July 20, 2025 • 29 mins
Original Air Date: September 09, 1940
Host: Andrew Rhynes
Show: The Lone Ranger
Phone: (707) 98 OTRDW (6-8739)
Stars:
• Earle Graser (Lone Ranger)
• John Todd (Tonto)
Writer:
• Fran Striker
Producer:
• George W. Trendle
Music:
• Ben Bonnell
Exit music from: Roundup on the Prairie by Aaron Kenny https://bit.ly/3kTj0kK
Host: Andrew Rhynes
Show: The Lone Ranger
Phone: (707) 98 OTRDW (6-8739)
Stars:
• Earle Graser (Lone Ranger)
• John Todd (Tonto)
Writer:
• Fran Striker
Producer:
• George W. Trendle
Music:
• Ben Bonnell
Exit music from: Roundup on the Prairie by Aaron Kenny https://bit.ly/3kTj0kK
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Speaker 1 (00:15):
Welcome to the Old Time Radio Westerns. I'm your host,
Angel Ryans, and I'm excited to bring you another episode
absolutely free. This is one of over eighty episodes released
monthly for your enjoyment. Now let's get into this episode.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Acquirey hoard look, Beat of Life, A cloud of dark
to the hearty Hi, Old Hoover.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
The old Ranger.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Had stunt and has past. Whenever men gathered around the
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campfire in the early days of the Western United States,
stories were told of the masked right of the Plane.
His strength and courage, his daring and resourcefulness made it
possible for him to bring criminal after criminal to justice,
even when all the forces of the law had failed.
It was he, more than any other man, who made
possible the winning of the West. Return with us, none
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of those fillings days of yesteryear. A out of the past.
On the thundering hoof beats of the great horse Silver,
the lone Ranger rides again home Silver.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
We're heading for broken Flock.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
Hello, Horse High sil Away.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
A little town of San Salvo lay at the foot
of one of the natural wonders in the West. A
great mass of brilliant red sandstone streaked with yellow rose
from the plains. The men and women of the surrounding
country had come to accept the bluff as a matter
of course, and as old Chef Harper rode along the
main street of San Salvo, he raised his voice and song,
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but he never lifted his eyes toward the towering rock.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Bow down, toozy, go down and suity, bow down and
suit the all gray gorses. Yah, whoa, whoa?
Speaker 4 (04:06):
He then Albanzo, why's he?
Speaker 6 (04:07):
Mister Lake?
Speaker 3 (04:08):
You'll be still do rep stake?
Speaker 7 (04:13):
Answer?
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Yeah, I got a right to for you.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
So my granddaughter is doing here on the morning stage.
Speaker 7 (04:19):
No, that's so.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
It just so. Here's Lawyer Lake in his office there.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
I got business with him.
Speaker 8 (04:25):
He's there, Chef listen, Layer Lakes, mighty shrewd cuss.
Speaker 7 (04:31):
I wouldn't go trust him none too.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Far he ain't.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
But Lake in town couldn't see no other lawyer because
he ain't none sides. He can't swindle me none alls.
I'm having him do is make up my wheel?
Speaker 7 (04:42):
Will What do you want of a wheel? When fixed
him to die?
Speaker 9 (04:46):
Are you guysh No?
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Only I want to make sure Molly gets my ransom linstocked.
If something happened, I don't want no dog gone relatives.
I ain't never seen him come hooking anywhere. My he's
coming to live with me, and I'm to make sure
she's well too.
Speaker 8 (05:03):
Care of Lake's inside, Chef, but remember this, keep your
spectacles good and clean while you're dealing with his kind.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Oh you worry, watch my dog and horse will.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
And morning, mister Lake, we'll ship. I'm glad to see you.
I fixed up your will and testament the way yeah,
ill clanging it good enough. I'm here to sign her
up and have it all set legal.
Speaker 10 (05:28):
To sit right down here and look it over. Make
sure it's the way you wanted. I'll win the other
room and ask some prince to come on with mister
signature right. If it just make yourself comfortable, Ship, I
won't belong and take your time.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
I read snow and dog.
Speaker 10 (05:41):
Going careful, Renigan. He's out there now, old chef. Yeah,
I get this straight, Renigan. If we play it right,
we'll be the new owners of Chef Happer's big ranch,
all right enough, And i'd like better. It'll be a
tough lot of luck for that granddaughter of chefs to
come here and find the old man and her left
without a dime. But you'll have to make the best teller.
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Maybe you'll feel real generous and find her a job
in your law. I mean, she's a handsome girl to
be a will what's my part? And I can't use
you as a witness because you're the one that's inherit
the property. I'll call left if from outside the witness
the wheel and to inherit the spread, and we will
fix some sort of story about shef Harper own you
a lot of cash. You can tell that around a
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couple of places between none and time that old sheep.
Speaker 7 (06:26):
Dies, tell her that he owes me money.
Speaker 10 (06:27):
Eh here, but what about you pass him as you
go out and bump into him and knock his glasses off?
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Then I switch papers and he signed this on. It
won't work late.
Speaker 11 (06:36):
Why that girl comes tomorrow and the first thing she
hears from Sheper is that he's made a wheel. You
know how important that'll seem to an old coop like him.
You tell everyone about No, he won't. You don't figure
on killing him right off, do you? That won't do either.
It'll raise too many questions.
Speaker 10 (06:51):
Brandigan, shef Harper is going to starve to death, and
you're going to help him. Go on, we'll go further
after I get his name on the wheel. I remember eyeglasses.
You can't read without them, right?
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Come on?
Speaker 7 (07:06):
Can you make it.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
Out all right?
Speaker 7 (07:07):
Ship? Oh?
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Sure, sure, ain't much do it, mister? I leave more.
I got tomorrow.
Speaker 11 (07:12):
This is Brannigan. You know him, don't you. I'm reckon soell,
glad to see you again. Hopper, I uh, I gotta
be leaving my confounded. I turped right over that chair. Say,
I'm sorry about your spectacles.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Gave right it all. Why don't you watch where you're going?
Unfortunate unfortunate share.
Speaker 7 (07:32):
I'm sorry, shep Look, I'll buy you a new pair.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Why that extra one's down? But hang and I had
to send all the way to sing Joe for them.
You send for some more and I'll pay for them.
I'll see you later, mister Bake.
Speaker 7 (07:43):
You're right.
Speaker 12 (07:43):
I ain't need a witness my signon.
Speaker 10 (07:45):
Or something with them. Brannigan was in a hurry ship left,
he's out in front. I'll call here me in, Oh, Lettie,
come in here, will you?
