August 31, 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 (00:09):
You just don't go to the Barbary coast. You make arrangements.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
I've made mine and I hope it will save hey boys,
Life have Gone, Will Travel, Starring mister John Dayner as Paladin,
(00:41):
San Francisco, eighteen seventy five, The Carlton Hotel, headquarters of
a man called Paladin.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
I'm in a boy. The door.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Isn't that hey by mesa Polo?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
It's wrong? Morning?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Come in, good morning, I bring keeper and coffee.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Thank him?
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Is wrong? Why didn't hey boy bring them up?
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Don't boys no good to work? This money? What hey
boy did not come to root this morning? It's miss
warm is fought with your big argument last night?
Speaker 1 (01:33):
You mean he didn't come to work just because you
had an argument.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
I don't know, missa Polo did.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
It's wrong?
Speaker 5 (01:41):
You don't worry.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Why don't you sit down? Try to take hold of
yourself there now?
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Do you want to tell me about it?
Speaker 6 (01:55):
Hey boy?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
All time says he going to many you w someday,
but he not to win till last night. I tell
him I wait no more? Did I not want to
see him again?
Speaker 5 (02:11):
Ever?
Speaker 6 (02:13):
He was very angry.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Walk away say nothing. This morning I see his uncle
and he said that, hey boy not come home last night. Oh,
mister Pila didn't.
Speaker 6 (02:29):
I very worried.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Maybe something happened to him.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
No, I wouldn't fad about him as long I'm sure
he's all right.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Oh, hey boy, very angry.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
I'll go talk to his uncle. Maybe he's heard from
him by now.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
You'll find him.
Speaker 6 (02:43):
Mister Pilo did, Please, I'll try this one.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
This is the cold season. What do medical authorities say
about the common cold? Doctors tell us there's no known
drug which will.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Cure a cold.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
There are effective medications for treating complications accompanying or.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Following a cold.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
If you've been taking sensible precautions and still have one
cold after another, it's best to see your doctor. And
here's another important health tip. When you have a cold
and need a laxative, that's the time to rely on
gentle x lax. Pleasant tasting, chocolated xlax helps you toward
your normal regularity gently overnight. Xlax gets along with any
(03:32):
cold remedies you may be taking, and xlax works where
nature wants in the lower track, not the stomach. X
lax is so gentle, so close to natural acting, there's
no upset no urgency or discomfort.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Next morning, you're.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Well on your way toward your normal regularity. So when
you have a cold and need a laxative, take x lax.
The laxative you can use with complete confidence. Xlax helps
you toward your normal regularity gently overnight x lax.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
My first stop in the dingy labyrinth.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Of Chinatown was a curio shop owned by hey Boy's uncle.
He was visibly upset, and I had no further word
his nephew. I promised him that I would do everything
I could to find him. There was one man in
Chinatown who might have the answer. Chung Wu, or want
of a better description, he was called the Mayor of Chinatown,
but he was much more than that. Head of the
(04:29):
House of Chung in America, related through marriage to the
Wang Chang and Pong families, president of the Alang Kang,
and just to keep his hand in he ran the
biggest pantan parlor east of Cantan.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
He was very important and very difficult to see. No
no hornible.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Chong Wu is not king.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
He is never out. He sees no one. You'll see me.
Keep no hand away from that panel.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
And you keep your hand away from that knife.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
How did you know? I've been here before?
Speaker 2 (05:04):
You must be new, will put me to death by
a thousand torture?
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Who visits this humble establishment desire chung paladin?
Speaker 2 (05:11):
A paladin, my friend, Jo, that's a mighty devoted watchdog there, young.
Speaker 7 (05:23):
You must forgive him, my friend, he is new to him.
All Americans look alike.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
They do well. They'll be hard on him. You're just
doing his job.
Speaker 7 (05:32):
Yes, well, come in, paladin, come in?
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Thank you? Where my friend?
Speaker 7 (05:40):
It is too long a time since you have grace
these on wealthy walls with your peasants.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Much too long?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Maybe the oversight fine forgiveness in your honorable heart.
Speaker 7 (05:49):
My heart is too full of pleasure at seeing you
once more to harbor an unkind thought. It quickens to
know the reason for your visits. I seek word the
boy who serves me.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
In the hotel.
Speaker 7 (06:01):
Ah, Yes, Kim Chang, the one you call hey.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Boy, the very one.
Speaker 7 (06:06):
Why do you seek word of him here?
