October 17, 2025 • 24 mins
Have Gun Will Travel was a popular western radio drama series that ran from 1958 to 1960. It debuted as a television series in 1957 and was one of only a few American television programs that paved the way for a radio version. Although the radio show initially featured stories adapted from television, many of the 106 radio episodes were original stories. The stories follow the adventures of Paladin, played by John Dehner.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
This gun is pointed right at the center of your belt.
The border is behind me, mister, and you're not gonna
make it. Have gun will travel, starring mister John Dayner
(00:36):
as Paladin, San Francisco, eighteen seventy five, The Carlton Hotel,
headquarters of a man called Paladin.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
You like, mister Paladin.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
This is the finest jade chess piece of a racine.
Hey boy, Where'd you get it?
Speaker 2 (01:02):
A gift of my uncle uncle sing War running laundry.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Where's sing War get it?
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Oh? From his great grandfather Hai Hung, who got it
from his grandfather Juong, who was faithful houseboy to a
celestial emperor in Imperial court. Now it mine. I know
you like chess man, especially Knight, so would be pleased
if you will accept my gift.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Well, very kind of you, hey boy, But I can't
accept this. Ruin the rest of the set.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Oh no, mister Paladin. Set already ruined. Day before yesterday,
three men come to my uncle's laundry. Police think they
are men who bust out of jail. They hit uncle
on head, They steal money, clothes, chess set too, take everything.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
But this is one piece I see. I imagine your
uncle would like to see those men can.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Oh, yes, sir, very much, very bad men.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
You keep this, hey boy, Let me see what I
can do about getting back to the rest of the set.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Where's sing War's laundry.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
On Talk Street or you can find rest of set?
Speaker 3 (01:59):
I don't know, hey boy, without try.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
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Speaker 3 (02:34):
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Speaker 4 (02:36):
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Speaker 3 (02:40):
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Speaker 3 (02:47):
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Speaker 3 (02:57):
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Speaker 1 (03:18):
Sing Wo, honorable uncle of hey Boy, proprietor of the
laundry on Turk Street, victim of three men who had
stolen clothes, money, and chest set, was a wiry little
man with a seamed ageless face, but plenty to say
about the details of the matter.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Unfortunately, what he had.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
To say strained the language barrier too far, at least
for me. For hey Boy, it made sense. He listened
politely to singh wos every word, nodding now and then and.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Dodging now and then, since Singwo happened to be holding
a flat iron in one hand, and singh Wo was
a man who insisted on a gesture to emphasize his words.
Then suddenly he stopped and, standing like a little Buddha,
listened as Hey boy brought.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Me up to date, Uncle singh Wo. See what he
will do with he catchy men? Did he happen to
describe them?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Man?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Maybe he saw all plenty big plenty ugly.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
That's not much of a description. No, sir, it won't
be easy to find them, since they have a two
days head start. No sir, I have no idea what
direction they've gone.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Uncle sing Wo know where they go?
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Why?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Oh? He understands some words in Americans. I hear them say, hie,
big pine. Then go to Canada, big pine. He saw
big pine Montana.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
That's up near the border. Sounds like a good place
for them to get across.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
They take all money, Uncle sing Wo have in world.
He worked hard for everything, or by yourself. He's terrible thing.
Wall man will have nothing now to start all over
again in hard cruel world.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Let's hope he won't have to start all over again.
Hey boy, how much cash did they steal from him?
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Nine forty three dollars? Plenty money to sing Wo.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Plenty of money to anybody. Hey boy, I'll see in
a few days. Tell sing Woll everything will be all right.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Hello there, enough noon. My name is Paladin.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
I'm my Warren. You're just in time. Supper's ready?
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Good? So am I?
Speaker 5 (05:28):
You look a might lean, mister Paladin. You've been traveling
long long enough?
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Tell me, missus Warren, have you seen three men come
through here anytime during the past few days.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
No, friends of yours.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
No, not exactly.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
If they were heading for Canada, they'd have to come
through Big Pine with me.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
It depends on where they're coming from the mountains. Well,
then they'd have to come through here. Mister Paladin. The
food's good, rooms clean, the price is right, and you're
welcome only unrule you hang your guns up right there.
It's a custom of the house.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
I'm sorry as warm, but I never go anywhere without
a gun.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
Nobody comes to my table armed. It's up to you,
mister Paladin. Hang it up or get your supper somewhere else.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
What's that I smell?
