August 20, 2025 • 24 mins
Have Gun Will Travel was a popular western radio drama series that ran from 1958 to 1960. It debuted as a television series in 1957 and was one of only a few American television programs that paved the way for a radio version. Although the radio show initially featured stories adapted from television, many of the 106 radio episodes were original stories. The stories follow the adventures of Paladin, played by John Dehner.
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Speaker 1 (00:13):
I am not usually hired as a guide, Musupulad, but
since you are unfamiliar with our western frontier, this is
one trip I.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Wouldn't want to miss.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Have Gone, Will Travel, starring mister John Dayner as Paladin,
San Francisco, eighteen seventy five, The Carlton Hotel, headquarters of
a man called Paladin. Yes, good morning, miss Wong.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Con I com.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
By room many times.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
Not gonna do you not in?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
What did you want? Miss Wan?
Speaker 5 (01:12):
Oh not? He is warm, not want anything. It's him him,
him cool. It's man talks funny. He can look for
you one, two or three times. He wants to see
you very bad. He talks funny, not playing like you
and me. Oh you know right outside door?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Well then show him in.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
He is that you Connas the Paladin home?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Yes, yes, uh barmosieur Paladin. Permit me to make your
acquaintance with Jean Jacques.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
He talk funny.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Yeah, yeah, oh.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Yes, yes, miss Conna, have many yes, thank you, Miss Wang. So,
mister plan you're with the French Sacred Service. What can
I do for you?
Speaker 5 (02:07):
Paladin?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
I need help? What kind of help? I need?
Speaker 5 (02:10):
A guide?
Speaker 1 (02:11):
A guide? Well that's not exactly my line here. I
searched for a dangerous man. He has escaped from La
Fante prison in Paris, and I have searched, down, searched,
and now at last I know where he is, well
in your Sierra mountains.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Well, why don't you go get him? No, no, no, monsieur,
you do not understand.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
I am a city policeman Ferry, Marseilles, London, New York.
I trail my many these places and I am from
me that. But yeah, west mensuse mountains, the wild, animals, Indians.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
About these things, monsieuri. Or do you want a guide
or a bodyguard?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Perhaps both? My services aren't cheap, missip.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
No, I'm prepared to pay the understands these matters involved
expand very well, and I say, yea a thousand dollars
in advance. That is, as you say, not cheap, but
that very well. Now, how long will it take to
assemble the expedition? Expedition jose what we'll need pack animals,
(03:14):
I imagine, and Nati is there? We leave in the morning,
in the morning, yes, mister pull out at dawn, just
the two of us.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
About that, monsieur, I thought.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
She pull out?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
What does your name mean in English, pull loud kicking.
That's what I thought. See you in the morning.
Speaker 6 (03:39):
Are you smoking more now but enjoying it?
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Least?
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Have a real singer rat, Have a camel?
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Make the very best?
Speaker 4 (03:50):
I have a real singer rat.
Speaker 6 (03:52):
Have a camel.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
How are you looking for flavor and mildness?
Speaker 5 (03:57):
I have a real have a camel the very best.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
Have a real A realtor A.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Real came again.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
For the eleventh straight year.
Speaker 7 (04:14):
Camel outsold every other cigarette filter, King's Eyes and regular.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
The best tobacco makes the best smoke.
Speaker 7 (04:20):
So if you're smoking more now but enjoying it less
change The Camels get more real satisfaction every time. Start
to really enjoy smoking again.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
Have a real A realtor a real record came.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
As you pull out. Even here this man you're looking for,
it's his name Marius.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Who is he? This Marius? How many men is he murdered?
We are not presitive that he has ery, but we suspect.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
Him of many.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
And what has it done?
