October 5, 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):
Whenever I'm hired for a job, I can always expect
the worst. Little did I know that this time it
would mean leaving my dearest friends have Gone, Will Travel,
(00:35):
starring mister John Dayner as Paladin, San Francisco, eighteen seventy five.
The Carlton Hotel, headquarters of a man called Paladin. O.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Yes, whoa excuse me? Are you finished with breakfast? Hey boy,
we'll take dc away. Oh yes, we are.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Come in. Did you meet my sister? No Salt, Hey boy,
isn't it Lisa? This is my sister, Lavinia Todd Hunter?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Oh hallo?
Speaker 4 (01:28):
How do you do?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Was your uncomfortable last night? Missy Todd Hunter?
Speaker 5 (01:32):
I was so exhausted from the trip I hardly noticed,
But I do think I like the accommodations of the Carlton.
I never thought we'd be able to get a suite
with two bedrooms.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
It's almost like home.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Why yes, Missy, Carlton is very nice hotel.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
But it doesn't compare with anything we have in Boston, Lavini, of.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Course, not Miles.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
But I'm so surprised they have anything at all in
this god forsaken country that I'm overwhelmed.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Hey Boysa, do you know most of the regular guests
who stay here.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Oh hea, hey boy, no many guests.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Tell me. Do you know a mister Paladins?
Speaker 6 (02:14):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Isa, how long has he been living here?
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Oh? Many long time?
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Could you tell us about him?
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Hey boy?
Speaker 4 (02:23):
What does he do? What does he look like?
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Is he married? No? No, Missa Paladin not married.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
My sister and I have heard that he hires his
gun so to speak.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Misa, Paladin will be happy to tell you what he does.
So he very good friend of Hey boy, you like
to meet him?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
No? No, no, we were just curious. We've heard so
much about him.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Would there be anything else?
Speaker 3 (02:51):
No, that'll be all for now, Thank you very much.
Speaker 7 (02:53):
Hey boy, Miles, why don't you want to meet him?
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Not just yet, Lavigna. We have to go about this
very carefully.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Well, we don't have all the time in the world, Miles,
I know, I.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Know, even so you must have patience.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Don't forget that lawyer.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
Back in Boston is looking for him, and if we're
too patient, he may locate him before we finish what
we came out here to do.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
You don't have to remind me, Just let me do
the planning.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
All right.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Then, where do we start my dear.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Brother, this, hey boy, said mister Palladin was unmarried. More
than likely he would be interested in meeting a beautiful
young lady from Boston.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Oh oh, why, thank you, Miles.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
And then what you could entrance him, my dear get
to know him intimately. Oh and as soon as we
know his weak points, and when the time is right,
we'll complete our mission.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
I didn't realize I was going to play such an
important role.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
You don't object to you, of course, now.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
For one hundred thousand dollars, how could I? Besides he
he maybe very enjoyable company while he's still alive.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Oh, good, mister Paladin, Good morning, hey boy. Oh, dining
room is rather crowded this morning. Did miss Todd Hunter
come down here?
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Well, she's waiting at your table over there in corner. Ah,
you're getting in rough, mister Paladin.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
Oh how's that?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
This makes fourth in row. You have breakfast with Missy.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Donand it's a very charming lady a boy also very pretty. Yes,
hey boy, I'm taking her on a little tour of
the city this morning. Would you have a carriage waiting
for us out front around nine thirty?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Please have a nice breakfast municipality.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Thank you, hey boy.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
Good morning Lavinia.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Good morning to you Benada.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
I hope I didn't keep you waiting.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
I didn't mind to tour.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
How's your brother today?
Speaker 5 (05:32):
He's much better, Thank you. It was just a cy cold,
the change in climate.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
I guess you should have asked him to join us.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
I did, but he prefers having breakfast in his room
rather than getting dressed.
Speaker 8 (05:46):
Say, I was just talking to hey boy.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
He'll have a carriage for us at nine thirty and
we'll take that ride I promised you. Oh do we
go up to Russian Hill, over to Chinatown, the mex
Wharf and even the Barbary Coast.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
If you're brave.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
Enough this long as you're around to protect me, why
should I be afraid of anything.
Speaker 6 (06:04):
That's what I like to hear.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
You are going to see so many interesting places today,
you'll forget you ever knew Boston.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Oh it sounds so exciting. But I'll tell you what
I'm looking forward to more than anything else.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
What's that.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Having dinner in your suite tonight alone, just the two hours.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
Did we have that plan for tonight?
