August 15, 2025 • 28 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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The Big Shot by Brett Halliday, a tale well calculated.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
To keep you in as Spend. They gotta be tough
to be a big shot, especially when you're cursed with yellow,
curly hair and a pretty baby face. I learned about
that early when I was a kid and the other
kids started razzing. I learned that if you bounced a
brick off somebody's head, the raising stuffed and you were somebody.
(00:56):
It was a very profitable lesson, which paid off as
I grew up, and I found that pays dividends whether
you're on East End Street or down in Mexico. Pardon
Tolly Morton. Yeah, hell, well, welcome to Mexico. Well thanks, Quinn,
I suppose right glad to meet you.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Say, well, looks lucky you are the only American on
the bus, or i'd never recognize here. No, No, Colin's
Roady was sending a young fellout just from engineering school.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
But I didn't expect to listen. Quinn never mind my looks.
You asked for mining engineer and you got one. Any complaints,
Well there are. You can pay me off. My guarantee,
I'll get back on that bus.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Wait a minute, Morton, I didn't mean to offend you.
I got no complaints. As long as you can do
the job.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
I can do the job.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Yes, I guess maybe you can.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Now, how about a drink? Sure?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Right over here at the corner in Mexico, there's always
a bottle at the quila not too far away. That's
one thing makes it to correct.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
It must be the only thing.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Then, Oh, I don't know. Some of us like it
down here. That's a Why do come?
Speaker 5 (01:56):
Then?
Speaker 4 (01:56):
That's easy?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
They told me there was money, Yeah, yeah, there is
in here.
Speaker 6 (02:08):
An take care and steady those sticky per favor those sticks.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
See. I hope you like tequila, Morton. It's about all
they have around here.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
It'll do. Are all the bartenders like that?
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Oh no, that's Lolita.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Her father owns a place. She ought to be plenty
good for business.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Yea, I guess. So say your stuff is all right.
Last box of equipment came in last night, so you
can start setting up the mail as soon as we
get back.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Don't worry, I'll get it up.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
I'm not worried, but time is important. See gracious, Lolita, Yeah, thanks, beautiful.
Speaker 7 (02:43):
Be beautiful.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
See baby, that's you from top to bottom.
Speaker 7 (02:49):
Is okay, Sanuela.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
There's plenty, okay, baby, plenty, Gaussier and I'm gonna like
Mexico after all.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Look, Martin, I don't know how much Colins told you
about the setup.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Not much.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Said there was a chance for someone in, plus a
little excitement.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
He didn't tell you there might be more than excitement,
jail maybe, or worse.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
He mentioned it.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Oh okay, then you understand that we've got a particularly
proposition on our hands. We gotta be careful, especially with
these people, if they knew what we were planning.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Okay, what are we planning.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
We struck a rich vein of gold courts in the
remote mountains about twenty miles from here. I've got my
crew mining as fast as we can before anybody around
here finds out about it. So the tough part comes
in getting it out of the country. There's a wave
of Mexico for Mexicans right now. And if we haul
the ore out of the regular stamping mill in town,
the government will escape most of the gold, I see.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
So you bring me in to set up a small
stamping mill of the mine and Milly all the right.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
We figure that in the next month we can sluice
out maybe a half million dollars worth of free gold,
then get out quick before anybody gets white. Half a
million dollars, yes, but will still have to smuggle it
out of the country. It's going to be a tough
john kids stuff. Yeah, it's not just the law we've
got to worry about.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Well, what else? Alida?
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Sure these people would inform moments if they found out,
but they wouldn't tell the government. They'd tell some bandit
gang around in the hill somewhere abands.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
I suppose they got a robin Hood down here too.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Okay, Morton, maybe you'll learn that.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
I have a many would tempt anybody, and the twentieth of.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
That is your share, maybe twenty five thousand. That's not hay,
careful Morton, Senor, no, no, gracious quantum o they so.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
See Senor hell Alida, see Senor, you understand, uh, come
friend the.
Speaker 7 (04:40):
English see Senor I speak ingas smoakopfore so I.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
See, never mind, baby, A little is enough there, Old
man ever give you any time.
Speaker 8 (04:49):
Off, Senor? No komprehendle.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Well let's put it another way. Are you doing anything
Saturday night?
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Wait a minute, Morton, But do not make any dates?
Speaker 7 (04:56):
Oh not.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
The guy can't work all the time, especially with stuff
guess around.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
I don't expect me to stay up there at your pool. Okay,
never mind, beautiful, see you later, come.
Speaker 7 (05:07):
Prenty, see Senor, see you later.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
You get the idea, look, and I warned you be careful.
I'm a big boy. I can take care of myself.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
And just remember there's a half a million involved. Yeah,
half a million, baby altogether for the company, twenty five
thousand for.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
You, a million dollars listen, more than twenty five thousand
for me. That's not enough for you. It'll do for
a start.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
You think you're a pretty big shot, don't you, Morton,
And you don't like it? Is that it? I don't
like you.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
That bus is still.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Out there, and you could get another engineer down here
in maybe six weeks.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Something tells me I had to take you up on that.
But I don't have to like you. As long as
you do your job and stay out of trumpet.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Okay, then let's leave it at that. Whatever happens, it
won't be me. You'll have any regrets. The setup was
just like Quinn said, except that the oar was even
richer than I expected. There was a pile of it
already mine, and I put them into work right away,
assembling the stamping bill.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
You know, hard rock miners are funny.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
They hate being bossed by an engineer who's learned all
his mining out of books.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
And they didn't like it either.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
But I was getting a bigger show than that than
they were. And of course, to add that my looks,
the yellow hair and the baby face. I knew that
sooner or later I'd have to show them that they
couldn't draw any wrong conclusions from my face.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Well, it didn't take long for the showdown.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Come, let's knock off, child?