Speaker 1 (05:02):
He escaped from the Sante prison in Paris, and no
one escapes from but he did.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
And the promace he must be a return. It is
a matter of the honor of the ste seems like
a lot of trouble to go to.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Oh, you on earth must be upheld at all costs. Oh, yes,
I see, But what makes you so sure this Marriers
is up there in the Sierrakaladin? We French criminologists follow
their useful and profound principle. Ah, she fail up and
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find the woman, And I found her in Parry. She
had come home after making a small but adequate fortune
out here in your west, entertaining Monique. Can't see my man, Monique,
Monique Lafleur.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Did you know her very well?
Speaker 5 (05:58):
La la la la chamon.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Miss that charming? Yes, I guess that would cover it.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
It was a crazy kind of a job, but I
was never a man to argue with one thousand dollars,
particularly when it involved no apparent risks. So he spent
a pleasant afternoon riding along reminiscing about our mutual.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Friend Monique Lafleur.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
That night we stopped and Hanged Town, where I introduced
my employer to the dish for which the town is
so famous of.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
What do you call this.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
That's hanged town? Fry?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
You like it, oh, monsieur Palladin, I am tongue between
honesty and polite.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Name and monsieur by all means be honest.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
Yes, they say a jigutu.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
You don't like it though, Oh no, bah by her.
Speaker 8 (06:52):
Read a little one with a point of mustache. He
looks like a frenchyy. He talks like a French.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Go you frenchman, will.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
And who are you?
Speaker 4 (07:04):
They called me big Red and I'm here to tell
you Frenchies ain't welcome in Hangtown.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
And we're just passing through.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
I'm thinking you're gonna pass through real fast.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
I'm on a boy.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
We don't take kindly to have an eye.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Women's stolen.
Speaker 6 (07:19):
Last French he come through, he made off with my girlfriend.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
I've been laying for him ever since.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
But this is a different frenchman.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
Makes no difference.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
He's a Frenchman. Very well.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
If this is an example of Hangtown's hospitality, will be
on our way, I'll see.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
You, will skagg go heat up that kettle of tar
behind the liverty safe.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
And a couple more.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
You rip up some feather beds.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
You're gonna be on your way.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
French on a rail. Wait a minute.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
This frenchman who ran off with your girl, what was
his name?
Speaker 5 (07:52):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Everybody just called him French.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Well was it Marius money chance? Well yeah, come to
think of it, I did hear Lola call him that?
Marry his honeys?
Speaker 1 (08:01):
He said, Well, then we have no cost for argument.
My companion is from the French secret Service. He's on
his way to arrest this Marius. Yeah, he's got to
find him personally.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
He will good.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
When he does find him. He can show me his
tarn feathers.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yeah, well, I'm afraid we can't wait for the party,
big read.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
All right, Now stand.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Back, all of you with your hands in the air.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
You heard me, stand back all right?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
When she put down outside here, our horse is unhitched.
The rest of you stay where you are until we're
out of town. Now I'll shoot the first man comes.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Through this door.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
Here means your horse good.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Now, as you say in your country, let'spiciate a car.
Speaker 9 (09:06):
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Speaker 2 (10:04):
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Speaker 1 (10:12):
On a bright night, you can see your way by
the stars in the mother Lord country. We took advantage
of this ghostly illumination, but a number of prudent miles
between ourselves and the vengeful and unreasonable citizens of Hangtown.
At last we pulled up on the banks of a
little stream and made.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
A cold and cheerless camp. The next morning, the sun
was up.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
First, then quite a bit later I got up. The
little Frenchman will still curl up in a pitiful ball,
twitching from time to time with nightmares of tarn feathers.
I looked around and saw a bearded, red shirted miner
working his way up the stream and panning the river
sand for gold. Heh as you put out, come on,
time you get up, come one, Oh valadin sleep? Well,
(10:59):
Oh he's do not mention it. I don't think I
can ever move my arms and legs again.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
We have company. Oh, Harry, hello.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Say, we're a little uncertain of our whereabouts. Friend, could
you tell us where we are?
Speaker 5 (11:14):
Well?
