August 18, 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 (00:11):
You cause an innocent boy to spend six years in prison.
Other people have turned their backs on the wrong that
has been committed simply because you're a woman. But I'm
here to see that you stand trial.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
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 3 (01:09):
Come in. Oh he's no, hello, hey boy?
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Oh you playing game solid?
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Uh salad? You put up black as huh? Oh yes,
thank you, thank you, hey boy? Black? Yes, here, I
make a reens six on black seven. Oh oh yes,
why what what? What? What's my over here? Like this?
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Make this one here? Yes, I see that you put
here here? Look then this one? Hey boy? Did you
want something? Mm hmm can well you knocked on the door?
Are you knocked on there? Oh? Yes, he's a letter
come for you. Thank you?
Speaker 1 (02:03):
As A man named Todd Griffin Tucson, Arizonia wants to
see me. Well, guess I better get ready to leave.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
And you got to go right away? Not even finish
nice camera solidaid.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Well I know no, hey boy, I sort of lost
interest in it anyway.
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Speaker 1 (03:34):
It was late afternoon and I had several miles still
ahead of me when A hush fell in the desert.
The sky deepened in color in a thin winter rain
started to fall. The dust settled in the new washed
air was clean and spicy with sage. When I reached Tucson,
I was soaked through, and I decided i'd better have
a warming drink before I checked into the hotel. I
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stopped at the Cantino, a quiet saloon in the Old Section.
I finished my drink in a hurry, paid for it,
and started to leave. Sor Yeah, I see you later.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
What i'd drink for you?
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Oh? No, thanks, no, no more, one, No, I've got
to find a hotel.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
But the man at the end of the bar want
to buy this drink for you?
Speaker 3 (04:16):
End of the bar? Who which man it is? The
tall man with the light hair. Well, all right, one,
well thank you.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
Don't mention it your health. You don't remember me, do you?
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Palad him?
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Well, I'm Abilene, curly McLean. Yeah, I'm sorry. It's been
such a long time.
Speaker 6 (04:46):
Sure, I'd never forget you, But then I've got something
to remember you buy That slug of yours is still
in my shoulder.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
You asked for it.
Speaker 6 (04:55):
No, I know, and I know it didn't have to
land in my shoulder. You could have put it where
it would have finish. It's the job, and you'd have
been within your rights.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
You were just a hot headed kid and what you
really needed was a good spanking.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
But you didn't leave me any choice.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Yeah, I know, remember what you told me?
Speaker 3 (05:11):
No, what's that you said?
Speaker 6 (05:12):
If I didn't simmer down and get wise, I'd see
the inside.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Of a prison. You were really going for trouble.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
I want you to know I took your advice.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Oh, glad to hear it.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
I left Abilene, broke up with the old bunch, came
here to Arizona, took a job.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Worked hard.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Well.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Good. What are you doing now, Curly?
Speaker 6 (05:33):
I just spentished six years and you'm a territorial prison.
Oh I've been out just two weeks, five days and
ten hours.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
I won't ask you any questions, Curly, but just tell
me this. Can I give you a hand? Had you
any plans?
Speaker 6 (05:49):
Thanks? No, this little matter. I have to see too
before I settle on anything.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
And I have a business appointment tomorrow afternoon. Suppose I
look you up tomorrow night. We'll talk.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Sure, I'll be around.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
That night and all the next morning.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
I couldn't seem to get Curly McLean off my mind
when we had our little running back there in Abilene.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
He was a wild and hell bent for trouble.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
But I thought he was a good kid who just
needed a little help in the right direction.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
I had tried to give it to him. I thought
I'd succeeded. I wondered what had gone wrong along the way.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
I started early for Todd Griffin's ranch, which was some
distance out of town. I inquired for him at the
house and he was directed to the corrals. Mister Griffin, Yeah,
I'm taladed man, talented, oh yeah, breeding stuck Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Brought him into strengthen my herd.
Speaker 7 (06:48):
It's a nice layout, ye here, I figured quite a
bit to show for the five years I been in business.
