September 25, 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 (00:13):
I didn't say you were lying, Johnny, Only the truth
often looks different depending on our.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Point of view.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Have Done, Will Travel, starring mister John Dayner as Paladin,
San Francisco, eighteen seventy five, The Carlson Hotel, headquarters of
a man called Paladin.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Swim Breakfast, Ay boy, My compliments to the chef.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Oh you saw, I found you very m He's.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Showing great improvement. The coffee of both black and hot,
the eggs perfect.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Not the same chef improving, mesa Paladin? You shad Oh,
hell boy, you he's mesa palad and say the only
way to get things done right.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Is do them yourself.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Hey boy, take advice to breakfast himself and with splendid results.
Thank you, hey boy, My compliments to you. Now, if
you'll clear these dishes away. I have some letters to answer,
hey boy, And I want to be left alone.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Oh he's.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Alone, Hey, no boy, alone and in peace and clime,
I go. I leave.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Oh, somebody at.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Whoever it is, get better than.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
I want to talk to.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Mister oh and say you know him. I gotta talk
to him.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
It's important full time. He's a paladin.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Very good.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Listen telling Nelly Watson's Nelly.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
What hey, boy, let him in? But I know what
I said now, I say, let him in? Oh most confusing.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Uh please, thank you.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
For you, mister Pellagan.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
I'm Johnny Nelly Watson's boy.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Yes, yes, I can see the resemblance.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
That's what mother said to say.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
How is your mother?
Speaker 4 (02:27):
She's dead, mister Pellagan.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Oh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
She always told.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Me, Johnny, if you ever in trouble, if you ever
need anything, you go find mister Pellagan.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
So here I am.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
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Speaker 2 (04:06):
Eighteen years had not mired.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
My memory of Nellie Watson, one of those rare individuals
you'll never forget. We had been close friends in Illinois
during the years before the war. It was difficult to
believe that she was dead, and now this was her
son sitting in my room, no longer a child, not
yet a man, awkward, uncertain, and no.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Matter what I'd do, I don't seem to be able
to please you, mister Pallaman.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Well, stepfathers are like that sometimes, Johnny, father's too.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
I suppose it wasn't so bad while mother wasn't alive.
But after she died. When did she die a couple
of months ago?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
What was the matter with her?
Speaker 4 (04:44):
The doctor said, consumption?
Speaker 5 (04:47):
But I think it was a broken heart, mister Polloman,
broken heart, yeah, from trying to please him. She tried
and tried, but she couldn't. She died, and then I
decided to run away.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Johnny, You never solve a problem by running.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Are you saying I should go back he's.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Your legal guardian until you're of age.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
I don't cheer. I won't do it. I don't have to.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Know, Johnny. You can keep on running if you want to.
Lots of people do keep on running all their lives.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
And you won't help me.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I didn't say that, though.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
But the only way I can really help you is
to take you back to your stepfather where you along.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Take me back.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
You'll come with me if you want me to, all right,
Then you'll see for yourself.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
You'll see I'm the lion.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Why don't think you are, Johnny? Only?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
The truth often looks different depending on that point of view.
Let's go see what your stepfather's point of view is.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
The rank is just over the next.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Rise, mister Powell, him nice spread your dad homestead.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
All of this.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Yes, mother had a hard time making it run after
he died, until George came.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
George my stepfather. Mother took him on as foreman.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
And before he was here a year. You may not
marry him?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Made her well.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
I can't see why she'd want to.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
He must have forced her.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Oh there's a ranch house down there, corrals over to
the left.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
But mine seems to be some trouble over there.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Yeah, that's George.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
What's it doing beating that voise?
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:33):
He threatened to get even with him? The white horse
sold him a while back. It broke his arm.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
The horse doesn't know why he's being big man. I
know that's the way George, Johnny before five a minute?
Speaker 2 (07:01):
What do you.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Well? This is the product of sun. Come home. I
caught your back.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
I didn't want to come back. He made me.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Oh who are you?