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Ready?
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Wait a minute, looking, Yeah, that sluice is not tight.
You gotta get down there and tighten up those bolts.
I can wait till tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Child's ready, I said, get down there and tighten up
those bolts.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Who's gonna make me a dude engineer? But you're not
tough enough, were you? Morton?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Look out Wharton? You knock came over the cliff. He
went down on the gully. I saw him. Hurry up,
get down there, man, he's probably up. What's the fallow
thirty Petton? Where are you going? Somebody said supper was ready.
You didn't have to do that. You didn't have to knock.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Him over the cliff I only asked for but you
didn't have to fight like that, like you meant to
kill him.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
They wouldn't take on it.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
And I had a show him.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Okay, hey, cliff, Yeah he's dead. His next broke, so
you gotta show us all up top yard, don't you? Morton?
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Even if it a mounts to murder. Nobody else wants
any supper I do.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
I'm hungry.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
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Speaker 2 (10:07):
You gotta be tough. It's a tough world. You gotta
be tougher than the next guy. I was tougher than
joelob and that's all. I beat him in a fair fight.
If he slipped and fell over that cliff, yeah, that's
just too bad. While they buried him, I ate my
supper After that, I had no more trouble with the men.
The first Saturday that everything was running smoothly, I went
(10:28):
up to Quinn's ten ten. Yeah, oh, come in, Martin.
I we're just looking over the take so far. What's
your guess? Maybe a hundred thousand.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Yes, maybe we'll pull at least two hundred and fifty.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
We'll get that half a million. Don't you worry if
nobody bothers us, I don't be so jumpy. Nobody's gonna
bother us.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
I hope not say more thin I that I would admit.
You've done a whale of a job so far.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Forget it.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Don't worry Morton. I don't like you any better, but
I can appreciate it when a man knows his job
and does it well.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Okay, okay, look, I'm gonna the town.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
You want your supplies.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
I'm sending Andy in for him, and there's no use
of the.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Two of us going.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
And I'm the boss here, are you?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Yes? You told me as long as I did the job,
that was all.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
You cared about.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
That's right. Okay, I've done the job. It'll take the
crew two days to catch up. I'm going to town.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
I'll tell Andy. You'll get the surprise.
Speaker 7 (11:31):
You kidd you more? Take single.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
H I love my baby.
Speaker 7 (11:44):
Oh see kid, I never meet one w.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Yeah, like I was double baby, Yes, and safely you'd
not come dead in the States.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
I'd like to take you back there.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
I'd like to drush you up in fancy clothes, diamonds
in your head, diamonds.
Speaker 7 (12:02):
Oh, Senor, you must be.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Very rich, not yet, not yet, but good time.
Speaker 7 (12:06):
It's very interesting.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Gill me more later, baby later, Right now, let's blow this.
Speaker 7 (12:11):
Joint, Senor, Charlie, is it not? You must go back
to wherever you go.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
They can do it. Oout me for a while. I
like it hair better okay.
Speaker 7 (12:22):
Hm hm oh the case and.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
What was that?
Speaker 4 (12:30):
What the kids said?
Speaker 7 (12:31):
It's nothing, Senor Charlie. It's a game. They play.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
What he say.
Speaker 7 (12:35):
He says, beware el Chico.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Oh, who's Elchico?
Speaker 7 (12:39):
It's no, Senor, you must not mine.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Sounds like a Mexican goblin or something.
Speaker 7 (12:43):
El Chico is? They say, I bambido, you know, like americanos.
You rob kills them. They see me with Americano. They say,
beware el Chico. It's a game.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
I get it. He's a Mexican equivalent of Superman. Eh
an imaginary Robin hood in the sombrero. Oh no, cool
friend signor never mind, baby, forget the fairyesils that kid
ought to be home in bed anyway instead of running
around a saloon's brother. Oh, I get it now. This
is the family getting the scare off the Americano. Eh. Well,
I don't scaresly, baby, I don't scare at all. Ah well,
(13:18):
I know, sorry, I say.
Speaker 7 (13:22):
Okay, what is the matter, Senor Charlie.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
Nothing?
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Maybe nothing. I just had a great idea, that's all.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Thank your little brother for me, baby, He's just given
me a great idea.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
Yeah, a great idea.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
For a long time, I've been thinking, why just twenty
five thousand, Why not the whole half a million? There's
something wonderful about those little bags of free gold. You know,
they're so negotiable.
Speaker 10 (13:53):
You don't have to exchange him for anything else before
you can get the cash.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
With a half a million, and Alita, life could be beautiful.
And now the plan was shaping up in my mind.
I started putting it into effect as soon as I
got back to the camp.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Quinn was waiting there for me. As I rode up,
and I could see you spoiler.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Under review bands. You were due back two days ago.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
I got drunk, and if they're like hitting the trail
this morning.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Oh just like that, take it or leave it?
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Well, that's it.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
I don't blame a man for getting drunk once. But
I'll send somebody else in for supplies next week.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
I'm going in. I got a date next Saturday night. Listen, Martin,
I told you you want to fire me? Non, huh,
think anybody else. I can't keep the mill going.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
I haven't been you know it?