Tell her why I sent for you, Pad and make
it a point never to wear a gun, so I'll
have to hire one.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
What makes you think you'll be needing a gun? Man
is looking for me to kill me? How do you
know this?
Speaker 7 (07:06):
He made the threats six years ago that he'd killed
me the first chance he had. Why have you waited
six years to get concerned about it? This is the
first chance he's had he'd been behind bars until the
week before last. Oh name is McLean, a young fellow.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
I'll show you his picture. If he ain't in town already,
he will be soon. You'll be sure of that. You
want me to protect you from him? Do you have
any particular plan?
Speaker 7 (07:34):
He ain't very smart. We'll figure something, mister Griffin. Why
did he make this threat?
Speaker 3 (07:40):
What do you mean? Oh?
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Why did he say six years ago that he would
kill you the first chance he had.
Speaker 7 (07:46):
I don't see that's any of your business. No, no,
it ain't any of your concern. Why, how or what?
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Radn goodfee?
Speaker 7 (07:54):
I'm offering to hire your gun. If you don't want
the job, you say so, I'll get somebody else.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
No, now, I'll take the job, mister Griffin.
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Speaker 3 (08:26):
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Speaker 1 (09:28):
Curly, Hey, Curly, hold up, Oh Paladin, you're a hard
man to locate. I think I've missed you by one
hand at every poker game along the street.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
I like to keep moving. Oh why what's on your mind?
Speaker 5 (09:44):
What do you mean?
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Are you looking for someone? Curly?
Speaker 5 (09:48):
Is it any of your business?
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Griffin has hired me to protect him, so that's it.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Is he right, Curly? Does he need protection from you?
Speaker 6 (09:59):
I guess you could se he does because I'm aiming
to kill him first chance. I get why I've been
saving up a lot of hate.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Why not buy a drink? Why don't you forget this crewing?
Speaker 6 (10:14):
Paladin, I ain't going to forget one dirty minute of
those six years, and you might. I can thank Todd
Griffin for every one of them, and I'm going to
thank him personally with a bullet in his belly.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Yeah, we don't forget I'm working for Griffin. Well, then, I.
Speaker 6 (10:25):
Guess you and you are gonna have to tangle again.
We'll have to see how it works out this time. Curly,
listen to me, Paladin, you listen to me. I don't
want any more of your advice. I followed your advice once.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Remember, I don't understand all that.
Speaker 6 (10:37):
Fine talk you gave me after our little freak us
there in Abale. Straight now, settle down. It didn't work out, Falada.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
All right, all right, now you want to tell me
about a creweing.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
I came to Arizona, took a job, worked hard. I
was driving a team for a freight line. It was
owned by Todd Griffin. We serviced them lines in Bisbee,
carried equipment supplies, and every once in a while he'd
send a payroll along with us, no guard or anything,
just tossed it in.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
Figured it would be.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
Safe that way. Big payroll, real big, big enough for
Griffin to set himself up with that cattle spread he's
got What do you mean? One time when the payroll
was going in, it never got there. The wagon was
found abandoned halfway up the grade. The money was gone.
I didn't happen to be driving that night, Griffin, in
(11:28):
his report said, I was.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
You're a word against his Yeah. Wasn't there anyone who
could prove if you weren't driving? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (11:36):
The woman I was with, only she was part of
the frame. She swore in court she hadn't seen me,
said I told her I had.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
To work that day. Is that woman still in Bisbee?
Speaker 5 (11:46):
Last I heard she was in Phoenix?
Speaker 3 (11:48):
What's your name?
Speaker 5 (11:49):
Carrie Porter?
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Why?
Speaker 1 (11:51):
I like to see her. Maybe she'll tell the truth.
Maybe we can reopen the case.
Speaker 6 (11:56):
Well, that'd give me back the last six years. We'll
killing Griffin, but I'll be pretty sure he won't be
enjoying the next six.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Curly, will you make a deal. Will you give me
a week? Promise me that you won't make a move
for a week?
