August 26, 2025 • 23 mins
Have Gun Will Travel was a popular western radio drama series that ran from 1958 to 1960. It debuted as a television series in 1957 and was one of only a few American television programs that paved the way for a radio version. Although the radio show initially featured stories adapted from television, many of the 106 radio episodes were original stories. The stories follow the adventures of Paladin, played by John Dehner.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
It's always good to meet up with an old friend.
But I didn't know when we renewed this friendship that
it would lead to your destruction. Have gone, We'll travel,
(00:35):
starring mister John Dayner as Paladin, San Francisco, eighteen seventy five,
The Carlton Hotel, headquarters of a man called Paladin. Come in,
(00:59):
Hey boy, Oh.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
It is not heyful, I thought.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Oh, miss Wong, we'll come on in. I thought it was,
hey boy. He was going to pick up my laundry
in Londed. Oh thank you, hey boy.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Very busy making reservation on stagecoat for you. He say,
tell you stay cleaned in one hour, and that carriage
we'll be waiting in front court in a few minutes.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
And I better hurry. But would you mind unwrapping those
bundles for me this one? Oh yeah, thank you?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (01:27):
I no sooner get back to San Francisco and I
have to turn around and go out again.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Where you got it?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Now?
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Well, miss Wong, I am going to a place called
Diamond Springs at east of Sacramento.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
One never hear of it before, Big eastre for you
to serve there.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Far as I know, only the mystery of a bank robbery.
One man got away with twenty thousand dollars and the
bank president has hired me to find him.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Twenty thousand dollars awful lot of big money.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Yes it is miss Wong.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
He's a valid. Yes one nice hearing your God most
of time?
Speaker 1 (02:02):
What's that?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Not much workfull? Be thronged to do a new room
when you're not here to MASSI.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Itize, well, I'm glad that you're happy I'm leaving. Constipation
is something people don't talk about much, but it can
be a problem for anyone, even doctors. And when constipation occurs,
it's interesting to see just what doctors consider important about
(02:31):
a laxative they might use or recommend. Well. A majority
of the doctors we heard from had this to say.
A laxative should be effective, gentle, as close to natural
acting as possible, and the medicine that can be used
with complete confidence. Now xlax has been popular with many
doctors and millions of people over the years because pleasant
(02:52):
tasting chocolate that x lax is effective overnight, it helps
you toward your normal regularity. X lax is gentle. Next morning,
it gives you the closest thing to natural action. And
that's why many doctors and millions of people use x
lax with complete confidence. XLAX, the laxative that helps you
toward your normal regularity gently overnight, is x lax in
(03:16):
your medicine cabinet. Traveling on a stage coach can be
a lonely, tiring experience unless you're fortunate enough to have
someone interesting to talk to. And at the beginning of
this trip I thought I was fortunate. Accompanying me was
(03:36):
a man I had known in the army during the war.
He had been a supply sergeant in my company in Illinois.
I hadn't seen him for ten years. His name was
wake Lockton. After many miles filled with chatter of old times,
I remember that I had not been particularly fond of
this man. If I'd known you'd lived in San Francisco,
I had to let you have paladin. I get in
(03:57):
there about three times a year. Yeah, what kind of
work you do with I'm a whiskey drummer. I cover
all the Sacramento Amador in Eldorada County. Huh, And I
can tell you it ain't much fun being on the
road all the time. No, no, no, it isn't. How
far are you going Diamond Springs? Well, I'll be dog
gone so am I. That's my home. Oh yeah, how
long you be there, Budge? All depends. You're welcome to
(04:19):
bunk down at my house. No need to stay at
that lousy hotel in town. Lydia can fix up a
cot for you in the front room. Lydia my wife.
Oh is that the girl who used to write to
all the time. Yeah, yeah, that's right. Yeah. We've been
married a little over year now, that's yeah. Congratulations. Oh
you thought I'd never make it. Uh. It was a struggle,
all right. I beg her for five years to come
(04:39):
out and marry me, but her family wouldn't let her come.
