August 2, 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 (00:00):
This is William Conrad. Because so many of you took
the time and the trouble to write to Liggod and
myres gun Smoke will continue to be heard right through
the summer months. I hope you'll join us for gun
Smoke every Saturday at the same time.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Gun Smoke brought to you by L and M Filters.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
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Speaker 2 (00:37):
L and M is best stands out from all the
rest around Dodge City and in the territory on West.
There's just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
And that's where the U S Marshal and the smell
of gun smoke. Gun smoke starrying. William Conrad France brought
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story of the violence that moved west with young America
and the story of a man will move with it.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshall, 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. The blazon sun and dust everywhere,
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and the hot, dry wind from the panhandle baking your lungs,
driving the blood to your brain and golden you into
things you might not even think of. Any other time.
That's what the summer days are like in Dodge City.
But the nights are different. After sundown, when the warm
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dark lies soft and gentle on the prairie, then everything changes.
The nights are fine. That's a blasting, killing heat of
the day that breachs the trouble.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Well, Claire, I'll be dog gone. It's her all right?
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Oh you're talking about Chester? Who's her?
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Lucy?
Speaker 6 (02:46):
What you remember her?
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Mister Dylan? That girl at Oldie from Hunt took out
of the long Ban.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
Saloon and Mary last winter.
Speaker 7 (02:51):
Flucy was her name, Lucy middle Camp coming down the
street there, see Oh yeah, first time seeing her and
Coon's age here old leave ride's pretty close, heard Honor.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
That looks like he's coming to here.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
He never could figure him too, mister Dillon. Why she'd
marry him?
Speaker 1 (03:07):
I mean, and eight hundred acres a mighty good range.
Speaker 8 (03:11):
I how are you mad?
Speaker 6 (03:15):
Chester, ma'am?
Speaker 8 (03:16):
I just said on I haven't time, Matt, I can't
let even know I came here?
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Oh why not? Why did you come?
Speaker 8 (03:24):
Ephraim's gonna kill me? Why it's true? He told me so.
Speaker 9 (03:29):
I know everybody thinks he's so good study to be
a preacher and all.
Speaker 8 (03:33):
But he's not good. He's mean and cruel. I made
an awful mistake when I married him, and now he
won't let me go.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Oh why does he want to kill him?
Speaker 8 (03:41):
He accuses me of things? Crazy, terrible thing?
Speaker 1 (03:44):
How do you want to file a charge? Have him
locked up?
Speaker 8 (03:47):
My word against his?
Speaker 9 (03:49):
With him always quoting the scripture and the like, and
me six months out of a dance hall.
Speaker 8 (03:56):
People can't forget that.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Maybe it's only you. I can't forget it.
Speaker 8 (04:00):
I've been reminded often enough. He keeps telling me I'm
evil and that he tried to save me. He says,
when I'm married him, I let him into sin and
now I have to pay.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
What do you want me to do?
Speaker 8 (04:11):
Talk to him?
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Warn him something?
Speaker 8 (04:14):
He's crazy, Madam. I don't know what he might do.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
I can't take a hand in this without more to
go on.
Speaker 8 (04:20):
Sooner or lady, you'll have to take a hand in it.
And if you wait too long, you'll have to bring
him in for murder, my murder. Think about it, marshall.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
If you have taken that medicine.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
I gave you, hold this man, oh man, ah, hello, doc,
Sit down.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
He ain't have a drink.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Man, Well maybe later, huh. He from hants over there
at the bar to talk to him for a minute.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
How are you gonna get as a sermony?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Well, maybe that's what I need give them, mister Hunt
or Marshall, will you join me?
Speaker 3 (05:12):
I'll thank you well.
Speaker 10 (05:13):
A glass for Marshall, Dylan lad Yes here evil it
may be but a asked help, indeed, and banishing the
cares of the day.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
A man like you shouldn't have any cares, mister Hunt.
Speaker 10 (05:25):
Carelegs everywhere in this veil of tears, Marshall, men's brief
joys dearly bought your good fortune, sir all.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Luck ah all, how's a message.
