November 4, 2025 • 24 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Around Dodge City and in the territory on West. There
is just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
And that's where the US Marshal and the Smell of
Guns Smoke, Gun Will Smoke, starring William Conrad. The story
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of the violence that moved west with young America and
the story of a man who moved with him.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshall, the first
man they look for and the less they want to meet.
It's a chance, said job, and it makes a man
watchful and a little lonely.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
No sense trying to save the cabin chester, the bar
and the sheds will cook them down.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Good, private's gone. Oh, Hauling well.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Water takes so long you might have got it from
the stream man.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
After the bucketing.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
It's right bigger in these ten pills we got here.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Let me give you a hand rest. And how they
saw a draw work.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
It doesn't seem like nobody has worked this thing for
a long time.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
All that's coming from.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
But the bucket's still a long way down there.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
White.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
A man will haul it. Maybe I can hold it
up my hand, Hey gigs, Yeah, I can gott it.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Hold back to well but whether this rope.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Can hold a bucket and stop it outage rope was
pum rock. Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Maybe up in the barn the shut you can find
something to hold water in sight.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I just don't figure how he got his water. He
sure didn't use as well.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Well the fellaw that lived here, there's the one that
I'll be dragged out of the cabin or where'd he
take it? Seeonder and them tree?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
You check the bar and shout out you albi? What
kind of synch? Shelby? You all right? He's just a cinder,
that's all I can think. He's just a cinder. I
don't the blanket here. He ain't a man at all.
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He's a cinder. Yeah, that's all Welby. Uh could you tell?
Was he alone in the cabin? I couldn't believe. He
was sitting at the table. His head was slumped forward,
and there was fire all around. And then I seen
(03:06):
he was on fire. He was just sitting there on fire,
it is, you know. And I got to him and
he toppled off right out of the floor, and he
laid there burning. He didn't know it. And I seen
trees burning, I've seen fields, I've seen logs. I never
seen a man burn, just forgot about it. You know,
it's funny. A man on fire, the first thing you
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do is put a blanket on him. He's burning hot. See,
he's smother You put the fire out of it. That's
the way. You put a blanket on his right, you
put at around his shatter. Who you talking to me? Marshall?
(03:50):
The blanket? It was in the cabin, a blanket. Oh,
it was on the floor r by the table. I
was wet. It felt wet when I grabbed it. Uh huh.
That's a funny smell, I mean, Marshall. Yeah, Wsky and
karrasing together and make a funny smell. Alby, that's what
that is. That's what it smells like. It is done.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
Did you come back here?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Yeah, right away? Chester, you arrest yourself out there. You've
done more on your shirt. Oh, I'm all right? Or
did you find him? Chester and Proud find the barn?
Speaker 6 (04:32):
Fourteen jez Junie looking all tin flesh, bone shoon. Yeah,
but he neglected them for a long time.
Speaker 7 (04:40):
It's down there.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
About starved, and he feed in the barn.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
Ain't nothing in that barn but wresty cans and a
broke flow. Everything in there is crumbling. Set the rats
un let.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
His grass down by the creek. We'll lead him down there.
Speaker 6 (04:53):
And it don't seem like this was Indians, doesn't.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
It's done. I let square Chester. Everything around here looks
queer and uh, at least the barn is still standing
(05:27):
and a couple of sheds. We done what we could do.
You hadn't been riding by and come to fetch us,
we could have done this much of me. I couldn't
do enough for long, funny in a way, thing too
far from God. But you know I didn't pass one
settler on the way. He didn't see anybody around here,
you know, not a soul. It's just odd, that's what
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is odd. Odd this can be Well, you've got to
figure he was alone excepting for them, them, two starving horses.
I don't know his names, can't mark his grave had
helped wondering about him, though, m what's a man like
that lives alone? That's his place called a rust and rubble.
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His horses starve.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
And that well, I don't know when that's been you.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
I don't think he drank water Chester, I mean that uh,
that smell of whiskey. In the blanket. Huh, might be
drank himself into a stupid knocked the whiskey over along
with a kerosene lamp and had start a fire that
had burned him out of it.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
Yeah, that must have been the case.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Well, if he was all alone, maybe it doesn't matter
what we know.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
Well for the ulla, what oh I mean, mister John,
look come up in the creek bed yond.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Maybe he wasn't alone after all. Well that's just a child.
She can't be more than nine or ten. I'm afraid
I know, judge for you. I marsh O Dylan from
Dodd's City. Who are you?
Speaker 7 (07:03):
Charity? How's that charity? Charity? Gill, that's my name. It
was a big fire, wasn't it?
Speaker 2 (07:12):
God? Was you live here or where you ben? Charity?
