December 7, 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 (00:11):
You must be proud of yourself. Mister, you've turned your
son into a killer. He's going to enjoy the same
kind of life you have if he lives long enough.
(00:32):
Have Gone, Will Travel, starring mister John Dayner as Paladin,
San Francisco, eighteen seventy five, The Carlton Hotel, headquarters of
a man called Paladin. Misa, Paladin. Here is a brandy
(01:04):
new water. Thank you, hey boy, just set it down.
He's a paradine. Why you would stay des a brandy?
Very special, also very expensive, very palatable. He saw uh saki,
chipa and fasta. But sometimes cause you much trouble, you know,
hey boy. Here in the West, it's water that causes
(01:26):
the real trouble. Oh no water.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Whoever got into trouble because they drink too.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Much of water? No? Listen inside him. In today's paper Benedict, Wyoming,
the refusal of a local rancher to permit access to
the sole remaining source of water in this drought stricken
area has resulted in the deaths of two men and
threatened open warfare. Oh too bad, he miss a Paladin.
You plan the wafer services in interests of drought stricken
(01:55):
area as a matter of fact, I have a letter
to a mister Wellman of Benedict, Wyoming here ready to
may Will you take care of it? Oh?
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Uh? Anything else? Mean? Supported? Yes, you might bring me
another brandy.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Winston tastes good like a cigarette should because.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
The filter.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Up front, ahead of the filter and the fire you
get Dela.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
Winston cigarette comes from filter blend, filters.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Fine and a filter lend up front and you get
Winston cigarette comes from filter blend.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Filter blend is a mighty good reason for you to
smoke Winston because it means tobaccos specially processed for filter smoking.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
A Winston secret. You get Winston's.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Own pure white modern filter plus the rich, delightful flavor
of fine tobacco.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
There's stilter blend punch on the heads of the filter
and the fun you get in the Winston cigarette comes
come fil and makes winds and taste food like a cigar.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
Red shot Winston Taste food Mike cigarette shirt.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
It was mid morning when I rode into Benedict. The
town was hot, dusty, quiet. There was a feeling of
tension in the air and uneasiness awaiting for something to happen.
I tied my horse to the hitching rail and went
into the saloon.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
What'll be mister h glass rye, you might as well
fill mine again, Barney.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
It's hot, yeah, pretty quiet town, no more than most
you live around here? Yep? How do I get to
the Welman ranch?
Speaker 7 (04:10):
Take the north road about three miles?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Thanks, Yeah, it'll be a dollar.
Speaker 7 (04:19):
You a friend of the Wilmans. No looking for work?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Then, in a way, what's going on here? What's everyone
waiting for.
Speaker 7 (04:36):
For me to get killed?
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Jeff Casey just rode into town.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
I guess the waiting's about done? That square is this, Bonnie?
Maybe i'll see you, mister.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
The slender rangee maybe nineteen too young for the troubled
seriousness in his eyes as he walked out of the saloon.
When I got outside, he was already standing in a
thick white dust of the street, steady, watching the man
advancing toward him.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
There's no sense to this. You want an apology, all right?
I apologize. It's no good tating. Listen to me, please,
you know it.
Speaker 7 (05:25):
Excuse me, mister, have to get my horse?
Speaker 1 (05:28):
You kill that man?
Speaker 7 (05:29):
I know, yes, the town. I'll have to keep on waiting.
There's a job open at the Wellman's now his.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
The drought had taken its toll at the Wellman ranch.
The house stood still and desolate in an expanse of
bare scorched earth. I rode into the yard and dismounted.
Then I let my horse to the watering drove. It
was empty. I tried the hand fump.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
I'm sorry, it's wrong.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Oh how do you do, ma'am?
Speaker 3 (06:10):
I can let you have a bucket from the kitchen
pump if.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Your life, yeah, i'd appreciate. It's been a long ride.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Just come on in and help yourself.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
My name is Paladin. I'm here to see mister Welman.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Well he should He should be back soon. The pumps
by the sink. He'll need prime. And thank you, MISTERI
you just come from town. Yes, did anything happen?
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Man was killed? If that's what you mean. You know
who His name is, Casey. I believe, I understand he
worked for you.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Oh no, I was afraid when I saw him start
away this morning, did it?