Speaker 6 (12:13):
All right, Paladin, I've waited a long time. I'd wait
another week if that's what you want. But one week,
that's the deal.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
I was working for Cod Griffin. But he said of
himself he was hiring my gun.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
That was all. So I didn't question the ethics of
my plan.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
When I found Carrie Porter, I realized I had my
work cut out from me. If she owned the Four
Races Saloon near the outskirts of Phoenix, she had lots
of warm red gold hair and hird, cold blue eyes.
And while it wasn't obvious, I felt sure she had
hired like a buffalo. I gave up any notion I
might have had of appealing to her better nature. And
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if you had one, it was well protected.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
All right, I can give you a few minutes.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
What is it you wanted? Uh? Could you sit down
with me here? Let me order you a drink. I
got things to do, You got something to say? Say it?
Do you want to sit around and drink?
Speaker 6 (13:12):
Come in this evening when the crowd's here. Pete rolling
that barrel of beer that's been setting out there in
the sun getting hot.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
What'd you say? Your name was Paladin? Selling something? Nope?
Speaker 6 (13:27):
What's on your mind?
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Let's have it fast, Like I say, I'm busy. This
is a nice place. Yeah, I understand you bought it
about five years ago. That's right.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
But at the same time, Todd Griffin went into the
candle business.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Exactly what are you getting at?
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Oh, it takes quite an investment to open a saloon
or to start up a cattle spread.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Where'd the money come from? How do you figure that's
any of your business? M just curious.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Seems to me very strange to me that more people
haven't been curious. I think you better get Maybe it's
because people always take the easy way out. Maybe rather
than face the truth that a terrible wrong has been
committed by society, it's easier to look the other way. See,
even if it's plain as day that you and Griffin
set yourself up with loot from a payroll robbery, it's
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better to accept it than admit a mistake and face
up to the fact that an innocent boy spent six
years in prison. All right, Paladin, your times, Pete, Yeah right,
just put your gun on the table.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Patan Pete has your covered, but he won't shoot you.
We have another way. We get nosy people like you
in here every once in a while. First we just
warn it. So far that's always been enough.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
I see, Yeah, miscarried, Pete's a good bartender.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
But that ain't why I keep him here. Now you
can try to put up a fight. You look like
the kind of will but believe me, it's no use,
all right, Pete, Now wait a minute, will ah oh,
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Speaker 3 (16:12):
Carrie was right on both counts. One.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
I was the kind who would tried to put up
a fight and to it was no use. When I
came to, I was stretched out on the edge of
the desert.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
It was dark, it was raining.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Strangely enough, I was quite content just to lie there,
which was lucky because I couldn't move a long time
later I started to think, and then I got mad.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Find me.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
I was mad enough to find my way back to
the Four Aces saloon.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
On the way, I picked up a club. The place
was closed.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Pete was locking the back doors. That never mind locking
that door, Pete. I'm going in.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
This is for you, now, take care of no carry
(17:10):
it's Paladin.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
What are you doing here?
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Pete's resting?
Speaker 6 (17:15):
What did you do with him?
Speaker 3 (17:15):
I hit him with a club?
Speaker 6 (17:17):
What do you want?
Speaker 3 (17:17):
The sign?
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Confession? Just how you and Griffin frame Curly McLain crazy?
How do you plan to get it?
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Hit me with a club? No, I guess I can't
do that. Of course you can't. Here too much of
a gentleman. Unfortunately, then how frankly, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
Well, there's no way that you can reach me.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Paladin, what are you after? It's knife?
Speaker 6 (17:36):
You broke into my place, and I have every right
to kill it.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Oh no you don't. You just drop drap that knife,
drop it, drop it, you get out here.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Hey, that's quite a knife, carry razor sharp, probably split
a hair. Let's see, what's the matter. Don't you touch
my hair?
Speaker 3 (17:58):
What do you know? You're vulnerable spot? Everyone has one?
What are you talking about? You're very vain about your
long red hair, aren't you carrying?