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Why?
Speaker 6 (06:30):
I have two tickets for the opera tonight.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Oh well, if you really don't want to go, I'd
much rather keep our original plan.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Then I'd be the last person to break them.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
It'll be dinner tonight in my.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Room, just the two of us alone.
Speaker 6 (06:52):
Pardon Issie.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Paladin.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
The waiter is here.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
Oh, yes, yes, yes, you wish to order monsieur.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Vignia.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Oh where have you been all day? With Palette? Where else?
Speaker 3 (07:22):
It's after five o'clock. I was worried about you.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
As long as I'm with him, you needn't be. Oh,
he treats me like a queen.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Now you're not becoming infatuated.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Miles, don't be silly.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
I'm just testing, that's all.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Then stop it.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
Granted he's a handsome, debonair exhilarating man, but I wouldn't
take him in preference to one hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
And you know, all right, all right?
Speaker 6 (07:52):
Now?
Speaker 3 (07:52):
What about tonight?
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Just as we planned dinner in his room at eight?
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Did you get the brandy?
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Yes, his favorite kind, and the poison. It's all fixed.
I put the poison in the brandy, reseal the bottle.
It's ready for delivery.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
I'm good.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
Now, Myles, you'd better go over the details again. I
don't want anything.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
To go wrong, all right, Just before you arrive, I'll
have the brandy delivered to his room with my compliments
for being so gracious to my sister and me during
our visit to San Francisco. Then after dinner, he'll open
the bottle, pour the drinks.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
And I'll pretend to sip while he slowly drinks his death.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Precisely, then the coup de grass. To avoid all suspicion,
you will leave the room quietly, come back here, and
at a late hour, I'll go to his room, undress him,
put his body in the bathtub, fill it with water,
leave everything as natural as it should be, and return
to my room.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
And then tomorrow morning, when I go down to breakfast
to meet him, I'll hear the drink news mister Paladin
drowned in his bathtub last night.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
I'll be completely distraught, and we'll leave on the afternoon train.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
A most happy trip back to Boston to regain our
rightful inheritance.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
Myles, you're sure nothing can go wrong.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Why should there? This is the way I disposed of
his aunt, and this is the way i'll dispose of him.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
That was simpler. She was your wife. You were there
with her every minute yourself. You didn't have to rely
on me to see that she drank the brandy.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
True. If she hadn't been so stupid as to will
her estate to an unknown nephew she hadn't seen or
heard from in thirty years, I wouldn't have to go
to all this trouble.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
Well, it's your own fault. You should have made sure
of the contents of that.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Will, Luvenian. You know she assured me I was the
only heir. Of course I never thought to question it.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
You mean to say that during two years of marriage
she never mentioned Taladin or any other possible relatives.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
As far as I knew, she was all alone, with
no one to turn to for love and affection except
her dear, dear Miles.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
I guess she showed you.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
Could have been worse.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
At least I receive everything after him. She could have
left me out of the will altogether.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Will.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
I think I'll get dressed for the evening.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
This is one engagement I don't want to miss.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Have a commander welcome aboard.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Have a commander welcome aboard.
Speaker 8 (10:56):
The cleaner the tobacco.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
The better it tastes.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Cleaner, the tobacco, the better it tastes.
Speaker 9 (11:03):
Have a commander, welcome aboard. Light into a pack of
new King size Philip Morris Commanders. New because the tobacco
in them is vacuum cleaned, and the cleaner the tobacco,
the better it tastes. Philip Morris Commanders are made by
a new kind of machine, the Mark eight, that takes rich,
(11:24):
full flavored tobacco and gently vacuum cleans it. Try a pack.
See what a difference that makes in your smoking pleasure.
New King size Philip Morris Commanders, noticeably better.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
The cleaner the tobacco, the better it taste. Time a commander,
welcome aboard.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Yeah, yeah, yes, minute, yes a minute?
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Ah h meet hey boy man, oh you shady.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
Now it's finished. What have you got in that bag?
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Oh? Things you ask your boy to get, walks off,
sweets for me to to Honda. Hey, fancy ribbon? Huh
very nice? He saw on a bottle of brandy.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
And let's see that. Yep, your memory is improving. Hey boy,
that's the right brand, all right?
