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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Around Odd 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 Marshall and The Smell of
Gun Smoke Gun move for, starring William Conrad, The story
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of the violin that moved west with Young America and
the story of a man who moved with it. I'm
that man, Matt Dyllon United States Marshall, the first man
they looked for and the last they want to meet.
It's a chance, a job, and it makes a man
watchful and a little lonely. Oh, mister dyllan age. Just
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a fine morning, though, little nippy maybe, but just fine. Yeah.
And in summer, hanging on winter holding off, you know,
just at this time of year. I wouldn't trade western
Kansas for everything east of the Mississippi. Oh, a morning, Caleb.
I have been waiting in this jail office for a
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full two hours. What time do you start working, Marshall Chester,
you know, Caleb Andrews H. Marshall. I have an order
here from the U. S. District Court. I believe it's
your job deserves such orders, it is. I don't get
them often though, h order of foreclosure and eviction. I
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had Blake, Caleb, Why are you doing this? Said? The
man borrowed money from me and gave me a mortgage
on his farm and household effects. He can't pay it
and only came due three days ago. You shouldn't waste
any time. I'm not interested in your opinions, Marshall, dealers
not at a mortgage four hundred and twenty dollars. What
do you need with four hundred and twenty dollars your
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own half of Ford County right now? Marshall, it's not
your place. You know as well as I do. Why
Ed Blake can't pay this off. His horse rode on
him last spring and broke his leg, and then his
wife and kid nearly broke their backs trying to get
a crop out. I didn't come here to listen. If
you had left this ride on through the winter, you'd
get your money out of it. But if you go
ahead and foreclothes now, you're gonna wipe him out. Marshall,
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I already have foreclothes'd break a man for four hundred
and twenty dollars that you don't even need. As I said,
your opinions don't interest me. All I expect from you
is to serve those papers. All right, I'll serve them.
You'll notice there to be served today, said i'd serve them.
I get out of his office. Belongs to the United
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States government, as far as I know. That's one thing
you've got no mortgage on. So get out for you
may find I have some influence in Washington, Marshall Dolling.
Let's say, if you can get me a decent salary
for this rotten job I've got sure was a fine
warms done. Yeah, sure was all right, Chester. Let's settle up.
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I didn't pare the one job. I sure wish we
didn't have to do mister Jung's job. He sure he's
a nice farm ed and Martha put in a lot
of work here lest were tester. We don't have any choice.
Sure I know he's head down right Gan. Oh hello, Jimmy,
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Look here what I got, Marshall. Look somebody like a
mighty dead kyo.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
He's been killing my chicken. So last night I hit
out behind the barn. I got him with one shot, Marshall,
and there wasn't even a slow move.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Oh that's fine, Jimmy, that Dylan. How are you morning?
Martha and Chester too.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Make glad to see you get down and come on in.
Oh thank you, Jimmy, Now that you've showed that thing
to Marshall Dylan, take it away somewhere, all right.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
He's real proud.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Of those chickens of his, and he's done fine with him.
Oh here I am, though, keep me standing out here
in the yard. Come on, let's go in tide.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Well uh uh, well, we really can't stay, Martha. Oh nonsense.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
You don't get out here once in a coon's ey.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
I know.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
But and you're just in time your favorite dish.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Matt.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
I was just about to take it out of the
oven when.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
You road right ed not here.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
But you will stay, won't you?
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Uh? Adds away.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Yes, he's in town, Matt.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
You're not yourself. What is it? Well? I uh, I
suppose I ought to talk to Ed about this, but
maybe it'd be better if he hears it from you.
Here's what I've got. A court order here has to
do with that mortgage of Caleb Andrews. It's an order
of foreclosure and eviction and sale. No oh, no, yeah,
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here it is.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
We were so sure he'd extended, So sure, Matt.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
How how long before we have to get out five
days so soon? Are you a right Matt?
Speaker 3 (05:59):
It is better that Ed hears it from me coming
on top of everything else.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Martha, there's anything I can do, you know? You just
let me know.
Speaker 6 (06:08):
Matt.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
I don't blame you for this. I understand. Come on
in now and have some corn bread with you.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Why I couldn't. I I'm sorry, thanks anyway, Martha, but.
Speaker 7 (06:19):
I I I'm just not very hungry.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Matt.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
You've looked low all week.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Well, it's those things in general, okay, And I sometimes
you get to wonder and if it's all worth it.
