July 26, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Around Dodge City, entered the territory on West. There's just
one way to handle the killers and the spoilers, and
that's with a US Marshall and the smell of guns smoke,
(00:38):
gun spoke, storrying William Conrad. The story of the violence
that moved west with Young America, The story of a
man who moved with it. Matt Dillon, United States Marshall?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Is he heavy?
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Met?
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Somehow it was easier carrying him up to your office
and backs down?
Speaker 5 (01:22):
Doctor?
Speaker 6 (01:23):
Where are you gonna put me, mister Dylan?
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Yeah, well on the couch here, I guess ah, he'll
be all right there Chester Oh yes.
Speaker 6 (01:34):
Or this will be fine. I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Sorry, I'm so much trouble chest. And next time try
to land on just one foot.
Speaker 6 (01:42):
Even if you break a leg. And I know a
man's in a.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Terrible fix when he springs booth ankles.
Speaker 6 (01:48):
And he sure he is, Doc, I don't know what
I'm gonna do.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
I know what you're gonna do. You're gonna stay right
there on that couch. You're gonna sleep there too, maybe, Doc,
and I will bring you in something to eat every
day or two. Oh no, it's better than you deserve.
Speaker 6 (02:02):
I know I've been a saying over and over to myself.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Chester, you fool you well, the wages of singeesting.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
You were lucky to get off as easy as you
did the way I heard that.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Come on, Chester, tell us what really happened.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
But I did tell you I was looking at.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
This second story when the admiring the view, so to speak,
and the next thing.
Speaker 7 (02:24):
I knew, I fell.
Speaker 6 (02:26):
That's all right, onto the street.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
He didn't say, who's window teston in Texas? Doctor, A gentleman,
don't mention such things you ain't in Texas. Sometime you
wish you'd never left, like now, yes, like now, many
a reputation has been.
Speaker 6 (02:43):
Ruined by just that's loose talk that you're making.
Speaker 7 (02:46):
Doctor.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Never mind, Doc Chester, he's jealous, so jealous.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I'm putting tracks in a man's yard, not me, not
by alongside.
Speaker 7 (02:53):
I know.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
So. Oh, good morning, Marshall, Good morning Joan.
Speaker 8 (03:02):
What can I do for you?
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Heard about you?
Speaker 7 (03:06):
Chester?
Speaker 4 (03:07):
I heard never mind what you heard, torp. Chester just
got thrown from a horse. That's so.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
All right?
Speaker 4 (03:15):
What is it you want here, gentlemen?
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yeah, alright, you tell them Summers. Well, Marshall, it's about
tomorrow night.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Uh huh. So what about tomorrow night?
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Well, you know it's around up. The sales season's over.
It will be a thousand cowboys celebrating in Dudge they
always do at the end of the season. What about it, Well,
there's gonna be more of miss year and there be
a lot of homesteaders in town too. It's gonna be
worse than ever. I expect that there could be a
lot of trouble.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Marsh Yeah, there could be. Summers Just what is it
you want?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Well, we've talked it over and we want you to
get a lot of good tough men together, maybe out
to twenty of them in deputize them. That way here
will be any trouble.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Yeah, that's what you want, is it? Yes? We do luck,
Summer's My job is to keep the peace around here,
and I'm gonna do it, but I'll do it in
my own way.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
Why no, Marsha.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Now you turn twenty deputies loosing that crowd looking for trouble,
and they're gonna find it. As soon as the wild
one's heard about it, they bunch up and shoot it
out with every one of them turn into the worst
slaughter Dodger has ever seen. I think that's about the
most full idea I ever heard of. There no reason
for you to talk like that, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
I think it's a good idea. Sure don't want my
place wrecked just because.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
You're mule headed. You're a gambler tour, so you can
take your chances along with everybody else. If you don't
want that, then close your place up tomorrow night, lose.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
All that Texas money.
Speaker 7 (04:46):
That's not likely.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Now, we're not all gamblers, Marshall. They can wreck my
drag goods store just as fast as the gambling house
once they get started. And it's up to you.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
That's right. It is up to me, and we're gonna
leave it that way.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Then you won't do anything.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
I'll do everything I can. I don't know, Lark Summers.
I know you've got your dobts about me. That's natural.
Some people think I'm too lax with front streets. Some
think I'm too severe. But that's the way of at
any town. If a peace officer does his job well,
he pleases nobody.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Marshall. We didn't come here for a lecture.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
What did you come for, Torp? Maybe you had in
mind to help me pick out those deputies. Is that
it a matter of fact?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I could?
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Yeah, sure, sure. In a couple of hours, yours would
be the only tables open for play. No, that's not
what's been done before, Torp.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
He said too, Torp.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
We're not gonna take his word for it, are you?
Speaker 2 (05:45):
I don't know, But anyway, he won't listen to us,
so it's his responsibility.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
Come on, man, let's get out of here.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Oh, I hope you can handle it, Marshall.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Goodbye, Jumble.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
That Torp is no good. He is just playing no good,
mister Dillon.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Well, I know one man had got skinned at his place,
and Torp gave him back twenty dollars so it wouldn't
be broke.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Huh, that's how much did this man lose?
Speaker 6 (06:18):
Doct Oh you five or six hundred?
Speaker 7 (06:21):
Deer said, and then he.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Oh, yeah, I see what you mean.