Speaker 3 (07:55):
I want you to witness the signature.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
M dusk that evening the lone ranger and thought of
made camp near Santo. While they ate, they studied the
plateau that weird high by the surrounding ranches, the Rogan's Bluff.
They call it Tata, named after the man who built
a bridge to reach the top build Rogan. Why him
over there, for the same reason men have always gone
to places that were hard to reach. He thought there
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must be something worthwhile when he gets there. There have
been a lot of rumors about an ancient tribe of
Indians who buried a treasure on that plateau. That's not true.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Now.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
I don't know how the story started, but Grogan believed it,
and he made a pretty thorough search. There have been
a lot of guesses at how he managed to build
a bridge goes across the canyon fully two hundred.
Speaker 7 (08:41):
Feet an explosion.
Speaker 12 (08:43):
It's all right, so good to take it in deep away.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Yeah, you can see it tether. Yes, we were speaking
about that bridge. It's been blown up. Ah, Why that happened.
I suppose the men in town that we talked about before.
The bridge wasn't safe anymore, and there was always the
risk that someone would cross to the plateau and cave
in the bridge, or be caught in a plateau and
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a heavy wind destroyed the only way to get back
to safe ground. Now bridge gone. It's probably a good thing.
HiT's all right. Silver had a little scared, and jewel boy,
well it's all right now. M come to wonder. You
wonder what came of suthing? But all right? By them
blow up bridge acts? Do same work cost?
Speaker 7 (09:31):
And he left.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Well we'll ask about that when we get to town tomorrow.
I'll count on you to learn all about it. Tethers then,
but isn't the town I care to visit? Wearing a mask.
The next day, the stage arrived and sends.
Speaker 7 (09:55):
There's the mails act. Bless them some for them office.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
He's a passenger.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
The only passenger was a girl of eighteen. The guard
helped her to the grounds. Man, Oh, lawyer Lake, step
forward to meet her.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
How do you do? You must be Moley Harper.
Speaker 10 (10:12):
Oh, yes, my name is Lake, Miss Harper, at your service.
Speaker 9 (10:16):
I expected my grandfather.
Speaker 10 (10:17):
I thought he'd be here too, but I haven't seen
him since yesterday. I'm his lawyer, though, so perhaps you'd
allow me to serve you.
Speaker 9 (10:23):
I haven't decidest idea where his ranch is? Do you know?
Speaker 7 (10:26):
Do I know?
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Well?
Speaker 10 (10:27):
I should say so I guess everyone around here knows
Chef Harper's ranch.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
It's one of the finest in the county.
Speaker 10 (10:33):
Really, Yes, indeed, we'll take your bag and find a
rigged drive out there.
Speaker 9 (10:37):
I don't like to put you to trouble, mister name,
No trouble at all. Not.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
In fact, it'll be a pleasure.
Speaker 9 (10:42):
Well nice, I thought the western men were well, not
like to eat.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
We will try to make you like the country, Miss Harper,
lest get that human ragout. We are drive Miss Harper
the chef's tray.
Speaker 13 (10:58):
Right.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
There's a couple of visitors at the house.
Speaker 9 (11:08):
Yes, that's my grands.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
I don't recognize those horses you left it me, Oh,
never seen any one of them before.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Say that white one sure works, Paul.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Hello, look what incarnation?
Speaker 9 (11:21):
Say here?
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Stranger?
Speaker 7 (11:22):
What's the are you?
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Well? Of all the concert nerves? Who are you? Was
the question I had Lefty, I'll handle this. It's who
are you, stranger?
Speaker 2 (11:29):
I came to learn who owns this ranch. I haven't
seen any of the hands around the place yet.
Speaker 6 (11:33):
It's a Chef Harper's property, and it's a robbery. You're
planning your manage, lawyer Lake, I am that's what that's us.
I've heard descriptions of you at the hold. Please don't
be frightened by my mask.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Her on the dog?
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Sure, what about it?
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Dog?
Speaker 7 (11:47):
About the size of a colley?
Speaker 3 (11:48):
That's it, grubstake, he calls the critter.
Speaker 9 (11:50):
Where is Grandpa?
Speaker 7 (11:51):
Have you seen Grandpa? You were his granddaughter?
Speaker 3 (11:54):
From these? We don't opposed to stand here answer your questions,
and we're.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
All the men. I don't know, and I have no
other questions. Come, Tana, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Where is he? Yes, you were question over.
Speaker 12 (12:16):
I don't want to ask any more questions right now.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Tanta.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Now what we do? We're going back and have another.
Speaker 12 (12:21):
Look at the ground near that bridge.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Come on toward.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Oo.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
We know several things. The back trail had the old
chef Harper's home must have been chef who crossed the
bridge with his dog right and before he came back
the bridge was blown away. That means that he either
was on the bridge when it was destroyed, which would
have meant certain death, or he's on the plateau, which
means equally certain death, but not as quick him starve
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on There isn't any way on earth for him to
get off of there. Maybe he builds no bridge. It
would take weeks Tuther's and he'd be dead long before
anyone could cross. I wonder if we can't make him
hear it? You fire shot? Maybe I will.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Hello?
Speaker 7 (13:08):
Harper did not answer, nothing but the echo. I wonder
if this is murder. Maybe a girl one friend doesn't
seem that she'd plot.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
The murder of an old man. Harper and no answer.
Chemo Sami, and we get the groove and fluff. Hello,
where did you come from?
Speaker 7 (13:35):
Not o old boy?
Speaker 2 (13:38):
You've had a hard time of it.
Speaker 7 (13:39):
And PNDY tired here. They pulled some of his brambles off.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
What he was.
Speaker 7 (13:48):
He as he wanted me to follow. M h wait
you look what he track? A dog?
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Well this is the same dog the one that crossed
the bridge. Is there another way to get back from
that plateau?
Speaker 3 (13:59):
There is that? Never heard about it?
Speaker 7 (14:00):
We pull a dog, we wear him. Go all right, boy,
leave the way. We'll see where you go. We go
lead the horses. Come on, do' go long top canyon.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Look at where that dog's going. He's gone over the
edge of the canyon. Come on, it must be a
trail that we know nothing about.
Speaker 7 (14:16):
Here's where he went.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Down now we've no use t to is a trail
to the bottom, but it's less than four inches wide.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Only a dog would make it.
Speaker 7 (14:25):
But now we sure man.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
There's no clutching about it. That shep Harper's dog and
shepherds on the other side. He's heard her helpless.
