Gunsmoke 1952-06-28 (010) The Ride Back

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:08):
Around Darge City and in the territory on West. There's
just one way to handle the killers, the spoilers, and
that's with a US marshall and the smell of guns, smoke, guns, smoke, starrying.

(00:39):
William Conrad. The Story of the violence that moved west
with Young America.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
The story of a man who moved with it. Matt Dylan,
United States Marshalls. Hold up, Martin, hold it.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
You're gonna make camp no likly clearing over there.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
I see it. Well, then, what do you wanted? Oh,
give me my gun.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
Way, just take it easy, just keep looking at him.
Come out in their own time.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
We'll wait.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
You could see him standing quiet in the shadow of
the trees one hundred yards off the trail. And then they
knew we'd seen him, and they came riding out into
the clearing, slow, shy hands, three of them young, wearing
the pants of white men. One of them would look

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like a woman's bloss around his neck and tied to
their saddles were copper kitchen things that made sharp noise
and was still evening.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
They were close to us now.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
You could see the shine of their hair grease, and
they were swinging past onto the trail back along the
way we'd come. Did you get away for that liquor? Yeah,
I've been up to something. Lots of trouble in those engines,

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killing trouble, i'd see.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Maybe you're the law. How come you didn't ask questions?

Speaker 3 (02:38):
When you ask questions, you got to wait for answers,
and I can lead to a lot of grief. My
job's to take you back to Dutch City. You figured
they were waiting to bushwhack us. I wouldn't say lousy
murdering devils. If I had me a gun, you'd do
some more shooting, wouldn't you.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
Martin? What's the matter, Marshall? You're afraid of Indians.

Speaker 3 (02:57):
I'm respectful of any man that's got enough liquor in
him to make him he does things sudden like you
ought to know that, Martin.

Speaker 4 (03:05):
Huh.

Speaker 3 (03:07):
Likely you're going to hang for him. Now, let's get moving.
I had caught up with Leeds Martin this side of
the North Fork Head and west. He'd done murder till
we knew of in my territory, and more i'd heard
tell about in Comanche Country.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
He was a drifter.

Speaker 3 (03:29):
Maybe that's why he drank, or maybe because he had
other reasons, but it had.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
Made him bad. He'd been bad for a long time.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
I reckoned riding easy. He'd get us to Dodge City
in about three days.

Speaker 3 (03:44):
We were traveling light and there was plenty of game
along the way. At dusk we made camp on a
low rise overlooking the trail. Martin turned the buffalo meat
over a fire, and I watched him.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
I like it, Marshall, enough to take the chill off
the way. I always say, man, you ought to eat meat?

Speaker 2 (04:11):
What they learning to him?

Speaker 3 (04:13):
And maybe he smells something such as Indians, those ones
we flushed on the trail back there. Maybe how'd he fake?
We're being felling?

Speaker 5 (04:31):
You certain?

Speaker 3 (04:32):
I said, maybe what he aimed to do about nothing?
They stay out of my way. I don't look for
trouble with them. But they're shy hands. They got guns.
You saw them, Marshall. Listen, I got a right to
protect myself. You give him my gun. You're afraid, Martin,
I ain't afraid of nothing. That's good. The meat's burning.

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I notice you stay back in the shadow. I get
my light of the fire. They picked me off first,
an idea not for me yet. I'm going to tell
you something, Martin. We've got a lot of riding and
camping to do together. Now you can make it easier
tough for yourself. That's up to you. Right now, the
meat's burning. I don't like my meat burn.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
Take you know.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
I'm saying to you must do your travel the way
you want. I'd as soon tie you on the back
of your horse and let you eat and sleep there.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
You talk big with my gun, Marshall. That's right.

Speaker 3 (05:27):
Now you're going to do the cooking her mine.

Speaker 1 (05:38):
Many days, you say, before we reach dodge three about.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
Here? Thank you? Sit over there? Will you? Oh? Now,
give me a break, Marshall. I'm sitting dock. You'll be
all right.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
The roxel protection. What's the matter. Don't you trust me
close by? I haven't got a gun. Yes, so you said, well,
how about a knife? I gotta cut my meat. Here's
your teeth. Now go over Martin.

