September 30, 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 (00:00):
Yeah, this woman may spend a lot of money and
time in your store, Billy, but it's a good customer
worth more than your life.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Have Gone, Will Travel, starring mister John Dayner as Paladin,
San Francisco, eighteen seventy five, The Carlton Hotel, headquarters of
a man called Paladin. Hey, I lot to do it?
(00:57):
Thank Hey boy? Oh are you thought Day's one thing?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Hey boy?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Not understand what's that?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Why you take fancy shorts on easy trip?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Mesty? I'm not sure I know the answer myself. I
just had a feeling that Whitewater Falls has become a
very fashionable town now that Billy Boggs has set up
shopped there, and I want to be in style.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Oh Billy Bogs he's the same man who have.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Halbadashi shopping in San Francisco for many years.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yes, that's right, say man. Why do you move away
to dinky town like Whitewater Falls where his health? He
said he couldn't stand the fog anymore? Oh fog, not
hot health, Hey boy, like fog, like big city, much
better than dinky town. Well to each his own, aih boy,
why he something for you? Hear much trouble if a
man threatened to kill you because he thought you were
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trying to steal his wife. Would that be trouble?
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
You saw, that's what Billy said in his letter. Oh,
Mike would be big sad men. We'll see, hey boy,
But it's I have to believe that Billy Boggs was
mixed up with a woman, especially a married woman. Never
seem to be the type. Ah can't always tell a
man by way he looks. Ordinarily, i'd agree with you,
but not when it comes to Billy Boggs. But we'll see,
(02:10):
Hey boy, we'll see.
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Speaker 6 (03:16):
Overnight from a Haberdager shop in San Francisco to a
general store in Whitewater Falls was quite transitional.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
From the street, it looked like any other general store anywhere,
but inside it looked more like Billy Boggs, except for
one big difference. He was now specializing in women's apparel
instead of men's. More than half the floor space was
devoted to a ladies department, where the latest Paris styles
were proudly displayed. The more mundane items found in a
general store, like cheese and coal oil were crowded to
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the corners. Billy Bobs personally attended to fashion, and I
must admit he had a style all his own.
Speaker 7 (03:57):
I declare that givon town before you brought high fashion
to it.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
It's a privilege of the pleasure to a dawn. He's
such as yours. How you do go.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Well? I must say, believe your merchandise is more attractive
than your customers is well, that they don't have to
be gorgeous paladin as long as I can make them.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Believe they are. It keeps me in business.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
I'd like to be a dangerous philosophy, Billy. Perhaps that's
causing your present troubles.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Oh no, no, no, they're not all like that old hen.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Oh, Paladin, wait until you meet the media.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I mean missus arbuthnot. I wants the full story, Billy.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
But it's like I told you, her husband got it
in for me just because she praised high style and
spends a lot of time in my store.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
He's fixing the gun met And when does he.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Propose to do this? But how do I know? I
haven't talked to him. They haven't talked to him. How
do he make his threat through her? For Amelia, She's
warned me he thinks she's attracted to me because she
comes in here all the time. Why don't you keep
her out?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Well, I can't do that. She's my best customer.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
It was a good customer, worth more than your life.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Well, now, I hadn't thought about it exactly that way.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
I think there's more to this than you're telling me.
Baby Bobs. Now, Paladin, don't be jumping to any conclusions.
All I want you to do is to keep Henry
Arbuth not from killing me, And I'm willing to pay
you this kind of protection. Usually one's pretty high. Whatever
you say, I'll let you know. Maybe i'd better get
arbus Nott's side of this before I decided to take
the job.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Amelia can tell you all about it.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
When do I meet her?
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Right now?
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Look? Oh that's her, Missus Arbuser. That's right, Oh my mind,
she is indeed a looker.
Speaker 7 (05:46):
Oh really, I came as soon as I heard you
had a new ship. Did you get the reversible silk
pennicoats with a lacy frill? Oh excuse me, I didn't
know you were waiting on someone.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Oh that's all right, that's all right, Amelia.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
I want you to meet a friend of mine.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Then this is missus arbuthnot one of my most valued customers.
How do you do, mister p Hey, mister Paladin is
a business associate of minor media.
Speaker 8 (06:10):
Indeed, will your business keep you long in White Waterfalls?
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Mister Paladin?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
That depends what you.
Speaker 9 (06:20):
Me?
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Well, that's to say. I'm I'm here to make a
survey of mister Bogg's female clientele.
Speaker 8 (06:28):
How interesting? When do you begin?
Speaker 2 (06:32):
I already have, but I should.