Speaker 1 (18:05):
I don't blame he's very beautiful. It's the only warm
thing about you which I have an idea based on
the old truth.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
There's more than one way to skin a cat. Carrie.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
I'm too much of a gentleman to hit you with
a club, but I wouldn't hesitate a minute to give
you a haircut.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Yes I would.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
So let's get busy writing that confession. Carrie Porter wrote
the confession, and I marched her to the Marshall's office
with it to make sure it would stand.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Up in court. Then I started back to Tucson.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
I reached there one day past the week Curly had
agreed to give me. He wasn't in town, so I
rode out to the Griffin Ranch. I dismounted the gate
and searched the grounds, and finally out by the tool shed,
I found the two men. Griffin was powering against the
corner of the building, and Curly stood over him with
a gun.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
Now I'm here.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
This seems too good for you. You I ain't armed, Curly.
It's murdered, Curly.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
Stay out of this, Paladin.
Speaker 6 (19:12):
I gave you your week.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Don't do it, Curly, Stay out, Curly. I'm working for Griffin.
Speaker 9 (19:17):
You'll have to face me first, all right, if you
want it that way, Curly.
Speaker 6 (19:28):
Yeah, you you ain't learned to shoot any better in
all these years.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Shoulder again, Yeah, that's the other shoulder this time, Cruy,
give you a little balance.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
You shouldn't have stopped me.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Don't worry, Curly.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Griffin isn't going to enjoy the next six years, or
maybe the sixth after that.
Speaker 7 (20:09):
This log this, this logs.
Speaker 6 (20:14):
Pilot, and you keep covers up.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
You get chilled.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
What are you trying to do to me? What do
you mean? This? This thing? That mustard very good for
that this walk is going to burn the hide right off.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
That's tiny mustard, very hot.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Very good. I can't stands and.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
You're very careless in Arizona. Get his back coat.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Well, I was out of the raid because the night,
because the height. Where do you learn that we need
to take your room from nineteen to that? He says, wing,
next time we're robberts don't get seglet Oh he did,
he did, he Good night, Missa Polidis.
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Speaker 2 (22:32):
Created by Herb Metal and Sam rolf Is, produced stand
directed 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
Have Gun Will Travel by Am Dowd. Featured in the
cast were Lynn Allen, Harry Bartel, Laurence Dupkin and Sam Edwards.
(23:03):
This is Hugh Douglas inviting you to join us again
next week when CBS Radio presents Have Gun Will Trouble
You cause an innocent boy to spend six years in prison.
Other people have turned their backs on the wrong that
has been committed simply because you're a woman. But I'm
here to see that you stand trial.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
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 3 (01:09):
Come in. Oh he's no, hello, hey boy?
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Oh you playing game solid?
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Uh salad? You put up black as huh? Oh yes,
thank you, thank you, hey boy? Black? Yes, here, I
make a reens six on black seven. Oh oh yes,
why what what? What? What's my over here? Like this?
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Make this one here? Yes, I see that you put
here here? Look then this one? Hey boy? Did you
want something? Mm hmm can well you knocked on the door?
Are you knocked on there? Oh? Yes, he's a letter
come for you. Thank you?
Speaker 1 (02:03):
As A man named Todd Griffin Tucson, Arizonia wants to
see me. Well, guess I better get ready to leave.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
And you got to go right away? Not even finish
nice camera solidaid.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Well I know no, hey boy, I sort of lost
interest in it anyway.
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Speaker 1 (03:34):
It was late afternoon and I had several miles still
ahead of me when A hush fell in the desert.
The sky deepened in color in a thin winter rain
started to fall. The dust settled in the new washed
air was clean and spicy with sage. When I reached Tucson,
I was soaked through, and I decided i'd better have
a warming drink before I checked into the hotel. I
(03:56):
stopped at the Cantino, a quiet saloon in the Old Section.
I finished my drink in a hurry, paid for it,
and started to leave. Sor Yeah, I see you later.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
What i'd drink for you?
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Oh? No, thanks, no, no more, one, No, I've got
to find a hotel.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
But the man at the end of the bar want
to buy this drink for you?
Speaker 3 (04:16):
End of the bar? Who which man it is? The
tall man with the light hair. Well, all right, one,
well thank you.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
Don't mention it your health. You don't remember me, do you?
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Palad him?
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Well, I'm Abilene, curly McLean. Yeah, I'm sorry. It's been
such a long time.