It's the Blakes that's father, isn't mon Chester was telling me. Yeah,
Chester talks so much.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
It's not your fault, Mas.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Somebody had the survey orders and somebody has to be
a hangman too. Life's never all good. Math is always
a little bad in it, and in my job it's
more than a little dog.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
Try making your living sometime as a dance hall girl.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Yeah, I guess so. But you know, when you have
to go out and boot somebody like the Blake's off
their lane and out of their home, then you how
you just start wondering what is right and what is wrong.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Well, if you find out math that means.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Oh, here you are, Marshall. I stopped by the jail,
all right, Caleb. What's on your mind? That Blake family, Marshall.
They were supposed to make it today and they haven't
done it. I rode by there. It was a while ago.
According to the court order, they got until sundown. Now,
the Marshal, I believe I prefer to discuss our business
elsewhere than in the presence of this this woman. Just
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a minute, Caleb, Ma, I'll go. No, Caleb, you're gonna
apologize to miss Russell right now, Man, apologize. I'm not
going to apologize any cheap little stummat Matt, you shouldn't
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have done it, Simon. Yeah, take him outside and throw
some water on him with you, Sure you're, Matt. He'll
do everything he can to harm you, now, Matt. He'll
take it all on the bleaks too. Maybe. Look, I
just got an idea. I'll see you later, Matt. The
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mere fact a man runs a bank, he doesn't always
mean he has a free hand in everything he does.
Bank has starkholders and board of directors, and I have
to listen to them. Well, I think they'd approve the loan,
mister Buckan another thing. Kana Andrews is the biggest account
I've got. He's out to get that Blake Farm. I
crossed him by making this loan. You suggest, Matt, he'd
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break me. I see all right, let's bugg and forget it. Matt.
I realize I'm under obligation to you. You saved my
life that time the James Brothers held me up. Saved
the bank too. In fact, that was part of my job.
That's an obligation. I was just asking you, as a
friend help out another friend. Matt. I'd like to do it,
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but I just can't, don't you see? Yeah, sure, forget it.
I've got to think of my wife and the two
girls cars you have. It's not that I don't want
to help. I understand, miss bugging forget it out A
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hole in a while, not a far a few the
kind of goodness done getting chilli shot to night. Yeah, yeah, sir,
when winter's sitting in and all, this makes you feel
good to know you've got a warm place to hold
up me mighty rough to to. Yeah, I was thinking
of the same thing Chester you you reckon they vacated
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chef noon I don't know. We were right out there
in the morning to find out. Yeah, I come in
and we bother you and come on in, Arthur. Hello, Jimmy,
come on up the stove.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
The fact is, Matt, we uh kind of like to
impose on you for tonight. So we don't have any
place to go, no money, and well wondered we couldn't
uh sleep in the jail. Well, sure at Chichester where
you got a fire going back there, Yes, and take
some blankets out of the storeroom. Yes, sir, h wanna
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come help me, Jimmy, Joe you you're going along with
Chester cent uh, and we might as well get your
stuff out of the wagon. Well, ain't the wagon man
We walked into town. But if you walk, well that
lake uh wagon, the stock all the household goes. They
are covered that mortgage, you see. No, we didn't take anything,
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clothes on our backs. So help me. It's all right, mad.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
We know how you feel. After all, he started with
nothing before, and we can do it again.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
There's no reason you should have to. We do have to, though,
and that's that mister John. Yes he's Jimmy. He grabbed
a rock from the rack and took out the back way.
I can be Stockwhere on earth is he going? I
know where he's going, and Heaven help him if we
don't catch him. That's a little kid's house around the corner.
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Looks dark. Yeah, I may not be as eating said
the boy man. It's ten to one. This is where
he heads for uh Chester. There's somebody back of that
tree there at the left. Oh yeah, freaking teens. I
don't know. Just keep on walking, Jemmy, it's me, Matt Dyllham.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Go away, Marshall.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
You gotta go away now.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
Well.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
I can't do that, Jimmy. You're a friend of mine,
and I figure you're waiting here to do something you'll
be sorry for, and I can't let you do that.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Nothing you can do about Marshall.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
You're not gonna killing her.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
You go away and leave me alone.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Jimmy. I know how you feel. I don't like Caleb either,
but killing him is no answer.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Stop Marshall up, see where you are. Don't go any closer.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
I have to, Jimmy. It's my job. So if you're
gonna go through with this, I guess you're gonna have
to kill me first. Sorry, Jimmy, I don't have a choice,
but you.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Do, Marshall.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Now give me the rifle.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Stop.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
I couldn't shoot you, Marshall.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
You know that, sure?