Speaker 2 (14:36):
All right, Then let's get the work, Martin. I maybe
we better speed up a little too. Why you know,
talking to town about this is El Chico, Chico. Yeah,
vandalal thinks is going to run all the Americanos out
of Mexico, making a war on Americans. It's in a
raising kane up north, up north.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
The talk in town was that he's heading down this way.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
I was afraid of something like that. You better tell
me about it, Martin, tell me all about it.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
It was a cinch from the very first. He swallowed
it on. By the next Saturday, he was begging me
to go back to town, keep my ears open, find
out all I could. Of course I heard plenty. Then
Quinn was hurrying the men, trying to figure out a
way we could get out.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
But the way I told him, Al Chico had complete
control of the province of.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
The North and blocked our way back to the States.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
The only other way was across the mountains to the west,
and they were impassable without native guides.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
And he knew that, but I reminded him.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
And then the next time I went into town, I
brought back to the map, a greasy, crumpled, dog eared pencil
map scrawled on butcher paper.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
It was a masterpiece. It should have been.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
It took me a whole night to draw it, and
it showed an old wagon road going out over the
mountains to the coast. I told Quinn I bought it
for an old Mexican.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
It was the prailude for my Trump card.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Okay, mag map looks genuine, all right, And if it is,
that road can't be more than ten miles due west
of here. And I figure less than that straight over
there in that low pass. Nilly, I think you're right.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Sure. All we got to do is to get across
this one, this one canyon right here.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
And how do you figure we do that with wings?
It's three hundred feet deep and one hundred wide.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
It's easy.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Yeah, it's the keelier you've been swilling in town's got
your goofy.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
I want to throw a bridge across.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
I love the way you say that, Like, why not
have another flatjack for breakfast.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Look, I'm an engineer. Remember I'll put a bridge across
there in three days, Martin.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
You do that and I'll take back everything I ever
said about you.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Well, next morning, I tied a two hundred foot length
of rope around my waist, took a pulley with me,
and started down at the bottom It took me all
day to make it up to the other side. I
tied a pulley to a jackpine and pulled rope through
tight and tied it off, and then I came back
hand over hand. After that, it was simple to finish
the slick of suspension bridge you've ever laid eyes on,
plenty strong enough to.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
Hold all our men.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
And mules fully loaded.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
It was so good that even Quinn had the grace
to admit it.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
I got a hand of Morton.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
I've seen a lot of engineers that can work things
out on the paper, but not many.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
They can do the job themselves. Thanks, What are you
saying we can take.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
A look over there tomorrow for that road.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
No need to.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
I'll take a little walk that I ran The cable
across the road's there, all right, here's where the map
shows it.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
All right, if you found it, I guess that take
us here of that.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Sure, we're all.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Set thanks to you. I guess I owe you an apology, Morton.
Maybe we follow our lives to you.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
That's the only time before or after that I had
a qualm before.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
He said that. But it gotta be tough. I couldn't
forget that it was too late. Now I back out.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Everything was ready. We're all set to leave. On short notes,
Quinn wrote a letter.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
To columns and the States, telling him to meet us on.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
The coast with a book.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Quinn gave me the letter of the mail in town,
but of course I never mailed it. I spent my
time in town getting the necessary mules in the gear,
and then I went to Lolita.
Speaker 7 (18:00):
Ill Neil, I have missed you.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Well, that's the last time you'll have to miss me.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
Baby.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
This is it. The diamonds, the fancy clothes, all of
it yours mine.
Speaker 7 (18:09):
GETTYO, you are rich.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Now by this time tomorrow we'll both be rich. More gold,
and we'll know what to do with for the rest.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Of our lives.
Speaker 7 (18:15):
Oh, you are so much gold.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
That's ours, thanks to El Chico.
Speaker 7 (18:19):
El Chico.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Remember they wear ol Chico the game you played with
your brother. Oh see, that's what gave me the idea,
and it worked perfectly.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
We'll have to thank el Chico if we have run
in on them.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Oh, I do not.
Speaker 7 (18:31):
Think that will happen. After all, El Chico is only
in a game.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Remember, I love mind the games.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Now, baby, we got work to do. I get some clothes,
but keep it light.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
We'll put of here at midnight and tomorrow tomorrow we're rich.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
All there also.
Speaker 7 (18:54):
We are here already know.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
But but you stay here with the mules while I
go in to camp with Quinn's train. It'll be doing
and then.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
You stop up. See I remember, raise as much dust
as you can.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
It's put out a plant.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
By the time you get there, everything I'll be ready.
Speaker 7 (19:06):
Come friend, you are sure there was no mistake.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Not with me running this clam bay. Honey, Now give
me a kiss.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
I had a girl. I'll still awaga, baby, but I
wasn't depending on lucky. You don't need luck when you
got everything to figure.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
I knew the leader, and i'd be on our way.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
Back to the States with a trunk full of that
yellow stuff. And the men, yeah, I didn't even give
them a fuck, not even Quinny. Dumb ones, too stupid
to reach for what they wanted.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
They deserved whatever life handled them.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Just before I rounded the last bend in the camp,
I stopped the pack.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
It's awful quiet.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
In the mountains.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Just before doing, I took a deep breath. Quen Quinn,
on your major cushings.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Try it look like you've been running for twenty miles,
is it?
Speaker 3 (19:55):
What's the matter?
Speaker 4 (19:58):
Huh, I'll have to get out my all.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Chee goes on his way here with twenty men be
here inside of two OUs, i'd be playing out of
it us.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
It's all my fault.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
I was a fool of trust leader. I thought you
was okay. She said, words to well cheekow about the.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
Goal you've blasted, idiot.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
I told you to kick your mouth shut.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
I know, I know you can kick me anywhere. I've
been kicking myself all the way up here.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
I'd like to kill you. I wouldn't blame your quinn.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
All right, man, get those mules backs. We're getting out
the goal. First, two saddle bags.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
I works like a demon alongside the men getting the
stuff back. And then just as the last mule was
getting his diamond hitch, I grab quinns on.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
What do you want?
