August 23, 2025 • 25 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 (00:12):
An immigrant workers crushed beneath thousands of pounds of railroad ties.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
You call it an accident, I say it was murder.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Have Gone, Will Travel, starring mister John Dayner as Paladin,
San Francisco, eighteen seventy five, The Carlton Hotel, headquarters of
(00:53):
a man called Paladin.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Oh, mister Paladin, glad to have you back.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Thank you my key. Please.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Of course, it's been quite a while since we've seen you,
About three weeks, I.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Dare say about that, and my mail please? Of course,
I don't.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Believe I remember you being away for this long at
any one time. He was, Eh, it must have been
quite an extensive trip.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yes it was. Would you have hey boy bring my
bags up? Oh, hey boy is no longer with us.
But I'll say, hey boy is no longer here. That's right.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
His employment terminated, well, we could go today, as.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
A matter of fact, terminated. Why I don't know, sir.
Did he get another job somewhere? I don't really know.
He must have given an excuse for leaving.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
The Carton automatically gave him a release when he didn't
show up for three consecutive days.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Did it ever occur to the carton that he might
be ill. After all of this is our responsibility. Has
anyone seen him?
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Really, mister, it isn't that important.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
These people are very easily replaced.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
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leave a message from me with anyone at the hotel,
and it was unlikely that he would quit his job
without an explanation unless something was wrong.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
I didn't know where Hey Boy lived, but I remember
that he had an uncle.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Who ran a curio shop I had patronized in the past.
San Francisco was heavy with fog when I arrived in
Chinatown for a visit with mister Chung, the owner of
Mandarin Galleries.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Welcome to the manlod.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Good afternoon, mister Chung.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
Mister Paladin. I did not recognize you at first. I
trust each dawn has brought you a day of success.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
And each dusk a night of contentment.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Your visit is most fortuitous.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
Only yesterday I received several new pieces from Campoon.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
I am sure they will be of great interest to you.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Oh beautiful workmanship. The case is teakwood, isn't it yes?
Speaker 4 (04:28):
And the chessmen are of ivory.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Oh excuisit excuisite.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
But right now, mister Chung, I'm afraid all I want
is some information.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
I hope I may be of service.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
I'm looking for hey boy, Kim Chang.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
I have not seen my nephew Kim Chang for several days.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Mister Chung, hey boy is a friend of mine. Is
he in any kind of trouble?
Speaker 4 (04:54):
He spoke to you, perhaps of his brother Kim Sung.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yes, he did mention that his brother was con in
the United States.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
His passage and entry permit was arranged by a railroad company.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
And I suppose Kim Sung signed a contract to repay
the railroad by working for them on a construction crew.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Many of our people have come here this way, mister Paradin,
I have in my pocket two letters. Kim Chang, whom
you call hey Boy, left them with me for safe keeping.
The first one is from his brother. If you would like,
I will translate it for you, eh please. The first
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part is of no importance. But this the headman Travis
cheats us of our wages, gives us less food than
is our right because we are Chinese. He thinks we
will do nothing. Last night, when I spoke to him
in protest, I was beaten.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
I am afraid now to stay here.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
I am afraid Travis will kill me as a lesson
to the Please, my brother, you must help me, that
is all.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
May I see the learn in China? I just want
to see the postmark cold Water?
Speaker 6 (06:13):
You to?
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Is this where hey Boy's gone?
Speaker 5 (06:17):
He left ten days ago when he received this other
letter from the railroad company. You may read it for yourself, sir,
under the circumstances, mister Power didn't. I am surprised the
letter would include regrets.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Uh sign Maury Travis Section Superintendent. He doesn't explain the
accident or even tell where Kim Sung is buried? Why
did hey boy go to Cold Water alone?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Mister chum?
Speaker 5 (06:54):
When it is hurt, even the most gentle kitten will
have the fury of a triker.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
But still only the strength of a kitten. May I
keep these letters for a while.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
This is something you can do to help him, mister
Pola did.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
I can try to keep payboy alive, mister Chung. Four
days ride from San Francisco brought me to a tiny
settlement on a huge plateau shadowed by a crouching mountain peak.