Speaker 10 (05:40):
Our health is excellent, as it usually is in youth.
A state of grace may be somewhat more on set.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Oh, it's nothing that can't be dealt with.
Speaker 10 (05:49):
It's a man's bound and duty in this world to
lend his own strength to the frail reeds of his household,
to support them against the storm and strife of this
temporal life. A man is a rock, uh, and the
woman a red swayed by the windows.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Uh huh. But if the rock happens to break the
reed what about that, mister Hunt, I doubt the rock
will break the red martially. Good evening, sir, Good evening,
mister Hunt.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
How are you, Matt? Oh?
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Hello, kiddy?
Speaker 11 (06:27):
What's all the Hunt preaching about these days?
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Look, Kitty, you knew Lucy when she worked here, didn't
you sure tell me about her? Huh? What's she after?
What does she want.
Speaker 11 (06:41):
A chance to be somebody? She's hard as nails, Matt,
and she'll use anybody to get what she wants. That's
why she married o'leifan. Oh, there's there's something else you
might not know, Matt.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Oh.
Speaker 11 (06:56):
There's a young fellow working out there Aditham's place, booth Rider.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
You mean that young kid who was drifted in here
a couple of months ago. How does he figure? Well?
Speaker 11 (07:04):
I don't know, but I do know Lucy, and you
can take it from me, MaTx.
Speaker 6 (07:09):
He figures.
Speaker 12 (07:27):
El's been fine talking to you, Marshall, But I reckon,
I better get back to work unless you've got something
else on your mind.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Oh nothing, I guess just wanted our things are going
both now.
Speaker 12 (07:38):
I like it fine here.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Yeah, I understand Hephim is a good man to work for.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
I got no complaint?
Speaker 1 (07:45):
How do he got along with? Miss Hunt?
Speaker 12 (07:47):
Fine?
Speaker 1 (07:48):
What I just wanted? Weren't you wearing a gun when
you first wrote? Under tone?
Speaker 12 (07:55):
Yeah, it's over in the bunk house, mister Hunt don't
hold with guns.
Speaker 6 (07:59):
He don't hisself.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
He's never had any reason to.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
You got something on your mind, Marshall.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
You're young both, and it's a big world. Why don't
you go take a look at it?
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Some of the big spreads up north are on out
west in the.
Speaker 12 (08:19):
Territories, Marshall, With a setup like I got here, a.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Man would be crazy to pull out, and he might
be crazier to stay.
Speaker 6 (08:28):
I like it fine here, just fine.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
All right. I can't run you out your life both,
as long as it lasts well. Ever, it was had
nothing to be done about it, like a mountain slide
starting to move slow but about to pick up speed
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any second and smash anything in its way. And the
heat getting worse all that week, the water pumps along
the plaza dried up, and even the night stayed hot
sundown didn't seem to make any difference. Maybe if it
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hadn't been for the heat, things might have worked out different.
I don't know, Reckon here's something you or know it.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
I was just down at the hardware straw and he
from Hunt come in.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Oh what about it?
Speaker 4 (09:28):
He just bought himself a gun.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
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Speaker 13 (10:54):
Cigarette booth huh.
Speaker 9 (11:25):
Up here on the porch. Ephraim's bought a gun booth
in town this evening. He's got it there with him
now and he's drinking. He's gonna kill us, both of us.
Speaker 6 (11:39):
He told me, so what'd you tell him?
Speaker 8 (11:41):
Nothing?
Speaker 1 (11:42):
He's suspicious, that's all.
Speaker 8 (11:45):
But he's crazy, Booth.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
He'll do it.
Speaker 8 (11:46):
You gotta get that gun away from him.
Speaker 6 (11:49):
That might take some doing.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
You can do it.
Speaker 8 (11:53):
You've got a gun too, and you know how to
use it. He doesn't know one in from another. You've
got to do it. It's the only way.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
Maybe the Marshal was right. Maybe I have stayed here
too long.