Speaker 2 (06:07):
I'm hungry and we ate.

Speaker 1 (06:18):
Martin on a rock about twelve feet off. Turn at
the meat in his hands. The whites of his eyes
show an animal like as he looked about, cautious listening.
I had a notion to rope him up for the night,
but with the shy hands around.

Speaker 2 (06:33):
I couldn't do it. He wouldn't have stood a prayer.

Speaker 4 (06:37):
So I knew i'd have a double watch to keep
Martin and the Indians.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
I let the fire die, and the dark came down.

Speaker 3 (06:50):
On us, and with it the night sounds a couple
of hours moved.

Speaker 5 (06:56):
By Dyn.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
Dyln. You were asleep?

Speaker 6 (07:17):
No you hear that?

Speaker 2 (07:21):
I heard?

Speaker 1 (07:22):
Well, it didn't sound like no proper laws to me.

Speaker 2 (07:25):
You better get some sleep.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
Oh, I ain't no sleeping mood. You got some tobacco?

Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (07:36):
Here, Dylan, what's my chances? I'm a marshal, not a jury.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
You know though if it was me, I had the
same you'd hang.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
You like to see a man die, don't you gives
you a kick? How many you shot down just for
the fun?

Speaker 4 (08:05):
Huh?

Speaker 2 (08:05):
Dar?

Speaker 3 (08:06):
How many there's no pleasure in it?

Speaker 2 (08:09):
Was it for you?

Speaker 7 (08:13):
Not that it matters, but how many were there for you?

Speaker 2 (08:16):
Since I was a kidder, since I was a man
grown both six and two in.

Speaker 1 (08:24):
Chash you know something, I always got pushed into a gunfight.
I ain't saying it's right to do what I've done,
but I've had a string of bad luck.

Speaker 2 (08:36):
I like them too.

Speaker 1 (08:37):
In Dodge marshal LEI started to fight no reason. I
was faster on the draws all and that's always the
way it's been.

Speaker 2 (08:43):
The duck says, those boys are plugged in the back.
He's a liar. Sure, what's that? What's it?

Speaker 3 (09:05):
Stay where you are. I'm gonna take a look. I
ain't gonna leave me here without my gun. Are you
keep your back to the rocks. You'll be all right now?

Speaker 2 (09:14):
Shut up.

Speaker 3 (09:29):
They were out there all right somewhere waiting in front
of me. The rise sloped down and melted away, and
the darknesses that were brushing rock that came alive. I
got down on all fours and I used my gun
into my head, and I reached down for a stone.

Speaker 8 (09:55):
And threw it.

Speaker 1 (10:01):
Dylan, Dylan, Dyln You okay, Dylan.

Speaker 3 (10:13):
I doubt they'll try again tonight. You better get some sleep, Martin.
They got a lot of riding come daybreak. The half
light of morning came late. It was the grayness of

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clouds that held it back. Martin rode down ahead of me,
his face as gray as the sky, eyes small for
want of sleep. Hundred yards from where I'd seen the
flash of the Shion's carbine, we saw the Indian lying
on his back, staring up out of dead sockets.

Speaker 2 (10:55):
Buried him, took the rifle. We rode on east.

Speaker 1 (11:10):
They're still trailing us. They didn't see them a mile
or so back. I know, Well, what are you gonna do?
Wait for night?

Speaker 2 (11:18):
Let him try and get us again. I would you
figure to handle it?

Speaker 1 (11:21):
Oh, ride back, get on their tails and finish. I'd
have to give you your gun to do that. Yeah,
we'll keep going.

Speaker 2 (11:32):
All you'd have to do is wait for him to
get in range. I could pick them off and for
two of them. Forget it. Listen, I'm not going to
talk so much Martin. You talk too much about killing.
Not close up.

Speaker 1 (11:47):
Hey, look there's a cabin. See yeah, I see it.
We could get fresh water. Maybe I could buy me
some tobacco. Well, what do you say, marshall, there's no
harm in it? Well you smuk.