Speaker 8 (11:15):
This here's what it used to be called South Fork,
but folks have gone calling it Frenchman's Creek. Downstream quite
a fair piece is civilization?
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Yeah, settlement called Hangtown. Oh, yes, we're acquainted with Hangtown.
But what's upstream?
Speaker 5 (11:30):
Nothing much?
Speaker 8 (11:31):
You abandoned gold camps, crioks, panned out more or less.
But I keep hoping I'll find something the others missed.
You said, folks have started calling the stream Frenchman's Creek.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
That's her epine.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Kind of crazy Frenchman lives up to the head of it. Frenchman.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
What is his name?
Speaker 2 (11:48):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
Everybody just calls him a Frenchman.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
What's crazy about him?
Speaker 8 (11:52):
Well, he's got a claim stake that bear a couple
of claims.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Only he don't do no mining that anyone can notice.
Speaker 8 (12:00):
Play so fenced in the big gate with furign. Words
on the sign, only two words in English. They say,
keep out.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
How fire is this place?
Speaker 8 (12:09):
Well, it's a pesky place to get to. They take
you the better part of a day following the stream.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
Of course, the stream winds a lot. You could go
over the mountain that.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
A way, Yeah, well how long would it take that away?
Speaker 8 (12:22):
Better part of the day?
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Then it's no shorter, Nope, but you don't get wet.
We went over the mountain, and it did take a
better part of the day. Towards sundown, we came back
once more to Frenchman's Creek, and there below us lay
a well built cavern surrounded by cleared land. We spurred
(12:44):
our tired horses toward it, and a few moments later
drew up before a rail gate on which hung the
imposing keep out signed. The miner had told us about.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
It, Mary that sign. He's guilty, conscience, he's haunting him.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Perhaps, why should we go in? Paladin?
Speaker 1 (13:02):
I am tired, and I am angry, and I am
afraid of these marios.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Came we go in. Come on, boy and move in.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
Sure with your hands in the air.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
I will relieve you of your weapons. Makes you call them.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
To the guard?
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (13:30):
Is it that you cannot read my sign? We rather
you made no effort to hide yourselves. I've watched your
approach since you started down the mountain.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
We have nothing to hide. For the pairs that you do.
Speaker 10 (13:40):
You are hiding your little deringer, Monsieur Paladine.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Give it to me, But how do you know me
your deringer? Please yere, messie.
Speaker 6 (13:52):
We have a mutual friend, Monsieur Paladine. Money left flow?
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Oh yes, money.
Speaker 6 (13:57):
She pointed you out to me once in San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
And she told you about the Darrence.
Speaker 10 (14:03):
He was in discreet of you, monsieur, and dangerous to
reveal to Earth the whereabouts of video engine.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Under the circumstances, there was nothing else I.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
Can do it.
Speaker 6 (14:12):
And then you, because maybe I miss you, you will
pussy to the house. I will be right behind you
with a gun pointed at your backs. Pussy Laddin.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
This is Marius. Black hair, black mustache, scar over, the
right eye and the power of Moniques. That's Marius, all right,
I shall ask him.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
I miss you. Wait, I play with Marius. Marius, Marius, Yeah,
you are French.
Speaker 10 (14:46):
Monsieur I am friends, then you must be jos I am.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
But how did you know Monique wrote me? You were
looking for me?
Speaker 6 (14:55):
Monique is a.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
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Speaker 4 (16:15):
All right, yeah, we are here.
Speaker 6 (16:19):
This is shame. Marries you meet the smile. Gentlemen, you
will stay to dinner?
Speaker 2 (16:29):
No, yes, we'll be the laon that we seem to
have no choice settled.
Speaker 10 (16:34):
I shall tell my way. Come with me, Pinter, please, gentlemen,
you see Lley get twicym teach you we have this
(16:54):
for dinner.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
Mitsieur, this is madam Marius.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
Boy.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Your first name wouldn't be Lola, would That's right? We
met an old friend of yours in hangtown last night,
Big red uh.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
Is he still sore?