Speaker 3 (07:13):
This year? Is mister Paladan? He was a friend of mothers.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Ah, I dare say a long time ago? Must have been.
Don't ever remember hearing her speak of you?
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Hey, aren't you afraid you'll turn that horse into the killer?
Speaker 4 (07:25):
You already try to kill me. I'm gentle with a bullt.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
I look here, Paladin, whatever your name is, this is
my property, and that don't pleasure me none to have
my actions questions? Make myself plain?
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Yes, quite plain? Wow?
Speaker 4 (07:42):
How do we understand each other?
Speaker 1 (07:45):
I suppose I should thank you for bringing the boy back,
but I didn't ask you to.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Well, this is his home, he belongs here.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
H Well not your hair. Might as well put you
up for the night. Too far to ride into town.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
I wouldn't want to put you in any trouble.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Trouble for me. The boy does the cooking?
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Help yourself to some more, mister Paladin.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Oh, thanks John, it was an excellent dinner.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
His mother taught him how to cook. Pity, wasn't a
girl make a good wife for somebody? George put out
a raise your voice to me, young man, stop kicking
on me.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
You do your own cooking.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
You go to your room. Don't let me hear a
word out of you for the rest of the evening.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
You do what I mean, mister Peladan, you do?
Speaker 5 (08:34):
I mean you will have to take a raise or
strop to you.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
I'll get even with you some day, George, I'll get
even with you.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Out How am I gonna make a man out of him?
Speaker 2 (08:54):
And he's just starting?
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Given't time time, time to listen to his complaints and
his back torp.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Maybe you don't understand he's toll the boy. Guess I
do as well as the next man. What's your interest
in him? His mother was my friend? Remember, yeah, Paladin,
he ain't heard of you. Maybe, yeah, I know you're
(09:20):
a gun. Ain't you a higher gun? You could say that, I.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Don't know what.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
I'm so glad you brought him back kind of peaceful
while he was gone.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Maybe he would be better off somewhere else.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Yah.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
But Paladin, I'm not making any secret of the fact
that I don't like him.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
I never did unless you are responsible for him.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
Not the way I look at it.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Got too big for his breeches and walked off the property.
Let him stay off. But this is his ranch, isn't
it legally?
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Paladin? What's legal? I work this place.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
I keep it up. I was his mother's husband.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Once she died, this place became mine as far as
I'm concerned, there's no question about that.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Well, the law, I've had a different point of view.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
You're a smart man, Paladin, I'm not smart enough to
realize that I'm the law when it comes to this ranch.
I don't appreciate somebody like you coming around sticking his
nose to my affairs.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
What do you getting out of this anyway?
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Nothing?
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Nothing more than the satisfaction that Nellie Watson's boy is
getting a fair deal. Let Paladin, you're a business man.
You work for a price, don't you.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
It all depends.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Let me hire you before take that kid off my
hands for good.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
I'd be willing to pay whatever you thought was fair.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
It's getting later. I'm gonna turn in morning.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Sleep on that offer on agel last night.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
I have slept on him.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Gotta accept it for the kid got the crall, I reckon,
it's up before me. There's some scrambled eggs and the skill.
It helps you out. Thanks, I asked you if you're
gonna accept my offer.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
I can't understand why you don't want him around you.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
It's good health to you. There's a nice home for him.
Well you have to do make up your mind to
be nice to the kid. It'd be good for.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Both of you.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
I try to be good to them.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Don't work for giving up wan morning, Johnny.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
That horse has got a real bad cut on his withers.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
George, don't come crying to me about it. Well you
did it, Maybe I did, Maybe I did. We saw
you take a whip to him.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Shut up.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
I'll take a whip to you. Quiet while you come
win step further enough.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Run the bread night through your ribs, all right, Johnny,
dropping go on, I said, and dropping, sit down and
eat your breakfast, you too, Georgia, Yeah, a.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
Pretty pray for the knife in your hand. I don't
think I can't still whip you the way I used to.
