October 3, 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 (00:09):
I memorized the map and destroyed it.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
If you'll kill me, you'll never find the money.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Have Gone, Will Travel, starring mister John Dayner as Paladin,
San Francisco, eighteen seventy five, The Carlton Hotel, headquarters of
a man called Paladin.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Paladin. He's a paladin?
Speaker 4 (00:57):
All right?
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Yes, yes, yes? What's all the excitement? Hey?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
You in trouble with the army?
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Trouble with the army? No? Oh, that's a good Why
do you ask? Well?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Here boy, here, army colonel ask for you downstairs?
Speaker 5 (01:14):
Hey boy, thought, maybe are you in trouble?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
I'll give you a chance to get away?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Oh too late, huh it's Potter, Colonel Potter.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Ball Well, Potter, what are you doing to see it?
Last I heard of you, you were on the trail
of those payroll bandits.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
What are you doing now?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
All I'm still on their trail, That's all. I have
come to you three years and you still haven't caught them?
Speaker 1 (01:36):
What come on? In good money?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Thanks, I'll talk to you later, Hey boy.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Well, sit down, John, have a cigar? Oh?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Here?
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Well, you you seem to have done all right, Ballad.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I tried.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
I just hope you're not so well off. You can't
use five hundred dollars. I can always use five hundred dollars. John,
you want me to join the search. We're getting close
to him, Paladin. With your help, I think we can
get him.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
How close are you?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
How much do you remember the case?
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Well?
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Arm me think it was a payroll for Fort Anderson.
Two men made off of the money and they took
how much was it eighty dollars ninety ninety and there
were three men in on it? Three, that's right. We
discovered there was an army man involved. He did all
the inside work. It didn't take us long to find him,
a private by the name of Jim Griffin. We've been
(02:38):
hauling him in the prison at the presiding of money
is not doing.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Him much good.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
No, no, but he never got his hands on it anyway.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
What makes you think? So?
Speaker 4 (02:47):
This?
Speaker 1 (02:48):
What's there?
Speaker 2 (02:50):
We found it in his personal effects. It's a piece
of a map. It indicates the position of the payroll money.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
And you think they buried it? Yes?
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Yes, Jim Griffin's been in the hospital at the prison
for the last six months. Part of that time he's
been delirious. We've heard him mumbling about the map and
from what we can gather. He and the other two
men made a pack to have somebody bury the money
and draw up a map, and apparently they divided the
map into three pieces. Who buried the money? Oh, we
don't know, but whoever it was, they killed him. We
(03:20):
learned that much from Griffin. He's also been talking about
meeting the others on December twelfth, or it'll be too late.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
I see. Now, where do I fit in with your plans?
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Well, Jim Griffin died this morning. Oh we want you
to be Jim Griffin.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
What are you talking about? John?
Speaker 6 (03:43):
Here, take a look.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
At this tin type. Let's see, it's a picture of
Griffin taking several years ago. This this is Griffin. You
look enough liking to be his twin Palatin?
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Will you do it? Well?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
I don't know, John, This map gives no location. I
wouldn't know where to start. Oh, we can help you there.
Griffin has a girlfriend who's come to visit him three
or four times. She probably knows where the meeting place is.
And if she doesn't, maybe the other two men will
come looking for you. Like I said, there's a five
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hundred dollars reward providing a course that you get the
proof on the other man and get the money back.
How do you want the money stuck, John, Then you'll
do it. I'll do it, Colonel Potter, shake hands with
Jim Griffin.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
There's no doubt about it.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
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Speaker 2 (05:50):
Three days later, I had become Jim Griffin. Colonel Potter
gave me as much information as they had of the
man's background, and I.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Was dishonorably discharged from the Army.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
I even said goodbye to Griffin's old cell mates, and
to a man, they accepted me. But the real test
was to come with Anna Baker, Griffin's girlfriend. The colonel's
men had found out that she lived with her mother,
fifteen miles from San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
If I could get by the girl, I could get
by anybody, as Jim Griffin.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Early one morning, I rode out there, and as I
came into the yard, an old woman greeted me, followed
by a flock of chicken when she had been feeding.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Hello there, Yes, yes, it's a baker. Don't you know me?