But you know something, Paladin, she loved me so much
she just up and left them and came out here
all by herself. Well it must be quite a girl.
Oh she is the prettiest little thing you'll ever see. Huh.
You hire out your gun to somebody in Diamond Springs?
That's right? Who mister Baul, the man who owns a bank. Yes,
that's right, Hey, I bety HRW. You'd look into that
(05:01):
robbery he had a couple of weeks ago. By that
band of fellow. What's his name? Hallick? Hey, yeah, Grant Halleck. Well,
I'll be Doug gone. You know who can tell you
more about that hold up than anybody else in town? No? Who?
My Lydia? Well, how's that? Oh? She was an eyewitness
to the whole thing. She was in the bank when
it happened. At Halleck. Fella grabbed her and used her
as a shield to get away, forced her on his
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horse with him holding the gun to her back. I
was on the trip at the time what happened. Rode
out of town. Weather kept her in the mountains overnight,
and then let her lose sheriff and his men found
her the next morning walking back towards You know, there
wasn't a scratch on her. She said. He was real
kind to her, just just using her to cover up
while he got away. Can you imagine that happening to
my Lydia. I'll be anxious to talk to your wife.
Any information she has will help you track him down.
(05:44):
It's a blessing. I was out of town when it happened.
It was all over when I learned about it, saved
me all that agony. Here we are going in Pelladin,
meet he's the prettiest little girl you ever saw. All right, way,
let him must be in the kitchen.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Come on, that is I wasn't expecting you today.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Well, I didn't have time to let you know, honey.
How's my little princess?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Oh? Put me down?
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Wait, ain't she full of spark? Though?
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Power put me down?
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Honey. I want you to meet an old friend of mine,
mister Paladin, my wife Lydia. How do you Dockton. He's
going to be in town for a few days, and
I asked him to stay with us, but he checked
into the hotel instead.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
You don't have to put your arm round me in
front of guests.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Wait the proper one though.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
It's a pleasure to have you in our home, mister Paladin.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
I've asked him to have supper with his Honey. You
can fix up some of those fancy vittals so as
I can show him what I wonderful little cook I've got.
Oh no, no, don't go to any trouble for me.
Missus Lockton.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
We delighted to have you. Wait, you'll have to get
some park out of the smokehouse.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
I wasn't expecting you home today.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Well, sure, honey, I'll only be a few minutes, Paladin.
You just make yourself coming. Oh he wants to talk
to you about the bank hold off, uddy, You tell
him all about it.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Why are you you interested in missus bank robbery?
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Mister Baldwin has hired me to find Grant Halleck and
the money.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Mister Baldwin hired.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Yes, I have an appointment to see him tomorrow morning
for if he he's hoping that I may succeed where
the sheriff failed.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Oh, I see.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Well, Wake was telling me that you had a bad
experience in connection with.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
The hold of Wake talks an awful lot.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Now, I was hoping that you might be able to
give me some details about Haleck's appearance or habits that
would be helpful to me.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
You don't mind, I'd rather not talk about it.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Oh well, perhaps later.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Mister Paladin.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
I don't wish to discuss it, not ever. I smoking
more now, but enjoying and left. I'm a real thinker
at all. Make the very best pop have a real cigarette,
(08:01):
have a camel. How are you looking for? Flavor and miness?
Have a real cigarette, have a camel.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
The fact to make the very best.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Pons, have a real cigarette, a real cigarettor a real cincaret.
Have came on again. For the eleventh straight year, Camel
outsold every other cigarette filter, King's Eye and regular. The
best tobacco makes the best smoke. So if you're smoking
more now but enjoying it less, change the Camels get
(08:33):
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Have a real cigarette, a real cigarettor a real cincaret.
Have Camel. My short visit to the Lockton home was
(08:54):
clouded by Wake's usual generous warmth and the cold, formal
behavior of his wife, Lydia. On the way back to
the hotel. I couldn't help but wonder why she refused
to discuss the robbery. But then I realized it must
have been a painful experience. The next morning, I had
breakfast at the hotel and then walked toward the bank
to keep my appointment with mister Baldwin. Helen Helendin. Hold up, Wake, Helen,
(09:19):
I got to talk to you right away. What's the matter.