Speaker 8 (06:35):
Think such a project would proceed more successfully under less
formal circumstances. It might then suppose you take tea with
me this afternoon.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
I should be honored, Amelia.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
I should like to direct your attention that he's perfectly
entrancing body later later.
Speaker 8 (06:54):
I seem to have lost my interest in clothes for
the moment, but Villa can direct my house.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Mister Paladin, I'll expect.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
You with three I'll be there until then.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Until then, well, well, now look here, Paladin, I'm not
hiring you to socialize with missus Arbuthot.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
You're supposed to protect me from her husband.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
I am beginning to think guy, and may have to
protect you from yourself.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
And what do you mean by that?
Speaker 2 (07:25):
You didn't look like shopkeeper and customer to me, Billy
this and Amelia that. Are you sure you aren't holding
out some facts on me?
Speaker 3 (07:33):
My private life has nothing to do with it.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Oh, it has everything to do with it, Your private
life and hers and her husband's. The only way I
can do a job for you is to find out
all I can about the people involved. If you don't
want me to do that, then maybe we just as
well forget about the whole thing and I'll go back
to San Francisco.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Yeah, well maybe that would be best.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Whatever you say, Paladin.
Speaker 8 (07:54):
Look look up the street there out therewn the street.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
He's coming this way.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
He's coming to get me, big fell in the buckskin colt.
That's Henry arbuthnot her husband. Yes, yes, he doesn't look
so big or so tough, but he is. He isn't
coming in here, he's walking right past the door. Oh there, Well,
this time maybe, but the day will come. Listen, bogs.
He wasn't even wearing a gun. No, he probably left
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in the gun shop to have it put in the
top knotch shape to kill MINDI And oh.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Look, Paladin, forget what I said. Do it your way.
Anything you say goes only only. Don't walk out on me.
Don't let that man kill me.
Speaker 8 (08:51):
Mister Palladin, How nice of you to come.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
I've been looking forward to him, you say.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
The nicest things.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Come in.
Speaker 8 (09:00):
We can have tea in my private sitting room.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Oh how cozy. Come a lovely home.
Speaker 8 (09:08):
We enjoy it.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
In here.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Thank you.
Speaker 8 (09:14):
Come now, sit here beside me on the love seats.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Is there room? We'll make room there.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Now.
Speaker 8 (09:27):
I didn't know you were such a famous man. Mister paladin,
am I my husband told me all about you. Yes,
how many men have you killed?
Speaker 4 (09:37):
A paladine?
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Well? Quite, frankly, I don't recall have.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
You ever killed over a woman?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Over a woman?
Speaker 8 (09:46):
I must make a man feel like a god to
killed for his woman, just stand there, gun smoking, looking
down on his dead rival, knowing what a.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Prize is waiting for it.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
I wouldn't know.
Speaker 8 (09:59):
Come now, and don't be modest. Then how must she feel,
the woman these two men have fought over to that moment?
She must, She must feel, indeed, like a goddess at
whose alter a human sacrifice has been late?
Speaker 2 (10:13):
She might if she were as romantic as you are.
Do you find me so, mister bat Well? Maybe you've
been reading too many novels.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
I do read a great deal.
Speaker 8 (10:25):
But then why shouldn't I. Nothing ever happens in Whitewaterfall.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Like men being killed over a beautiful woman.
Speaker 8 (10:32):
Who would do that? In this town? A bunch of
farmers who never shot anything more dangerous than a jack rabbit.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Billy Bobbs tells me your husband was once pretty handy
with a gun.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Why he was to hear him tell about it?
Speaker 8 (10:47):
I suspect he could still outdraw anyone in these parts except.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
You, mister Pallatto. I'm not looking for any trouble.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
I'm troubled, mister Pallatt.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Are you for the right man?
Speaker 8 (11:02):
Are you the right man?
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Paladin?
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Right man? For one?
Speaker 4 (11:07):
For me?
Speaker 2 (11:10):
I haven't given it much thomb.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
But you will now that you know I have, won't you?
Speaker 2 (11:19):
It does seem to give it some immediacy.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
You're Hymn Paladin. You're what I've been waiting for.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
And there's really nothing much I can do about it?
Is there?
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Nothing but a see gracefully?
Speaker 4 (11:36):
And you won't find that too much trouble, will you, Palatine?
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Not when you're this close to me? Ma'am Amelia Amelia, Yeah,
you must be, Palette. That's right. Excuse the interruption. Sit down.
Why a media said you'd been coming to call? Oh
she didn't. Yes, Amelia has no secrets from me, have you.