I know you. I've come to see Anna. She's not here.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
It's up to me. She'd never be here to you.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Griffin, go on, I got work to do.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
When will she be back?
Speaker 5 (06:55):
I took a horse to be shod.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Don't you mind if I wait?
Speaker 6 (07:01):
Jim Griffin, you ain't welcome here.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
You brought nothing but Sarah to us.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Now, why don't you just ride out of Anna's life?
I am leaving missus Baker. I wanted to say goodbye
to Anna.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
If she comes, have you a good bye and be
done with us. Jim, Hello Anna, Jim. They told me
you were sick.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
They wouldn't let me see you. They said you didn't
know when when I could see you.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
What's the matter? Why are you looking at me that way?
Speaker 5 (07:34):
You've you've changed, Jim.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Yeah, Well, prison does things to him.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
Man ask me.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
It ain't done enough to you, mother, Please, he should
have killed him.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Jim. Here, you're out of the army.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Now I'm out, all right? For good? Anna.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Wiley Carson was by day before yesterday. Wiley, Yes, he said,
I was to see you. They wouldn't let me in
at the prison. He said, I was to get something
from you.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Oh what you know?
Speaker 5 (08:09):
The piece of math? Have you got it?
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Yeah, I've got it.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Wiley said, maybe you'd give it to me. Now that
you're out, you can meet him yourself.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Did he say? Where?
Speaker 5 (08:21):
The Blue Nose Saloon in Johnson City? But you have
to hurry?
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (08:27):
Will you? Will you come back this way? Jim?
Speaker 1 (08:31):
You know I will. Anna.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
It's a promise, it's a promise.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Good luck bye. Johnson City consisted of a main street,
some twenty odd houses, and the Blue Nosed Saloon.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
There I waited for Wiley Carson. I didn't know what he.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Looked like, but I sat at a table where I
could see anyone who entered, and they could see me.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
I waited a whole day, then most of another. I'm
about another drink, mister, Ah, Well, yeah, fine, all right,
right away. I say, now, it ain't none of my business.
Speaker 6 (09:13):
But are you waiting for somebody?
Speaker 1 (09:16):
You're right, it isn't any of your business. And no offense,
mister just today.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
I don't remember seeing you before, and I been sitting
here for two days now.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
He just passing through. Maybe maybe not. And the no
offense now you understand that he just thought of it.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Asked I bought a drink.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
They coming right away.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Mister, Well look here, but night there was the light
of the army. Jim Griffin, Hello, Wiley, fight tender. You
can bring my drink over here.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
Yes, sir, this is a surprise.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Didn't think they'd ever let you out. I was expecting Anna,
and I decided to come myself. He looked different. Jim
at prison done things to you. You try it sometime,
you hear courtesy of the warden. Yeah, discharge dishonorable. Sounds
like maybe they'd know we was to have a meeting.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
What are you trying to say?
Speaker 2 (10:12):
I'm saying, maybe you're working for the army now. Maybe
a couple of years in prison they got you. You
listen to me, because I spent two years in a rotten,
stinking hole just dreaming of the time when we can
get that money.
Speaker 6 (10:27):
I was wrong, Jimmy. That prison makes you met her never.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
You just remember that whiley I remember Jim.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
You you two friends ready for your drinks? Now just
set them down. Answer you.
Speaker 6 (10:51):
You bring your piece of the map.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
I've got it.
Speaker 6 (10:55):
Let's see it.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
I said, I've got it right.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
All right, don't get hard hard about it.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Now you've been outside. What are the plans now?
Speaker 6 (11:05):
Same as I worked three years ago.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
All right, we meet Jake tomorrow at the cabinet hard Rock,
just like we agreed, Jim, and.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
We better get started. Drink up.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Yeah, this stuff so bad. We better take a couple
of bottles with us. Yeah, let'll suit yourself. You want
the old, Jim, I remember the old days. You'd have
wanted to bring a bottle yourself.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
You listen to me, there's only one thing I want.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
I've been waiting three years with that money, Jim. We
all been waiting serving time. I've been thinking two by four, cel.
