
Range lay uses on the buckboard, just crider to have
the best mandic could lay his hands on.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
Maybe the two of 'em got swooped up and made
a run for it, and maybe, but I don't think so,
get your hands.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
Up, mack well uh YouTube chest.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Oh yes, yes, forget that bow. He's too far away.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
By now they hear you.
Speaker 8 (15:25):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Take a look around. Didn't you have a couple of
horses in here?
Speaker 3 (15:30):
For sure? We did.
Speaker 8 (15:32):
Now, don't move either, wanted?
Speaker 4 (15:36):
He gone, yes, yes, you might as well save your breath.
Speaker 8 (15:41):
Though he took both saddles and the packs.
Speaker 7 (15:46):
You know where you went?
Speaker 2 (15:46):
I I can't guess where. When's the last time he
saw him?
Speaker 4 (15:50):
This evening, just before dark?
Speaker 8 (15:52):
I brought him out some coffee and he said he
was going to try to sleep. Matt, where'd he go?
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Tell me?
Speaker 4 (15:57):
There's not much point in the holding a gun on us.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
No, stay back, man, let's have it bell, No.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
Thanks.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
No man can breathe a mighty easier without that thing
stirring him in the face.
Speaker 8 (16:10):
What's happened to Jess?
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Tell me what do you care? You've left him and
you you said you hadn't.
Speaker 8 (16:15):
Oh, I only came and told you that so you
wouldn't get suspicious. Jess caught a bullet and that hold
up at Elko. It was bothering him something. We had
to find a place to stay for a while, so.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
You brought him home to the family.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Huh, And in less than a week, your kid's sister
ran away from home.
Speaker 8 (16:30):
She didn't run away. I send her into town.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
And why what's the difference.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Why because Jess was bothering her?
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Is that?
Speaker 4 (16:38):
And what are you saying? He's always been known for it?
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Bell?
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Was that the reason?
Speaker 5 (16:42):
All right?
Speaker 8 (16:43):
That was a reason. She's my sister, Matt.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
She's only fifteen, and Jess as your man. Isn't that
what you told me when you came to my office?
Speaker 8 (16:53):
Sure, that's what I told you. But never mind that. Now,
I want to know what's happened to.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Jess, the same thing that happened to Phyllis. I guess
she checked out of the dodge house. That he said
she was leaving the country for good. What a man
was waiting for her outside? And Jess Crider left here
with two horses.
Speaker 8 (17:12):
Get him at go after him and get him.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
You know where he might be.
Speaker 8 (17:18):
Of course I know I know everything about him. I've
had three years to learn, haven't I. All Right, he'll
only ride at night, he'll stop at sun up. There's
an abandoned shack about a mile west of where Little
Deer Creek runs into the Arcand.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Yeah, another place, Well, that's where he'll be.
Speaker 8 (17:34):
We've used it before, we stopped there on our way in.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
All right, Bell, that business about your hands being tied
being thrown across the back of Cryder's saddle.
Speaker 8 (17:51):
That part was true, Matt, All right, Bill.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Come on, just tell let's ride.
Speaker 6 (18:15):
He might not come out of that shack all day.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
What'd you doing?
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Hey, well Chester, they just got here. Those horses are
still sweating them. He won't leave them standing there saddled
for long.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
He wouldn't be too hardy choy to slip up through
that pump ticket there at the back.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
No, if he fights, I don't want the girl in it.
Well it just weightill he comes out and I'm gone.
Speaker 6 (18:36):
If I can understand women are tall that you're doing.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
I've had the same trouble myself a time or two.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
The jester.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
But why would that nice young girl wanna go running
off with them murdering out of law?
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Like Jess cried.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Maybe it's more a matter of hitting the back of
her sister. She's let her hate for bell or build
up till it's driven her half crazy.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
I guess somebody's coming out it.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Tam Yeah, easy, Now we'll just let him get clear
of the cabin.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
You stay down there, all right, Haul it righter, you're
under arrest.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
He's going.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Your way, okay.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
Trust Yeah, he looks like maybe he got out of hanging.
Speaker 8 (19:32):
Yeah, you killed him. Why should you have killed him?
Why do you.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Know what you've done?
Speaker 4 (19:40):
I know, Fellas.
Speaker 8 (19:41):
No, No, you don't.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
Yes I do.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
I've kept you from making an even bigger fool of
yourself than you already have.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
What are you saying?
Speaker 8 (19:48):
I love him, We were gonna be married where.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
We were, Fellas, you better go home and talk to
bell about that.
Speaker 8 (19:57):
I'll never say a word to her again as long
as I live.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Now, you listen to me, Pellis, you got to get
rid of that hate of yours. If your don't, it's
gonna run your life for good. Now you go home
and you talk to Belle and you listen to what
she's gotta say before you judge it.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
No, I won't go.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
Back, Yes you will.
Speaker 5 (20:17):
I can't not.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Now nobody'll ever know about this, Fellows, I promise you, Jess,
Crider was alone when I found him.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Now there's your horse and he's still settled.
Speaker 7 (20:32):
I can't. I don't want to.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
I know what you need, young lady. You see that
plum bush over there, Well, I'm gonna cut me a
switch off of that, And if You're not out of
here in one minute.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
You wouldn't, Oh, I wouldn't you Just watch me, Marshall.
Speaker 8 (21:01):
Yeah, I've been thinking Marshall. Maybe I'll go home after all.
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