Speaker 7 (12:00):
What I've got isn't gonna last us in the dark.

Speaker 2 (12:02):
Yeah, yeah, Wait a minute.

Speaker 1 (12:22):
Hello?

Speaker 2 (12:24):
Anybody wrong? Hm?

Speaker 1 (12:28):
Maybe a woman's out and back getting the washing off
of the line for it rains.

Speaker 2 (12:32):
I saw some hang h Hello, there can we get
some water.

Speaker 6 (12:49):
Here?

Speaker 2 (12:49):
Look?

Speaker 6 (12:50):
Raggar laying over.

Speaker 8 (12:51):
There, Come on, hold him Marshall. Marshall, look at that.

Speaker 3 (13:10):
Inside the cabin a man was lying face down. In
his outstretched hand, he clutched a broken milk pitcher. The
woman was sprawled against the wall, and the kid, she
was maybe five or six, all alone, small hunched up

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against the bed. I was shy and sure had a
lot of hate in him.

Speaker 1 (13:58):
We were returned for the second act of gun smoke
in just a moment. But first the reminder, be a
good example your child, Make him know that he's loved
and wanted, Give him regular religious training, and help make
your community a better place in which to live and grow.
Now the second act of gun smoke. Because their engines

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done it. Guy heads, they'd done it. They'd kill a kid.

Speaker 2 (14:47):
Marshall, you see this, they'd done it. You wouldn't kill
me my gun. You wouldn't go after the dirty. I
never done anything like this but me. You're good to
will bury him out back.

Speaker 1 (15:04):
You're worse. You're worsen me. You're worsening shines, will bury
him out fact. That's all I are to you. Something
dancy you bury it. You've got nothing in you at all. Nothing.
I don't tell me about the dead. You do your
killing and everything's on your side. So what's the difference
with this just because some crazy liquord Indian?

Speaker 2 (15:26):
Instead?

Speaker 1 (15:27):
What do you think the wives of the menu shots
say about your back and dodge?

Speaker 2 (15:30):
What makes you so different? You think maybe.

Speaker 1 (15:33):
Because you're not a shy and that makes you innocent and.

Speaker 2 (15:35):
Only them guilty.

Speaker 4 (15:41):
Now, come on, we'll bury him out back, big drops
of water we're falling?

Speaker 3 (15:51):
Is that through a last handful of verse on the
kid's grave we'd put her rag doll to sleep with her?

Speaker 2 (15:59):
Kill her?

Speaker 3 (16:00):
Leeds Martin said a prayer half remembered a long time ago.

Speaker 1 (16:05):
I'll lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord
my soul to keep and if I died before I wake, if.

Speaker 2 (16:19):
I die before I wake, I pray the Lord myself.
I pray the Lord my soul to take.

Speaker 8 (16:27):
Well.

Speaker 3 (16:27):
Wake in the cabin until the storm gives over. What
about the Indians right now, they're going to get wet. Later,
I'll take care of him, all right. We'll tie up
the horses over there by the post. I'll stay on
your belly. Keep close to the cabin.

Speaker 2 (16:44):
Where did that come from?

Speaker 1 (16:46):
After the right, keep your head down and when I say,
we'll make a run for the door and get inside.
You're right, yeah, kick some dust to my hurt.

Speaker 2 (17:01):
It hit one of the horses. Are you ready?

Speaker 1 (17:08):
You're gonna let him get away with it. You're gonna run,
don't you shoot back. They're out of pistol range. We're
going inside, all right, Come.

Speaker 2 (17:16):
On, you're you're lily. I should have figured it, just

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a lot of fat talk.

Speaker 1 (17:39):
I'm going over to the window, Martin. You'll stay where
I can see you. If you move one inch, I
blow your ears up.

Speaker 2 (17:44):
And I know why you won't give me my gun.

Speaker 5 (17:47):
Tisn't for me.

Speaker 1 (17:49):
It says you won't have to make a play for
the engines. You're scared, Martia. Don't you turn your back
on between here and totch, because if you do, you'll
never turn on a yim me.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
The rain made everything a gray curtain.