Speaker 8 (06:25):
Man.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
I'm sure not gonna be much good to you tomorrow night,
mister Dillon.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
No, you can watch the jail right here.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
I say no, But you just gotta get somebody to
help you out on the street, at least one man.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
Anyway, you can't be ever where it once.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Yeah, by tomorrow night, Dodge will be overrun with trail
boys and homesteaders all looking for satisfaction. Now, I wouldn't
ask any man to face that.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
I know a few fellows who do it, and so
do you, mister Dillon.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Yeah, it may be, but I wouldn't ask anybody.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
How many were killed last year?
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Man, I don't remember, well, I do sex.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
That's why we bury them all in the saddle blankets,
all accept one. I remember he didn't even own the blanket.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Then he was sure out of luck all the way around,
wasn't he. Come on, Doc, let's go get some dinner.
Speaker 6 (07:11):
All right, we'll bring you a piece of bread chest here.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Maybe I want a steak rare.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
How come you're so hungry Chester, or you're in such
a hurry to get over there last night? She didn't
take time for supper.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
Mister Dylon.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
I will answer no more questions about last night, and
that is final.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Well, we'll bring you something.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Yeah, I don't know if we should a man. A
man can think about his scenes better on an empty stomach.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Close the door, will you?
Speaker 4 (07:47):
The next morning, I had mister high Tower print up
some signs for me with a few rules that I
made up for the Ronda. They were fair and reasonable,
and I hope they'd be accepted with a question. The
principal is pictures where that there was to be no shooting,
no reckless riding in the streets. That afternoon, I went
from saloon to saloon and left a sign at each one.
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A Texas Trail was my last stop, and there I
sat down with Kitty for a short beer.
Speaker 7 (08:17):
Town's beginning to fill up.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Man, Yeah, it'll be swamped to the dashboard by dark.
Speaker 7 (08:22):
You wanna expect trouble tonight?
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Hm? I always expect trouble, Kitty.
Speaker 9 (08:27):
Yeah, I know, Matt.
Speaker 7 (08:30):
I heard something.
Speaker 9 (08:31):
Yeah, I heard Torp and a few of his men
cut cards last night. So I don't know who it
came out for. But low Man is supposed to kidd you, uh.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
When tonight?
Speaker 7 (08:50):
I suppose Why is Torp after you met?
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Uh? Thorpe says he wants an open town? Kitty, What
he's really after? Somebody go close down every game? But his?
Speaker 7 (09:04):
Who's this man? But well traveler had it this way?
Speaker 4 (09:08):
But well, I'll be by its sol matlock myself.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
How are you? It's been a long time, long time.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Come on over, sit out you're I'd like you to
meet Kitty, Kitty, this is Madlock this time.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
I know you man. He just rode in the dodge
an hour ago.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
It was the first time in his out.
Speaker 6 (09:33):
You like a beer, don't mind.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
I aim to get drunk tonight, But before I got started,
I thought i'd look up the peace officer and shoot him.
I'd be sure to tangle with him before the night's out.
I always figure it's safer to do it sober.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
That's all he half means that.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
So I asked around and found out the man's name
is Matt Dylon, the United States Marshal. I've seen it
all now, and I hope.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
You're not disappointed.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
I'll tell you, miss kiddy, I knew Matt Dillon before
he got civilized. Why we had to tie his leg
up to give him a haircut when he came down.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Don't you believe a word that he says.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
The wilder the coat, the better the horseman. You was
all right. The only trouble you was that fool honest.
Speaker 8 (10:21):
Streak you always had.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Here.
Speaker 7 (10:23):
You rich us out.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Nobody's rich on the Mexican border land of sunshine, pind
of beans. Now I hired out to a general ovin
Chuawa three years ago, I lost twenty pounds and was
lucky to get back at all.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Haven't you learned to stay out of Mexico yet?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
No? I met the man he wanted me to shoot
and turned out to be a better fellow than the general.
So I told him I've been hired to kill him,
and then rode for the border. The general lost three
soldiers who tried to stop me from swimming the real bravo.
Speaker 9 (10:55):
You must be pretty handy with a gunzom.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Just fair man. But when I take my gun out,
I go right ahead and use it. Some people stop
and think for half a second.
Speaker 9 (11:07):
There's a round up in Dodge tonight. Matt's handling it alone.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Yeah, hold it, man, I heard about it. I heard
all about it, and that's why I'm here to say
hello and sign on for a night's pleasure, Miss Starr. Matt,
I've killed on the side of the law before.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
I don't believe that in any way. I don't want
any killings now.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
I was joshing you, Matt.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
I know what you want.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
It's true. I always sheriff in Tascosa for six months.
You what it's in the record. Well, they caught up
with me there, But I've already done such a good
job team in the place that the governor pardoned me.
I won't kill anybody tonight that don't need you.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
All right, all right, I believe yourself, but I won't
ask any man to come in when it's as rough
as this round up may be.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Well, you didn't ask me any other objection.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Well, then don't know you're around here. So I'm telling
them how they take to a stranger.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
First night I ran task ghost, and nobody knew me either.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
I'm not green at this business, no, but it's my
job once. Should you get mixed up in it?
