July 24, 2025 • 30 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 (00:09):
Around Darde City and the territory on west. There's just
one way to handle the killers and the spoilers, and
that's with the US Marshall and the Spell of Gun Smoke.
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Guns Smoke, starring William Conrad, The Story of the violence
that moved west with Young America, The story of a
man who moved with it. Matt Dillon, United States Marshall.
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It was over one hundred miles back to Dodge, but
I figured I could make it easier. In the day
and a half I'd been in Hayes City is a
government witness and a murder trial, and I was anxious
to get back. So I rode out of haze one morning,
a couple of hours before light. The ground was clear
as snow, but it was midwinter and it was sharp cold.
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When the day came, there was no sun on the
dark gray sky, drilled by a high, cold, searching wind.
The air was as thin as I could ever remember
it being. Behind me in the north lay a great
slab of blackness, and I saw that I should have
turned back, for the wind stood out of the north
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to and sooner or later it would drive that black
slab right down on top of me. This was blizzard weather,
the kind of weather that kills the land and everything
on it. I don't know why I went on, maybe
because of the wind. You know, a high wind will
distemper a man, make him drunk. Like anyway, I didn't
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turn back, and about noon the sky began to turn
white with snow, and I could smell a touch of
moisture in the air. And finally it came, the sleek
shrilling in on the wind like small buckshots. The blizzard
howled on the prairie. I couldn't look right or left
without being stung blind, But as long as I kept
the wind on my back, I knew I was headed south.
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Two hours of this and I could feel my horse
slowing down and weakening under me, my own body stiffened
with a cold. Men died when they got caught in
a thing like this, They died easy. Another hour passed
and my horse was carrying his head close to the ground.
I figured he'd stumbled soon, so I kicked my feet
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out of the stirrups and braced myself against the horn.
By now the wind had really gotten into me, and
when I saw the blur of a ranch house up ahead,
I thought maybe it was a trick. But a few
minutes later we rounded a corner of the placement stood
at last in the lee of the storm. I slid
down and got up to the door and pounded on it,
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and I waited. Then I pounded again. Then the door
came open, and the figures stood in alight.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Why yeah, bringing in alv and then then out and
nut weather has been made harmless.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Get inside, out of the way.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
I will be a fool, all right, stranger, hands in
the air, Fie, that's better, unloading Malvie.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Nice gun, huh, real, nice gun.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Shut up, I take him down. Stranger. You can come
up to this stove now, but don't try nothing, or
cut you in half with buckshot.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
He was a burly man with flushed cheeks and the
wild red beard and the great shock of red hair.
Even his hands and fingers bristled with it. He sat
on a stool with a stove, a shot gun across
his knees, and his eyes never left me. The other one, Alvie,
had a buddy of an underfed boy, but he was
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completely bald, and his skin was tight and dry. He
looked like a naked skull, and his eyes well something
that touched ol. He you look half frozen. Stranger.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
He must have wanted something real bad to go out
in weather like this. I never saw him around here before. Heck,
he's a stranger, Alviy. He don't belong around here.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Course, we don't know anybody, but I I I seen
a few and I never seen him before.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Maybe he's seen you, Alvy, somewhere, not me.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
He he never saw me nowhere.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
How do you know that?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Maybe he was just looking for some cows and got
lost in the storm.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
You're just a kid, Alvi always said, you don't know much. Bell, Bell,
get on out here.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
She was a pretty girl, but with a dark, half
wild look that I'd never seen before, and a woman.
Her eyes jumped from man to man and then came
to rest on me, fixed and curious. And then after
a moment she looked away and moved it into a
chair across the room.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Supper ready, Bell, it's awful cold out.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
You recognize him, Bell? You ever see him before?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
No, you're sure? Now?
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Maybe Hayes City, Maybe you saw him up there?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Something.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
I don't know him?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
You sure? Yes? If you're lying to me, you know
what I'll do to you. You never saw him?
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Before he come in here, half froze right right out
of the blizzard. Must have been looking for some cows
and got lit.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Up outb We don't know what he's doing here, though.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
Why shouldn't a man get out of a storm even
in here?
Speaker 4 (06:19):
That's enough, all right, stranger. I never saw you before.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
We don't know who you are, and as soon as
I think you're lying, I'm gonna blow a big hole
in you.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
What about my horse? I'd like to put him in
the barn, if you've got one, albe.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Oh the heck, I ain't going out there. I'd freeze and.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
The horse will freeze if you don't.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
It's his horse.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
We might need it.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Go on alb before I get cross. Alright, I'll go.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Don't the wired horses, see.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Helvey's a good boy.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
You'll put your horse up, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Supper's about ready leave it.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
I want to talk to our friend here first. Maybe
we won't have to feed him.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
Potatoes will get mealy hey.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Better not, That's all. I'm right curious about you, mister.
I have noticed that I'll blow your guts all.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Over the wall.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
You make fun of me, don't get me mad, mister,
I got the shotgun me.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
It'll be boiled to shreds if we don't eat soon.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
You just won't understand any other way, will you? Bell?
Speaker 2 (07:40):
What is it you want to know about me? I
can tell mister. I can handle you easy. Now, what
do you mean? All I gotta do is wallop the
girl and you'll talk. I don't have to do nothing
to you.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
All right?