Speaker 7 (14:32):
He devans at our crimes.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
We've got to find some way to help him. The
curtain falls on the first act of our Lone Ranger
story before the next exciting scenes leads formil Us to
pause for just a few moments.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
H h.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Now to continue our story. Jeff Harper's dog barked at
the Lone Ranger and Totto from the opposite rim of
the canyon. He seemed to be begging them to help
his master. Only a dog descend the narrow ledgs to
the canyon floor and scale the other side. And that
dog can't understand why we don't go and health his master.
Speaker 8 (16:07):
You got rope maybe left hunted down to bottom, and
that wouldn't help.
Speaker 12 (16:11):
Us heavy, you still couldn't get up the other side.
Speaker 7 (16:13):
And what we do a dog can cross? Can we
use that dog? Maybe rope reach over canyon? The rope
would be.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Too heavy, Noe couldn't possibly climb that wall the rope
tied to him.
Speaker 7 (16:25):
Wait, have a scheme, can get your bone. A good arrow,
some fishing cord.
Speaker 12 (16:29):
In my saddle bag is over you see the heavy boy.
Speaker 7 (16:34):
Here we are. This court is life but strong.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Tie one end of your arrow and shoot the arrow.
Pass that big rock on the right hand side. Shoot now, yes,
and look out for the dog. Dog want what we do?
If only that dog will do it we want. Go ahead,
let the arrow loose. Looks like a good shot.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Perfect boy, Look at that.
Speaker 11 (16:58):
Come on, he's picking up the arrow.
Speaker 12 (17:03):
Here, pull the cord paying out as the dog carries
the arrow, and I'm calling the dog come down this way.
You just go round back of the big rock over there.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Here more here, boy, come on, fellow, bring it here,
hang out the cord taddle.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
The dog followed a natural impulse to retrieve the arrow
in his mouth. He descended to the canyon floor once more. Then,
with the lone ranger encouraging him every inch of the way,
he crawled along the narrow shelf on the nearer side
of the cliff. Cordress is slow. Finally he reached the top,
and good boy, good for you. Now we have get
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your masters. Tabil areas both of them to the cord.
We'll pull them around that rock and fasten them on
the side, and we go over. With two strong ropes
across that chasm, we can reach the other side, Mollie
Harper's stated at Chep's wrench. But in spite of the
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efforts of every run around the place to make her
feel at home, she became more and more worried about
her grandfather's absence. Maul Meigs, who handled the housework and cooking,
found it almost impossible to reassure her.
Speaker 14 (18:14):
And oh no, miss Mary, I can recollect your time.
When shep was gone from here for over six weeks,
we'll never know where was it. But he come back
surprised ever.
Speaker 9 (18:23):
But it's been a week now, and he knew I'd
be here. He wouldn't say this long or not leave
somewhere for me. He can't tell.
Speaker 14 (18:29):
He's pretty absent minded sometimes now don't too pregnant, and.
Speaker 9 (18:33):
He's all right.
Speaker 14 (18:34):
No news is good news, I will saying, hope. So
one thing I wanted to make a mention of, miss Mary,
and I hope you won't think of an old fool
for bringing it up.
Speaker 9 (18:44):
What is it.
Speaker 14 (18:45):
It's about that lawyer Jans mister Lee. Oh, yes, he's
been called and frequent. Now, I wouldn't get too friendly
with him if I was you not here. The Grandpa
gets bad, very gentlemanly. Well, I seem sometimes, ain't He's
always been friendly with left the Horner and back Brannigan,
and they ain't them are worth first couple of lives
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than them too. Judge a man by his company, I
always say. Mister Lake mentioned him. Didn't he loan Grandpa.
Speaker 9 (19:11):
A lot of money? Oh?
Speaker 14 (19:13):
I know him.
Speaker 9 (19:13):
That's funny. Mister Lake said he did. But I never
got into your grandpa's personal favor Back mister Lake hinted
that if something happened to Grandpa, I mightn't have a
ranch here.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
That's loco.
Speaker 14 (19:24):
Why your grandpa ordersted Lisner to you, That's why he
wanted to hear.
Speaker 9 (19:29):
I don't know. I just wish you'd come back.
Speaker 7 (19:44):
Another week elapsed.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Then one afternoon, as Molly was sitting on the front porch,
three men rode up to the ranch house.
Speaker 9 (19:51):
Who are those memes that Lake?
Speaker 14 (19:53):
A big one is Brannigan, the other one is Lefty.
That I made mention of fine pair of sidewinders.
Speaker 9 (19:59):
I'm going into you.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Do, Miss Molly, how I'm afraid I come and to
bring her noons? It won't be pleasant cramp indirectly. Oh,
this is mister Brannigan.
Speaker 12 (20:08):
Hardy, Miss, I'm downright glad to know you.
Speaker 10 (20:10):
Brannigan just returned to town. He's been away for two weeks.
In fact, he left the same day your grandfather came
to my office.
Speaker 6 (20:16):
Well, that was the day I signed my name to
Grandpappy's will.
Speaker 10 (20:19):
Miss Molly, I'll do the talk to her. Go ahead there,
miss Molly. That afternoon, your grandfather met Brannigan and told
him he was gone to Grogan's Bluff. You've heard about
the bluff.
Speaker 9 (20:29):
Of course, why should Grandpa go there?
Speaker 3 (20:31):
He had some secret reason, but he didn't tell Bradigan
what it was. Bradigan left town, and when he came
back and told me where Shepherd started for, I realized
an awful truth.
Speaker 10 (20:40):
You know, there'd been a meeting of the town board
and it was decided to destroy the bridge.
Speaker 7 (20:44):
To the bluff.
Speaker 10 (20:45):
It was a safety major. You see, they're gonna hand
be in town for some time. Announcement the explosion would
take place some time after sundown and warning everyone to stay.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Away, and Grandpa went there. That's what I'm afraid is
the case.
Speaker 10 (20:58):
He might still be there if he went there, Miss Molly,
he would be starved to death long before this.
Speaker 9 (21:04):
That's what happened then, right.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
I can't begin to tell you how sorry I am.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
I knew something had happened to him.
Speaker 9 (21:12):
Why didn't someone tell him? Why wasn't he one?
Speaker 11 (21:15):
I didn't know about the blasting plans my own self
when he told me he was going there.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
They had read it all late.
Speaker 10 (21:20):
If only I had come back to town ten days ago,
there still would have been time to send a rescue
party to get him.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Even that would be almost impossible as it stands though,
he's dead for sure.
Speaker 10 (21:33):
Had a go into the house and cry it out,
then she'll be better able to listen to the rest
of what we have to tell her.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Right, I hate the scheme. A swell girl like her
out and her hair.