Speaker 1 (06:09):
He disappeared? If here is in trouble.
Speaker 7 (06:11):
If he were in trouble, I would have heard.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
I thought perhaps he might be in your establishment playing phantom.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Not that boy.
Speaker 7 (06:18):
Sometimes I think he is not a true Chinese he
cares nothing for gambling. He thinks only of saving his
money so that he can get married to this miss
Wang at your hotel.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
But that's why I disappeared after she asked him when
he intended to marry her foolish girl.
Speaker 7 (06:34):
She has not yet learned how to hide the stings
when she manipulates her mannequin.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Ah, Well, if you were a Chinese boy and had
a fight with your girl, where would you go?
Speaker 7 (06:46):
If he were angry enough, our incape would not have.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Been strong enough for him. You meaning, when I'm got drunk,
he might help.
Speaker 7 (06:55):
But if he did, he did not do it here
Where Then if I were an angry Chinese boy who
did not care for gambling and wanted to get really drunk,
I might end up in the Barbary Coast.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
The Barbary Coast, that mean and rady conglomeration of sheds
and shanties, purveying entertainment and refreshment to sailors whose appetites
are stranger than their tastes. Now, you just didn't go
to the Barbary Coast. You made arrangements. I made mine
at the hack Line in Portsmouth Square, keep sir.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
That's why sir, keep sir, there you are, Harry.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Mister Pellett, I was hoping i'd find you free, Yes, sir, Harry,
the act at your service well, and Hagar unable to
do your bidden Where'll it be, mister Pellady? Harry, I
want to find Mark Gurty, Mark Gerty, why she'd been
lying in love since the vigilantes closed it up last time.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
It won't be easy, mister.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Paladine, but uh, it won't be impossible. Well, the sound
of them caught whales is making it easier every minute.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Aren't sure we go? Yes, sirs? Step writing.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Winston tastes good like a cigarette should.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
Winston tastes good like a cigarette should.
Speaker 8 (08:34):
Winston gives you real flavor, full rich tobacco flavor.
Speaker 9 (08:39):
Winston's easy trying to the flavor comes right through to you.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Winston tastes good.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Like a cigarette shure a modern fielder.
Speaker 10 (08:51):
Sure, Winston has it, But that's only the beginning of
a Winston up front, upward, it really counts. Winston packs
exclusive filter blend, light flavorful tobaccos, specially selected and specially
processed for filter smoking.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Filter blend.
Speaker 10 (09:08):
That's why it's fun to smoke Winston America's best selling
filter cigarette.
Speaker 8 (09:13):
Winston Tito like a cigarettes.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
We made the rounds of North Beach, stopping at a
half dozen places before Harry the Hack found the right one.
It was a saloon built out over the water and
a pier was called the Golden Fleece.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
I had a drink at the bar while Harry made arrangements.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Jay z all right, oh well, in the background said
she'd say she's white.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
Thanks all right, Paladin, come in, come in, thanks.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
So how have you been, ma Paladin?
Speaker 9 (10:08):
I'd like it better if you.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Called me Gerty.
Speaker 9 (10:12):
All right, Gerty, sit down, still as handsome as ever here.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
The vigilantes have been giving you a bad time.
Speaker 9 (10:22):
Vigilantes, why can't they leave an old woman alone?
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Because if they did, that old woman would be running
the city in two weeks.
Speaker 9 (10:29):
Sure, I asked, is to earn a living?
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Yeah, I weep for you, Gerty. That what you came
here for?
Speaker 9 (10:37):
To cry over me?
Speaker 1 (10:38):
No, I'm looking for a Chinese boy.
Speaker 9 (10:42):
What makes you think he might be here?
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Well? O? Missing persons in a way of passing through
your hands.
Speaker 9 (10:48):
Gerty, You talk pure nonsense, Paladin, and that may be,
But what are you doing what's this?
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Where'd you get this black silk? Cool?
Speaker 5 (10:58):
He?
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Huh?
Speaker 5 (10:59):
What cool?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
He had stuck behind the sofa pillar like someone was
trying to hide it.
Speaker 9 (11:04):
Now, Paladin, why did anyone want to hide.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
A thing like that? I don't even know why I
respected a lady like you would have a thing like
this in her parlor unless it was dropped by his
owner while he was being lowered unconscious through that trap
door over there to a boat Bowle.
Speaker 9 (11:18):
I don't know what you're talking about?
Speaker 1 (11:20):
All right? Where is he God?