Speaker 6 (12:41):
Now? What else?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
And the afternoon mail? And a paper you forget to
pick up when you come back from your little tour.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
Anything important.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Oh except maybe big fat letter from Boston.
Speaker 6 (12:55):
Boston, let me see that. Just put everything on the
chest over there.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Hey boy, Lisa, ah see.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
Hey boy, listen to this.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
And we've had great difficulty tracing you, but we now
have assurance from the Pickardon Agency that you are the
right party. It is this deep regret that we inform
you of the death of your aunt Grace.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Aunt Grace didn't know you had an aunt.
Speaker 6 (13:27):
I didn't either.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Oh what else has? Let us say?
Speaker 1 (13:31):
She has left an estate valued at more than one
hundred thousand dollars, and according to her last will and testament,
you are the rightful heir?
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Who oh a thousand door?
Speaker 1 (13:44):
May we suggest that you present yourself at our offices
as soon as possible with the proper credentials. If we
do not hear from you within six weeks, we will
fulfill the alternate wishes have said will, and the estate
will revert to the.
Speaker 6 (13:59):
Only other lives.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Her second husband, Won Miles Todd Hunter. Todd Hunter. Miles
Todd Hunter signed sea on Grazer Council for the estate.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
A municipality. Could that be the same Todd Hunter that
I guessed here at Hotel.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
I don't know he has the same name, he's from Boston.
It's quite a coincidence.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
He not ever talked to you about you, Auntie Grace.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
No, I wonder if this really is my aunt Hey boy,
How could hey boy know if you don't hey, wait
a minute, Wait a minute. I vaguely remember my father
saying that he had a sister who ran away from
home in Illinois when I was just a youngster. Her
name was Grace. They'd heard that she had gone to
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New York, but they never found.
Speaker 6 (14:50):
Out for sure.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Well, there could be same Grace, could be These attorneys
and Pinkerton agents rarely make a mistake.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
What you going to do?
Speaker 6 (14:58):
Well, I think I'll go to b me.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
God's a far long way. Oh when you leave, oh
for a couple of days. Maybe the first thing I'd
better do is send a telegram with this lawyer here,
take his name and address. Just say I received his
letter that I will be in Boston in the very
near future.
Speaker 6 (15:17):
Miles Todd Hunter.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Your god, talk to him, missa fallative.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
I don't know, hey boy, if he's the same one,
he would know that I was named and his wife's will,
wouldn't he Ah, he's been very friendly. His sister has
been extremely friendly. Did you think that one of them
would have mentioned it by now, wouldn't you?
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Ah?
Speaker 6 (15:37):
So I see no reason why I should go talk
to him, do you?
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Ah? He also, what about you do not tonight? Women?
See Todd Hannah.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Well, there's no need to change our plans. Hey boy,
I'm not leaving tonight. We won't start packing until tomorrow. Now,
I might as well enjoy the evening with Missy Todd Hunter.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
He is Sah, Then, hey boy, better remind my chef
to have dinner ready by y'all eight o'clock.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Right, and before you go, when you draw some hot
water in the tub you saw, I'm going to take
a relaxing bath and do a little reflective thinking.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Your brother was very thoughtful, Lavigna.
Speaker 6 (16:25):
This is my favorite, Brandy.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
Yes, yes, he wanted to show his appreciation for all
your kindnesses to us.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Oh, this is my second glass, and you've you've hardly touched.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Your I knew I like to leave Aroma more than
the taste.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
Drink up it warm? Is the blood?
Speaker 4 (16:50):
I feel a little too warm.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
As it is?
Speaker 6 (16:52):
Yes, you do seem uncomfortable? Is something wrong?
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (16:56):
No, no, I I guess it's just the hour. It's
getting robby late. We've had a busy day.
Speaker 6 (17:03):
Yes, no, I wonder who that could be.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Excuse me, Mile, oh, Paladine, I am well. I I
just came by to see if Lavinia was still here.
Speaker 6 (17:22):
She is, Come in, Come in.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
You see, it was getting so late that I didn't
realize what time it was, Miles.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
She's a big girl. Miles, you don't have to worry
about your sister.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
I wasn't exactly.
Speaker 8 (17:36):
Oh, I must thank.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
You for the brandy.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Miles.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
Won't you join us and have a glass?