It's Lydia. She's gone gone left me. When this morning
I woke up and she wasn't there. She left me
a note saying she was leaving on the early state.
Where was she going back east to Boston? Why'd you
do that? I don't rightly know. What didn't she say? Well,
there was something in the note about things not working
out the way she thought they would. But I don't
(09:40):
understand that she's been happy as a bird. You saw
that for yourself last night? Oh? Yes, yes, did you
check the stage office? Well, no, I wouldn't do that.
Why not. I wouldn't want anybody to think I didn't
know she was leaving. Made me look like a fool. Well,
don't you know they'll find out sooner or later anyway,
not if I can stop her and bring her back.
How do you figure i'm doing that? Well, I thought
(10:02):
you might be able to help me. How we could
ride up to Placerville and meet the stage there. I
can talk her into coming back. Stage has been gone
two hours, I know that, but it always stops there
for an hour. So if we rode hard with mate, No,
this is something you can do alone. I can't see
that I would be any help just by riding up
there with you. This is a private matter between you
(10:22):
and your wife. If I didn't need you, I wouldn't
ask you. I'm not much for a barren down on
a horse, especially alone on a trail. We're old friends, Paladin, remember,
and I'm asking you to help me. Well, all right, wake,
I guess my business with mister Baldwin. Can wait. Let's go.
(10:47):
I told you we could make it. We're there. Stage,
it's still here. They're behind the schedule. We didn't make
up that much time. Well, Well, that i'm here, I
don't know for sure what I'm going to say to her.
You'll think of something. Come on, I don't see her.
(11:16):
Maybe the clerk knows where he is. I'll ask him.
I'll wait him at this man will no? Uh? You
the driver? That's right, But we're looking for the woman
who was on your stage or one to get on
a Diamond Spring. Yes, you from the Sheriff's office here
in Placerville. No, why, Well, I was just wondering. I
knew it was out of his territory. We wired the
(11:36):
sheriff of Diamond Springs so he can take care of it.
Take care of what? Didn't you hear? Hear? What? Hey? No,
wait a minute, why you fellas so interested? Anyway, she's
my wife. We rode in the meter. Oh what happened
on thisester, she was kidnapped. Kidnapped right off the stage.
We're about ten miles out of Diamond Springs when it happened.
(11:57):
This fellow rode out in front of the stage carrying
a shot and signaled me to stop. I thought he
was gonna rob us, but all he did was yelled
the lady inside to step out. She did, and then
he told me to go on. What did he look like?
I couldn't tell much. I had a band dan over
his face. Tall, lanky fellow, though, deep voice. That's about
all I noticed. Who'd want to do that to my lady?
(12:20):
I don't know. I could have been Grant Hallick Hallick,
but why I might find out. If we could pick
up this trail, I can tell you right where it happened.
How about a wake? You ready to start back? Sure,
all right, Go take our horses over to the livery
stable and rent some fresh ones. I'll meet you there
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The stage driver's directions made it easy for us to
find the spot where the kidnapping occurred. Lydia's heel prince
(13:51):
in the soft ground led to the side of the
road and disappeared in a maze of hoof tracks. It
obviously mounted the horse with Grant Halleck or whoever her
abductor was. At this point, I couldn't be sure, nor
could I imagine the reason why Wake and I followed
the tracks into the mountains to the east. We rode
for hours. Do you think we would run into the
(14:11):
sheriff by now? Yeah? If he is out looking for her. Yeah,
it was like the time when how I robbed the bank.
It'll take him till themar to get some men together.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Li.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
He hadn't left me this morning, we wouldn't be in
all this trouble. I don't understand why she had to
cause me all this agony? Aren't you worried about your wife? Wake?
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (14:31):
I am? What made you ask that? I don't know who? Boy? Who? See?