Speaker 2 (20:32):
What I've been thinking?
Speaker 3 (20:33):
I gotta do something?
Speaker 2 (20:34):
What's to me? Like?
Speaker 3 (20:35):
You've done enough?
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Don't you see? It's my fault. It's up to me
to do something now.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
This is no time to beat your breast. We're getting out,
getting out of here as fast as we can. No.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Look, look, I got an idea. You gotta let me
square my.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Toe, make it snappy. I can't waste time.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Well, listen, I placed a dynamite charge under the eye
bolts at this side of the bridge. I'll stay on
this side and wait till you're safety across. Then blow
the bolts clean so there'll be.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
No trace left.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
I see you cut the cables on the other side
with a exa, and the whole bridge will drop to
the bottom where a brush'll hide it. You'll be out
of sight when no Chico comes, and I'll tell him
you've out slack them gone.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
No, you'll wait several days riding after you before.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
He realizes the truth, and by that time you'll be.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Safe on the coast. What about you, Well, I don't matter.
That's when I happened. If I have shut my mouth off.
Want you fellows, get your nuts.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
We'll stick together. Cutting the cables and the fire side's
a good idea. You'll lose a day going back to
where it can cross it onion day is not enough.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
His horses will catch your moves. We gotta destroy every
sign of the bridge and make him think you've gone the
other way. I'm staying.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
I don't know it's the only way, queen.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Look, look, you can see the dust cloudill play on
the trail.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
He's coming.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
Yeah, I'm got much time to get out of sight.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
All right, Martin, maybe I was wrong about you.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Let me shake their head. Good luck, good luck. That's
all the guys like Quin did think about it. They
don't understand the man. It's tough enough to make his
own luck. All of them lined up and they shook
my hand. They all hated me since I came on
the job. Now they were shaking my hand and in
a minute, believe you'll soon. They were all strung out
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on that long swaying bridge. Quinn stayed till last, spacing
them out. I waved to him and waited him to
step out on the bridge. One hand inch taught the
plunge it and the stupid fool started back toward me.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Come on, Quinn, hurry, there's no time I can catch
up with him. Listen, I've been saying, thinking Morton Sunday,
while you were in town, I looked around for that road.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
I couldn't find it.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
They're all right, you'll find it, hurry, Quinn. Maybe so,
when I was just thinking, why'd you plant the dynamite
under this end of the bridge. Well, why couldn't you
have strung wires and blown it out from the other side.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
I just didn't. I made a mistake, all right, I'll
take the consequences.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Still do it, Morton. We've got plenty of wire. No
need for you to fall into out Chico's hands.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
So on your fool, go on in a minute.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
It'll be too late, too late for what more?
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Look at that dust he's coming.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
You know what I think.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
I think Chico isn't anywhere within five hundred miles up here.
I think you planned to blow up this bridge with
a man on a drop us all at the bottom
where you could pick up the pieces. When you can't
stop me, now, let's I carry you? Later, waiting that
presure stop it? Get try hand off that stop.
Speaker 10 (23:07):
It cushion had my head raining for a few seconds.
On the landscapes went back into focus. I could see
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the bridge was gone, the bridge, and the men and
the mules, but.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
I couldn't even figure out what happened, Quinny, as signed.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
Me, are still?
Speaker 4 (23:40):
I could see blood? How did I seem to remember
hearing a shot? But where did.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
It come from?
Speaker 7 (23:49):
Ye?
Speaker 3 (23:52):
Later?
Speaker 2 (23:53):
You did it?
Speaker 6 (23:54):
You shut it.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
You're wonderful. We did it, baby, We did it.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Look it down there half a minute first, maybe three
million pencils in gold.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
We gotta does, got down and pick it up. Indeed,
a good jobs in.
Speaker 10 (24:08):
Your I was dead stupidly a little man in the
big sombrero who stepped out.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
Of the manzanita and grinned at me. A smoking revolve danger.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
From one hairy, poor and the other the other was poor.
Lolita taught him my lolita. She put her arms around
him and kissed him in a way that she never
kissed me. We will pick up your gold for you, Senor.
You are a very smart man.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Senor Charlie.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
I should like to be your friend. I say you're
a gringo.
Speaker 11 (24:50):
And you mistake to make the love to the sweetheart
of El Chico.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Thank you, Bert Lancaster for a splendid performance. Mister Lancaster
will return in just a moment.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
Did dug duck?
Speaker 3 (25:26):
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Speaker 2 (26:43):
Suspense is always one of my favorite.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
Programs, whether I'm acting on it or listening to it.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
And you can be sure that I'll be glued to
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Speaker 9 (27:02):
Burt Lancaster will soon be seen in the Norma production
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands. Tonight's suspense play was
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with music composed by Lucian Marwick and conducted by lud Bluskom.
The entire production was under the direction of Antonym Leader.
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Sorry Wrong Number. That great suspense play soon to be
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Speaker 2 (00:32):
To keep you in as Spend. They gotta be tough
to be a big shot, especially when you're cursed with yellow,
curly hair and a pretty baby face. I learned about
that early when I was a kid and the other
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It was a very profitable lesson, which paid off as
I grew up, and I found that pays dividends whether
you're on East End Street or down in Mexico. Pardon
Tolly Morton. Yeah, hell, well, welcome to Mexico. Well thanks, Quinn,
I suppose right glad to meet you.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Say, well, looks lucky you are the only American on
the bus, or i'd never recognize here. No, No, Colin's
Roady was sending a young fellout just from engineering school.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
But I didn't expect to listen. Quinn never mind my looks.