Speaker 3 (17:40):
No, no, but thank you. Sit down rarely, Paladin, I
didn't mean to intrude.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
Like you can stop babbling now, mild Get your hands up, Paladin.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
No, Lavinia, don't shoot in. It would make too much noise, I.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Said, get your hands up, Paladin.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
All right, this is quite a surprise, Levina. I don't
know you carried a derringer in your purse.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
Oh, shut up and keep quiet. Well, Miles, your brandy
didn't work. What do we do now?
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Give me a chance to think what happened with the brandy?
Speaker 4 (18:12):
You probably forgot to put the poison in it?
Speaker 5 (18:15):
Poison, yes, Baladin, you should have been dead an hour ago.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Well, I uh, I must have opened the wrong bottle,
the wrong bosom. Hey boy, brought me a bottle a
couple of hours before yours arrived.
Speaker 6 (18:29):
They're identical.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
Well, Miles, that's something you didn't think of. Why don't
I just shoot him.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
And be done with No, No, we'll be caught before
we can get out of here.
Speaker 6 (18:41):
Yes, the shot would wake the hotel Lauvigna.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
I'd be willing to take the chance.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Now, there's no reason why we can't go through with
our original plan. Where's the other bottle?
Speaker 4 (18:51):
We'll look in his liquor cabinet.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
You really wouldn't expect me to drink the brandy now, Lavina.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
If you don't, then I'll be forced to shoot you.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Either way, I lose either way.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Then I think I prefer being shot.
Speaker 10 (19:07):
Give me the guns, give it to me now, I'll
take the gun, Mius.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
You shocked me, Miles, he's dead, Hey boy, I uh,
(19:59):
I can't tell you how which I appreciate you.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
Coming all the way over here to open with me.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Well, not often you go on such plenty long trick,
missa Paladin, fool, bad, Miss Woe couldn't get off work
and come with us and say goodbye.
Speaker 6 (20:11):
Yes she wanted to.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Well maybe fat does she not come? She'd be crying
big tears on. Hey boys, sholl up all the way
back to the hotel.
Speaker 9 (20:22):
Oh, here you are, mister Pellin, right on the spot.
Speaker 8 (20:28):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Driver, here you are, thank you. Oh you need help
with those bags? No, hey boy, and I can handle him.
You will wait for him, won't you?
Speaker 7 (20:39):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (20:40):
Yes, sir, and see that he gets back to the content.
Speaker 6 (20:42):
On mister Pella good.
Speaker 8 (20:44):
Oh, here, hey boy, I'll carry the big one.
Speaker 6 (20:45):
Oh all right, let's go.
Speaker 8 (20:49):
We want car fourteen.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Hey boy, well we we've hurried mesa Paladin.
Speaker 6 (20:54):
That's sorry.
Speaker 8 (20:56):
Yeah, that's my car right over there.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Oh oh, what we do with these backs?
Speaker 8 (21:06):
And put them in the rest of you youle the
conductor will take care of them for me.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Here we are please up they go area. Oh that's
it now.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Remember, hey boy, the other trunks are ready to ship.
I'll right, you'll let you know where.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
To send Lissa Parligan. When will you come back?
Speaker 8 (21:24):
I don't know, hey boy.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
All depends on how long it takes me to liquidate
my aunt's estate. Several months at least then you never know.
I may take a liking to bust and settle down
there permanently.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
It won't be the same cotton hotel. Why are you gone?
Speaker 8 (21:37):
Oh no, I've left many times before.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Hey boy, he saw crazy time. You will not come back.
Speaker 8 (21:43):
Maybe you're never gonna be sure. Just don't forget me.
Keep looking for me.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
I may be back, he saw.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
I hope so oh, and don't forget to send me
the San Francisco papers. I'm gonna be sure and follow
Miss Todd Hunter's trial.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Oh what do you think they do with huh? Senator?
Speaker 8 (21:59):
Jail for you here?
Speaker 3 (22:01):
You better go up?
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Yes, now, hey boy, look, if you and miss Wang
decide to get married, give me plenty of notice.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
I will be back for that. Oh well right, I'll
let you know all right.
Speaker 6 (22:19):
Bye boy?
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Then, oh bye.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Bye? You buy me up.
Speaker 6 (22:51):
Have Done Will Travel?
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Created by Herb Meadow and Sam row Is Prutio stand
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 by mister Parris. Featured in the
cast were Vic Perrin, Bartlet Robinson, John James, and Lynn Allen.