The day i'll come and they'll ever come.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
And I can't whip you for your yellow cleant throat.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Sit down, Sit down, Johnny, eat your breakfast. Uh, Johnny,
I guess.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
You weren't exaggerating. I guess there's no pleasing.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
No, I told you did not kids beg enough. Let
him block make his own way in the world. George
doesn't want you here, Johnny. That's clear, and it's.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Just as clear that I don't want to be here.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Well, then, I guess there's no point insisting to stay.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
You mean it.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
If you did, one or the other of you would
probably be dead. The way you're at each other's throats.
I don't guess that means you'll be going back San
Francisco with mister Paladin.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
That kid, if he don't mind taking me.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Not at all, Johnny, I've sewing your fakere to get started. Paladin.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Oh, there's no reason why we can't pull out this morning.
Now we got everything settled, I gotta be gone.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Uh where are you going?
Speaker 4 (13:16):
I got some.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Business in time to be away most of the day.
I reckon he'll be gone by the time I get back.
Probably good about that offer, Paladin, you'll be hearing from me.
It's a long kid.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Good luck.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
Yeah, well, mister Powdon, that's that let's go.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
No, no, Johnny, that's not quite sad.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
What do you mean.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
That's exactly what your stepfather wants is to do. He's
too eager to get us off the place. He's too
eager to get rid of you. He even offered to
pay me to take you off his hands. He did why,
I don't know, Jenny, but I think we better find out.
Oh wait, wait, yeah, wait for him to show his hands.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
All right, whatever you say? So am I as well
as an he's cleaning up the breakfast dishes.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Yeah, a funny kid, Johnny, funny? How wait, don't play many.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Ranch kids who care whether the dishes are done or not.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
There's nothing wrong with it, no, of course not.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Yeah, how help you? You don't have to do that
makes it go faster.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
There used to be some soap in a can on
the shelf. I wonder if.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Locks.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Now what's he keeping?
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Rocks?
Speaker 1 (14:40):
And I can see one of those. Hey they aren't
exactly rocks, Johnny.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Hey, there's a letter in here with him.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Let me see, Oh independent essays verifies your figure five
hundred dollars a ton. Our representative will meet you on
the morning of the twenty foot yesterday to close the deal.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Five hundred dollars a ton on this lin it.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Yeah, come on, Johnnie, where we're gonna leave or appear to?
I don't imagine George will feel free to show the
property until he's sure we've left the premises.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
So that's just what we'll do.
Speaker 7 (15:20):
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right on the floor and you said impossible. That's when
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Speaker 2 (15:50):
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Speaker 1 (16:48):
We saddle our horses out in the open so that
anyone who might be watching could not help notice our leaves.
Taking once out of side of the ranch, we doubled
back through the woods and left the horses tide in
some underbrush, difficulty making our way unseen back to the bine,
where we spent the hot and dusty afternoon waiting.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Finally, George and another man pulled up at the corral.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Who's that man with you, mister Pliman.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Just keep your points down.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Oh this she is, mister Roberts.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
All yours lock stock and barrel oughtn't paid for to
find some grub in the kitchen and blankets on the beds.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Not pulling all right? Come on, Jenny there, you're going
on tonight?
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Yes, sir, I ain't able to spend another night in
that place. You got your land, I've got my money.
I'm heading for the low lands to spend it. I
wouldn't be too sure about Georgan Pallada, I thought you, yeah,
I know what you thought, mister Roberts. Are you in
the habit of buying property and the false pretenses? What
do you inferred that it doesn't belong to this gentleman?
(17:49):
But well, what is the meaning of this is, like,
mister Roberts, I'm sure it can all be explained.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
I don't think so, George. So just give mister Roberts
back his money.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Won't somebody explain this to me?
Speaker 1 (18:01):
George has attempted to dispose of the property of a
miner without the miner's consent or knowledge.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
But I don't understand this.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Young man's Roberts.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
This young man is the rightful owner of this property,
and I'm sure that he would be willing to make
a satisfactory leasing arrangement with you. But as to an
outright sale of this property, I would advise against him,
all right.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Against tat.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
I've got his money in my saddle bag, and I
don't aim to give it back. I'm going out of
here with man. Don't much care about to kill y'all.