Speaker 7 (17:10):
I ran out on him.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
He is poor slab. He never had what Marius has.
What's more, Marius married.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
Me and thought you to go.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
I guess whee cherry.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
Too sweet.
Speaker 10 (17:27):
Jewel love a woman, Missio, a prize beyond price, but
she speaks lousy French.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
The more coffee, Mansur, No, thank you, it was a
It was an excellent and a superb.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Not since I left Taria have eaten so well, Thank you, Mansur.
Imagine to find a scart go in this wilderness.
Speaker 10 (17:56):
They are not quite as fine as our snails, fat
and well on my vine leaves.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
You have a tenure.
Speaker 10 (18:02):
Oh yes, I shall make my own wine in another year,
and this from Mars the shelf, from my own herd
of goats.
Speaker 6 (18:09):
Oh, he's my friend.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
We live well here.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
I regret that I must get you away from all this,
But you are not going to I must.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
I have a warrant for yours.
Speaker 6 (18:18):
And you have no guns.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
But don't you see I cannot return to Paris without you.
It would be a disguise to me. To them, you
see the position you place me in regrettable.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
But consider a position of France.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
In what way?
Speaker 10 (18:36):
If you insist on being obstinate, you can ruin France.
Perceive no, no, Listen a moment you insist on arresting me,
I refuse. You demand that the American authorities extradite me.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
I refuse.
Speaker 10 (18:48):
The American authorities recognize my rights to freedom from persecution.
You return to Paris and report this to this brings
it before the National Assembly.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
The Paris newspapers make it a cell.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
France has been insulted.
Speaker 10 (19:02):
The redline screen war is declared a French fleet sales
to invade the United States.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
It is my pulse that Guite.
Speaker 10 (19:09):
Lost at Washington, New York can paston the flower of
frenchmanhood falls upon the Atlantic beaches. France is defeated and
forced to pay huge indemnity which we can economically, until
she sinks to the position of a second class nation,
thus uninjuring the balance of power in the Grand Alliance
and exposing Europe to such dangers of general war.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
The mind reels.
Speaker 10 (19:35):
At the prospect, and at last refuses to look upon
the chaos it portages. Are you willing, Monsieur pull Out,
to be responsible for such a.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
Course of events?
Speaker 11 (19:47):
No, no, I cannot accept such a high responsibility.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Of course you cannot. You musty of France.
Speaker 11 (19:55):
Yes, I shall never see her again. I shall be
an exile in the savage country where the.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
Fry oysters and eggs together. No, no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
No, no, that's far I cannot go.
Speaker 6 (20:09):
I will not condemn a Frenchman.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
To that fate.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
What else is there for me?
Speaker 10 (20:14):
Stay here with Madame and me help me tend the
vines and heard the goats and haiste the chickens and
the snails. Can you think of a nobler activity than
going good things for the table, only sitting down at
the table and eating them with you.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
So that's how I left him the next morning. Hey boy,
feeding vine leaves the snails?
Speaker 5 (20:47):
Snails? Oh not like it?
Speaker 11 (20:52):
Why frenchmen eats snails when you can eat good things
like birds, nest, soup and shaky fin Well.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
You know the ol lady said when she kissed the pig.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Oh roast pig good too. Hey what she say?
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Shaka a song?
Speaker 5 (21:06):
You talk funny? What that means?
Speaker 2 (21:09):
That means? Hey boy, everyone to his own taste.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
Ah, he saw ah nearly forgetting Ah. Lady looking for
you while you've been away.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Oh lady, he.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
Saw lady talk funny too. I like you just now.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Oh no, hey boy, was it was her name Monique?
Speaker 5 (21:26):
He saw money flower. She comes back this afternoon.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
I won't be here.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Just tell her to, hey boy, tell her to follow
Frenchman's Creek east of Hangtown over the mountains for the
better part of the day.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
For you, who you find what she's looking for?