Speaker 7 (07:20):
Up the creek? I play up there? Stay up there
all I can. I like it up there?
Speaker 2 (07:25):
You knew about the fire, Charity.
Speaker 7 (07:28):
I tried to make him move. I told him too,
and I I pulled at him, but he was too big.
I couldn't move him.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
I tried.
Speaker 7 (07:36):
See, I burned my dress.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
He was your father, you know, he married.
Speaker 8 (07:40):
Norma and me when I was little.
Speaker 7 (07:43):
She said, I was to call him daddy, and I did,
but I didn't like him.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Where is your mama, Cherry?
Speaker 7 (07:50):
Oh she did? She died when I was seven. I'm
almost ten now she's dead, ain'ty yess he is? I
didn't like him.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
On you. You do that enough, it'd be hard to
think when a chester, Yeah, yeah, suh. I'd see you
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pretty healthy, young lady.
Speaker 7 (08:27):
I never been to a doctor before, yeah, never had.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
When you take it from me, you stay away from morty.
Can't you eat it?
Speaker 7 (08:36):
You're funny?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Well, some folks think so? Uh now then uh, I
guess you can slip into your dress yourself. I always
do well, Marshall Gonna. I'll be waiting for her in
the other room when you're ready.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
I won't be wrong.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
What about her talk? Oh she's fine.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
She could use the more her meat on her bone,
but there's nothing really wrong.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Where her dress was burned. I thought maybe the fire
got to her too. Was not a sign of a burn.
She you know something, She seems a lot older than ten.
And I don't know anything about kids. Well, I don't
mean she is older than that. She she just seems
older than her years. I guess she's seen a lot. Mm.
Speaker 9 (09:25):
You talk to her much about fire?
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Uh, she said. She tried to move her stepfather couldn't's bow.
She didn't like him. She keeps saying that, and yeah,
well we'll fix that pretty quickly. And did Matt get
chest at eat with her? Hey, he said to somebody,
good example, he doesn't. Uh, cherity, will you tell us
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about the fire?
Speaker 7 (09:54):
What about it?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Oh? How it started?
Speaker 9 (09:57):
For instance?
Speaker 7 (10:00):
Well, it's almost happened lots of times. Mama used to
tell him that it happened. Sometimes he wasn't careful. He'd
drink out of that jug and then he'd fall asleep,
and if the lamp was near, he knocked it over.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
That's what happened this morning, I guess.
Speaker 7 (10:13):
So I went down to the creek to get my breakfast.
He didn't talk to me, ever, so I didn't talk
to him. He was just sitting there with a jug.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Your breakfast, jee, If.
Speaker 7 (10:23):
The berries are nice down by the way.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Oh, you ought to eat more than berries for breakfast.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
I thought you wanted to know about the fire.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
That's right, we do.
Speaker 7 (10:33):
When I came back from breakfast, the lamp was on
the floor and everything was burning. I tried to make
him move, but he was too big, and when my
dress started to burn it I ran away.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
It was just you and your stepfather, that's all. I
lived there, and Coaling and Sue m Coaling and Sue. Yeah, horses, Doc,
were you brought him in the mansel Marshall?
Speaker 7 (11:04):
Yeah, Charny, Will I live with you now?
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Well? Uh no, uh, well, we'll find a place for you.
Speaker 7 (11:16):
But but you.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Yeah, but don't you like me? Well? It was sure, sure,
I like you? All right, Honey, you want to say
something do Oh no, no, no, no, I don't come on, Doc,
help me make her understand.
Speaker 7 (11:34):
Now you wouldn't let me be alone with you?
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Well, no, Charity, I wouldn't do that.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
Oh you walk too fair?
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Huh oh oh, yeah, I guess I do.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
Are you in a hurry?
Speaker 2 (12:12):
That's gonna be dark for long? And when I get
you settled with Mars Smally for the night?
Speaker 7 (12:16):
Who's not smally?
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Uh? Us? A woman runs a boarding house?
Speaker 7 (12:20):
What's the boarding house?
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Well? You know you're board there. You get a room
to sleep in and your meals.
Speaker 7 (12:27):
Can night with you.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Well, sure sometimes maybe, Sure.
Speaker 7 (12:31):
I I can cook a little bit. I mean, when
you're food in the house, I can cook.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Well, yeah, I bet you can't.
Speaker 7 (12:40):
Do you have a little girl like me?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (12:43):
No, little boy?
Speaker 2 (12:45):
No?
Speaker 5 (12:46):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Well I'm not married, Jersey?
Speaker 5 (12:51):
Well whoa what? Why don't you have a little girl?
Little boy? Anyway?
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Now you listen to me, little lady.