The way we got George, that horse is coming for you.
But mister Horn All right, George, drop your gun.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
George is he dead? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:00):
And the horses too, mister Roberts. Yes, as I said before,
this young man is the rightful owner of this property.
There should be no question about that now. Ah eh, yes,
(19:33):
come in well well miss Wong, Miss Wong, how are
you this morning?
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Hey boy?
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Tell me you come back last night?
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Right?
Speaker 4 (19:49):
You move on?
Speaker 7 (19:51):
But my son, hen, hey boy, say new family man now?
Speaker 3 (19:58):
He said you have good grown up fun.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Oh you mean, Johnny, how you do that.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
All a sudden? Have grow up tired?
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Well? Uh, it's it's a part of the inscrutable occident.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Oh will you be leaving hotel now? Set up housekeeping?
Speaker 2 (20:22):
No, no, I think not. Johnny will be in the
east at school most of the time. He won't need
a father. No, mis woe. I have no intention of
becoming respectable.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
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Speaker 2 (21:05):
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Speaker 1 (22:00):
Have Gun Will Travel Created by Herb Metal and zam Wolf.
He is bothill stam erected in Hollywood by Frank Parris
and stars John Dayner as Paladin, with Ben Wright as
hey Boy and Virginia Gregg as Miss Wan. Tonight's story
was specially written for Half Gun Will Travel by William N.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Robeson.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Featured in the cast were Ken Lynch and Sam Edwards
and now here's our star John Daymer. We of the
cast and the production staff, Have Gun Will Travel, Send
our sincere congratulations to the management and staff of KNX Radio,
the CBS radio station in Los Angeles, which this week
celebrates its fortieth anniversary.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
We're mighty happy.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
KNX is one of the CBS Radio stations that carries
our program every Sunday.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Congratulations and best wishes. This is Hugh Douglas
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Inviting you to join us again next week, when CBS
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I didn't say you were lying, Johnny, Only the truth
often looks different depending on our.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Point of view.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Have Done, Will Travel, starring mister John Dayner as Paladin,
San Francisco, eighteen seventy five, The Carlson Hotel, headquarters of
a man called Paladin.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Swim Breakfast, Ay boy, My compliments to the chef.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Oh you saw, I found you very m He's.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Showing great improvement. The coffee of both black and hot,
the eggs perfect.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Not the same chef improving, mesa Paladin? You shad Oh,
hell boy, you he's mesa palad and say the only
way to get things done right.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Is do them yourself.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Hey boy, take advice to breakfast himself and with splendid results.
Thank you, hey boy, My compliments to you. Now, if
you'll clear these dishes away. I have some letters to answer,
hey boy, And I want to be left alone.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Oh he's.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Alone, Hey, no boy, alone and in peace and clime,
I go. I leave.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Oh, somebody at.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Whoever it is, get better than.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
I want to talk to.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Mister oh and say you know him. I gotta talk
to him.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
It's important full time. He's a paladin.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Very good.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Listen telling Nelly Watson's Nelly.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
What hey, boy, let him in? But I know what
I said now, I say, let him in? Oh most confusing.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Uh please, thank you.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
For you, mister Pellagan.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
I'm Johnny Nelly Watson's boy.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Yes, yes, I can see the resemblance.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
That's what mother said to say.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
How is your mother?
Speaker 4 (02:27):
She's dead, mister Pellagan.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Oh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
She always told.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Me, Johnny, if you ever in trouble, if you ever
need anything, you go find mister Pellagan.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
So here I am.
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Speaker 2 (04:06):
Eighteen years had not mired.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
My memory of Nellie Watson, one of those rare individuals
you'll never forget. We had been close friends in Illinois
during the years before the war. It was difficult to
believe that she was dead, and now this was her
son sitting in my room, no longer a child, not
yet a man, awkward, uncertain, and no.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Matter what I'd do, I don't seem to be able
to please you, mister Pallaman.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Well, stepfathers are like that sometimes, Johnny, father's too.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
I suppose it wasn't so bad while mother wasn't alive.