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Well, I I also heard somebody's planning a party for
you tonight. I've owed you something for a long time.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Man, Ah, that's got nothing to do with it.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
It has. You got no right not to let me
pay it back a little now there's a chance to.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Yeah, you're just as crazy as you ever were.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
That's better. Come on, let's go find me a badge
before it gets dark. Sure, nice to have met you,
miss Kitty.
Speaker 7 (12:50):
Oh good luck, ell, I'll see you later on that.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
Yeah, sure, it's a lot, Kitty.
Speaker 6 (13:06):
You sure have been a long time coming to dodge.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Mister Matlock, what do you mean, Chester? Well, I've heard
mister Dlon mention you a lot, but the way he
talkd I wasn't never sure you were still alive.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Oh well, I was never sure either, Chester. You know
it zealousn't the most cautious man.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
I mean you think being a US Marshall isn't asking
for an early grave man?
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Oh maybe, but at least it's a way to do
some good before he had died, whether folks think so
or not.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
Oh Man, like Torp, that's all.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Oh No, Chester, even good man, I got a strange
twist that makes him suspect any man fay to handle
the bad element. Hey just can't help thinking that some
of it's dirt is rubbed off on him.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
And I never thought about that before, Matt Sure, how
it was in Tescosa. They wanted me there, all right,
but they wanted me to keep my distance too. And
it makes a man kind alone with me.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
I just don't know what's good.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
For him mental instead of a real man. They'd rather
hire some killer with a lot of knock.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Your well, there are plenty of them around.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Sure, are bragging kind? I never did like you, man
who has to not his gun to keep.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
His courage up.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Yeah, Oh my goodness, look yonder this Greek about full
already and didn't even dark.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
Yeah, soup, give me a hand here, will you. We'll
move Chester's couch away from the world there, all right, okay,
I should do it. Yeah, you'll be safer here, Chester,
in case somebody got some in mind to shoot up
to jail.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
Thank you, mister Dylan.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
I can watch both doors from here. Just hand him
a gun bell if you will.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Oh, yeah, there you are, well, come on so uh Chester,
I'll get somebody at the dodge house to fetch up
some supper.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Thank you, sir, and good luck both dogs. So long
you see Chester? How are we working?
Speaker 4 (14:56):
Man? I tell you so. You take this side of
it street. I'm going up to the dodge house and
then I'll be on the other side somewhere.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
All right, Oh, say you mind if I go back
later and get that spencer carbine of yours make a
mighty handy club if I don't have to use it
any other word? Sure shoulders to who they got there?
I fell on their shoulders.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Oh that's mister high Tower. He runs the printing press.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Here shall we stop it?
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Oh no, no, They just carried him into the long
hoard of making stands and drinks. They like high tower.
They won't hurt him.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Well, I guess that sort officially opens this here around up.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Huh, yeah, I guess it does.
Speaker 10 (15:36):
Well.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
I'll leave you here, Zoll, Yeah, sure, sure, man and Zelle.
I uh, I want to thank you for what you're
doing tonight.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
I ain't done nothing yet, but I'll do plenty. If
someone shoots you in the back, I can.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Promise that, well, I'll see you later.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Sure, Matt.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
We will return for the second act of gun Smoke
in just a moment. But first, Sunday nights, you are
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Now for the second act of gun Smoke.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
When I came out of the Dodge house, front Street
was so full that if anybody had been shot, the
crowd would have carried him along like one of the living.
I had a feeling that the word was out about
Torp and his bunch cutting cards to see who would
make a try for me, and that the crowd knew
it and was waiting for it. I stood for a
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while with my back against Summer's dry goods store. Then
I left the street and cut down an alley, thinking
to change my position with as much irregularity as possible.
I was passing the back door of the Texas Trail
when I heard the first shot of the night. I
entered the saloon from the rear and made my way
into the crowd.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Yeah, it's all right, Marshall, there's no fight.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
It's not all right, Sam, I made a rule that
there'd be no shooting for any reason.
Speaker 8 (17:43):
All right, Oh fired that shot?
Speaker 2 (17:46):
I was outside. It was Torpe, Marshall, he just took
a shot at the moon.
Speaker 8 (17:53):
That's all all right, Tarp.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Put the gun away and come over here.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
I'm bothering nobody, Marshall accepting.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
Maybe you hand back everybody. I said, that's enough, Torp, No,
it ain't doelling this time.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
I got to jump on you.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
You ain't pushing me no more.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Torp's bullet just grazed my arm. Then I put one
in his head and another in his chest. And at
the same time, out of the corner of my eye,
I saw a figure with a gun in each hand
move out of the shadow of the alley and turn
toward me on the boardwalk, and without really looking, I
dropped him with one shot. And then I faced the
crowd and waited for the next move, but for some
reason none came. Marsha, Yes, Summers, that man you just
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shut Mark Thorp got what he deserved.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Yes, I know it's the other one that, so did he. Marshia,
you'd better go take a look at that man. And
he's dying.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
Oh is he?
Speaker 2 (19:03):
I don't know him, Marshall, but you do. But he's
wearing a star.
Speaker 8 (19:11):
No no, oh, so so.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
M man, I think that did it? Mm? No so no,
there's my father. I crossed the street a while back,
left the carbine with chesters. No fall yours man?
Speaker 3 (19:44):
No?
Speaker 6 (19:44):
Oh hold hold, uh uh?
Speaker 2 (19:47):
How how is he?
Speaker 6 (19:48):
Oh? Ohness?
