August 2, 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 (00:12):
I came here to tell you I'm not an executioner.
It doesn't feel good to kill a man, not a
bit good. But your husband didn't leave me any choice.
(00:32):
Have gone. We'll travel, starring mister John Dayner as Paladin,
San Francisco, eighteen seventy five. The Carlton Hotel headquarters of
(00:52):
a man called Paladin.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Sounds wonderful. And then mister.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Pallad, and then perhaps Cordial for a nightcap.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
I do believe I'll be looking forward to this evening
A great deal.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Mister I too.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Oh what I've been looking for you? I find you.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Hey boy, your timing is abismo.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Oh, thank you, miss a Paladin. But credit must go
to mailman. He just brings special delivery letter for you.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Excuse me, my dear. Oh say, I'll meet you in
the lounge later.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Well, oh, she is very high dungeon.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Dungeon he saw, That's what I say, very high dungeon. There,
mister Palladin. I need you for an important assignment immediately
and so forth. There's a three thousand dollars bonus for
you upon completion. Some think, some reason I appreciate you
seeing you at your earliest convenience. So very truly yours E. J. Randolph,
(02:12):
Colomba Bank, Colomba.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Oh you did not long ago?
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Yes, yes, about two months ago?
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Oh ye oh here you two tickets for opera tonight.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Take him back? Hey boy, what I'm leaving for Colomba
tonight must be real.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Big trouble to interfield with lady who was almost keith?
Speaker 1 (02:30):
And why are mister Randolph? Tell him I'm on my way.
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fifty nine cents. Colomba was a poor excuse for a town.
It's not alone and awkward in the center of a dry,
scorched plain with a few ranches stretching back towards the
low maces behind it. I've been there before, and I
killed a man there. I didn't like the town. I
(03:57):
didn't like the people. Randolf had offered me a lot
of mone I found him sitting behind his desk at
the bank. Well hallad him. So good to see you.
How long, mister Randolph, sit down, sit down? Thank you.
How about a little ride to cut the dust too you.
(04:17):
I don't mind her. He didn't waste any time getting here.
In the distance between San Francisco and Colomba shorter when
there's a three thousand dollars fee.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Involved, Right to the point, that's what I like about you.
Calladin that's why I sent for you. Well, here's luck.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Thank you. So what can I do for you? Mister Randolph?
Speaker 4 (04:47):
You did a job for John Griffin about two months ago.
He hired you to bring back Steve Morrow.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Remember him. You don't forget someone who's killed. Didn't mean
any offense. I'm not offended. Morrow tried to kill me.
I had to kill him. Griffin wanted Tomorrow because Morrow
killed his son. What's that got to do with you?
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Morrow robbed this bank before he killed that Griffin boy.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
He took thirty thousand dollars. I still don't see the connection, Peldon.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
I've got to have that thirty thousand dollars back by
the first of the month or I'll lose everything I own.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
And do you need help?
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Yes, I need help badly.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Fifteen years of hard work building a business and a
name for myself gone, just like that, gone and signed
over to John Griffin.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
John Griffin, how does he figure in this?
Speaker 4 (05:40):
He's the biggest depositor the bank has, he knows about
the stolen money, and he's using that knowledge he's given me.
Notice that he wants to withdraw thirty thousand dollars on
the first If I don't have it. The deed to
this building and most of the other property the bank
owns will be signed over to him, and I don't
have it, mister Pallatin, Well, and that makes my job
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fairly easy.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Well, how's that? Find Morrow's widow. She must have the money,
or at least know where it is. I don't think so.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
She's still living in that cabin up there on the
masif well sheriff and I have been up a dozen
times searching the place, trying to talk her into telling
us where it is.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
She hasn't got the money.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
She had it, she'd have left Coloma and gone someplace
else to spend it. Either that or at least paid
up the back taxes on the farm.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Huh. I thought for sure Rose had that money. Rose,
Steve Morrow's widow. You mean Lucymorrow. Her name's Lucy. Oh.
I'm going to check into the hotel and freshen up
a bit, and then what right out and talk to
Lucymorrow morning. Mister Randolph. Yes, good afternoon, miss Marle. I'm Paladin.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Did you think I could forget you, mister Paladin, No,
I suppose not.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
I'd like to talk to you if I may.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I'm going to work on the rose garden. You can
talk there if you wish.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Yes, I noticed them as I rode up. They're beautiful,
they are.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
It's an Eastern variety kelenaris.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Oh, must be rather difficult to grow them out here.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
Oh, it's worth the trouble to have one lovely thing here.