But after she died. When did she die a couple
of months ago?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
What was the matter with her?
Speaker 4 (04:44):
The doctor said, consumption?
Speaker 5 (04:47):
But I think it was a broken heart, mister Polloman,
broken heart, yeah, from trying to please him. She tried
and tried, but she couldn't. She died, and then I
decided to run away.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Johnny, You never solve a problem by running.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Are you saying I should go back he's.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Your legal guardian until you're of age.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
I don't cheer. I won't do it. I don't have to.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Know, Johnny. You can keep on running if you want to.
Lots of people do keep on running all their lives.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
And you won't help me.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I didn't say that, though.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
But the only way I can really help you is
to take you back to your stepfather where you along.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Take me back.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
You'll come with me if you want me to, all right,
Then you'll see for yourself.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
You'll see I'm the lion.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Why don't think you are, Johnny? Only?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
The truth often looks different depending on that point of view.
Let's go see what your stepfather's point of view is.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
The rank is just over the next.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Rise, mister Powell, him nice spread your dad homestead.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
All of this.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Yes, mother had a hard time making it run after
he died, until George came.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
George my stepfather. Mother took him on as foreman.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
And before he was here a year. You may not
marry him?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Made her well.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
I can't see why she'd want to.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
He must have forced her.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Oh there's a ranch house down there, corrals over to
the left.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
But mine seems to be some trouble over there.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Yeah, that's George.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
What's it doing beating that voise?
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:33):
He threatened to get even with him? The white horse
sold him a while back. It broke his arm.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
The horse doesn't know why he's being big man. I
know that's the way George, Johnny before five a minute?
Speaker 2 (07:01):
What do you.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Well? This is the product of sun. Come home. I
caught your back.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
I didn't want to come back. He made me.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Oh who are you?
Speaker 3 (07:13):
This year? Is mister Paladan? He was a friend of mothers.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Ah, I dare say a long time ago? Must have been.
Don't ever remember hearing her speak of you?
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Hey, aren't you afraid you'll turn that horse into the killer?
Speaker 4 (07:25):
You already try to kill me. I'm gentle with a bullt.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
I look here, Paladin, whatever your name is, this is
my property, and that don't pleasure me none to have
my actions questions? Make myself plain?
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Yes, quite plain? Wow?
Speaker 4 (07:42):
How do we understand each other?
Speaker 1 (07:45):
I suppose I should thank you for bringing the boy back,
but I didn't ask you to.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Well, this is his home, he belongs here.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
H Well not your hair. Might as well put you
up for the night. Too far to ride into town.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
I wouldn't want to put you in any trouble.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Trouble for me. The boy does the cooking?
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Help yourself to some more, mister Paladin.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Oh, thanks John, it was an excellent dinner.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
His mother taught him how to cook. Pity, wasn't a
girl make a good wife for somebody? George put out
a raise your voice to me, young man, stop kicking
on me.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
You do your own cooking.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
You go to your room. Don't let me hear a
word out of you for the rest of the evening.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
You do what I mean, mister Peladan, you do?
Speaker 5 (08:34):
I mean you will have to take a raise or
strop to you.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
I'll get even with you some day, George, I'll get
even with you.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Out How am I gonna make a man out of him?
Speaker 2 (08:54):
And he's just starting?
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Given't time time, time to listen to his complaints and
his back torp.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Maybe you don't understand he's toll the boy. Guess I
do as well as the next man. What's your interest
in him? His mother was my friend? Remember, yeah, Paladin,
he ain't heard of you. Maybe, yeah, I know you're
(09:20):
a gun. Ain't you a higher gun? You could say that, I.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Don't know what.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
I'm so glad you brought him back kind of peaceful
while he was gone.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Maybe he would be better off somewhere else.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Yah.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
But Paladin, I'm not making any secret of the fact
that I don't like him.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
I never did unless you are responsible for him.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
Not the way I look at it.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Got too big for his breeches and walked off the property.
Let him stay off. But this is his ranch, isn't
it legally?