Speaker 1 (07:55):
If I take my jacket off, have warmed up?
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Now i'm mine. I might have a gun hit out
in there.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
M He can raise his hands, all'm buttoner.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Well now that's right. Smart of your bell.
Speaker 6 (08:11):
Oh, I'll hide it.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
No leaeve it be?
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Bell?
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Come over here, Bell, drop the jacket. Bell, Now, hold
out your other hand, open the bell, open your hand.
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That's real bad. What you did, Bell? Real bad.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
You know what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
I'm gonna put you outside for a spell out in
the weather, after supper, after you've cleaned up supper. You
can be thinking about it till then United States. Marshall,
you're in bad company. Marshaom. You shouldn't have come here.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Oh it looks to me like I sort of struck
gold coming here.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Now why do you talk like that?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Marshom? I still got the shot. Let me get that store.
Seems like getting colder and cooler. You didn't seen sign
of nobody outside?
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Did y'all be?
Speaker 2 (09:31):
What?
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Oooh?
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Somebody might have come along to cover the Marshall here?
It's all Marshall? What what? What? Marshall me?
Speaker 1 (09:38):
I'm a Marshall Alby shooting hack shoot?
Speaker 4 (09:41):
He shut up and answer me?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Was there sign of another horse, footprints, anything like that?
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Ah? I didn't see nothing.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Maybe it didn't look but I have walked in here
the way I did if i'd been after you people.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Maybe your head got muddled with the cold. Where'd you
ride from? Marshall? Hey?
Speaker 1 (09:59):
City left there this morning?
Speaker 2 (10:02):
It was a fool thing to do with a blizzard
coming up. Maybe did you think you could get to
jump on his easier in a storm?
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Was that it?
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Marshall?
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Yeah, you knew we'd be trying to keep cozy in here.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
I'm curious. Heck, what are you and Alvi on the
run for?
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Don't you tell him? Heck, I don't trust him. Alvi'd
be mighty dull without you, boy. Heck, no, summy, I
don't like laughing.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
You know that.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Heck, don't you do it?
Speaker 2 (10:38):
No?
Speaker 3 (10:38):
More I got ways.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Yeah, I ain't seen you in your ways, but don't
try him on me, Alvi. Maybe I will look Alvi.
Now you don't understand it's all right to tell the
Marshall about us. He ain't going nowhere. No, no, of
course not. We'll kill him, Alvi. We'll kill him and
bury somewhere.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Oh sure not. Now why didn't I think of that?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Because I do the thinking for us, Alviy, That's why? Now?
Why what was it you like to know? Marshall?
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Stop playing games?
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Heck, me and Alvi are wanted for murder up in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Seems to might unfair, though we didn't aim to kill nobody.
It just happened that way.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
We was robbing the bank, yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
And a couple of the people there wouldn't do what
we told him, so Alvi used his knife on one,
but it just made the man holler him.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
You could hear him all over town.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
And we had to shoot our way out after that.
Must have killed three or four people.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
I know I killed two.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Worst of it was Marshall All. We wanted just then
with some money. We didn't care about killing anybody. But
you know how it is Marshall when you were robbing
a bank and all, yeah, sure, Now I don't suppose
you do it that anyway. We're wanted for murder and
we didn't even get any money marry doll. So he
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rode out here and lighted for a spell.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
I see.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
What about Bell?
Speaker 1 (12:09):
And whose place is this? Anyway? My place? Now? That
pause gone? You mean you were living here alone?
Speaker 4 (12:17):
No?
Speaker 1 (12:19):
He killed your paws said it? Yes, how long ago?
Speaker 5 (12:24):
I don't know, maybe a month?
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Yeah, it's been about a month, hasn't it?
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Alv Thirty five days?
Speaker 4 (12:30):
There?
Speaker 2 (12:31):
You see, he always knows just how long everything's been.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
No, that's fine. Tell me what you do with him?
Who the old man? Oh?
Speaker 4 (12:42):
We he buried him out back.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Couldn't afford a funeral, could we? Alv Hack Hack?
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Heck, we told him that. Now let shoot him.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
No, No, I've been thinking it over. People in Hayes
City know he started for dodging. When he don't show up,
they might come looking for him. Mm.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
But you said we'd bury him hack. That's what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Yeah, that's right. But we can't bury his horse too,
not on this ground. It's froze solid. And if we
turn the horse loose and they find it and can't
find the marshal's body, then they'll suspect something.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
You're pretty smart, Hack, Too bad, you don't know enough
to stop killing people.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Too bad for you anyway, Well, what are we gonna do? Hack?
I'm getting hungry.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
That suffer won't be fit to eat it?
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Cut up? One more word out of you, Bella, No, whooped?
You're goodn't come on?
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Heck, I'm really hungry.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
No, no, listen to me heavy now. My idea is to
knock the marshal on the head and throw him outside
the freeze. Now, he'll keep real good that way, and
when the storm breaks we can carry him off twenty
mile or so and dump him on the ground. Look
like he got throwed and hit his head and froze.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Oh that's fine, Hack, that's just fine.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Then we'll break his horse's leg make it easier for
them to find them.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
You just don't care about anything, do you hack?