Speaker 9 (12:06):
You you can't leave now, Booth, can you?
Speaker 6 (12:12):
You know I can't.
Speaker 9 (12:14):
Then you gotta do it, and it'll be better to
face him. If it don't, he'll late for you and
shoot you.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
In the back.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Then me, I know, I know, But you.
Speaker 8 (12:26):
Am I worth it or not?
Speaker 4 (12:29):
You're worth it?
Speaker 1 (12:30):
And go on? Now?
Speaker 4 (12:50):
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (12:51):
What you're doing that's got me Buffalo and all the
way off from Tanavan trying to figure it. I still
don't know.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Yeah, but if it ain't stop, you know what it's
gonna lead to.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
I haven't got a thing to go on Chester. Because
a man buys a goon doesn't prove he's planning a murder,
and ten to one he from order me off his
property and tell me to stay off and he's got
a perfect right to do it. I was in his sh.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Come on, Chester, I guess we could have got here sooner,
mister Dillon.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Yeah, over this way, Chester, that came from the barn,
not the house. Came from inside the way it sounded,
mister Dolan.
Speaker 7 (13:35):
There's somebody over there on a horse heading down into
the river bottom.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Let him go.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
We'll never catch him on that brush. Not tonight. Wait
a minute, easy now, mister Hunt. Lucie hm uh it
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this way?
Speaker 5 (14:05):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (14:06):
I hear Chester, mister Hunt. Marshall, though did this no
matter matters to me?
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Marshall?
Speaker 1 (14:18):
I I admire you.
Speaker 14 (14:21):
You have implicit faith in the law, But no law
colors an old man being fool The.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
The reed survives, mister Hunt.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
What did he say there at the last, mister don't?
What survives?
Speaker 1 (14:50):
He meant a law say at Chester? Mm Chester, you'll
stay here?
Speaker 14 (14:54):
You?
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Yes? Where are you going with your doing?
Speaker 1 (14:57):
I have to carry the sad news the grieving widow.
Speaker 8 (15:23):
What were you doing out there so long? Mad?
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Who were you expecting?
Speaker 14 (15:31):
Like?
Speaker 8 (15:33):
I thought it was my husband? I? What are you
doing here?
Speaker 5 (15:39):
What is it? Marshall?
Speaker 8 (15:40):
Does something happened?
Speaker 1 (15:41):
You heard the shots? Didn't you.
Speaker 8 (15:42):
Well, I heard some shooting a while ago, but I
what's happened? See from isn't it?
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Who else would it be? I don't know it was.
You're really out smart at me? Mus hunt you that
you carry that out and you'll get away with it
clean as a whistle. Then I can't touch you. What
are you talking about your husband's murder?
Speaker 8 (16:12):
You're out of your mind.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
I guess I should have figured what you were up to,
but I didn't. You were too smart for me. You
killed him without touching a trigger. You work young Booth
Rider up to that?
Speaker 8 (16:25):
Are you crazy?
Speaker 1 (16:26):
You got e from to buy that gun? You told
him Rider was bothering, you wouldn't let you alone, that
he was dangerous, Maybe even hinted he was too old
to protect his wife, so he had a gun in
his hand when Booth shot him.
Speaker 8 (16:44):
Do you have any proof of what you're saying?
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Not a bit? Not a bit? Like I said, I
can't touch you. You're too smart for.
Speaker 8 (16:53):
Me or else, none of it's true.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Have you thought of that?
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Yeah? Yeah, I've thought of that. Hell, there's not much
point in talking about.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
It, Marshall.
Speaker 8 (17:08):
I guess I'll be leaving Dodge soon.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
I can't stop you.
Speaker 8 (17:16):
You could if you wanted to match.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Two days passed with no sign of booth rider. I
figured he was waiting it out somewhere around tom waiting
to see which way the wind was gonna blow. But
I didn't know where, and I didn't have much case
against him anyway. It's probably a waste of time, but
I still had to try. I had to bring him
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in and try.