Speaker 5 (11:21):
Where's who the owner of this cap? Now?
Speaker 9 (11:24):
How would i?
Speaker 1 (11:24):
This is?
Speaker 7 (11:25):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Boys, Captain, I've.
Speaker 9 (11:26):
Never heard of any Hey boy, now, where is he Ma?
You wouldn't harm me, Paladin? If I had to, don't
threaten me?
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Where is he Ma?
Speaker 5 (11:37):
All right?
Speaker 9 (11:39):
I heard the Arabella Bishop with short some men. Arabella
Bishop the same Clydeside clipper bound east for Liverpool around
the horn?
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Did you sell? Hey boy? Did the Arabella Bishop?
Speaker 9 (11:53):
You're too late, Paladin?
Speaker 1 (11:55):
What do you mean?
Speaker 9 (11:56):
Look out the window on the Arabella Bishop's weighed anchor, Paladin,
She's already sailed.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
The boy with.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Shanghaied aboard the Arabella Bishop when she was too far
out in the bay for anything about it. But if
I couldn't intercept her by water, I could try to
cut her off by lamb.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Oh yes, mister Peladin, I can beat it to the presidio.
All right, Harry, let's.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Go ship out. What are you figuring on doing, mister Pelady,
get that boy off the Arabella Bishop now at tubs
of sail. There's a way you know his master of
the Arabella, Oh Captain Ford, and I mean a cutthroat.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
I ain't been born to sail the seas. Oh yeah,
I've heard of him.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
He ain't going to give up, no cruel and to
you without a fight.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
I think he will gladly.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Yeah, Kip Pie and Nelly. Sorry, I can't plush old
Nelly any poster, mister Bella.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
And that's all right.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Once we get over Russian Hill, we'll coast all the
way out to.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
The presidioom and then what I have friends in the army, Harry.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Yes, but for what you're right in today, you all
have friends in the nineties.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Look back there, Gus.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
We see the Arabella Bishop just beyond here with Buena.
He's an irons no wind. Now, look out toward the
Golden Gate while coming in exactly by the time the
Arabella Bishop gets out to the gate on the tide,
we'll be waiting for her.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
In the fog, we'll be waiting. Oh, Harry, you're not
going to abandon me, are you? No?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
No?
Speaker 5 (13:48):
Only how are we going to get out there?
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Walk? One thing at a time, my good Harry.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
But now that we're over the hump of Russian Hill,
let's make all speed of the army.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Suttler on a prosidio. The suttler on an army course
a good man to know.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Not only does he control the supplies, but he also
has more restricted information than the commanding officer. And John
Harrington Suttler at the presidio was the best west of
the Rockies. After Hello, John, how they're treating you?
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Oh? Fine, fine?
Speaker 2 (14:26):
What brings you out here on this wet, misty afternoon?
I thought we might go fishing, My friend and I
fishing in this Onok.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
You won't be able to see your hand.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
In front of your face mid nightfall, All the better
for the kind of fish we're after. John. When I
was stationed out here, there was always a small sailboat
or two more than a little cove to.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
The Lord of Fort Point. That's right. The couple out
there now, catboat that's too small? A cutter, yeah, that's
more business like.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
I don't suppose anybody will be using him this afternoon
in this weather.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Do you have a yellow flag somewhere a quarantine thing? Exactly?
I think so good. I'd like to borrow it, and
a burgee for the main master to look official. All
this for a fishing drip, that's right. Why are you
expecting to catch? Well? Why don't you close up the
store and come along and see? I think I will.
This looks like something the man shouldn't miss.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Martha, what do you hear from your sister?
Speaker 2 (15:35):
She's coming for a visit?
Speaker 6 (15:36):
And I dreaded with a nagging back ache and muscular
eggs and pains I've had lately.
Speaker 8 (15:41):
I feel worn out.
Speaker 9 (15:42):
Nobody feels very spry with that discomfort, So do something
for relief.
Speaker 8 (15:47):
But how try Dones pills good advice. That's Don's Pills,
an analgesic and mild diuretic to the kidneys. Nagging backache,
also headache, dizziness, and muscular aches and pains may come
on with over exertion, emotional upsets, or.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Everyday stress and strain.