Speaker 8 (12:02):
My dear none, Henry? Why should I so?
Speaker 2 (12:05):
If you'll get that nervous hand of yours away from
your holster, I'd like to shake it. Oh, yes, of course,
I'm glad to meet you, mister Robert. Not I to
meet you, Paladin. You're so famous, you're practically a legend.
But as you can see, as human as the next man,
and as susceptible to temptation, he who is without sin
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let him throw the first stone.
Speaker 8 (12:28):
You see what I mean, Paladin? You see the kind
of heroes we grow in these parts.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Now, Melia, you're going to start that all over again?
Speaker 8 (12:35):
No, Henry, what good would it do?
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Emilia thinks things are too quiet around here. You're always
trying to stir up some excitement, Henry. That isn't true,
isn't it? Now? Mister Paladin, I figure if you don't
go looking for trouble, trouble won't come looking for you.
But you saw plenty of it in your time, didn't you?
Maybe I have. But if the Good Lord lets you
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live long enough, you learn the There aren't very many
reasons for drawing a gun on a man, but the
only one that comes to mind, right, Redle, is to
protect yourself. And then two man gets to be my age.
His fingers get the rheumatism, his eyes isn't so good.
You'd better keep his gun in his holster, right, mister
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pell If you say so. Mister However, a death Henry
arbus Not may once have been with a gun. It
was clear that he was no longer a cut to anyone.
He had a philosophy of non violence in the body
that was tending to go flabby. Billy Boggs was safe,
and I told him so. You're you're sure positive. Whether
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you're selling a Ribbons, yard goods, paras hats or your
special brand of sweet talk, you are safe. I told you, Paladin.
Our relationship is strictly business, whatever it is. Your life
is in no danger and never was. Hmm. Yeah. Now
you say, arbus Knot's got a philosophy or whatever he is,
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but he could change his mind, could be he sure good?
But he won't. You sound he positive? I am why
he's not as young as he once was. He's slowing down.
He's gotta touch your rheumatism in his gun hand.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Hm?
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Is that a fact? Eyes aren't as sharp anymore? I
never knew that. What are you gonna do now, Billy
played foot? See with that wife of his under his nose,
or face up to it like a man and run
away with him? Neither?
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Paladin neither. But in any case, my plans no longer
concern you.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
That they don't, And I'm mighty glad to be out
of it. Are you going back to San Francisco as well?
No stage until tomorrow morning. I'll be on it, but
if you need me, I'll be around till then. Well,
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even mister Bogg's evening then, I don't have a whiskey
whiskey this tomorrow, I said, whiskey. Since when did you
go off from the beer working?
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Since when is that any of your business?
Speaker 2 (15:09):
I assume, mister Bogs one whiskey.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
H Mister Arbor flopping in this evening?
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Why?
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Yes, he's right over there in the corner, sitting there
on a hand the poker. Yes, yes, I see him.
Hey did your found mister Peloton leave?
Speaker 3 (15:26):
No man, he leaves tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Well out of there. Mister bug eating Red, Hey, what's
the big idea? Huh? What idea? Red? I never saw
you wearing a gun before?
Speaker 3 (15:39):
H well you do now it's so nice and shiny
and new.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Like it was out of your stock.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
It is it is?
Speaker 6 (15:48):
I come, Are you gunning for somebody?
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Maybe?
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Why?
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Oh no?
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Now, what's so funny? What you on the frog? You
don't too upset me. I'm not gunning for you, and
I don't want to. You better not be he's coming
this way.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
But you who you stick around and see Arbatot Henry
armas not, oh leavening Bobs, Arba's not.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
The time has come for a showdown. Indeed, yes, it's
you or me.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Go home and sleep it off, Bob.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Now, don't you tell me what to do.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Don't you tell me anything. And that's fair enough. Good night, Bob.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Now wait a minute, Wait a minute here, Now, you
don't walk out on me. I'm not finished yet, do
you hear me? Arbatot, I'm not finished with you. You
better stop right where you are. I'm not anxious to
shoot you in the back, but I will necessary.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Why don't you go home, Bogs, I've.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Got no quarrel with you.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Well, I've got a quarrel with you, and we're settling
it right now, So go on, hop for your gun.
That's the matter. You're getting too old for gunfighting. It's
a sure thing. You're too old for that young wife
of yours.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
You'll leave her out of it.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
I can't.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
She's right in the middle of it. She's sick to
death for you. Areba's No.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Didn't you know that everybody else in town does? Everybody
else knows what's been going on between us, and thing's
only fair to let you in on the secret.