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Just me sometimes? Alvi?
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Sure, me and hacker friends. Ain't we hacked?
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Of course?
Speaker 2 (14:06):
If it don't want snow, we'll have to think of
something else. Can't leave tracks for them to follow back there?
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Fuck, ain't we're gonna kill him now.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Sure, sure we are, Alvi, I didn't mean that.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Then he hit him.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
You keep the gun on him and I'll get up
behind and hit him. There was a Brandon iron around
here somewhere.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
I'll hit him with that hack.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
He was sunk pretty far. But I'm sort of wondering
just how far?
Speaker 2 (14:31):
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (14:31):
I'm wondering if you're low enough to kill a man
before he's been fed.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Here it is hack here, see I found it.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Leave it, b Alvi. We're gonna eat first.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
We will return for the second act of gun Smoke
in just a moment. But first, this Sunday Night, Lionel
Barrymore is your host and Joseph Cotton the star on
Sunday Night Playhouse's gripping historic drama based on the life
of Peter Marshall. Hear how a Scottish immigrant lad rose
to the position of Chaplain of the United States Senate,
a story you'll agree is far more fascinating than fiction.
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Remember it's Tomorrow night when Lionel Barrymore introduces another Sunday
Night Playhouse on most of these same CBS radio stations.
Now for the second act of Gun smoke. It was
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only five in the afternoon when but the blizzard had
darkened the land, and its blackness showed in at the
windows here and there along the walls the ranch house,
tricklets of snow blew in through the warped timber and
the kitchen. Hank set directly behind me, while I ate
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later changed places with Alvie and fed himself heartily, as
though he had nothing at all on his mind. Hack
was just a nerveless brute, born with no conscience at all.
His intelligence was the instinct of an animal that snapped
at her killed whatever got in its way of survival.
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Every living thing was his enemy and Alvie, and there
was no way to figure Alvie. Too much of him
was missing. My only chance lay in the girl Bell,
even though Hack had pretty well beat no resistance out
of her. Supper was over soon enough, but Hack seemed
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to no particular hurry to get on with his plans.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Eating better food on the trail than that.
Speaker 5 (17:15):
Can't blame me for man.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
I get it cleaned up well. You can talk your
head off when you're outside alone, and you're going outside.
I'll learn you to heal if I have to break
your neck.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Nah, don't do that, hack, not till we're ready to
pull out anybody. Why, well, I ain't gonna do the cooking.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Well, I hope not.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
I've eaten your cooking.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
My sister was a good cooking.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Yeah, we should have brought her along, he Alobe, No, no,
I don't like her.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Where you're from anyway?
Speaker 4 (17:44):
Which me?
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Or?
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Alvi? Iu?
Speaker 1 (17:46):
You to start with?
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Why Homan place called Crowhart? I didn't stay there long though?
Speaker 1 (17:52):
What about you?
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Welby? Now?
Speaker 4 (17:53):
Where were you born? Alvi?
Speaker 2 (17:54):
I never did know.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Republican River. That's not a place, you fool. That's what
they told me. Republican River. They always lived in a
wagon my mind, Paul. They had a lot of kids too.
Of course most of them died. I'm about the only
one that made out any good at.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
All, and you did. Fine, I'll be fine. Give me
a shotgun, all right, marshall, let's get back by the
stove while Bell cleans this moss up.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Shall we hit him and throw him out to freeze up? Now? Hacked?
Speaker 4 (18:29):
Not yet.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
I don't want to punish Bell first.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
You know, someday you're gonna get caught without that shotgun. Heck,
somebody's gonna tear you apart.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
That's fair enough, Marshall, give me a fair.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Chance at you then, huh bare handed? No, Oh, you're
bigger than I am. Hack might be fun for you.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
I don't know nothing about fun. I ain't gonna kill
you because it's fun.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Oh, come on, heck, I want to go to bed.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Bell I'll come out here, get outside like I told you,
and don't open that door so wide.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Don't blow the lamp out.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Belle had walked through the room and out the door
without a glance at any of us. I figured she'd
go down to the barn, where she'd be all right
for a little while anyway, But I knew i'd have
to make a move soon. I sure wasn't gonna sit
there like a fall hog and let all of me
knock me in my head whenever he got ready. But
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it didn't take much more sense to try to jump
Hack in that shotgun and let him blow me all
over the place. It was a beggar's choice, and the
more I thought about it, no matter I got.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Heck, I'm sleepy, I'm gonna hit him and go to bed.
You can do what you want after, but I ain't
staying up all.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Night, Albi, he's got his mind made.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Up, Marshall, I can tell just what do you call
his mind?
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Heck, I got ways to fix you, Marsha.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
That never mind, Alb, wrap something around that iron.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Otherwise it won't look like he hit his head on
a rock. What difference it made to what I say? Alb?
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Alright, heck he here, I'll use this, curt.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Now keep your eyes on me, Marshall, i'lbe moved around
behind me and was getting a good grip on his
brand and iron. I leaned slightly forward in the chair
and was tensed and waiting for the split second when
my instinct had told me to jump. And then suddenly
the door was flying right open, and the wind rode in,
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almost lifting the room as it came. The lamp flared
and then went out as I planed sideways from the chair.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Did you hit him, Alby? Did you hit him?