Speaker 8 (16:04):
Doone's pain relieving action is often the answer, and they
also offer mild diuretic action through the kidneys. So if
nagging back ache is making you feel worn out, tired,
and miserable with restless sleepless nights, don't wait. Try Doane's
pills you successfully by millions for over sixty years. See
if they don't bring you the same welcome relief. Get
(16:26):
Done's pills today to save money by Don's big economy size.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
With a company guide ons flying from the main and
missing peaks, and the yellow quarantine flag flapping at the
main truck, the little pleasure cutor Daphne looked official enough.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
To fool anyone in the late afternoon in the heavy fog.
And that's just the way it was.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
When we finally pushed off into the Golden Gate. We
didn't have too much trouble finding the Arabella Bishop. He
was picking her way down the back like.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
A lonely calf. Oh hi, Arabella.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Bishop, Oh hi, Oh will you us army cutter Daphney
heave too, and prepare to be boarded.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
What is your business official inspection?
Speaker 2 (17:30):
We got nothing in expect we're carry ballace wade about
the eaves too.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Left them out in the open seas.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Sorry, captain orders, I order, Well, your paper seemed to
be an order.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Got bored there in order. I don't understand row all
the top breweries.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Oh, by the way, I don't see any Chinese listed
in your ship's roster.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
No Chinese on your crew, No Chinese cooked, nothing like that.
Oh huh, it's strange.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
Here was the.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Information that you had a Chinese aboard where in farmer
room is taken. Well, I'm glad of that for your sake, captain.
This Chinese is supposed to be suffering.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
From the ubonic plague. It's the plague.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Yes, my orders would have take him ashore and put
him in quarantine, but of course.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
She's not a boy. Got a minute, all right?
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Oh you um the passenger you took a board last night?
Oh them pack, Yes, I was there a Chinese. Imng
them the washer. But break him out, bring him on deck.
You better bring the other passengers too.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
Up here.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
You hurt me both passengers.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
My gerty said you were shorthanded before you sail.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
But she did he as a farmer. She gets hurt
from both ends.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
No, Captains, she was a soul, just question protecting the
good name of her clients until very end.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
She rested again.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
No, the end in this case is when I discovered
a Chinese coolie cap under herself a pillow. Now, really, Captain,
your strong armed boy should be more careful of the
customer's personal property. All right, three four five? Well you
must have been short, Captain Ford. Oh me, Paladin, stay, Paladin?
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Whyre you're not the US Honey, you move, Captain Ford.
You can see my friends and I have you well covered.
John ya, hey boy over the side, and the boy
that maybe so I help you hear me. Yeah, you've
given me enough trouble already. Oh, hey boy, I want
to get troubles. I just walked on and hally, hey boy,
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not the rest of you passengers. The last call all ashore,
that's going ashore. Hey wait a minute, Palad, I paid
your money for those man and I was a yes,
you got a refund from odd Gerty telling the merchandise
was spoiled.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
The ballad What that Chinese boy did he really have it? Blake?
Speaker 2 (20:10):
I don't know what If you're still alive when you
reach Liverpool, I think you've been assumed that he didn't.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
I was not mad at home, hey boy.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
In matters of this sort, I don't feel it's disloyalty
to the weaker sex to uh stretch the truth. Now,
Miss Wong feels that it was her fault that you disappeared.
Speaker 11 (20:42):
But I wasn't mad at her.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
I just walked on by base and uh someone hit
me on head.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Yes we know that, hey boy. But there's no harm
in letting her think you were angry with her. See,
you must be firm. Remember all right, men.
Speaker 6 (21:04):
What happened to you?
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Where did you go?
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Miss you wrong? It's wrong, hey boy? With shine hide.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
High?
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Yes, hey boy, it sues you. What What are you
going to Drubby Coast for? Maybe you get drunk and
make you wrong seeing your car, hey boy? Having enough
conciliation for a tiny girl? Why have I listened?
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Yes, hey boy?
Speaker 2 (21:32):
You think maybe so you can catch up with abella.
Thirsty people everywhere prefer ice cold pepsicola, and because it's light,
it refreshes without feeling be sociable.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
I am okay.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Pepsi is a favorite of thirsty people from Maine to Hawaii,
from Alaska to Florida. Sorry, It's perfect for parties or picnics,
So serve pepsi to your guests. It's helpful, but this
is the sociable part. Keep plenty of pepsi, ice cold
and ready. Remember it goes fast because everybody likes pepsi.
He still sounds more inviting.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
May I be sociable and keep popple to day?
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Will lemsi string lightness refreshing, Let me.
Speaker 6 (22:31):
Be sociable, have a pepsy.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
But singing doesn't say pick up an extra carton of
pepsi today.