Speaker 5 (06:21):
We're having pheasant today, pheasant roasted in grape leaves.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
There's warm.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
You are an oasis in a desert of boiled beef.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Well, is it gun or the pheasants?
Speaker 3 (06:35):
I'll take the pheasant, good.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Boy, Chuck this here's mister Paladin, Chuck.
Speaker 6 (06:43):
Anderson passing through slowly hang your staying awhile, Why.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Let's say I'm visiting who he's visiting me?
Speaker 5 (06:59):
Hang up a gun before you go in there to eat?
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Who put the burr under his saddle?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (07:07):
He always talks like that. Chuck does. Dang him.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
He's a stranger around here.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
No say, now, if you expect to get any food,
you better get started run my table. All them fellas
have four and five hands.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
What fellas well?
Speaker 5 (07:20):
Aside from Chuck, there's mister Gibson and mister Fry, mister Dayton. Well,
I gotta get off the kitchen now, you bawn eap
whenever you get.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Ready, mister Gibson, mister Fry, mister Dayton.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
Sociable, up to date?
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Debonair? What's this a new word game?
Speaker 7 (07:48):
Now?
Speaker 5 (07:48):
I'm just mentioning the qualities that people admire and other people.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Oh, I see if you're sociable, up to date?
Speaker 2 (07:53):
And what was another word?
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Debonair?
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Yes, debonair, But listen to it this way.
Speaker 7 (08:07):
Be sociable looks like sheep up to date with Pepsy
during the light refreshing.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Stay you there, Jem, and there be sociable PEPSI notice
how many of your friends are serving pepsicola these days.
Speaker 8 (08:32):
It's the up to date refreshment.
Speaker 7 (08:34):
Be sociable, serve Pepsy.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Just inside the door of mar Warren's boarding house in
Big Pine, there was a rack and above the rack
of sign reading guns and hats. Since four gun belts
were already hanging there along with four hats, I hung mine.
Then I began to follow my nose in the direction
of the dining room.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
She Worem's daughter. She told me to take a place
for inster.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
Paladin ranks that food that smells off it good this way.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
This is mister Paladin. Everybody, mister Gibson, mister Fry, and
mister Dayton.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Gentlemen, how do mister Paladin and Dayton? How do you do?
Speaker 5 (09:19):
And I reckon? You know, Chuck Anderson?
Speaker 3 (09:21):
We met? Yeah, yeah, we met and you missed me, sweetheart.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
Oh shut up, Chuck. I'll bring yourself a right out.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Mister Paladin, Hey, where do I sit?
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Any place? Any place?
Speaker 2 (09:34):
You like?
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Shovel over? Dayton? Yeah? What's you're lying? Mister? I'm a
business man, sorts. You live around here? Back up the
road to peace. You've got a thousand acres sounds promising.
What's your brand?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Brand?
Speaker 3 (09:57):
I don't need a brand, mister. Just tell folks mine
and it's smart enough to believe me.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
Here we are. I hope you enjoy it. Mister Nancy,
coming on, you might like some nice hot coffee with
your meal.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Mister Palla, Oh, thank you, Mac. What about me?
Speaker 5 (10:15):
Come late, eat late? Come on, Ncy, help me get
them biscuits op here?
Speaker 4 (10:19):
All right?
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Well, she's got my brand, which one mother or daughter?
And you better get one thing straight right now.
Speaker 9 (10:31):
In this country we shoot wrestlers and clean jumpers on site.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
That must be why mom makes everyone check their guns.
This room is just full of wrestlers and clean.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Jumpers cross fished. You're in your own goats boy.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
Well, I sure like to see a man sit out
on the porch and enjoy your cigar after a meal.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Mister Palla, fine me on this one.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
Thanks to the folks that bring it in like the
pheasant tonight. Mister Gibson gave him to me. He does
a lot of hunting and trapping.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Bag at our customer of Jersey.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Oh yes, he's been coming here for years. And mister Fry,
he prospects a lot. He's always bringing in a mess
of trout.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Mister Dayton Dan, well.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
He's a surveying for the railroad. He Oh, hello, Nancy, Honey,
Hello Ma, evening.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Mister Paladin, evening, Nancy, are you going.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
Riding with Chuck?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Dear?