This is where the trail ends. Which way do you
think they went? Either straight ahead or to the right
end of that thicket? It isn't likely they'd go up
into the rocks to the left. Which way you want
to look first? The thicket? Come on? Who, you better
(15:01):
get down scout for tracks. You go down there and
I'll look up this way. All right? Hey, hey, Wake,
(15:21):
you find something? Yeah? Right there, so we better walk
follow me. Well, look at that, I'd ever guess there'd
be a clearing back here with a shack sitting right
(15:42):
in the middle. This may be where they are. It
looks empty to me. There's no smoke coming out of
the chimney. If anybody was there, didn't surely have a fire. No,
none of it was high like. He wouldn't want to
attract at tension with smoke. And hear that there was
a whore came from the other side of the shack.
Somebody is in there? What do we do? I didn't
(16:05):
better wait with dark and then ease up and take
a look in the side. If Lydia's in there with
how like, we gotta be careful she doesn't get hurt.
Let's see. That must be how like fits the descriptions
driver gave us. Yeah, he's going out back to see
about the horse. You stay here? Where are you going
(16:26):
to stay here? Oh? All right, hall stand with a wire.
(16:48):
You are right, missus Lockton. You shot him, Yes, ma'am,
he's dead.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Dead.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Lydia. You are right, they're not. Don't fret, Lyddy, you're
safe now. No need to cry and saw your pretty
little face.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Will you get your hands away from me Ldia?
Speaker 1 (17:08):
What are you acting like this? Let her be Wake,
she's had a bad shock. Give her time to collect herself. Yeah,
you'll be all right lydy, as soon as we get
back to our little home. Get some rest and forget
about this terrible experience.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
I'm not going back with you.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Wake.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Why I left Diamond Springs this morning for good and
I'm never going back.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Why are you saying that, Lydia You wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Understand if I explained it to him. Oh, there's no
use talking about it.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
We're sure I would.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Honey, I tried to tell you many times, wait, but
you never listened. Would you understand if I told you
I was tired of being put on a pedestal carted
around the streets of Diamond Spring Will you pointing your
finger up at me and saying, look, there's my pretty
little wife. Ain't I something to have her old of myself?
Ain't I the luckiest man you ever seen?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
No?
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Wait, no, you never stopped to think that I was
a human being, that I was a woman. But I
found out what it means to be a woman. And
I fell in love with Grant. Halleck ya, what are
you saying?
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (18:04):
I sell in love with Grant The first time he
carried me away. He told me I had to go
back before the sheriff found him. Told me to wait
until we could plan something so we could leave this
country together. When you were away in your last trip,
he came to the house late one night told me
his plans. He didn't kidnap me today. That was what
we'd planned to do. We were going to hide here
(18:25):
for a week and then go up north to Oregon.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
And take the banks twenty thousand dollars with you.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
I didn't care about that, but you knew he had it.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
It didn't matter.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Where is the.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Money in the cabin somewhere?
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I guess I can't believe you do this to me, Lydia, Wake, Wake,
Why don't you get our horses? All right?
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Sure, he'll never understand.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
I'm afraid you're right.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
What am I going to do now, mister Paladin?
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Well, first you're going back the Diamond Springs. The sheriff
who want to know what's happened after that? Well, I
I'm sure you can decide what's best for yourself.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
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Hey boy, didn't know you're coming home today? And what
(20:35):
are you doing? All dressed up in your Sunday suit?
Work all done for today, So change of clothes here
for a big party tonight in Chinatown. It's losing. When
I see you come in hotel, well, I must say,
you look like you just stepped out of the pages
of Harper's Weekly. Hi, he's a hey boy, flinny smart dresser.
He ah, you have nice to it. It was all right.
(20:55):
You capture bank robber. Uh huh return money to bank. Yes, Oh,
you get big seat. Then bank president plenty happy he
hired you. He seemed to be. Then he was a
little puzzle. Puzzle what I finished the job before I
had a chance to meet him. Oh, you finished your
for How you do that? There's a long story. Hey, well,
i'll explain it to you tomorrow. You better go. You
(21:16):
don't want to be late to that party. Oh no,
thought there'd be plenty champaign, a lot of pretty gold. Well,
if I don't see you tomorrow, i'll know the reason why.