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Tonight's CDs Radio brings to a close this current series
of programs. This is Hugh Douglas extending best wishes to
you from the cast and crew of Have Gun, Will Travel,
Whenever I'm hired for a job, I can always expect
the worst. Little did I know that this time it
would mean leaving my dearest friends have Gone, Will Travel,
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starring mister John Dayner as Paladin, San Francisco, eighteen seventy five.
The Carlton Hotel, headquarters of a man called Paladin. O.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Yes, whoa excuse me? Are you finished with breakfast? Hey boy,
we'll take dc away. Oh yes, we are.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Come in. Did you meet my sister? No Salt, Hey boy,
isn't it Lisa? This is my sister, Lavinia Todd Hunter?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Oh hallo?
Speaker 4 (01:28):
How do you do?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Was your uncomfortable last night? Missy Todd Hunter?
Speaker 5 (01:32):
I was so exhausted from the trip I hardly noticed,
But I do think I like the accommodations of the Carlton.
I never thought we'd be able to get a suite
with two bedrooms.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
It's almost like home.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Why yes, Missy, Carlton is very nice hotel.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
But it doesn't compare with anything we have in Boston, Lavini, of.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Course, not Miles.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
But I'm so surprised they have anything at all in
this god forsaken country that I'm overwhelmed.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Hey Boysa, do you know most of the regular guests
who stay here.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Oh hea, hey boy, no many guests.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Tell me. Do you know a mister Paladins?
Speaker 6 (02:14):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Isa, how long has he been living here?
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Oh? Many long time?
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Could you tell us about him?
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Hey boy?
Speaker 4 (02:23):
What does he do? What does he look like?
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Is he married? No? No, Missa Paladin not married.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
My sister and I have heard that he hires his
gun so to speak.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Misa, Paladin will be happy to tell you what he does.
So he very good friend of Hey boy, you like
to meet him?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
No? No, no, we were just curious. We've heard so
much about him.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Would there be anything else?
Speaker 3 (02:51):
No, that'll be all for now, Thank you very much.
Speaker 7 (02:53):
Hey boy, Miles, why don't you want to meet him?
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Not just yet, Lavigna. We have to go about this
very carefully.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Well, we don't have all the time in the world, Miles,
I know, I.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Know, even so you must have patience.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Don't forget that lawyer.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
Back in Boston is looking for him, and if we're
too patient, he may locate him before we finish what
we came out here to do.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
You don't have to remind me, Just let me do
the planning.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
All right.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Then, where do we start my dear.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Brother, this, hey boy, said mister Palladin was unmarried. More
than likely he would be interested in meeting a beautiful
young lady from Boston.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Oh oh, why, thank you, Miles.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
And then what you could entrance him, my dear get
to know him intimately. Oh and as soon as we
know his weak points, and when the time is right,
we'll complete our mission.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
I didn't realize I was going to play such an
important role.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
You don't object to you, of course, now.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
For one hundred thousand dollars, how could I? Besides he
he maybe very enjoyable company while he's still alive.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Oh, good, mister Paladin, Good morning, hey boy. Oh, dining
room is rather crowded this morning. Did miss Todd Hunter
come down here?
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Well, she's waiting at your table over there in corner. Ah,
you're getting in rough, mister Paladin.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
Oh how's that?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
This makes fourth in row. You have breakfast with Missy.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Donand it's a very charming lady a boy also very pretty. Yes,
hey boy, I'm taking her on a little tour of
the city this morning. Would you have a carriage waiting
for us out front around nine thirty?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Please have a nice breakfast municipality.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Thank you, hey boy.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
Good morning Lavinia.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Good morning to you Benada.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
I hope I didn't keep you waiting.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
I didn't mind to tour.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
How's your brother today?
Speaker 5 (05:32):
He's much better, Thank you. It was just a cy cold,
the change in climate.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
I guess you should have asked him to join us.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
I did, but he prefers having breakfast in his room
rather than getting dressed.
Speaker 8 (05:46):
Say, I was just talking to hey boy.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
He'll have a carriage for us at nine thirty and
we'll take that ride I promised you. Oh do we
go up to Russian Hill, over to Chinatown, the mex
Wharf and even the Barbary Coast.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
If you're brave.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
Enough this long as you're around to protect me, why
should I be afraid of anything.
Speaker 6 (06:04):
That's what I like to hear.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
You are going to see so many interesting places today,
you'll forget you ever knew Boston.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Oh it sounds so exciting. But I'll tell you what
I'm looking forward to more than anything else.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
What's that.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Having dinner in your suite tonight alone, just the two hours.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
Did we have that plan for tonight?