Speaker 5 (21:48):
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Speaker 3 (23:00):
Have Gun Will Travel, created by Herb Metel and Sam Roth,
is produced and directed in Hollywood by Frank Parris and
stars John Dayner as Paladin, with Ben Wright as hey
Boy and Virginia greg as Miss Wong. Tonight's story was
specially written for Have Gun Will Travel.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
By William and Robeson.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Featured in the cast were Shirley Mitchell, Harry Bartel, Barney Phillips,
and Marvin Miller. This is Hugh Douglas inviting you to
join us again next week when CBS Radio presents Have Gun,
Will Travel
I am not usually hired as a guide, Musupulad, but
since you are unfamiliar with our western frontier, this is
one trip I.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Wouldn't want to miss.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Have Gone, Will Travel, starring mister John Dayner as Paladin,
San Francisco, eighteen seventy five, The Carlton Hotel, headquarters of
a man called Paladin. Yes, good morning, miss Wong.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Con I com.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
By room many times.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
Not gonna do you not in?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
What did you want? Miss Wan?
Speaker 5 (01:12):
Oh not? He is warm, not want anything. It's him him,
him cool. It's man talks funny. He can look for
you one, two or three times. He wants to see
you very bad. He talks funny, not playing like you
and me. Oh you know right outside door?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Well then show him in.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
He is that you Connas the Paladin home?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Yes, yes, uh barmosieur Paladin. Permit me to make your
acquaintance with Jean Jacques.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
He talk funny.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Yeah, yeah, oh.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Yes, yes, miss Conna, have many yes, thank you, Miss Wang. So,
mister plan you're with the French Sacred Service. What can
I do for you?
Speaker 5 (02:07):
Paladin?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
I need help? What kind of help? I need?
Speaker 5 (02:10):
A guide?
Speaker 1 (02:11):
A guide? Well that's not exactly my line here. I
searched for a dangerous man. He has escaped from La
Fante prison in Paris, and I have searched, down, searched,
and now at last I know where he is, well
in your Sierra mountains.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
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you do not understand.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
I am a city policeman Ferry, Marseilles, London, New York.
I trail my many these places and I am from
me that. But yeah, west mensuse mountains, the wild, animals, Indians.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
About these things, monsieuri. Or do you want a guide
or a bodyguard?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Perhaps both? My services aren't cheap, missip.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
No, I'm prepared to pay the understands these matters involved
expand very well, and I say, yea a thousand dollars
in advance. That is, as you say, not cheap, but
that very well. Now, how long will it take to
assemble the expedition? Expedition jose what we'll need pack animals,
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I imagine, and Nati is there? We leave in the morning,
in the morning, yes, mister pull out at dawn, just
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Speaker 2 (03:21):
About that, monsieur, I thought.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
She pull out?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
What does your name mean in English, pull loud kicking.
That's what I thought. See you in the morning.
Speaker 6 (03:39):
Are you smoking more now but enjoying it?
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Least?
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Have a real singer rat, Have a camel?
Speaker 2 (03:47):
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Speaker 4 (03:50):
I have a real singer rat.
Speaker 6 (03:52):
Have a camel.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
How are you looking for flavor and mildness?
Speaker 5 (03:57):
I have a real have a camel the very best.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
Have a real A realtor A.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
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Speaker 5 (04:13):
For the eleventh straight year.
Speaker 7 (04:14):
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Speaker 2 (04:18):
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Speaker 7 (04:20):
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Speaker 6 (04:29):
Have a real A realtor a real record came.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
As you pull out. Even here this man you're looking for,
it's his name Marius.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Who is he? This Marius? How many men is he murdered?
We are not presitive that he has ery, but we suspect.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
Him of many.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
And what has it done?