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The railroad Superintendent's office, Cold Water, division was a small
frame shack with a porch some three steps.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Above a dirt road.
Speaker 7 (07:42):
Looking for somebody, mister Travis, you find him, Come on
in getting chili, ain't it it is always does this
time of the afternoon.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
What can I do for you? My card?
Speaker 7 (07:58):
I'm gone, We'll travel Paladin San Francisco's.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
All I mean.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
I don't understand you're a target, mister Travis. Someone intends
to kill you. I'm offering my services as a bodyguard.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Why would anyone want to kill me?
Speaker 1 (08:13):
We all have enemies, some were not aware of. I'm
sure you're no exception. Well you remember a Chinese boy
by the name of Kim Sung who was killed in
an accident here not long ago.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Yeah, yeah, I remember. I have a letter here that
claims it was not an accident. Let me see that.
Speaker 7 (08:33):
This could be a Chinese laundry ticket, for all I know.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
I assure you it is not. I'll take that back
if you don't mind. Oh sure.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Now this letter was sent to the dead man's brother
and claims that it was not an accident.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Now the brother wants revenge his brother, Kim Chang a
little fella. That's right.
Speaker 7 (08:52):
Well, I got news for you, paladin, I don't need
to hire a gun to protect me against a KOULI
I've already met up with that little chin boy and
I'm still alive and kicking.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
And the China boy he's in jail.
Speaker 7 (09:07):
A crazy fool came at me with a knife. If
the sheriff hadn't stuck his nose, and he'd be in
his grave.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
I'm sorry I bothered you, mister Travis.
Speaker 8 (09:26):
Doctor when you psychoanalyze me, well, what seems to be
the problem. I'm a germ, a bathroom germ, and they're
the most unwonted kind.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
You know, spread disease and caused bathroom oder.
Speaker 8 (09:39):
Go on, Well, my mother and father abandoned me at
a very early age. Yes, you see, even germs hate germs.
Everybody hates germs. Look at all the women who put
my soul in their sons every week when they clean
their bathrooms. No, they know ice soul is md of
for bathroom germs. This infects from one cleaning to the next.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
There's nothing else.
Speaker 8 (10:00):
Aha, And my landlady just got some new pine scented
lying soul. So you see, doctor, I'm getting a very
bad inferiority complex. A doctor where are you going to
see a psychiatrist? But why you ever heard of a
germ talkie?
Speaker 9 (10:16):
Use my soul Brent disinfectant, the modern easy way to
get bathrooms really clean every week regular or the new
Pine cented for as little as twenty nine cents. After
convincing the sheriff that I was a friend of his
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only prisoner, he led me back to a cell where
Hey Boy was lying on a mattress on the floor,
apparently asleep. The sheriff said he was weak because he
refused to eat, and then he had gotten the bruises
on his face and arms in the fight with Travis.
At my request, he left me alone with hey Boy.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
All right, Paladin, but I'll have to lock in.
Speaker 10 (10:55):
All right, Hey boy, wear my cigars?
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Huh my newspapers?
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Oh oh, mister Palladin, Hello, hey boy, Ah, miss a Paladine,
It is much surprised to see you here.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Yeah, they're a long way from San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Yes, Ah, many miles of sorrow that I know. Mister
Chung told me about your brother.
Speaker 6 (11:34):
We ought to be together again after all these years.
Now my brother is dead and the man who killed
him lives and goes unpunished.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
This is not right.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Keep your voice down. We don't know who can hear us. Now,
Hey boy, are you sure that it was not an accident?
Speaker 6 (11:49):
Oh yes, I'm sure. Travis struck my brother with a
club and then he made it up here an accident.
He threw a load of timbers off a flat car
to his body. And two other men who worked with
Kim Sung, So it happened.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Why ifn't they tell the sheriff. With two witnesses, Travis
could be brought to trial.
