September 29, 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 (00:14):
The choice is yours.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Either try to out draw me, or turn around and
ride out of here while you're still alive. Have Gone,
Will Travel, starring mister John Damer as Paladin, San Francisco,
(00:46):
eighteen seventy five, The Carlton Hotel, headquarters of a man
called Paladin. Oh, good morning, Paladine, mellow, Hey boy, I
(01:09):
didn't expect you to be at the desk this morning.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Oh he saw. Desk clerk asked me to stay here
while he have breakfast. Uh why are you up so early?
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Who couldn't sleep? Thought I'd pick up the paper and
have breakfast in the dining room.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Oh uh, telegram come for you a few minutes ago.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Here, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
I have newspapers all sorted, I get them.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Uh no, just one of the San Francisco papers for now,
Hey boy, okay, mm.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Huh uh yeah, the uh out of California. Not much
interesting news in paper today, mesa pologan. He's telegram interesting?
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Oh yes, very do you remember Lola Blackwood? I have
Blackwood you?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Oh you saw they? I am a factress whos there
Comton when she comes to California Theater. That's right, Oh,
very nice, lady. He's here for a long time.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Is he coming back?
Speaker 2 (02:11):
No, she retired from the theater about a year ago.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Oh towld bad, I don't know. A lovely lady at
miss Blackwood should always be seen by many people. Why
she send telegram.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Say she needs help, wants me to come at once?
You go, yes, as soon as I packed.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Oh hey boy, sent answer to telegram.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
No, just cut me a seat on the next stage
to Sacramento.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Constipation is something people don't talk about much, but it
can be a problem for anyone, even doctors. And when
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important about a laxative they might use or recommend. While
a majority of the doctors we heard from had this
to say, a.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Laxative should be effective, gentle, close to natural acting, a
medicine that can be used with complete confidence.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Now, xlax has been popular with many doctors and millions
of people over the years because pleasant tasting, chocolated xlax
is effective overnight. It helps you toward your normal regularity.
X lax is so gentle, so close to natural acting,
there's no upset. That's why many doctors and millions of
(03:30):
people use x lax with complete confidence x lax the
laxative that helps you toward your normal regularity gently. Overnight
in Sacramento, I rode a horse and started on my
(03:53):
journey to the town of Grass Valley. It had been
over a year since I had last heard from Rolla Blackwood,
and letter at that time telling me that she was
tired of touring the company as an actress and had
decided to.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Buy a ranch and settle down in Grass Valley.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
My ride along the American River to the foothills of
the Sierra Nevadas was filled with the thoughts of this
beautiful woman. When I tied my horse at the hitch
rail outside the Grass Valley Hotel, I noticed a carriage
standing alongside the boardwalk a few yards down the street.
He's sitting in the carriage with a young girl with
the lovely La Blackwood.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Ba a long.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
It's in almost two years, you mean two centuries.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
I'd been in San Francisco and I was playing a.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Team and there wasn't a dry handkerchief left in the
California Theater.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
Oh, Paladin, I want you to meet Lori Gallagher.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Hello, Laurie, how do you do?
Speaker 5 (04:54):
I'm sure Laurie feels that she already knows you. Lola's
told me many wonderful things about you.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Oh, your aunt lois a very gracious lady. But I'm
afraid she's forgotten to tell me that she had such
a beautiful niece.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
Well, I'm not really her niece. Laurie has been living
with me for several months, Paladan, ever since her mother
passed away. Oh, she and her mother traveled with our
company before she died. They came to live with me.
I promised you i'd take care of Laurie.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
I see, And I suppose you're going to be an
actress to Laurie huh.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Oh, yes, sir, I'm working very hard on natural born actress.
I'm very proud of her. He's only thirteen.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Now.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
In another two years, you may have the good fortune
to see a perfect Julia at your California theater.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
One. She'll be just the right age for the point.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Yes, Well, I just can't get over this delightful surprise.
What brings you into Grass Valley?
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Your telegram? By what? Well? You sent me a wire
asking me to come.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
Oh, there must be some mistake.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
I'm afraid I don't understand, Lola. Yeah, here's the wire
I received.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Let me see there need your help desperately, most urgent.
You come to Grass Valley, sign Lola Blackwood.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
I didn't stand this, and who did?
Speaker 5 (06:22):
I have no idea?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Huh, Well, there's one way to find out who said it?