Speaker 11 (22:40):
Better yet, get a case you do. Have Gun Will Travel.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
By herp Metal and Sam Rolfe is produced and directed
in Hollywood by Frank Parris and stars John Dayner as Paladin,
with Ben Right as hey Boy and Virginia Gregg as
Miss Wong. Tonight's story was specially written for half gunn
Will Travel by William and Robson. Featured in the cast
were Edgar Barrier, Harry Bartel, Barney Phillips, Tim Graham, Charles Lung,
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and Virginia Christine.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
This is Hugh Douglas inviting you to.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Join us again next week when CBS Radio presents Have Gun.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Will Travel.
Speaker 7 (23:35):
A Bandit demands a medical miracle at gunpoint.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Gun smoke follows on the CB
You just don't go to the Barbary coast. You make arrangements.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
I've made mine and I hope it will save hey boys,
Life have Gone, Will Travel, Starring mister John Dayner as Paladin,
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San Francisco, eighteen seventy five, The Carlton Hotel, headquarters of
a man called Paladin.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
I'm in a boy. The door.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Isn't that hey by mesa Polo?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
It's wrong? Morning?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Come in, good morning, I bring keeper and coffee.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Thank him?
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Is wrong? Why didn't hey boy bring them up?
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Don't boys no good to work? This money? What hey
boy did not come to root this morning? It's miss
warm is fought with your big argument last night?
Speaker 1 (01:33):
You mean he didn't come to work just because you
had an argument.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
I don't know, missa Polo did.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
It's wrong?
Speaker 5 (01:41):
You don't worry.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Why don't you sit down? Try to take hold of
yourself there now?
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Do you want to tell me about it?
Speaker 6 (01:55):
Hey boy?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
All time says he going to many you w someday,
but he not to win till last night. I tell
him I wait no more? Did I not want to
see him again?
Speaker 5 (02:11):
Ever?
Speaker 6 (02:13):
He was very angry.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Walk away say nothing. This morning I see his uncle
and he said that, hey boy not come home last night. Oh,
mister Pila didn't.
Speaker 6 (02:29):
I very worried.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Maybe something happened to him.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
No, I wouldn't fad about him as long I'm sure
he's all right.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Oh, hey boy, very angry.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
I'll go talk to his uncle. Maybe he's heard from
him by now.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
You'll find him.
Speaker 6 (02:43):
Mister Pilo did, Please, I'll try this one.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
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Speaker 1 (04:07):
My first stop in the dingy labyrinth.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Of Chinatown was a curio shop owned by hey Boy's uncle.
He was visibly upset, and I had no further word
his nephew. I promised him that I would do everything
I could to find him. There was one man in
Chinatown who might have the answer. Chung Wu, or want
of a better description, he was called the Mayor of Chinatown,
but he was much more than that. Head of the
(04:29):
House of Chung in America, related through marriage to the
Wang Chang and Pong families, president of the Alang Kang,
and just to keep his hand in he ran the
biggest pantan parlor east of Cantan.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
He was very important and very difficult to see. No
no hornible.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Chong Wu is not king.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
He is never out. He sees no one. You'll see me.
Keep no hand away from that panel.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
And you keep your hand away from that knife.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
How did you know? I've been here before?
Speaker 2 (05:04):
You must be new, will put me to death by
a thousand torture?
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Who visits this humble establishment desire chung paladin?
Speaker 2 (05:11):
A paladin, my friend, Jo, that's a mighty devoted watchdog there, young.
Speaker 7 (05:23):
You must forgive him, my friend, he is new to him.
All Americans look alike.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
They do well. They'll be hard on him. You're just
doing his job.
Speaker 7 (05:32):
Yes, well, come in, paladin, come in?
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Thank you? Where my friend?
Speaker 7 (05:40):
It is too long a time since you have grace
these on wealthy walls with your peasants.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Much too long?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Maybe the oversight fine forgiveness in your honorable heart.
Speaker 7 (05:49):
My heart is too full of pleasure at seeing you
once more to harbor an unkind thought. It quickens to
know the reason for your visits. I seek word the
boy who serves me.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
In the hotel.
Speaker 7 (06:01):
Ah, Yes, Kim Chang, the one you call hey.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Boy, the very one.
Speaker 7 (06:06):
Why do you seek word of him here?
Speaker 1 (06:09):
He disappeared? If here is in trouble.