Speaker 2 (19:51):
No use, doc, thanks so I listen, listen to me,
mad You did right, and only thing you could do.
It was my fault. I shouldn't have crossed over and
come up behind you anyway, Matt.
Speaker 6 (20:14):
I ain't been living.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
On my own time ever since that day. You pulled
me out of the mob, and now I'm a gordo
and never thank you for that. Yes, I never will now, Matt.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
So Uh, I'll find someone to carry over your office, man, No,
I'll carry him.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Never.
Speaker 9 (21:10):
They're just winning bags.
Speaker 6 (21:20):
What happened? I heard the shooting.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Put a blanket on the floor there, doctor, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Sure, yeah, spread it are Yeah, he's dead.
Speaker 9 (21:29):
Chester.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
Who shot him?
Speaker 7 (21:32):
Sir?
Speaker 4 (21:35):
I shot him Chester, I didn't know it was him.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
I'm sorry, mister Dylan. It sounds like they're gonna who
are the town after all?
Speaker 10 (21:46):
Mad?
Speaker 4 (21:47):
No, No, they're not.
Speaker 6 (21:49):
It's gonna be kind.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Of hard to stop, now, isn't it.
Speaker 9 (21:52):
Mad?
Speaker 6 (21:52):
Maybe you're taking a shotgun.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Mister Dylan's mad.
Speaker 6 (21:55):
Why don't you just let him fight each other? What
are you gonna do?
Speaker 4 (21:58):
I'm gonna close Front Street. You've got a body's over
and dodge.
Speaker 6 (22:02):
Deal and you can't do that.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
There'll be trouble if I don't. The moms taste of blood.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Now, they'll shoot your shores.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
I'm away and here well they all right.
Speaker 6 (22:09):
I can't stop you, but.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
I sure do wish I could go with you.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
You met, I'll go me.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
If they see me, they won't be so quick.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
Thanks, but this isn't your job, either one of you.
Speaker 10 (22:17):
But thanks Sam, claws up and turn out your lights.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
What unless I do it? Rod Straight's closed. I've got
out of here and go home.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
All of you homes in Texas then, if you ever
had one, I ain't going home tonight.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
Not tonight.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
I don't letter fair follow You got no chips on
the deal I could buy.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
And mister.
Speaker 8 (23:04):
I'll use this shotgun for what it was met on
the next man.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Wow, all right, Sam, close it up, Jack, Jack, the
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streets closed. Put out your lights.
Speaker 8 (23:42):
You heard me, lock the place up, and no, I.
Speaker 6 (23:46):
Ain't going to do it.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
Now. Don't tell me what you're gonna do.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
All right, boys, closing up.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
That took care of the Texas Trail and the Longhorn,
and I moved on through the Oasis and the olive forraganza.
Then are the smaller bars that infested the outskirts of town.
When I came back up Front Street, the crowded thinn
It's fever broken. I had left Thorpe's place for the last,
thinking to give his men a chance to get out
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of town before they faced me. There was a gambling
hall on the same side of the street as a jail,
And when I reached it and entered, there weren't more
than a dozen men there, and most of them stepped
quietly past me out into the street. What was left
didn't seem to count for much.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Looking for somebody, Marshall, You.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Were a friend of Torp's, Yes, I was. Why who
else here worked for Torp?
Speaker 2 (24:57):
I didn't know everyone's going, Marshall. I heard you were
all riled up and.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
They left, and you're alone and still in bad company.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
I wouldn't ordinarily take that.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Or go ahead, mister, you're calling it?
Speaker 2 (25:13):
No now?
Speaker 4 (25:15):
What's stopping you? Oh? If it's the shotgun? Now does
that make it easier for you?
Speaker 2 (25:26):
And I haven't been looking for you, Marshall.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
You were in on the cut, weren't you?
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Corpse dead Marshall? Isn't that enough?
Speaker 4 (25:37):
Mister? One of the best men I ever knew who
died to night.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
And I killed him.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
I'm not again, Wan Marshall.
Speaker 7 (25:44):
You wouldn't be proud of killing me.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
What is a man like you know about pride? Now
you get out of dodge.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
And you get out fast, But I don't you want to.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Die in this place right now? No, I'm a r
I hurry the rest of the night. I walked the dark,
empty street alone, and just before dawn, I got a
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spring wagon and loaded Zell onto it. A couple of
hours later I buried him out of the Arkansas and
a little grove of cottonwoods. Maybe I should have put
a marker on his grave, but I didn't. But I
did instead. I did partly out of scorn for the
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kind of men Cells said have to notch their guns
to keep their courage up, and partly as a kind
of a cross that I'd bear from now on. So
instead of a marker on his grave, I took on
my gun, and I cut a single knotch on it.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Gun Smoke under the direction of Norman MacDonald's stars William
Conrad as Matt dylon Us Marshall. Tonight's story was specially
written for Gun Smoke by John Meston, with music composed
and conducted by Rex Cory. Featured in the cast were
John Dayner and Harry Bartel, with Lawrence Dobkin, Lou Krugman
and James Nusser, Parley bear Is Chester, Howard mcneer is Doc,
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and Georgia Ellis is Kiddy. Gun smoke is heard by
our troops overseas through the facilities of the Armed Forces
Radio Service. Join us again next week as Matt del
Us Marshall fights to bring law and order out of
the wild violence of the West in gun Smoke. Listen
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and say Ampy you here December Bride. Tomorrow night, Listen
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Around Dodge City, entered the territory on West. There's just
one way to handle the killers and the spoilers, and
that's with a US Marshall and the smell of guns smoke,
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gun spoke, storrying William Conrad. The story of the violence
that moved west with Young America, The story of a
man who moved with it. Matt Dillon, United States Marshall?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Is he heavy?