Oh you saw good night, Hey boy, good night himself
followed him.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
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Speaker 1 (21:40):
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Speaker 1 (22:46):
Have Gun Will Travel, Created by Herb Meadow and Sam Row,
is produced and directed in Hollywood by Frank Parris and
stars John Dayner as Paladin, with Ben Right as hey Boy,
and Virginia greg Ms Wong. Tonight's story was specially written
for Have Gun Will Travel by mister Parris, featured in
the cast for Harry Bartel, Clayton Post and Betty Harper.
(23:08):
This is Hugh Douglas inviting you to join us again
next week when CBS Radio presents Have Gun Will Travel
It's always good to meet up with an old friend.
But I didn't know when we renewed this friendship that
it would lead to your destruction. Have gone, We'll travel,
(00:35):
starring mister John Dayner as Paladin, San Francisco, eighteen seventy five,
The Carlton Hotel, headquarters of a man called Paladin. Come in,
(00:59):
Hey boy, Oh.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
It is not heyful, I thought.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Oh, miss Wong, we'll come on in. I thought it was,
hey boy. He was going to pick up my laundry
in Londed. Oh thank you, hey boy.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Very busy making reservation on stagecoat for you. He say,
tell you stay cleaned in one hour, and that carriage
we'll be waiting in front court in a few minutes.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
And I better hurry. But would you mind unwrapping those
bundles for me this one? Oh yeah, thank you?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (01:27):
I no sooner get back to San Francisco and I
have to turn around and go out again.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Where you got it?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Now?
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Well, miss Wong, I am going to a place called
Diamond Springs at east of Sacramento.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
One never hear of it before, Big eastre for you
to serve there.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Far as I know, only the mystery of a bank robbery.
One man got away with twenty thousand dollars and the
bank president has hired me to find him.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Twenty thousand dollars awful lot of big money.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Yes it is miss Wong.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
He's a valid. Yes one nice hearing your God most
of time?
Speaker 1 (02:02):
What's that?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Not much workfull? Be thronged to do a new room
when you're not here to MASSI.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Itize, well, I'm glad that you're happy I'm leaving. Constipation
is something people don't talk about much, but it can
be a problem for anyone, even doctors. And when constipation occurs,
it's interesting to see just what doctors consider important about
(02:31):
a laxative they might use or recommend. Well. A majority
of the doctors we heard from had this to say.
A laxative should be effective, gentle, as close to natural
acting as possible, and the medicine that can be used
with complete confidence. Now xlax has been popular with many
doctors and millions of people over the years because pleasant
(02:52):
tasting chocolate that x lax is effective overnight, it helps
you toward your normal regularity. X lax is gentle. Next morning,
it gives you the closest thing to natural action. And
that's why many doctors and millions of people use x
lax with complete confidence. XLAX, the laxative that helps you
toward your normal regularity gently overnight, is x lax in
(03:16):
your medicine cabinet. Traveling on a stage coach can be
a lonely, tiring experience unless you're fortunate enough to have
someone interesting to talk to. And at the beginning of
this trip I thought I was fortunate. Accompanying me was
(03:36):
a man I had known in the army during the war.
He had been a supply sergeant in my company in Illinois.
I hadn't seen him for ten years. His name was
wake Lockton. After many miles filled with chatter of old times,
I remember that I had not been particularly fond of
this man. If I'd known you'd lived in San Francisco,
I had to let you have paladin. I get in
(03:57):
there about three times a year. Yeah, what kind of
work you do with I'm a whiskey drummer. I cover
all the Sacramento Amador in Eldorada County. Huh, And I
can tell you it ain't much fun being on the
road all the time. No, no, no, it isn't. How
far are you going Diamond Springs? Well, I'll be dog
gone so am I. That's my home. Oh yeah, how
long you be there, Budge? All depends. You're welcome to
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bunk down at my house. No need to stay at
that lousy hotel in town. Lydia can fix up a
cot for you in the front room. Lydia my wife.