Speaker 6 (11:43):
I'll get me a bottle. We'll go right now, Jim.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Hard Rock was sixty miles from Johnson City. The most
direct route ran through a series of grassy plateau that
finally tapered.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Out into high desert country.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
I knew that land like the back of my hand,
and so I knew the easiest.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Way to get there. Wiley and I didn't talk much.
I preferred not.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
To towards sundown that day. He began to try to
steer me away from the best route, but I stuck
to my guns. I was soon to find out the
reason for his actions.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Getting off betrayal. Jim No, I'm not. It is the
best way, and you know it.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
I think we ought to be adding more into them hills.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Oh this is the way. Sure, you don't want to drink,
jim No, and I'll have one. Oh boy, stuff's beginning
to place better the farther we get from town. Yeah,
(12:56):
let's go wasting time. But hey, wait a minute, look
over there where. Don't see nothing that way? The horse
all saddled. He's just standing there.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
Oh yeah, I see it.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Come on, come on, and Wiley, there's somebody in the ground,
so there is heat.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
Must have gun, Yeah they heat.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Hey, this man's been shot, Wiley, give me a hand.
That way. You are, mister, what you're doing? Put that
gun away? Who are you? What's the matter with you?
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Wiley or down your gun? Why because that ain't no
man lying there. That's Jake, the one we're supposed to meet.
You didn't recognize him. The guns brought it down easy,
like yeah, we're gonna have ourselves a little talk. Then
I'm gonna get you a piece of the map and
kill you, just like I'd done to Jake.
Speaker 7 (14:30):
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this little item over here and you come out Okay,
you're right, then what's wrong with you?
Speaker 3 (14:37):
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Speaker 2 (15:41):
All right, that's far enough. Sit down right here, I'm
gonna find out who you really are. You sure had
me full, mister. You're enough like Jim to be his twin.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
So you killed Jake to get his piece of them up?
Is that him?
Speaker 6 (15:56):
I'll ask the questions.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
You're tough, aren't you, mister? Are you? That's my business.
Speaker 6 (16:03):
I'll make you talk. I'll hand over that map.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
I haven't got it.
Speaker 6 (16:10):
I guess you think I'm fooling.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
I told you I haven't got it.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
It'd be awful easy for me to kill you, mister
and then take it.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
That wouldn't do you any good.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
I memorized it, threw it away. You kill me and
you won't get anything.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Let's go it.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
You won't kill me, Wiley, No, I no, no, I
didn't think.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
So we've got to get that money.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
All right? Then you show me the pieces of map
you have and I can take us to it.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
Okay, I guess I'm gonna have to trust you, mister.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
I guess you are that Wiley? H m hm. He
should be here, Wiley unless unless what hell?
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Unless somebody got to it before we didn't keep digging.
M see, Yeah, there's something here for sure. Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
That's the box I was in.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
I give me your hand, take it out. No, yeah,
it's too heavy for me. Will you give me a hand?
Speaker 6 (17:40):
All right, but I'll be holding this gun on you
don't try nothing?
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Why maybe not? You give me that gun? Y, willy, willy?
How you asked for it?
Speaker 5 (18:03):
Turn around, mister.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Annah dropped the gun?
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Annah?
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Why are you doing this?
Speaker 4 (18:14):
I've come for Billy's money, Billy.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
My brother, Billy. Open that box.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
You're making a mistake, all right.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
You didn't really think you could fool a man's woman,
did you.
Speaker 8 (18:34):
No?
Speaker 1 (18:34):
I guess now the money's here.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
All right, and me five thousand dollars five five thousand.
That's what they promised Billy. They got him to bury
the money, draw the map. Then they put a bullet
through his head. He was only sixteen.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
I didn't know ye.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
Who are you?
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Doesn't matter? Here's your five thousand dollars.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
Now where's Jim Griffin.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
He's dead. Dad, he died in prison.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
Jim.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
No, No, you loved him, didn't you.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
We were we were going to be married.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
He was going to work hard, make something of himself
an army and he.