Speaker 3 (18:07):
I could see a horse moving to the cabin for shoulder,
and as it came close, I saw it was mine.
On the saddle was my rifle, and I had to
get it. I had to go outside again for that.
The shy ends had been well out of pistol range.
You could tell from the sun of their shots, and
I didn't think they'd have a stomach to get too close.

Speaker 2 (18:27):
Not yet. I waited about.

Speaker 1 (18:30):
Ten minutes, and then what are you going to do.

Speaker 7 (18:34):
We're going out, t up the horse and get my
rifle and back in.

Speaker 2 (18:37):
I suppose they're waiting first. They're not.

Speaker 3 (18:39):
But if they are, like you say, I'm a ton
of my back on you. So you'll go first. Now
open the door. I ain't gonna do it. Open the door, Martin.
You ain't guts enough to pull that trigger.

Speaker 2 (18:51):
I'dn't want to shoot you. Open it now, you hear me?

Speaker 7 (19:05):
All right, go on, I'll say, oh.

Speaker 9 (19:16):
Come my boy, come my boy. And boy, yeah, easy,
now all right, get the back off Martin, Holy boy, easy, easy,
all right, come.

Speaker 1 (19:35):
On, answer boy, that's.

Speaker 2 (19:39):
A boy, all right.

Speaker 1 (19:45):
Time up money, okay, all right, let's get out of
this ring. The afternoon dragged by, and with a storm
came a chill, and I got a fire going. I

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kept my watch at the window, and I on the horse,
and I on Martin. He wasn't talking much now, just
moving around the cabin, looking at things. That the way
you do when you try to find out what people
are and what they own. It got darker.

Speaker 3 (20:26):
The rain didn't let up. We drank hot coffee and ate.
Martin found a guitar, propped himself up on the bed.
Get your boots off the bed.

Speaker 7 (20:44):
Why you're getting mud all over it?

Speaker 3 (20:50):
You wouldn't understand. Why not get them off?

Speaker 1 (21:01):
Aim to sit by that window all night, Martin, As
long as I have to need some sleep by him by.

Speaker 2 (21:08):
Don't worry. I'll hog tie you. If I do.

Speaker 1 (21:10):
Engines might get you when you sleep, I'll get you too.
How come a man and a woman come to a
place like this to settle and raise a kid? Lots
of room, maybe work in the earth. There's reasons all

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crazy want to get him.

Speaker 2 (21:36):
I don't know, Martin. That's the way it goes.

Speaker 1 (21:41):
Oh yeah, I guess I'm ready for some sleep. Okay,
Oh you don't have to tie me. Man gets all stiff,
sleeps hard to come by.

Speaker 3 (21:51):
Then I'm gonna tell you something, Martin. Some men, an
ordinary man, even if he's done murder, I might trust
in a fix like this, not like it.

Speaker 1 (22:01):
I don't understand you. You run hot and cold. There's
something wrong inside your head. I don't trust that, all right,
And I got started on your feet. I'll not that tight,
all right? Take your boots off first.

Speaker 6 (22:23):
Okay, I could do with a.

Speaker 4 (22:27):
Dre make another loop there, all right, and I pull
it tight.

Speaker 3 (22:36):
All right, I'm gonna finish at Martin, and I keep
your hands behind your head and lie down.

Speaker 1 (22:41):
Flash sure, Why are you crazy? I'm not even started
with you yet, Martin. Now, I should have done that

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a long time ago. Now you hear what I'm saying, Martin.
I don't like you. You're making a lot of trouble.
I could save the law bothered by throwing you into
the Indians right now. We're doing it myself, but you're
going to stand trial if I have to drag it.
At the end of the rope, you're going back.

Speaker 7 (23:24):
And I got up on that bed and stay there.

Speaker 3 (23:34):
He didn't have any more fight that night. I roped
him up and dozed a little myself. But by morning,
when the rain let up, I could see that he
was cocky again, ready waiting for another chance.