Speaker 7 (06:11):
If he were in trouble, I would have heard.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
I thought perhaps he might be in your establishment playing phantom.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Not that boy.
Speaker 7 (06:18):
Sometimes I think he is not a true Chinese he
cares nothing for gambling. He thinks only of saving his
money so that he can get married to this miss
Wang at your hotel.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
But that's why I disappeared after she asked him when
he intended to marry her foolish girl.
Speaker 7 (06:34):
She has not yet learned how to hide the stings
when she manipulates her mannequin.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Ah, Well, if you were a Chinese boy and had
a fight with your girl, where would you go?
Speaker 7 (06:46):
If he were angry enough, our incape would not have.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Been strong enough for him. You meaning, when I'm got drunk,
he might help.
Speaker 7 (06:55):
But if he did, he did not do it here
Where Then if I were an angry Chinese boy who
did not care for gambling and wanted to get really drunk,
I might end up in the Barbary Coast.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
The Barbary Coast, that mean and rady conglomeration of sheds
and shanties, purveying entertainment and refreshment to sailors whose appetites
are stranger than their tastes. Now, you just didn't go
to the Barbary Coast. You made arrangements. I made mine
at the hack Line in Portsmouth Square, keep sir.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
That's why sir, keep sir, there you are, Harry.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Mister Pellett, I was hoping i'd find you free, Yes, sir, Harry,
the act at your service well, and Hagar unable to
do your bidden Where'll it be, mister Pellady? Harry, I
want to find Mark Gurty, Mark Gerty, why she'd been
lying in love since the vigilantes closed it up last time.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
It won't be easy, mister.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Paladine, but uh, it won't be impossible. Well, the sound
of them caught whales is making it easier every minute.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Aren't sure we go? Yes, sirs? Step writing.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Winston tastes good like a cigarette should.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
Winston tastes good like a cigarette should.
Speaker 8 (08:34):
Winston gives you real flavor, full rich tobacco flavor.
Speaker 9 (08:39):
Winston's easy trying to the flavor comes right through to you.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Winston tastes good.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Like a cigarette shure a modern fielder.
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Speaker 2 (09:30):
We made the rounds of North Beach, stopping at a
half dozen places before Harry the Hack found the right one.
It was a saloon built out over the water and
a pier was called the Golden Fleece.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
I had a drink at the bar while Harry made arrangements.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Jay z all right, oh well, in the background said
she'd say she's white.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
Thanks all right, Paladin, come in, come in, thanks.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
So how have you been, ma Paladin?
Speaker 9 (10:08):
I'd like it better if you.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Called me Gerty.
Speaker 9 (10:12):
All right, Gerty, sit down, still as handsome as ever here.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
The vigilantes have been giving you a bad time.
Speaker 9 (10:22):
Vigilantes, why can't they leave an old woman alone?
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Because if they did, that old woman would be running
the city in two weeks.
Speaker 9 (10:29):
Sure, I asked, is to earn a living?
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Yeah, I weep for you, Gerty. That what you came
here for?
Speaker 9 (10:37):
To cry over me?
Speaker 1 (10:38):
No, I'm looking for a Chinese boy.
Speaker 9 (10:42):
What makes you think he might be here?
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Well? O? Missing persons in a way of passing through
your hands.
Speaker 9 (10:48):
Gerty, You talk pure nonsense, Paladin, and that may be,
But what are you doing what's this?
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Where'd you get this black silk? Cool?
Speaker 5 (10:58):
He?
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Huh?
Speaker 5 (10:59):
What cool?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
He had stuck behind the sofa pillar like someone was
trying to hide it.
Speaker 9 (11:04):
Now, Paladin, why did anyone want to hide.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
A thing like that? I don't even know why I
respected a lady like you would have a thing like
this in her parlor unless it was dropped by his
owner while he was being lowered unconscious through that trap
door over there to a boat Bowle.
Speaker 9 (11:18):
I don't know what you're talking about?
Speaker 1 (11:20):
All right? Where is he God?
Speaker 5 (11:21):
Where's who the owner of this cap? Now?
Speaker 9 (11:24):
How would i?
Speaker 1 (11:24):
This is?
Speaker 7 (11:25):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Boys, Captain, I've.
Speaker 9 (11:26):
Never heard of any Hey boy, now, where is he Ma?
You wouldn't harm me, Paladin? If I had to, don't
threaten me?
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Where is he Ma?
Speaker 5 (11:37):
All right?