Speaker 6 (12:07):
Ah, who would take your word of Chinese against a white? Somehow?
His punishment will come at my hands.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
I' won't work even if he doesn't kill you. If
you should kill him, you'd be arrested for murder.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
Boy. Either way, it's something I must do.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Ah.
Speaker 6 (12:23):
Ah, mister Paladin, you come to take me out of jail.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
I'm afraid I can't do that until we clear the
charges against you. Hey boy, tell me the names of
the two men who witnessed your brother's murder.
Speaker 6 (12:35):
Oh no, I'm sorry. I took oath to never repeat
their names. It is for their protection. Please understand. I
cannot break my pledge, not even to you.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
I understand, any boy, but I will tell.
Speaker 6 (12:47):
You they work in a crew under a man named.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Brady, Sir Brady this afternoon.
Speaker 6 (12:53):
Oh yes, he or mean very strong. He like a bull.
He helped Travis throw the railroad ties on my brother's buddy.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Hey boy, I'm going to tell the sheriff to fix
you some supper, and you eat it, or he saw
miss I eat it than could. I'll be back to
see you in the morning. Brady's labor crew was huddled
on the ground around a battered kettle that bubbled over
a small fire, eating a watery stew out of tin plates.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
They hardly looked up as I approached.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
When of you speak English, somebody must understand.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
I'm sure you all remember Kim's sung.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
Two of you saw what.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Really happened to him.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Two of you know his death was not an accident.
Two of you can put more abison jail.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Well, this is the stuff you eat.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Seems you like slop, the seems you don't mind living
in filth like slaves. You'll watch one of your brothers
die and then lick the boots of the man who
kill him.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
So someone does understand.
Speaker 6 (14:29):
Monkeys find your feet?
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Who are you?
Speaker 6 (14:35):
What are you?
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Doing here talking to some of my friends.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
Here, friends, clear up.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Not until I'm ready, I said, get out of here,
put that axe down.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
I'll go when I'm ready.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Now, I said, you're good with that axe?
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Not good enough.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
I don't know who you are, but I'm gonna tear
your head off.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Ah.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
Any of you men have anything to say, speak up now.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
I want to help you. Which of you spoke up
before Brady came in? All right, if you change your mind,
I'll be with Travis. Why is it that they can't
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Speaker 2 (16:22):
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free hey boy, but they are afraid.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Afraid of the foreman.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Brady and a sparse Mary Travis men died quickly and
quietly on the Cold Water Railroad Division. I went to
Travis's office, but he wasn't there. I decided to wait.
After three hands of solitaire, he returned, What are.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
You doing in my office? Paladin? Playing solitaire? I want
to know what you're doing here.
Speaker 7 (17:19):
First you tell me somebody's trying to kill me, Then
you get one of my crews all riled up, and
now you beat up my foreman.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Let's have it straight. What do you want? I told
you this afternoon job.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
But since you've decided to wear a gun, you seem
to be fully prepared to take care of yourself. I
assume my services are unnecessary.
Speaker 7 (17:43):
Your services include nose Naranu. What doesn't concern you, Travis.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
I told you your men could have the freedom of
the town as long as they didn't start me troubles.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
What are you talking about, Sheriff.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
At Chinese work?
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Gang of yours?
Speaker 3 (17:56):
They just broke into jail, took your friend out with them. Paladin,
wha't you stop him? Forty five men with cow bars.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
And pick actions? Where'd they go? They're heading straight for
this office.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
You suppose they're looking for someone in particular.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Travis? Sure, if I want protection.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
If you think I'm gonna try facing down a bunch
of Chinese aren't with picks?
Speaker 2 (18:13):
You're crazy? All right? Then me and my mental stop him.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Most your boys are at the saloon in town.
Speaker 7 (18:18):
I know that I was with him till I heard
what Paladin did to my phone.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
I'll round them up.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Are your men gonna stop forty five rebel laborers Travis
with shotguns?