Speaker 7 (21:41):
Shut up, Brannigan.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Remember it's out of your hands now. I know you
got that wheeler.
Speaker 7 (21:45):
Ship's with you. Leake right here in my pocket.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
As soon as we've given her time to cry it out,
we'll go and talk to her. Look what's coming I
saw him before. Who is he? I don't know, Brannigan,
So I'm right here. Once before I had no.
Speaker 12 (21:58):
Idea you'd be here, Lake here that Rennigan had returned
to town.
Speaker 7 (22:01):
Well, what do you want? Where's granddaughter? That's none of
your business? See him? Ask me. I can't go in there.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
I want authority.
Speaker 7 (22:09):
Do you plan to stop me?
Speaker 11 (22:11):
I'll tell you why I planned to stop you?
Speaker 10 (22:12):
Is your answers Minigan, We'll go inside, perhaps, stranger. If
you sell me your business, I'd be more willing to
talk to you.
Speaker 7 (22:19):
Now.
Speaker 14 (22:21):
You have a good cry, you feel the sid Who
are you.
Speaker 7 (22:25):
A friend of Chef Poper?
Speaker 9 (22:27):
Grandpa?
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (22:32):
How do you know that Lake?
Speaker 10 (22:33):
He went to Grogan's Bluff? No one except Brannigan knew
he was going there the day the bridge was destroyed.
Didn't he return from Brogan's Bluff?
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Obviously or not? He hasn't been seen by this time.
He starved for that there.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
He wrote that news to Misshapper. I thought you should
know just how did he happened to go to Grogan's
Bluff that day?
Speaker 3 (22:50):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (22:51):
He didn't tell me why he went there. He didn't know.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Now what are you asking all these here? Questions for
ain't none of your business, Renigan.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Can't you think of any reason why Chef might have
gone to Grogan's bluff?
Speaker 7 (23:01):
No?
Speaker 2 (23:02):
I can't, of course, Lake, you plan to have a
rescue party, go and try and get them off.
Speaker 10 (23:06):
No use, Now you have died long before this. What
was nearly two weeks ago he went there? I see
you better get out of here and leave miss Harper.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
With more meigs. It's been quite a shock to her.
Speaker 12 (23:17):
There are a few details to settle first, Lake, Well,
please be quick. You told miss Harper, of course, the
terms of her grandfather's will.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
How do you know what them? Terms are?
Speaker 7 (23:25):
The chef made a will, didn't he you?
Speaker 3 (23:27):
To me?
Speaker 9 (23:27):
He did?
Speaker 3 (23:28):
If I denied the fact? Of course he made a
will and his.
Speaker 12 (23:30):
Rancho and property goes to his granddaughter.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Well, it's a matter of no.
Speaker 12 (23:35):
I don't, of course, how you know about it, Brannigan.
Speaker 10 (23:37):
The fact is Brannigham has promised this ranch to pay
off a large debt.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Harper ode Is that true?
Speaker 10 (23:42):
Yes, Sheff Harpers will gives everything he owned to his
dear friend and benefactor of mister BRANDI.
Speaker 9 (23:46):
Can't believe that ain't true. It ain't so Lake.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Can you know I'm sorry, I'm not going to discuss
the point. I have the will here.
Speaker 10 (23:53):
Staring righting, and it's witness Hry witness the sign and
of it by Chef.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Harper moons her.
Speaker 10 (23:57):
Miss Molly. If you know your grandfather's I'm sure you
recognize this.
Speaker 9 (24:04):
Then if it looks like grandpas, I don't believe it.
Speaker 7 (24:07):
I see that. I'm afraid, miss Harper, that this is
perfectly legal.
Speaker 14 (24:12):
And Shep didn't know what he was signing. I know
for sure he never owed Bannigan.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Okay, I'm in no position to discuss that matter more.
There's the will, and it's not for me to argue.
Speaker 12 (24:19):
The law will have to decide if.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Chef is dead, Miss Harper. There isn't no thing that
you can do about this. You'll just have to move
off this ranch.
Speaker 10 (24:26):
I tried to prepare you for this, Molly, without preparing
any competences.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
You remember I hinted you might need employment.
Speaker 9 (24:32):
You'll fight that, you will money, fight it tooth and nail.
There ain't the way Chef playing.
Speaker 6 (24:37):
Things at all.
Speaker 12 (24:38):
It will do no good to fight it, will it
le not a bit.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
The only way that will could be made, Boyd would
be for Chef himself to make a new one, and
he can't do that.
Speaker 7 (24:46):
Why huh, why.
Speaker 12 (24:48):
Why can't Chef make a new will?
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Because he's dead?
Speaker 12 (24:51):
So that was merely your idea, of Brennigan. He couldn't
get off Brogan's bluff with a bridge gone he could,
In fact, Brendangan, he.
Speaker 13 (24:56):
Did across from Cook.
Speaker 9 (25:00):
I order your where you stand.
Speaker 12 (25:02):
It's a friend, don't you, Bunnigan?
Speaker 7 (25:04):
Friend? As they're covered, let mean watch them.
Speaker 12 (25:06):
The sheriff has come along in the shift, yes, to make
show that you don't get too hard to handle.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Hey, thank, what's going wrong?
Speaker 9 (25:11):
I'll tell you what went wrong.
Speaker 13 (25:12):
My dog, old grub Steak, got off on the bluff
and found that mask man.
Speaker 12 (25:16):
He managed the dogs helped to reach the bluff you.
Speaker 13 (25:18):
See, and that pitfoil you fixed for me to fall
into work Just right, Bannigan, I've been done for if
the mask man hadn't got to me and fixed me
where I was hurt and took care of me while
we see.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
What your steam was.
Speaker 9 (25:29):
Why did you go to the bluff?
Speaker 3 (25:30):
I went there because.
Speaker 13 (25:31):
Brannigan says, you comminerally and seen the bluff and wanted
to look her over, and that you was waiting there.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
For me when there was a.
Speaker 9 (25:36):
Dog going old?
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Who will swallow that yard? I ain't see the hulving.
Speaker 13 (25:39):
Now I see why you smashed my glasses, Brannigan sos.
I wouldn't know a different will was stuck upore me
by that cooking lawyer.
Speaker 9 (25:46):
Thank goodness your bags and all right, I'm as right
as rain now.
Speaker 13 (25:49):
The mask gent and his engine powder better than any
saw bombs I ever knowed when it comes to patching
up an older, who'd.
Speaker 9 (25:55):
Rip me or ship?
Speaker 7 (25:56):
Why had drunker?
Speaker 9 (25:57):
Didn't you let us know you was bad?