Speaker 7 (17:57):
A fact, mister John, I ain't never seen a hospital
last as long as this.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Well, I sniffed down right frasle a person that's.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
A rough one. All right, eight.
Speaker 7 (18:06):
O'clock in the evening and afterrmometer ain't dropped one degree.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
Why he keeps on like this a while? He's gonna
drive folks back east.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
I'll there comes somebody I wish you'd drive somewhere.
Speaker 7 (18:17):
M m yeah, oh old belk, Yeah, I reckon. He's
hunting somebody to take him to a bottle.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
And it kind of looks like we're gonna be the
ones on it.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Yeah, yeah, I'm afraid we are.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
Uh, mister Dillon, where shall I heard a rumor going
around you might be looking for this fellow booth rider.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
It's generally not now, Yeah, I.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
Just might be able to tell you where he is.
Right now, all right, test your bottle.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
I tell me.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
It's like being an informer, But of course I feel
it's my duty as a citizens to take us.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Tell me about Now you got anything to tell me,
say it and get out.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
He's hiding in the haylofft down delivery stable. You got
no call, you got your.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Money belt, Now go on get out.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Well, all right, evening, gentlemen.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
All right, trust him. Let's go get booth.
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Speaker 4 (21:18):
Do you think you put up a fight?
Speaker 1 (21:20):
And I don't know If Chester is just a kid,
I'm afraid he might want.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
To downright team. He seemed real nice when he come here.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Lucy was too much for him. She had him out
in the middle with his head underwater before he even
knew how to swim. Oh here, kids, Yeah, all right,
watch yourself. Chester, stay clear.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Hey boat, I know where you are.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Why don't you make it easy on yourself.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Come on down and give up. You've got no protection
up there.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
I can't stand here and throw bullets up into that
loft as long as I have to until one up
and find you.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
It's your life, chanceful, Holly Marshall.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Stay back Chester, all right, both here, runner, arrest No.
Speaker 6 (22:29):
I ain't giving up that easy.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
There'll be a fool. I hand over that gun. You
haven't got a chance. If you're trying to draw, I'll
kill you.
Speaker 6 (22:40):
And I reckon you better start your killing.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Well pleased. You won't have to stand trial.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
He's not Chester. I aimed high on him. Come on,
we'll get him over the ducks.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
A n easy, easy, now, young fellow.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
They just about it, got a hold of it. H
You know, it could have been a lot worse.
Speaker 6 (23:28):
I wish it had been her shoes.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Shoes.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Oh just brace yourself.
Speaker 7 (23:36):
Boy, yeah, yes, but now I'll get a bandage on that.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
And you live to hang yet?
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Have ied?
Speaker 6 (23:44):
You don't get lockjow?
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Why do you have to shoot people in stables? Man,
It's the worst place in the world for lockjown.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
I'll try to remember that.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Dog.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Hell, how do you feel both?
Speaker 14 (23:56):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (23:56):
Make god?
Speaker 1 (23:57):
You've been hiding at the delivery stable all the time.
Speaker 12 (24:00):
No I I circled back and stayed in the barn
out at the hunt place.
Speaker 6 (24:06):
I figured you wouldn't be looking there, I figured, right,
that's about all I figured.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Right.
Speaker 6 (24:13):
She was using me, Marshal, That's what it was. She
told me when I went back out there. She gave
me two weeks wages, told me to.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Drift down' a.
Speaker 12 (24:22):
You know, she laughed at me, called me a green kid,
and I reckon maybe she laughed at him too.
Speaker 6 (24:31):
She hadn't ought to laugh, Marshal. That's where she figured wrong.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
What do you mean.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
I choked her to death?
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Well? Those and I'd probably have let you off clean.
You were in the clear. He had a gun in
his hand, even if he didn't know how to use it.
Speaker 9 (25:00):
But not now.