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Alright?
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Keep waking up Lace and you and Mom crying, Dad
and simple name without the lamp looking, no hurting.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Don't see anything, just suit take it easy. Now?
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Why is he doing it towards mister Dylon.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Jimmy, will you do something for a friend?
Speaker 5 (13:50):
You say so?
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Alright, take that rifle back to the jail, put it
in the rack, saud you go to bed.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
You promise, I promise, mister Tillott. I'm sorry. I'll do
like you.
Speaker 6 (14:08):
See all right, Jimmy, good night, son.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
No, I but I told you mister Bodkin wouldn't do
anything Master. He wouldn't dare to be scared Caleb and
take his money.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
Out of the bank.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Tell that's about what he's said. I don't know, Kitty.
I've done everything I got to think of.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
Now. The worst of it is, everybody in town is
just as scared of Caleb as mister Bodkin is. I
doubt if they'll even have the nerve to bit against him.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
At the sale. I know they've probably got the place.
That's not much more than the amount of the mortgage.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Or one hundred and twenty dollars. Matt, I've seen more
than that changed hands across the poker table in one deal,
and to think that's all it takes, Rickitty, Oh you're
jacket jack Ball.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
I'm not usually one to eaves drop on people, but
I have been listening to you too. The reason I
butted in, miss Kitty, I heard you talking about these
people losing their home. I don't know if the cellar blake,
he's never done any business over my block gag table
and probably never will.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
No, I don't think he's ever been in here, and.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
I don't know if this will make sense, But the
thing is, I left home when I was ten years old,
and I've been drissing ever since. When I see somebody
like this blake that sticks it out and works and
fights and then gets a law ideals, well, when I'm
getting that there's fifty dollars if that will help money, well,
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this is pretty decent of you, Jack sang sure.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
Matt. I said a while ago that nearly everyone in
town was afraid of Caleb.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Well, it looks like there's.
Speaker 5 (16:05):
Some more aunts like Jack and the other dealers, and
the girls and the bartenders. Man, I can raise four
hundred and twenty dollars right here in the long branch.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
I think maybe you're cut kidding.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
You can do as well as Jack too, has fifty
from me. Boy, everybody listen to me for a minute.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
A quiet down, Shut up, quiet down. I got something
to say.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Alie is sure taking his time getting here at Chester.
I told him what you said, m Dylan, how to
bring him to the office on a run if anything
will anytime Caleb figures he's about to lose a dollar
or two, it's hitting him where it hurts. Blake's turned
in for the night, have you, I guess? So it's
quiet Marshall. What's it all about? Shut the door, kill
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it now? Would you mind telling me why I've been
called here at this time of night? Sure here, it's
four hundred and twenty dollars. Blake's want to pay off
that mortgage? Oh? Oh they do, do they? It court
costs up and I'll probably run about ten dollars. I'll
pay that myself. That's mighty generous of you. Good night, Marshall.
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It's a deal. Then, I'm not the least bit interested
in having that mortgage paid off. Marshall Dyllan. The Blake
farm is worth about two thousand dollars now. In five
years it'll be worth three times that much. Land's going
up in Ford County. So I don't want the money.
I want the farm. When it's put up for sale,
I'll get it at my own price at foreclosure. Still go,
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I see, Oh, good night, gentlemen. Well, I guess I'm said.
I don't know why I ever thought he'd take on money.
The Blake's won't get ascent out of the sale. He'll
scare everybody off and bit it in a few dollars
over the amount of the mortgage, and nobody in town
will even try to even try to tried what mister
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jes Chester. I'm going over and wake up mister Buck
and I got an idea, and if it works, we'll
hold that sale at noon tomorrow. We'll that's pretty short
notice to find auctioneer. I don't need an auctioneer at
Chester this one. I'm gonna run myself, alright, alright, all
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of you know what we're here for him. This is
a far clasher sale of the property and the household
effects of Edward and Martha Blake ordered by the court
at the request of that fine spirited, good hearted public
benefactor Caleb Andrews. All right, all right, get on with it,
get on with the sale, all right now. The first
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item I'm offering is a breadboard. Marshall Dylan, I suggest
you lump the household effects together and offer them as
one bulk item. I'm sorry, Caleb, I'd rather offer them
one at a time, unless, of course, you'd care to
wave all claim to the household effects and withdraw them
from the order of foreclosure. I waive the claim. The
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household goods are withdrawn. I'll get onto the house and
land so ordered. The item offered two hundred and sixty
acres of tullable land, a forearm house ala barn. I
won't read through this description. You all know the property.