You asked for mining engineer and you got one. Any complaints,
Well there are. You can pay me off. My guarantee,
I'll get back on that bus.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Wait a minute, Morton, I didn't mean to offend you.
I got no complaints. As long as you can do
the job.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
I can do the job.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Yes, I guess maybe you can.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Now, how about a drink? Sure?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Right over here at the corner in Mexico, there's always
a bottle at the quila not too far away. That's
one thing makes it to correct.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
It must be the only thing.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Then, Oh, I don't know. Some of us like it
down here. That's a Why do come?
Speaker 5 (01:56):
Then?
Speaker 4 (01:56):
That's easy?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
They told me there was money, Yeah, yeah, there is
in here.
Speaker 6 (02:08):
An take care and steady those sticky per favor those sticks.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
See. I hope you like tequila, Morton. It's about all
they have around here.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
It'll do. Are all the bartenders like that?
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Oh no, that's Lolita.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Her father owns a place. She ought to be plenty
good for business.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Yea, I guess. So say your stuff is all right.
Last box of equipment came in last night, so you
can start setting up the mail as soon as we
get back.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Don't worry, I'll get it up.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
I'm not worried, but time is important. See gracious, Lolita, Yeah, thanks, beautiful.
Speaker 7 (02:43):
Be beautiful.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
See baby, that's you from top to bottom.
Speaker 7 (02:49):
Is okay, Sanuela.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
There's plenty, okay, baby, plenty, Gaussier and I'm gonna like
Mexico after all.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Look, Martin, I don't know how much Colins told you
about the setup.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Not much.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Said there was a chance for someone in, plus a
little excitement.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
He didn't tell you there might be more than excitement,
jail maybe, or worse.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
He mentioned it.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Oh okay, then you understand that we've got a particularly
proposition on our hands. We gotta be careful, especially with
these people, if they knew what we were planning.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Okay, what are we planning.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
We struck a rich vein of gold courts in the
remote mountains about twenty miles from here. I've got my
crew mining as fast as we can before anybody around
here finds out about it. So the tough part comes
in getting it out of the country. There's a wave
of Mexico for Mexicans right now. And if we haul
the ore out of the regular stamping mill in town,
the government will escape most of the gold, I see.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
So you bring me in to set up a small
stamping mill of the mine and Milly all the right.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
We figure that in the next month we can sluice
out maybe a half million dollars worth of free gold,
then get out quick before anybody gets white. Half a
million dollars, yes, but will still have to smuggle it
out of the country. It's going to be a tough
john kids stuff. Yeah, it's not just the law we've
got to worry about.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Well, what else? Alida?
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Sure these people would inform moments if they found out,
but they wouldn't tell the government. They'd tell some bandit
gang around in the hill somewhere abands.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
I suppose they got a robin Hood down here too.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Okay, Morton, maybe you'll learn that.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
I have a many would tempt anybody, and the twentieth of.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
That is your share, maybe twenty five thousand. That's not hay,
careful Morton, Senor, no, no, gracious quantum o they so.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
See Senor hell Alida, see Senor, you understand, uh, come
friend the.
Speaker 7 (04:40):
English see Senor I speak ingas smoakopfore so I.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
See, never mind, baby, A little is enough there, Old
man ever give you any time.
Speaker 8 (04:49):
Off, Senor? No komprehendle.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Well let's put it another way. Are you doing anything
Saturday night?
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Wait a minute, Morton, But do not make any dates?
Speaker 7 (04:56):
Oh not.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
The guy can't work all the time, especially with stuff
guess around.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
I don't expect me to stay up there at your pool. Okay,
never mind, beautiful, see you later, come.
Speaker 7 (05:07):
Prenty, see Senor, see you later.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
You get the idea, look, and I warned you be careful.
I'm a big boy. I can take care of myself.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
And just remember there's a half a million involved. Yeah,
half a million, baby altogether for the company, twenty five
thousand for.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
You, a million dollars listen, more than twenty five thousand
for me. That's not enough for you. It'll do for
a start.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
You think you're a pretty big shot, don't you, Morton,
And you don't like it? Is that it? I don't
like you.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
That bus is still.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Out there, and you could get another engineer down here
in maybe six weeks.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Something tells me I had to take you up on that.
But I don't have to like you. As long as
you do your job and stay out of trumpet.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Okay, then let's leave it at that. Whatever happens, it
won't be me. You'll have any regrets. The setup was
just like Quinn said, except that the oar was even
richer than I expected. There was a pile of it
already mine, and I put them into work right away,
assembling the stamping bill.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
You know, hard rock miners are funny.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
They hate being bossed by an engineer who's learned all
his mining out of books.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
And they didn't like it either.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
But I was getting a bigger show than that than
they were. And of course, to add that my looks,
the yellow hair and the baby face. I knew that
sooner or later I'd have to show them that they
couldn't draw any wrong conclusions from my face.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Well, it didn't take long for the showdown.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Come, let's knock off, child?
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Ready?
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Wait a minute, looking, Yeah, that sluice is not tight.
You gotta get down there and tighten up those bolts.
I can wait till tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Child's ready, I said, get down there and tighten up
those bolts.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Who's gonna make me a dude engineer? But you're not
tough enough, were you? Morton?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Look out Wharton? You knock came over the cliff. He
went down on the gully. I saw him. Hurry up,
get down there, man, he's probably up. What's the fallow
thirty Petton? Where are you going? Somebody said supper was ready.
You didn't have to do that. You didn't have to knock.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Him over the cliff I only asked for but you
didn't have to fight like that, like you meant to
kill him.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
They wouldn't take on it.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
And I had a show him.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Okay, hey, cliff, Yeah he's dead. His next broke, so
you gotta show us all up top yard, don't you? Morton?