Speaker 4 (21:07):
You're playing fool?
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Don't it right up the marshal I got some more
shelves right here.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
Don't you move now.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
I crawled across the room and was up the door
before a hack could reload. In the snow outside, I
stood up and turned a fine bell waiting by the
side of the door, a pitchfork in her hand. I
couldn't see her face very well in the dark, but
I could tell she was shaken with cold. I reached
out and took the pork from her, and then flattened
myself against.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
The wall and waited.
Speaker 6 (21:38):
I was afraid it was you he shot.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
That was a smart trick, bell throwing the door open
that way.
Speaker 6 (21:44):
He shot alby, didn't he?
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Yeah? Good, I think he's found out. I'm not in there.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
What you can do?
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Wait, Marshall, marshal, I'm.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Going to kill you and the girl both now.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
I wait, did pray, and he'd come through the door
before my hands got too cold to hold the pitchfork.
And finally the barrel of the shotgun appeared, waisted high,
and began to focus his way around in our direction.
It was stupid of him, but the man behind the
gun often gets a false sense of power. I let
him shove it out three or four inches, and then
I slammed down on it. Then I jumped into the road.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
I tried to club me with a gun, but.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
He missed it, and I got in under him with
a fork and lifted him up his feet and He
struggled for a moment like a spear fish, and then
went limp and I let him fall on one of
the prongs had reached his heart.
Speaker 6 (22:48):
Did you get him, Marshall?
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Is he dead?
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Yeah? I light the lamp.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
I can't do it, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
My fingers are too stick here. Oh, I'll do it.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
H huh. Quite a mess in here. Why don't you
wait in the kitchen though.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
I'm alright, Marshall, but I can't help you much til
I get warmed up with him.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Hy then you'll stay by the stove. Huh. I lug
these people.
Speaker 6 (23:33):
Outside, Thank you, Marshall. Marshall, Marshall Dylan.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Huh oh morning.
Speaker 5 (24:01):
Bell, Come on out in the kitchen, Marshall. It's warm there,
and I got some hot coffee waiting.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Well, that sounds good, I say. It looks like the
storm's lifted.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
Has the wind's gone, But it's mighty cold.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Off.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Oh, I don't mind the cold. It's that wind that
breaks a man down.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
There.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
Get some of that in you.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Ah mm, you make mighty good coffee. Bell.
Speaker 6 (24:41):
Tell me something, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Mm tell me.
Speaker 6 (24:44):
The truth now?
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Oh sure, Belle, what is it?
Speaker 6 (24:51):
Are you married?
Speaker 1 (24:56):
I'd make a poor husband, Bell, or any woman. Why well,
and my professions it's too chancy.
Speaker 6 (25:11):
Thank you, Marshall. Thanks for putting it that way.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
No, Belle, I didn't mean forget it.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
I'm leaving this place, Marshall. What as soon as you go.
I've thatack what I need and I'm clearing off where
you go. I got three horses. I'll ride up to
Hayes City and sell them. Then what, I'll buy some
pretty clothes and I'll find a place. Won't be hard
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after this.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
I uh, I wish I could help you, Belle.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
You have oh, but I mean I can take care
of myself, Marshall. I just want to get away from here,
that's all.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Sure, I'll stop at the nearest ranch and tell them
to come over here and take care of Hack, and
I'll be soon as it warms up.
Speaker 6 (26:04):
Whatever you like, Marshall.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Well, goodbye, Bell.
Speaker 6 (26:11):
Goodbye, Marshall.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
Look me up in Hayes City next time you're there.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Sure, sure I will. But uh, Bell, don't let all
this make you bitter. There are a lot of good
men in the world.
Speaker 6 (26:30):
So they say, so long, Marshall.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
I uh, so long, Bell. A few minutes later, I'd
saddled up and was on the trailed at Dodge. The
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sky was low and the slate gray all over there,
but there was no wind. The blizzard had gone, leaving
the land still and white, bitter cold. There wasn't a
sign of life anywhere. It was like riding through a
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vast tomb, and I found myself feeling like a trespasser,
though something had gone wrong, and I wasn't supposed to
be there at all. Gun Smoke, under the direction of
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Norman McDonald's stars William Conrad as Matt Villain Us Marshall.
Tonight's story was specially written for gun Smoke by John Meston,
with music composed and conducted by Rex Cory. Featured in
the cast were John Danner's Hack, Harry Bartel as Alvi,
and Vivi Janis as Bell. Gun Smoke is heard by
our troops overseas through the facilities of the Armed Forces
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Radio Service. Join us again next week as Matt Dylon
Us Marshall fights to bring law and order out of
the wild violence of the West in gun Smoke starts
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this Monday, a new run for Road of Life. Returning
to CDs Radio to join the rest of your daytime
listening favorites as the stars address Road of Life, telling
the day to day story of Surge and scientists. Doctor
Jim Brent will keep your interest at a high point
every Monday through Friday, and most of these same stations
remember starting this coming Monday. Road of Life, in its
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sixteenth year, will be heard again on CBS Radio. Roy
Rowan Speaking America, now listens to one hundred and five
million radio sets and listens most to the CBS Radio network.