Speaker 6 (18:27):
Paladin? I'll kill everyone?
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Sureff, that's a matter of Travis. You see a ghostop there.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
They're standing out in front, all of them just staring
at me, just just staring. Paladin. You gotta help me.
You say they're your friends.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
Maybe they listen to you.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Go up there and talk to them.
Speaker 7 (18:54):
You said you wanted a job, all right, then I'm
hiring you.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
All right.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
First, as a matter of my fee, five hundred dollars
in advance, five hundred in hard cash on the line.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Now, all right, all right, I won't argue with you.
Speaker 7 (19:11):
The money's in the safe. O.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
That gun comes high, Pala.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Yes it does. His hide isn't worth that much, but
I'm going to use the money to help heal some scars.
Travis left and a friend of mine. Looking at it
that way, it hardly seems enough.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Here are five hundred gold.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Put the bag on the table, Travis.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Yeah, I'm going out to talk to your friends, Hey boy,
tell them then to go back to camp.
Speaker 6 (19:45):
Please stay order the way, miss up Paladin.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
You're not taking Travis.
Speaker 6 (19:49):
Missa Paladin, forgive me for what I say to you,
but please understand you are my true friend.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
We do you no.
Speaker 6 (19:58):
Harm, but you must stay out of the way. Travis
killed my brother. I cheated these your money. He will
be punished, not by you.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
You're in the United States, now, hey boy, you'll live
by American law.
Speaker 6 (20:11):
American law is for whites, not Chinese.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
The law is for everybody. The color of your skin
doesn't make you any different. While you're in this country,
you'll not only obey the law, you'll get its protection
and you'll get justice.
Speaker 6 (20:24):
American justice will not bring back Kim Sung.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Neither will another murder.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Believe me, hey boy, if he's guilty, I want Travis
punish as much as you do. But I promise you
I'll shoot the first man who lays a hand on him.
Speaker 11 (20:40):
Oh my tong guy, oh man, keep my law tornline,
guy Kim Sung? Who he's a paladin?
Speaker 6 (20:52):
He's man son will tell you who killed my brother.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Him qu kimfo huh?
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Now wait a minute for your sheriff, it is you
trick me, Palid.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
I wouldn't go for that gun, Travis. I'd hate to cheat.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
The hangman tricked me and trik my money and gave
you excellent service. You hired me to protect you, to
save your life, and I have you'll be perfectly safe
in jail.
Speaker 6 (21:33):
Come in, hey boy, ohsa Baladin, I thought you hey,
like breakfast in your room this morning? Wonderful?
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Come in.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
That's good to have you back, Hey boy, Oh I
have you two think? Manager say you would leave hotel
if I did not come back to job.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
So here I am.
Speaker 6 (21:53):
Save a uniform.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
What's the package on the train.
Speaker 6 (21:56):
Oh, this is a package for you. You opening now. Yes,
he's my uncle and Misa Chung, very grateful for all
you did. Here's the money you give us from Travis
to bring my brother back to San Francisco for pp
a Chinese.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Verry o wild.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
It's the chess that I admired at the many thank
you and my thanks to your uncle, mister Chung.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
How about a game of chess?
Speaker 6 (22:23):
Oh later perhaps, but now I must go swort mail
for a new desk clerk.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
New desk clerk.
Speaker 6 (22:29):
Uh, someone registered a strong complaint against the old one.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Someone did that? Well, what do you know about that?
Speaker 6 (22:36):
He's a very mysterious desk clerk. Go a new one
hired today, very mysterious.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
It's nice to be back. Have gun, Will Travel.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Created by Herb Medow and Sam Ralph, is produced and
directed by Norman McDonald and stars John Dayner as Paladin
with Ben Wright as hey Boy. Tonight's story was written
by Albert Ally and adapted for radio by Frank Michael.