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Jeff? Yes?
Speaker 3 (07:03):
So senseless over nothing, and there'll.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Be more this. Jeff didn't want to kill him, and
he tried to stop him.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Oh boy, good chef.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
No, No, Jeff's alive.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
In case he's dead, Young Calvert Gun.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Who are you?
Speaker 3 (07:19):
He's mister Paladin. He just told me about it.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
I passed through Benedict on my way out here. I
saw it happen here.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
Paladin, eh, I think you can stand up to Calverton
if there's a good reason.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
That's your job get rid of him.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Well, I don't think we understand each other. I offered
my services to help you get water here.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
This is your card, isn't it the one you sent me?
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Have?
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Gun will travel?
Speaker 6 (07:45):
That only means one thing as far as I'm concerned,
and it's the only reason I hired you.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
And we've both made a mistake. Mister Wilman, I'm not
an executioner.
Speaker 8 (08:02):
Constipation can be a problem for anyone, even doctors. And
when constipation occurs, it's interesting to see just what doctors
consider important about a laxative they might use or recommend.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Well. A majority of the doctors we heard from had
this to say.
Speaker 8 (08:20):
A laxative should be effective, gentle, as close to natural
acting as possible, and a medicine that can be used
with complete confidence. Now xlax has been popular with many
doctors and millions of people over the years. Because chocolated
xlax is effective overnight, it helps you toward your normal regularity.
(08:41):
Xlax is gentle next morning. It gives you the closest
thing to natural action, and that's why many doctors and
millions of people use x lax with complete confidence. X lax,
the laxative that helps you towards your normal regularity gently
overnight is x.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Lax in your medicine cabinet. The heat rows off the dry,
parched earth to hang in the air and see her
every breath. I was well on my way back to
tom when I heard someone coming up behind me. Fast Paladin.
Speaker 6 (09:25):
Wait, Paladine, I'm sorry. I was upset about Casey. I
wasn't thinking straight, but I need your help.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
We all do.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
I told you well then I didn't offer that kind
of help.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Look, can I talk to you or not?
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Go ahead?
Speaker 2 (09:46):
We're desperate, Paladin.
Speaker 6 (09:47):
Our water holes are dried up, even our deep wells
are going dry. Another week of this and our herds
will be buzzard bait. Calvert's trying to ruin us.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Why should a boy like that want to ruin you?
Speaker 6 (09:57):
Boy, I'm not talking about Jeff, it's his father, Roy Calvert,
he owns a six iron.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Over in the valley. Roy Calvit. Yeah, there was a
gunfighter by that name.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Say man bought the ranch here three years ago.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
What's he done? What's he got to do with your
water supply? Now?
Speaker 6 (10:13):
There's a lake behind his ranch, fed by underground springs,
never runs dry. Calvert's land crosses the mouth of the valley.
It's the only approach to the lake. Now he's fenced
it off. Won't let our herds through.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
There must be some local ordinance about that, and easement
to right away.
Speaker 6 (10:28):
There's nothing in writing. Folks just always used the lake
whenever there's been a dry spell. Calvert let us through
the first year he come, But not now?
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (10:36):
I don't know. Two weeks ago.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
Harry Craig got mad, tried to drive his herd through.
Young Calvert killed two of his men. His father's turned
him into a worse killer than he was himself. I'll
tell you right now, Paladin, the only way to break
Calvert is.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
To get that boy.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
What do you really want, mister Wellman, water or Jeff's hide?
I want results fast, all right. I'll get them for you.
But in my own way. What are you going to
do talk with Calvert. At the gateway of the Six
Iron Ranch, I wondered if I was heading into trouble,
(11:15):
I could hear gunshots. I just mounted and moved toward
the sound. When I reached the corner of the barn,
I realized it was happening. There was a crudely drawn
silhouette of a man on the barn wall, and Roy
Calvert was working with his son. It's good, but you
were a little late and the second shot hit too high.
Speaker 7 (11:34):
But I an hurt.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
That's not good enough. How many times I have to
tell you when you fire, every SHOT's got to kill hurt.