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Why?
Speaker 6 (06:30):
I have two tickets for the opera tonight.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Oh well, if you really don't want to go, I'd
much rather keep our original plan.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Then I'd be the last person to break them.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
It'll be dinner tonight in my.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Room, just the two of us alone.
Speaker 6 (06:52):
Pardon Issie.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Paladin.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
The waiter is here.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
Oh, yes, yes, yes, you wish to order monsieur.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Vignia.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Oh where have you been all day? With Palette? Where else?
Speaker 3 (07:22):
It's after five o'clock. I was worried about you.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
As long as I'm with him, you needn't be. Oh,
he treats me like a queen.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Now you're not becoming infatuated.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Miles, don't be silly.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
I'm just testing, that's all.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Then stop it.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
Granted he's a handsome, debonair exhilarating man, but I wouldn't
take him in preference to one hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
And you know, all right, all right?
Speaker 6 (07:52):
Now?
Speaker 3 (07:52):
What about tonight?
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Just as we planned dinner in his room at eight?
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Did you get the brandy?
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Yes, his favorite kind, and the poison. It's all fixed.
I put the poison in the brandy, reseal the bottle.
It's ready for delivery.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
I'm good.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
Now, Myles, you'd better go over the details again. I
don't want anything.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
To go wrong, all right, Just before you arrive, I'll
have the brandy delivered to his room with my compliments
for being so gracious to my sister and me during
our visit to San Francisco. Then after dinner, he'll open
the bottle, pour the drinks.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
And I'll pretend to sip while he slowly drinks his death.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Precisely, then the coup de grass. To avoid all suspicion,
you will leave the room quietly, come back here, and
at a late hour, I'll go to his room, undress him,
put his body in the bathtub, fill it with water,
leave everything as natural as it should be, and return
to my room.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
And then tomorrow morning, when I go down to breakfast
to meet him, I'll hear the drink news mister Paladin
drowned in his bathtub last night.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
I'll be completely distraught, and we'll leave on the afternoon train.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
A most happy trip back to Boston to regain our
rightful inheritance.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
Myles, you're sure nothing can go wrong.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Why should there? This is the way I disposed of
his aunt, and this is the way i'll dispose of him.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
That was simpler. She was your wife. You were there
with her every minute yourself. You didn't have to rely
on me to see that she drank the brandy.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
True. If she hadn't been so stupid as to will
her estate to an unknown nephew she hadn't seen or
heard from in thirty years, I wouldn't have to go
to all this trouble.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
Well, it's your own fault. You should have made sure
of the contents of that.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Will, Luvenian. You know she assured me I was the
only heir. Of course I never thought to question it.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
You mean to say that during two years of marriage
she never mentioned Taladin or any other possible relatives.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
As far as I knew, she was all alone, with
no one to turn to for love and affection except
her dear, dear Miles.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
I guess she showed you.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
Could have been worse.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
At least I receive everything after him. She could have
left me out of the will altogether.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Will.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
I think I'll get dressed for the evening.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
This is one engagement I don't want to miss.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Have a commander welcome aboard.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Have a commander welcome aboard.
Speaker 8 (10:56):
The cleaner the tobacco.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
The better it tastes.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Cleaner, the tobacco, the better it tastes.
Speaker 9 (11:03):
Have a commander, welcome aboard. Light into a pack of
new King size Philip Morris Commanders. New because the tobacco
in them is vacuum cleaned, and the cleaner the tobacco,
the better it tastes. Philip Morris Commanders are made by
a new kind of machine, the Mark eight, that takes rich,
(11:24):
full flavored tobacco and gently vacuum cleans it. Try a pack.
See what a difference that makes in your smoking pleasure.
New King size Philip Morris Commanders, noticeably better.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
The cleaner the tobacco, the better it taste. Time a commander,
welcome aboard.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Yeah, yeah, yes, minute, yes a minute?
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Ah h meet hey boy man, oh you shady.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
Now it's finished. What have you got in that bag?
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Oh? Things you ask your boy to get, walks off,
sweets for me to to Honda. Hey, fancy ribbon? Huh
very nice? He saw on a bottle of brandy.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
And let's see that. Yep, your memory is improving. Hey boy,
that's the right brand, all right?
Speaker 6 (12:41):
Now? What else?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
And the afternoon mail? And a paper you forget to
pick up when you come back from your little tour.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
Anything important.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Oh except maybe big fat letter from Boston.