Oh is that the girl who used to write to
all the time. Yeah, yeah, that's right. Yeah. We've been
married a little over year now, that's yeah. Congratulations. Oh
you thought I'd never make it. Uh. It was a struggle,
all right. I beg her for five years to come
(04:39):
out and marry me, but her family wouldn't let her come.
But you know something, Paladin, she loved me so much
she just up and left them and came out here
all by herself. Well it must be quite a girl.
Oh she is the prettiest little thing you'll ever see. Huh.
You hire out your gun to somebody in Diamond Springs?
That's right? Who mister Baul, the man who owns a bank. Yes,
that's right, Hey, I bety HRW. You'd look into that
(05:01):
robbery he had a couple of weeks ago. By that
band of fellow. What's his name? Hallick? Hey, yeah, Grant Halleck. Well,
I'll be Doug gone. You know who can tell you
more about that hold up than anybody else in town? No? Who?
My Lydia? Well, how's that? Oh? She was an eyewitness
to the whole thing. She was in the bank when
it happened. At Halleck. Fella grabbed her and used her
as a shield to get away, forced her on his
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horse with him holding the gun to her back. I
was on the trip at the time what happened. Rode
out of town. Weather kept her in the mountains overnight,
and then let her lose sheriff and his men found
her the next morning walking back towards You know, there
wasn't a scratch on her. She said. He was real
kind to her, just just using her to cover up
while he got away. Can you imagine that happening to
my Lydia. I'll be anxious to talk to your wife.
Any information she has will help you track him down.
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It's a blessing. I was out of town when it happened.
It was all over when I learned about it, saved
me all that agony. Here we are going in Pelladin,
meet he's the prettiest little girl you ever saw. All right, way,
let him must be in the kitchen.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Come on, that is I wasn't expecting you today.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Well, I didn't have time to let you know, honey.
How's my little princess?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Oh? Put me down?
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Wait, ain't she full of spark? Though?
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Power put me down?
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Honey. I want you to meet an old friend of mine,
mister Paladin, my wife Lydia. How do you Dockton. He's
going to be in town for a few days, and
I asked him to stay with us, but he checked
into the hotel instead.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
You don't have to put your arm round me in
front of guests.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Wait the proper one though.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
It's a pleasure to have you in our home, mister Paladin.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
I've asked him to have supper with his Honey. You
can fix up some of those fancy vittals so as
I can show him what I wonderful little cook I've got.
Oh no, no, don't go to any trouble for me.
Missus Lockton.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
We delighted to have you. Wait, you'll have to get
some park out of the smokehouse.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
I wasn't expecting you home today.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Well, sure, honey, I'll only be a few minutes, Paladin.
You just make yourself coming. Oh he wants to talk
to you about the bank hold off, uddy, You tell
him all about it.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Why are you you interested in missus bank robbery?
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Mister Baldwin has hired me to find Grant Halleck and
the money.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Mister Baldwin hired.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Yes, I have an appointment to see him tomorrow morning
for if he he's hoping that I may succeed where
the sheriff failed.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Oh, I see.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Well, Wake was telling me that you had a bad
experience in connection with.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
The hold of Wake talks an awful lot.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Now, I was hoping that you might be able to
give me some details about Haleck's appearance or habits that
would be helpful to me.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
You don't mind, I'd rather not talk about it.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Oh well, perhaps later.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Mister Paladin.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
I don't wish to discuss it, not ever. I smoking
more now, but enjoying and left. I'm a real thinker
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Speaker 2 (08:10):
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clouded by Wake's usual generous warmth and the cold, formal
behavior of his wife, Lydia. On the way back to
the hotel. I couldn't help but wonder why she refused
to discuss the robbery. But then I realized it must
have been a painful experience. The next morning, I had
breakfast at the hotel and then walked toward the bank
to keep my appointment with mister Baldwin. Helen Helendin. Hold up, Wake, Helen,
(09:19):
I got to talk to you right away. What's the matter.