Speaker 7 (13:00):
You were gonna call me charity?
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Yeah, well you ask an awful lot of questions, Charity.
Speaker 7 (13:06):
That's how you learn asking questions?
Speaker 2 (13:09):
What was sure? That's how you learned?
Speaker 7 (13:12):
And why didn't you have a little girl like me?
Speaker 2 (13:16):
I told you, Charity, I'm not married. Well, come on, Charity,
you're gonna like mas smalley.
Speaker 8 (13:25):
No he's married.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Well I think she used to be.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Yeah, but uh well, the charity don't.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
I know you don't, honey, but I just don't figure
I'm the one to make you understand. Now, come on,
even Marshall, even Rob.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
What you got there?
Speaker 2 (13:57):
This is charity? Rob? Why she's young and a girl?
Speaker 7 (14:01):
Yeah, you have a little girl.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
I don't start that again. Please where you talk right
up to her, don't you? Marsha's man, Rob, you can't
start that soon over the young girl especially, can't give
him the head, you know, gotta lay down the law. Right.
Early in life, I was asking after mom where is
she in son? You know she is not? Then where
is she ru meddling?
Speaker 3 (14:23):
That's where she is thinking and talking free with the
whole sow and circle a half with women who should
have been buggy with a long time ago.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Is he mean, Marshall, Yeah, he's mean as a butterfly.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Ain't no mean about it, just sitting down the back
stating the case might say, Now if someone had put
more on them others in their place when they was
this youngins age, we'd had a warm sepp of the seamen.
And if you the comfort us men boat lad title
to Rob, you're gonna run down pretty soon and tell
me where ma is clean? All the way to which
it call which left on the morning Santa feed, because
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you please earn the doorsy girl Boss Grimmag's wife Fanny
do Badge. Hold up a minute, when you're calling off
every woman and dodge, they can't all be in Wichita.
Well you're the Marshall. Make yourself a house to house arch.
The ain't a woman left in town and they ain't
gonna be for five days running?
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Or what's going on? Suffering? Rob? You talk straight to
me nine hours? So what they call it suffering? They
all met for it.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Women from all over the state, Gordon to moll pouring
into Wichita, and every single one of them got suffering
on their minds. Suffering you mean suffrage. Oh, it's one
the same thing. It's that sneaky way women folks has
a talking. Why don't they just come out and plain
and say that.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
They want the boat. No, they got to call it
suffering suffrage.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Well you let them go in awhile and see if
a country ain't suffering.
Speaker 7 (15:46):
I'm also sleeping, Marshall.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Yeah, me to charity.
Speaker 7 (16:19):
You're not serious, man.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
You're the only woman in tom Kitty. It's only natural
that you'd want to take.
Speaker 7 (16:25):
Care of her now in a saloon. There's nothing natural
about that.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
You can sleep in your room. Can't she in my room?
Speaker 10 (16:33):
The long branch?
Speaker 7 (16:33):
Any of this? It's no place for.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
A little girl. You should know it isn't. Do you
think one of my jail cells is better? Maybe worse?
Speaker 10 (16:42):
Honestly matter, I know this is a problem, but I
don't think I'm a solution. There must be some place
in town or even out of town, some family.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
We wrote out to Albie Stevens.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
He's got a kids.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Yeah, they're stacked up out there, and they're all boys.
What about missus stevens on a witch tal with Mars
smaller and the rest of 'em eight kids, and she
wants to vote too, Well, i'll be says she went
for the outing gay. You can't blame her for the
one they get away?
Speaker 8 (17:10):
Mmm.
Speaker 10 (17:10):
Hello, oh hello, honey, you got to drink you wanted?
Speaker 5 (17:15):
Well?
Speaker 7 (17:15):
The man said he didn't have any milk, so I
had some water.
Speaker 10 (17:18):
Yeah, I have milk non her. Well yeah, but did
they keep a car at their monicas?
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Oh yeah, yeah, I guess they do. We'll go and
get it some. Teddy will be all right here for
a little while. Uh here, honey, you you sit on
here and you wait with miskiddy. Huh.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
But you're not gonna leave.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
No, I'll be back soon as I got you some milk.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
I like you.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Yeah, I like him too.
Speaker 7 (17:46):
You're pretty, do you think so?
Speaker 5 (17:48):
Honey?
Speaker 7 (17:49):
And you snow pretty too?
Speaker 10 (17:51):
Only only what you got your feet than it.
Speaker 7 (17:56):
Mommy used to tell me only Indians than at their feces.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Hmm.
Speaker 10 (18:01):
Maybe your mother was pretty enough without using powders and things.