Speaker 10 (17:09):
You Lly, Telly, what happened?
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Kaladin? He went for his gun, his.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Gun, he's still in his horse seat. If he couldn't
have his hand was too crippled. You knew that, I
told you that.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Oh I don't remember, Billie.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
This is murdered. You know it, and I know it.
Somebody got the word to Amelia arbus nothing. She came
running up the moonlit street, holding her skirts high. She
threw herself on her husband's body, and she seemed to
be sobbing. I could see her unbuckle her husband's gun belt.
She got it loose, rose to her feet, strapping it
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around her waist.
Speaker 8 (18:00):
To Bob, I don't see the firing.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
My husband's gone, Amilia.
Speaker 7 (18:04):
I'm giving you a chance to defend yourself.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
I can't go up against a woman.
Speaker 7 (18:09):
Why not you went up against a man who was
unable to defend himself.
Speaker 8 (18:14):
I'm able, and.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
I will, but I can't, Amelia. I love you, I'll do.
Speaker 8 (18:18):
You now love me enough to murder my husband.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
I gave him a fair chance like i'm giving you.
Oh no, no, no, Amelia, I can't.
Speaker 8 (18:26):
You're not scared a little me, are you, Billy not?
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Look you know what you're doing?
Speaker 8 (18:31):
You better I do. He didn't think there was room
in White Waterfalls for him and my husband. Well there
isn't room in the whole wide world for him and me.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
But I love you, Amelia. I won't shoot you.
Speaker 8 (18:43):
That's too bad, Billy Moggs, because I love you, and
I will shoot you Amelia. All right, make your plate.
Any of you boys want to call anodion on this.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
I met with the player fight and the best man.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
That is very well, then I'm missus arbath not, I'd
better escort you home.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Why, thank you, mister Paladin.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Yeah, you knew he wouldn't draw on you, didn't you?
Aren't you forgetting no remembering? I didn't realize you had
such a strong feeling for your husband.
Speaker 8 (19:33):
I didn't.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
But you just killed Billy to avenge his murder.
Speaker 8 (19:38):
Not to avenge my husband's murder, Paladin, to remove Billy.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
I don't understand.
Speaker 8 (19:46):
Billy Boggs was such a dreadfully silly little man, but
he did do us a favor.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Us, you and me.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
It is the favor of removing Henry.
Speaker 8 (19:59):
I'm great, true, but We wouldn't want Billy around bothering.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
Us, now, would we?
Speaker 2 (20:07):
What a pity you didn't tap it over with me first?
Speaker 3 (20:12):
What do you mean?
Speaker 8 (20:15):
Haven't you understood the word? I've said?
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Every word, missus, not every word? And all I bet
to say to you is good night?
Speaker 9 (20:42):
You please me?
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Yes, miss one, I.
Speaker 11 (20:48):
Finished cleaning room. Would you that make you want to
bring you some nice hot coffee?
Speaker 3 (20:53):
No?
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Thanks, mis wll I'll be going down for lunch soon
you are for yes? If you're fine? Why do you ask? Well?
Speaker 11 (21:03):
Ever since you come back, you've been very quiet. You
look quite like you've been scared.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
As a matter of fact, I was a little frightened.
This wrong?
Speaker 8 (21:15):
What kill you?
Speaker 3 (21:17):
A fum fatalos understand.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
But it's hard to explain. There's nothing like it in China.
I'm sure fum fatao a fatal woman. That's to say,
a woman who tries to get her man no matter what.
Speaker 11 (21:34):
Now, make w understand we have sainting in China.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Well, perhaps you do it that, but not the kind
who uses a gun.
Speaker 11 (21:41):
Oh no, sir, Chinese woman I have to use gun
can get her man much better with hot guns. Of
many that.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
I think I know what you mean, And I believe
I have witnessed Arms long as a FuMB fato when
it comes.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
To hey boy, you're very observant.
Speaker 7 (22:04):
Man.
Speaker 9 (22:04):
We to call it it.
Speaker 7 (22:15):
Be sociable, look smart, keep today, protect me.
Speaker 11 (22:23):
Drink lighting propression.