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Met?
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Somehow it was easier carrying him up to your office
and backs down?
Speaker 5 (01:22):
Doctor?
Speaker 6 (01:23):
Where are you gonna put me, mister Dylan?
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Yeah, well on the couch here, I guess ah, he'll
be all right there Chester Oh yes.
Speaker 6 (01:34):
Or this will be fine. I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Sorry, I'm so much trouble chest. And next time try
to land on just one foot.
Speaker 6 (01:42):
Even if you break a leg. And I know a
man's in a.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Terrible fix when he springs booth ankles.
Speaker 6 (01:48):
And he sure he is, Doc, I don't know what
I'm gonna do.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
I know what you're gonna do. You're gonna stay right
there on that couch. You're gonna sleep there too, maybe, Doc,
and I will bring you in something to eat every
day or two. Oh no, it's better than you deserve.
Speaker 6 (02:02):
I know I've been a saying over and over to myself.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Chester, you fool you well, the wages of singeesting.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
You were lucky to get off as easy as you
did the way I heard that.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Come on, Chester, tell us what really happened.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
But I did tell you I was looking at.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
This second story when the admiring the view, so to speak,
and the next thing.
Speaker 7 (02:24):
I knew, I fell.
Speaker 6 (02:26):
That's all right, onto the street.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
He didn't say, who's window teston in Texas? Doctor, A gentleman,
don't mention such things you ain't in Texas. Sometime you
wish you'd never left, like now, yes, like now, many
a reputation has been.
Speaker 6 (02:43):
Ruined by just that's loose talk that you're making.
Speaker 7 (02:46):
Doctor.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Never mind, Doc Chester, he's jealous, so jealous.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I'm putting tracks in a man's yard, not me, not
by alongside.
Speaker 7 (02:53):
I know.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
So. Oh, good morning, Marshall, Good morning Joan.
Speaker 8 (03:02):
What can I do for you?
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Heard about you?
Speaker 7 (03:06):
Chester?
Speaker 4 (03:07):
I heard never mind what you heard, torp. Chester just
got thrown from a horse. That's so.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
All right?
Speaker 4 (03:15):
What is it you want here, gentlemen?
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yeah, alright, you tell them Summers. Well, Marshall, it's about
tomorrow night.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Uh huh. So what about tomorrow night?
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Well, you know it's around up. The sales season's over.
It will be a thousand cowboys celebrating in Dudge they
always do at the end of the season. What about it, Well,
there's gonna be more of miss year and there be
a lot of homesteaders in town too. It's gonna be
worse than ever. I expect that there could be a
lot of trouble.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Marsh Yeah, there could be. Summers Just what is it
you want?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Well, we've talked it over and we want you to
get a lot of good tough men together, maybe out
to twenty of them in deputize them. That way here
will be any trouble.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Yeah, that's what you want, is it? Yes? We do luck,
Summer's My job is to keep the peace around here,
and I'm gonna do it, but I'll do it in
my own way.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
Why no, Marsha.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Now you turn twenty deputies loosing that crowd looking for trouble,
and they're gonna find it. As soon as the wild
one's heard about it, they bunch up and shoot it
out with every one of them turn into the worst
slaughter Dodger has ever seen. I think that's about the
most full idea I ever heard of. There no reason
for you to talk like that, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
I think it's a good idea. Sure don't want my
place wrecked just because.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
You're mule headed. You're a gambler tour, so you can
take your chances along with everybody else. If you don't
want that, then close your place up tomorrow night, lose.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
All that Texas money.
Speaker 7 (04:46):
That's not likely.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Now, we're not all gamblers, Marshall. They can wreck my
drag goods store just as fast as the gambling house
once they get started. And it's up to you.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
That's right. It is up to me, and we're gonna
leave it that way.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Then you won't do anything.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
I'll do everything I can. I don't know, Lark Summers.
I know you've got your dobts about me. That's natural.
Some people think I'm too lax with front streets. Some
think I'm too severe. But that's the way of at
any town. If a peace officer does his job well,
he pleases nobody.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Marshall. We didn't come here for a lecture.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
What did you come for, Torp? Maybe you had in
mind to help me pick out those deputies. Is that
it a matter of fact?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I could?
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Yeah, sure, sure. In a couple of hours, yours would
be the only tables open for play. No, that's not
what's been done before, Torp.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
He said too, Torp.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
We're not gonna take his word for it, are you?
Speaker 2 (05:45):
I don't know, But anyway, he won't listen to us,
so it's his responsibility.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
Come on, man, let's get out of here.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Oh, I hope you can handle it, Marshall.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Goodbye, Jumble.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
That Torp is no good. He is just playing no good,
mister Dillon.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Well, I know one man had got skinned at his place,
and Torp gave him back twenty dollars so it wouldn't
be broke.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Huh, that's how much did this man lose?
Speaker 6 (06:18):
Doct Oh you five or six hundred?