Speaker 7 (18:05):
Oh she was pretty. Freckles, She had freckles.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
Oh, Wow, that bruises.
Speaker 10 (18:13):
I don't have any freckles.
Speaker 7 (18:15):
This is a funny pray thing.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
It kind of funny, yes, And I don't understand.
Speaker 8 (18:22):
Growing up ms kidding outside the out fufer and sweet
clover to smell, the quick water to drink, and turns
and wild gooseberries and sheep showered at East The girls
were always crowding together indoors.
Speaker 7 (18:36):
And now I'm smoking, drinking whiskey and talking while what
is that?
Speaker 10 (18:43):
I don't know, Chody, I said, it says no, they
do mm and if they didn't, I'd be out of business,
I mean.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
And I said, no. I just don't see the need
of this at all. I've never been in jail before
in my life. Stop acting like an old woman. Chester.
You're not in jail now, really poor here.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Mc peters is in the same dog on Celsier last
week where they took him off to Hayes City to hang.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Are you listening to Maychester.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
It's been a long day.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
I had about all the jaw and I can handle.
Charity's gonna sleep in your bed. I'm gonna sit up
in mine, and you're gonna sleep on that cot there.
And that's the end of it.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
And not shut up.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Yes, sure, I understand, but I don't see why I
gotta be locked up there.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
I'm not locked up, Chester.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
You closed the door.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Shut on me?
Speaker 2 (19:40):
All right, all right, all right there? Better that better?
Huh Yester, It is a sight better night Chester, night,
miss jon Yes, I guess Charity's asleep, but now all right,
she probably was before we started as ruckus. Yeah, oh,
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poor little thing. Whatever is gonna come? Hermit's done. I
don't know, Chester, I don't know anyone who wants kids
that hasn't caught 'em. I sure never run up against
anything like this before. She bumped on on. You dies
along like a little stray. Too bad.
Speaker 6 (20:22):
You can't keep it now you're out of your head.
Well now I can see it ain't the most practical
thing in the world. Chances are you'd feel a lot
better having a little boy, but all shafter, sir.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
I'd feel a lot better having nothing at all. No boy,
no girl. Well, yes, I suppose so you're more used
to that. Good night, Chester, good.
Speaker 9 (20:46):
Night is done.
Speaker 7 (21:01):
Ain't you gonna get in your bed, Marshal?
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Huh, Hey, you're supposed to be asleep, young lady.
Speaker 7 (21:10):
I know, but I keep thinking. I never can sleep
when I'm thinking.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
I guess the secrets to quit thinking.
Speaker 7 (21:18):
Then, Huh, I'm worried about you, Marshall, doing worried? You
know what to do about me? Do you no.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Honey, I sure don't. I.
Speaker 7 (21:32):
I guess you're tired of me too.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
I'm not tired of your, Charity. I I just don't
right me know what to do with you.
Speaker 7 (21:40):
You don't want me to live with you? Do you?
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Well? Honey, you can very well. You've seen how I
live here. It is not the right place for a
little girl. You gotta have a home, a real home, Charity,
with folks close to you, who'll see that you cared for,
who who will love you? Like my aunt Annie aunt Annie.
Speaker 7 (22:11):
Oh maybe I hadn't told you about aunt Annie.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Oh maybe you haven't.
Speaker 7 (22:18):
H At first, I I thought it'd be nice to
live with you. Spoke mostly you and I just walk around.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
I get tired of Charity. Where does aunt Annie live?
Speaker 8 (22:30):
Just on yonder from where I used to live before fire?
Speaker 5 (22:33):
Maybe five miles not far.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (22:39):
I liked you, Marshall Jillan.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Yeah, well I like you too, Charity, And uh, tomorrow
morning we're gonna ride out to aunt Annie, huh.
Speaker 7 (22:54):
Mm ooh, I think cause we better now.
Speaker 9 (23:04):
Yeah, me too, me too, Minnie.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Corn chip.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
It's not pull I doo smack your lips, but you
can't pop it with three corntit.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Munch munch mont event.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
Is corn chip.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Some things you eat because they taste good, and some
things you eat because they're good for you. But pret
those corn chips are one snack you can eat for
both reasons. Gun when Houston, directed in Hollywood by Norman McDonald,
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stars William Conrad as Matt Dillon Us Marshall.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
The story was specially written for Gunsmote.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
By Kathleen Hits, with editorial supervision by John Meston.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Peaches.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
In the cast were Anne Whitfield, Joseph Stearns, and Laurence Dobson.