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It's a good farm. The amount of the mortgage is
four hundred and twenty dollars by Caleb Andrews. All right,
the bidding's open. What am I offered four hundred and
fifty dollars? I have four hundred and fifty dollars from
Caleb Andrews. Do I hear another bid?
Speaker 5 (20:11):
Now?
Speaker 1 (20:11):
The farm's worth two thousand you're gonna let him have
it for four fifty. How about another bidder, mister Dylon, Yes,
what is it? Chester? I have been thinking some lately
of getting me a little place like this and settling down.
I'll get one thousand dollars. I have one thousand dollars
from Chester, Proudfoot? Do I hear another bid? Why? It's
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a trick? He doesn't want this play one thousand dollars
going twelve hundred, Caleb Andrews, BID's twelve hundred? What do
you say, Chester? Well?
Speaker 5 (20:42):
I think I kindly like this farm fifteen hundred.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
A bid is fifteen hundred dollars going once going fifteen hundred,
sixteen hundred from mister Andrews. Mister Proudfoot, eight thousand, four
hundred and twenty dollars, I had that much money in
your whole line. Oh, I hear another bed? What do
you say, Caleb? Did you think I'm a fool? Blawing? What? Spawing? White?
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So so test their brod foot for eight thousand, four
hundred and twenty dollars. The buyer will come forward and
complete the sale. Well, now you worn than the trend, dude,
I got it right here. I'll see the eight thousand,
five hundred dollar bills, and here's the four hundred and
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twenty Where did you ever get that much in cash? Well,
I saved my pay, mister Andrews. And then, of course
I only drink mostly beer, and he did that. That's
the while, ok, Caleb, I guess four hundred and twenty
dollars of this is yours. That takes care of the mortgage. Oh,
that looks like you made a pretty fair propit on
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the place, a lot better than I expect you, Matt.
But I still rather have the farm than the month.
Well ed, I have been sort of thinking it over.
Maybe I kindly lost my head when you come right
down to it. I don't know what I would do
with a farm. So if you'd like to buy it,
I'll take a four hundred and twenty dollars loss and
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sell it back to you for eight thousand cabs. That's done,
and here's the money.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
Is unheard of?
Speaker 1 (22:18):
They can't do it, Marshall. Well, as far as I know,
there's no law against a man selling his own property.
And now the way I see it, Miss Andrews, is
right this minute, you're a trespasser on my property. So
come on. Now, let's gore about this league me.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
You better get that eight.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Thousand dollars back to the bank. Mister Buckan's probably worrying
himself into a breakdown, for somebody will find out he
let us have it, he is, all right, mister Dylon,
I'll let I'll see.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
In town later, all right, Matt, Matt, I don't know
how we can ever thank you for what you've done.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Not me, Martha. Thank a bunch of the work of
the Long Branch. And they're bums and drifters. Sudden when
Kitty told him the story, they really came true.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
We'll pay it back, Matt, every cent of it. And
that girl, Kitty, I guess I've said some hard things
about her in the past, But Matt, will you ask
her to come out to dinner some afternoon. I'd like
to thank her myself.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Sure, I'll ask her, Mirgaer. I think she'd appreciate that
even more than you know. Gun Smoke, Produced and directed
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in Hollywood by Norman McDonald, stars William Conrad as Matt
Dylan Us Marshall. The story especially written for Gun Smoke
by Less Crutchfield with editorial supervision by John's featured in
The cast were Gene Bates, Joseph Kerns, Dick Beals, Jack Moyles,
Laurencetopkin and James Mussar. Marley Bear is Chester, Howard mcneher
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is doc. And Georgia Ellis is kidding
Around Odd 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 Marshall and The Smell of
Gun Smoke Gun move for, starring William Conrad, The story
(00:41):
of the violin that moved west with Young America and
the story of a man who moved with it. I'm
that man, Matt Dyllon United States Marshall, the first man
they looked for and the last they want to meet.