Speaker 7 (06:21):
Deer said, and then he.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Oh, yeah, I see what you mean.
Speaker 8 (06:25):
Man.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
I'm sure not gonna be much good to you tomorrow night,
mister Dillon.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
No, you can watch the jail right here.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
I say no, But you just gotta get somebody to
help you out on the street, at least one man.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
Anyway, you can't be ever where it once.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Yeah, by tomorrow night, Dodge will be overrun with trail
boys and homesteaders all looking for satisfaction. Now, I wouldn't
ask any man to face that.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
I know a few fellows who do it, and so
do you, mister Dillon.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Yeah, it may be, but I wouldn't ask anybody.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
How many were killed last year?
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Man, I don't remember, well, I do sex.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
That's why we bury them all in the saddle blankets,
all accept one. I remember he didn't even own the blanket.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Then he was sure out of luck all the way around,
wasn't he. Come on, Doc, let's go get some dinner.
Speaker 6 (07:11):
All right, we'll bring you a piece of bread chest here.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Maybe I want a steak rare.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
How come you're so hungry Chester, or you're in such
a hurry to get over there last night? She didn't
take time for supper.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
Mister Dylon.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
I will answer no more questions about last night, and
that is final.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Well, we'll bring you something.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Yeah, I don't know if we should a man. A
man can think about his scenes better on an empty stomach.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Close the door, will you?
Speaker 4 (07:47):
The next morning, I had mister high Tower print up
some signs for me with a few rules that I
made up for the Ronda. They were fair and reasonable,
and I hope they'd be accepted with a question. The
principal is pictures where that there was to be no shooting,
no reckless riding in the streets. That afternoon, I went
from saloon to saloon and left a sign at each one.
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A Texas Trail was my last stop, and there I
sat down with Kitty for a short beer.
Speaker 7 (08:17):
Town's beginning to fill up.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Man, Yeah, it'll be swamped to the dashboard by dark.
Speaker 7 (08:22):
You wanna expect trouble tonight?
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Hm? I always expect trouble, Kitty.
Speaker 9 (08:27):
Yeah, I know, Matt.
Speaker 7 (08:30):
I heard something.
Speaker 9 (08:31):
Yeah, I heard Torp and a few of his men
cut cards last night. So I don't know who it
came out for. But low Man is supposed to kidd you, uh.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
When tonight?
Speaker 7 (08:50):
I suppose Why is Torp after you met?
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Uh? Thorpe says he wants an open town? Kitty, What
he's really after? Somebody go close down every game? But his?
Speaker 7 (09:04):
Who's this man? But well traveler had it this way?
Speaker 4 (09:08):
But well, I'll be by its sol matlock myself.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
How are you? It's been a long time, long time.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Come on over, sit out you're I'd like you to
meet Kitty, Kitty, this is Madlock this time.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
I know you man. He just rode in the dodge
an hour ago.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
It was the first time in his out.
Speaker 6 (09:33):
You like a beer, don't mind.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
I aim to get drunk tonight, But before I got started,
I thought i'd look up the peace officer and shoot him.
I'd be sure to tangle with him before the night's out.
I always figure it's safer to do it sober.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
That's all he half means that.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
So I asked around and found out the man's name
is Matt Dylon, the United States Marshal. I've seen it
all now, and I hope.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
You're not disappointed.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
I'll tell you, miss kiddy, I knew Matt Dillon before
he got civilized. Why we had to tie his leg
up to give him a haircut when he came down.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Don't you believe a word that he says.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
The wilder the coat, the better the horseman. You was
all right. The only trouble you was that fool honest.
Speaker 8 (10:21):
Streak you always had.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Here.
Speaker 7 (10:23):
You rich us out.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Nobody's rich on the Mexican border land of sunshine, pind
of beans. Now I hired out to a general ovin
Chuawa three years ago, I lost twenty pounds and was
lucky to get back at all.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Haven't you learned to stay out of Mexico yet?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
No? I met the man he wanted me to shoot
and turned out to be a better fellow than the general.
So I told him I've been hired to kill him,
and then rode for the border. The general lost three
soldiers who tried to stop me from swimming the real bravo.
Speaker 9 (10:55):
You must be pretty handy with a gunzom.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Just fair man. But when I take my gun out,
I go right ahead and use it. Some people stop
and think for half a second.
Speaker 9 (11:07):
There's a round up in Dodge tonight. Matt's handling it alone.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Yeah, hold it, man, I heard about it. I heard
all about it, and that's why I'm here to say
hello and sign on for a night's pleasure, Miss Starr. Matt,
I've killed on the side of the law before.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
I don't believe that in any way. I don't want
any killings now.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
I was joshing you, Matt.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
I know what you want.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
It's true. I always sheriff in Tascosa for six months.
You what it's in the record. Well, they caught up
with me there, But I've already done such a good
job team in the place that the governor pardoned me.
I won't kill anybody tonight that don't need you.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
All right, all right, I believe yourself, but I won't
ask any man to come in when it's as rough
as this round up may be.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Well, you didn't ask me any other objection.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Well, then don't know you're around here. So I'm telling
them how they take to a stranger.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
First night I ran task ghost, and nobody knew me either.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
I'm not green at this business, no, but it's my
job once. Should you get mixed up in it?