Speaker 8 (11:29):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (11:29):
I don't know, having made up my mind. You will
or he will or something one of these days, mister
pellad in, your room's already whenever you want to turn in,
it's the first door at the head of the stairs.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Thank you, good night, Night.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Night, Nancy night.
Speaker 8 (11:46):
Oh getting old swear?
Speaker 5 (11:51):
Exactly what do you do?
Speaker 1 (11:55):
I have a card here that might explain.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Have gun we'll travel shocked?
Speaker 2 (12:05):
No, no, I'm just.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
Thinking, can I hire you?
Speaker 3 (12:10):
What for Chuck?
Speaker 5 (12:13):
He thinks he owns me. He scares everybody off, but
he never says anything about getting married. I'll end up
an old maid.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Ooh hardly, Oh, yes I will.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
Chuck was away for a whole month. Just got back
a couple of days ago, and all the time he
was gone, not one fella asked me to go riding
with him. Chuck's got him all buffaloed, and he still
won't do anything serious about me.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
You want him to well, well, he's got to.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
Make up his mind one way or another.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
What do you want me to do? Shoot him?
Speaker 5 (12:40):
No? No, just make him nice and jealous.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Oh you want him to shoot me?
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (12:45):
No, no, but I want.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
What's the matter?
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Where'd you get that? Oh?
Speaker 2 (12:52):
This Chuck gave it to me.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Why the jade chesspiece the rook to be exactly, Well,
I didn't know what to do with it, so I
put it on a chain.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
Well, he said he bought it from somebody.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
And he just got back here after being away a
whole month.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Yes, put your arms right quick.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Hey, Hey, what's going on around here?
Speaker 4 (13:19):
What was nothing, Chuck?
Speaker 3 (13:22):
I've been waiting for you to go riding.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
Oh that's too bad, mister Paladin's invited me the Eagles
next you see the moon light.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Look.
Speaker 9 (13:31):
I don't know what you're trying to start here, mister,
but you'd better hold back on your reins real quick.
I told you she's got my brain ready and Nancy
anytime I'm borning you, mister cut out.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
If you're stealing big Fie tomorrow morning.
Speaker 9 (13:46):
You're going to be buried here.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Oh oh, did you see the look on his face?
He sit to spit fire.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
Ah, I'm not afraid of him, are you.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
It's just that I don't like complications.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
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The next morning, I was up early, moving through Big Pine,
asking questions. The answers were the same everywhere. No one
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had seen three strangers riding in the town in the
last few days. No one knew were Chuck Anderson had
gotten a jade chesspiece, and no one advised asking him
about it.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Good morning, Monia is.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Worn, breakfast is ready whenever you are, missus Allison trout
to state.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
With our hosckkeey, don't tell me on the last one.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
Well, mister Gibson left more than an hour ago with
mister Try. You and Chus and mister Dayton's the only
ones left. Hang up your gun and come along.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
I'll be right there.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
I'll court your coffee.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
I told you to get out of Big Pine by
this morning. That's right, you did, well, then get.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Right now.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Sorry hanging up your gun.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
You afraid of me?
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Just afraid my breakfast will get cold? And as the house.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
Ruled landsakes Chuck, you put down that gun.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Not till he rides out of here away.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
I said, sure, My name is what it is. You'll
never set foot in this house again. Hang it up
now now, both of you go on and eat your food.
Board gets pulled.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
I'll meet you outside after breakfast, I hope, so.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
Mister Paladin, Mister Paladin, did Chuck really want to shoot you?
Speaker 3 (17:07):
He really didn't and still does.
Speaker 7 (17:09):
Oh ain't that nice?
Speaker 5 (17:20):
Had enough breakfast? Mister Dayton?
Speaker 10 (17:22):
Yes, thanks have to be right now, Jasmin see later
now that he's gone I want to get something straight
right now.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
Whatever on earth? I told you I want no impulse.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Just so you know what's going on. What is going on?
You will? There's one thing I want to know.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Does this fellow mean anything to you?
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Do you care? You know?
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Bling? Will I care nice to hear it?
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Well, then I want to know does this fellow nish?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Good morning?
Speaker 5 (17:52):
You're just in time for breakfast. Only you'll have to
leave your gun out in the hall.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
I'm making the rules now, Granny, stay put.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
What's the idea. There's nothing worth stealing here.
Speaker 8 (18:04):
We'll take anything we can get when we're ready.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Meantime, we'll just relax a little waiting for somebody.