It's a chance, a job, and it makes a man
watchful and a little lonely. Oh, mister dyllan age. Just
(01:13):
a fine morning, though, little nippy maybe, but just fine. Yeah.
And in summer, hanging on winter holding off, you know,
just at this time of year. I wouldn't trade western
Kansas for everything east of the Mississippi. Oh, a morning, Caleb.
I have been waiting in this jail office for a
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full two hours. What time do you start working, Marshall Chester,
you know, Caleb Andrews H. Marshall. I have an order
here from the U. S. District Court. I believe it's
your job deserves such orders, it is. I don't get
them often though, h order of foreclosure and eviction. I
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had Blake, Caleb, Why are you doing this? Said? The
man borrowed money from me and gave me a mortgage
on his farm and household effects. He can't pay it
and only came due three days ago. You shouldn't waste
any time. I'm not interested in your opinions, Marshall, dealers
not at a mortgage four hundred and twenty dollars. What
do you need with four hundred and twenty dollars your
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own half of Ford County right now? Marshall, it's not
your place. You know as well as I do. Why
Ed Blake can't pay this off. His horse rode on
him last spring and broke his leg, and then his
wife and kid nearly broke their backs trying to get
a crop out. I didn't come here to listen. If
you had left this ride on through the winter, you'd
get your money out of it. But if you go
ahead and foreclothes now, you're gonna wipe him out. Marshall,
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I already have foreclothes'd break a man for four hundred
and twenty dollars that you don't even need. As I said,
your opinions don't interest me. All I expect from you
is to serve those papers. All right, I'll serve them.
You'll notice there to be served today, said i'd serve them.
I get out of his office. Belongs to the United
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States government, as far as I know. That's one thing
you've got no mortgage on. So get out for you
may find I have some influence in Washington, Marshall Dolling.
Let's say, if you can get me a decent salary
for this rotten job I've got sure was a fine
warms done. Yeah, sure was all right, Chester. Let's settle up.
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I didn't pare the one job. I sure wish we
didn't have to do mister Jung's job. He sure he's
a nice farm ed and Martha put in a lot
of work here lest were tester. We don't have any choice.
Sure I know he's head down right Gan. Oh hello, Jimmy,
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Look here what I got, Marshall. Look somebody like a
mighty dead kyo.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
He's been killing my chicken. So last night I hit
out behind the barn. I got him with one shot, Marshall,
and there wasn't even a slow move.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Oh that's fine, Jimmy, that Dylan. How are you morning?
Martha and Chester too.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Make glad to see you get down and come on in.
Oh thank you, Jimmy, Now that you've showed that thing
to Marshall Dylan, take it away somewhere, all right.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
He's real proud.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Of those chickens of his, and he's done fine with him.
Oh here I am, though, keep me standing out here
in the yard. Come on, let's go in tide.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Well uh uh, well, we really can't stay, Martha. Oh nonsense.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
You don't get out here once in a coon's ey.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
I know.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
But and you're just in time your favorite dish.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Matt.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
I was just about to take it out of the
oven when.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
You road right ed not here.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
But you will stay, won't you?
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Uh? Adds away.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Yes, he's in town, Matt.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
You're not yourself. What is it? Well? I uh, I
suppose I ought to talk to Ed about this, but
maybe it'd be better if he hears it from you.
Here's what I've got. A court order here has to
do with that mortgage of Caleb Andrews. It's an order
of foreclosure and eviction and sale. No oh, no, yeah,
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here it is.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
We were so sure he'd extended, So sure, Matt.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
How how long before we have to get out five
days so soon? Are you a right Matt?
Speaker 3 (05:59):
It is better that Ed hears it from me coming
on top of everything else.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Martha, there's anything I can do, you know? You just
let me know.
Speaker 6 (06:08):
Matt.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
I don't blame you for this. I understand. Come on
in now and have some corn bread with you.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Why I couldn't. I I'm sorry, thanks anyway, Martha, but.
Speaker 7 (06:19):
I I I'm just not very hungry.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Matt.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
You've looked low all week.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Well, it's those things in general, okay, And I sometimes
you get to wonder and if it's all worth it.