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Well, I I also heard somebody's planning a party for
you tonight. I've owed you something for a long time.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Man, Ah, that's got nothing to do with it.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
It has. You got no right not to let me
pay it back a little now there's a chance to.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Yeah, you're just as crazy as you ever were.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
That's better. Come on, let's go find me a badge
before it gets dark. Sure, nice to have met you,
miss Kitty.
Speaker 7 (12:50):
Oh good luck, ell, I'll see you later on that.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
Yeah, sure, it's a lot, Kitty.
Speaker 6 (13:06):
You sure have been a long time coming to dodge.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Mister Matlock, what do you mean, Chester? Well, I've heard
mister Dlon mention you a lot, but the way he
talkd I wasn't never sure you were still alive.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Oh well, I was never sure either, Chester. You know
it zealousn't the most cautious man.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
I mean you think being a US Marshall isn't asking
for an early grave man?
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Oh maybe, but at least it's a way to do
some good before he had died, whether folks think so
or not.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
Oh Man, like Torp, that's all.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Oh No, Chester, even good man, I got a strange
twist that makes him suspect any man fay to handle
the bad element. Hey just can't help thinking that some
of it's dirt is rubbed off on him.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
And I never thought about that before, Matt Sure, how
it was in Tescosa. They wanted me there, all right,
but they wanted me to keep my distance too. And
it makes a man kind alone with me.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
I just don't know what's good.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
For him mental instead of a real man. They'd rather
hire some killer with a lot of knock.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Your well, there are plenty of them around.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Sure, are bragging kind? I never did like you, man
who has to not his gun to keep.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
His courage up.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Yeah, Oh my goodness, look yonder this Greek about full
already and didn't even dark.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
Yeah, soup, give me a hand here, will you. We'll
move Chester's couch away from the world there, all right, okay,
I should do it. Yeah, you'll be safer here, Chester,
in case somebody got some in mind to shoot up
to jail.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
Thank you, mister Dylan.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
I can watch both doors from here. Just hand him
a gun bell if you will.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Oh, yeah, there you are, well, come on so uh Chester,
I'll get somebody at the dodge house to fetch up
some supper.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Thank you, sir, and good luck both dogs. So long
you see Chester? How are we working?
Speaker 4 (14:56):
Man? I tell you so. You take this side of
it street. I'm going up to the dodge house and
then I'll be on the other side somewhere.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
All right, Oh, say you mind if I go back
later and get that spencer carbine of yours make a
mighty handy club if I don't have to use it
any other word? Sure shoulders to who they got there?
I fell on their shoulders.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Oh that's mister high Tower. He runs the printing press.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Here shall we stop it?
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Oh no, no, They just carried him into the long
hoard of making stands and drinks. They like high tower.
They won't hurt him.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Well, I guess that sort officially opens this here around up.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Huh, yeah, I guess it does.
Speaker 10 (15:36):
Well.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
I'll leave you here, Zoll, Yeah, sure, sure, man and Zelle.
I uh, I want to thank you for what you're
doing tonight.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
I ain't done nothing yet, but I'll do plenty. If
someone shoots you in the back, I can.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Promise that, well, I'll see you later.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Sure, Matt.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
We will return for the second act of gun Smoke
in just a moment. But first, Sunday nights, you are
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Listen for Escape at the Star's address. Also tomorrow evening,
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Now for the second act of gun Smoke.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
When I came out of the Dodge house, front Street
was so full that if anybody had been shot, the
crowd would have carried him along like one of the living.
I had a feeling that the word was out about
Torp and his bunch cutting cards to see who would
make a try for me, and that the crowd knew
it and was waiting for it. I stood for a
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while with my back against Summer's dry goods store. Then
I left the street and cut down an alley, thinking
to change my position with as much irregularity as possible.
I was passing the back door of the Texas Trail
when I heard the first shot of the night. I
entered the saloon from the rear and made my way
into the crowd.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Yeah, it's all right, Marshall, there's no fight.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
It's not all right, Sam, I made a rule that
there'd be no shooting for any reason.
Speaker 8 (17:43):
All right, Oh fired that shot?
Speaker 2 (17:46):
I was outside. It was Torpe, Marshall, he just took
a shot at the moon.
Speaker 8 (17:53):
That's all all right, Tarp.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Put the gun away and come over here.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
I'm bothering nobody, Marshall accepting.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
Maybe you hand back everybody. I said, that's enough, Torp, No,
it ain't doelling this time.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
I got to jump on you.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
You ain't pushing me no more.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Torp's bullet just grazed my arm. Then I put one
in his head and another in his chest. And at
the same time, out of the corner of my eye,
I saw a figure with a gun in each hand
move out of the shadow of the alley and turn
toward me on the boardwalk, and without really looking, I
dropped him with one shot. And then I faced the
crowd and waited for the next move, but for some
reason none came. Marsha, Yes, Summers, that man you just
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shut Mark Thorp got what he deserved.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Yes, I know it's the other one that, so did he. Marshia,
you'd better go take a look at that man. And
he's dying.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
Oh is he?
Speaker 2 (19:03):
I don't know him, Marshall, but you do. But he's
wearing a star.
Speaker 8 (19:11):
No no, oh, so so.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
M man, I think that did it? Mm? No so no,
there's my father. I crossed the street a while back,
left the carbine with chesters. No fall yours man?
Speaker 3 (19:44):
No?
Speaker 6 (19:44):
Oh hold hold, uh uh?