Speaker 8 (18:11):
You are smart, mister, how.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
About some grumb I'm scarm.
Speaker 8 (18:15):
Right, rustle up some breakfast, Grannie.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Don't wave that gun at me.
Speaker 8 (18:19):
Never mind, Mom, not you chiekitty.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
You stay here with us just in case your mouth
figures on cooking up some trouble.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Well, go on, Grannie strange.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
You should pick an out of the way place like
this to meet someone.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
And again, it's only a day from the border.
Speaker 8 (18:38):
You're starting to get too smart now, mister.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Oh, I can do better than that. Yeah, with what
with this derringer that's pointed directly at your belly.
Speaker 8 (18:51):
You're bluffing.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Call me, tell your friend a holster or his pistol,
then unbuckle his belt.
Speaker 8 (18:59):
Go on, all right, rip you.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Do what you said?
Speaker 6 (19:03):
Never mind, rip boy, Damn where you've been waiting. I
figured you for a darringer, mister Paladin. You want to
ease the hammer down real easy, then hand it over
gently so I don't blow your head off.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
That's too bad. I didn't figure you. He gave you
the chest piece, chunk.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Yeah, he gave me why he and his friends beat
up an old chinaman in San.
Speaker 6 (19:28):
Francisco said, hand over that darringer, Paladin, Start you.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Flop, hold everybody, hold it. Hold it. This darringer can
blow an offful big hold on the man. That's an
old trick. Yeah, and you fell for it. Come on,
get up, Thanks, Chuck. I was good thinking.
Speaker 9 (19:52):
Yeah, don't thank me, fancy pants. I just didn't want
nobody else to have the pleasure of gunning you. I'm
gonna marry this girl.
Speaker 5 (19:59):
You here, shuck, I do, I do.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Stop hanging on me. I got man's business to take
care of here. Gotta get the guns and then you're
getting out of this town, Paladin. Here every word, every word?
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Is it all?
Speaker 2 (20:31):
There are nine hundred and forty three dollars. Then you
can take it all back to your uncle, honor, for
uncle will thank you for returning money on Chess said, Oh,
maybe he evenna give you chess set personally for payment.
If he offers, tell him I accept and tell him
after this to keep his money in a bank. Oh yes, ah,
I tell him.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Good. Then it's finished.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Yes, are missa pardon what.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
You look?
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Fat?
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Fat, fat?
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Well arter day boy, this was the most nutritious trip
I ever took.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Of to day.
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Speaker 5 (24:06):
And and
This gun is pointed right at the center of your belt.
The border is behind me, mister, and you're not gonna
make it. Have gun will travel, starring mister John Dayner
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as Paladin, San Francisco, eighteen seventy five, The Carlton Hotel,
headquarters of a man called Paladin.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
You like, mister Paladin.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
This is the finest jade chess piece of a racine.
Hey boy, Where'd you get it?
Speaker 2 (01:02):
A gift of my uncle uncle sing War running laundry.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Where's sing War get it?
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Oh? From his great grandfather Hai Hung, who got it
from his grandfather Juong, who was faithful houseboy to a
celestial emperor in Imperial court. Now it mine. I know
you like chess man, especially Knight, so would be pleased
if you will accept my gift.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Well, very kind of you, hey boy, But I can't
accept this. Ruin the rest of the set.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Oh no, mister Paladin. Set already ruined. Day before yesterday,
three men come to my uncle's laundry. Police think they
are men who bust out of jail. They hit uncle
on head, They steal money, clothes, chess set too, take everything.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
But this is one piece I see. I imagine your
uncle would like to see those men can.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Oh, yes, sir, very much, very bad men.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
You keep this, hey boy, Let me see what I
can do about getting back to the rest of the set.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Where's sing War's laundry.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
On Talk Street or you can find rest of set?
Speaker 3 (01:59):
I don't know, hey boy, without try.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
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Speaker 1 (03:18):
Sing Wo, honorable uncle of hey Boy, proprietor of the
laundry on Turk Street, victim of three men who had
stolen clothes, money, and chest set, was a wiry little
man with a seamed ageless face, but plenty to say
about the details of the matter.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Unfortunately, what he had.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
To say strained the language barrier too far, at least
for me. For hey Boy, it made sense. He listened
politely to singh wos every word, nodding now and then and.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Dodging now and then, since Singwo happened to be holding
a flat iron in one hand, and singh Wo was
a man who insisted on a gesture to emphasize his words.