Speaker 13 (25:59):
I wanted to do, but the gent there figured it
was best to set tight and see what game was
being plaid. Well we seen, and now we can jail
and producers. It won't be paid again.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
You've heard all you need to like outside I demand
to be heard like your demands in court.
Speaker 12 (26:13):
The judge is paid to listen to you, all of him.
Speaker 7 (26:16):
How will the pair off his wedding changer?
Speaker 4 (26:18):
Don't go, and I gotta do something for you.
Speaker 12 (26:20):
You rolled out, and chef go on in dust. You're home,
d well.
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Speaker 2 (00:49):
Acquirey hoard look, Beat of Life, A cloud of dark
to the hearty Hi, Old Hoover.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
The old Ranger.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Had stunt and has past. Whenever men gathered around the
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campfire in the early days of the Western United States,
stories were told of the masked right of the Plane.
His strength and courage, his daring and resourcefulness made it
possible for him to bring criminal after criminal to justice,
even when all the forces of the law had failed.
It was he, more than any other man, who made
possible the winning of the West. Return with us, none
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of those fillings days of yesteryear. A out of the past.
On the thundering hoof beats of the great horse Silver,
the lone Ranger rides again home Silver.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
We're heading for broken Flock.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
Hello, Horse High sil Away.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
A little town of San Salvo lay at the foot
of one of the natural wonders in the West. A
great mass of brilliant red sandstone streaked with yellow rose
from the plains. The men and women of the surrounding
country had come to accept the bluff as a matter
of course, and as old Chef Harper rode along the
main street of San Salvo, he raised his voice and song,
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but he never lifted his eyes toward the towering rock.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Bow down, toozy, go down and suity, bow down and
suit the all gray gorses. Yah, whoa, whoa?
Speaker 4 (04:06):
He then Albanzo, why's he?
Speaker 6 (04:07):
Mister Lake?
Speaker 3 (04:08):
You'll be still do rep stake?
Speaker 7 (04:13):
Answer?
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Yeah, I got a right to for you.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
So my granddaughter is doing here on the morning stage.
Speaker 7 (04:19):
No, that's so.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
It just so. Here's Lawyer Lake in his office there.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
I got business with him.
Speaker 8 (04:25):
He's there, Chef listen, Layer Lakes, mighty shrewd cuss.
Speaker 7 (04:31):
I wouldn't go trust him none too.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Far he ain't.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
But Lake in town couldn't see no other lawyer because
he ain't none sides. He can't swindle me none alls.
I'm having him do is make up my wheel?
Speaker 7 (04:42):
Will What do you want of a wheel? When fixed
him to die?
Speaker 9 (04:46):
Are you guysh No?
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Only I want to make sure Molly gets my ransom linstocked.
If something happened, I don't want no dog gone relatives.
I ain't never seen him come hooking anywhere. My he's
coming to live with me, and I'm to make sure
she's well too.
Speaker 8 (05:03):
Care of Lake's inside, Chef, but remember this, keep your
spectacles good and clean while you're dealing with his kind.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Oh you worry, watch my dog and horse will.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
And morning, mister Lake, we'll ship. I'm glad to see you.
I fixed up your will and testament the way yeah,
ill clanging it good enough. I'm here to sign her
up and have it all set legal.
Speaker 10 (05:28):
To sit right down here and look it over. Make
sure it's the way you wanted. I'll win the other
room and ask some prince to come on with mister
signature right. If it just make yourself comfortable, Ship, I
won't belong and take your time.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
I read snow and dog.
Speaker 10 (05:41):
Going careful, Renigan. He's out there now, old chef. Yeah,
I get this straight, Renigan. If we play it right,
we'll be the new owners of Chef Happer's big ranch,
all right enough, And i'd like better. It'll be a
tough lot of luck for that granddaughter of chefs to
come here and find the old man and her left
without a dime. But you'll have to make the best teller.
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Maybe you'll feel real generous and find her a job
in your law. I mean, she's a handsome girl to
be a will what's my part? And I can't use
you as a witness because you're the one that's inherit
the property. I'll call left if from outside the witness
the wheel and to inherit the spread, and we will
fix some sort of story about shef Harper own you
a lot of cash. You can tell that around a
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couple of places between none and time that old sheep.
Speaker 7 (06:26):
Dies, tell her that he owes me money.
Speaker 10 (06:27):
Eh here, but what about you pass him as you
go out and bump into him and knock his glasses off?
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Then I switch papers and he signed this on. It
won't work late.
Speaker 11 (06:36):
Why that girl comes tomorrow and the first thing she
hears from Sheper is that he's made a wheel. You
know how important that'll seem to an old coop like him.
You tell everyone about No, he won't. You don't figure
on killing him right off, do you? That won't do either.
It'll raise too many questions.
Speaker 10 (06:51):
Brandigan, shef Harper is going to starve to death, and
you're going to help him. Go on, we'll go further
after I get his name on the wheel. I remember eyeglasses.
You can't read without them, right?
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Come on?
Speaker 7 (07:06):
Can you make it.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
Out all right?
Speaker 7 (07:07):
Ship? Oh?
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Sure, sure, ain't much do it, mister? I leave more.
I got tomorrow.
Speaker 11 (07:12):
This is Brannigan. You know him, don't you. I'm reckon soell,
glad to see you again. Hopper, I uh, I gotta
be leaving my confounded. I turped right over that chair. Say,
I'm sorry about your spectacles.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Gave right it all. Why don't you watch where you're going?
Unfortunate unfortunate share.
Speaker 7 (07:32):
I'm sorry, shep Look, I'll buy you a new pair.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Why that extra one's down? But hang and I had
to send all the way to sing Joe for them.
You send for some more and I'll pay for them.
I'll see you later, mister Bake.
Speaker 7 (07:43):
You're right.
Speaker 12 (07:43):
I ain't need a witness my signon.
Speaker 10 (07:45):
Or something with them. Brannigan was in a hurry ship left,
he's out in front. I'll call here me in, Oh, Lettie,
come in here, will you?
Speaker 3 (07:55):
I want you to witness the signature.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
M dusk that evening the lone ranger and thought of
made camp near Santo. While they ate, they studied the
plateau that weird high by the surrounding ranches, the Rogan's Bluff.
They call it Tata, named after the man who built
a bridge to reach the top build Rogan. Why him
over there, for the same reason men have always gone
to places that were hard to reach. He thought there
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must be something worthwhile when he gets there. There have
been a lot of rumors about an ancient tribe of
Indians who buried a treasure on that plateau. That's not true.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Now.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
I don't know how the story started, but Grogan believed it,
and he made a pretty thorough search. There have been
a lot of guesses at how he managed to build
a bridge goes across the canyon fully two hundred.