Featured in the cast were Edgar Barrier, Paul Dubob, Lou
Krugman and Joseph Kerns join us again next week for
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Have Gun, Will Travel the f
An immigrant workers crushed beneath thousands of pounds of railroad ties.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
You call it an accident, I say it was murder.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Have Gone, Will Travel, starring mister John Dayner as Paladin,
San Francisco, eighteen seventy five, The Carlton Hotel, headquarters of
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a man called Paladin.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Oh, mister Paladin, glad to have you back.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Thank you my key. Please.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Of course, it's been quite a while since we've seen you,
About three weeks, I.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Dare say about that, and my mail please? Of course,
I don't.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Believe I remember you being away for this long at
any one time. He was, Eh, it must have been
quite an extensive trip.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yes it was. Would you have hey boy bring my
bags up? Oh, hey boy is no longer with us.
But I'll say, hey boy is no longer here. That's right.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
His employment terminated, well, we could go today, as.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
A matter of fact, terminated. Why I don't know, sir.
Did he get another job somewhere? I don't really know.
He must have given an excuse for leaving.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
The Carton automatically gave him a release when he didn't
show up for three consecutive days.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Did it ever occur to the carton that he might
be ill. After all of this is our responsibility. Has
anyone seen him?
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Really, mister, it isn't that important.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
These people are very easily replaced.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
I assure you the Colvin will continue to give you
the same excellent service that I've just had.
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leave a message from me with anyone at the hotel,
and it was unlikely that he would quit his job
without an explanation unless something was wrong.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
I didn't know where Hey Boy lived, but I remember
that he had an uncle.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Who ran a curio shop I had patronized in the past.
San Francisco was heavy with fog when I arrived in
Chinatown for a visit with mister Chung, the owner of
Mandarin Galleries.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Welcome to the manlod.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Good afternoon, mister Chung.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
Mister Paladin. I did not recognize you at first. I
trust each dawn has brought you a day of success.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
And each dusk a night of contentment.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Your visit is most fortuitous.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
Only yesterday I received several new pieces from Campoon.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
I am sure they will be of great interest to you.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Oh beautiful workmanship. The case is teakwood, isn't it yes?
Speaker 4 (04:28):
And the chessmen are of ivory.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Oh excuisit excuisite.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
But right now, mister Chung, I'm afraid all I want
is some information.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
I hope I may be of service.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
I'm looking for hey boy, Kim Chang.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
I have not seen my nephew Kim Chang for several days.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Mister Chung, hey boy is a friend of mine. Is
he in any kind of trouble?
Speaker 4 (04:54):
He spoke to you, perhaps of his brother Kim Sung.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yes, he did mention that his brother was con in
the United States.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
His passage and entry permit was arranged by a railroad company.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
And I suppose Kim Sung signed a contract to repay
the railroad by working for them on a construction crew.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Many of our people have come here this way, mister Paradin,
I have in my pocket two letters. Kim Chang, whom
you call hey Boy, left them with me for safe keeping.
The first one is from his brother. If you would like,
I will translate it for you, eh please. The first
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part is of no importance. But this the headman Travis
cheats us of our wages, gives us less food than
is our right because we are Chinese. He thinks we
will do nothing. Last night, when I spoke to him
in protest, I was beaten.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
I am afraid now to stay here.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
I am afraid Travis will kill me as a lesson
to the Please, my brother, you must help me, that
is all.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
May I see the learn in China? I just want
to see the postmark cold Water?
Speaker 6 (06:13):
You to?
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Is this where hey Boy's gone?
Speaker 5 (06:17):
He left ten days ago when he received this other
letter from the railroad company. You may read it for yourself, sir,
under the circumstances, mister Power didn't. I am surprised the
letter would include regrets.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Uh sign Maury Travis Section Superintendent. He doesn't explain the
accident or even tell where Kim Sung is buried? Why
did hey boy go to Cold Water alone?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Mister chum?
Speaker 5 (06:54):
When it is hurt, even the most gentle kitten will
have the fury of a triker.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
But still only the strength of a kitten. May I
keep these letters for a while.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
This is something you can do to help him, mister
Pola did.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
I can try to keep payboy alive, mister Chung. Four
days ride from San Francisco brought me to a tiny
settlement on a huge plateau shadowed by a crouching mountain peak.