Then suddenly he stopped and, standing like a little Buddha,
listened as Hey boy brought.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Me up to date, Uncle singh Wo. See what he
will do with he catchy men? Did he happen to
describe them?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Man?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Maybe he saw all plenty big plenty ugly.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
That's not much of a description. No, sir, it won't
be easy to find them, since they have a two
days head start. No sir, I have no idea what
direction they've gone.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Uncle sing Wo know where they go?
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Why?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Oh? He understands some words in Americans. I hear them say, hie,
big pine. Then go to Canada, big pine. He saw
big pine Montana.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
That's up near the border. Sounds like a good place
for them to get across.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
They take all money, Uncle sing Wo have in world.
He worked hard for everything, or by yourself. He's terrible thing.
Wall man will have nothing now to start all over
again in hard cruel world.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Let's hope he won't have to start all over again.
Hey boy, how much cash did they steal from him?
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Nine forty three dollars? Plenty money to sing Wo.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Plenty of money to anybody. Hey boy, I'll see in
a few days. Tell sing Woll everything will be all right.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Hello there, enough noon. My name is Paladin.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
I'm my Warren. You're just in time. Supper's ready?
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Good? So am I?
Speaker 5 (05:28):
You look a might lean, mister Paladin. You've been traveling
long long enough?
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Tell me, missus Warren, have you seen three men come
through here anytime during the past few days.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
No, friends of yours.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
No, not exactly.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
If they were heading for Canada, they'd have to come
through Big Pine with me.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
It depends on where they're coming from the mountains. Well,
then they'd have to come through here. Mister Paladin. The
food's good, rooms clean, the price is right, and you're
welcome only unrule you hang your guns up right there.
It's a custom of the house.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
I'm sorry as warm, but I never go anywhere without
a gun.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
Nobody comes to my table armed. It's up to you,
mister Paladin. Hang it up or get your supper somewhere else.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
What's that I smell?
Speaker 5 (06:21):
We're having pheasant today, pheasant roasted in grape leaves.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
There's warm.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
You are an oasis in a desert of boiled beef.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Well, is it gun or the pheasants?
Speaker 3 (06:35):
I'll take the pheasant, good.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Boy, Chuck this here's mister Paladin, Chuck.
Speaker 6 (06:43):
Anderson passing through slowly hang your staying awhile, Why.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Let's say I'm visiting who he's visiting me?
Speaker 5 (06:59):
Hang up a gun before you go in there to eat?
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Who put the burr under his saddle?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (07:07):
He always talks like that. Chuck does. Dang him.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
He's a stranger around here.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
No say, now, if you expect to get any food,
you better get started run my table. All them fellas
have four and five hands.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
What fellas well?
Speaker 5 (07:20):
Aside from Chuck, there's mister Gibson and mister Fry, mister Dayton. Well,
I gotta get off the kitchen now, you bawn eap
whenever you get.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Ready, mister Gibson, mister Fry, mister Dayton.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
Sociable, up to date?
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Debonair? What's this a new word game?
Speaker 7 (07:48):
Now?
Speaker 5 (07:48):
I'm just mentioning the qualities that people admire and other people.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Oh, I see if you're sociable, up to date?
Speaker 2 (07:53):
And what was another word?
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Debonair?
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Yes, debonair, But listen to it this way.
Speaker 7 (08:07):
Be sociable looks like sheep up to date with Pepsy
during the light refreshing.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Stay you there, Jem, and there be sociable PEPSI notice
how many of your friends are serving pepsicola these days.
Speaker 8 (08:32):
It's the up to date refreshment.
Speaker 7 (08:34):
Be sociable, serve Pepsy.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Just inside the door of mar Warren's boarding house in
Big Pine, there was a rack and above the rack
of sign reading guns and hats. Since four gun belts
were already hanging there along with four hats, I hung mine.
Then I began to follow my nose in the direction
of the dining room.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
She Worem's daughter. She told me to take a place
for inster.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
Paladin ranks that food that smells off it good this way.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
This is mister Paladin. Everybody, mister Gibson, mister Fry, and
mister Dayton.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Gentlemen, how do mister Paladin and Dayton? How do you do?
Speaker 5 (09:19):
And I reckon? You know, Chuck Anderson?