Speaker 12 (25:02):
Yeah, I guess it don't matter much now. Funny thing too,
I was heading up north when I stopped here. I
hit dodge along about sundown, so I figured to lay
in for the night. Then I met mister Hunt in
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the saloon.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
He gave me a job.
Speaker 6 (25:28):
I wasn't aiming to stay here, Marshall, your word of
I was just riding through.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
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again next week for another transcribed story of the Western Frontier,
when Marshall, Matt, Dylon, Chester, Proudfoot, Dot and Kitty, together
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story of the violence that moved west with young America
and the story of a man will move with it.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshall, 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. The blazon sun and dust everywhere,
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and the hot, dry wind from the panhandle baking your lungs,
driving the blood to your brain and golden you into
things you might not even think of. Any other time.
That's what the summer days are like in Dodge City.
But the nights are different. After sundown, when the warm
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dark lies soft and gentle on the prairie, then everything changes.
The nights are fine. That's a blasting, killing heat of
the day that breachs the trouble.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Well, Claire, I'll be dog gone. It's her all right?
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Oh you're talking about Chester? Who's her?
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Lucy?
Speaker 6 (02:46):
What you remember her?
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Mister Dylan? That girl at Oldie from Hunt took out
of the long Ban.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
Saloon and Mary last winter.
Speaker 7 (02:51):
Flucy was her name, Lucy middle Camp coming down the
street there, see Oh yeah, first time seeing her and
Coon's age here old leave ride's pretty close, heard Honor.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
That looks like he's coming to here.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
He never could figure him too, mister Dillon. Why she'd
marry him?
Speaker 1 (03:07):
I mean, and eight hundred acres a mighty good range.
Speaker 8 (03:11):
I how are you mad?
Speaker 6 (03:15):
Chester, ma'am?
Speaker 8 (03:16):
I just said on I haven't time, Matt, I can't
let even know I came here?
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Oh why not? Why did you come?
Speaker 8 (03:24):
Ephraim's gonna kill me? Why it's true? He told me so.
Speaker 9 (03:29):
I know everybody thinks he's so good study to be
a preacher and all.
Speaker 8 (03:33):
But he's not good. He's mean and cruel. I made
an awful mistake when I married him, and now he
won't let me go.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Oh why does he want to kill him?
Speaker 8 (03:41):
He accuses me of things? Crazy, terrible thing?
Speaker 1 (03:44):
How do you want to file a charge? Have him
locked up?
Speaker 8 (03:47):
My word against his?
Speaker 9 (03:49):
With him always quoting the scripture and the like, and
me six months out of a dance hall.
Speaker 8 (03:56):
People can't forget that.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Maybe it's only you. I can't forget it.
Speaker 8 (04:00):
I've been reminded often enough. He keeps telling me I'm
evil and that he tried to save me. He says,
when I'm married him, I let him into sin and
now I have to pay.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
What do you want me to do?
Speaker 8 (04:11):
Talk to him?
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Warn him something?
Speaker 8 (04:14):
He's crazy, Madam. I don't know what he might do.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
I can't take a hand in this without more to
go on.
Speaker 8 (04:20):
Sooner or lady, you'll have to take a hand in it.
And if you wait too long, you'll have to bring
him in for murder, my murder. Think about it, marshall.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
If you have taken that medicine.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
I gave you, hold this man, oh man, ah, hello, doc,
Sit down.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
He ain't have a drink.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Man, Well maybe later, huh. He from hants over there
at the bar to talk to him for a minute.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
How are you gonna get as a sermony?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Well, maybe that's what I need give them, mister Hunt
or Marshall, will you join me?
Speaker 3 (05:12):
I'll thank you well.
Speaker 10 (05:13):
A glass for Marshall, Dylan lad Yes here evil it
may be but a asked help, indeed, and banishing the
cares of the day.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
A man like you shouldn't have any cares, mister Hunt.
Speaker 10 (05:25):
Carelegs everywhere in this veil of tears, Marshall, men's brief
joys dearly bought your good fortune, sir all.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Luck ah all, how's a message.