It's Lydia. She's gone gone left me. When this morning
I woke up and she wasn't there. She left me
a note saying she was leaving on the early state.
Where was she going back east to Boston? Why'd you
do that? I don't rightly know. What didn't she say? Well,
there was something in the note about things not working
out the way she thought they would. But I don't
(09:40):
understand that she's been happy as a bird. You saw
that for yourself last night? Oh? Yes, yes, did you
check the stage office? Well, no, I wouldn't do that.
Why not. I wouldn't want anybody to think I didn't
know she was leaving. Made me look like a fool. Well,
don't you know they'll find out sooner or later anyway,
not if I can stop her and bring her back.
How do you figure i'm doing that? Well, I thought
(10:02):
you might be able to help me. How we could
ride up to Placerville and meet the stage there. I
can talk her into coming back. Stage has been gone
two hours, I know that, but it always stops there
for an hour. So if we rode hard with mate, No,
this is something you can do alone. I can't see
that I would be any help just by riding up
there with you. This is a private matter between you
(10:22):
and your wife. If I didn't need you, I wouldn't
ask you. I'm not much for a barren down on
a horse, especially alone on a trail. We're old friends, Paladin, remember,
and I'm asking you to help me. Well, all right, wake,
I guess my business with mister Baldwin. Can wait. Let's go.
(10:47):
I told you we could make it. We're there. Stage,
it's still here. They're behind the schedule. We didn't make
up that much time. Well, Well, that i'm here, I
don't know for sure what I'm going to say to her.
You'll think of something. Come on, I don't see her.
(11:16):
Maybe the clerk knows where he is. I'll ask him.
I'll wait him at this man will no? Uh? You
the driver? That's right, But we're looking for the woman
who was on your stage or one to get on
a Diamond Spring. Yes, you from the Sheriff's office here
in Placerville. No, why, Well, I was just wondering. I
knew it was out of his territory. We wired the
(11:36):
sheriff of Diamond Springs so he can take care of it.
Take care of what? Didn't you hear? Hear? What? Hey? No,
wait a minute, why you fellas so interested? Anyway, she's
my wife. We rode in the meter. Oh what happened
on thisester, she was kidnapped. Kidnapped right off the stage.
We're about ten miles out of Diamond Springs when it happened.
(11:57):
This fellow rode out in front of the stage carrying
a shot and signaled me to stop. I thought he
was gonna rob us, but all he did was yelled
the lady inside to step out. She did, and then
he told me to go on. What did he look like?
I couldn't tell much. I had a band dan over
his face. Tall, lanky fellow, though, deep voice. That's about
all I noticed. Who'd want to do that to my lady?
(12:20):
I don't know. I could have been Grant Hallick Hallick,
but why I might find out. If we could pick
up this trail, I can tell you right where it happened.
How about a wake? You ready to start back? Sure,
all right, Go take our horses over to the livery
stable and rent some fresh ones. I'll meet you there
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The stage driver's directions made it easy for us to
find the spot where the kidnapping occurred. Lydia's heel prince
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in the soft ground led to the side of the
road and disappeared in a maze of hoof tracks. It
obviously mounted the horse with Grant Halleck or whoever her
abductor was. At this point, I couldn't be sure, nor
could I imagine the reason why Wake and I followed
the tracks into the mountains to the east. We rode
for hours. Do you think we would run into the
(14:11):
sheriff by now? Yeah? If he is out looking for her. Yeah,
it was like the time when how I robbed the bank.
It'll take him till themar to get some men together.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Li.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
He hadn't left me this morning, we wouldn't be in
all this trouble. I don't understand why she had to
cause me all this agony? Aren't you worried about your wife? Wake?
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (14:31):
I am? What made you ask that? I don't know who? Boy? Who? See?