How mister go to the telegraph office and get a
verydication from their files.
Speaker 7 (06:32):
Oh, Lola, why don't you ask mister Palladin to stay
with us while he's here? Or now?
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Laurie, maybe mister Paladin had rather stay in town. I'm
sure it would be much too dull for him at
the ranch. Oh, here comes Boone Boone. I this is
mister Paladin, an old friend of mine from San Francisco. Paladin,
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This is Boone Caldwell.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
How you doing a long way from said?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
It?
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Brings you here?
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Business?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
True? Not much business in Grass Valley for a man
who ways is gun like you do?
Speaker 5 (07:11):
Hi, Boom.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
It's a peaceful town and I'm a peaceful man.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
You ready to go back to the ranch?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Lolla?
Speaker 5 (07:21):
Yes, Boom?
Speaker 1 (07:24):
All right? Out to see you tonight, Lolla.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
After I check on this telegram, maybe are you say
mister I said I would be paying my respects to
Miss Blackwood. This evening.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
You might as well know Miss Blackwood and I are
going to be married. Her old friends won't be welcome
at the ranch anymore.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
So mister isn't just an old friend. He's coming.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
And be quiet.
Speaker 8 (07:47):
Boom call makes me fidgety.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Kids should be seen.
Speaker 6 (07:50):
And not heard.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
But I said was true, and mister Paladin will be
welcomed at my ranch anytime. He's so desires.
Speaker 6 (07:59):
Is a decisions to make now, Lola, not yours.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Aladn't do you understand?
Speaker 2 (08:06):
I'm afraid I don't well stay.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Away from Lola.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
I can't make it any clearer than that.
Speaker 9 (08:14):
Yeah, Adie, Hello, I want to stand the wire.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
He write it out one north Ford.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
No thanks.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
I came in to ask you if you might remember
who sent me this telegram came to me in San
Francisco three days ago. M hmmm, it says right here
lolaha Blackwood. Yeah, but did she come into this office
to send it? You had to the only telegraph offs
in town. Do you actually remember her coming in?
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Yeah, now you mentioned it.
Speaker 8 (08:57):
I don't think she did.
Speaker 6 (08:58):
Seems I recall that girl that lives in Miss Blackwood, Yeah,
that's I remember.
Speaker 8 (09:07):
Now, came in here with this message already printed on
a piece of paper. Tell me, Miss Blackwood, play the
charges later on.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
No, don't bother Miss Blackwood with the chargers. They should
take care of it.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Yes, sir, it does. Hi, folks, this is Mitch Miller.
Speaker 10 (09:31):
I don't claim to be a traffic engineer, but then
traffic engineers don't claim to be radio personalities, and they
don't usually have the highway accidents. Ordinary drivers like you
and me have them as one ordinary driver to more
of the ordinary species. Nowadays, we're doing a lot of
clamoring for more and better roads to take us more
places faster. But you know what they say about charity
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beginning at home. Better road begin behind the wheel. Subtract
every hurry hurry guy right now, subtrack every cut up
and cutout, subtrack every guy who treats his car like
a weapon, and we'd have those better roads now. I'm
sure some of you folks catch my Sunday night shows
from CBS Radio in your cars. I know you can
hear me from a hospital bed too, But what's the
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percentage in that as a personal favorite.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Try not to.
Speaker 10 (10:18):
Create or become a highway accident statistic. Take it from
Mitcheer dying on the highway. That's not living at all.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
At the Grass Valley Hotel, I learned that Boone called
Well was a professional gambler and control the gaming table
at the Red Dog Saloon. I wanted to talk to
Lola alone, so before I rode out the visitor, I
stopped by the saloon to see if Boone was there.
He was busy at the tables. Twenty minutes later, I
pulled up at the ranch house.
Speaker 7 (11:09):
I know, I do that.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
I'll see y. It's Paladin, Taladin, Lourie, go find him,
how he can help it. Take him in the house, Lloyd,
please hurry, Paladin. Can you hear me?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Well, somebody took a shot at me.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
Well, it creased your forehead just above the eye.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Yeah, can you stand up?
Speaker 2 (11:40):
No?