Around Darde City and the territory on west. There's just
one way to handle the killers and the spoilers, and
that's with the US Marshall and the Spell of Gun Smoke.
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Guns Smoke, starring William Conrad, The Story of the violence
that moved west with Young America, The story of a
man who moved with it. Matt Dillon, United States Marshall.
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It was over one hundred miles back to Dodge, but
I figured I could make it easier. In the day
and a half I'd been in Hayes City is a
government witness and a murder trial, and I was anxious
to get back. So I rode out of haze one morning,
a couple of hours before light. The ground was clear
as snow, but it was midwinter and it was sharp cold.
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When the day came, there was no sun on the
dark gray sky, drilled by a high, cold, searching wind.
The air was as thin as I could ever remember
it being. Behind me in the north lay a great
slab of blackness, and I saw that I should have
turned back, for the wind stood out of the north
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to and sooner or later it would drive that black
slab right down on top of me. This was blizzard weather,
the kind of weather that kills the land and everything
on it. I don't know why I went on, maybe
because of the wind. You know, a high wind will
distemper a man, make him drunk. Like anyway, I didn't
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turn back, and about noon the sky began to turn
white with snow, and I could smell a touch of
moisture in the air. And finally it came, the sleek
shrilling in on the wind like small buckshots. The blizzard
howled on the prairie. I couldn't look right or left
without being stung blind, But as long as I kept
the wind on my back, I knew I was headed south.
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Two hours of this and I could feel my horse
slowing down and weakening under me, my own body stiffened
with a cold. Men died when they got caught in
a thing like this, They died easy. Another hour passed
and my horse was carrying his head close to the ground.
I figured he'd stumbled soon, so I kicked my feet
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out of the stirrups and braced myself against the horn.
By now the wind had really gotten into me, and
when I saw the blur of a ranch house up ahead,
I thought maybe it was a trick. But a few
minutes later we rounded a corner of the placement stood
at last in the lee of the storm. I slid
down and got up to the door and pounded on it,
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and I waited. Then I pounded again. Then the door
came open, and the figures stood in alight.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Why yeah, bringing in alv and then then out and
nut weather has been made harmless.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Get inside, out of the way.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
I will be a fool, all right, stranger, hands in
the air, Fie, that's better, unloading Malvie.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Nice gun, huh, real, nice gun.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Shut up, I take him down. Stranger. You can come
up to this stove now, but don't try nothing, or
cut you in half with buckshot.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
He was a burly man with flushed cheeks and the
wild red beard and the great shock of red hair.
Even his hands and fingers bristled with it. He sat
on a stool with a stove, a shot gun across
his knees, and his eyes never left me. The other one, Alvie,
had a buddy of an underfed boy, but he was
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completely bald, and his skin was tight and dry. He
looked like a naked skull, and his eyes well something
that touched ol. He you look half frozen. Stranger.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
He must have wanted something real bad to go out
in weather like this. I never saw him around here before. Heck,
he's a stranger, Alviy. He don't belong around here.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Course, we don't know anybody, but I I I seen
a few and I never seen him before.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Maybe he's seen you, Alvy, somewhere, not me.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
He he never saw me nowhere.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
How do you know that?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Maybe he was just looking for some cows and got
lost in the storm.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
You're just a kid, Alvi always said, you don't know much. Bell, Bell,
get on out here.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
She was a pretty girl, but with a dark, half
wild look that I'd never seen before, and a woman.
Her eyes jumped from man to man and then came
to rest on me, fixed and curious. And then after
a moment she looked away and moved it into a
chair across the room.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Supper ready, Bell, it's awful cold out.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
You recognize him, Bell? You ever see him before?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
No, you're sure? Now?
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Maybe Hayes City, Maybe you saw him up there?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Something.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
I don't know him?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
You sure? Yes? If you're lying to me, you know
what I'll do to you. You never saw him?
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Before he come in here, half froze right right out
of the blizzard. Must have been looking for some cows
and got lit.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Up outb We don't know what he's doing here, though.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
Why shouldn't a man get out of a storm even
in here?
Speaker 4 (06:19):
That's enough, all right, stranger. I never saw you before.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
We don't know who you are, and as soon as
I think you're lying, I'm gonna blow a big hole
in you.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
What about my horse? I'd like to put him in
the barn, if you've got one, albe.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Oh the heck, I ain't going out there. I'd freeze and.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
The horse will freeze if you don't.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
It's his horse.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
We might need it.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Go on alb before I get cross. Alright, I'll go.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Don't the wired horses, see.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Helvey's a good boy.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
You'll put your horse up, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Supper's about ready leave it.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
I want to talk to our friend here first. Maybe
we won't have to feed him.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
Potatoes will get mealy hey.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Better not, That's all. I'm right curious about you, mister.
I have noticed that I'll blow your guts all.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Over the wall.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
You make fun of me, don't get me mad, mister,
I got the shotgun me.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
It'll be boiled to shreds if we don't eat soon.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
You just won't understand any other way, will you? Bell?