Harley Bear is Jester, Howard mcneer is Doc, and Georgia
Ellis is kidding. This is George Walsh in Finding You
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to join Us again. Next week, when CBS Radio presents
another story on gunsmoke
Around Dodge City and in the territory on West. There
is just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
And that's where the US Marshal and the Smell of
Guns Smoke, Gun Will Smoke, starring William Conrad. The story
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of the violence that moved west with young America and
the story of a man who moved with him.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshall, the first
man they look for and the less they want to meet.
It's a chance, said job, and it makes a man
watchful and a little lonely.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
No sense trying to save the cabin chester, the bar
and the sheds will cook them down.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Good, private's gone. Oh, Hauling well.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Water takes so long you might have got it from
the stream man.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
After the bucketing.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
It's right bigger in these ten pills we got here.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Let me give you a hand rest. And how they
saw a draw work.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
It doesn't seem like nobody has worked this thing for
a long time.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
All that's coming from.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
But the bucket's still a long way down there.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
White.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
A man will haul it. Maybe I can hold it
up my hand, Hey gigs, Yeah, I can gott it.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Hold back to well but whether this rope.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Can hold a bucket and stop it outage rope was
pum rock. Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Maybe up in the barn the shut you can find
something to hold water in sight.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I just don't figure how he got his water. He
sure didn't use as well.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Well the fellaw that lived here, there's the one that
I'll be dragged out of the cabin or where'd he
take it? Seeonder and them tree?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
You check the bar and shout out you albi? What
kind of synch? Shelby? You all right? He's just a cinder,
that's all I can think. He's just a cinder. I
don't the blanket here. He ain't a man at all.
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He's a cinder. Yeah, that's all Welby. Uh could you tell?
Was he alone in the cabin? I couldn't believe. He
was sitting at the table. His head was slumped forward,
and there was fire all around. And then I seen
(03:06):
he was on fire. He was just sitting there on fire,
it is, you know. And I got to him and
he toppled off right out of the floor, and he
laid there burning. He didn't know it. And I seen
trees burning, I've seen fields, I've seen logs. I never
seen a man burn, just forgot about it. You know,
it's funny. A man on fire, the first thing you
(03:29):
do is put a blanket on him. He's burning hot. See,
he's smother You put the fire out of it. That's
the way. You put a blanket on his right, you
put at around his shatter. Who you talking to me? Marshall?
(03:50):
The blanket? It was in the cabin, a blanket. Oh,
it was on the floor r by the table. I
was wet. It felt wet when I grabbed it. Uh huh.
That's a funny smell, I mean, Marshall. Yeah, Wsky and
karrasing together and make a funny smell. Alby, that's what
that is. That's what it smells like. It is done.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
Did you come back here?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Yeah, right away? Chester, you arrest yourself out there. You've
done more on your shirt. Oh, I'm all right? Or
did you find him? Chester and Proud find the barn?
Speaker 6 (04:32):
Fourteen jez Junie looking all tin flesh, bone shoon. Yeah,
but he neglected them for a long time.
Speaker 7 (04:40):
It's down there.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
About starved, and he feed in the barn.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
Ain't nothing in that barn but wresty cans and a
broke flow. Everything in there is crumbling. Set the rats
un let.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
His grass down by the creek. We'll lead him down there.
Speaker 6 (04:53):
And it don't seem like this was Indians, doesn't.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
It's done. I let square Chester. Everything around here looks
queer and uh, at least the barn is still standing
(05:27):
and a couple of sheds. We done what we could do.
You hadn't been riding by and come to fetch us,
we could have done this much of me. I couldn't
do enough for long, funny in a way, thing too
far from God. But you know I didn't pass one
settler on the way. He didn't see anybody around here,
you know, not a soul. It's just odd, that's what
(05:50):
is odd. Odd this can be Well, you've got to
figure he was alone excepting for them, them, two starving horses.
I don't know his names, can't mark his grave had
helped wondering about him, though, m what's a man like
that lives alone? That's his place called a rust and rubble.
(06:11):
His horses starve.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
And that well, I don't know when that's been you.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
I don't think he drank water Chester, I mean that uh,
that smell of whiskey. In the blanket. Huh, might be
drank himself into a stupid knocked the whiskey over along
with a kerosene lamp and had start a fire that
had burned him out of it.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
Yeah, that must have been the case.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Well, if he was all alone, maybe it doesn't matter
what we know.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
Well for the ulla, what oh I mean, mister John,
look come up in the creek bed yond.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Maybe he wasn't alone after all. Well that's just a child.
She can't be more than nine or ten. I'm afraid
I know, judge for you. I marsh O Dylan from
Dodd's City. Who are you?
Speaker 7 (07:03):
Charity? How's that charity? Charity? Gill, that's my name. It
was a big fire, wasn't it?
Speaker 2 (07:12):
God? Was you live here or where you ben? Charity?