(07:28):
The railroad Superintendent's office, Cold Water, division was a small
frame shack with a porch some three steps.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Above a dirt road.
Speaker 7 (07:42):
Looking for somebody, mister Travis, you find him, Come on
in getting chili, ain't it it is always does this
time of the afternoon.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
What can I do for you? My card?
Speaker 7 (07:58):
I'm gone, We'll travel Paladin San Francisco's.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
All I mean.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
I don't understand you're a target, mister Travis. Someone intends
to kill you. I'm offering my services as a bodyguard.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Why would anyone want to kill me?
Speaker 1 (08:13):
We all have enemies, some were not aware of. I'm
sure you're no exception. Well you remember a Chinese boy
by the name of Kim Sung who was killed in
an accident here not long ago.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Yeah, yeah, I remember. I have a letter here that
claims it was not an accident. Let me see that.
Speaker 7 (08:33):
This could be a Chinese laundry ticket, for all I know.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
I assure you it is not. I'll take that back
if you don't mind. Oh sure.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Now this letter was sent to the dead man's brother
and claims that it was not an accident.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Now the brother wants revenge his brother, Kim Chang a
little fella. That's right.
Speaker 7 (08:52):
Well, I got news for you, paladin, I don't need
to hire a gun to protect me against a KOULI
I've already met up with that little chin boy and
I'm still alive and kicking.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
And the China boy he's in jail.
Speaker 7 (09:07):
A crazy fool came at me with a knife. If
the sheriff hadn't stuck his nose, and he'd be in
his grave.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
I'm sorry I bothered you, mister Travis.
Speaker 8 (09:26):
Doctor when you psychoanalyze me, well, what seems to be
the problem. I'm a germ, a bathroom germ, and they're
the most unwonted kind.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
You know, spread disease and caused bathroom oder.
Speaker 8 (09:39):
Go on, Well, my mother and father abandoned me at
a very early age. Yes, you see, even germs hate germs.
Everybody hates germs. Look at all the women who put
my soul in their sons every week when they clean
their bathrooms. No, they know ice soul is md of
for bathroom germs. This infects from one cleaning to the next.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
There's nothing else.
Speaker 8 (10:00):
Aha, And my landlady just got some new pine scented
lying soul. So you see, doctor, I'm getting a very
bad inferiority complex. A doctor where are you going to
see a psychiatrist? But why you ever heard of a
germ talkie?
Speaker 9 (10:16):
Use my soul Brent disinfectant, the modern easy way to
get bathrooms really clean every week regular or the new
Pine cented for as little as twenty nine cents. After
convincing the sheriff that I was a friend of his
(10:36):
only prisoner, he led me back to a cell where
Hey Boy was lying on a mattress on the floor,
apparently asleep. The sheriff said he was weak because he
refused to eat, and then he had gotten the bruises
on his face and arms in the fight with Travis.
At my request, he left me alone with hey Boy.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
All right, Paladin, but I'll have to lock in.
Speaker 10 (10:55):
All right, Hey boy, wear my cigars?
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Huh my newspapers?
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Oh oh, mister Palladin, Hello, hey boy, Ah, miss a Paladine,
It is much surprised to see you here.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Yeah, they're a long way from San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Yes, Ah, many miles of sorrow that I know. Mister
Chung told me about your brother.
Speaker 6 (11:34):
We ought to be together again after all these years.
Now my brother is dead and the man who killed
him lives and goes unpunished.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
This is not right.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Keep your voice down. We don't know who can hear us. Now,
Hey boy, are you sure that it was not an accident?
Speaker 6 (11:49):
Oh yes, I'm sure. Travis struck my brother with a
club and then he made it up here an accident.
He threw a load of timbers off a flat car
to his body. And two other men who worked with
Kim Sung, So it happened.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Why ifn't they tell the sheriff. With two witnesses, Travis
could be brought to trial.
