November 20, 2024 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
In a moment, you'll hear James Stewart as the Sick Shooter.
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night lineup of comedy programs, all of them heard only
on NBC. James Stewart as the Sick Shooter. The man
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in the saddle is angular and long legged. His skin
is sun dyed brown. The gun in his holster is
gray steel and rainbow mother of pearl, its handle unmarked.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
People call them both the Sick Shooter.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
The NBC Radio Network presents James Stewart as The six Shooter,
a transcribed series of radio dramas based on the life
of Britt Ponset, the Texas plainsman who wandered through the
Western territories, leaving behind a trail of still remembered legends.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
It was a little over four years since last time
I worked for the Wilcox Cox fet But when George
Wilcox wrote me about his pause death and said he
needed somebody to handle the cattle drive east to Abilene, well,
there weren't exactly any other demands on my services, so
I headed up to Adobe Junction and rode through the
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town to the Wilcox ranch couple miles beyond. It was
getting on toward evening when I pulled into the yard
and whoa, boys, woll star, whoa? Only about eight or
ten steers in the main corral over back of the house.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Maybe George hadn't finished the round up yet, or maybe
he was gonna start the drive from out on the rain. Huh.
Whatever it was, he had to get started pretty soon
or the weather be against it. Yes, good evening, ma'am.
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I was George Wilcox had.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
Well, mister Promston, don't you remember me?
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Why?
Speaker 5 (03:03):
I'm Viola Wilcox, George's sister, Viola.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
No you, Well, I just can't believe it.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
I guess I have changed since you last saw me.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Change. Why see, were you practically growing up overnight? Viola?
Speaker 5 (03:20):
There are some folks around here who wouldn't agree with you.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Mister poms.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Oh, it's mister ponsit.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
George Frick, Why frit for you, old rattlesnake.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
It's about time you turned up here.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Ah, you're already good, pretty good.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Put on another plate, vibritt'll be here for supper.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Oh, I wouldn't like to impose now. I mean you
probably weren't expect me tonight.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Why we've been expecting you for the last week. Buy's
had the spare room ready since Monday. Well, if you're
sure there's not food, viol Oh, there'll be plenty of bricks.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
As a matter of fact, I will be eating supper at.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Home tonight, now, Viola, I told you you weren't o
e when everything's ready. I guess we might as well
wait in the parlor. Bread sure, sure, I hope I'm
not too late for the drive, George late. Well, you
said you've been expecting me for several days. I didn't
see my stock in the corral.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Oh, the boys are still out on the round up.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
They're a little late.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
I couldn't go out with him this year.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Well that's all.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
They'll probably show up sometime tomorrow, a Friday at the latest.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
You can start off.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Then you uh, you won't be going along.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
No, I'm gonna stick around here.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Uh huh uh. I was real sorry to hear about
your father, George.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
He went easy, Britt. I'm thankful for that.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Yeah, yeah, you know. I I just can't get over
how vile has changed. Why she's turned out to be
a real pretty young lady, hasn't she. I bet she's
got more bow than any other girl in the whole county.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
She could have. I guess if she wanted him, Britt,
do you remember Judge Coffin.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Coffin Coffin, he.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Was that outlaw from up around Cloud City. You had something.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
To do with capturing him, as I recollect.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
M m well, I was sort of in the neighborhood
when it happened.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
I was just a kid then, but Pot took me
over the Cloud City to see Coffin's trial and uh
hanging afterward.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
I guess he figured it'd be a good lesson for me.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Uh huh.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
He was right too.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
I never forgot it. There's something else I never forgot either.
The way jud Coffin looked, his eyes, his nose, everything
about him. He was born to be a killer, was
read all over him.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
No, I don't know, No, George.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Well I do, and now he's back here again.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Well, what are you talking about? Jud Coffin was hung?
You saw it yourself, You just said so.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
J Judd had a brother a few years younger. I
don't remember his name, but I saw him at the
trial too.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, not to mention. It seems to
me there was another Coffin boy. What about him?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
There's a young fella started working for the Mercantile and
Adobe junction.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
And if he ain't, everything's.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
On the table, George, just after this is when you
finished eating, and I'll do him when I get home.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Now you hold up a minute, Viola, Come over here, Britt,
over here to the window.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
What there? He isn't that button? Now you take a
good look.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Well, now, don't he look just like Judd? Well it's
been quite a while, George, I've sort of forgotten jud Cough.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Well I ain't forgotten.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
I couldn't not ever.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
I can still see him when the let him up
to them gallows. I can still see his eyes, killer's eyes.
And that's his brother out there riding away with my sister.
Ain't it well, ain't it?