This is where the trail ends. Which way do you
think they went? Either straight ahead or to the right
end of that thicket? It isn't likely they'd go up
into the rocks to the left. Which way you want
to look first? The thicket? Come on? Who, you better
(15:01):
get down scout for tracks. You go down there and
I'll look up this way. All right? Hey, hey, Wake,
(15:21):
you find something? Yeah? Right there, so we better walk
follow me. Well, look at that, I'd ever guess there'd
be a clearing back here with a shack sitting right
(15:42):
in the middle. This may be where they are. It
looks empty to me. There's no smoke coming out of
the chimney. If anybody was there, didn't surely have a fire. No,
none of it was high like. He wouldn't want to
attract at tension with smoke. And hear that there was
a whore came from the other side of the shack.
Somebody is in there? What do we do? I didn't
(16:05):
better wait with dark and then ease up and take
a look in the side. If Lydia's in there with
how like, we gotta be careful she doesn't get hurt.
Let's see. That must be how like fits the descriptions
driver gave us. Yeah, he's going out back to see
about the horse. You stay here? Where are you going
(16:26):
to stay here? Oh? All right, hall stand with a wire.
(16:48):
You are right, missus Lockton. You shot him, Yes, ma'am,
he's dead.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Dead.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Lydia. You are right, they're not. Don't fret, Lyddy, you're
safe now. No need to cry and saw your pretty
little face.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Will you get your hands away from me Ldia?
Speaker 1 (17:08):
What are you acting like this? Let her be Wake,
she's had a bad shock. Give her time to collect herself. Yeah,
you'll be all right lydy, as soon as we get
back to our little home. Get some rest and forget
about this terrible experience.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
I'm not going back with you.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Wake.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Why I left Diamond Springs this morning for good and
I'm never going back.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Why are you saying that, Lydia You wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Understand if I explained it to him. Oh, there's no
use talking about it.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
We're sure I would.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Honey, I tried to tell you many times, wait, but
you never listened. Would you understand if I told you
I was tired of being put on a pedestal carted
around the streets of Diamond Spring Will you pointing your
finger up at me and saying, look, there's my pretty
little wife. Ain't I something to have her old of myself?
Ain't I the luckiest man you ever seen?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
No?
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Wait, no, you never stopped to think that I was
a human being, that I was a woman. But I
found out what it means to be a woman. And
I fell in love with Grant. Halleck ya, what are
you saying?
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (18:04):
I sell in love with Grant The first time he
carried me away. He told me I had to go
back before the sheriff found him. Told me to wait
until we could plan something so we could leave this
country together. When you were away in your last trip,
he came to the house late one night told me
his plans. He didn't kidnap me today. That was what
we'd planned to do. We were going to hide here
(18:25):
for a week and then go up north to Oregon.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
And take the banks twenty thousand dollars with you.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
I didn't care about that, but you knew he had it.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
It didn't matter.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Where is the.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Money in the cabin somewhere?
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I guess I can't believe you do this to me, Lydia, Wake, Wake,
Why don't you get our horses? All right?
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Sure, he'll never understand.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
I'm afraid you're right.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
What am I going to do now, mister Paladin?
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Well, first you're going back the Diamond Springs. The sheriff
who want to know what's happened after that? Well, I
I'm sure you can decide what's best for yourself.
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are you doing? All dressed up in your Sunday suit?
Work all done for today, So change of clothes here
for a big party tonight in Chinatown. It's losing. When
I see you come in hotel, well, I must say,
you look like you just stepped out of the pages
of Harper's Weekly. Hi, he's a hey boy, flinny smart dresser.
He ah, you have nice to it. It was all right.
(20:55):
You capture bank robber. Uh huh return money to bank. Yes, Oh,
you get big seat. Then bank president plenty happy he
hired you. He seemed to be. Then he was a
little puzzle. Puzzle what I finished the job before I
had a chance to meet him. Oh, you finished your
for How you do that? There's a long story. Hey, well,
i'll explain it to you tomorrow. You better go. You
(21:16):
don't want to be late to that party. Oh no,
thought there'd be plenty champaign, a lot of pretty gold. Well,
if I don't see you tomorrow, i'll know the reason why.
Oh you saw good night, Hey boy, good night himself
followed him.
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is produced and directed in Hollywood by Frank Parris and
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