Speaker 2 (07:40):
What is it you want to know about me? I
can tell mister. I can handle you easy. Now, what
do you mean? All I gotta do is wallop the
girl and you'll talk. I don't have to do nothing
to you.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
All right?
Speaker 1 (07:55):
If I take my jacket off, have warmed up?
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Now i'm mine. I might have a gun hit out
in there.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
M He can raise his hands, all'm buttoner.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Well now that's right. Smart of your bell.
Speaker 6 (08:11):
Oh, I'll hide it.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
No leaeve it be?
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Bell?
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Come over here, Bell, drop the jacket. Bell, Now, hold
out your other hand, open the bell, open your hand.
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That's real bad. What you did, Bell? Real bad.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
You know what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
I'm gonna put you outside for a spell out in
the weather, after supper, after you've cleaned up supper. You
can be thinking about it till then United States. Marshall,
you're in bad company. Marshaom. You shouldn't have come here.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Oh it looks to me like I sort of struck
gold coming here.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Now why do you talk like that?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Marshom? I still got the shot. Let me get that store.
Seems like getting colder and cooler. You didn't seen sign
of nobody outside?
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Did y'all be?
Speaker 2 (09:31):
What?
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Oooh?
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Somebody might have come along to cover the Marshall here?
It's all Marshall? What what? What? Marshall me?
Speaker 1 (09:38):
I'm a Marshall Alby shooting hack shoot?
Speaker 4 (09:41):
He shut up and answer me?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Was there sign of another horse, footprints, anything like that?
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Ah? I didn't see nothing.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Maybe it didn't look but I have walked in here
the way I did if i'd been after you people.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Maybe your head got muddled with the cold. Where'd you
ride from? Marshall? Hey?
Speaker 1 (09:59):
City left there this morning?
Speaker 2 (10:02):
It was a fool thing to do with a blizzard
coming up. Maybe did you think you could get to
jump on his easier in a storm?
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Was that it?
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Marshall?
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Yeah, you knew we'd be trying to keep cozy in here.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
I'm curious. Heck, what are you and Alvi on the
run for?
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Don't you tell him? Heck, I don't trust him. Alvi'd
be mighty dull without you, boy. Heck, no, summy, I
don't like laughing.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
You know that.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Heck, don't you do it?
Speaker 2 (10:38):
No?
Speaker 3 (10:38):
More I got ways.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Yeah, I ain't seen you in your ways, but don't
try him on me, Alvi. Maybe I will look Alvi.
Now you don't understand it's all right to tell the
Marshall about us. He ain't going nowhere. No, no, of
course not. We'll kill him, Alvi. We'll kill him and
bury somewhere.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Oh sure not. Now why didn't I think of that?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Because I do the thinking for us, Alviy, That's why? Now?
Why what was it you like to know? Marshall?
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Stop playing games?
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Heck, me and Alvi are wanted for murder up in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Seems to might unfair, though we didn't aim to kill nobody.
It just happened that way.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
We was robbing the bank, yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
And a couple of the people there wouldn't do what
we told him, so Alvi used his knife on one,
but it just made the man holler him.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
You could hear him all over town.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
And we had to shoot our way out after that.
Must have killed three or four people.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
I know I killed two.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Worst of it was Marshall All. We wanted just then
with some money. We didn't care about killing anybody. But
you know how it is Marshall when you were robbing
a bank and all, yeah, sure, Now I don't suppose
you do it that anyway. We're wanted for murder and
we didn't even get any money marry doll. So he
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rode out here and lighted for a spell.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
I see.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
What about Bell?
Speaker 1 (12:09):
And whose place is this? Anyway? My place? Now? That
pause gone? You mean you were living here alone?
Speaker 4 (12:17):
No?
Speaker 1 (12:19):
He killed your paws said it? Yes, how long ago?
Speaker 5 (12:24):
I don't know, maybe a month?
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Yeah, it's been about a month, hasn't it?
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Alv Thirty five days?
Speaker 4 (12:30):
There?
Speaker 2 (12:31):
You see, he always knows just how long everything's been.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
No, that's fine. Tell me what you do with him?
Who the old man? Oh?
Speaker 4 (12:42):
We he buried him out back.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Couldn't afford a funeral, could we? Alv Hack Hack?
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Heck, we told him that. Now let shoot him.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
No, No, I've been thinking it over. People in Hayes
City know he started for dodging. When he don't show up,
they might come looking for him. Mm.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
But you said we'd bury him hack. That's what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Yeah, that's right. But we can't bury his horse too,
not on this ground. It's froze solid. And if we
turn the horse loose and they find it and can't
find the marshal's body, then they'll suspect something.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
You're pretty smart, Hack, Too bad, you don't know enough
to stop killing people.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Too bad for you anyway, Well, what are we gonna do? Hack?
I'm getting hungry.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
That suffer won't be fit to eat it?
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Cut up? One more word out of you, Bella, No, whooped?
You're goodn't come on?