Speaker 1 (05:02):
He escaped from the Sante prison in Paris, and no
one escapes from but he did.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
And the promace he must be a return. It is
a matter of the honor of the ste seems like
a lot of trouble to go to.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Oh, you on earth must be upheld at all costs. Oh, yes,
I see, But what makes you so sure this Marriers
is up there in the Sierrakaladin? We French criminologists follow
their useful and profound principle. Ah, she fail up and
(05:36):
find the woman, And I found her in Parry. She
had come home after making a small but adequate fortune
out here in your west, entertaining Monique. Can't see my man, Monique,
Monique Lafleur.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Did you know her very well?
Speaker 5 (05:58):
La la la la chamon.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Miss that charming? Yes, I guess that would cover it.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
It was a crazy kind of a job, but I
was never a man to argue with one thousand dollars,
particularly when it involved no apparent risks. So he spent
a pleasant afternoon riding along reminiscing about our mutual.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Friend Monique Lafleur.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
That night we stopped and Hanged Town, where I introduced
my employer to the dish for which the town is
so famous of.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
What do you call this.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
That's hanged town? Fry?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
You like it, oh, monsieur Palladin, I am tongue between
honesty and polite.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Name and monsieur by all means be honest.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
Yes, they say a jigutu.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
You don't like it though, Oh no, bah by her.
Speaker 8 (06:52):
Read a little one with a point of mustache. He
looks like a frenchyy. He talks like a French.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Go you frenchman, will.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
And who are you?
Speaker 4 (07:04):
They called me big Red and I'm here to tell
you Frenchies ain't welcome in Hangtown.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
And we're just passing through.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
I'm thinking you're gonna pass through real fast.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
I'm on a boy.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
We don't take kindly to have an eye.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Women's stolen.
Speaker 6 (07:19):
Last French he come through, he made off with my girlfriend.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
I've been laying for him ever since.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
But this is a different frenchman.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
Makes no difference.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
He's a Frenchman. Very well.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
If this is an example of Hangtown's hospitality, will be
on our way, I'll see.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
You, will skagg go heat up that kettle of tar
behind the liverty safe.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
And a couple more.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
You rip up some feather beds.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
You're gonna be on your way.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
French on a rail. Wait a minute.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
This frenchman who ran off with your girl, what was
his name?
Speaker 5 (07:52):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Everybody just called him French.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Well was it Marius money chance? Well yeah, come to
think of it, I did hear Lola call him that?
Marry his honeys?
Speaker 1 (08:01):
He said, Well, then we have no cost for argument.
My companion is from the French secret Service. He's on
his way to arrest this Marius. Yeah, he's got to
find him personally.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
He will good.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
When he does find him. He can show me his
tarn feathers.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yeah, well, I'm afraid we can't wait for the party,
big read.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
All right, Now stand.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Back, all of you with your hands in the air.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
You heard me, stand back all right?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
When she put down outside here, our horse is unhitched.
The rest of you stay where you are until we're
out of town. Now I'll shoot the first man comes.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Through this door.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
Here means your horse good.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Now, as you say in your country, let'spiciate a car.
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Speaker 1 (10:12):
On a bright night, you can see your way by
the stars in the mother Lord country. We took advantage
of this ghostly illumination, but a number of prudent miles
between ourselves and the vengeful and unreasonable citizens of Hangtown.
At last we pulled up on the banks of a
little stream and made.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
A cold and cheerless camp. The next morning, the sun
was up.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
First, then quite a bit later I got up. The
little Frenchman will still curl up in a pitiful ball,
twitching from time to time with nightmares of tarn feathers.
I looked around and saw a bearded, red shirted miner
working his way up the stream and panning the river
sand for gold. Heh as you put out, come on,
time you get up, come one, Oh valadin sleep? Well,
(10:59):
Oh he's do not mention it. I don't think I
can ever move my arms and legs again.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
We have company. Oh, Harry, hello.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Say, we're a little uncertain of our whereabouts. Friend, could
you tell us where we are?
Speaker 5 (11:14):
Well?
Speaker 8 (11:15):
This here's what it used to be called South Fork,
but folks have gone calling it Frenchman's Creek. Downstream quite
a fair piece is civilization?