They were a present from Steve. He brought me some
cuttings after one of his trips back east.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Why have you stayed on here?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Simple? There's nowhere else to go and no money to
go with your husband.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
He took thirty thousand dollars from the Columba bank. It's
never been found.
Speaker 6 (08:03):
This house was turned inside out. Do you think I'd
be living here like this if I had thirty thousand dollars?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Perhaps?
Speaker 6 (08:10):
Not.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
I don't know anything about that money, mister Pelladin.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
I don't mean to bother you, missus Morrow.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Why do you bother me? Then you knew this before
you came out here.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
I killed Steve. Hadn't been me, would have been somebody else,
somewhere else. He was an outlaw and a killer. I
suppose I wanted to come here and tell you that
I am not an executioner. I was bringing him in
and he went for his gun. Doesn't feel good to
kill a man, not a bit good.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
I know you're not the kind to kill for the
sake of another notch on your gun, But Steve was
my husband. Please don't come back here again, or if
you have to wait until.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
I'm gone, you're leaving.
Speaker 6 (08:56):
Yes, they're auctioning the place for two hundred seventy six
dollars back Texas. Oh, don't look so pained. I'll get along.
Maybe it'll be best. Get out of your peladon, leave
me alone, please.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Goodshnoon, missus Marral.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Yeah, I'm a mean widow kid.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
And are you pleased with yourself?
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Because I'm a germ, a bathroom germs. Bathrooms is where
the meanest germs get to wear.
Speaker 7 (09:37):
Haha.
Speaker 6 (09:37):
Do I have fun cising odor and spreading disease?
Speaker 8 (09:40):
Are you better watch out, son, or your landlady may
find out about Lysol brand disinfectant.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
Why sauce?
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Oh lisaw, that's what I said?
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Why saw?
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Well?
Speaker 8 (09:50):
Anyway, a lot of women are finding that a dash
of Lysol in their cleaning sons every week wipes out
nasty bathroom disease germs like you disinfects from one cleaning
to the next as no other product, and wipes out
many deadly viruses too. Lysol makes every cleaner work better.
It's the easy modern way to get back rooms really
clean and free of odors.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Why sall can do that?
Speaker 1 (10:10):
And what's more?
Speaker 8 (10:11):
Now, besides regular lysol, there's a new sweet smelling pine
scented lysol, And they're both out to get you.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Hey, were you ever a mean widow kid?
Speaker 8 (10:20):
One more remark like that and I'll open this bottle
of ly saw.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
The Griffin ranch was the same as it had been, old,
solid and well kept, run by a man who was
old and solid and tough, a man who had lost
one son by Steve Morrow's gun, and had one son left,
a man who could not forget or forgive.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Well, you look about the same paladin money, says Bell.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
All right, Just soon sit out here in the fresh air,
mister Griffin.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Fine, fine, what brings you back to these parts?
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Thirty thousand dollars stolen money? Eh?
Speaker 4 (11:07):
A lot of people like to get their hands on that.
You ought to have a pretty good idea where it
might be. Why do you say that you were the
last person to be with that murdering fool way I
had it figured Morrow had the money with him when
you killed him. I hear you've been living pretty high
on the hog up in San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Those are harsh words, Griffin.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Oh no, no, don't get it y. I was just
only joshing. You wouldn't be back here if you had it.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Steve Morrow didn't have that money when I found him,
and according to his wife, he didn't even have it
when he left the farm.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
Oh, you talked to her.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
I just came from there.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
It takes a lot of nerve for a man to
go up and talk to the wife or somebody killed. Hey,
you suppose Steve Morrow hid it on that farm of
hisad Randolph and the sheriff searched it. I know, Oh,
Randolph's getting fidgety. A while back he got the idea
that Morrow buried the money up on the Mesa. You
never saw such digging and poking around. And I swear
(12:04):
the maces ten feet shorter on account of it.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
That farm it joins your property, doesn't Yeah on the sow.
Why I hear it's up for auction. Should be worth
at least a couple of thousand dollars to him.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
I'll get it for two hundred and seventy six taxes.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Someone allowed to bid you at that price.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
I don't reckon so, Paladin. Nobody else is going to
bid on it. Those who can afford to bid on
it don't have any use for that farm. Randolph might
have used for it, Nah, that old pussyfoot. He wouldn't
know how to plant potatoes.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
He might know how to dig for stolen money.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
Tell me something, Paladin, you working for Randolph?