Speaker 10 (05:40):
Our health is excellent, as it usually is in youth.
A state of grace may be somewhat more on set.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Oh, it's nothing that can't be dealt with.
Speaker 10 (05:49):
It's a man's bound and duty in this world to
lend his own strength to the frail reeds of his household,
to support them against the storm and strife of this
temporal life. A man is a rock, uh, and the
woman a red swayed by the windows.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Uh huh. But if the rock happens to break the
reed what about that, mister Hunt, I doubt the rock
will break the red martially. Good evening, sir, Good evening,
mister Hunt.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
How are you, Matt? Oh?
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Hello, kiddy?
Speaker 11 (06:27):
What's all the Hunt preaching about these days?
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Look, Kitty, you knew Lucy when she worked here, didn't
you sure tell me about her? Huh? What's she after?
What does she want.
Speaker 11 (06:41):
A chance to be somebody? She's hard as nails, Matt,
and she'll use anybody to get what she wants. That's
why she married o'leifan. Oh, there's there's something else you
might not know, Matt.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Oh.
Speaker 11 (06:56):
There's a young fellow working out there Aditham's place, booth Rider.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
You mean that young kid who was drifted in here
a couple of months ago. How does he figure? Well?
Speaker 11 (07:04):
I don't know, but I do know Lucy, and you
can take it from me, MaTx.
Speaker 6 (07:09):
He figures.
Speaker 12 (07:27):
El's been fine talking to you, Marshall, But I reckon,
I better get back to work unless you've got something
else on your mind.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Oh nothing, I guess just wanted our things are going
both now.
Speaker 12 (07:38):
I like it fine here.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Yeah, I understand Hephim is a good man to work for.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
I got no complaint?
Speaker 1 (07:45):
How do he got along with? Miss Hunt?
Speaker 12 (07:47):
Fine?
Speaker 1 (07:48):
What I just wanted? Weren't you wearing a gun when
you first wrote? Under tone?
Speaker 12 (07:55):
Yeah, it's over in the bunk house, mister Hunt don't
hold with guns.
Speaker 6 (07:59):
He don't hisself.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
He's never had any reason to.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
You got something on your mind, Marshall.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
You're young both, and it's a big world. Why don't
you go take a look at it?
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Some of the big spreads up north are on out
west in the.
Speaker 12 (08:19):
Territories, Marshall, With a setup like I got here, a.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Man would be crazy to pull out, and he might
be crazier to stay.
Speaker 6 (08:28):
I like it fine here, just fine.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
All right. I can't run you out your life both,
as long as it lasts well. Ever, it was had
nothing to be done about it, like a mountain slide
starting to move slow but about to pick up speed
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any second and smash anything in its way. And the
heat getting worse all that week, the water pumps along
the plaza dried up, and even the night stayed hot
sundown didn't seem to make any difference. Maybe if it
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hadn't been for the heat, things might have worked out different.
I don't know, Reckon here's something you or know it.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
I was just down at the hardware straw and he
from Hunt come in.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Oh what about it?
Speaker 4 (09:28):
He just bought himself a gun.
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Cigarette booth huh.
Speaker 9 (11:25):
Up here on the porch. Ephraim's bought a gun booth
in town this evening. He's got it there with him
now and he's drinking. He's gonna kill us, both of us.
Speaker 6 (11:39):
He told me, so what'd you tell him?
Speaker 8 (11:41):
Nothing?
Speaker 1 (11:42):
He's suspicious, that's all.
Speaker 8 (11:45):
But he's crazy, Booth.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
He'll do it.
Speaker 8 (11:46):
You gotta get that gun away from him.
Speaker 6 (11:49):
That might take some doing.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
You can do it.
Speaker 8 (11:53):
You've got a gun too, and you know how to
use it. He doesn't know one in from another. You've
got to do it. It's the only way.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
Maybe the Marshal was right. Maybe I have stayed here
too long.
Speaker 9 (12:06):
You you can't leave now, Booth, can you?
Speaker 6 (12:12):
You know I can't.