Speaker 5 (19:44):
He heard about this payroll. Something happened to him. He
had to have that money. Jim planned the whole thing
and it changed him. M I guess, I guess it
(20:05):
changed all of us.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
H do you really want this money? No?
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Not now, I'll take the rifle. Anna. Well, missus Waugh,
(20:43):
how are you this morning?
Speaker 5 (20:45):
I find me? Did army officer find you last night?
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Phil Potter? Yes, you did. Took me out to dinner,
bought me lots of brandy. He gave me five hundred dollars.
That's nice. Huh, miss Wong, what's the matter with you? Something?
Hey boy said? Oh? Well, for goodness sake, what do
you say, hey boy? Ask me?
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Why is wedding ring like.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Eternity, eternity eternity?
Speaker 5 (21:17):
Missus Wong says, you not know?
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Then what did he say? Hey boys say?
Speaker 5 (21:22):
Because it has no beginning?
Speaker 1 (21:26):
And no, and.
Speaker 5 (21:30):
Hey boy, make a fun of getting married.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
No, no he's not. Miss Wall's too.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
He said that and laugh.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Why no, that's only a riddle.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Riddle.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Mm hmm. What's her riddle, mister Parlina.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Well, um riddle is, well, that's when you ask a question.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
And uh and and and uh give a silly answer. No, no,
hey boy, wasn't making fun of marriage? You sure? Sure?
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Oh good?
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Oh I go now, thank you, mister Fink ms Wong.
You shouldn't take hey boys so seriously. You just remember that.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
I tried to remember.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Have Gun Will Travel.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Created by Herb Metal and Sample, is produced and directed
in Hollywood by Frank Parris and stars John Dayner as Paladin,
with Ben Wright as hey Boy and Virginia Gregg as
Miss Wang. Tonight's story was specially written for Have Gun
Will Travel by Tom Handler. Featured in the cast were
(23:02):
Virginia Christine Vic Parrin, Tim Graham, and Ken Lynch. This
is Hugh Douglas inviting you to join us again next
week when CBS Radio presents Have Gun Will Travel
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Never Never,
I memorized the map and destroyed it.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
If you'll kill me, you'll never find the money.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Have Gone, Will Travel, starring mister John Dayner as Paladin,
San Francisco, eighteen seventy five, The Carlton Hotel, headquarters of
a man called Paladin.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Paladin. He's a paladin?
Speaker 4 (00:57):
All right?
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Yes, yes, yes? What's all the excitement? Hey?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
You in trouble with the army?
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Trouble with the army? No? Oh, that's a good Why
do you ask? Well?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Here boy, here, army colonel ask for you downstairs?
Speaker 5 (01:14):
Hey boy, thought, maybe are you in trouble?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
I'll give you a chance to get away?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Oh too late, huh it's Potter, Colonel Potter.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Ball Well, Potter, what are you doing to see it?
Last I heard of you, you were on the trail
of those payroll bandits.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
What are you doing now?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
All I'm still on their trail, That's all. I have
come to you three years and you still haven't caught them?
Speaker 1 (01:36):
What come on? In good money?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Thanks, I'll talk to you later, Hey boy.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Well, sit down, John, have a cigar? Oh?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Here?
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Well, you you seem to have done all right, Ballad.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I tried.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
I just hope you're not so well off. You can't
use five hundred dollars. I can always use five hundred dollars. John,
you want me to join the search. We're getting close
to him, Paladin. With your help, I think we can
get him.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
How close are you?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
How much do you remember the case?
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Well?
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Arm me think it was a payroll for Fort Anderson.
Two men made off of the money and they took
how much was it eighty dollars ninety ninety and there
were three men in on it? Three, that's right. We
discovered there was an army man involved. He did all
the inside work. It didn't take us long to find him,
a private by the name of Jim Griffin. We've been
(02:38):
hauling him in the prison at the presiding of money
is not doing.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Him much good.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
No, no, but he never got his hands on it anyway.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
What makes you think? So?
Speaker 4 (02:47):
This?
Speaker 1 (02:48):
What's there?
Speaker 2 (02:50):
We found it in his personal effects. It's a piece
of a map. It indicates the position of the payroll money.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
And you think they buried it? Yes?