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Maybe maybe not? You are working for him.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
I might have known, you know. I just assume the
money doesn't get back to the bank.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Oh, I'd lose about sixty thousand dollars in holdings that
belong to it. Those holdings will be mine come the
first of the month. Well that's not a pretty way
to talk, but at least it's the truth.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
I see what happens to Randolph then.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
Out out in the cold, where he deserves to be.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
If I ran my ranch like he runs that bank,
i'd have been out of business a long time ago.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Well, getting close to sundown, I think I'll be heading
back to town, old Paladin.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
I hate to see a man like you working on
the dark side of the fence. I thought you always
roam the green fields.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Which are the green fields Griffin?
Speaker 5 (13:32):
Mine are.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
By the way, you buy that farm just for the taxes.
Steve Marrow's widow won't get a scent.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
Well, no, ain't that a downright shame.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
She didn't kill your son, Griffin.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
No, but her husband did. All I hope is that
his kin are gonna suffer on account of it. That's
how I feel about Tomorrow and her.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Come in. Well, it's Randolph, you were make it a
habit staying up this lately. I do my best thinking
when the town settled for the night. You've covered a
lot of ground today getting discouraged. Did you come here
to discourage me?
Speaker 4 (14:23):
There's a lot of territory between Coloma and the Masa.
Morrow could have hidden that money anyway.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Not without telling his wife.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Now Saints wind as a killer stopped to worry about
his wife, Randolph, whatever you want to say about Tomorrow,
he loved his wife.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
He'd wanted to make sure she was provided for him.
I even spoke about her when he was dying. His
last words were, rose tell her that Wait a minute,
tell her, what are you talking about, Randolph? That money's
up there on the farm. You mean she does have it.
She doesn't know it, but it's there. Where is it?
(15:00):
Why we've torn that place apart? You just didn't dig
in the right spot. I'm going up there now and
get your money. You wait here. It's one o'clock in
the morning and I'll be digging by two.
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Speaker 1 (16:20):
When I just mounted at Lucy Morrow, as I thought
I heard a horse knicker in a nearby clump of cottonwoods.
I waited, but all was quiet, except with the wind
through the trees. Lucy Morrow is a light sleeper, she
answered my second knock.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
What do you want?
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Put the shotgun down?
Speaker 7 (16:37):
Mars?
Speaker 2 (16:37):
What are you doing here this time of night?
Speaker 1 (16:39):
The money it's here on the farm.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
We've been through that before, Pelladin.
Speaker 6 (16:43):
They ripped my place apart, every floorboard, every inch of
this cabin, the yards full of holes.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
You saw it this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
I know, Missus Marrow, the money isn't here.
Speaker 6 (16:52):
Look this is my last night in the only home
I ever had, And I don't mean to be bothered.
Missus Morrow went away from here before I blast that
shirt right off your back.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
You wouldn't have to leave tomorrow if I find the money.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
I'm not wasting any more words with you, Ms Morrow.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
In your rose garden? Is there a bush not doing well?
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Now? Then it's late and it's cold?
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Answer me? Is there?
Speaker 5 (17:15):
Well?
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Yes, there is one? But what's that got to do
with the money.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Flowers need soil at their roots, and tomorrow not gold.
What you give me a shovel, I'll show you what
I mean. You know it took me a while that
figure out that are dying man wouldn't call his wife Rose.
(17:41):
Her name was Lucy. Pull the lamp a little closer.
I think we've got it now, eh. Is it a
leather bag from mclumba, will open it? Gold coins thirty
(18:05):
dollars worth.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
You're in the rose garden all the time.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Raise your hands, come on, don't to say good.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
I'll just stand steady, all right, Clee. Let's move in.
Keep that light high, woman, so we can see a boat.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Lucy, yes, when I say the word, throw that lamp
at them high, eye leveled, and hit the ground fast.
I'll say when all right, now, don't.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
Shoot the game.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Just stand easy. Mister.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
You shot him. You shot my boy.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
I didn't have much choice.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
Clee, clean boy, you hurt bad.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
I'll be all right, Paul, I'll get you for this power.