Speaker 7 (07:20):
Up the creek? I play up there? Stay up there
all I can. I like it up there?
Speaker 2 (07:25):
You knew about the fire, Charity.
Speaker 7 (07:28):
I tried to make him move. I told him too,
and I I pulled at him, but he was too big.
I couldn't move him.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
I tried.
Speaker 7 (07:36):
See, I burned my dress.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
He was your father, you know, he married.
Speaker 8 (07:40):
Norma and me when I was little.
Speaker 7 (07:43):
She said, I was to call him daddy, and I did,
but I didn't like him.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Where is your mama, Cherry?
Speaker 7 (07:50):
Oh she did? She died when I was seven. I'm
almost ten now she's dead, ain'ty yess he is? I
didn't like him.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
On you. You do that enough, it'd be hard to
think when a chester, Yeah, yeah, suh. I'd see you
(08:26):
pretty healthy, young lady.
Speaker 7 (08:27):
I never been to a doctor before, yeah, never had.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
When you take it from me, you stay away from morty.
Can't you eat it?
Speaker 7 (08:36):
You're funny?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Well, some folks think so? Uh now then uh, I
guess you can slip into your dress yourself. I always
do well, Marshall Gonna. I'll be waiting for her in
the other room when you're ready.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
I won't be wrong.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
What about her talk? Oh she's fine.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
She could use the more her meat on her bone,
but there's nothing really wrong.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Where her dress was burned. I thought maybe the fire
got to her too. Was not a sign of a burn.
She you know something, She seems a lot older than ten.
And I don't know anything about kids. Well, I don't
mean she is older than that. She she just seems
older than her years. I guess she's seen a lot. Mm.
Speaker 9 (09:25):
You talk to her much about fire?
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Uh, she said. She tried to move her stepfather couldn't's bow.
She didn't like him. She keeps saying that, and yeah,
well we'll fix that pretty quickly. And did Matt get
chest at eat with her? Hey, he said to somebody,
good example, he doesn't. Uh, cherity, will you tell us
(09:52):
about the fire?
Speaker 7 (09:54):
What about it?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Oh? How it started?
Speaker 9 (09:57):
For instance?
Speaker 7 (10:00):
Well, it's almost happened lots of times. Mama used to
tell him that it happened. Sometimes he wasn't careful. He'd
drink out of that jug and then he'd fall asleep,
and if the lamp was near, he knocked it over.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
That's what happened this morning, I guess.
Speaker 7 (10:13):
So I went down to the creek to get my breakfast.
He didn't talk to me, ever, so I didn't talk
to him. He was just sitting there with a jug.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Your breakfast, jee, If.
Speaker 7 (10:23):
The berries are nice down by the way.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Oh, you ought to eat more than berries for breakfast.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
I thought you wanted to know about the fire.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
That's right, we do.
Speaker 7 (10:33):
When I came back from breakfast, the lamp was on
the floor and everything was burning. I tried to make
him move, but he was too big, and when my
dress started to burn it I ran away.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
It was just you and your stepfather, that's all. I
lived there, and Coaling and Sue m Coaling and Sue. Yeah, horses, Doc,
were you brought him in the mansel Marshall?
Speaker 7 (11:04):
Yeah, Charny, Will I live with you now?
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Well? Uh no, uh, well, we'll find a place for you.
Speaker 7 (11:16):
But but you.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Yeah, but don't you like me? Well? It was sure, sure,
I like you? All right, Honey, you want to say
something do Oh no, no, no, no, I don't come on, Doc,
help me make her understand.
Speaker 7 (11:34):
Now you wouldn't let me be alone with you?
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Well, no, Charity, I wouldn't do that.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
Oh you walk too fair?
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Huh oh oh, yeah, I guess I do.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
Are you in a hurry?
Speaker 2 (12:12):
That's gonna be dark for long? And when I get
you settled with Mars Smally for the night?
Speaker 7 (12:16):
Who's not smally?
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Uh? Us? A woman runs a boarding house?
Speaker 7 (12:20):
What's the boarding house?
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Well? You know you're board there. You get a room
to sleep in and your meals.
Speaker 7 (12:27):
Can night with you.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Well, sure sometimes maybe, Sure.
Speaker 7 (12:31):
I I can cook a little bit. I mean, when
you're food in the house, I can cook.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Well, yeah, I bet you can't.
Speaker 7 (12:40):
Do you have a little girl like me?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (12:43):
No, little boy?
Speaker 2 (12:45):
No?
Speaker 5 (12:46):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Well I'm not married, Jersey?
Speaker 5 (12:51):
Well whoa what? Why don't you have a little girl?
Little boy? Anyway?