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Heck, I'm really hungry.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
No, no, listen to me heavy now. My idea is to
knock the marshal on the head and throw him outside
the freeze. Now, he'll keep real good that way, and
when the storm breaks we can carry him off twenty
mile or so and dump him on the ground. Look
like he got throwed and hit his head and froze.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Oh that's fine, Hack, that's just fine.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Then we'll break his horse's leg make it easier for
them to find them.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
You just don't care about anything, do you hack?
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Just me sometimes? Alvi?
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Sure, me and hacker friends. Ain't we hacked?
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Of course?
Speaker 2 (14:06):
If it don't want snow, we'll have to think of
something else. Can't leave tracks for them to follow back there?
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Fuck, ain't we're gonna kill him now.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Sure, sure we are, Alvi, I didn't mean that.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Then he hit him.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
You keep the gun on him and I'll get up
behind and hit him. There was a Brandon iron around
here somewhere.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
I'll hit him with that hack.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
He was sunk pretty far. But I'm sort of wondering
just how far?
Speaker 2 (14:31):
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (14:31):
I'm wondering if you're low enough to kill a man
before he's been fed.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Here it is hack here, see I found it.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Leave it, b Alvi. We're gonna eat first.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
We will return for the second act of gun Smoke
in just a moment. But first, this Sunday Night, Lionel
Barrymore is your host and Joseph Cotton the star on
Sunday Night Playhouse's gripping historic drama based on the life
of Peter Marshall. Hear how a Scottish immigrant lad rose
to the position of Chaplain of the United States Senate,
a story you'll agree is far more fascinating than fiction.
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Remember it's Tomorrow night when Lionel Barrymore introduces another Sunday
Night Playhouse on most of these same CBS radio stations.
Now for the second act of Gun smoke. It was
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only five in the afternoon when but the blizzard had
darkened the land, and its blackness showed in at the
windows here and there along the walls the ranch house,
tricklets of snow blew in through the warped timber and
the kitchen. Hank set directly behind me, while I ate
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later changed places with Alvie and fed himself heartily, as
though he had nothing at all on his mind. Hack
was just a nerveless brute, born with no conscience at all.
His intelligence was the instinct of an animal that snapped
at her killed whatever got in its way of survival.
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Every living thing was his enemy and Alvie, and there
was no way to figure Alvie. Too much of him
was missing. My only chance lay in the girl Bell,
even though Hack had pretty well beat no resistance out
of her. Supper was over soon enough, but Hack seemed
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to no particular hurry to get on with his plans.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Eating better food on the trail than that.
Speaker 5 (17:15):
Can't blame me for man.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
I get it cleaned up well. You can talk your
head off when you're outside alone, and you're going outside.
I'll learn you to heal if I have to break
your neck.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Nah, don't do that, hack, not till we're ready to
pull out anybody. Why, well, I ain't gonna do the cooking.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Well, I hope not.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
I've eaten your cooking.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
My sister was a good cooking.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Yeah, we should have brought her along, he Alobe, No, no,
I don't like her.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Where you're from anyway?
Speaker 4 (17:44):
Which me?
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Or?
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Alvi? Iu?
Speaker 1 (17:46):
You to start with?
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Why Homan place called Crowhart? I didn't stay there long though?
Speaker 1 (17:52):
What about you?
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Welby? Now?
Speaker 4 (17:53):
Where were you born? Alvi?
Speaker 2 (17:54):
I never did know.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Republican River. That's not a place, you fool. That's what
they told me. Republican River. They always lived in a
wagon my mind, Paul. They had a lot of kids too.
Of course most of them died. I'm about the only
one that made out any good at.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
All, and you did. Fine, I'll be fine. Give me
a shotgun, all right, marshall, let's get back by the
stove while Bell cleans this moss up.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Shall we hit him and throw him out to freeze up? Now? Hacked?
Speaker 4 (18:29):
Not yet.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
I don't want to punish Bell first.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
You know, someday you're gonna get caught without that shotgun. Heck,
somebody's gonna tear you apart.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
That's fair enough, Marshall, give me a fair.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Chance at you then, huh bare handed? No, Oh, you're
bigger than I am. Hack might be fun for you.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
I don't know nothing about fun. I ain't gonna kill
you because it's fun.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Oh, come on, heck, I want to go to bed.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Bell I'll come out here, get outside like I told you,
and don't open that door so wide.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Don't blow the lamp out.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Belle had walked through the room and out the door
without a glance at any of us. I figured she'd
go down to the barn, where she'd be all right
for a little while anyway, But I knew i'd have
to make a move soon. I sure wasn't gonna sit
there like a fall hog and let all of me
knock me in my head whenever he got ready. But
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it didn't take much more sense to try to jump
Hack in that shotgun and let him blow me all
over the place. It was a beggar's choice, and the
more I thought about it, no matter I got.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Heck, I'm sleepy, I'm gonna hit him and go to bed.
You can do what you want after, but I ain't
staying up all.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Night, Albi, he's got his mind made.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Up, Marshall, I can tell just what do you call
his mind?
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Heck, I got ways to fix you, Marsha.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
That never mind, Alb, wrap something around that iron.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Otherwise it won't look like he hit his head on
a rock. What difference it made to what I say? Alb?