Speaker 1 (11:42):
I think so.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Let me help you.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
No, I'm all right.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
We better go in the house.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Wait a minute, listen, the man who shot me is
probably on that horse. I'm going after him.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
Paladin. Wait, don't go, boy, I know who it is
who Come inside. We can talk there.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Lola told me that a man named Judd had probably
done the shooting. He had been hired by Boone to
watch over the place at night.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
While Boone was working in town.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Before I could learn more, we were interrupted by Laurie
and the Chinese cook ching how Laurie was pleased to
see that I no longer needed.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Assistance, and proceeded to apply.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
A bandage to my foreign Lola asked King how to
make some coffee.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
And then she took Laurie upstairs to get her ready
for bed.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
A few minutes later, she returned carrying a tray from
the kitchen.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
Coffee is ready?
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Ooh good?
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Does Laurie asleep? Not yet?
Speaker 5 (12:54):
How's your head feel.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Much better thanks to her nursing care.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
Coffee should help you too.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
You're both very considerate.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
Things were different, It could be much more hospitable.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
What's between you and Boone?
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Call? Well, Lola? Are you really going to marry him?
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Now?
Speaker 5 (13:21):
At one time I was about now.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
I didn't think so.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
He's a despicable man. I despise him.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
So strange strange.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
Boone came into town several months ago. I met him then.
He was very attentive to Laurie and me. We loved him.
At the beginning, I was having financial trouble at the time.
The money I had left was dwindling away, so I
decided to put the ranch up for sale. Nobody wanted
to buy. Boone said that since we were going to
be married anyway, that he would make the mortgage payments
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and take over the bookkeeping. I was very thankful when
he did. I never was very good at bookkeeping.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Ah well, how did it work out under his management?
Speaker 5 (14:08):
But the ranch worked out fine, But Laurie and I
didn't do so well. I'm afraid he owns most of
the ranch now.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
And this is what made you dislike him so much.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
It happened gradually he changed, started treating Laurie like she
didn't belong here, wanted to send her away to a
fondling home back east. I begged him out of that.
It got so that he would tell me every move
I should make. After a while, I knew I could
never be possessed by anyone like him.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Then you should leave and get away. You could always
go back with the touring company.
Speaker 5 (14:43):
Laurie would love that. I told Boone I was going
to be threatened to kill me if I ever try it.
We couldn't get ten miles out of this valley without
him knowing about it got his man jud watching us
whenever he can't be here. There's no use, Paladin. We're
prisoners until Boone gets tired of us and leaves. That's
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my only hope.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
There's someone riding up out front.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
I must be judging Boone. I could have guessed jud
would go telling you we're here.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
I'll go outside, I'll try to kill you.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
Stay in here, and I'll see that you leave peaceably.
No use in your getting hurt because of my troubles.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
There are my troubles now too, Lola, Have you forgotten
the bandage on my forehead.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Day?
Speaker 6 (15:45):
About those trees you took down, I'd helped cut them
up a part of the wood.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
As soon as I feel better? And what's wrong?
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Head?
Speaker 10 (15:51):
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Speaker 8 (15:57):
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Speaker 2 (17:04):
Hello, Boone, I told you this afternoon to stay away
from I heard you say something like that before you
rode away, but you didn't wait long enough for me
to give you my hands.
Speaker 6 (17:15):
Get on your horse and clear out of here.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
I'm not going to waste any more words with you, Peladin.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Your friend Judd doesn't like to waste words either. You
ambush everybody who walks to this door after sundown. Judd,
that wasn't trying to shoot him.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
That was only to scare you all.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
You're just lucky you did hit me, Otherwise you wouldn't
have lived long enough to ride in after Boone.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Get off my ranch, Pedalt No, Boone.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
I won't be leaving you will.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Get on your horses.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
And move out.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Both of you. Nobody talks to me like that. Shoot
him Judd, don't try And Judd.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
Y you killed Jed didn't even give him a chance
to draw. He reached for you're a cold blooded killer. Well,
I've taken care of men like you before.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
I believe you. Professional gambers usually know how to take
care of themselves. My gun is back in its holster.
If you want to try to outdraw me.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
There's no other way, is there?
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Up to you make your choice. My advice is to
turn around right out of here. If I am still
in line, I don't believe your mine.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
All right, Lola, if.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
He did both of them, I'm so afraid for you.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
I'm sorry you had to get mixed up with my troubles.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
I wouldn't have come here if I hadn't Wane I
wanted to.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
I'm grateful, Paladin.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
No, you can thank Laurie. Laurie, she sent the telegram.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
I've forgotten about the telegram.