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Now you listen to me, little lady.
Speaker 7 (13:00):
You were gonna call me charity?
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Yeah, well you ask an awful lot of questions, Charity.
Speaker 7 (13:06):
That's how you learn asking questions?
Speaker 2 (13:09):
What was sure? That's how you learned?
Speaker 7 (13:12):
And why didn't you have a little girl like me?
Speaker 2 (13:16):
I told you, Charity, I'm not married. Well, come on, Charity,
you're gonna like mas smalley.
Speaker 8 (13:25):
No he's married.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Well I think she used to be.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Yeah, but uh well, the charity don't.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
I know you don't, honey, but I just don't figure
I'm the one to make you understand. Now, come on,
even Marshall, even Rob.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
What you got there?
Speaker 2 (13:57):
This is charity? Rob? Why she's young and a girl?
Speaker 7 (14:01):
Yeah, you have a little girl.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
I don't start that again. Please where you talk right
up to her, don't you? Marsha's man, Rob, you can't
start that soon over the young girl especially, can't give
him the head, you know, gotta lay down the law. Right.
Early in life, I was asking after mom where is
she in son? You know she is not? Then where
is she ru meddling?
Speaker 3 (14:23):
That's where she is thinking and talking free with the
whole sow and circle a half with women who should
have been buggy with a long time ago.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Is he mean, Marshall, Yeah, he's mean as a butterfly.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Ain't no mean about it, just sitting down the back
stating the case might say, Now if someone had put
more on them others in their place when they was
this youngins age, we'd had a warm sepp of the seamen.
And if you the comfort us men boat lad title
to Rob, you're gonna run down pretty soon and tell
me where ma is clean? All the way to which
it call which left on the morning Santa feed, because
(14:56):
you please earn the doorsy girl Boss Grimmag's wife Fanny
do Badge. Hold up a minute, when you're calling off
every woman and dodge, they can't all be in Wichita.
Well you're the Marshall. Make yourself a house to house arch.
The ain't a woman left in town and they ain't
gonna be for five days running?
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Or what's going on? Suffering? Rob? You talk straight to
me nine hours? So what they call it suffering? They
all met for it.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Women from all over the state, Gordon to moll pouring
into Wichita, and every single one of them got suffering
on their minds. Suffering you mean suffrage. Oh, it's one
the same thing. It's that sneaky way women folks has
a talking. Why don't they just come out and plain
and say that.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
They want the boat. No, they got to call it
suffering suffrage.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Well you let them go in awhile and see if
a country ain't suffering.
Speaker 7 (15:46):
I'm also sleeping, Marshall.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Yeah, me to charity.
Speaker 7 (16:19):
You're not serious, man.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
You're the only woman in tom Kitty. It's only natural
that you'd want to take.
Speaker 7 (16:25):
Care of her now in a saloon. There's nothing natural
about that.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
You can sleep in your room. Can't she in my room?
Speaker 10 (16:33):
The long branch?
Speaker 7 (16:33):
Any of this? It's no place for.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
A little girl. You should know it isn't. Do you
think one of my jail cells is better? Maybe worse?
Speaker 10 (16:42):
Honestly matter, I know this is a problem, but I
don't think I'm a solution. There must be some place
in town or even out of town, some family.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
We wrote out to Albie Stevens.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
He's got a kids.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Yeah, they're stacked up out there, and they're all boys.
What about missus stevens on a witch tal with Mars
smaller and the rest of 'em eight kids, and she
wants to vote too, Well, i'll be says she went
for the outing gay. You can't blame her for the
one they get away?
Speaker 8 (17:10):
Mmm.
Speaker 10 (17:10):
Hello, oh hello, honey, you got to drink you wanted?
Speaker 5 (17:15):
Well?
Speaker 7 (17:15):
The man said he didn't have any milk, so I
had some water.
Speaker 10 (17:18):
Yeah, I have milk non her. Well yeah, but did
they keep a car at their monicas?
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Oh yeah, yeah, I guess they do. We'll go and
get it some. Teddy will be all right here for
a little while. Uh here, honey, you you sit on
here and you wait with miskiddy. Huh.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
But you're not gonna leave.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
No, I'll be back soon as I got you some milk.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
I like you.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Yeah, I like him too.
Speaker 7 (17:46):
You're pretty, do you think so?
Speaker 5 (17:48):
Honey?
Speaker 7 (17:49):
And you snow pretty too?
Speaker 10 (17:51):
Only only what you got your feet than it.
Speaker 7 (17:56):
Mommy used to tell me only Indians than at their feces.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Hmm.
Speaker 10 (18:01):
Maybe your mother was pretty enough without using powders and things.