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Paladin? What's legal? I work this place.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
I keep it up. I was his mother's husband.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Once she died, this place became mine as far as
I'm concerned, there's no question about that.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Well, the law, I've had a different point of view.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
You're a smart man, Paladin, I'm not smart enough to
realize that I'm the law when it comes to this ranch.
I don't appreciate somebody like you coming around sticking his
nose to my affairs.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
What do you getting out of this anyway?
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Nothing?
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Nothing more than the satisfaction that Nellie Watson's boy is
getting a fair deal. Let Paladin, you're a business man.
You work for a price, don't you.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
It all depends.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Let me hire you before take that kid off my
hands for good.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
I'd be willing to pay whatever you thought was fair.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
It's getting later. I'm gonna turn in morning.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Sleep on that offer on agel last night.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
I have slept on him.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Gotta accept it for the kid got the crall, I reckon,
it's up before me. There's some scrambled eggs and the skill.
It helps you out. Thanks, I asked you if you're
gonna accept my offer.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
I can't understand why you don't want him around you.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
It's good health to you. There's a nice home for him.
Well you have to do make up your mind to
be nice to the kid. It'd be good for.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Both of you.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
I try to be good to them.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Don't work for giving up wan morning, Johnny.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
That horse has got a real bad cut on his withers.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
George, don't come crying to me about it. Well you
did it, Maybe I did, Maybe I did. We saw
you take a whip to him.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Shut up.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
I'll take a whip to you. Quiet while you come
win step further enough.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Run the bread night through your ribs, all right, Johnny,
dropping go on, I said, and dropping, sit down and
eat your breakfast, you too, Georgia, Yeah, a.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
Pretty pray for the knife in your hand. I don't
think I can't still whip you the way I used to.
The day i'll come and they'll ever come.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
And I can't whip you for your yellow cleant throat.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Sit down, Sit down, Johnny, eat your breakfast. Uh, Johnny,
I guess.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
You weren't exaggerating. I guess there's no pleasing.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
No, I told you did not kids beg enough. Let
him block make his own way in the world. George
doesn't want you here, Johnny. That's clear, and it's.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Just as clear that I don't want to be here.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Well, then, I guess there's no point insisting to stay.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
You mean it.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
If you did, one or the other of you would
probably be dead. The way you're at each other's throats.
I don't guess that means you'll be going back San
Francisco with mister Paladin.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
That kid, if he don't mind taking me.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Not at all, Johnny, I've sewing your fakere to get started. Paladin.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Oh, there's no reason why we can't pull out this morning.
Now we got everything settled, I gotta be gone.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Uh where are you going?
Speaker 4 (13:16):
I got some.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Business in time to be away most of the day.
I reckon he'll be gone by the time I get back.
Probably good about that offer, Paladin, you'll be hearing from me.
It's a long kid.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Good luck.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
Yeah, well, mister Powdon, that's that let's go.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
No, no, Johnny, that's not quite sad.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
What do you mean.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
That's exactly what your stepfather wants is to do. He's
too eager to get us off the place. He's too
eager to get rid of you. He even offered to
pay me to take you off his hands. He did why,
I don't know, Jenny, but I think we better find out.
Oh wait, wait, yeah, wait for him to show his hands.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
All right, whatever you say? So am I as well
as an he's cleaning up the breakfast dishes.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Yeah, a funny kid, Johnny, funny? How wait, don't play many.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Ranch kids who care whether the dishes are done or not.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
There's nothing wrong with it, no, of course not.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Yeah, how help you? You don't have to do that
makes it go faster.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
There used to be some soap in a can on
the shelf. I wonder if.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Locks.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Now what's he keeping?
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Rocks?
Speaker 1 (14:40):
And I can see one of those. Hey they aren't
exactly rocks, Johnny.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Hey, there's a letter in here with him.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Let me see, Oh independent essays verifies your figure five
hundred dollars a ton. Our representative will meet you on
the morning of the twenty foot yesterday to close the deal.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Five hundred dollars a ton on this lin it.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Yeah, come on, Johnnie, where we're gonna leave or appear to?