Ain't enough. From the armpits to the waist, that's your target,
nowhere else. Good advice If all you want to do
is kill? Who are you? What do you want? Five
minutes of conversation? The name is Paladin, Palette, I've heard
of you.
Speaker 7 (11:54):
Did you get that job at the Wilmans.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Anybody who works for Wellman has no business here. Anybody
who prive of his neighbors of water has no business
being a rancher. So that's it. Can we talk it over?
Let me show you something, then you decide how much
there is to talk over. I followed Calvert through the yard,
(12:21):
on past the ranch house to a pleasant tree shade
of no that overlooked the valley below. He stopped beside
a mound of earth marked with a white cross. Here's
all I got to say, Paladin, that's my wife's grave.
This town put her there. Twenty years We were married.
(12:45):
Kind woman. She was good, patient, lonely, so lonely. You
must have loved her very much. Takes that for a
man like you to give up his gun. I turned
to this ranch because I want her to have a
place where she could say hello to somebody and he
wouldn't look past her, or somebody talked to her, passed
(13:09):
the time of day like ordinary folks. Name Calvert was
a death sentence to more than twenty men. Did you
think he could hide it? Nobody to known except for
well when he found out and passed the word around,
and she was alone again. Yeah, gunslinger's wife, killer his wife.
(13:31):
When she took sick, nobody came to call except the doctor.
Then she died. I loved her very much. This town
killed her. Now I'm going to kill this town, Calvert.
The ranchers will drive their way through. He tried it
once it cost him, Maybe next time it'll cost you.
(13:53):
Not likely. Did Jeff play in my hand? I have
more respect for a man who plays his Calvert had
been hurt lably, but now the ranchers and the town
review somewhere it had to end. I went back to
see Wellman of his place. I found him by the corral,
(14:15):
his horse saddled ready. Where Calvert is gonna let us through? Wellman,
I can't undo three years of hate in one afternoon.
Calvert told me about his wife.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Wife, But what do you mean we never had anything
to do with her.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
I know that's just it.
Speaker 9 (14:31):
I know.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
If we can't use that lake, we're wiped out.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Now.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Can we get through or not?
Speaker 1 (14:35):
As of right now? No?
Speaker 2 (14:37):
And then we'll have to drive our way through.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
And you take care of the boy I told you before.
I'll do this job my way.
Speaker 6 (14:43):
And if you're working for me, plann, I'm going out
for a meeting with the other ranchers.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
If you're with us, get rid of young Calvert. If not,
cut out, mister.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Paladin, wait, you're you're leaving.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
I can't do this his way.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Then he'll go ahead without you him and the others
looks that way they'll be fighting and shooting. Men'll be killed,
men with wives and families. Mister Paladin, please, no, wait
a minute.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Missus willman are you asking me to kill Jeff?
Speaker 3 (15:26):
I'm asking you to measure one life against many.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Car owners.
Speaker 9 (15:41):
I have news of a product so new it's amazing,
it's here today at all. It's new Casite Smooth Seals.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
You say it's new. You say it's new, So it's new.
What does it do?
Speaker 9 (15:50):
Well, it's a fluid you add to your automatic transmission
automatic transmission. It stops the leaks in your transmission and
makes it smooth and quiet. Makes it smooth, makes it quiet.
How can I tell if I should try it? That's easy.
Your stops and you start to go, and you give
it the gas pretty good. If you hear a sort
of whirring or a grinding noise, if you feel a
jerk or jolder jar, then your transmission just isn't up.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
The par grinding noises, jars and jerk.
Speaker 9 (16:13):
That's how my transmission works.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Boys.
Speaker 9 (16:15):
If that's the case, then you've got a case for
new k Site smooth Seal.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
New Caseites smooth Seal.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
How will that help?
Speaker 9 (16:21):
Well, it's made to soften those shrunken seals and smooth
out the shifting when there's power on the wheels. If
you heard a whirring or fell the jar when you
pull away in your modern car, you are a man
who needs a can. Just a dollar ninety five and
it works. Why you drive anyone here for k site
smooth seal it made? I'm If it doesn't do the job,
you get double your money bag.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
What are you doing back here again, Paladin? If you're
working for Wilman, sooner or later we'll shoot it out.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
You've killed three men already, Jeff. Do you have a
taste for it now?