Speaker 6 (12:07):
Ah, who would take your word of Chinese against a white? Somehow?
His punishment will come at my hands.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
I' won't work even if he doesn't kill you. If
you should kill him, you'd be arrested for murder.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
Boy. Either way, it's something I must do.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Ah.
Speaker 6 (12:23):
Ah, mister Paladin, you come to take me out of jail.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
I'm afraid I can't do that until we clear the
charges against you. Hey boy, tell me the names of
the two men who witnessed your brother's murder.
Speaker 6 (12:35):
Oh no, I'm sorry. I took oath to never repeat
their names. It is for their protection. Please understand. I
cannot break my pledge, not even to you.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
I understand, any boy, but I will tell.
Speaker 6 (12:47):
You they work in a crew under a man named.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Brady, Sir Brady this afternoon.
Speaker 6 (12:53):
Oh yes, he or mean very strong. He like a bull.
He helped Travis throw the railroad ties on my brother's buddy.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Hey boy, I'm going to tell the sheriff to fix
you some supper, and you eat it, or he saw
miss I eat it than could. I'll be back to
see you in the morning. Brady's labor crew was huddled
on the ground around a battered kettle that bubbled over
a small fire, eating a watery stew out of tin plates.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
They hardly looked up as I approached.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
When of you speak English, somebody must understand.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
I'm sure you all remember Kim's sung.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
Two of you saw what.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Really happened to him.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Two of you know his death was not an accident.
Two of you can put more abison jail.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Well, this is the stuff you eat.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Seems you like slop, the seems you don't mind living
in filth like slaves. You'll watch one of your brothers
die and then lick the boots of the man who
kill him.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
So someone does understand.
Speaker 6 (14:29):
Monkeys find your feet?
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Who are you?
Speaker 6 (14:35):
What are you?
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Doing here talking to some of my friends.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
Here, friends, clear up.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Not until I'm ready, I said, get out of here,
put that axe down.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
I'll go when I'm ready.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Now, I said, you're good with that axe?
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Not good enough.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
I don't know who you are, but I'm gonna tear
your head off.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Ah.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
Any of you men have anything to say, speak up now.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
I want to help you. Which of you spoke up
before Brady came in? All right, if you change your mind,
I'll be with Travis. Why is it that they can't
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Speaker 2 (16:22):
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Speaker 1 (16:24):
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free hey boy, but they are afraid.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Afraid of the foreman.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Brady and a sparse Mary Travis men died quickly and
quietly on the Cold Water Railroad Division. I went to
Travis's office, but he wasn't there. I decided to wait.
After three hands of solitaire, he returned, What are.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
You doing in my office? Paladin? Playing solitaire? I want
to know what you're doing here.
Speaker 7 (17:19):
First you tell me somebody's trying to kill me, Then
you get one of my crews all riled up, and
now you beat up my foreman.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Let's have it straight. What do you want? I told
you this afternoon job.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
But since you've decided to wear a gun, you seem
to be fully prepared to take care of yourself. I
assume my services are unnecessary.
Speaker 7 (17:43):
Your services include nose Naranu. What doesn't concern you, Travis.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
I told you your men could have the freedom of
the town as long as they didn't start me troubles.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
What are you talking about, Sheriff.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
At Chinese work?
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Gang of yours?
Speaker 3 (17:56):
They just broke into jail, took your friend out with them. Paladin,
wha't you stop him? Forty five men with cow bars.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
And pick actions? Where'd they go? They're heading straight for
this office.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
You suppose they're looking for someone in particular.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Travis? Sure, if I want protection.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
If you think I'm gonna try facing down a bunch
of Chinese aren't with picks?
Speaker 2 (18:13):
You're crazy? All right? Then me and my mental stop him.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Most your boys are at the saloon in town.
Speaker 7 (18:18):
I know that I was with him till I heard
what Paladin did to my phone.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
I'll round them up.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Are your men gonna stop forty five rebel laborers Travis
with shotguns?