Speaker 12 (22:25):
Text Germany, be sociable, the pete, be sociable, look man,
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keep today with com decile.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Have Gun Will Travel, headed by Hert Metal and Sam
raw Is Putio stand directed in Hollywood by Frank Parris
and stars John Dayner as Paladin, with Ben Wright as
hey Boy and Virginia greg as Miss Wan. Tonight's story
was specially written for Half Gun Will Travel by William
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and Robson. Seated in the cast were Oldin Sleigh, Jack Moyles,
Russell Arms and Lynn Allen. This is Hugh Douglas inviting
you to join us again next week when CBS Radio
presents Have Gun Will Travel The st
Yeah, this woman may spend a lot of money and
time in your store, Billy, but it's a good customer
worth more than your life.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Have Gone, Will Travel, starring mister John Dayner as Paladin,
San Francisco, eighteen seventy five, The Carlton Hotel, headquarters of
a man called Paladin. Hey, I lot to do it?
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Thank Hey boy? Oh are you thought Day's one thing?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Hey boy?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Not understand what's that?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Why you take fancy shorts on easy trip?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Mesty? I'm not sure I know the answer myself. I
just had a feeling that Whitewater Falls has become a
very fashionable town now that Billy Boggs has set up
shopped there, and I want to be in style.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Oh Billy Bogs he's the same man who have.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Halbadashi shopping in San Francisco for many years.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yes, that's right, say man. Why do you move away
to dinky town like Whitewater Falls where his health? He
said he couldn't stand the fog anymore? Oh fog, not
hot health, Hey boy, like fog, like big city, much
better than dinky town. Well to each his own, aih boy,
why he something for you? Hear much trouble if a
man threatened to kill you because he thought you were
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trying to steal his wife. Would that be trouble?
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
You saw, that's what Billy said in his letter. Oh,
Mike would be big sad men. We'll see, hey boy,
But it's I have to believe that Billy Boggs was
mixed up with a woman, especially a married woman. Never
seem to be the type. Ah can't always tell a
man by way he looks. Ordinarily, i'd agree with you,
but not when it comes to Billy Boggs. But we'll see,
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Hey boy, we'll see.
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Speaker 6 (03:16):
Overnight from a Haberdager shop in San Francisco to a
general store in Whitewater Falls was quite transitional.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
From the street, it looked like any other general store anywhere,
but inside it looked more like Billy Boggs, except for
one big difference. He was now specializing in women's apparel
instead of men's. More than half the floor space was
devoted to a ladies department, where the latest Paris styles
were proudly displayed. The more mundane items found in a
general store, like cheese and coal oil were crowded to
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the corners. Billy Bobs personally attended to fashion, and I
must admit he had a style all his own.
Speaker 7 (03:57):
I declare that givon town before you brought high fashion
to it.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
It's a privilege of the pleasure to a dawn. He's
such as yours. How you do go.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Well? I must say, believe your merchandise is more attractive
than your customers is well, that they don't have to
be gorgeous paladin as long as I can make them.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Believe they are. It keeps me in business.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
I'd like to be a dangerous philosophy, Billy. Perhaps that's
causing your present troubles.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Oh no, no, no, they're not all like that old hen.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Oh, Paladin, wait until you meet the media.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I mean missus arbuthnot. I wants the full story, Billy.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
But it's like I told you, her husband got it
in for me just because she praised high style and
spends a lot of time in my store.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
He's fixing the gun met And when does he.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Propose to do this? But how do I know? I
haven't talked to him. They haven't talked to him. How
do he make his threat through her? For Amelia, She's
warned me he thinks she's attracted to me because she
comes in here all the time. Why don't you keep
her out?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Well, I can't do that. She's my best customer.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
It was a good customer, worth more than your life.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Well, now, I hadn't thought about it exactly that way.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
I think there's more to this than you're telling me.
Baby Bobs. Now, Paladin, don't be jumping to any conclusions.
All I want you to do is to keep Henry
Arbuth not from killing me, And I'm willing to pay
you this kind of protection. Usually one's pretty high. Whatever
you say, I'll let you know. Maybe i'd better get
arbus Nott's side of this before I decided to take
the job.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Amelia can tell you all about it.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
When do I meet her?
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Right now?
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Look? Oh that's her, Missus Arbuser. That's right, Oh my mind,
she is indeed a looker.
Speaker 7 (05:46):
Oh really, I came as soon as I heard you
had a new ship. Did you get the reversible silk
pennicoats with a lacy frill? Oh excuse me, I didn't
know you were waiting on someone.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Oh that's all right, that's all right, Amelia.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
I want you to meet a friend of mine.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Then this is missus arbuthnot one of my most valued customers.
How do you do, mister p Hey, mister Paladin is
a business associate of minor media.
Speaker 8 (06:10):
Indeed, will your business keep you long in White Waterfalls?
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Mister Paladin?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
That depends what you.
Speaker 9 (06:20):
Me?