Don't try anything foolish, mister Griffin. You're already in enough trouble.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
I'm in trouble.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Trying to hijack Stone money trespassing that would murder Taladdin.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
There's someone coming.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
I heard him. I think it's Randolph Randolph. He knew
I was coming out of here. He probably couldn't stand
waiting in town. After all, the money belongs to this bank.
Paladin Haladin, you all right, Yes, we're all right. We're
over here. Mister Randolph, Well what happened? What was all
(19:25):
the shooting? Well, there is a little discussion as to
who is going to get that bank's money. I won
you mean you have the money if you founded all
of it. I think so here good, good, that's it
right now. In regards to my fee, mister Randolph, yes,
(19:46):
I want you to give it to Lucy.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
What Lucy?
Speaker 1 (19:49):
I think the woman ought to be able to keep
her home if she wants to. At the auction tomorrow,
you can decide whether you want to stay or leave
this charming town.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
As for you, Griffin, get your boy back to your
own ranch and bandage that leg it is. I don't
think Lucy Morrow cares one way or the other. What
happens to you. Mister Randolph wants to bring charges later,
that's up to him. As for myself, I'm saying goodbye
to Colomba for the last time. Oh ah, you've bucked
(20:28):
me up falady and ready to see the city bright
and shining.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Ah, best you go away? Two three more days? Maybe?
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Why should I?
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Huh? Who ha lead you over there? He very unhappy
when you will not take her to the opera.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Why didn't you explain it was business?
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (20:47):
He saw important business.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
He'sa but her business more important to her, I think,
mister Paladin. Ah, he may me kill you.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Hah, I hope not. Well, the best way is the
direct way. Excuse me? Oh, I hope you missed me.
You did miss me. I have no other cheek to.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Turn, Then kindly turn yourself around and leave me alone.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
I can hardly do that. You see. I've thought of
nothing and no one but you all this time. Really, really,
I to believe you. Are to believe only that which
will make you feel better and me feel better, and
both of us enjoy a lovely evening together. That to
me would be a simple solution, So dinner will please.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
You are a very convincing man.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
The current issue of TV Radio Mirror has a feature
story on the man who portrays Paladin. Every Sunday night
on CBS Radio mister John Dayner. Have Gun Will Travel,
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Created by her Medal and Sam Roth, 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 John Dawson.
Featured in the cast were Vic Parrin, Eleanor Tannon, and
Joseph Kerns. Hugh Douglas speaking join us again next week
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for Have Gun Will Travel. The SA
I came here to tell you I'm not an executioner.
It doesn't feel good to kill a man, not a
bit good. But your husband didn't leave me any choice.
(00:32):
Have gone. We'll 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 2 (01:05):
Sounds wonderful. And then mister.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Pallad, and then perhaps Cordial for a nightcap.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
I do believe I'll be looking forward to this evening
A great deal.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Mister I too.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Oh what I've been looking for you? I find you.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Hey boy, your timing is abismo.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Oh, thank you, miss a Paladin. But credit must go
to mailman. He just brings special delivery letter for you.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Excuse me, my dear. Oh say, I'll meet you in
the lounge later.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Well, oh, she is very high dungeon.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Dungeon he saw, That's what I say, very high dungeon. There,
mister Palladin. I need you for an important assignment immediately
and so forth. There's a three thousand dollars bonus for
you upon completion. Some think, some reason I appreciate you
seeing you at your earliest convenience. So very truly yours E. J. Randolph,
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Colomba Bank, Colomba.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Oh you did not long ago?
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Yes, yes, about two months ago?
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Oh ye oh here you two tickets for opera tonight.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Take him back? Hey boy, what I'm leaving for Colomba
tonight must be real.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Big trouble to interfield with lady who was almost keith?
Speaker 1 (02:30):
And why are mister Randolph? Tell him I'm on my way.
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fifty nine cents. Colomba was a poor excuse for a town.
It's not alone and awkward in the center of a dry,
scorched plain with a few ranches stretching back towards the
low maces behind it. I've been there before, and I
killed a man there. I didn't like the town. I
(03:57):
didn't like the people. Randolf had offered me a lot
of mone I found him sitting behind his desk at
the bank. Well hallad him. So good to see you.
How long, mister Randolph, sit down, sit down? Thank you.
How about a little ride to cut the dust too you.
(04:17):
I don't mind her. He didn't waste any time getting here.
In the distance between San Francisco and Colomba shorter when
there's a three thousand dollars fee.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Involved, Right to the point, that's what I like about you.