Speaker 6 (04:46):
Sure, I'd never forget you, But then I've got something
to remember you buy That slug of yours is still
in my shoulder.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
You asked for it.
Speaker 6 (04:55):
No, I know, and I know it didn't have to
land in my shoulder. You could have put it where
it would have finish. It's the job, and you'd have
been within your rights.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
You were just a hot headed kid and what you
really needed was a good spanking.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
But you didn't leave me any choice.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Yeah, I know, remember what you told me?
Speaker 3 (05:11):
No, what's that you said?
Speaker 6 (05:12):
If I didn't simmer down and get wise, I'd see
the inside.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Of a prison. You were really going for trouble.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
I want you to know I took your advice.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Oh, glad to hear it.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
I left Abilene, broke up with the old bunch, came
here to Arizona, took a job.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Worked hard.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Well.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Good. What are you doing now, Curly?
Speaker 6 (05:33):
I just spentished six years and you'm a territorial prison.
Oh I've been out just two weeks, five days and
ten hours.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
I won't ask you any questions, Curly, but just tell
me this. Can I give you a hand? Had you
any plans?
Speaker 6 (05:49):
Thanks? No, this little matter. I have to see too
before I settle on anything.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
And I have a business appointment tomorrow afternoon. Suppose I
look you up tomorrow night. We'll talk.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Sure, I'll be around.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
That night and all the next morning.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
I couldn't seem to get Curly McLean off my mind
when we had our little running back there in Abilene.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
He was a wild and hell bent for trouble.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
But I thought he was a good kid who just
needed a little help in the right direction.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
I had tried to give it to him. I thought
I'd succeeded. I wondered what had gone wrong along the way.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
I started early for Todd Griffin's ranch, which was some
distance out of town. I inquired for him at the
house and he was directed to the corrals. Mister Griffin, Yeah,
I'm taladed man, talented, oh yeah, breeding stuck Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Brought him into strengthen my herd.
Speaker 7 (06:48):
It's a nice layout, ye here, I figured quite a
bit to show for the five years I been in business.
Tell her why I sent for you, Pad and make
it a point never to wear a gun, so I'll
have to hire one.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
What makes you think you'll be needing a gun? Man
is looking for me to kill me? How do you
know this?
Speaker 7 (07:06):
He made the threats six years ago that he'd killed
me the first chance he had. Why have you waited
six years to get concerned about it? This is the
first chance he's had he'd been behind bars until the
week before last. Oh name is McLean, a young fellow.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
I'll show you his picture. If he ain't in town already,
he will be soon. You'll be sure of that. You
want me to protect you from him? Do you have
any particular plan?
Speaker 7 (07:34):
He ain't very smart. We'll figure something, mister Griffin. Why
did he make this threat?
Speaker 3 (07:40):
What do you mean? Oh?
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Why did he say six years ago that he would
kill you the first chance he had.
Speaker 7 (07:46):
I don't see that's any of your business. No, no,
it ain't any of your concern. Why, how or what?
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Radn goodfee?
Speaker 7 (07:54):
I'm offering to hire your gun. If you don't want
the job, you say so, I'll get somebody else.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
No, now, I'll take the job, mister Griffin.
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Speaker 1 (09:28):
Curly, Hey, Curly, hold up, Oh Paladin, you're a hard
man to locate. I think I've missed you by one
hand at every poker game along the street.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
I like to keep moving. Oh why what's on your mind?
Speaker 5 (09:44):
What do you mean?
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Are you looking for someone? Curly?
Speaker 5 (09:48):
Is it any of your business?
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Griffin has hired me to protect him, so that's it.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Is he right, Curly? Does he need protection from you?
Speaker 6 (09:59):
I guess you could se he does because I'm aiming
to kill him first chance. I get why I've been
saving up a lot of hate.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Why not buy a drink? Why don't you forget this crewing?
Speaker 6 (10:14):
Paladin, I ain't going to forget one dirty minute of
those six years, and you might. I can thank Todd
Griffin for every one of them, and I'm going to
thank him personally with a bullet in his belly.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Yeah, we don't forget I'm working for Griffin. Well, then, I.