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Well, that's to say. I'm I'm here to make a
survey of mister Bogg's female clientele.
Speaker 8 (06:28):
How interesting? When do you begin?
Speaker 2 (06:32):
I already have, but I should.
Speaker 8 (06:35):
Think such a project would proceed more successfully under less
formal circumstances. It might then suppose you take tea with
me this afternoon.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
I should be honored, Amelia.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
I should like to direct your attention that he's perfectly
entrancing body later later.
Speaker 8 (06:54):
I seem to have lost my interest in clothes for
the moment, but Villa can direct my house.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Mister Paladin, I'll expect.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
You with three I'll be there until then.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Until then, well, well, now look here, Paladin, I'm not
hiring you to socialize with missus Arbuthot.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
You're supposed to protect me from her husband.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
I am beginning to think guy, and may have to
protect you from yourself.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
And what do you mean by that?
Speaker 2 (07:25):
You didn't look like shopkeeper and customer to me, Billy
this and Amelia that. Are you sure you aren't holding
out some facts on me?
Speaker 3 (07:33):
My private life has nothing to do with it.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Oh, it has everything to do with it, Your private
life and hers and her husband's. The only way I
can do a job for you is to find out
all I can about the people involved. If you don't
want me to do that, then maybe we just as
well forget about the whole thing and I'll go back
to San Francisco.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Yeah, well maybe that would be best.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Whatever you say, Paladin.
Speaker 8 (07:54):
Look look up the street there out therewn the street.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
He's coming this way.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
He's coming to get me, big fell in the buckskin colt.
That's Henry arbuthnot her husband. Yes, yes, he doesn't look
so big or so tough, but he is. He isn't
coming in here, he's walking right past the door. Oh there, Well,
this time maybe, but the day will come. Listen, bogs.
He wasn't even wearing a gun. No, he probably left
(08:21):
in the gun shop to have it put in the
top knotch shape to kill MINDI And oh.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Look, Paladin, forget what I said. Do it your way.
Anything you say goes only only. Don't walk out on me.
Don't let that man kill me.
Speaker 8 (08:51):
Mister Palladin, How nice of you to come.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
I've been looking forward to him, you say.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
The nicest things.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Come in.
Speaker 8 (09:00):
We can have tea in my private sitting room.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Oh how cozy. Come a lovely home.
Speaker 8 (09:08):
We enjoy it.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
In here.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Thank you.
Speaker 8 (09:14):
Come now, sit here beside me on the love seats.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Is there room? We'll make room there.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Now.
Speaker 8 (09:27):
I didn't know you were such a famous man. Mister paladin,
am I my husband told me all about you. Yes,
how many men have you killed?
Speaker 4 (09:37):
A paladine?
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Well? Quite, frankly, I don't recall have.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
You ever killed over a woman?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Over a woman?
Speaker 8 (09:46):
I must make a man feel like a god to
killed for his woman, just stand there, gun smoking, looking
down on his dead rival, knowing what a.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Prize is waiting for it.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
I wouldn't know.
Speaker 8 (09:59):
Come now, and don't be modest. Then how must she feel,
the woman these two men have fought over to that moment?
She must, She must feel, indeed, like a goddess at
whose alter a human sacrifice has been late?
Speaker 2 (10:13):
She might if she were as romantic as you are.
Do you find me so, mister bat Well? Maybe you've
been reading too many novels.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
I do read a great deal.
Speaker 8 (10:25):
But then why shouldn't I. Nothing ever happens in Whitewaterfall.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Like men being killed over a beautiful woman.
Speaker 8 (10:32):
Who would do that? In this town? A bunch of
farmers who never shot anything more dangerous than a jack rabbit.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Billy Bobbs tells me your husband was once pretty handy
with a gun.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Why he was to hear him tell about it?
Speaker 8 (10:47):
I suspect he could still outdraw anyone in these parts except.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
You, mister Pallatto. I'm not looking for any trouble.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
I'm troubled, mister Pallatt.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Are you for the right man?
Speaker 8 (11:02):
Are you the right man?
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Paladin?
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Right man? For one?
Speaker 4 (11:07):
For me?
Speaker 2 (11:10):
I haven't given it much thomb.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
But you will now that you know I have, won't you?
Speaker 2 (11:19):
It does seem to give it some immediacy.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
You're Hymn Paladin. You're what I've been waiting for.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
And there's really nothing much I can do about it?
Is there?
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Nothing but a see gracefully?
Speaker 4 (11:36):
And you won't find that too much trouble, will you, Palatine?