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Yes, Jim Griffin's been in the hospital at the prison
for the last six months. Part of that time he's
been delirious. We've heard him mumbling about the map and
from what we can gather. He and the other two
men made a pack to have somebody bury the money
and draw up a map, and apparently they divided the
map into three pieces. Who buried the money? Oh, we
don't know, but whoever it was, they killed him. We
(03:20):
learned that much from Griffin. He's also been talking about
meeting the others on December twelfth, or it'll be too late.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
I see. Now, where do I fit in with your plans?
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Well, Jim Griffin died this morning. Oh we want you
to be Jim Griffin.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
What are you talking about? John?
Speaker 6 (03:43):
Here, take a look.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
At this tin type. Let's see, it's a picture of
Griffin taking several years ago. This this is Griffin. You
look enough liking to be his twin Palatin?
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Will you do it? Well?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
I don't know, John, This map gives no location. I
wouldn't know where to start. Oh, we can help you there.
Griffin has a girlfriend who's come to visit him three
or four times. She probably knows where the meeting place is.
And if she doesn't, maybe the other two men will
come looking for you. Like I said, there's a five
(04:26):
hundred dollars reward providing a course that you get the
proof on the other man and get the money back.
How do you want the money stuck, John, Then you'll
do it. I'll do it, Colonel Potter, shake hands with
Jim Griffin.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
There's no doubt about it.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Show business is the business of entertainment, and performers are
very far from being dull folk. And this is a
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Speaker 2 (05:50):
Three days later, I had become Jim Griffin. Colonel Potter
gave me as much information as they had of the
man's background, and I.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Was dishonorably discharged from the Army.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
I even said goodbye to Griffin's old cell mates, and
to a man, they accepted me. But the real test
was to come with Anna Baker, Griffin's girlfriend. The colonel's
men had found out that she lived with her mother,
fifteen miles from San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
If I could get by the girl, I could get
by anybody, as Jim Griffin.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Early one morning, I rode out there, and as I
came into the yard, an old woman greeted me, followed
by a flock of chicken when she had been feeding.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Hello there, Yes, yes, it's a baker. Don't you know me?
I know you. I've come to see Anna. She's not here.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
It's up to me. She'd never be here to you.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Griffin, go on, I got work to do.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
When will she be back?
Speaker 5 (06:55):
I took a horse to be shod.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Don't you mind if I wait?
Speaker 6 (07:01):
Jim Griffin, you ain't welcome here.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
You brought nothing but Sarah to us.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Now, why don't you just ride out of Anna's life?
I am leaving missus Baker. I wanted to say goodbye
to Anna.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
If she comes, have you a good bye and be
done with us. Jim, Hello Anna, Jim. They told me
you were sick.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
They wouldn't let me see you. They said you didn't
know when when I could see you.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
What's the matter? Why are you looking at me that way?
Speaker 5 (07:34):
You've you've changed, Jim.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Yeah, Well, prison does things to him.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
Man ask me.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
It ain't done enough to you, mother, Please, he should
have killed him.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Jim. Here, you're out of the army.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Now I'm out, all right? For good? Anna.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Wiley Carson was by day before yesterday. Wiley, Yes, he said,
I was to see you. They wouldn't let me in
at the prison. He said, I was to get something
from you.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Oh what you know?
Speaker 5 (08:09):
The piece of math? Have you got it?
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Yeah, I've got it.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Wiley said, maybe you'd give it to me. Now that
you're out, you can meet him yourself.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Did he say? Where?
Speaker 5 (08:21):
The Blue Nose Saloon in Johnson City? But you have
to hurry?
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (08:27):
Will you? Will you come back this way? Jim?
Speaker 1 (08:31):
You know I will. Anna.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
It's a promise, it's a promise.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Good luck bye. Johnson City consisted of a main street,
some twenty odd houses, and the Blue Nosed Saloon.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
There I waited for Wiley Carson. I didn't know what he.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Looked like, but I sat at a table where I
could see anyone who entered, and they could see me.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
I waited a whole day, then most of another. I'm
about another drink, mister, Ah, Well, yeah, fine, all right,
right away. I say, now, it ain't none of my business.