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Alright, heck he here, I'll use this, curt.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Now keep your eyes on me, Marshall, i'lbe moved around
behind me and was getting a good grip on his
brand and iron. I leaned slightly forward in the chair
and was tensed and waiting for the split second when
my instinct had told me to jump. And then suddenly
the door was flying right open, and the wind rode in,
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almost lifting the room as it came. The lamp flared
and then went out as I planed sideways from the chair.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Did you hit him, Alby? Did you hit him?
Speaker 4 (21:07):
You're playing fool?
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Don't it right up the marshal I got some more
shelves right here.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
Don't you move now.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
I crawled across the room and was up the door
before a hack could reload. In the snow outside, I
stood up and turned a fine bell waiting by the
side of the door, a pitchfork in her hand. I
couldn't see her face very well in the dark, but
I could tell she was shaken with cold. I reached
out and took the pork from her, and then flattened
myself against.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
The wall and waited.
Speaker 6 (21:38):
I was afraid it was you he shot.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
That was a smart trick, bell throwing the door open
that way.
Speaker 6 (21:44):
He shot alby, didn't he?
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Yeah? Good, I think he's found out. I'm not in there.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
What you can do?
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Wait, Marshall, marshal, I'm.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Going to kill you and the girl both now.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
I wait, did pray, and he'd come through the door
before my hands got too cold to hold the pitchfork.
And finally the barrel of the shotgun appeared, waisted high,
and began to focus his way around in our direction.
It was stupid of him, but the man behind the
gun often gets a false sense of power. I let
him shove it out three or four inches, and then
I slammed down on it. Then I jumped into the road.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
I tried to club me with a gun, but.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
He missed it, and I got in under him with
a fork and lifted him up his feet and He
struggled for a moment like a spear fish, and then
went limp and I let him fall on one of
the prongs had reached his heart.
Speaker 6 (22:48):
Did you get him, Marshall?
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Is he dead?
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Yeah? I light the lamp.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
I can't do it, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
My fingers are too stick here. Oh, I'll do it.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
H huh. Quite a mess in here. Why don't you
wait in the kitchen though.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
I'm alright, Marshall, but I can't help you much til
I get warmed up with him.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Hy then you'll stay by the stove. Huh. I lug
these people.
Speaker 6 (23:33):
Outside, Thank you, Marshall. Marshall, Marshall Dylan.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Huh oh morning.
Speaker 5 (24:01):
Bell, Come on out in the kitchen, Marshall. It's warm there,
and I got some hot coffee waiting.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Well, that sounds good, I say. It looks like the
storm's lifted.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
Has the wind's gone, But it's mighty cold.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Off.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Oh, I don't mind the cold. It's that wind that
breaks a man down.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
There.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
Get some of that in you.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Ah mm, you make mighty good coffee. Bell.
Speaker 6 (24:41):
Tell me something, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Mm tell me.
Speaker 6 (24:44):
The truth now?
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Oh sure, Belle, what is it?
Speaker 6 (24:51):
Are you married?
Speaker 1 (24:56):
I'd make a poor husband, Bell, or any woman. Why well,
and my professions it's too chancy.
Speaker 6 (25:11):
Thank you, Marshall. Thanks for putting it that way.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
No, Belle, I didn't mean forget it.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
I'm leaving this place, Marshall. What as soon as you go.
I've thatack what I need and I'm clearing off where
you go. I got three horses. I'll ride up to
Hayes City and sell them. Then what, I'll buy some
pretty clothes and I'll find a place. Won't be hard
(25:40):
after this.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
I uh, I wish I could help you, Belle.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
You have oh, but I mean I can take care
of myself, Marshall. I just want to get away from here,
that's all.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Sure, I'll stop at the nearest ranch and tell them
to come over here and take care of Hack, and
I'll be soon as it warms up.
Speaker 6 (26:04):
Whatever you like, Marshall.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Well, goodbye, Bell.
Speaker 6 (26:11):
Goodbye, Marshall.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
Look me up in Hayes City next time you're there.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Sure, sure I will. But uh, Bell, don't let all
this make you bitter. There are a lot of good
men in the world.
Speaker 6 (26:30):
So they say, so long, Marshall.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
I uh, so long, Bell. A few minutes later, I'd
saddled up and was on the trailed at Dodge. The
(26:56):
sky was low and the slate gray all over there,
but there was no wind. The blizzard had gone, leaving
the land still and white, bitter cold. There wasn't a
sign of life anywhere. It was like riding through a
(27:17):
vast tomb, and I found myself feeling like a trespasser,
though something had gone wrong, and I wasn't supposed to
be there at all. Gun Smoke, under the direction of
(27:52):
Norman McDonald's stars William Conrad as Matt Villain Us Marshall.
Tonight's story was specially written for gun Smoke by John Meston,
with music composed and conducted by Rex Cory. Featured in
the cast were John Danner's Hack, Harry Bartel as Alvi,
and Vivi Janis as Bell. Gun Smoke is heard by
our troops overseas through the facilities of the Armed Forces
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Radio Service. Join us again next week as Matt Dylon
Us Marshall fights to bring law and order out of
the wild violence of the West in gun Smoke starts
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this Monday, a new run for Road of Life. Returning
to CDs Radio to join the rest of your daytime
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