Speaker 5 (17:05):
Do you think I want to stand out there watching
someone come at me like Casey this morning and know
I had to kill him?
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Did you have to?
Speaker 7 (17:12):
He'd killed me?
Speaker 1 (17:13):
That's your excuse this time? What'll it be next?
Speaker 7 (17:16):
He asked for it over nothing, Jeff.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
When you set yourself up as the fastest gun, there'll
be men making you prove it until the day.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
You can't ad enough talk.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
This time, you listen to Calvern. Wellman's getting the other
ranchers together. They're gonna drive their way through to the lake.
They're gonna try You mean the herds are going through
tomorrow afternoon. I don't think so. I'll see to it myself.
I wouldn't if I were you. If you have any objections,
I'll be in town all morning. We can settle everything
right there. We'll be glad to oblige you were Jeff me. Oh,
(17:49):
it's getting easier all the time, isn't it. Jeff, you
must be proud of yourself. Calvert, you've turned your son
into a killer, and he's going to enjoy the same
kind of life you have if he lives long enough.
Back in town, word got around that Jeff Calvert was
riding in to meet me. I waited in the saloon
(18:10):
while men have spoken whispers marked time. Wellman was there too.
You might as well fill mine up again, Bernie.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
I want to tell you, Paladin, I'm sorry about the
way I talked yesterday.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Wellman, it's late to clear a guilty conscience. If you'd
use that word sorry when Calvert's wife died, this wouldn't
be necessary. I know that I did some thinking last
night followed on the Calverts road in town. All right?
That squares is borne? Well. I hope the show is
(18:49):
worth the price. Hello, Paladin, all right, Jeff, anytime you're ready.
(19:15):
It won't be self defense this time, Jeff, you'll have
to draw first.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
No, No, Paladin over here. You're you're pretty good.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Paladin decided to play your own hand after all, Calvin, damn,
all right, sure you were wrong, Paladin. I didn't turn
my boy into a killer. Let's get him to the doctor, Jeff.
Unless we're not finished.
Speaker 7 (19:50):
We're finished. I got nothing to prove good.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
I'd like to help after he seized the doctor, but
I could drive him on home and calvert, or maybe
we can talk.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
A little late for that. Wellman to Calvert. When you
came here, you expected people to forget the past. Oh
suppose you try it? Let it end. You're right, wellman,
I'd be much obliged to talk. Hello, hey boy, Oh
(20:41):
he's apolity. Oh too bad? What what's too bad? You're
coming back? Youre find San Francisco cold, ready, fog creeping
around everywhere. Oh miserable? What are you talking about? Hey boy?
This is what I've dreamed of for many a long
hot dusty mile. Oh, oh them very good. Hey, you
(21:03):
look at timings a outda something I'm gonna do for you?
They're sure as hey boy, nice big picture of ice water.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Rotate the tires, but I thought they rotated right along
with a wheels when the.
Speaker 10 (21:25):
Car is going well, ma'am, that's not the kind of
rotation we mean. You see, your tires should be switched
around for more even were in longer life.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
My goodness, taking care of a car is so complicated,
I wouldn't know where to start.
Speaker 10 (21:40):
Well, seeing you have a General Motors car, you made
the right start by bringing it here to your GM
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we'll check the wheels, tune up the engine, adjust the
front end, and give your car a thorough lubrication. That
way you're sure of toperformance all summer. It's all a
(22:01):
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Speaker 1 (22:03):
What's Guardian maintenance.
Speaker 10 (22:05):
Well, that means train mechanics will use special tools and
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Speaker 1 (22:31):
Have gun will Travel. Created by Herb Medal and Sam
Rolf is produced and directed in Hollywood by Norman McDonald
and stars John Dayner as Paladin, with Ben Wright as
hey Boy. Tonight's story was written by Albert Alley and
adapted for radio by Ann down. Featured in the cast
(22:54):
were Sam Edwards, Virginia, Christine vic Parrin, Harry Cook and
Harry Bartel. Hugh Douglas speaking join us again next week
when CBS Radio presents Have Gun, We'll travel
Speaker 3 (24:12):
O
You must be proud of yourself. Mister, you've turned your
son into a killer. He's going to enjoy the same
kind of life you have if he lives long enough.