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Yeah, settlement called Hangtown. Oh, yes, we're acquainted with Hangtown.
But what's upstream?
Speaker 5 (11:30):
Nothing much?
Speaker 8 (11:31):
You abandoned gold camps, crioks, panned out more or less.
But I keep hoping I'll find something the others missed.
You said, folks have started calling the stream Frenchman's Creek.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
That's her epine.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Kind of crazy Frenchman lives up to the head of it. Frenchman.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
What is his name?
Speaker 2 (11:48):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
Everybody just calls him a Frenchman.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
What's crazy about him?
Speaker 8 (11:52):
Well, he's got a claim stake that bear a couple
of claims.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Only he don't do no mining that anyone can notice.
Speaker 8 (12:00):
Play so fenced in the big gate with furign. Words
on the sign, only two words in English. They say,
keep out.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
How fire is this place?
Speaker 8 (12:09):
Well, it's a pesky place to get to. They take
you the better part of a day following the stream.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
Of course, the stream winds a lot. You could go
over the mountain that.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
A way, Yeah, well how long would it take that away?
Speaker 8 (12:22):
Better part of the day?
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Then it's no shorter, Nope, but you don't get wet.
We went over the mountain, and it did take a
better part of the day. Towards sundown, we came back
once more to Frenchman's Creek, and there below us lay
a well built cavern surrounded by cleared land. We spurred
(12:44):
our tired horses toward it, and a few moments later
drew up before a rail gate on which hung the
imposing keep out signed. The miner had told us about.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
It, Mary that sign. He's guilty, conscience, he's haunting him.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Perhaps, why should we go in? Paladin?
Speaker 1 (13:02):
I am tired, and I am angry, and I am
afraid of these marios.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Came we go in. Come on, boy and move in.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
Sure with your hands in the air.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
I will relieve you of your weapons. Makes you call them.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
To the guard?
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (13:30):
Is it that you cannot read my sign? We rather
you made no effort to hide yourselves. I've watched your
approach since you started down the mountain.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
We have nothing to hide. For the pairs that you do.
Speaker 10 (13:40):
You are hiding your little deringer, Monsieur Paladine.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Give it to me, But how do you know me
your deringer? Please yere, messie.
Speaker 6 (13:52):
We have a mutual friend, Monsieur Paladine. Money left flow?
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Oh yes, money.
Speaker 6 (13:57):
She pointed you out to me once in San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
And she told you about the Darrence.
Speaker 10 (14:03):
He was in discreet of you, monsieur, and dangerous to
reveal to Earth the whereabouts of video engine.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Under the circumstances, there was nothing else I.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
Can do it.
Speaker 6 (14:12):
And then you, because maybe I miss you, you will
pussy to the house. I will be right behind you
with a gun pointed at your backs. Pussy Laddin.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
This is Marius. Black hair, black mustache, scar over, the
right eye and the power of Moniques. That's Marius, all right,
I shall ask him.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
I miss you. Wait, I play with Marius. Marius, Marius, Yeah,
you are French.
Speaker 10 (14:46):
Monsieur I am friends, then you must be jos I am.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
But how did you know Monique wrote me? You were
looking for me?
Speaker 6 (14:55):
Monique is a.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
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Speaker 4 (16:15):
All right, yeah, we are here.
Speaker 6 (16:19):
This is shame. Marries you meet the smile. Gentlemen, you
will stay to dinner?
Speaker 2 (16:29):
No, yes, we'll be the laon that we seem to
have no choice settled.
Speaker 10 (16:34):
I shall tell my way. Come with me, Pinter, please, gentlemen,
you see Lley get twicym teach you we have this
(16:54):
for dinner.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
Mitsieur, this is madam Marius.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
Boy.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Your first name wouldn't be Lola, would That's right? We
met an old friend of yours in hangtown last night,
Big red uh.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
Is he still sore?