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Even if it a mounts to murder. Nobody else wants
any supper I do.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
I'm hungry.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
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Speaker 2 (10:07):
You gotta be tough. It's a tough world. You gotta
be tougher than the next guy. I was tougher than
joelob and that's all. I beat him in a fair fight.
If he slipped and fell over that cliff, yeah, that's
just too bad. While they buried him, I ate my
supper After that, I had no more trouble with the men.
The first Saturday that everything was running smoothly, I went
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up to Quinn's ten ten. Yeah, oh, come in, Martin.
I we're just looking over the take so far. What's
your guess? Maybe a hundred thousand.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Yes, maybe we'll pull at least two hundred and fifty.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
We'll get that half a million. Don't you worry if
nobody bothers us, I don't be so jumpy. Nobody's gonna
bother us.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
I hope not say more thin I that I would admit.
You've done a whale of a job so far.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Forget it.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Don't worry Morton. I don't like you any better, but
I can appreciate it when a man knows his job
and does it well.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Okay, okay, look, I'm gonna the town.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
You want your supplies.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
I'm sending Andy in for him, and there's no use
of the.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Two of us going.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
And I'm the boss here, are you?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Yes? You told me as long as I did the job,
that was all.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
You cared about.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
That's right. Okay, I've done the job. It'll take the
crew two days to catch up. I'm going to town.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
I'll tell Andy. You'll get the surprise.
Speaker 7 (11:31):
You kidd you more? Take single.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
H I love my baby.
Speaker 7 (11:44):
Oh see kid, I never meet one w.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Yeah, like I was double baby, Yes, and safely you'd
not come dead in the States.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
I'd like to take you back there.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
I'd like to drush you up in fancy clothes, diamonds
in your head, diamonds.
Speaker 7 (12:02):
Oh, Senor, you must be.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Very rich, not yet, not yet, but good time.
Speaker 7 (12:06):
It's very interesting.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Gill me more later, baby later, Right now, let's blow this.
Speaker 7 (12:11):
Joint, Senor, Charlie, is it not? You must go back
to wherever you go.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
They can do it. Oout me for a while. I
like it hair better okay.
Speaker 7 (12:22):
Hm hm oh the case and.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
What was that?
Speaker 4 (12:30):
What the kids said?
Speaker 7 (12:31):
It's nothing, Senor Charlie. It's a game. They play.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
What he say.
Speaker 7 (12:35):
He says, beware el Chico.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Oh, who's Elchico?
Speaker 7 (12:39):
It's no, Senor, you must not mine.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Sounds like a Mexican goblin or something.
Speaker 7 (12:43):
El Chico is? They say, I bambido, you know, like americanos.
You rob kills them. They see me with Americano. They say,
beware el Chico. It's a game.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
I get it. He's a Mexican equivalent of Superman. Eh
an imaginary Robin hood in the sombrero. Oh no, cool
friend signor never mind, baby, forget the fairyesils that kid
ought to be home in bed anyway instead of running
around a saloon's brother. Oh, I get it now. This
is the family getting the scare off the Americano. Eh. Well,
I don't scaresly, baby, I don't scare at all. Ah well,
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I know, sorry, I say.
Speaker 7 (13:22):
Okay, what is the matter, Senor Charlie.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
Nothing?
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Maybe nothing. I just had a great idea, that's all.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Thank your little brother for me, baby, He's just given
me a great idea.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
Yeah, a great idea.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
For a long time, I've been thinking, why just twenty
five thousand, Why not the whole half a million? There's
something wonderful about those little bags of free gold. You know,
they're so negotiable.
Speaker 10 (13:53):
You don't have to exchange him for anything else before
you can get the cash.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
With a half a million, and Alita, life could be beautiful.
And now the plan was shaping up in my mind.
I started putting it into effect as soon as I
got back to the camp.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Quinn was waiting there for me. As I rode up,
and I could see you spoiler.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Under review bands. You were due back two days ago.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
I got drunk, and if they're like hitting the trail
this morning.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Oh just like that, take it or leave it?
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Well, that's it.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
I don't blame a man for getting drunk once. But
I'll send somebody else in for supplies next week.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
I'm going in. I got a date next Saturday night. Listen, Martin,
I told you you want to fire me? Non, huh,
think anybody else. I can't keep the mill going.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
I haven't been you know it?
Speaker 2 (14:36):
All right, Then let's get the work, Martin. I maybe
we better speed up a little too. Why you know,
talking to town about this is El Chico, Chico. Yeah,
vandalal thinks is going to run all the Americanos out
of Mexico, making a war on Americans. It's in a
raising kane up north, up north.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
The talk in town was that he's heading down this way.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
I was afraid of something like that. You better tell
me about it, Martin, tell me all about it.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
It was a cinch from the very first. He swallowed
it on. By the next Saturday, he was begging me
to go back to town, keep my ears open, find
out all I could. Of course I heard plenty. Then
Quinn was hurrying the men, trying to figure out a
way we could get out.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
But the way I told him, Al Chico had complete
control of the province of.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
The North and blocked our way back to the States.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
The only other way was across the mountains to the west,
and they were impassable without native guides.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
And he knew that, but I reminded him.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
And then the next time I went into town, I
brought back to the map, a greasy, crumpled, dog eared pencil
map scrawled on butcher paper.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
It was a masterpiece. It should have been.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
It took me a whole night to draw it, and
it showed an old wagon road going out over the
mountains to the coast. I told Quinn I bought it
for an old Mexican.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
It was the prailude for my Trump card.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Okay, mag map looks genuine, all right, And if it is,
that road can't be more than ten miles due west
of here. And I figure less than that straight over
there in that low pass. Nilly, I think you're right.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Sure. All we got to do is to get across
this one, this one canyon right here.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
And how do you figure we do that with wings?