Speaker 9 (12:14):
Then you gotta do it, and it'll be better to
face him. If it don't, he'll late for you and
shoot you.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
In the back.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Then me, I know, I know, But you.
Speaker 8 (12:26):
Am I worth it or not?
Speaker 4 (12:29):
You're worth it?
Speaker 1 (12:30):
And go on? Now?
Speaker 4 (12:50):
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (12:51):
What you're doing that's got me Buffalo and all the
way off from Tanavan trying to figure it. I still
don't know.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Yeah, but if it ain't stop, you know what it's
gonna lead to.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
I haven't got a thing to go on Chester. Because
a man buys a goon doesn't prove he's planning a murder,
and ten to one he from order me off his
property and tell me to stay off and he's got
a perfect right to do it. I was in his sh.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Come on, Chester, I guess we could have got here sooner,
mister Dillon.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Yeah, over this way, Chester, that came from the barn,
not the house. Came from inside the way it sounded,
mister Dolan.
Speaker 7 (13:35):
There's somebody over there on a horse heading down into
the river bottom.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Let him go.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
We'll never catch him on that brush. Not tonight. Wait
a minute, easy now, mister Hunt. Lucie hm uh it
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this way?
Speaker 5 (14:05):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (14:06):
I hear Chester, mister Hunt. Marshall, though did this no
matter matters to me?
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Marshall?
Speaker 1 (14:18):
I I admire you.
Speaker 14 (14:21):
You have implicit faith in the law, But no law
colors an old man being fool The.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
The reed survives, mister Hunt.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
What did he say there at the last, mister don't?
What survives?
Speaker 1 (14:50):
He meant a law say at Chester? Mm Chester, you'll
stay here?
Speaker 14 (14:54):
You?
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Yes? Where are you going with your doing?
Speaker 1 (14:57):
I have to carry the sad news the grieving widow.
Speaker 8 (15:23):
What were you doing out there so long? Mad?
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Who were you expecting?
Speaker 14 (15:31):
Like?
Speaker 8 (15:33):
I thought it was my husband? I? What are you
doing here?
Speaker 5 (15:39):
What is it? Marshall?
Speaker 8 (15:40):
Does something happened?
Speaker 1 (15:41):
You heard the shots? Didn't you.
Speaker 8 (15:42):
Well, I heard some shooting a while ago, but I
what's happened? See from isn't it?
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Who else would it be? I don't know it was.
You're really out smart at me? Mus hunt you that
you carry that out and you'll get away with it
clean as a whistle. Then I can't touch you. What
are you talking about your husband's murder?
Speaker 8 (16:12):
You're out of your mind.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
I guess I should have figured what you were up to,
but I didn't. You were too smart for me. You
killed him without touching a trigger. You work young Booth
Rider up to that?
Speaker 8 (16:25):
Are you crazy?
Speaker 1 (16:26):
You got e from to buy that gun? You told
him Rider was bothering, you wouldn't let you alone, that
he was dangerous, Maybe even hinted he was too old
to protect his wife, so he had a gun in
his hand when Booth shot him.
Speaker 8 (16:44):
Do you have any proof of what you're saying?
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Not a bit? Not a bit? Like I said, I
can't touch you. You're too smart for.
Speaker 8 (16:53):
Me or else, none of it's true.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Have you thought of that?
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Yeah? Yeah, I've thought of that. Hell, there's not much
point in talking about.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
It, Marshall.
Speaker 8 (17:08):
I guess I'll be leaving Dodge soon.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
I can't stop you.
Speaker 8 (17:16):
You could if you wanted to match.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Two days passed with no sign of booth rider. I
figured he was waiting it out somewhere around tom waiting
to see which way the wind was gonna blow. But
I didn't know where, and I didn't have much case
against him anyway. It's probably a waste of time, but
I still had to try. I had to bring him
(17:52):
in and try.
Speaker 7 (17:57):
A fact, mister John, I ain't never seen a hospital
last as long as this.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Well, I sniffed down right frasle a person that's.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
A rough one. All right, eight.