(00:32):
Have Gone, Will Travel, starring mister John Dayner as Paladin,
San Francisco, eighteen seventy five, The Carlton Hotel, headquarters of
a man called Paladin. Misa, Paladin. Here is a brandy
(01:04):
new water. Thank you, hey boy, just set it down.
He's a paradine. Why you would stay des a brandy?
Very special, also very expensive, very palatable. He saw uh saki,
chipa and fasta. But sometimes cause you much trouble, you know,
hey boy. Here in the West, it's water that causes
(01:26):
the real trouble. Oh no water.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Whoever got into trouble because they drink too.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Much of water? No? Listen inside him. In today's paper Benedict, Wyoming,
the refusal of a local rancher to permit access to
the sole remaining source of water in this drought stricken
area has resulted in the deaths of two men and
threatened open warfare. Oh too bad, he miss a Paladin.
You plan the wafer services in interests of drought stricken
(01:55):
area as a matter of fact, I have a letter
to a mister Wellman of Benedict, Wyoming here ready to
may Will you take care of it? Oh?
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Uh? Anything else? Mean? Supported? Yes, you might bring me
another brandy.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Winston tastes good like a cigarette should because.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
The filter.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Up front, ahead of the filter and the fire you
get Dela.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
Winston cigarette comes from filter blend, filters.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Fine and a filter lend up front and you get
Winston cigarette comes from filter blend.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Filter blend is a mighty good reason for you to
smoke Winston because it means tobaccos specially processed for filter smoking.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
A Winston secret. You get Winston's.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Own pure white modern filter plus the rich, delightful flavor
of fine tobacco.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
There's stilter blend punch on the heads of the filter
and the fun you get in the Winston cigarette comes
come fil and makes winds and taste food like a cigar.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
Red shot Winston Taste food Mike cigarette shirt.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
It was mid morning when I rode into Benedict. The
town was hot, dusty, quiet. There was a feeling of
tension in the air and uneasiness awaiting for something to happen.
I tied my horse to the hitching rail and went
into the saloon.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
What'll be mister h glass rye, you might as well
fill mine again, Barney.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
It's hot, yeah, pretty quiet town, no more than most
you live around here? Yep? How do I get to
the Welman ranch?
Speaker 7 (04:10):
Take the north road about three miles?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Thanks, Yeah, it'll be a dollar.
Speaker 7 (04:19):
You a friend of the Wilmans. No looking for work?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Then, in a way, what's going on here? What's everyone
waiting for.
Speaker 7 (04:36):
For me to get killed?
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Jeff Casey just rode into town.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
I guess the waiting's about done? That square is this, Bonnie?
Maybe i'll see you, mister.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
The slender rangee maybe nineteen too young for the troubled
seriousness in his eyes as he walked out of the saloon.
When I got outside, he was already standing in a
thick white dust of the street, steady, watching the man
advancing toward him.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
There's no sense to this. You want an apology, all right?
I apologize. It's no good tating. Listen to me, please,
you know it.
Speaker 7 (05:25):
Excuse me, mister, have to get my horse?
Speaker 1 (05:28):
You kill that man?
Speaker 7 (05:29):
I know, yes, the town. I'll have to keep on waiting.
There's a job open at the Wellman's now his.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
The drought had taken its toll at the Wellman ranch.
The house stood still and desolate in an expanse of
bare scorched earth. I rode into the yard and dismounted.
Then I let my horse to the watering drove. It
was empty. I tried the hand fump.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
I'm sorry, it's wrong.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Oh how do you do, ma'am?
Speaker 3 (06:10):
I can let you have a bucket from the kitchen
pump if.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Your life, yeah, i'd appreciate. It's been a long ride.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Just come on in and help yourself.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
My name is Paladin. I'm here to see mister Welman.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Well he should He should be back soon. The pumps
by the sink. He'll need prime. And thank you, MISTERI
you just come from town. Yes, did anything happen?
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Man was killed? If that's what you mean. You know
who His name is, Casey. I believe, I understand he
worked for you.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Oh no, I was afraid when I saw him start
away this morning, did it?