Speaker 7 (08:41):
Feet an explosion.
Speaker 12 (08:43):
It's all right, so good to take it in deep away.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Yeah, you can see it tether. Yes, we were speaking
about that bridge. It's been blown up. Ah, Why that happened.
I suppose the men in town that we talked about before.
The bridge wasn't safe anymore, and there was always the
risk that someone would cross to the plateau and cave
in the bridge, or be caught in a plateau and
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a heavy wind destroyed the only way to get back
to safe ground. Now bridge gone. It's probably a good thing.
HiT's all right. Silver had a little scared, and jewel boy,
well it's all right now. M come to wonder. You
wonder what came of suthing? But all right? By them
blow up bridge acts? Do same work cost?
Speaker 7 (09:31):
And he left.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Well we'll ask about that when we get to town tomorrow.
I'll count on you to learn all about it. Tethers then,
but isn't the town I care to visit? Wearing a mask.
The next day, the stage arrived and sends.
Speaker 7 (09:55):
There's the mails act. Bless them some for them office.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
He's a passenger.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
The only passenger was a girl of eighteen. The guard
helped her to the grounds. Man, Oh, lawyer Lake, step
forward to meet her.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
How do you do? You must be Moley Harper.
Speaker 10 (10:12):
Oh, yes, my name is Lake, Miss Harper, at your service.
Speaker 9 (10:16):
I expected my grandfather.
Speaker 10 (10:17):
I thought he'd be here too, but I haven't seen
him since yesterday. I'm his lawyer, though, so perhaps you'd
allow me to serve you.
Speaker 9 (10:23):
I haven't decidest idea where his ranch is? Do you know?
Speaker 7 (10:26):
Do I know?
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Well?
Speaker 10 (10:27):
I should say so I guess everyone around here knows
Chef Harper's ranch.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
It's one of the finest in the county.
Speaker 10 (10:33):
Really, Yes, indeed, we'll take your bag and find a
rigged drive out there.
Speaker 9 (10:37):
I don't like to put you to trouble, mister name,
No trouble at all. Not.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
In fact, it'll be a pleasure.
Speaker 9 (10:42):
Well nice, I thought the western men were well, not
like to eat.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
We will try to make you like the country, Miss Harper,
lest get that human ragout. We are drive Miss Harper
the chef's tray.
Speaker 13 (10:58):
Right.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
There's a couple of visitors at the house.
Speaker 9 (11:08):
Yes, that's my grands.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
I don't recognize those horses you left it me, Oh,
never seen any one of them before.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Say that white one sure works, Paul.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Hello, look what incarnation?
Speaker 9 (11:21):
Say here?
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Stranger?
Speaker 7 (11:22):
What's the are you?
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Well? Of all the concert nerves? Who are you? Was
the question I had Lefty, I'll handle this. It's who
are you, stranger?
Speaker 2 (11:29):
I came to learn who owns this ranch. I haven't
seen any of the hands around the place yet.
Speaker 6 (11:33):
It's a Chef Harper's property, and it's a robbery. You're
planning your manage, lawyer Lake, I am that's what that's us.
I've heard descriptions of you at the hold. Please don't
be frightened by my mask.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Her on the dog?
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Sure, what about it?
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Dog?
Speaker 7 (11:47):
About the size of a colley?
Speaker 3 (11:48):
That's it, grubstake, he calls the critter.
Speaker 9 (11:50):
Where is Grandpa?
Speaker 7 (11:51):
Have you seen Grandpa? You were his granddaughter?
Speaker 3 (11:54):
From these? We don't opposed to stand here answer your questions,
and we're.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
All the men. I don't know, and I have no
other questions. Come, Tana, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Where is he? Yes, you were question over.
Speaker 12 (12:16):
I don't want to ask any more questions right now.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Tanta.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Now what we do? We're going back and have another.
Speaker 12 (12:21):
Look at the ground near that bridge.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Come on toward.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Oo.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
We know several things. The back trail had the old
chef Harper's home must have been chef who crossed the
bridge with his dog right and before he came back
the bridge was blown away. That means that he either
was on the bridge when it was destroyed, which would
have meant certain death, or he's on the plateau, which
means equally certain death, but not as quick him starve
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on There isn't any way on earth for him to
get off of there. Maybe he builds no bridge. It
would take weeks Tuther's and he'd be dead long before
anyone could cross. I wonder if we can't make him
hear it? You fire shot? Maybe I will.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Hello?
Speaker 7 (13:08):
Harper did not answer, nothing but the echo. I wonder
if this is murder. Maybe a girl one friend doesn't
seem that she'd plot.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
The murder of an old man. Harper and no answer.
Chemo Sami, and we get the groove and fluff. Hello,
where did you come from?
Speaker 7 (13:35):
Not o old boy?
Speaker 2 (13:38):
You've had a hard time of it.
Speaker 7 (13:39):
And PNDY tired here. They pulled some of his brambles off.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
What he was.
Speaker 7 (13:48):
He as he wanted me to follow. M h wait
you look what he track? A dog?
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Well this is the same dog the one that crossed
the bridge. Is there another way to get back from
that plateau?
Speaker 3 (13:59):
There is that? Never heard about it?
Speaker 7 (14:00):
We pull a dog, we wear him. Go all right, boy,
leave the way. We'll see where you go. We go
lead the horses. Come on, do' go long top canyon.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Look at where that dog's going. He's gone over the
edge of the canyon. Come on, it must be a
trail that we know nothing about.
Speaker 7 (14:16):
Here's where he went.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Down now we've no use t to is a trail
to the bottom, but it's less than four inches wide.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Only a dog would make it.
Speaker 7 (14:25):
But now we sure man.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
There's no clutching about it. That shep Harper's dog and
shepherds on the other side. He's heard her helpless.
Speaker 7 (14:32):
He devans at our crimes.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
We've got to find some way to help him. The
curtain falls on the first act of our Lone Ranger
story before the next exciting scenes leads formil Us to
pause for just a few moments.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
H h.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Now to continue our story. Jeff Harper's dog barked at
the Lone Ranger and Totto from the opposite rim of
the canyon. He seemed to be begging them to help
his master. Only a dog descend the narrow ledgs to
the canyon floor and scale the other side. And that
dog can't understand why we don't go and health his master.
Speaker 8 (16:07):
You got rope maybe left hunted down to bottom, and
that wouldn't help.
Speaker 12 (16:11):
Us heavy, you still couldn't get up the other side.