Speaker 3 (09:21):
We met? Yeah, yeah, we met and you missed me, sweetheart.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
Oh shut up, Chuck. I'll bring yourself a right out.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Mister Paladin, Hey, where do I sit?
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Any place? Any place?
Speaker 2 (09:34):
You like?
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Shovel over? Dayton? Yeah? What's you're lying? Mister? I'm a
business man, sorts. You live around here? Back up the
road to peace. You've got a thousand acres sounds promising.
What's your brand?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Brand?
Speaker 3 (09:57):
I don't need a brand, mister. Just tell folks mine
and it's smart enough to believe me.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
Here we are. I hope you enjoy it. Mister Nancy,
coming on, you might like some nice hot coffee with
your meal.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Mister Palla, Oh, thank you, Mac. What about me?
Speaker 5 (10:15):
Come late, eat late? Come on, Ncy, help me get
them biscuits op here?
Speaker 4 (10:19):
All right?
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Well, she's got my brand, which one mother or daughter?
And you better get one thing straight right now.
Speaker 9 (10:31):
In this country we shoot wrestlers and clean jumpers on site.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
That must be why mom makes everyone check their guns.
This room is just full of wrestlers and clean.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Jumpers cross fished. You're in your own goats boy.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
Well, I sure like to see a man sit out
on the porch and enjoy your cigar after a meal.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Mister Palla, fine me on this one.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
Thanks to the folks that bring it in like the
pheasant tonight. Mister Gibson gave him to me. He does
a lot of hunting and trapping.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Bag at our customer of Jersey.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Oh yes, he's been coming here for years. And mister Fry,
he prospects a lot. He's always bringing in a mess
of trout.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Mister Dayton Dan, well.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
He's a surveying for the railroad. He Oh, hello, Nancy, Honey,
Hello Ma, evening.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Mister Paladin, evening, Nancy, are you going.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
Riding with Chuck?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Dear?
Speaker 8 (11:29):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (11:29):
I don't know, having made up my mind. You will
or he will or something one of these days, mister
pellad in, your room's already whenever you want to turn in,
it's the first door at the head of the stairs.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Thank you, good night, Night.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Night, Nancy night.
Speaker 8 (11:46):
Oh getting old swear?
Speaker 5 (11:51):
Exactly what do you do?
Speaker 1 (11:55):
I have a card here that might explain.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Have gun we'll travel shocked?
Speaker 2 (12:05):
No, no, I'm just.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
Thinking, can I hire you?
Speaker 3 (12:10):
What for Chuck?
Speaker 5 (12:13):
He thinks he owns me. He scares everybody off, but
he never says anything about getting married. I'll end up
an old maid.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Ooh hardly, Oh, yes I will.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
Chuck was away for a whole month. Just got back
a couple of days ago, and all the time he
was gone, not one fella asked me to go riding
with him. Chuck's got him all buffaloed, and he still
won't do anything serious about me.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
You want him to well, well, he's got to.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
Make up his mind one way or another.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
What do you want me to do? Shoot him?
Speaker 5 (12:40):
No? No, just make him nice and jealous.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Oh you want him to shoot me?
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (12:45):
No, no, but I want.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
What's the matter?
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Where'd you get that? Oh?
Speaker 2 (12:52):
This Chuck gave it to me.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Why the jade chesspiece the rook to be exactly, Well,
I didn't know what to do with it, so I
put it on a chain.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
Well, he said he bought it from somebody.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
And he just got back here after being away a
whole month.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Yes, put your arms right quick.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Hey, Hey, what's going on around here?
Speaker 4 (13:19):
What was nothing, Chuck?
Speaker 3 (13:22):
I've been waiting for you to go riding.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
Oh that's too bad, mister Paladin's invited me the Eagles
next you see the moon light.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Look.
Speaker 9 (13:31):
I don't know what you're trying to start here, mister,
but you'd better hold back on your reins real quick.
I told you she's got my brain ready and Nancy
anytime I'm borning you, mister cut out.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
If you're stealing big Fie tomorrow morning.
Speaker 9 (13:46):
You're going to be buried here.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Oh oh, did you see the look on his face?