Speaker 7 (17:10):
I ran out on him.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
He is poor slab. He never had what Marius has.
What's more, Marius married.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
Me and thought you to go.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
I guess whee cherry.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
Too sweet.
Speaker 10 (17:27):
Jewel love a woman, Missio, a prize beyond price, but
she speaks lousy French.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
The more coffee, Mansur, No, thank you, it was a
It was an excellent and a superb.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Not since I left Taria have eaten so well, Thank you, Mansur.
Imagine to find a scart go in this wilderness.
Speaker 10 (17:56):
They are not quite as fine as our snails, fat
and well on my vine leaves.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
You have a tenure.
Speaker 10 (18:02):
Oh yes, I shall make my own wine in another year,
and this from Mars the shelf, from my own herd
of goats.
Speaker 6 (18:09):
Oh, he's my friend.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
We live well here.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
I regret that I must get you away from all this,
But you are not going to I must.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
I have a warrant for yours.
Speaker 6 (18:18):
And you have no guns.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
But don't you see I cannot return to Paris without you.
It would be a disguise to me. To them, you
see the position you place me in regrettable.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
But consider a position of France.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
In what way?
Speaker 10 (18:36):
If you insist on being obstinate, you can ruin France.
Perceive no, no, Listen a moment you insist on arresting me,
I refuse. You demand that the American authorities extradite me.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
I refuse.
Speaker 10 (18:48):
The American authorities recognize my rights to freedom from persecution.
You return to Paris and report this to this brings
it before the National Assembly.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
The Paris newspapers make it a cell.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
France has been insulted.
Speaker 10 (19:02):
The redline screen war is declared a French fleet sales
to invade the United States.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
It is my pulse that Guite.
Speaker 10 (19:09):
Lost at Washington, New York can paston the flower of
frenchmanhood falls upon the Atlantic beaches. France is defeated and
forced to pay huge indemnity which we can economically, until
she sinks to the position of a second class nation,
thus uninjuring the balance of power in the Grand Alliance
and exposing Europe to such dangers of general war.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
The mind reels.
Speaker 10 (19:35):
At the prospect, and at last refuses to look upon
the chaos it portages. Are you willing, Monsieur pull Out,
to be responsible for such a.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
Course of events?
Speaker 11 (19:47):
No, no, I cannot accept such a high responsibility.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Of course you cannot. You musty of France.
Speaker 11 (19:55):
Yes, I shall never see her again. I shall be
an exile in the savage country where the.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
Fry oysters and eggs together. No, no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
No, no, that's far I cannot go.
Speaker 6 (20:09):
I will not condemn a Frenchman.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
To that fate.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
What else is there for me?
Speaker 10 (20:14):
Stay here with Madame and me help me tend the
vines and heard the goats and haiste the chickens and
the snails. Can you think of a nobler activity than
going good things for the table, only sitting down at
the table and eating them with you.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
So that's how I left him the next morning. Hey boy,
feeding vine leaves the snails?
Speaker 5 (20:47):
Snails? Oh not like it?
Speaker 11 (20:52):
Why frenchmen eats snails when you can eat good things
like birds, nest, soup and shaky fin Well.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
You know the ol lady said when she kissed the pig.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Oh roast pig good too. Hey what she say?
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Shaka a song?
Speaker 5 (21:06):
You talk funny? What that means?
Speaker 2 (21:09):
That means? Hey boy, everyone to his own taste.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
Ah, he saw ah nearly forgetting Ah. Lady looking for
you while you've been away.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Oh lady, he.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
Saw lady talk funny too. I like you just now.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Oh no, hey boy, was it was her name Monique?
Speaker 5 (21:26):
He saw money flower. She comes back this afternoon.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
I won't be here.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Just tell her to, hey boy, tell her to follow
Frenchman's Creek east of Hangtown over the mountains for the
better part of the day.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
For you, who you find what she's looking for?
Speaker 5 (21:48):
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