Speaker 9 (11:39):
I heard the Arabella Bishop with short some men. Arabella
Bishop the same Clydeside clipper bound east for Liverpool around
the horn?
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Did you sell? Hey boy? Did the Arabella Bishop?
Speaker 9 (11:53):
You're too late, Paladin?
Speaker 1 (11:55):
What do you mean?
Speaker 9 (11:56):
Look out the window on the Arabella Bishop's weighed anchor, Paladin,
She's already sailed.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
The boy with.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Shanghaied aboard the Arabella Bishop when she was too far
out in the bay for anything about it. But if
I couldn't intercept her by water, I could try to
cut her off by lamb.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Oh yes, mister Peladin, I can beat it to the presidio.
All right, Harry, let's.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Go ship out. What are you figuring on doing, mister Pelady,
get that boy off the Arabella Bishop now at tubs
of sail. There's a way you know his master of
the Arabella, Oh Captain Ford, and I mean a cutthroat.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
I ain't been born to sail the seas. Oh yeah,
I've heard of him.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
He ain't going to give up, no cruel and to
you without a fight.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
I think he will gladly.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Yeah, Kip Pie and Nelly. Sorry, I can't plush old
Nelly any poster, mister Bella.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
And that's all right.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Once we get over Russian Hill, we'll coast all the
way out to.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
The presidioom and then what I have friends in the army, Harry.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Yes, but for what you're right in today, you all
have friends in the nineties.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Look back there, Gus.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
We see the Arabella Bishop just beyond here with Buena.
He's an irons no wind. Now, look out toward the
Golden Gate while coming in exactly by the time the
Arabella Bishop gets out to the gate on the tide,
we'll be waiting for her.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
In the fog, we'll be waiting. Oh, Harry, you're not
going to abandon me, are you? No?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
No?
Speaker 5 (13:48):
Only how are we going to get out there?
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Walk? One thing at a time, my good Harry.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
But now that we're over the hump of Russian Hill,
let's make all speed of the army.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Suttler on a prosidio. The suttler on an army course
a good man to know.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Not only does he control the supplies, but he also
has more restricted information than the commanding officer. And John
Harrington Suttler at the presidio was the best west of
the Rockies. After Hello, John, how they're treating you?
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Oh? Fine, fine?
Speaker 2 (14:26):
What brings you out here on this wet, misty afternoon?
I thought we might go fishing, My friend and I
fishing in this Onok.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
You won't be able to see your hand.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
In front of your face mid nightfall, All the better
for the kind of fish we're after. John. When I
was stationed out here, there was always a small sailboat
or two more than a little cove to.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
The Lord of Fort Point. That's right. The couple out
there now, catboat that's too small? A cutter, yeah, that's
more business like.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
I don't suppose anybody will be using him this afternoon
in this weather.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Do you have a yellow flag somewhere a quarantine thing? Exactly?
I think so good. I'd like to borrow it, and
a burgee for the main master to look official. All
this for a fishing drip, that's right. Why are you
expecting to catch? Well? Why don't you close up the
store and come along and see? I think I will.
This looks like something the man shouldn't miss.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Martha, what do you hear from your sister?
Speaker 2 (15:35):
She's coming for a visit?
Speaker 6 (15:36):
And I dreaded with a nagging back ache and muscular
eggs and pains I've had lately.
Speaker 8 (15:41):
I feel worn out.
Speaker 9 (15:42):
Nobody feels very spry with that discomfort, So do something
for relief.
Speaker 8 (15:47):
But how try Dones pills good advice. That's Don's Pills,
an analgesic and mild diuretic to the kidneys. Nagging backache,
also headache, dizziness, and muscular aches and pains may come
on with over exertion, emotional upsets, or.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Everyday stress and strain.
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Speaker 2 (16:38):
With a company guide ons flying from the main and
missing peaks, and the yellow quarantine flag flapping at the
main truck, the little pleasure cutor Daphne looked official enough.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
To fool anyone in the late afternoon in the heavy fog.
And that's just the way it was.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
When we finally pushed off into the Golden Gate. We
didn't have too much trouble finding the Arabella Bishop. He
was picking her way down the back like.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
A lonely calf. Oh hi, Arabella.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Bishop, Oh hi, Oh will you us army cutter Daphney
heave too, and prepare to be boarded.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
What is your business official inspection?