Speaker 7 (18:06):
O'clock in the evening and afterrmometer ain't dropped one degree.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
Why he keeps on like this a while? He's gonna
drive folks back east.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
I'll there comes somebody I wish you'd drive somewhere.
Speaker 7 (18:17):
M m yeah, oh old belk, Yeah, I reckon. He's
hunting somebody to take him to a bottle.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
And it kind of looks like we're gonna be the
ones on it.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Yeah, yeah, I'm afraid we are.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
Uh, mister Dillon, where shall I heard a rumor going
around you might be looking for this fellow booth rider.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
It's generally not now, Yeah, I.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
Just might be able to tell you where he is.
Right now, all right, test your bottle.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
I tell me.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
It's like being an informer, But of course I feel
it's my duty as a citizens to take us.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Tell me about Now you got anything to tell me,
say it and get out.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
He's hiding in the haylofft down delivery stable. You got
no call, you got your.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Money belt, Now go on get out.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Well, all right, evening, gentlemen.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
All right, trust him. Let's go get booth.
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Speaker 4 (21:18):
Do you think you put up a fight?
Speaker 1 (21:20):
And I don't know If Chester is just a kid,
I'm afraid he might want.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
To downright team. He seemed real nice when he come here.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Lucy was too much for him. She had him out
in the middle with his head underwater before he even
knew how to swim. Oh here, kids, Yeah, all right,
watch yourself. Chester, stay clear.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Hey boat, I know where you are.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Why don't you make it easy on yourself.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Come on down and give up. You've got no protection
up there.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
I can't stand here and throw bullets up into that
loft as long as I have to until one up
and find you.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
It's your life, chanceful, Holly Marshall.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Stay back Chester, all right, both here, runner, arrest No.
Speaker 6 (22:29):
I ain't giving up that easy.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
There'll be a fool. I hand over that gun. You
haven't got a chance. If you're trying to draw, I'll
kill you.
Speaker 6 (22:40):
And I reckon you better start your killing.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Well pleased. You won't have to stand trial.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
He's not Chester. I aimed high on him. Come on,
we'll get him over the ducks.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
A n easy, easy, now, young fellow.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
They just about it, got a hold of it. H
You know, it could have been a lot worse.
Speaker 6 (23:28):
I wish it had been her shoes.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Shoes.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Oh just brace yourself.
Speaker 7 (23:36):
Boy, yeah, yes, but now I'll get a bandage on that.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
And you live to hang yet?
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Have ied?
Speaker 6 (23:44):
You don't get lockjow?
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Why do you have to shoot people in stables? Man,
It's the worst place in the world for lockjown.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
I'll try to remember that.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Dog.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Hell, how do you feel both?
Speaker 14 (23:56):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (23:56):
Make god?
Speaker 1 (23:57):
You've been hiding at the delivery stable all the time.
Speaker 12 (24:00):
No I I circled back and stayed in the barn
out at the hunt place.
Speaker 6 (24:06):
I figured you wouldn't be looking there, I figured, right,
that's about all I figured.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Right.
Speaker 6 (24:13):
She was using me, Marshal, That's what it was. She
told me when I went back out there. She gave
me two weeks wages, told me to.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Drift down' a.
Speaker 12 (24:22):
You know, she laughed at me, called me a green kid,
and I reckon maybe she laughed at him too.
Speaker 6 (24:31):
She hadn't ought to laugh, Marshal. That's where she figured wrong.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
What do you mean.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
I choked her to death?
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Well? Those and I'd probably have let you off clean.
You were in the clear. He had a gun in
his hand, even if he didn't know how to use it.
Speaker 9 (25:00):
But not now.
Speaker 12 (25:02):
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I was heading up north when I stopped here. I
hit dodge along about sundown, so I figured to lay
in for the night. Then I met mister Hunt in
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He gave me a job.
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I wasn't aiming to stay here, Marshall, your word of
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