Speaker 6 (09:13):
But are you waiting for somebody?
Speaker 1 (09:16):
You're right, it isn't any of your business. And no offense,
mister just today.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
I don't remember seeing you before, and I been sitting
here for two days now.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
He just passing through. Maybe maybe not. And the no
offense now you understand that he just thought of it.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Asked I bought a drink.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
They coming right away.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Mister, Well look here, but night there was the light
of the army. Jim Griffin, Hello, Wiley, fight tender. You
can bring my drink over here.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
Yes, sir, this is a surprise.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Didn't think they'd ever let you out. I was expecting Anna,
and I decided to come myself. He looked different. Jim
at prison done things to you. You try it sometime,
you hear courtesy of the warden. Yeah, discharge dishonorable. Sounds
like maybe they'd know we was to have a meeting.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
What are you trying to say?
Speaker 2 (10:12):
I'm saying, maybe you're working for the army now. Maybe
a couple of years in prison they got you. You
listen to me, because I spent two years in a rotten,
stinking hole just dreaming of the time when we can
get that money.
Speaker 6 (10:27):
I was wrong, Jimmy. That prison makes you met her never.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
You just remember that whiley I remember Jim.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
You you two friends ready for your drinks? Now just
set them down. Answer you.
Speaker 6 (10:51):
You bring your piece of the map.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
I've got it.
Speaker 6 (10:55):
Let's see it.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
I said, I've got it right.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
All right, don't get hard hard about it.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Now you've been outside. What are the plans now?
Speaker 6 (11:05):
Same as I worked three years ago.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
All right, we meet Jake tomorrow at the cabinet hard Rock,
just like we agreed, Jim, and.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
We better get started. Drink up.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Yeah, this stuff so bad. We better take a couple
of bottles with us. Yeah, let'll suit yourself. You want
the old, Jim, I remember the old days. You'd have
wanted to bring a bottle yourself.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
You listen to me, there's only one thing I want.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
I've been waiting three years with that money, Jim. We
all been waiting serving time. I've been thinking two by four, cel.
Speaker 6 (11:43):
I'll get me a bottle. We'll go right now, Jim.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Hard Rock was sixty miles from Johnson City. The most
direct route ran through a series of grassy plateau that
finally tapered.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Out into high desert country.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
I knew that land like the back of my hand,
and so I knew the easiest.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Way to get there. Wiley and I didn't talk much.
I preferred not.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
To towards sundown that day. He began to try to
steer me away from the best route, but I stuck
to my guns. I was soon to find out the
reason for his actions.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Getting off betrayal. Jim No, I'm not. It is the
best way, and you know it.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
I think we ought to be adding more into them hills.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Oh this is the way. Sure, you don't want to drink,
jim No, and I'll have one. Oh boy, stuff's beginning
to place better the farther we get from town. Yeah,
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let's go wasting time. But hey, wait a minute, look
over there where. Don't see nothing that way? The horse
all saddled. He's just standing there.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
Oh yeah, I see it.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Come on, come on, and Wiley, there's somebody in the ground,
so there is heat.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
Must have gun, Yeah they heat.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Hey, this man's been shot, Wiley, give me a hand.
That way. You are, mister, what you're doing? Put that
gun away? Who are you? What's the matter with you?
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Wiley or down your gun? Why because that ain't no
man lying there. That's Jake, the one we're supposed to meet.
You didn't recognize him. The guns brought it down easy,
like yeah, we're gonna have ourselves a little talk. Then
I'm gonna get you a piece of the map and
kill you, just like I'd done to Jake.
Speaker 7 (14:30):
Look, Bob, here's why you can't balance these books. Put
this little item over here and you come out Okay,
you're right, then what's wrong with you?
Speaker 3 (14:37):
I've had a nagging back ache lately with sleepless nights,
makes me feel worn out.
Speaker 7 (14:41):
And why not do something about it? But what i'd
dry Dones pills good advice.