Speaker 6 (12:55):
Boston, let me see that. Just put everything on the
chest over there.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Hey boy, Lisa, ah see.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
Hey boy, listen to this.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
And we've had great difficulty tracing you, but we now
have assurance from the Pickardon Agency that you are the
right party. It is this deep regret that we inform
you of the death of your aunt Grace.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Aunt Grace didn't know you had an aunt.
Speaker 6 (13:27):
I didn't either.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Oh what else has? Let us say?
Speaker 1 (13:31):
She has left an estate valued at more than one
hundred thousand dollars, and according to her last will and testament,
you are the rightful heir?
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Who oh a thousand door?
Speaker 1 (13:44):
May we suggest that you present yourself at our offices
as soon as possible with the proper credentials. If we
do not hear from you within six weeks, we will
fulfill the alternate wishes have said will, and the estate
will revert to the.
Speaker 6 (13:59):
Only other lives.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Her second husband, Won Miles Todd Hunter. Todd Hunter. Miles
Todd Hunter signed sea on Grazer Council for the estate.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
A municipality. Could that be the same Todd Hunter that
I guessed here at Hotel.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
I don't know he has the same name, he's from Boston.
It's quite a coincidence.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
He not ever talked to you about you, Auntie Grace.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
No, I wonder if this really is my aunt Hey boy,
How could hey boy know if you don't hey, wait
a minute, Wait a minute. I vaguely remember my father
saying that he had a sister who ran away from
home in Illinois when I was just a youngster. Her
name was Grace. They'd heard that she had gone to
(14:48):
New York, but they never found.
Speaker 6 (14:50):
Out for sure.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Well, there could be same Grace, could be These attorneys
and Pinkerton agents rarely make a mistake.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
What you going to do?
Speaker 6 (14:58):
Well, I think I'll go to b me.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
God's a far long way. Oh when you leave, oh
for a couple of days. Maybe the first thing I'd
better do is send a telegram with this lawyer here,
take his name and address. Just say I received his
letter that I will be in Boston in the very
near future.
Speaker 6 (15:17):
Miles Todd Hunter.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Your god, talk to him, missa fallative.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
I don't know, hey boy, if he's the same one,
he would know that I was named and his wife's will,
wouldn't he Ah, he's been very friendly. His sister has
been extremely friendly. Did you think that one of them
would have mentioned it by now, wouldn't you?
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Ah?
Speaker 6 (15:37):
So I see no reason why I should go talk
to him, do you?
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Ah? He also, what about you do not tonight? Women?
See Todd Hannah.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Well, there's no need to change our plans. Hey boy,
I'm not leaving tonight. We won't start packing until tomorrow. Now,
I might as well enjoy the evening with Missy Todd Hunter.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
He is Sah, Then, hey boy, better remind my chef
to have dinner ready by y'all eight o'clock.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Right, and before you go, when you draw some hot
water in the tub you saw, I'm going to take
a relaxing bath and do a little reflective thinking.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Your brother was very thoughtful, Lavigna.
Speaker 6 (16:25):
This is my favorite, Brandy.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
Yes, yes, he wanted to show his appreciation for all
your kindnesses to us.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Oh, this is my second glass, and you've you've hardly touched.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Your I knew I like to leave Aroma more than
the taste.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
Drink up it warm? Is the blood?
Speaker 4 (16:50):
I feel a little too warm.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
As it is?
Speaker 6 (16:52):
Yes, you do seem uncomfortable? Is something wrong?
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (16:56):
No, no, I I guess it's just the hour. It's
getting robby late. We've had a busy day.
Speaker 6 (17:03):
Yes, no, I wonder who that could be.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Excuse me, Mile, oh, Paladine, I am well. I I
just came by to see if Lavinia was still here.
Speaker 6 (17:22):
She is, Come in, Come in.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
You see, it was getting so late that I didn't
realize what time it was, Miles.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
She's a big girl. Miles, you don't have to worry
about your sister.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
I wasn't exactly.
Speaker 8 (17:36):
Oh, I must thank.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
You for the brandy.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Miles.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
Won't you join us and have a glass?