It's the Blakes that's father, isn't mon Chester was telling me. Yeah,
Chester talks so much.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
It's not your fault, Mas.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Somebody had the survey orders and somebody has to be
a hangman too. Life's never all good. Math is always
a little bad in it, and in my job it's
more than a little dog.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
Try making your living sometime as a dance hall girl.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Yeah, I guess so. But you know, when you have
to go out and boot somebody like the Blake's off
their lane and out of their home, then you how
you just start wondering what is right and what is wrong.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Well, if you find out math that means.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Oh, here you are, Marshall. I stopped by the jail,
all right, Caleb. What's on your mind? That Blake family, Marshall.
They were supposed to make it today and they haven't
done it. I rode by there. It was a while ago.
According to the court order, they got until sundown. Now,
the Marshal, I believe I prefer to discuss our business
elsewhere than in the presence of this this woman. Just
(07:51):
a minute, Caleb, Ma, I'll go. No, Caleb, you're gonna
apologize to miss Russell right now, Man, apologize. I'm not
going to apologize any cheap little stummat Matt, you shouldn't
(08:12):
have done it, Simon. Yeah, take him outside and throw
some water on him with you, Sure you're, Matt. He'll
do everything he can to harm you, now, Matt. He'll
take it all on the bleaks too. Maybe. Look, I
just got an idea. I'll see you later, Matt. The
(08:46):
mere fact a man runs a bank, he doesn't always
mean he has a free hand in everything he does.
Bank has starkholders and board of directors, and I have
to listen to them. Well, I think they'd approve the loan,
mister Buckan another thing. Kana Andrews is the biggest account
I've got. He's out to get that Blake Farm. I
crossed him by making this loan. You suggest, Matt, he'd
(09:06):
break me. I see all right, let's bugg and forget it. Matt.
I realize I'm under obligation to you. You saved my
life that time the James Brothers held me up. Saved
the bank too. In fact, that was part of my job.
That's an obligation. I was just asking you, as a
friend help out another friend. Matt. I'd like to do it,
(09:29):
but I just can't, don't you see? Yeah, sure, forget it.
I've got to think of my wife and the two
girls cars you have. It's not that I don't want
to help. I understand, miss bugging forget it out A
(09:51):
hole in a while, not a far a few the
kind of goodness done getting chilli shot to night. Yeah, yeah, sir,
when winter's sitting in and all, this makes you feel
good to know you've got a warm place to hold
up me mighty rough to to. Yeah, I was thinking
of the same thing Chester you you reckon they vacated
(10:14):
chef noon I don't know. We were right out there
in the morning to find out. Yeah, I come in
and we bother you and come on in, Arthur. Hello, Jimmy,
come on up the stove.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
The fact is, Matt, we uh kind of like to
impose on you for tonight. So we don't have any
place to go, no money, and well wondered we couldn't
uh sleep in the jail. Well, sure at Chichester where
you got a fire going back there, Yes, and take
some blankets out of the storeroom. Yes, sir, h wanna
(10:51):
come help me, Jimmy, Joe you you're going along with
Chester cent uh, and we might as well get your
stuff out of the wagon. Well, ain't the wagon man
We walked into town. But if you walk, well that
lake uh wagon, the stock all the household goes. They
are covered that mortgage, you see. No, we didn't take anything,
(11:13):
clothes on our backs. So help me. It's all right, mad.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
We know how you feel. After all, he started with
nothing before, and we can do it again.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
There's no reason you should have to. We do have to, though,
and that's that mister John. Yes he's Jimmy. He grabbed
a rock from the rack and took out the back way.
I can be Stockwhere on earth is he going? I
know where he's going, and Heaven help him if we
don't catch him. That's a little kid's house around the corner.
(11:57):
Looks dark. Yeah, I may not be as eating said
the boy man. It's ten to one. This is where
he heads for uh Chester. There's somebody back of that
tree there at the left. Oh yeah, freaking teens. I
don't know. Just keep on walking, Jemmy, it's me, Matt Dyllham.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Go away, Marshall.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
You gotta go away now.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
Well.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
I can't do that, Jimmy. You're a friend of mine,
and I figure you're waiting here to do something you'll
be sorry for, and I can't let you do that.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Nothing you can do about Marshall.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
You're not gonna killing her.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
You go away and leave me alone.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Jimmy. I know how you feel. I don't like Caleb either,
but killing him is no answer.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Stop Marshall up, see where you are. Don't go any closer.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
I have to, Jimmy. It's my job. So if you're
gonna go through with this, I guess you're gonna have
to kill me first. Sorry, Jimmy, I don't have a choice,
but you.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Do, Marshall.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Now give me the rifle.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Stop.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
I couldn't shoot you, Marshall.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
You know that, sure?