Calladin that's why I sent for you. Well, here's luck.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Thank you. So what can I do for you? Mister Randolph?
Speaker 4 (04:47):
You did a job for John Griffin about two months ago.
He hired you to bring back Steve Morrow.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Remember him. You don't forget someone who's killed. Didn't mean
any offense. I'm not offended. Morrow tried to kill me.
I had to kill him. Griffin wanted Tomorrow because Morrow
killed his son. What's that got to do with you?
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Morrow robbed this bank before he killed that Griffin boy.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
He took thirty thousand dollars. I still don't see the connection, Peldon.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
I've got to have that thirty thousand dollars back by
the first of the month or I'll lose everything I own.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
And do you need help?
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Yes, I need help badly.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Fifteen years of hard work building a business and a
name for myself gone, just like that, gone and signed
over to John Griffin.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
John Griffin, how does he figure in this?
Speaker 4 (05:40):
He's the biggest depositor the bank has, he knows about
the stolen money, and he's using that knowledge he's given me.
Notice that he wants to withdraw thirty thousand dollars on
the first If I don't have it. The deed to
this building and most of the other property the bank
owns will be signed over to him, and I don't
have it, mister Pallatin, Well, and that makes my job
(06:02):
fairly easy.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Well, how's that? Find Morrow's widow. She must have the money,
or at least know where it is. I don't think so.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
She's still living in that cabin up there on the
masif well sheriff and I have been up a dozen
times searching the place, trying to talk her into telling
us where it is.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
She hasn't got the money.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
She had it, she'd have left Coloma and gone someplace
else to spend it. Either that or at least paid
up the back taxes on the farm.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Huh. I thought for sure Rose had that money. Rose,
Steve Morrow's widow. You mean Lucymorrow. Her name's Lucy. Oh.
I'm going to check into the hotel and freshen up
a bit, and then what right out and talk to
Lucymorrow morning. Mister Randolph. Yes, good afternoon, miss Marle. I'm Paladin.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Did you think I could forget you, mister Paladin, No,
I suppose not.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
I'd like to talk to you if I may.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I'm going to work on the rose garden. You can
talk there if you wish.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Yes, I noticed them as I rode up. They're beautiful,
they are.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
It's an Eastern variety kelenaris.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Oh, must be rather difficult to grow them out here.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
Oh, it's worth the trouble to have one lovely thing here.
They were a present from Steve. He brought me some
cuttings after one of his trips back east.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Why have you stayed on here?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Simple? There's nowhere else to go and no money to
go with your husband.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
He took thirty thousand dollars from the Columba bank. It's
never been found.
Speaker 6 (08:03):
This house was turned inside out. Do you think I'd
be living here like this if I had thirty thousand dollars?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Perhaps?
Speaker 6 (08:10):
Not.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
I don't know anything about that money, mister Pelladin.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
I don't mean to bother you, missus Morrow.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Why do you bother me? Then you knew this before
you came out here.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
I killed Steve. Hadn't been me, would have been somebody else,
somewhere else. He was an outlaw and a killer. I
suppose I wanted to come here and tell you that
I am not an executioner. I was bringing him in
and he went for his gun. Doesn't feel good to
kill a man, not a bit good.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
I know you're not the kind to kill for the
sake of another notch on your gun, But Steve was
my husband. Please don't come back here again, or if
you have to wait until.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
I'm gone, you're leaving.
Speaker 6 (08:56):
Yes, they're auctioning the place for two hundred seventy six
dollars back Texas. Oh, don't look so pained. I'll get along.
Maybe it'll be best. Get out of your peladon, leave
me alone, please.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Goodshnoon, missus Marral.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Yeah, I'm a mean widow kid.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
And are you pleased with yourself?
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Because I'm a germ, a bathroom germs. Bathrooms is where
the meanest germs get to wear.
Speaker 7 (09:37):
Haha.
Speaker 6 (09:37):
Do I have fun cising odor and spreading disease?
Speaker 8 (09:40):
Are you better watch out, son, or your landlady may
find out about Lysol brand disinfectant.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
Why sauce?
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Oh lisaw, that's what I said?
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Why saw?
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Well?
Speaker 8 (09:50):
Anyway, a lot of women are finding that a dash
of Lysol in their cleaning sons every week wipes out
nasty bathroom disease germs like you disinfects from one cleaning
to the next as no other product, and wipes out
many deadly viruses too. Lysol makes every cleaner work better.