Speaker 7 (19:14):
How did.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
Oh, Laurie, Poor Laurie, How do you say that she
must never know? Paladin Boone was her father.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Her father.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
Who left her mother before Laurie was born. My mother
gave me a picture of him before she died, told
me to destroy it so that Laurie would never see it.
I kept the picture for a while. It wasn't until
after I'd fallen in love with Boone that I remember
to get rid of it. I hardly recognized him from
the photograph at first. The years had changed him so much,
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but I knew it was he.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Did you ask him about him?
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (19:57):
He denied everything that he was I am married. Never
knew Laurie's mother. After that, he started showing his hatred
for the child. I realized then what kind of a
man he really was, but it was too late to
do anything about it. I'll be right there, Laurie. I'm
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better go in and tell what's happened. Don't let her
know about Boom.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Don't worry, Lola, I won't.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
What Good morning, this wall, welcome home last night?
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Yes, the stage didn't get into almost midnight.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
Very nice, very nice.
Speaker 7 (20:54):
Paucuse, mister long. I will be back and finish making.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Up you red and a few where you're going.
Speaker 7 (21:01):
To get another girl to have me when I've been
over to make up bad my ship because hey, Dizzy.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Something wrong? Don't you feel all right?
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (21:11):
I think so? But Missy Wong had all filled with champagne.
Champagne champaign We have big birthday party for annover at
last night, drink too much champagne.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Oh that's bad. It was hey boy at the party.
And how does he feel this morning?
Speaker 5 (21:32):
I know you're not come to work at.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
You must have had a lot of champaigne too.
Speaker 7 (21:40):
Much more than missy Wang.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
He's dizzy this morning too.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
More than likely knowing hey boy, I wouldn't expect him
to come to work at.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
All today, poor she By.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
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Gun Will Travel.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Created by Herb Medal and Sam Rolf, is produced and
directed in Hollywood by Frank Paris and stars John Dayner
as Paladin, with Ben Wright as hey Boy and Virginia
greg as Miss Wam. Tonight's story was specially written for
Half Gun Will Travel by mister Parris, featured in the
cast for Ann Whitfield, Jim Graham, Launchdopton, and Gene Dates.
Speaker 8 (23:38):
This is Hugh Douglas inviting you to.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Johnnys again next week when CBS Radio presents Have Gun
Will Travel. The
The choice is yours.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Either try to out draw me, or turn around and
ride out of here while you're still alive. Have Gone,
Will Travel, starring mister John Damer as Paladin, San Francisco,
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eighteen seventy five, The Carlton Hotel, headquarters of a man
called Paladin. Oh, good morning, Paladine, mellow, Hey boy, I
(01:09):
didn't expect you to be at the desk this morning.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Oh he saw. Desk clerk asked me to stay here
while he have breakfast. Uh why are you up so early?
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Who couldn't sleep? Thought I'd pick up the paper and
have breakfast in the dining room.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Oh uh, telegram come for you a few minutes ago.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Here, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
I have newspapers all sorted, I get them.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Uh no, just one of the San Francisco papers for now,
Hey boy, okay, mm.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Huh uh yeah, the uh out of California. Not much
interesting news in paper today, mesa pologan. He's telegram interesting?
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Oh yes, very do you remember Lola Blackwood? I have
Blackwood you?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Oh you saw they? I am a factress whos there
Comton when she comes to California Theater. That's right, Oh,
very nice, lady. He's here for a long time.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Is he coming back?
Speaker 2 (02:11):
No, she retired from the theater about a year ago.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Oh towld bad, I don't know. A lovely lady at
miss Blackwood should always be seen by many people. Why
she send telegram.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Say she needs help, wants me to come at once?
You go, yes, as soon as I packed.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Oh hey boy, sent answer to telegram.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
No, just cut me a seat on the next stage
to Sacramento.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Constipation is something people don't talk about much, but it
can be a problem for anyone, even doctors. And when
constipation occurs, it's interesting to see just what doctors consider
important about a laxative they might use or recommend. While
a majority of the doctors we heard from had this
to say, a.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Laxative should be effective, gentle, close to natural acting, a
medicine that can be used with complete confidence.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Now, xlax has been popular with many doctors and millions
of people over the years because pleasant tasting, chocolated xlax
is effective overnight. It helps you toward your normal regularity.