I don't imagine George will feel free to show the
property until he's sure we've left the premises.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
So that's just what we'll do.
Speaker 7 (15:20):
Oh aggy you that looks like you shampooed it myself
right on the floor and you said impossible. That's when
(15:41):
I was all tired out with magging backache and muscular
aches and pains. And am I glad I took your
tip about that. You said, try dose pills.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Good advice.
Speaker 8 (15:51):
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Speaker 3 (15:55):
Magging back ache.
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Speaker 1 (16:48):
We saddle our horses out in the open so that
anyone who might be watching could not help notice our leaves.
Taking once out of side of the ranch, we doubled
back through the woods and left the horses tide in
some underbrush, difficulty making our way unseen back to the bine,
where we spent the hot and dusty afternoon waiting.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Finally, George and another man pulled up at the corral.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Who's that man with you, mister Pliman.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Just keep your points down.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Oh this she is, mister Roberts.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
All yours lock stock and barrel oughtn't paid for to
find some grub in the kitchen and blankets on the beds.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Not pulling all right? Come on, Jenny there, you're going
on tonight?
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Yes, sir, I ain't able to spend another night in
that place. You got your land, I've got my money.
I'm heading for the low lands to spend it. I
wouldn't be too sure about Georgan Pallada, I thought you, yeah,
I know what you thought, mister Roberts. Are you in
the habit of buying property and the false pretenses? What
do you inferred that it doesn't belong to this gentleman?
(17:49):
But well, what is the meaning of this is, like,
mister Roberts, I'm sure it can all be explained.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
I don't think so, George. So just give mister Roberts
back his money.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Won't somebody explain this to me?
Speaker 1 (18:01):
George has attempted to dispose of the property of a
miner without the miner's consent or knowledge.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
But I don't understand this.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Young man's Roberts.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
This young man is the rightful owner of this property,
and I'm sure that he would be willing to make
a satisfactory leasing arrangement with you. But as to an
outright sale of this property, I would advise against him,
all right.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Against tat.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
I've got his money in my saddle bag, and I
don't aim to give it back. I'm going out of
here with man. Don't much care about to kill y'all.
The way we got George, that horse is coming for you.
But mister Horn All right, George, drop your gun.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
George is he dead? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:00):
And the horses too, mister Roberts. Yes, as I said before,
this young man is the rightful owner of this property.
There should be no question about that now. Ah eh, yes,
(19:33):
come in well well miss Wong, Miss Wong, how are
you this morning?
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Hey boy?
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Tell me you come back last night?
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Right?
Speaker 4 (19:49):
You move on?
Speaker 7 (19:51):
But my son, hen, hey boy, say new family man now?
Speaker 3 (19:58):
He said you have good grown up fun.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Oh you mean, Johnny, how you do that.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
All a sudden? Have grow up tired?
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Well? Uh, it's it's a part of the inscrutable occident.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Oh will you be leaving hotel now? Set up housekeeping?
Speaker 2 (20:22):
No, no, I think not. Johnny will be in the
east at school most of the time. He won't need
a father. No, mis woe. I have no intention of
becoming respectable.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Oh really, this nice followed.
Speaker 9 (20:36):
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Distance from the charcoal. Yeah, that's got it. Everybody looks
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good and hungry. Don't they hand me that French is
Worcester share Lucy?
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Yup?
Speaker 9 (21:06):
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Speaker 2 (21:30):
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Speaker 1 (22:00):
Have Gun Will Travel Created by Herb Metal and zam Wolf.
He is bothill stam erected in Hollywood by Frank Parris
and stars John Dayner as Paladin, with Ben Wright as
hey Boy and Virginia Gregg as Miss Wan. Tonight's story
was specially written for Half Gun Will Travel by William N.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Robeson.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Featured in the cast were Ken Lynch and Sam Edwards
and now here's our star John Daymer. We of the
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our sincere congratulations to the management and staff of KNX Radio,
the CBS radio station in Los Angeles, which this week
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