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Not when you're this close to me? Ma'am Amelia Amelia, Yeah,
you must be, Palette. That's right. Excuse the interruption. Sit down.
Why a media said you'd been coming to call? Oh
she didn't. Yes, Amelia has no secrets from me, have you.
Speaker 8 (12:02):
My dear none, Henry? Why should I so?
Speaker 2 (12:05):
If you'll get that nervous hand of yours away from
your holster, I'd like to shake it. Oh, yes, of course,
I'm glad to meet you, mister Robert. Not I to
meet you, Paladin. You're so famous, you're practically a legend.
But as you can see, as human as the next man,
and as susceptible to temptation, he who is without sin
(12:26):
let him throw the first stone.
Speaker 8 (12:28):
You see what I mean, Paladin? You see the kind
of heroes we grow in these parts.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Now, Melia, you're going to start that all over again?
Speaker 8 (12:35):
No, Henry, what good would it do?
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Emilia thinks things are too quiet around here. You're always
trying to stir up some excitement, Henry. That isn't true,
isn't it? Now? Mister Paladin, I figure if you don't
go looking for trouble, trouble won't come looking for you.
But you saw plenty of it in your time, didn't you?
Maybe I have. But if the Good Lord lets you
(12:58):
live long enough, you learn the There aren't very many
reasons for drawing a gun on a man, but the
only one that comes to mind, right, Redle, is to
protect yourself. And then two man gets to be my age.
His fingers get the rheumatism, his eyes isn't so good.
You'd better keep his gun in his holster, right, mister
(13:20):
pell If you say so. Mister However, a death Henry
arbus Not may once have been with a gun. It
was clear that he was no longer a cut to anyone.
He had a philosophy of non violence in the body
that was tending to go flabby. Billy Boggs was safe,
and I told him so. You're you're sure positive. Whether
(13:43):
you're selling a Ribbons, yard goods, paras hats or your
special brand of sweet talk, you are safe. I told you, Paladin.
Our relationship is strictly business, whatever it is. Your life
is in no danger and never was. Hmm. Yeah. Now
you say, arbus Knot's got a philosophy or whatever he is,
(14:04):
but he could change his mind, could be he sure good?
But he won't. You sound he positive? I am why
he's not as young as he once was. He's slowing down.
He's gotta touch your rheumatism in his gun hand.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Hm?
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Is that a fact? Eyes aren't as sharp anymore? I
never knew that. What are you gonna do now, Billy
played foot? See with that wife of his under his nose,
or face up to it like a man and run
away with him? Neither?
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Paladin neither. But in any case, my plans no longer
concern you.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
That they don't, And I'm mighty glad to be out
of it. Are you going back to San Francisco as well?
No stage until tomorrow morning. I'll be on it, but
if you need me, I'll be around till then. Well,
(14:56):
even mister Bogg's evening then, I don't have a whiskey
whiskey this tomorrow, I said, whiskey. Since when did you
go off from the beer working?
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Since when is that any of your business?
Speaker 2 (15:09):
I assume, mister Bogs one whiskey.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
H Mister Arbor flopping in this evening?
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Why?
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Yes, he's right over there in the corner, sitting there
on a hand the poker. Yes, yes, I see him.
Hey did your found mister Peloton leave?
Speaker 3 (15:26):
No man, he leaves tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Well out of there. Mister bug eating Red, Hey, what's
the big idea? Huh? What idea? Red? I never saw
you wearing a gun before?
Speaker 3 (15:39):
H well you do now it's so nice and shiny
and new.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Like it was out of your stock.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
It is it is?
Speaker 6 (15:48):
I come, Are you gunning for somebody?
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Maybe?
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Why?
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Oh no?
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Now, what's so funny? What you on the frog? You
don't too upset me. I'm not gunning for you, and
I don't want to. You better not be he's coming
this way.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
But you who you stick around and see Arbatot Henry
armas not, oh leavening Bobs, Arba's not.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
The time has come for a showdown. Indeed, yes, it's
you or me.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Go home and sleep it off, Bob.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Now, don't you tell me what to do.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Don't you tell me anything. And that's fair enough. Good night, Bob.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Now wait a minute, Wait a minute here, Now, you
don't walk out on me. I'm not finished yet, do
you hear me? Arbatot, I'm not finished with you. You
better stop right where you are. I'm not anxious to
shoot you in the back, but I will necessary.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Why don't you go home, Bogs, I've.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Got no quarrel with you.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Well, I've got a quarrel with you, and we're settling
it right now, So go on, hop for your gun.