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Jeff? Yes?
Speaker 3 (07:03):
So senseless over nothing, and there'll.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Be more this. Jeff didn't want to kill him, and
he tried to stop him.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Oh boy, good chef.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
No, No, Jeff's alive.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
In case he's dead, Young Calvert Gun.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Who are you?
Speaker 3 (07:19):
He's mister Paladin. He just told me about it.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
I passed through Benedict on my way out here. I
saw it happen here.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
Paladin, eh, I think you can stand up to Calverton
if there's a good reason.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
That's your job get rid of him.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Well, I don't think we understand each other. I offered
my services to help you get water here.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
This is your card, isn't it the one you sent me?
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Have?
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Gun will travel?
Speaker 6 (07:45):
That only means one thing as far as I'm concerned,
and it's the only reason I hired you.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
And we've both made a mistake. Mister Wilman, I'm not
an executioner.
Speaker 8 (08:02):
Constipation can be a problem for anyone, even doctors. And
when constipation occurs, it's interesting to see just what doctors
consider important about a laxative they might use or recommend.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Well. A majority of the doctors we heard from had
this to say.
Speaker 8 (08:20):
A laxative should be effective, gentle, as close to natural
acting as possible, and a medicine that can be used
with complete confidence. Now xlax has been popular with many
doctors and millions of people over the years. Because chocolated
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(08:41):
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thing to natural action, and that's why many doctors and
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the laxative that helps you towards your normal regularity gently
overnight is x.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Lax in your medicine cabinet. The heat rows off the dry,
parched earth to hang in the air and see her
every breath. I was well on my way back to
tom when I heard someone coming up behind me. Fast Paladin.
Speaker 6 (09:25):
Wait, Paladine, I'm sorry. I was upset about Casey. I
wasn't thinking straight, but I need your help.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
We all do.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
I told you well then I didn't offer that kind
of help.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Look, can I talk to you or not?
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Go ahead?
Speaker 2 (09:46):
We're desperate, Paladin.
Speaker 6 (09:47):
Our water holes are dried up, even our deep wells
are going dry. Another week of this and our herds
will be buzzard bait. Calvert's trying to ruin us.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Why should a boy like that want to ruin you?
Speaker 6 (09:57):
Boy, I'm not talking about Jeff, it's his father, Roy Calvert,
he owns a six iron.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Over in the valley. Roy Calvit. Yeah, there was a
gunfighter by that name.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Say man bought the ranch here three years ago.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
What's he done? What's he got to do with your
water supply? Now?
Speaker 6 (10:13):
There's a lake behind his ranch, fed by underground springs,
never runs dry. Calvert's land crosses the mouth of the valley.
It's the only approach to the lake. Now he's fenced
it off. Won't let our herds through.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
There must be some local ordinance about that, and easement
to right away.
Speaker 6 (10:28):
There's nothing in writing. Folks just always used the lake
whenever there's been a dry spell. Calvert let us through
the first year he come, But not now?
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (10:36):
I don't know. Two weeks ago.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
Harry Craig got mad, tried to drive his herd through.
Young Calvert killed two of his men. His father's turned
him into a worse killer than he was himself. I'll
tell you right now, Paladin, the only way to break
Calvert is.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
To get that boy.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
What do you really want, mister Wellman, water or Jeff's hide?
I want results fast, all right. I'll get them for you.
But in my own way. What are you going to
do talk with Calvert. At the gateway of the Six
Iron Ranch, I wondered if I was heading into trouble,
(11:15):
I could hear gunshots. I just mounted and moved toward
the sound. When I reached the corner of the barn,
I realized it was happening. There was a crudely drawn
silhouette of a man on the barn wall, and Roy
Calvert was working with his son. It's good, but you
were a little late and the second shot hit too high.
Speaker 7 (11:34):
But I an hurt.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
That's not good enough. How many times I have to
tell you when you fire, every SHOT's got to kill hurt.
Ain't enough. From the armpits to the waist, that's your target,
nowhere else. Good advice If all you want to do
is kill? Who are you? What do you want? Five
minutes of conversation? The name is Paladin, Palette, I've heard
of you.