Speaker 1 (23:50):
Outside the sun was breaking through, and there was a
smell of freshness, green wet. The horse was nibbling at
some timothy going along the cabin wall. There was the
sound of the cow wanted.

Speaker 2 (24:04):
To be milk.

Speaker 1 (24:06):
You think those Cheyennes are gone. They might be. I
doubt it, though, wey. They ain't tried to pick off
your horse. Probably want it alive. You finished your coffee? Yeah, okay,
let's go. What are you doing with the guitar? Taking

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it with me for company?

Speaker 2 (24:29):
They don't need it. Put it back, Put it back.

Speaker 1 (24:41):
It seems like you're just bound to make things tough
for me, Marshalls.

Speaker 3 (24:45):
Seems that way, doesn't it. Well, that's a nice day, Martin.
We ought to make some distance to Dodge today.

Speaker 1 (24:51):
You're gonna let the Chyennes get away with with this?

Speaker 2 (24:54):
Huh? They won't get away with it now. Come on.

Speaker 3 (25:01):
We doubled up on my horse and took it easy
for the morning. He could see for miles around. It
was that kind of clearness. And then we were heading.

Speaker 1 (25:12):
For a Charlotte canyon with rocks and boulders dump on
the floor. There'd been no sign of the shy ends
until we entered the mouth.

Speaker 2 (25:24):
Jump.

Speaker 1 (25:27):
Come on, all right behind the rocks, Martin, get out, Yeah, persistent.

Speaker 2 (25:35):
A man's a fool to ride into track. He sure is.
Give me my gun? Will you give it to me?
I want to get just.

Speaker 1 (25:45):
One of them, just one, Sorry, Martin, you'll have to
sit this one out.

Speaker 2 (25:50):
You don't understand God.

Speaker 1 (25:54):
Please, Marshall, please, I give you my word. Please let
me get the other one. Please, I'll give you back
your gun.

Speaker 2 (26:00):
I won't make no trouble up leads. No, I can't, Martin.

Speaker 4 (26:03):
Mute it out.

Speaker 2 (26:03):
It won't be long. Look, Marshall, please listen to me.

Speaker 1 (26:08):
I'm going to edge around those rocks down the canyon.
I shouldn't be able to pick him off from there. Now,
you stay put here, You understand, Marshall.

Speaker 4 (26:14):
You'll be all right.

Speaker 2 (26:15):
You stay here.

Speaker 1 (26:18):
I crawled my way up the canyon, sneaking behind brush, boulders,
anything recovered, and up on the lip of the canyon,
I I could see a movement, a flash of color,
and that was when Martin's raised up.

Speaker 2 (26:35):
He had a couple of rocks.

Speaker 1 (26:36):
In his hands, the size of small melons, and he
ran like a jack dodgeon, back and forth and heading
straight for the Indians. No, no, Martin, Martin, get down,
Get down. The Indians slid down and landed no more
than ten feet from Leeds. Martin I were both dead when.

Speaker 5 (27:02):
I got there.

Speaker 7 (27:04):
A shy and shot had got Martin square in the head.

Speaker 3 (27:09):
I took my prisoner's body back with me to Dodge City.

Speaker 2 (27:15):
I said, there's just no accountant for some many ways,
mister Dillon.

Speaker 3 (27:19):
Eh, you never know, Chester, you never know. I didn't
like him, but you never know.

Speaker 2 (27:24):
Must have been crazy in a way. I couldn't figure
out why he did it until I found this in
his pocket. Here. Take a look. It's a kid, mister Dylon.
Picture of a little girl. Looks like he'd carried it
for a long time.

Speaker 3 (27:45):
Yeah, maybe he had a kid once. You never know,
And like you say, is just no accountant.

Speaker 1 (28:17):
Gun Smoke, transcribed under the direction of Norman MacDonald, stars
William Conrad as Matt Dylan US Marshall. Tonight's story was
especially written for Gun Smoke by Anthony Ellis, with music
composed and conducted by rex Cory Leeds. Martin was played
by Larry Dubkin. Harley bear Is Chester join us again
next week as Matt Dylan US Marshall fights to bring

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