Speaker 2 (17:30):
We got nothing in expect we're carry ballace wade about
the eaves too.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Left them out in the open seas.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Sorry, captain orders, I order, Well, your paper seemed to
be an order.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Got bored there in order. I don't understand row all
the top breweries.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Oh, by the way, I don't see any Chinese listed
in your ship's roster.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
No Chinese on your crew, No Chinese cooked, nothing like that.
Oh huh, it's strange.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
Here was the.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Information that you had a Chinese aboard where in farmer
room is taken. Well, I'm glad of that for your sake, captain.
This Chinese is supposed to be suffering.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
From the ubonic plague. It's the plague.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Yes, my orders would have take him ashore and put
him in quarantine, but of course.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
She's not a boy. Got a minute, all right?
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Oh you um the passenger you took a board last night?
Oh them pack, Yes, I was there a Chinese. Imng
them the washer. But break him out, bring him on deck.
You better bring the other passengers too.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
Up here.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
You hurt me both passengers.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
My gerty said you were shorthanded before you sail.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
But she did he as a farmer. She gets hurt
from both ends.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
No, Captains, she was a soul, just question protecting the
good name of her clients until very end.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
She rested again.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
No, the end in this case is when I discovered
a Chinese coolie cap under herself a pillow. Now, really, Captain,
your strong armed boy should be more careful of the
customer's personal property. All right, three four five? Well you
must have been short, Captain Ford. Oh me, Paladin, stay, Paladin?
(19:27):
Whyre you're not the US Honey, you move, Captain Ford.
You can see my friends and I have you well covered.
John ya, hey boy over the side, and the boy
that maybe so I help you hear me. Yeah, you've
given me enough trouble already. Oh, hey boy, I want
to get troubles. I just walked on and hally, hey boy,
(19:50):
not the rest of you passengers. The last call all ashore,
that's going ashore. Hey wait a minute, Palad, I paid
your money for those man and I was a yes,
you got a refund from odd Gerty telling the merchandise
was spoiled.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
The ballad What that Chinese boy did he really have it? Blake?
Speaker 2 (20:10):
I don't know what If you're still alive when you
reach Liverpool, I think you've been assumed that he didn't.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
I was not mad at home, hey boy.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
In matters of this sort, I don't feel it's disloyalty
to the weaker sex to uh stretch the truth. Now,
Miss Wong feels that it was her fault that you disappeared.
Speaker 11 (20:42):
But I wasn't mad at her.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
I just walked on by base and uh someone hit
me on head.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Yes we know that, hey boy. But there's no harm
in letting her think you were angry with her. See,
you must be firm. Remember all right, men.
Speaker 6 (21:04):
What happened to you?
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Where did you go?
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Miss you wrong? It's wrong, hey boy? With shine hide.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
High?
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Yes, hey boy, it sues you. What What are you
going to Drubby Coast for? Maybe you get drunk and
make you wrong seeing your car, hey boy? Having enough
conciliation for a tiny girl? Why have I listened?
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Yes, hey boy?
Speaker 2 (21:32):
You think maybe so you can catch up with abella.
Thirsty people everywhere prefer ice cold pepsicola, and because it's light,
it refreshes without feeling be sociable.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
I am okay.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Pepsi is a favorite of thirsty people from Maine to Hawaii,
from Alaska to Florida. Sorry, It's perfect for parties or picnics,
So serve pepsi to your guests. It's helpful, but this
is the sociable part. Keep plenty of pepsi, ice cold
and ready. Remember it goes fast because everybody likes pepsi.
He still sounds more inviting.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
May I be sociable and keep popple to day?
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Will lemsi string lightness refreshing, Let me.
Speaker 6 (22:31):
Be sociable, have a pepsy.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
But singing doesn't say pick up an extra carton of
pepsi today.
Speaker 11 (22:40):
Better yet, get a case you do. Have Gun Will Travel.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
By herp Metal and Sam Rolfe is produced and directed
in Hollywood by Frank Parris and stars John Dayner as Paladin,
with Ben Right as hey Boy and Virginia Gregg as
Miss Wong. Tonight's story was specially written for half gunn
Will Travel by William and Robson. Featured in the cast
were Edgar Barrier, Harry Bartel, Barney Phillips, Tim Graham, Charles Lung,
(23:21):
and Virginia Christine.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
This is Hugh Douglas inviting you to.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Join us again next week when CBS Radio presents Have Gun.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Will Travel.
Speaker 7 (23:35):
A Bandit demands a medical miracle at gunpoint.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Gun smoke follows on the CB
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