X lax is so gentle, so close to natural acting,
there's no upset. That's why many doctors and millions of
(03:30):
people use x lax with complete confidence x lax the
laxative that helps you toward your normal regularity gently. Overnight
in Sacramento, I rode a horse and started on my
(03:53):
journey to the town of Grass Valley. It had been
over a year since I had last heard from Rolla Blackwood,
and letter at that time telling me that she was
tired of touring the company as an actress and had
decided to.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Buy a ranch and settle down in Grass Valley.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
My ride along the American River to the foothills of
the Sierra Nevadas was filled with the thoughts of this
beautiful woman. When I tied my horse at the hitch
rail outside the Grass Valley Hotel, I noticed a carriage
standing alongside the boardwalk a few yards down the street.
He's sitting in the carriage with a young girl with
the lovely La Blackwood.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Ba a long.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
It's in almost two years, you mean two centuries.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
I'd been in San Francisco and I was playing a.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Team and there wasn't a dry handkerchief left in the
California Theater.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
Oh, Paladin, I want you to meet Lori Gallagher.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Hello, Laurie, how do you do?
Speaker 5 (04:54):
I'm sure Laurie feels that she already knows you. Lola's
told me many wonderful things about you.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Oh, your aunt lois a very gracious lady. But I'm
afraid she's forgotten to tell me that she had such
a beautiful niece.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
Well, I'm not really her niece. Laurie has been living
with me for several months, Paladan, ever since her mother
passed away. Oh, she and her mother traveled with our
company before she died. They came to live with me.
I promised you i'd take care of Laurie.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
I see, And I suppose you're going to be an
actress to Laurie huh.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Oh, yes, sir, I'm working very hard on natural born actress.
I'm very proud of her. He's only thirteen.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Now.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
In another two years, you may have the good fortune
to see a perfect Julia at your California theater.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
One. She'll be just the right age for the point.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Yes, Well, I just can't get over this delightful surprise.
What brings you into Grass Valley?
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Your telegram? By what? Well? You sent me a wire
asking me to come.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
Oh, there must be some mistake.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
I'm afraid I don't understand, Lola. Yeah, here's the wire
I received.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Let me see there need your help desperately, most urgent.
You come to Grass Valley, sign Lola Blackwood.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
I didn't stand this, and who did?
Speaker 5 (06:22):
I have no idea?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Huh, Well, there's one way to find out who said it?
How mister go to the telegraph office and get a
verydication from their files.
Speaker 7 (06:32):
Oh, Lola, why don't you ask mister Palladin to stay
with us while he's here? Or now?
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Laurie, maybe mister Paladin had rather stay in town. I'm
sure it would be much too dull for him at
the ranch. Oh, here comes Boone Boone. I this is
mister Paladin, an old friend of mine from San Francisco. Paladin,
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This is Boone Caldwell.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
How you doing a long way from said?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
It?
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Brings you here?
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Business?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
True? Not much business in Grass Valley for a man
who ways is gun like you do?
Speaker 5 (07:11):
Hi, Boom.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
It's a peaceful town and I'm a peaceful man.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
You ready to go back to the ranch?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Lolla?
Speaker 5 (07:21):
Yes, Boom?
Speaker 1 (07:24):
All right? Out to see you tonight, Lolla.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
After I check on this telegram, maybe are you say
mister I said I would be paying my respects to
Miss Blackwood. This evening.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
You might as well know Miss Blackwood and I are
going to be married. Her old friends won't be welcome
at the ranch anymore.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
So mister isn't just an old friend. He's coming.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
And be quiet.
Speaker 8 (07:47):
Boom call makes me fidgety.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Kids should be seen.
Speaker 6 (07:50):
And not heard.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
But I said was true, and mister Paladin will be
welcomed at my ranch anytime. He's so desires.
Speaker 6 (07:59):
Is a decisions to make now, Lola, not yours.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Aladn't do you understand?
Speaker 2 (08:06):
I'm afraid I don't well stay.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Away from Lola.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
I can't make it any clearer than that.
Speaker 9 (08:14):
Yeah, Adie, Hello, I want to stand the wire.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
He write it out one north Ford.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
No thanks.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
I came in to ask you if you might remember
who sent me this telegram came to me in San
Francisco three days ago. M hmmm, it says right here
lolaha Blackwood. Yeah, but did she come into this office
to send it? You had to the only telegraph offs
in town. Do you actually remember her coming in?