Speaker 7 (16:13):
And what we do a dog can cross? Can we
use that dog? Maybe rope reach over canyon? The rope
would be.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Too heavy, Noe couldn't possibly climb that wall the rope
tied to him.
Speaker 7 (16:25):
Wait, have a scheme, can get your bone. A good arrow,
some fishing cord.
Speaker 12 (16:29):
In my saddle bag is over you see the heavy boy.
Speaker 7 (16:34):
Here we are. This court is life but strong.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Tie one end of your arrow and shoot the arrow.
Pass that big rock on the right hand side. Shoot now, yes,
and look out for the dog. Dog want what we do?
If only that dog will do it we want. Go ahead,
let the arrow loose. Looks like a good shot.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Perfect boy, Look at that.
Speaker 11 (16:58):
Come on, he's picking up the arrow.
Speaker 12 (17:03):
Here, pull the cord paying out as the dog carries
the arrow, and I'm calling the dog come down this way.
You just go round back of the big rock over there.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Here more here, boy, come on, fellow, bring it here,
hang out the cord taddle.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
The dog followed a natural impulse to retrieve the arrow
in his mouth. He descended to the canyon floor once more. Then,
with the lone ranger encouraging him every inch of the way,
he crawled along the narrow shelf on the nearer side
of the cliff. Cordress is slow. Finally he reached the top,
and good boy, good for you. Now we have get
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your masters. Tabil areas both of them to the cord.
We'll pull them around that rock and fasten them on
the side, and we go over. With two strong ropes
across that chasm, we can reach the other side, Mollie
Harper's stated at Chep's wrench. But in spite of the
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efforts of every run around the place to make her
feel at home, she became more and more worried about
her grandfather's absence. Maul Meigs, who handled the housework and cooking,
found it almost impossible to reassure her.
Speaker 14 (18:14):
And oh no, miss Mary, I can recollect your time.
When shep was gone from here for over six weeks,
we'll never know where was it. But he come back
surprised ever.
Speaker 9 (18:23):
But it's been a week now, and he knew I'd
be here. He wouldn't say this long or not leave
somewhere for me. He can't tell.
Speaker 14 (18:29):
He's pretty absent minded sometimes now don't too pregnant, and.
Speaker 9 (18:33):
He's all right.
Speaker 14 (18:34):
No news is good news, I will saying, hope. So
one thing I wanted to make a mention of, miss Mary,
and I hope you won't think of an old fool
for bringing it up.
Speaker 9 (18:44):
What is it.
Speaker 14 (18:45):
It's about that lawyer Jans mister Lee. Oh, yes, he's
been called and frequent. Now, I wouldn't get too friendly
with him if I was you not here. The Grandpa
gets bad, very gentlemanly. Well, I seem sometimes, ain't He's
always been friendly with left the Horner and back Brannigan,
and they ain't them are worth first couple of lives
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than them too. Judge a man by his company, I
always say. Mister Lake mentioned him. Didn't he loan Grandpa.
Speaker 9 (19:11):
A lot of money? Oh?
Speaker 14 (19:13):
I know him.
Speaker 9 (19:13):
That's funny. Mister Lake said he did. But I never
got into your grandpa's personal favor Back mister Lake hinted
that if something happened to Grandpa, I mightn't have a
ranch here.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
That's loco.
Speaker 14 (19:24):
Why your grandpa ordersted Lisner to you, That's why he
wanted to hear.
Speaker 9 (19:29):
I don't know. I just wish you'd come back.
Speaker 7 (19:44):
Another week elapsed.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Then one afternoon, as Molly was sitting on the front porch,
three men rode up to the ranch house.
Speaker 9 (19:51):
Who are those memes that Lake?
Speaker 14 (19:53):
A big one is Brannigan, the other one is Lefty.
That I made mention of fine pair of sidewinders.
Speaker 9 (19:59):
I'm going into you.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Do, Miss Molly, how I'm afraid I come and to
bring her noons? It won't be pleasant cramp indirectly. Oh,
this is mister Brannigan.
Speaker 12 (20:08):
Hardy, Miss, I'm downright glad to know you.
Speaker 10 (20:10):
Brannigan just returned to town. He's been away for two weeks.
In fact, he left the same day your grandfather came
to my office.
Speaker 6 (20:16):
Well, that was the day I signed my name to
Grandpappy's will.
Speaker 10 (20:19):
Miss Molly, I'll do the talk to her. Go ahead there,
miss Molly. That afternoon, your grandfather met Brannigan and told
him he was gone to Grogan's Bluff. You've heard about
the bluff.
Speaker 9 (20:29):
Of course, why should Grandpa go there?
Speaker 3 (20:31):
He had some secret reason, but he didn't tell Bradigan
what it was. Bradigan left town, and when he came
back and told me where Shepherd started for, I realized
an awful truth.
Speaker 10 (20:40):
You know, there'd been a meeting of the town board
and it was decided to destroy the bridge.
Speaker 7 (20:44):
To the bluff.
Speaker 10 (20:45):
It was a safety major. You see, they're gonna hand
be in town for some time. Announcement the explosion would
take place some time after sundown and warning everyone to stay.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Away, and Grandpa went there. That's what I'm afraid is
the case.
Speaker 10 (20:58):
He might still be there if he went there, Miss Molly,
he would be starved to death long before this.
Speaker 9 (21:04):
That's what happened then, right.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
I can't begin to tell you how sorry I am.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
I knew something had happened to him.
Speaker 9 (21:12):
Why didn't someone tell him? Why wasn't he one?
Speaker 11 (21:15):
I didn't know about the blasting plans my own self
when he told me he was going there.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
They had read it all late.
Speaker 10 (21:20):
If only I had come back to town ten days ago,
there still would have been time to send a rescue
party to get him.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Even that would be almost impossible as it stands though,
he's dead for sure.
Speaker 10 (21:33):
Had a go into the house and cry it out,
then she'll be better able to listen to the rest
of what we have to tell her.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Right, I hate the scheme. A swell girl like her
out and her hair.
Speaker 7 (21:41):
Shut up, Brannigan.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Remember it's out of your hands now. I know you
got that wheeler.
Speaker 7 (21:45):
Ship's with you. Leake right here in my pocket.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
As soon as we've given her time to cry it out,
we'll go and talk to her. Look what's coming I
saw him before. Who is he? I don't know, Brannigan,
So I'm right here. Once before I had no.
Speaker 12 (21:58):
Idea you'd be here, Lake here that Rennigan had returned
to town.
Speaker 7 (22:01):
Well, what do you want? Where's granddaughter? That's none of
your business? See him? Ask me. I can't go in there.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
I want authority.