Speaker 6 (10:25):
Guess you and you are gonna have to tangle again.
We'll have to see how it works out this time. Curly,
listen to me, Paladin, you listen to me. I don't
want any more of your advice. I followed your advice once.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Remember, I don't understand all that.
Speaker 6 (10:37):
Fine talk you gave me after our little freak us
there in Abale. Straight now, settle down. It didn't work out, Falada.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
All right, all right, now you want to tell me
about a creweing.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
I came to Arizona, took a job, worked hard. I
was driving a team for a freight line. It was
owned by Todd Griffin. We serviced them lines in Bisbee,
carried equipment supplies, and every once in a while he'd
send a payroll along with us, no guard or anything,
just tossed it in.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
Figured it would be.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
Safe that way. Big payroll, real big, big enough for
Griffin to set himself up with that cattle spread he's
got What do you mean? One time when the payroll
was going in, it never got there. The wagon was
found abandoned halfway up the grade. The money was gone.
I didn't happen to be driving that night, Griffin, in
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his report said, I was.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
You're a word against his Yeah. Wasn't there anyone who
could prove if you weren't driving? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (11:36):
The woman I was with, only she was part of
the frame. She swore in court she hadn't seen me,
said I told her I had.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
To work that day. Is that woman still in Bisbee?
Speaker 5 (11:46):
Last I heard she was in Phoenix?
Speaker 3 (11:48):
What's your name?
Speaker 5 (11:49):
Carrie Porter?
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Why?
Speaker 1 (11:51):
I like to see her. Maybe she'll tell the truth.
Maybe we can reopen the case.
Speaker 6 (11:56):
Well, that'd give me back the last six years. We'll
killing Griffin, but I'll be pretty sure he won't be
enjoying the next six.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Curly, will you make a deal. Will you give me
a week? Promise me that you won't make a move
for a week?
Speaker 6 (12:13):
All right, Paladin, I've waited a long time. I'd wait
another week if that's what you want. But one week,
that's the deal.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
I was working for Cod Griffin. But he said of
himself he was hiring my gun.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
That was all. So I didn't question the ethics of
my plan.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
When I found Carrie Porter, I realized I had my
work cut out from me. If she owned the Four
Races Saloon near the outskirts of Phoenix, she had lots
of warm red gold hair and hird, cold blue eyes.
And while it wasn't obvious, I felt sure she had
hired like a buffalo. I gave up any notion I
might have had of appealing to her better nature. And
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if you had one, it was well protected.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
All right, I can give you a few minutes.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
What is it you wanted? Uh? Could you sit down
with me here? Let me order you a drink. I
got things to do, You got something to say? Say it?
Do you want to sit around and drink?
Speaker 6 (13:12):
Come in this evening when the crowd's here. Pete rolling
that barrel of beer that's been setting out there in
the sun getting hot.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
What'd you say? Your name was Paladin? Selling something? Nope?
Speaker 6 (13:27):
What's on your mind?
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Let's have it fast, Like I say, I'm busy. This
is a nice place. Yeah, I understand you bought it
about five years ago. That's right.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
But at the same time, Todd Griffin went into the
candle business.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Exactly what are you getting at?
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Oh, it takes quite an investment to open a saloon
or to start up a cattle spread.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Where'd the money come from? How do you figure that's
any of your business? M just curious.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Seems to me very strange to me that more people
haven't been curious. I think you better get Maybe it's
because people always take the easy way out. Maybe rather
than face the truth that a terrible wrong has been
committed by society, it's easier to look the other way. See,
even if it's plain as day that you and Griffin
set yourself up with loot from a payroll robbery, it's
(14:16):
better to accept it than admit a mistake and face
up to the fact that an innocent boy spent six
years in prison. All right, Paladin, your times, Pete, Yeah right,
just put your gun on the table.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Patan Pete has your covered, but he won't shoot you.