Speaker 2 (19:47):
How how is he?
Speaker 6 (19:48):
Oh? Ohness?
Speaker 2 (19:51):
No use, doc, thanks so I listen, listen to me,
mad You did right, and only thing you could do.
It was my fault. I shouldn't have crossed over and
come up behind you anyway, Matt.
Speaker 6 (20:14):
I ain't been living.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
On my own time ever since that day. You pulled
me out of the mob, and now I'm a gordo
and never thank you for that. Yes, I never will now, Matt.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
So Uh, I'll find someone to carry over your office, man, No,
I'll carry him.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Never.
Speaker 9 (21:10):
They're just winning bags.
Speaker 6 (21:20):
What happened? I heard the shooting.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Put a blanket on the floor there, doctor, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Sure, yeah, spread it are Yeah, he's dead.
Speaker 9 (21:29):
Chester.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
Who shot him?
Speaker 7 (21:32):
Sir?
Speaker 4 (21:35):
I shot him Chester, I didn't know it was him.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
I'm sorry, mister Dylan. It sounds like they're gonna who
are the town after all?
Speaker 10 (21:46):
Mad?
Speaker 4 (21:47):
No, No, they're not.
Speaker 6 (21:49):
It's gonna be kind.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Of hard to stop, now, isn't it.
Speaker 9 (21:52):
Mad?
Speaker 6 (21:52):
Maybe you're taking a shotgun.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Mister Dylan's mad.
Speaker 6 (21:55):
Why don't you just let him fight each other? What
are you gonna do?
Speaker 4 (21:58):
I'm gonna close Front Street. You've got a body's over
and dodge.
Speaker 6 (22:02):
Deal and you can't do that.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
There'll be trouble if I don't. The moms taste of blood.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Now, they'll shoot your shores.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
I'm away and here well they all right.
Speaker 6 (22:09):
I can't stop you, but.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
I sure do wish I could go with you.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
You met, I'll go me.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
If they see me, they won't be so quick.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
Thanks, but this isn't your job, either one of you.
Speaker 10 (22:17):
But thanks Sam, claws up and turn out your lights.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
What unless I do it? Rod Straight's closed. I've got
out of here and go home.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
All of you homes in Texas then, if you ever
had one, I ain't going home tonight.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
Not tonight.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
I don't letter fair follow You got no chips on
the deal I could buy.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
And mister.
Speaker 8 (23:04):
I'll use this shotgun for what it was met on
the next man.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Wow, all right, Sam, close it up, Jack, Jack, the
(23:39):
streets closed. Put out your lights.
Speaker 8 (23:42):
You heard me, lock the place up, and no, I.
Speaker 6 (23:46):
Ain't going to do it.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
Now. Don't tell me what you're gonna do.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
All right, boys, closing up.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
That took care of the Texas Trail and the Longhorn,
and I moved on through the Oasis and the olive forraganza.
Then are the smaller bars that infested the outskirts of town.
When I came back up Front Street, the crowded thinn
It's fever broken. I had left Thorpe's place for the last,
thinking to give his men a chance to get out
(24:30):
of town before they faced me. There was a gambling
hall on the same side of the street as a jail,
And when I reached it and entered, there weren't more
than a dozen men there, and most of them stepped
quietly past me out into the street. What was left
didn't seem to count for much.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Looking for somebody, Marshall, You.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Were a friend of Torp's, Yes, I was. Why who
else here worked for Torp?
Speaker 2 (24:57):
I didn't know everyone's going, Marshall. I heard you were
all riled up and.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
They left, and you're alone and still in bad company.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
I wouldn't ordinarily take that.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Or go ahead, mister, you're calling it?
Speaker 2 (25:13):
No now?
Speaker 4 (25:15):
What's stopping you? Oh? If it's the shotgun? Now does
that make it easier for you?
Speaker 2 (25:26):
And I haven't been looking for you, Marshall.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
You were in on the cut, weren't you?
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Corpse dead Marshall? Isn't that enough?
Speaker 4 (25:37):
Mister? One of the best men I ever knew who
died to night.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
And I killed him.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
I'm not again, Wan Marshall.
Speaker 7 (25:44):
You wouldn't be proud of killing me.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
What is a man like you know about pride? Now
you get out of dodge.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
And you get out fast, But I don't you want to.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Die in this place right now? No, I'm a r
I hurry the rest of the night. I walked the dark,
empty street alone, and just before dawn, I got a
(26:19):
spring wagon and loaded Zell onto it. A couple of
hours later I buried him out of the Arkansas and
a little grove of cottonwoods. Maybe I should have put
a marker on his grave, but I didn't. But I
did instead. I did partly out of scorn for the
(26:42):
kind of men Cells said have to notch their guns
to keep their courage up, and partly as a kind
of a cross that I'd bear from now on. So
instead of a marker on his grave, I took on
my gun, and I cut a single knotch on it.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Gun Smoke under the direction of Norman MacDonald's stars William
Conrad as Matt dylon Us Marshall. Tonight's story was specially
written for Gun Smoke by John Meston, with music composed
and conducted by Rex Cory. Featured in the cast were
John Dayner and Harry Bartel, with Lawrence Dobkin, Lou Krugman
and James Nusser, Parley bear Is Chester, Howard mcneer is Doc,
(27:49):
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Radio Service. Join us again next week as Matt del
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