It's three hundred feet deep and one hundred wide.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
It's easy.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Yeah, it's the keelier you've been swilling in town's got
your goofy.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
I want to throw a bridge across.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
I love the way you say that, Like, why not
have another flatjack for breakfast.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Look, I'm an engineer. Remember I'll put a bridge across
there in three days, Martin.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
You do that and I'll take back everything I ever
said about you.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Well, next morning, I tied a two hundred foot length
of rope around my waist, took a pulley with me,
and started down at the bottom It took me all
day to make it up to the other side. I
tied a pulley to a jackpine and pulled rope through
tight and tied it off, and then I came back
hand over hand. After that, it was simple to finish
the slick of suspension bridge you've ever laid eyes on,
plenty strong enough to.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
Hold all our men.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
And mules fully loaded.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
It was so good that even Quinn had the grace
to admit it.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
I got a hand of Morton.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
I've seen a lot of engineers that can work things
out on the paper, but not many.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
They can do the job themselves. Thanks, What are you
saying we can take.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
A look over there tomorrow for that road.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
No need to.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
I'll take a little walk that I ran The cable
across the road's there, all right, here's where the map
shows it.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
All right, if you found it, I guess that take
us here of that.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Sure, we're all.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Set thanks to you. I guess I owe you an apology, Morton.
Maybe we follow our lives to you.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
That's the only time before or after that I had
a qualm before.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
He said that. But it gotta be tough. I couldn't
forget that it was too late. Now I back out.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Everything was ready. We're all set to leave. On short notes,
Quinn wrote a letter.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
To columns and the States, telling him to meet us on.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
The coast with a book.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Quinn gave me the letter of the mail in town,
but of course I never mailed it. I spent my
time in town getting the necessary mules in the gear,
and then I went to Lolita.
Speaker 7 (18:00):
Ill Neil, I have missed you.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Well, that's the last time you'll have to miss me.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
Baby.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
This is it. The diamonds, the fancy clothes, all of
it yours mine.
Speaker 7 (18:09):
GETTYO, you are rich.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Now by this time tomorrow we'll both be rich. More gold,
and we'll know what to do with for the rest.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Of our lives.
Speaker 7 (18:15):
Oh, you are so much gold.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
That's ours, thanks to El Chico.
Speaker 7 (18:19):
El Chico.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Remember they wear ol Chico the game you played with
your brother. Oh see, that's what gave me the idea,
and it worked perfectly.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
We'll have to thank el Chico if we have run
in on them.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Oh, I do not.
Speaker 7 (18:31):
Think that will happen. After all, El Chico is only
in a game.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Remember, I love mind the games.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Now, baby, we got work to do. I get some clothes,
but keep it light.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
We'll put of here at midnight and tomorrow tomorrow we're rich.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
All there also.
Speaker 7 (18:54):
We are here already know.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
But but you stay here with the mules while I
go in to camp with Quinn's train. It'll be doing
and then.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
You stop up. See I remember, raise as much dust
as you can.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
It's put out a plant.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
By the time you get there, everything I'll be ready.
Speaker 7 (19:06):
Come friend, you are sure there was no mistake.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Not with me running this clam bay. Honey, Now give
me a kiss.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
I had a girl. I'll still awaga, baby, but I
wasn't depending on lucky. You don't need luck when you
got everything to figure.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
I knew the leader, and i'd be on our way.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
Back to the States with a trunk full of that
yellow stuff. And the men, yeah, I didn't even give
them a fuck, not even Quinny. Dumb ones, too stupid
to reach for what they wanted.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
They deserved whatever life handled them.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Just before I rounded the last bend in the camp,
I stopped the pack.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
It's awful quiet.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
In the mountains.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Just before doing, I took a deep breath. Quen Quinn,
on your major cushings.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Try it look like you've been running for twenty miles,
is it?
Speaker 3 (19:55):
What's the matter?
Speaker 4 (19:58):
Huh, I'll have to get out my all.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Chee goes on his way here with twenty men be
here inside of two OUs, i'd be playing out of
it us.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
It's all my fault.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
I was a fool of trust leader. I thought you
was okay. She said, words to well cheekow about the.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
Goal you've blasted, idiot.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
I told you to kick your mouth shut.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
I know, I know you can kick me anywhere. I've
been kicking myself all the way up here.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
I'd like to kill you. I wouldn't blame your quinn.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
All right, man, get those mules backs. We're getting out
the goal. First, two saddle bags.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
I works like a demon alongside the men getting the
stuff back. And then just as the last mule was
getting his diamond hitch, I grab quinns on.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
What do you want?
Speaker 2 (20:32):
What I've been thinking?
Speaker 3 (20:33):
I gotta do something?
Speaker 2 (20:34):
What's to me? Like?
Speaker 3 (20:35):
You've done enough?
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Don't you see? It's my fault. It's up to me
to do something now.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
This is no time to beat your breast. We're getting out,
getting out of here as fast as we can. No.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Look, look, I got an idea. You gotta let me
square my.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Toe, make it snappy. I can't waste time.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Well, listen, I placed a dynamite charge under the eye
bolts at this side of the bridge. I'll stay on
this side and wait till you're safety across. Then blow
the bolts clean so there'll be.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
No trace left.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
I see you cut the cables on the other side
with a exa, and the whole bridge will drop to
the bottom where a brush'll hide it. You'll be out
of sight when no Chico comes, and I'll tell him
you've out slack them gone.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
No, you'll wait several days riding after you before.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
He realizes the truth, and by that time you'll be.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Safe on the coast. What about you, Well, I don't matter.