Speaker 3 (17:40):
No, no, but thank you. Sit down rarely, Paladin, I
didn't mean to intrude.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
Like you can stop babbling now, mild Get your hands up, Paladin.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
No, Lavinia, don't shoot in. It would make too much noise, I.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Said, get your hands up, Paladin.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
All right, this is quite a surprise, Levina. I don't
know you carried a derringer in your purse.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
Oh, shut up and keep quiet. Well, Miles, your brandy
didn't work. What do we do now?
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Give me a chance to think what happened with the brandy?
Speaker 4 (18:12):
You probably forgot to put the poison in it?
Speaker 5 (18:15):
Poison, yes, Baladin, you should have been dead an hour ago.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Well, I uh, I must have opened the wrong bottle,
the wrong bosom. Hey boy, brought me a bottle a
couple of hours before yours arrived.
Speaker 6 (18:29):
They're identical.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
Well, Miles, that's something you didn't think of. Why don't
I just shoot him.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
And be done with No, No, we'll be caught before
we can get out of here.
Speaker 6 (18:41):
Yes, the shot would wake the hotel Lauvigna.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
I'd be willing to take the chance.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Now, there's no reason why we can't go through with
our original plan. Where's the other bottle?
Speaker 4 (18:51):
We'll look in his liquor cabinet.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
You really wouldn't expect me to drink the brandy now, Lavina.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
If you don't, then I'll be forced to shoot you.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Either way, I lose either way.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Then I think I prefer being shot.
Speaker 10 (19:07):
Give me the guns, give it to me now, I'll
take the gun, Mius.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
You shocked me, Miles, he's dead, Hey boy, I uh,
(19:59):
I can't tell you how which I appreciate you.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
Coming all the way over here to open with me.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Well, not often you go on such plenty long trick,
missa Paladin, fool, bad, Miss Woe couldn't get off work
and come with us and say goodbye.
Speaker 6 (20:11):
Yes she wanted to.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Well maybe fat does she not come? She'd be crying
big tears on. Hey boys, sholl up all the way
back to the hotel.
Speaker 9 (20:22):
Oh, here you are, mister Pellin, right on the spot.
Speaker 8 (20:28):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Driver, here you are, thank you. Oh you need help
with those bags? No, hey boy, and I can handle him.
You will wait for him, won't you?
Speaker 7 (20:39):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (20:40):
Yes, sir, and see that he gets back to the content.
Speaker 6 (20:42):
On mister Pella good.
Speaker 8 (20:44):
Oh, here, hey boy, I'll carry the big one.
Speaker 6 (20:45):
Oh all right, let's go.
Speaker 8 (20:49):
We want car fourteen.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Hey boy, well we we've hurried mesa Paladin.
Speaker 6 (20:54):
That's sorry.
Speaker 8 (20:56):
Yeah, that's my car right over there.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Oh oh, what we do with these backs?
Speaker 8 (21:06):
And put them in the rest of you youle the
conductor will take care of them for me.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Here we are please up they go area. Oh that's
it now.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Remember, hey boy, the other trunks are ready to ship.
I'll right, you'll let you know where.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
To send Lissa Parligan. When will you come back?
Speaker 8 (21:24):
I don't know, hey boy.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
All depends on how long it takes me to liquidate
my aunt's estate. Several months at least then you never know.
I may take a liking to bust and settle down
there permanently.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
It won't be the same cotton hotel. Why are you gone?
Speaker 8 (21:37):
Oh no, I've left many times before.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Hey boy, he saw crazy time. You will not come back.
Speaker 8 (21:43):
Maybe you're never gonna be sure. Just don't forget me.
Keep looking for me.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
I may be back, he saw.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
I hope so oh, and don't forget to send me
the San Francisco papers. I'm gonna be sure and follow
Miss Todd Hunter's trial.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Oh what do you think they do with huh? Senator?
Speaker 8 (21:59):
Jail for you here?
Speaker 3 (22:01):
You better go up?
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Yes, now, hey boy, look, if you and miss Wang
decide to get married, give me plenty of notice.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
I will be back for that. Oh well right, I'll
let you know all right.
Speaker 6 (22:19):
Bye boy?
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Then, oh bye.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Bye? You buy me up.
Speaker 6 (22:51):
Have Done Will Travel?
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Created by Herb Meadow and Sam row Is Prutio stand
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 by mister Parris. Featured in the
cast were Vic Perrin, Bartlet Robinson, John James, and Lynn Allen.
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Tonight's CDs Radio brings to a close this current series
of programs. This is Hugh Douglas extending best wishes to
you from the cast and crew of Have Gun, Will Travel,
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