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Yeah, now you mentioned it.
Speaker 8 (08:57):
I don't think she did.
Speaker 6 (08:58):
Seems I recall that girl that lives in Miss Blackwood, Yeah,
that's I remember.
Speaker 8 (09:07):
Now, came in here with this message already printed on
a piece of paper. Tell me, Miss Blackwood, play the
charges later on.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
No, don't bother Miss Blackwood with the chargers. They should
take care of it.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Yes, sir, it does. Hi, folks, this is Mitch Miller.
Speaker 10 (09:31):
I don't claim to be a traffic engineer, but then
traffic engineers don't claim to be radio personalities, and they
don't usually have the highway accidents. Ordinary drivers like you
and me have them as one ordinary driver to more
of the ordinary species. Nowadays, we're doing a lot of
clamoring for more and better roads to take us more
places faster. But you know what they say about charity
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beginning at home. Better road begin behind the wheel. Subtract
every hurry hurry guy right now, subtrack every cut up
and cutout, subtrack every guy who treats his car like
a weapon, and we'd have those better roads now. I'm
sure some of you folks catch my Sunday night shows
from CBS Radio in your cars. I know you can
hear me from a hospital bed too, But what's the
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percentage in that as a personal favorite.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Try not to.
Speaker 10 (10:18):
Create or become a highway accident statistic. Take it from
Mitcheer dying on the highway. That's not living at all.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
At the Grass Valley Hotel, I learned that Boone called
Well was a professional gambler and control the gaming table
at the Red Dog Saloon. I wanted to talk to
Lola alone, so before I rode out the visitor, I
stopped by the saloon to see if Boone was there.
He was busy at the tables. Twenty minutes later, I
pulled up at the ranch house.
Speaker 7 (11:09):
I know, I do that.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
I'll see y. It's Paladin, Taladin, Lourie, go find him,
how he can help it. Take him in the house, Lloyd,
please hurry, Paladin. Can you hear me?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Well, somebody took a shot at me.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
Well, it creased your forehead just above the eye.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Yeah, can you stand up?
Speaker 2 (11:40):
No?
Speaker 1 (11:42):
I think so.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Let me help you.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
No, I'm all right.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
We better go in the house.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Wait a minute, listen, the man who shot me is
probably on that horse. I'm going after him.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
Paladin. Wait, don't go, boy, I know who it is
who Come inside. We can talk there.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Lola told me that a man named Judd had probably
done the shooting. He had been hired by Boone to
watch over the place at night.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
While Boone was working in town.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Before I could learn more, we were interrupted by Laurie
and the Chinese cook ching how Laurie was pleased to
see that I no longer needed.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Assistance, and proceeded to apply.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
A bandage to my foreign Lola asked King how to
make some coffee.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
And then she took Laurie upstairs to get her ready
for bed.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
A few minutes later, she returned carrying a tray from
the kitchen.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
Coffee is ready?
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Ooh good?
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Does Laurie asleep? Not yet?
Speaker 5 (12:54):
How's your head feel.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Much better thanks to her nursing care.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
Coffee should help you too.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
You're both very considerate.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
Things were different, It could be much more hospitable.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
What's between you and Boone?
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Call? Well, Lola? Are you really going to marry him?
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Now?
Speaker 5 (13:21):
At one time I was about now.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
I didn't think so.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
He's a despicable man. I despise him.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
So strange strange.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
Boone came into town several months ago. I met him then.
He was very attentive to Laurie and me. We loved him.
At the beginning, I was having financial trouble at the time.
The money I had left was dwindling away, so I
decided to put the ranch up for sale. Nobody wanted
to buy. Boone said that since we were going to
be married anyway, that he would make the mortgage payments
(13:58):
and take over the bookkeeping. I was very thankful when
he did. I never was very good at bookkeeping.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Ah well, how did it work out under his management?
Speaker 5 (14:08):
But the ranch worked out fine, But Laurie and I
didn't do so well. I'm afraid he owns most of
the ranch now.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
And this is what made you dislike him so much.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
It happened gradually he changed, started treating Laurie like she
didn't belong here, wanted to send her away to a
fondling home back east. I begged him out of that.
It got so that he would tell me every move
I should make. After a while, I knew I could
never be possessed by anyone like him.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Then you should leave and get away. You could always
go back with the touring company.