It's the easy modern way to get back rooms really
clean and free of odors.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Why sall can do that?
Speaker 1 (10:10):
And what's more?
Speaker 8 (10:11):
Now, besides regular lysol, there's a new sweet smelling pine
scented lysol, And they're both out to get you.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Hey, were you ever a mean widow kid?
Speaker 8 (10:20):
One more remark like that and I'll open this bottle
of ly saw.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
The Griffin ranch was the same as it had been, old,
solid and well kept, run by a man who was
old and solid and tough, a man who had lost
one son by Steve Morrow's gun, and had one son left,
a man who could not forget or forgive.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Well, you look about the same paladin money, says Bell.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
All right, Just soon sit out here in the fresh air,
mister Griffin.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Fine, fine, what brings you back to these parts?
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Thirty thousand dollars stolen money? Eh?
Speaker 4 (11:07):
A lot of people like to get their hands on that.
You ought to have a pretty good idea where it
might be. Why do you say that you were the
last person to be with that murdering fool way I
had it figured Morrow had the money with him when
you killed him. I hear you've been living pretty high
on the hog up in San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Those are harsh words, Griffin.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Oh no, no, don't get it y. I was just
only joshing. You wouldn't be back here if you had it.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Steve Morrow didn't have that money when I found him,
and according to his wife, he didn't even have it
when he left the farm.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
Oh, you talked to her.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
I just came from there.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
It takes a lot of nerve for a man to
go up and talk to the wife or somebody killed. Hey,
you suppose Steve Morrow hid it on that farm of
hisad Randolph and the sheriff searched it. I know, Oh,
Randolph's getting fidgety. A while back he got the idea
that Morrow buried the money up on the Mesa. You
never saw such digging and poking around. And I swear
(12:04):
the maces ten feet shorter on account of it.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
That farm it joins your property, doesn't Yeah on the sow.
Why I hear it's up for auction. Should be worth
at least a couple of thousand dollars to him.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
I'll get it for two hundred and seventy six taxes.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Someone allowed to bid you at that price.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
I don't reckon so, Paladin. Nobody else is going to
bid on it. Those who can afford to bid on
it don't have any use for that farm. Randolph might
have used for it, Nah, that old pussyfoot. He wouldn't
know how to plant potatoes.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
He might know how to dig for stolen money.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
Tell me something, Paladin, you working for Randolph?
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Maybe maybe not? You are working for him.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
I might have known, you know. I just assume the
money doesn't get back to the bank.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Oh, I'd lose about sixty thousand dollars in holdings that
belong to it. Those holdings will be mine come the
first of the month. Well that's not a pretty way
to talk, but at least it's the truth.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
I see what happens to Randolph then.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
Out out in the cold, where he deserves to be.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
If I ran my ranch like he runs that bank,
i'd have been out of business a long time ago.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Well, getting close to sundown, I think I'll be heading
back to town, old Paladin.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
I hate to see a man like you working on
the dark side of the fence. I thought you always
roam the green fields.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Which are the green fields Griffin?
Speaker 5 (13:32):
Mine are.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
By the way, you buy that farm just for the taxes.
Steve Marrow's widow won't get a scent.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
Well, no, ain't that a downright shame.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
She didn't kill your son, Griffin.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
No, but her husband did. All I hope is that
his kin are gonna suffer on account of it. That's
how I feel about Tomorrow and her.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Come in. Well, it's Randolph, you were make it a
habit staying up this lately. I do my best thinking
when the town settled for the night. You've covered a
lot of ground today getting discouraged. Did you come here
to discourage me?
Speaker 4 (14:23):
There's a lot of territory between Coloma and the Masa.
Morrow could have hidden that money anyway.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Not without telling his wife.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Now Saints wind as a killer stopped to worry about
his wife, Randolph, whatever you want to say about Tomorrow,
he loved his wife.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
He'd wanted to make sure she was provided for him.
I even spoke about her when he was dying. His
last words were, rose tell her that Wait a minute,
tell her, what are you talking about, Randolph? That money's
up there on the farm. You mean she does have it.
She doesn't know it, but it's there. Where is it?
(15:00):
Why we've torn that place apart? You just didn't dig
in the right spot. I'm going up there now and
get your money. You wait here. It's one o'clock in
the morning and I'll be digging by two.