Speaker 8 (14:46):
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Speaker 2 (15:41):
All right, that's far enough. Sit down right here, I'm
gonna find out who you really are. You sure had
me full, mister. You're enough like Jim to be his twin.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
So you killed Jake to get his piece of them up?
Is that him?
Speaker 6 (15:56):
I'll ask the questions.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
You're tough, aren't you, mister? Are you? That's my business.
Speaker 6 (16:03):
I'll make you talk. I'll hand over that map.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
I haven't got it.
Speaker 6 (16:10):
I guess you think I'm fooling.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
I told you I haven't got it.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
It'd be awful easy for me to kill you, mister
and then take it.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
That wouldn't do you any good.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
I memorized it, threw it away. You kill me and
you won't get anything.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Let's go it.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
You won't kill me, Wiley, No, I no, no, I
didn't think.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
So we've got to get that money.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
All right? Then you show me the pieces of map
you have and I can take us to it.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
Okay, I guess I'm gonna have to trust you, mister.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
I guess you are that Wiley? H m hm. He
should be here, Wiley unless unless what hell?
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Unless somebody got to it before we didn't keep digging.
M see, Yeah, there's something here for sure. Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
That's the box I was in.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
I give me your hand, take it out. No, yeah,
it's too heavy for me. Will you give me a hand?
Speaker 6 (17:40):
All right, but I'll be holding this gun on you
don't try nothing?
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Why maybe not? You give me that gun? Y, willy, willy?
How you asked for it?
Speaker 5 (18:03):
Turn around, mister.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Annah dropped the gun?
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Annah?
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Why are you doing this?
Speaker 4 (18:14):
I've come for Billy's money, Billy.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
My brother, Billy. Open that box.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
You're making a mistake, all right.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
You didn't really think you could fool a man's woman,
did you.
Speaker 8 (18:34):
No?
Speaker 1 (18:34):
I guess now the money's here.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
All right, and me five thousand dollars five five thousand.
That's what they promised Billy. They got him to bury
the money, draw the map. Then they put a bullet
through his head. He was only sixteen.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
I didn't know ye.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
Who are you?
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Doesn't matter? Here's your five thousand dollars.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
Now where's Jim Griffin.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
He's dead. Dad, he died in prison.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
Jim.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
No, No, you loved him, didn't you.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
We were we were going to be married.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
He was going to work hard, make something of himself
an army and he.
Speaker 5 (19:44):
He heard about this payroll. Something happened to him. He
had to have that money. Jim planned the whole thing
and it changed him. M I guess, I guess it
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changed all of us.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
H do you really want this money? No?
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Not now, I'll take the rifle. Anna. Well, missus Waugh,
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how are you this morning?
Speaker 5 (20:45):
I find me? Did army officer find you last night?
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Phil Potter? Yes, you did. Took me out to dinner,
bought me lots of brandy. He gave me five hundred dollars.
That's nice. Huh, miss Wong, what's the matter with you? Something?
Hey boy said? Oh? Well, for goodness sake, what do
you say, hey boy? Ask me?
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Why is wedding ring like.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Eternity, eternity eternity?
Speaker 5 (21:17):
Missus Wong says, you not know?
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Then what did he say? Hey boys say?
Speaker 5 (21:22):
Because it has no beginning?
Speaker 1 (21:26):
And no, and.
Speaker 5 (21:30):
Hey boy, make a fun of getting married.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
No, no he's not. Miss Wall's too.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
He said that and laugh.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Why no, that's only a riddle.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Riddle.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Mm hmm. What's her riddle, mister Parlina.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Well, um riddle is, well, that's when you ask a question.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
And uh and and and uh give a silly answer. No, no,
hey boy, wasn't making fun of marriage? You sure? Sure?
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Oh good?
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Oh I go now, thank you, mister Fink ms Wong.
You shouldn't take hey boys so seriously. You just remember that.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
I tried to remember.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Have Gun Will Travel.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Created by Herb Metal and Sample, is produced and directed
in Hollywood by Frank Parris and stars John Dayner as Paladin,
with Ben Wright as hey Boy and Virginia Gregg as
Miss Wang. Tonight's story was specially written for Have Gun
Will Travel by Tom Handler. Featured in the cast were
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