We have another way. We get nosy people like you
in here every once in a while. First we just
warn it. So far that's always been enough.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
I see, Yeah, miscarried, Pete's a good bartender.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
But that ain't why I keep him here. Now you
can try to put up a fight. You look like
the kind of will but believe me, it's no use,
all right, Pete, Now wait a minute, will ah oh,
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Speaker 3 (16:12):
Carrie was right on both counts. One.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
I was the kind who would tried to put up
a fight and to it was no use. When I
came to, I was stretched out on the edge of
the desert.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
It was dark, it was raining.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Strangely enough, I was quite content just to lie there,
which was lucky because I couldn't move a long time
later I started to think, and then I got mad.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Find me.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
I was mad enough to find my way back to
the Four Aces saloon.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
On the way, I picked up a club. The place
was closed.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Pete was locking the back doors. That never mind locking
that door, Pete. I'm going in.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
This is for you, now, take care of no carry
(17:10):
it's Paladin.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
What are you doing here?
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Pete's resting?
Speaker 6 (17:15):
What did you do with him?
Speaker 3 (17:15):
I hit him with a club?
Speaker 6 (17:17):
What do you want?
Speaker 3 (17:17):
The sign?
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Confession? Just how you and Griffin frame Curly McLain crazy?
How do you plan to get it?
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Hit me with a club? No, I guess I can't
do that. Of course you can't. Here too much of
a gentleman. Unfortunately, then how frankly, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
Well, there's no way that you can reach me.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Paladin, what are you after? It's knife?
Speaker 6 (17:36):
You broke into my place, and I have every right
to kill it.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Oh no you don't. You just drop drap that knife,
drop it, drop it, you get out here.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Hey, that's quite a knife, carry razor sharp, probably split
a hair. Let's see, what's the matter. Don't you touch
my hair?
Speaker 3 (17:58):
What do you know? You're vulnerable spot? Everyone has one?
What are you talking about? You're very vain about your
long red hair, aren't you carrying?
Speaker 1 (18:05):
I don't blame he's very beautiful. It's the only warm
thing about you which I have an idea based on
the old truth.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
There's more than one way to skin a cat. Carrie.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
I'm too much of a gentleman to hit you with
a club, but I wouldn't hesitate a minute to give
you a haircut.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Yes I would.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
So let's get busy writing that confession. Carrie Porter wrote
the confession, and I marched her to the Marshall's office
with it to make sure it would stand.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Up in court. Then I started back to Tucson.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
I reached there one day past the week Curly had
agreed to give me. He wasn't in town, so I
rode out to the Griffin Ranch. I dismounted the gate
and searched the grounds, and finally out by the tool shed,
I found the two men. Griffin was powering against the
corner of the building, and Curly stood over him with
a gun.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
Now I'm here.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
This seems too good for you. You I ain't armed, Curly.
It's murdered, Curly.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
Stay out of this, Paladin.
Speaker 6 (19:12):
I gave you your week.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Don't do it, Curly, Stay out, Curly. I'm working for Griffin.
Speaker 9 (19:17):
You'll have to face me first, all right, if you
want it that way, Curly.
Speaker 6 (19:28):
Yeah, you you ain't learned to shoot any better in
all these years.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Shoulder again, Yeah, that's the other shoulder this time, Cruy,
give you a little balance.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
You shouldn't have stopped me.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Don't worry, Curly.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Griffin isn't going to enjoy the next six years, or
maybe the sixth after that.
Speaker 7 (20:09):
This log this, this logs.
Speaker 6 (20:14):
Pilot, and you keep covers up.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
You get chilled.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
What are you trying to do to me? What do
you mean? This? This thing? That mustard very good for
that this walk is going to burn the hide right off.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
That's tiny mustard, very hot.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Very good. I can't stands and.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
You're very careless in Arizona. Get his back coat.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Well, I was out of the raid because the night,
because the height. Where do you learn that we need
to take your room from nineteen to that? He says, wing,
next time we're robberts don't get seglet Oh he did,
he did, he Good night, Missa Polidis.
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Created by Herb Metal and Sam rolf Is, produced stand
directed in Hollywood by Frank Parris and stars John Dayner
as Paladin, with Ben Wright as hey Boy and Virginia
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