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Alright?
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Keep waking up Lace and you and Mom crying, Dad
and simple name without the lamp looking, no hurting.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Don't see anything, just suit take it easy. Now?
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Why is he doing it towards mister Dylon.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Jimmy, will you do something for a friend?
Speaker 5 (13:50):
You say so?
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Alright, take that rifle back to the jail, put it
in the rack, saud you go to bed.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
You promise, I promise, mister Tillott. I'm sorry. I'll do
like you.
Speaker 6 (14:08):
See all right, Jimmy, good night, son.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
No, I but I told you mister Bodkin wouldn't do
anything Master. He wouldn't dare to be scared Caleb and
take his money.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
Out of the bank.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Tell that's about what he's said. I don't know, Kitty.
I've done everything I got to think of.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
Now. The worst of it is, everybody in town is
just as scared of Caleb as mister Bodkin is. I
doubt if they'll even have the nerve to bit against him.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
At the sale. I know they've probably got the place.
That's not much more than the amount of the mortgage.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Or one hundred and twenty dollars. Matt, I've seen more
than that changed hands across the poker table in one deal,
and to think that's all it takes, Rickitty, Oh you're
jacket jack Ball.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
I'm not usually one to eaves drop on people, but
I have been listening to you too. The reason I
butted in, miss Kitty, I heard you talking about these
people losing their home. I don't know if the cellar blake,
he's never done any business over my block gag table
and probably never will.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
No, I don't think he's ever been in here, and.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
I don't know if this will make sense, But the
thing is, I left home when I was ten years old,
and I've been drissing ever since. When I see somebody
like this blake that sticks it out and works and
fights and then gets a law ideals, well, when I'm
getting that there's fifty dollars if that will help money, well,
(15:52):
this is pretty decent of you, Jack sang sure.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
Matt. I said a while ago that nearly everyone in
town was afraid of Caleb.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Well, it looks like there's.
Speaker 5 (16:05):
Some more aunts like Jack and the other dealers, and
the girls and the bartenders. Man, I can raise four
hundred and twenty dollars right here in the long branch.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
I think maybe you're cut kidding.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
You can do as well as Jack too, has fifty
from me. Boy, everybody listen to me for a minute.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
A quiet down, Shut up, quiet down. I got something
to say.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Alie is sure taking his time getting here at Chester.
I told him what you said, m Dylan, how to
bring him to the office on a run if anything
will anytime Caleb figures he's about to lose a dollar
or two, it's hitting him where it hurts. Blake's turned
in for the night, have you, I guess? So it's
quiet Marshall. What's it all about? Shut the door, kill
(17:07):
it now? Would you mind telling me why I've been
called here at this time of night? Sure here, it's
four hundred and twenty dollars. Blake's want to pay off
that mortgage? Oh? Oh they do, do they? It court
costs up and I'll probably run about ten dollars. I'll
pay that myself. That's mighty generous of you. Good night, Marshall.
(17:31):
It's a deal. Then, I'm not the least bit interested
in having that mortgage paid off. Marshall Dyllan. The Blake
farm is worth about two thousand dollars now. In five
years it'll be worth three times that much. Land's going
up in Ford County. So I don't want the money.
I want the farm. When it's put up for sale,
I'll get it at my own price at foreclosure. Still go,
(17:52):
I see, Oh, good night, gentlemen. Well, I guess I'm said.
I don't know why I ever thought he'd take on money.
The Blake's won't get ascent out of the sale. He'll
scare everybody off and bit it in a few dollars
over the amount of the mortgage, and nobody in town
will even try to even try to tried what mister
(18:19):
jes Chester. I'm going over and wake up mister Buck
and I got an idea, and if it works, we'll
hold that sale at noon tomorrow. We'll that's pretty short
notice to find auctioneer. I don't need an auctioneer at
Chester this one. I'm gonna run myself, alright, alright, all
(18:53):
of you know what we're here for him. This is
a far clasher sale of the property and the household
effects of Edward and Martha Blake ordered by the court
at the request of that fine spirited, good hearted public
benefactor Caleb Andrews. All right, all right, get on with it,
get on with the sale, all right now. The first
(19:14):
item I'm offering is a breadboard. Marshall Dylan, I suggest
you lump the household effects together and offer them as
one bulk item. I'm sorry, Caleb, I'd rather offer them
one at a time, unless, of course, you'd care to
wave all claim to the household effects and withdraw them
from the order of foreclosure. I waive the claim. The
(19:34):
household goods are withdrawn. I'll get onto the house and
land so ordered. The item offered two hundred and sixty
acres of tullable land, a forearm house ala barn. I
won't read through this description. You all know the property.