Speaker 7 (11:54):
Did you get that job at the Wilmans.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Anybody who works for Wellman has no business here. Anybody
who prive of his neighbors of water has no business
being a rancher. So that's it. Can we talk it over?
Let me show you something, then you decide how much
there is to talk over. I followed Calvert through the yard,
(12:21):
on past the ranch house to a pleasant tree shade
of no that overlooked the valley below. He stopped beside
a mound of earth marked with a white cross. Here's
all I got to say, Paladin, that's my wife's grave.
This town put her there. Twenty years We were married.
(12:45):
Kind woman. She was good, patient, lonely, so lonely. You
must have loved her very much. Takes that for a
man like you to give up his gun. I turned
to this ranch because I want her to have a
place where she could say hello to somebody and he
wouldn't look past her, or somebody talked to her, passed
(13:09):
the time of day like ordinary folks. Name Calvert was
a death sentence to more than twenty men. Did you
think he could hide it? Nobody to known except for
well when he found out and passed the word around,
and she was alone again. Yeah, gunslinger's wife, killer his wife.
(13:31):
When she took sick, nobody came to call except the doctor.
Then she died. I loved her very much. This town
killed her. Now I'm going to kill this town, Calvert.
The ranchers will drive their way through. He tried it
once it cost him, Maybe next time it'll cost you.
(13:53):
Not likely. Did Jeff play in my hand? I have
more respect for a man who plays his Calvert had
been hurt lably, but now the ranchers and the town
review somewhere it had to end. I went back to
see Wellman of his place. I found him by the corral,
(14:15):
his horse saddled ready. Where Calvert is gonna let us through? Wellman,
I can't undo three years of hate in one afternoon.
Calvert told me about his wife.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Wife, But what do you mean we never had anything
to do with her.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
I know that's just it.
Speaker 9 (14:31):
I know.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
If we can't use that lake, we're wiped out.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Now.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Can we get through or not?
Speaker 1 (14:35):
As of right now? No?
Speaker 2 (14:37):
And then we'll have to drive our way through.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
And you take care of the boy I told you before.
I'll do this job my way.
Speaker 6 (14:43):
And if you're working for me, plann, I'm going out
for a meeting with the other ranchers.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
If you're with us, get rid of young Calvert. If not,
cut out, mister.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Paladin, wait, you're you're leaving.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
I can't do this his way.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Then he'll go ahead without you him and the others
looks that way they'll be fighting and shooting. Men'll be killed,
men with wives and families. Mister Paladin, please, no, wait
a minute.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Missus willman are you asking me to kill Jeff?
Speaker 3 (15:26):
I'm asking you to measure one life against many.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Car owners.
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it's here today at all. It's new Casite Smooth Seals.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
You say it's new. You say it's new, So it's new.
What does it do?
Speaker 9 (15:50):
Well, it's a fluid you add to your automatic transmission
automatic transmission. It stops the leaks in your transmission and
makes it smooth and quiet. Makes it smooth, makes it quiet.
How can I tell if I should try it? That's easy.
Your stops and you start to go, and you give
it the gas pretty good. If you hear a sort
of whirring or a grinding noise, if you feel a
jerk or jolder jar, then your transmission just isn't up.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
The par grinding noises, jars and jerk.
Speaker 9 (16:13):
That's how my transmission works.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Boys.
Speaker 9 (16:15):
If that's the case, then you've got a case for
new k Site smooth Seal.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
New Caseites smooth Seal.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
How will that help?
Speaker 9 (16:21):
Well, it's made to soften those shrunken seals and smooth
out the shifting when there's power on the wheels. If
you heard a whirring or fell the jar when you
pull away in your modern car, you are a man
who needs a can. Just a dollar ninety five and
it works. Why you drive anyone here for k site
smooth seal it made? I'm If it doesn't do the job,
you get double your money bag.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
What are you doing back here again, Paladin? If you're
working for Wilman, sooner or later we'll shoot it out.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
You've killed three men already, Jeff. Do you have a
taste for it now?
Speaker 5 (17:05):
Do you think I want to stand out there watching
someone come at me like Casey this morning and know
I had to kill him?
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Did you have to?