Speaker 5 (14:43):
Laurie would love that. I told Boone I was going
to be threatened to kill me if I ever try it.
We couldn't get ten miles out of this valley without
him knowing about it got his man jud watching us
whenever he can't be here. There's no use, Paladin. We're
prisoners until Boone gets tired of us and leaves. That's
(15:05):
my only hope.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
There's someone riding up out front.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
I must be judging Boone. I could have guessed jud
would go telling you we're here.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
I'll go outside, I'll try to kill you.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
Stay in here, and I'll see that you leave peaceably.
No use in your getting hurt because of my troubles.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
There are my troubles now too, Lola, Have you forgotten
the bandage on my forehead.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Day?
Speaker 6 (15:45):
About those trees you took down, I'd helped cut them
up a part of the wood.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
As soon as I feel better? And what's wrong?
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Head?
Speaker 10 (15:51):
Nagging back ache lately with sleepless nights, feel tired out,
just the way I felt with back ache.
Speaker 8 (15:57):
Better try to get relief.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
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Speaker 2 (17:04):
Hello, Boone, I told you this afternoon to stay away
from I heard you say something like that before you
rode away, but you didn't wait long enough for me
to give you my hands.
Speaker 6 (17:15):
Get on your horse and clear out of here.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
I'm not going to waste any more words with you, Peladin.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Your friend Judd doesn't like to waste words either. You
ambush everybody who walks to this door after sundown. Judd,
that wasn't trying to shoot him.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
That was only to scare you all.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
You're just lucky you did hit me, Otherwise you wouldn't
have lived long enough to ride in after Boone.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Get off my ranch, Pedalt No, Boone.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
I won't be leaving you will.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Get on your horses.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
And move out.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Both of you. Nobody talks to me like that. Shoot
him Judd, don't try And Judd.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
Y you killed Jed didn't even give him a chance
to draw. He reached for you're a cold blooded killer. Well,
I've taken care of men like you before.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
I believe you. Professional gambers usually know how to take
care of themselves. My gun is back in its holster.
If you want to try to outdraw me.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
There's no other way, is there?
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Up to you make your choice. My advice is to
turn around right out of here. If I am still
in line, I don't believe your mine.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
All right, Lola, if.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
He did both of them, I'm so afraid for you.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
I'm sorry you had to get mixed up with my troubles.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
I wouldn't have come here if I hadn't Wane I
wanted to.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
I'm grateful, Paladin.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
No, you can thank Laurie. Laurie, she sent the telegram.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
I've forgotten about the telegram.
Speaker 7 (19:14):
How did.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
Oh, Laurie, Poor Laurie, How do you say that she
must never know? Paladin Boone was her father.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Her father.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
Who left her mother before Laurie was born. My mother
gave me a picture of him before she died, told
me to destroy it so that Laurie would never see it.
I kept the picture for a while. It wasn't until
after I'd fallen in love with Boone that I remember
to get rid of it. I hardly recognized him from
the photograph at first. The years had changed him so much,
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but I knew it was he.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Did you ask him about him?
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (19:57):
He denied everything that he was I am married. Never
knew Laurie's mother. After that, he started showing his hatred
for the child. I realized then what kind of a
man he really was, but it was too late to
do anything about it. I'll be right there, Laurie. I'm
(20:19):
better go in and tell what's happened. Don't let her
know about Boom.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Don't worry, Lola, I won't.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
What Good morning, this wall, welcome home last night?
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Yes, the stage didn't get into almost midnight.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
Very nice, very nice.
Speaker 7 (20:54):
Paucuse, mister long. I will be back and finish making.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Up you red and a few where you're going.
Speaker 7 (21:01):
To get another girl to have me when I've been
over to make up bad my ship because hey, Dizzy.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Something wrong? Don't you feel all right?
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (21:11):
I think so? But Missy Wong had all filled with champagne.
Champagne champaign We have big birthday party for annover at
last night, drink too much champagne.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Oh that's bad. It was hey boy at the party.
And how does he feel this morning?
Speaker 5 (21:32):
I know you're not come to work at.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
You must have had a lot of champaigne too.
Speaker 7 (21:40):
Much more than missy Wang.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
He's dizzy this morning too.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
More than likely knowing hey boy, I wouldn't expect him
to come to work at.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
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