(19:54):
It's a good farm. The amount of the mortgage is
four hundred and twenty dollars by Caleb Andrews. All right,
the bidding's open. What am I offered four hundred and
fifty dollars? I have four hundred and fifty dollars from
Caleb Andrews. Do I hear another bid?
Speaker 5 (20:11):
Now?
Speaker 1 (20:11):
The farm's worth two thousand you're gonna let him have
it for four fifty. How about another bidder, mister Dylon, Yes,
what is it? Chester? I have been thinking some lately
of getting me a little place like this and settling down.
I'll get one thousand dollars. I have one thousand dollars
from Chester, Proudfoot? Do I hear another bid? Why? It's
(20:32):
a trick? He doesn't want this play one thousand dollars
going twelve hundred, Caleb Andrews, BID's twelve hundred? What do
you say, Chester? Well?
Speaker 5 (20:42):
I think I kindly like this farm fifteen hundred.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
A bid is fifteen hundred dollars going once going fifteen hundred,
sixteen hundred from mister Andrews. Mister Proudfoot, eight thousand, four
hundred and twenty dollars, I had that much money in
your whole line. Oh, I hear another bed? What do
you say, Caleb? Did you think I'm a fool? Blawing? What? Spawing? White?
(21:09):
So so test their brod foot for eight thousand, four
hundred and twenty dollars. The buyer will come forward and
complete the sale. Well, now you worn than the trend, dude,
I got it right here. I'll see the eight thousand,
five hundred dollar bills, and here's the four hundred and
(21:30):
twenty Where did you ever get that much in cash? Well,
I saved my pay, mister Andrews. And then, of course
I only drink mostly beer, and he did that. That's
the while, ok, Caleb, I guess four hundred and twenty
dollars of this is yours. That takes care of the mortgage. Oh,
that looks like you made a pretty fair propit on
(21:50):
the place, a lot better than I expect you, Matt.
But I still rather have the farm than the month.
Well ed, I have been sort of thinking it over.
Maybe I kindly lost my head when you come right
down to it. I don't know what I would do
with a farm. So if you'd like to buy it,
I'll take a four hundred and twenty dollars loss and
(22:13):
sell it back to you for eight thousand cabs. That's done,
and here's the money.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
Is unheard of?
Speaker 1 (22:18):
They can't do it, Marshall. Well, as far as I know,
there's no law against a man selling his own property.
And now the way I see it, Miss Andrews, is
right this minute, you're a trespasser on my property. So
come on. Now, let's gore about this league me.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
You better get that eight.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Thousand dollars back to the bank. Mister Buckan's probably worrying
himself into a breakdown, for somebody will find out he
let us have it, he is, all right, mister Dylon,
I'll let I'll see.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
In town later, all right, Matt, Matt, I don't know
how we can ever thank you for what you've done.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Not me, Martha. Thank a bunch of the work of
the Long Branch. And they're bums and drifters. Sudden when
Kitty told him the story, they really came true.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
We'll pay it back, Matt, every cent of it. And
that girl, Kitty, I guess I've said some hard things
about her in the past, But Matt, will you ask
her to come out to dinner some afternoon. I'd like
to thank her myself.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Sure, I'll ask her, Mirgaer. I think she'd appreciate that
even more than you know. Gun Smoke, Produced and directed
(23:49):
in Hollywood by Norman McDonald, stars William Conrad as Matt
Dylan Us Marshall. The story especially written for Gun Smoke
by Less Crutchfield with editorial supervision by John's featured in
The cast were Gene Bates, Joseph Kerns, Dick Beals, Jack Moyles,
Laurencetopkin and James Mussar. Marley Bear is Chester, Howard mcneher
(24:10):
is doc. And Georgia Ellis is kidding
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