Speaker 6 (18:27):
Paladin? I'll kill everyone?
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Sureff, that's a matter of Travis. You see a ghostop there.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
They're standing out in front, all of them just staring
at me, just just staring. Paladin. You gotta help me.
You say they're your friends.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
Maybe they listen to you.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Go up there and talk to them.
Speaker 7 (18:54):
You said you wanted a job, all right, then I'm
hiring you.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
All right.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
First, as a matter of my fee, five hundred dollars
in advance, five hundred in hard cash on the line.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Now, all right, all right, I won't argue with you.
Speaker 7 (19:11):
The money's in the safe. O.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
That gun comes high, Pala.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Yes it does. His hide isn't worth that much, but
I'm going to use the money to help heal some scars.
Travis left and a friend of mine. Looking at it
that way, it hardly seems enough.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Here are five hundred gold.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Put the bag on the table, Travis.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Yeah, I'm going out to talk to your friends, Hey boy,
tell them then to go back to camp.
Speaker 6 (19:45):
Please stay order the way, miss up Paladin.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
You're not taking Travis.
Speaker 6 (19:49):
Missa Paladin, forgive me for what I say to you,
but please understand you are my true friend.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
We do you no.
Speaker 6 (19:58):
Harm, but you must stay out of the way. Travis
killed my brother. I cheated these your money. He will
be punished, not by you.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
You're in the United States, now, hey boy, you'll live
by American law.
Speaker 6 (20:11):
American law is for whites, not Chinese.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
The law is for everybody. The color of your skin
doesn't make you any different. While you're in this country,
you'll not only obey the law, you'll get its protection
and you'll get justice.
Speaker 6 (20:24):
American justice will not bring back Kim Sung.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Neither will another murder.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Believe me, hey boy, if he's guilty, I want Travis
punish as much as you do. But I promise you
I'll shoot the first man who lays a hand on him.
Speaker 11 (20:40):
Oh my tong guy, oh man, keep my law tornline,
guy Kim Sung? Who he's a paladin?
Speaker 6 (20:52):
He's man son will tell you who killed my brother.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Him qu kimfo huh?
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Now wait a minute for your sheriff, it is you
trick me, Palid.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
I wouldn't go for that gun, Travis. I'd hate to cheat.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
The hangman tricked me and trik my money and gave
you excellent service. You hired me to protect you, to
save your life, and I have you'll be perfectly safe
in jail.
Speaker 6 (21:33):
Come in, hey boy, ohsa Baladin, I thought you hey,
like breakfast in your room this morning? Wonderful?
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Come in.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
That's good to have you back, Hey boy, Oh I
have you two think? Manager say you would leave hotel
if I did not come back to job.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
So here I am.
Speaker 6 (21:53):
Save a uniform.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
What's the package on the train.
Speaker 6 (21:56):
Oh, this is a package for you. You opening now. Yes,
he's my uncle and Misa Chung, very grateful for all
you did. Here's the money you give us from Travis
to bring my brother back to San Francisco for pp
a Chinese.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Verry o wild.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
It's the chess that I admired at the many thank
you and my thanks to your uncle, mister Chung.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
How about a game of chess?
Speaker 6 (22:23):
Oh later perhaps, but now I must go swort mail
for a new desk clerk.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
New desk clerk.
Speaker 6 (22:29):
Uh, someone registered a strong complaint against the old one.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Someone did that? Well, what do you know about that?
Speaker 6 (22:36):
He's a very mysterious desk clerk. Go a new one
hired today, very mysterious.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
It's nice to be back. Have gun, Will Travel.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Created by Herb Medow and Sam Ralph, is produced and
directed by Norman McDonald and stars John Dayner as Paladin
with Ben Wright as hey Boy. Tonight's story was written
by Albert Ally and adapted for radio by Frank Michael.
Featured in the cast were Edgar Barrier, Paul Dubob, Lou
Krugman and Joseph Kerns join us again next week for
(23:39):
Have Gun, Will Travel the f
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