That's the matter. You're getting too old for gunfighting. It's
a sure thing. You're too old for that young wife
of yours.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
You'll leave her out of it.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
I can't.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
She's right in the middle of it. She's sick to
death for you. Areba's No.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Didn't you know that everybody else in town does? Everybody
else knows what's been going on between us, and thing's
only fair to let you in on the secret.
Speaker 10 (17:09):
You Lly, Telly, what happened?
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Kaladin? He went for his gun, his.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Gun, he's still in his horse seat. If he couldn't
have his hand was too crippled. You knew that, I
told you that.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Oh I don't remember, Billie.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
This is murdered. You know it, and I know it.
Somebody got the word to Amelia arbus nothing. She came
running up the moonlit street, holding her skirts high. She
threw herself on her husband's body, and she seemed to
be sobbing. I could see her unbuckle her husband's gun belt.
She got it loose, rose to her feet, strapping it
(17:58):
around her waist.
Speaker 8 (18:00):
To Bob, I don't see the firing.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
My husband's gone, Amilia.
Speaker 7 (18:04):
I'm giving you a chance to defend yourself.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
I can't go up against a woman.
Speaker 7 (18:09):
Why not you went up against a man who was
unable to defend himself.
Speaker 8 (18:14):
I'm able, and.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
I will, but I can't, Amelia. I love you, I'll do.
Speaker 8 (18:18):
You now love me enough to murder my husband.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
I gave him a fair chance like i'm giving you.
Oh no, no, no, Amelia, I can't.
Speaker 8 (18:26):
You're not scared a little me, are you, Billy not?
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Look you know what you're doing?
Speaker 8 (18:31):
You better I do. He didn't think there was room
in White Waterfalls for him and my husband. Well there
isn't room in the whole wide world for him and me.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
But I love you, Amelia. I won't shoot you.
Speaker 8 (18:43):
That's too bad, Billy Moggs, because I love you, and
I will shoot you Amelia. All right, make your plate.
Any of you boys want to call anodion on this.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
I met with the player fight and the best man.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
That is very well, then I'm missus arbath not, I'd
better escort you home.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Why, thank you, mister Paladin.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Yeah, you knew he wouldn't draw on you, didn't you?
Aren't you forgetting no remembering? I didn't realize you had
such a strong feeling for your husband.
Speaker 8 (19:33):
I didn't.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
But you just killed Billy to avenge his murder.
Speaker 8 (19:38):
Not to avenge my husband's murder, Paladin, to remove Billy.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
I don't understand.
Speaker 8 (19:46):
Billy Boggs was such a dreadfully silly little man, but
he did do us a favor.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Us, you and me.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
It is the favor of removing Henry.
Speaker 8 (19:59):
I'm great, true, but We wouldn't want Billy around bothering.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
Us, now, would we?
Speaker 2 (20:07):
What a pity you didn't tap it over with me first?
Speaker 3 (20:12):
What do you mean?
Speaker 8 (20:15):
Haven't you understood the word? I've said?
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Every word, missus, not every word? And all I bet
to say to you is good night?
Speaker 9 (20:42):
You please me?
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Yes, miss one, I.
Speaker 11 (20:48):
Finished cleaning room. Would you that make you want to
bring you some nice hot coffee?
Speaker 3 (20:53):
No?
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Thanks, mis wll I'll be going down for lunch soon
you are for yes? If you're fine? Why do you ask? Well?
Speaker 11 (21:03):
Ever since you come back, you've been very quiet. You
look quite like you've been scared.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
As a matter of fact, I was a little frightened.
This wrong?
Speaker 8 (21:15):
What kill you?
Speaker 3 (21:17):
A fum fatalos understand.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
But it's hard to explain. There's nothing like it in China.
I'm sure fum fatao a fatal woman. That's to say,
a woman who tries to get her man no matter what.
Speaker 11 (21:34):
Now, make w understand we have sainting in China.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Well, perhaps you do it that, but not the kind
who uses a gun.
Speaker 11 (21:41):
Oh no, sir, Chinese woman I have to use gun
can get her man much better with hot guns. Of
many that.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
I think I know what you mean, And I believe
I have witnessed Arms long as a FuMB fato when
it comes.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
To hey boy, you're very observant.
Speaker 7 (22:04):
Man.
Speaker 9 (22:04):
We to call it it.
Speaker 7 (22:15):
Be sociable, look smart, keep today, protect me.
Speaker 11 (22:23):
Drink lighting propression.
Speaker 12 (22:25):
Text Germany, be sociable, the pete, be sociable, look man,
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keep today with com decile.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
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was specially written for Half Gun Will Travel by William
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