Speaker 7 (22:09):
Do you plan to stop me?
Speaker 11 (22:11):
I'll tell you why I planned to stop you?
Speaker 10 (22:12):
Is your answers Minigan, We'll go inside, perhaps, stranger. If
you sell me your business, I'd be more willing to
talk to you.
Speaker 7 (22:19):
Now.
Speaker 14 (22:21):
You have a good cry, you feel the sid Who
are you.
Speaker 7 (22:25):
A friend of Chef Poper?
Speaker 9 (22:27):
Grandpa?
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (22:32):
How do you know that Lake?
Speaker 10 (22:33):
He went to Grogan's Bluff? No one except Brannigan knew
he was going there the day the bridge was destroyed.
Didn't he return from Brogan's Bluff?
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Obviously or not? He hasn't been seen by this time.
He starved for that there.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
He wrote that news to Misshapper. I thought you should
know just how did he happened to go to Grogan's
Bluff that day?
Speaker 3 (22:50):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (22:51):
He didn't tell me why he went there. He didn't know.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Now what are you asking all these here? Questions for
ain't none of your business, Renigan.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Can't you think of any reason why Chef might have
gone to Grogan's bluff?
Speaker 7 (23:01):
No?
Speaker 2 (23:02):
I can't, of course, Lake, you plan to have a
rescue party, go and try and get them off.
Speaker 10 (23:06):
No use, Now you have died long before this. What
was nearly two weeks ago he went there? I see
you better get out of here and leave miss Harper.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
With more meigs. It's been quite a shock to her.
Speaker 12 (23:17):
There are a few details to settle first, Lake, Well,
please be quick. You told miss Harper, of course, the
terms of her grandfather's will.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
How do you know what them? Terms are?
Speaker 7 (23:25):
The chef made a will, didn't he you?
Speaker 3 (23:27):
To me?
Speaker 9 (23:27):
He did?
Speaker 3 (23:28):
If I denied the fact? Of course he made a
will and his.
Speaker 12 (23:30):
Rancho and property goes to his granddaughter.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Well, it's a matter of no.
Speaker 12 (23:35):
I don't, of course, how you know about it, Brannigan.
Speaker 10 (23:37):
The fact is Brannigham has promised this ranch to pay
off a large debt.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Harper ode Is that true?
Speaker 10 (23:42):
Yes, Sheff Harpers will gives everything he owned to his
dear friend and benefactor of mister BRANDI.
Speaker 9 (23:46):
Can't believe that ain't true. It ain't so Lake.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Can you know I'm sorry, I'm not going to discuss
the point. I have the will here.
Speaker 10 (23:53):
Staring righting, and it's witness Hry witness the sign and
of it by Chef.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Harper moons her.
Speaker 10 (23:57):
Miss Molly. If you know your grandfather's I'm sure you
recognize this.
Speaker 9 (24:04):
Then if it looks like grandpas, I don't believe it.
Speaker 7 (24:07):
I see that. I'm afraid, miss Harper, that this is
perfectly legal.
Speaker 14 (24:12):
And Shep didn't know what he was signing. I know
for sure he never owed Bannigan.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Okay, I'm in no position to discuss that matter more.
There's the will, and it's not for me to argue.
Speaker 12 (24:19):
The law will have to decide if.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Chef is dead, Miss Harper. There isn't no thing that
you can do about this. You'll just have to move
off this ranch.
Speaker 10 (24:26):
I tried to prepare you for this, Molly, without preparing
any competences.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
You remember I hinted you might need employment.
Speaker 9 (24:32):
You'll fight that, you will money, fight it tooth and nail.
There ain't the way Chef playing.
Speaker 6 (24:37):
Things at all.
Speaker 12 (24:38):
It will do no good to fight it, will it
le not a bit.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
The only way that will could be made, Boyd would
be for Chef himself to make a new one, and
he can't do that.
Speaker 7 (24:46):
Why huh, why.
Speaker 12 (24:48):
Why can't Chef make a new will?
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Because he's dead?
Speaker 12 (24:51):
So that was merely your idea, of Brennigan. He couldn't
get off Brogan's bluff with a bridge gone he could,
In fact, Brendangan, he.
Speaker 13 (24:56):
Did across from Cook.
Speaker 9 (25:00):
I order your where you stand.
Speaker 12 (25:02):
It's a friend, don't you, Bunnigan?
Speaker 7 (25:04):
Friend? As they're covered, let mean watch them.
Speaker 12 (25:06):
The sheriff has come along in the shift, yes, to make
show that you don't get too hard to handle.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Hey, thank, what's going wrong?
Speaker 9 (25:11):
I'll tell you what went wrong.
Speaker 13 (25:12):
My dog, old grub Steak, got off on the bluff
and found that mask man.
Speaker 12 (25:16):
He managed the dogs helped to reach the bluff you.
Speaker 13 (25:18):
See, and that pitfoil you fixed for me to fall
into work Just right, Bannigan, I've been done for if
the mask man hadn't got to me and fixed me
where I was hurt and took care of me while
we see.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
What your steam was.
Speaker 9 (25:29):
Why did you go to the bluff?
Speaker 3 (25:30):
I went there because.
Speaker 13 (25:31):
Brannigan says, you comminerally and seen the bluff and wanted
to look her over, and that you was waiting there.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
For me when there was a.
Speaker 9 (25:36):
Dog going old?
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Who will swallow that yard? I ain't see the hulving.
Speaker 13 (25:39):
Now I see why you smashed my glasses, Brannigan sos.
I wouldn't know a different will was stuck upore me
by that cooking lawyer.
Speaker 9 (25:46):
Thank goodness your bags and all right, I'm as right
as rain now.
Speaker 13 (25:49):
The mask gent and his engine powder better than any
saw bombs I ever knowed when it comes to patching
up an older, who'd.
Speaker 9 (25:55):
Rip me or ship?
Speaker 7 (25:56):
Why had drunker?
Speaker 9 (25:57):
Didn't you let us know you was bad?
Speaker 13 (25:59):
I wanted to do, but the gent there figured it
was best to set tight and see what game was
being plaid. Well we seen, and now we can jail
and producers. It won't be paid again.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
You've heard all you need to like outside I demand
to be heard like your demands in court.
Speaker 12 (26:13):
The judge is paid to listen to you, all of him.
Speaker 7 (26:16):
How will the pair off his wedding changer?
Speaker 4 (26:18):
Don't go, and I gotta do something for you.
Speaker 12 (26:20):
You rolled out, and chef go on in dust. You're home,
d well.
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