He sit to spit fire.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
Ah, I'm not afraid of him, are you.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
It's just that I don't like complications.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
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The next morning, I was up early, moving through Big Pine,
asking questions. The answers were the same everywhere. No one
(15:32):
had seen three strangers riding in the town in the
last few days. No one knew were Chuck Anderson had
gotten a jade chesspiece, and no one advised asking him
about it.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Good morning, Monia is.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Worn, breakfast is ready whenever you are, missus Allison trout
to state.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
With our hosckkeey, don't tell me on the last one.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
Well, mister Gibson left more than an hour ago with
mister Try. You and Chus and mister Dayton's the only
ones left. Hang up your gun and come along.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
I'll be right there.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
I'll court your coffee.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
I told you to get out of Big Pine by
this morning. That's right, you did, well, then get.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Right now.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Sorry hanging up your gun.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
You afraid of me?
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Just afraid my breakfast will get cold? And as the house.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
Ruled landsakes Chuck, you put down that gun.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Not till he rides out of here away.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
I said, sure, My name is what it is. You'll
never set foot in this house again. Hang it up
now now, both of you go on and eat your food.
Board gets pulled.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
I'll meet you outside after breakfast, I hope, so.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
Mister Paladin, Mister Paladin, did Chuck really want to shoot you?
Speaker 3 (17:07):
He really didn't and still does.
Speaker 7 (17:09):
Oh ain't that nice?
Speaker 5 (17:20):
Had enough breakfast? Mister Dayton?
Speaker 10 (17:22):
Yes, thanks have to be right now, Jasmin see later
now that he's gone I want to get something straight
right now.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
Whatever on earth? I told you I want no impulse.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Just so you know what's going on. What is going on?
You will? There's one thing I want to know.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Does this fellow mean anything to you?
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Do you care? You know?
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Bling? Will I care nice to hear it?
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Well, then I want to know does this fellow nish?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Good morning?
Speaker 5 (17:52):
You're just in time for breakfast. Only you'll have to
leave your gun out in the hall.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
I'm making the rules now, Granny, stay put.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
What's the idea. There's nothing worth stealing here.
Speaker 8 (18:04):
We'll take anything we can get when we're ready.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Meantime, we'll just relax a little waiting for somebody.
Speaker 8 (18:11):
You are smart, mister, how.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
About some grumb I'm scarm.
Speaker 8 (18:15):
Right, rustle up some breakfast, Grannie.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Don't wave that gun at me.
Speaker 8 (18:19):
Never mind, Mom, not you chiekitty.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
You stay here with us just in case your mouth
figures on cooking up some trouble.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Well, go on, Grannie strange.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
You should pick an out of the way place like
this to meet someone.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
And again, it's only a day from the border.
Speaker 8 (18:38):
You're starting to get too smart now, mister.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Oh, I can do better than that. Yeah, with what
with this derringer that's pointed directly at your belly.
Speaker 8 (18:51):
You're bluffing.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Call me, tell your friend a holster or his pistol,
then unbuckle his belt.
Speaker 8 (18:59):
Go on, all right, rip you.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Do what you said?
Speaker 6 (19:03):
Never mind, rip boy, Damn where you've been waiting. I
figured you for a darringer, mister Paladin. You want to
ease the hammer down real easy, then hand it over
gently so I don't blow your head off.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
That's too bad. I didn't figure you. He gave you
the chest piece, chunk.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Yeah, he gave me why he and his friends beat
up an old chinaman in San.
Speaker 6 (19:28):
Francisco said, hand over that darringer, Paladin, Start you.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Flop, hold everybody, hold it. Hold it. This darringer can
blow an offful big hold on the man. That's an
old trick. Yeah, and you fell for it. Come on,
get up, Thanks, Chuck. I was good thinking.
Speaker 9 (19:52):
Yeah, don't thank me, fancy pants. I just didn't want
nobody else to have the pleasure of gunning you. I'm
gonna marry this girl.
Speaker 5 (19:59):
You here, shuck, I do, I do.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Stop hanging on me. I got man's business to take
care of here. Gotta get the guns and then you're
getting out of this town, Paladin. Here every word, every word?
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Is it all?
Speaker 2 (20:31):
There are nine hundred and forty three dollars. Then you
can take it all back to your uncle, honor, for
uncle will thank you for returning money on Chess said, Oh,
maybe he evenna give you chess set personally for payment.
If he offers, tell him I accept and tell him
after this to keep his money in a bank. Oh yes, ah,
I tell him.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Good. Then it's finished.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Yes, are missa pardon what.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
You look?
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Fat?
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Fat, fat?
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Well arter day boy, this was the most nutritious trip
I ever took.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Of to day.
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