That's when I happened. If I have shut my mouth off.
Want you fellows, get your nuts.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
We'll stick together. Cutting the cables and the fire side's
a good idea. You'll lose a day going back to
where it can cross it onion day is not enough.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
His horses will catch your moves. We gotta destroy every
sign of the bridge and make him think you've gone the
other way. I'm staying.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
I don't know it's the only way, queen.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Look, look, you can see the dust cloudill play on
the trail.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
He's coming.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
Yeah, I'm got much time to get out of sight.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
All right, Martin, maybe I was wrong about you.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Let me shake their head. Good luck, good luck. That's
all the guys like Quin did think about it. They
don't understand the man. It's tough enough to make his
own luck. All of them lined up and they shook
my hand. They all hated me since I came on
the job. Now they were shaking my hand and in
a minute, believe you'll soon. They were all strung out
(22:01):
on that long swaying bridge. Quinn stayed till last, spacing
them out. I waved to him and waited him to
step out on the bridge. One hand inch taught the
plunge it and the stupid fool started back toward me.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Come on, Quinn, hurry, there's no time I can catch
up with him. Listen, I've been saying, thinking Morton Sunday,
while you were in town, I looked around for that road.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
I couldn't find it.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
They're all right, you'll find it, hurry, Quinn. Maybe so,
when I was just thinking, why'd you plant the dynamite
under this end of the bridge. Well, why couldn't you
have strung wires and blown it out from the other side.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
I just didn't. I made a mistake, all right, I'll
take the consequences.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Still do it, Morton. We've got plenty of wire. No
need for you to fall into out Chico's hands.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
So on your fool, go on in a minute.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
It'll be too late, too late for what more?
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Look at that dust he's coming.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
You know what I think.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
I think Chico isn't anywhere within five hundred miles up here.
I think you planned to blow up this bridge with
a man on a drop us all at the bottom
where you could pick up the pieces. When you can't
stop me, now, let's I carry you? Later, waiting that
presure stop it? Get try hand off that stop.
Speaker 10 (23:07):
It cushion had my head raining for a few seconds.
On the landscapes went back into focus. I could see
(23:29):
the bridge was gone, the bridge, and the men and
the mules, but.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
I couldn't even figure out what happened, Quinny, as signed.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
Me, are still?
Speaker 4 (23:40):
I could see blood? How did I seem to remember
hearing a shot? But where did.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
It come from?
Speaker 7 (23:49):
Ye?
Speaker 3 (23:52):
Later?
Speaker 2 (23:53):
You did it?
Speaker 6 (23:54):
You shut it.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
You're wonderful. We did it, baby, We did it.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Look it down there half a minute first, maybe three
million pencils in gold.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
We gotta does, got down and pick it up. Indeed,
a good jobs in.
Speaker 10 (24:08):
Your I was dead stupidly a little man in the
big sombrero who stepped out.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
Of the manzanita and grinned at me. A smoking revolve danger.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
From one hairy, poor and the other the other was poor.
Lolita taught him my lolita. She put her arms around
him and kissed him in a way that she never
kissed me. We will pick up your gold for you, Senor.
You are a very smart man.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Senor Charlie.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
I should like to be your friend. I say you're
a gringo.
Speaker 11 (24:50):
And you mistake to make the love to the sweetheart
of El Chico.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Thank you, Bert Lancaster for a splendid performance. Mister Lancaster
will return in just a moment.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
Did dug duck?
Speaker 3 (25:26):
And what do you do for an acute case of
goose pimples? And if I knew, I'd prescribe them for myself.
Speaker 8 (25:32):
But you both need her some cool, calm, care free
autolite words from Frank Martin Now.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Mary cared a couple of old gelappe men talk about
spark plugs.
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Everybody's talking about auto light resistor spark plugs. Why they're
the best thing that's happened in spark plugs for years.
Replace your narrow gap spark plugs with the sensational new
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tell the difference in your car. You'll enjoy immediate improvement
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means spark plugs.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Ignition engineered resist spark plugs. Auto LIGHTE means batteries stay full, batteries.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Auto light means.
Speaker 9 (26:14):
Ignition system the lifeline of your car. Yes, an auto
light also makes in its twenty six nationwide plans more
than four hundred automotive, aviation and marine products famous the
world over for engineered dependability.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
And now here again is mister Bert Lancaster my thanks
to the fine cast of radio actors who appear on
tonight's show.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Suspense is always one of my favorite.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
Programs, whether I'm acting on it or listening to it.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
And you can be sure that I'll be glued to
my radio next Thursday evening when Gregory Peck appears in
a story called Hitchhike Poker. Another gripping study in a suspend.
Speaker 9 (27:02):
Burt Lancaster will soon be seen in the Norma production
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands. Tonight's suspense play was
written by Brett Holliday and adapted for radio by Lawrence Goldman,
with music composed by Lucian Marwick and conducted by lud Bluskom.
The entire production was under the direction of Antonym Leader.
In the coming weeks, Suspense will present such stars as
Robert Young, Virginia Bruce, Edward g. Robinson, Ready Milan, and
(27:25):
many others, and of special note, our star Tonight Burt
Lancaster may currently be seen in the film version of
Sorry Wrong Number. That great suspense play soon to be
repeated on this program with Agnes Moorehead in her original role.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Make it a point to.
Speaker 9 (27:40):
Listen each Thursday to Suspense Radio's outstanding theater of prills,
and next Thursday, same time here Gregory Peck in Hitchhike Poker.
Speaker 8 (27:54):
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