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Speaker 1 (16:20):
When I just mounted at Lucy Morrow, as I thought
I heard a horse knicker in a nearby clump of cottonwoods.
I waited, but all was quiet, except with the wind
through the trees. Lucy Morrow is a light sleeper, she
answered my second knock.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
What do you want?
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Put the shotgun down?
Speaker 7 (16:37):
Mars?
Speaker 2 (16:37):
What are you doing here this time of night?
Speaker 1 (16:39):
The money it's here on the farm.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
We've been through that before, Pelladin.
Speaker 6 (16:43):
They ripped my place apart, every floorboard, every inch of
this cabin, the yards full of holes.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
You saw it this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
I know, Missus Marrow, the money isn't here.
Speaker 6 (16:52):
Look this is my last night in the only home
I ever had, And I don't mean to be bothered.
Missus Morrow went away from here before I blast that
shirt right off your back.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
You wouldn't have to leave tomorrow if I find the money.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
I'm not wasting any more words with you, Ms Morrow.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
In your rose garden? Is there a bush not doing well?
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Now? Then it's late and it's cold?
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Answer me? Is there?
Speaker 5 (17:15):
Well?
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Yes, there is one? But what's that got to do
with the money.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Flowers need soil at their roots, and tomorrow not gold.
What you give me a shovel, I'll show you what
I mean. You know it took me a while that
figure out that are dying man wouldn't call his wife Rose.
(17:41):
Her name was Lucy. Pull the lamp a little closer.
I think we've got it now, eh. Is it a
leather bag from mclumba, will open it? Gold coins thirty
(18:05):
dollars worth.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
You're in the rose garden all the time.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Raise your hands, come on, don't to say good.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
I'll just stand steady, all right, Clee. Let's move in.
Keep that light high, woman, so we can see a boat.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Lucy, yes, when I say the word, throw that lamp
at them high, eye leveled, and hit the ground fast.
I'll say when all right, now, don't.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
Shoot the game.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Just stand easy. Mister.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
You shot him. You shot my boy.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
I didn't have much choice.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
Clee, clean boy, you hurt bad.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
I'll be all right, Paul, I'll get you for this power.
Don't try anything foolish, mister Griffin. You're already in enough trouble.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
I'm in trouble.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Trying to hijack Stone money trespassing that would murder Taladdin.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
There's someone coming.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
I heard him. I think it's Randolph Randolph. He knew
I was coming out of here. He probably couldn't stand
waiting in town. After all, the money belongs to this bank.
Paladin Haladin, you all right, Yes, we're all right. We're
over here. Mister Randolph, Well what happened? What was all
(19:25):
the shooting? Well, there is a little discussion as to
who is going to get that bank's money. I won
you mean you have the money if you founded all
of it. I think so here good, good, that's it
right now. In regards to my fee, mister Randolph, yes,
(19:46):
I want you to give it to Lucy.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
What Lucy?
Speaker 1 (19:49):
I think the woman ought to be able to keep
her home if she wants to. At the auction tomorrow,
you can decide whether you want to stay or leave
this charming town.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
As for you, Griffin, get your boy back to your
own ranch and bandage that leg it is. I don't
think Lucy Morrow cares one way or the other. What
happens to you. Mister Randolph wants to bring charges later,
that's up to him. As for myself, I'm saying goodbye
to Colomba for the last time. Oh ah, you've bucked
(20:28):
me up falady and ready to see the city bright
and shining.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Ah, best you go away? Two three more days? Maybe?
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Why should I?
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Huh? Who ha lead you over there? He very unhappy
when you will not take her to the opera.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Why didn't you explain it was business?
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (20:47):
He saw important business.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
He'sa but her business more important to her, I think,
mister Paladin. Ah, he may me kill you.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Hah, I hope not. Well, the best way is the
direct way. Excuse me? Oh, I hope you missed me.
You did miss me. I have no other cheek to.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Turn, Then kindly turn yourself around and leave me alone.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
I can hardly do that. You see. I've thought of
nothing and no one but you all this time. Really, really,
I to believe you. Are to believe only that which
will make you feel better and me feel better, and
both of us enjoy a lovely evening together. That to
me would be a simple solution, So dinner will please.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
You are a very convincing man.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
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story on the man who portrays Paladin. Every Sunday night
on CBS Radio mister John Dayner. Have Gun Will Travel,
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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 John Dawson.
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