Speaker 7 (18:05):
Oh she was pretty. Freckles, She had freckles.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
Oh, Wow, that bruises.
Speaker 10 (18:13):
I don't have any freckles.
Speaker 7 (18:15):
This is a funny pray thing.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
It kind of funny, yes, And I don't understand.
Speaker 8 (18:22):
Growing up ms kidding outside the out fufer and sweet
clover to smell, the quick water to drink, and turns
and wild gooseberries and sheep showered at East The girls
were always crowding together indoors.
Speaker 7 (18:36):
And now I'm smoking, drinking whiskey and talking while what
is that?
Speaker 10 (18:43):
I don't know, Chody, I said, it says no, they
do mm and if they didn't, I'd be out of business,
I mean.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
And I said, no. I just don't see the need
of this at all. I've never been in jail before
in my life. Stop acting like an old woman. Chester.
You're not in jail now, really poor here.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Mc peters is in the same dog on Celsier last
week where they took him off to Hayes City to hang.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Are you listening to Maychester.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
It's been a long day.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
I had about all the jaw and I can handle.
Charity's gonna sleep in your bed. I'm gonna sit up
in mine, and you're gonna sleep on that cot there.
And that's the end of it.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
And not shut up.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Yes, sure, I understand, but I don't see why I
gotta be locked up there.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
I'm not locked up, Chester.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
You closed the door.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Shut on me?
Speaker 2 (19:40):
All right, all right, all right there? Better that better?
Huh Yester, It is a sight better night Chester, night,
miss jon Yes, I guess Charity's asleep, but now all right,
she probably was before we started as ruckus. Yeah, oh,
(20:02):
poor little thing. Whatever is gonna come? Hermit's done. I
don't know, Chester, I don't know anyone who wants kids
that hasn't caught 'em. I sure never run up against
anything like this before. She bumped on on. You dies
along like a little stray. Too bad.
Speaker 6 (20:22):
You can't keep it now you're out of your head.
Well now I can see it ain't the most practical
thing in the world. Chances are you'd feel a lot
better having a little boy, but all shafter, sir.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
I'd feel a lot better having nothing at all. No boy,
no girl. Well, yes, I suppose so you're more used
to that. Good night, Chester, good.
Speaker 9 (20:46):
Night is done.
Speaker 7 (21:01):
Ain't you gonna get in your bed, Marshal?
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Huh, Hey, you're supposed to be asleep, young lady.
Speaker 7 (21:10):
I know, but I keep thinking. I never can sleep
when I'm thinking.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
I guess the secrets to quit thinking.
Speaker 7 (21:18):
Then, Huh, I'm worried about you, Marshall, doing worried? You
know what to do about me? Do you no.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Honey, I sure don't. I.
Speaker 7 (21:32):
I guess you're tired of me too.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
I'm not tired of your, Charity. I I just don't
right me know what to do with you.
Speaker 7 (21:40):
You don't want me to live with you? Do you?
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Well? Honey, you can very well. You've seen how I
live here. It is not the right place for a
little girl. You gotta have a home, a real home, Charity,
with folks close to you, who'll see that you cared for,
who who will love you? Like my aunt Annie aunt Annie.
Speaker 7 (22:11):
Oh maybe I hadn't told you about aunt Annie.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Oh maybe you haven't.
Speaker 7 (22:18):
H At first, I I thought it'd be nice to
live with you. Spoke mostly you and I just walk around.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
I get tired of Charity. Where does aunt Annie live?
Speaker 8 (22:30):
Just on yonder from where I used to live before fire?
Speaker 5 (22:33):
Maybe five miles not far.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (22:39):
I liked you, Marshall Jillan.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Yeah, well I like you too, Charity, And uh, tomorrow
morning we're gonna ride out to aunt Annie, huh.
Speaker 7 (22:54):
Mm ooh, I think cause we better now.
Speaker 9 (23:04):
Yeah, me too, me too, Minnie.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Corn chip.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
It's not pull I doo smack your lips, but you
can't pop it with three corntit.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Munch munch mont event.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
Is corn chip.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Some things you eat because they taste good, and some
things you eat because they're good for you. But pret
those corn chips are one snack you can eat for
both reasons. Gun when Houston, directed in Hollywood by Norman McDonald,
(24:10):
stars William Conrad as Matt Dillon Us Marshall.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
The story was specially written for Gunsmote.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
By Kathleen Hits, with editorial supervision by John Meston.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Peaches.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
In the cast were Anne Whitfield, Joseph Stearns, and Laurence Dobson.
Harley Bear is Jester, Howard mcneer is Doc, and Georgia
Ellis is kidding. This is George Walsh in Finding You
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