Speaker 7 (17:12):
He'd killed me?
Speaker 1 (17:13):
That's your excuse this time? What'll it be next?
Speaker 7 (17:16):
He asked for it over nothing, Jeff.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
When you set yourself up as the fastest gun, there'll
be men making you prove it until the day.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
You can't ad enough talk.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
This time, you listen to Calvern. Wellman's getting the other
ranchers together. They're gonna drive their way through to the lake.
They're gonna try You mean the herds are going through
tomorrow afternoon. I don't think so. I'll see to it myself.
I wouldn't if I were you. If you have any objections,
I'll be in town all morning. We can settle everything
right there. We'll be glad to oblige you were Jeff me. Oh,
(17:49):
it's getting easier all the time, isn't it. Jeff, you
must be proud of yourself. Calvert, you've turned your son
into a killer, and he's going to enjoy the same
kind of life you have if he lives long enough.
Back in town, word got around that Jeff Calvert was
riding in to meet me. I waited in the saloon
(18:10):
while men have spoken whispers marked time. Wellman was there too.
You might as well fill mine up again, Bernie.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
I want to tell you, Paladin, I'm sorry about the
way I talked yesterday.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Wellman, it's late to clear a guilty conscience. If you'd
use that word sorry when Calvert's wife died, this wouldn't
be necessary. I know that I did some thinking last
night followed on the Calverts road in town. All right?
That squares is borne? Well. I hope the show is
(18:49):
worth the price. Hello, Paladin, all right, Jeff, anytime you're ready.
(19:15):
It won't be self defense this time, Jeff, you'll have
to draw first.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
No, No, Paladin over here. You're you're pretty good.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Paladin decided to play your own hand after all, Calvin, damn,
all right, sure you were wrong, Paladin. I didn't turn
my boy into a killer. Let's get him to the doctor, Jeff.
Unless we're not finished.
Speaker 7 (19:50):
We're finished. I got nothing to prove good.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
I'd like to help after he seized the doctor, but
I could drive him on home and calvert, or maybe
we can talk.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
A little late for that. Wellman to Calvert. When you
came here, you expected people to forget the past. Oh
suppose you try it? Let it end. You're right, wellman,
I'd be much obliged to talk. Hello, hey boy, Oh
(20:41):
he's apolity. Oh too bad? What what's too bad? You're
coming back? Youre find San Francisco cold, ready, fog creeping
around everywhere. Oh miserable? What are you talking about? Hey boy?
This is what I've dreamed of for many a long
hot dusty mile. Oh, oh them very good. Hey, you
(21:03):
look at timings a outda something I'm gonna do for you?
They're sure as hey boy, nice big picture of ice water.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Rotate the tires, but I thought they rotated right along
with a wheels when the.
Speaker 10 (21:25):
Car is going well, ma'am, that's not the kind of
rotation we mean. You see, your tires should be switched
around for more even were in longer life.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
My goodness, taking care of a car is so complicated,
I wouldn't know where to start.
Speaker 10 (21:40):
Well, seeing you have a General Motors car, you made
the right start by bringing it here to your GM
dealers for service, especially at vacation time when we're offering
performance service specials. Now, in addition to rotating the tires,
we'll check the wheels, tune up the engine, adjust the
front end, and give your car a thorough lubrication. That
way you're sure of toperformance all summer. It's all a
(22:01):
part of our Guardian maintenance service.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
What's Guardian maintenance.
Speaker 10 (22:05):
Well, that means train mechanics will use special tools and
factory approved parts to do the best job. GM Dealer
Guardian Maintenance the best kind of service for the best
kind of cars. Chevyes, pontiacs Oles, Buicks or Cadillacs.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Have gun will Travel. Created by Herb Medal and Sam
Rolf is produced and directed in Hollywood by Norman McDonald
and stars John Dayner as Paladin, with Ben Wright as
hey Boy. Tonight's story was written by Albert Alley and
adapted for radio by Ann down. Featured in the cast
(22:54):
were Sam Edwards, Virginia, Christine vic Parrin, Harry Cook and
Harry Bartel. Hugh Douglas speaking join us again next week
when CBS Radio presents Have Gun, We'll travel
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