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Well? Maybe he does sort of resemble Judd in a way.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
But it's more than a resemblance, s Brit. I've seen
him up close.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
He's a spitting image.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
I don't see what difference it makes, George, unless he's
been causing trouble. And even then, Ritt, he's only been
around here for a couple of months.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Just give him time. He'll cost plenty of truck.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
So maybe so. But now listen, George.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Wait, if a man's got bad blood of him, it's
bound to come out, sooner or later.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
It's bound to George. It seems to me if I
ought not to be blame for what his brother's.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Done, if he ain't up to something, then why don't
he admit who he is?
Speaker 3 (07:13):
What do he mean?
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Says his name's Hank Wallace says he never heard of
Judd Coffin.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
He's a lying Brett. You saw the resemblance yourself.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Well, resemblance does always prove any day.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
You know, you think I want a man like that
going around with my own sister.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
She's barely eighteen.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
She don't know nothing about the world or about people.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
I'm all she's got now.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Can't let her throw her life away on Judd Coffin's brother.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
I've got to stop her.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Yeah, I guess she is sort of your responsibility. But
I say, yuh, George, how about that supper. I'm got hungry.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
You go ahead, Brett. I ain't got much appetite.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Oh god, Brett. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Maybe this sounds like I'm button into vised business, but
I got no choice. Just before he died, a warning
told me what would happen, No Grit.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
It wasn't six weeks.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
After the funeral before she started going around with this fella.
I tried to talk sense to her.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Don't do no good.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Now, I gotta put my foot down. You understand how
I feel, don't you, Britt?
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Yeah, George, Sure, I understand.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Well.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
I went. I had and had some supper, cold ham,
potato salad, bacon in it, and stewed peaches for dessert.
Wasn't anything exceptional, but it was falling enough. And afterwards,
since George hadn't eaten anything, I decided maybe I'd go
ahead and do the dishes. The dishpan was hanging right
side the sank, so I pumped some water in it.
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There was only a couple of plates and cup was
but the handle on that cup just wasn't very substant ansel,
and when it slipped a dog garn it uh well,
looked like it was beyond the glue on stage. So
I kind of got the pieces swept together and put
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'em in the garbage bucket. I wasn't exactly trying to
hide them or anything like that, but they well, there
were plenty of other cups in the cupboard anyhow. I
walked back into the parlor and said good night to
George went upstairs at the bed. I figured he was
going to wait up for Viola and I. I didn't
suppose she'd liked the idea, but it wasn't none of
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my business, though. I was kind of tired anyway, and
Viola sure didn't like it either, at least that's how
it sounded to me when I woke up about one
o'clock and heard her and George going at it, hammer
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and tongs, and the downstairs hallway where I go, I'm
your brother, l Well, you're not my keeping. He's no good.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
If he was, he wouldn't keep you out until who
hours of.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
The night staying up with my idea.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
I didn't want to come home because I knew i'd
had to sit here and listen to you.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Well you're gonna listen.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
I told you who he was.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
But you wouldn't believe me. Now maybe you'll believe Writt.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
Don't rake him into this, please please Wrint.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Why are you still awake, George?
Speaker 5 (10:19):
Not to Wrint?
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, what's trouble?
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Do you mind coming down here?
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Well it only take a minute, Brett. Well, I ah, George,
give me a chance to put my pants on. I
sure didn't like the idea of mixing into a family argument,
but I didn't look like I was going to get
any sleep till George that summer down. So I pulled
on my trousers and I slapped the cold water in
my face. Yeah, and I'm headed out in the hall.
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I could see Violas standing at the bottom of the stairs,
and her her face was real white, eyes were kind
of wide open and determined. George was holding on to
her arm. His jaw was many this.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Well, I do care. It's for your own goodbye. O.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Uh, it ain't an by all.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
I'm awful sorry that you have to get involved in this.
And I'm ashamed too what you ought to be. Not
for myself, I'm ashamed for you.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Jil for me.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
I'm not running around with no outlaw disgrace in my family.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
You tell her, tell her who he.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Really is, now, George, I never saw the man before
in the whole life.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
You noticed the resemblance right off, didn't you. You remarked
on it, that man Judg Coffin's brother.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
V Is that what you got? Mister ponsit down here
to tell me?
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Well?
Speaker 4 (11:45):
Ain't that reason enough?
Speaker 5 (11:46):
No, it's not enough.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
He's been lying to.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
You, pretending to be somebody else. Don't you care?
Speaker 5 (11:50):
He hasn't lied to me, George, I know who he is.
I've noticed since we first met. He told me he
was Hunt Coffin. He he told you afraid folks around
here would hold it against him.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
That's why he changed his name. And it looks to
me like he was right.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
You knew who he was, and you went right on
seeing him.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
To understand, George, he's not the blame for something his
brother did. They're two different people.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
The same blood's in him that was in Judd Coffin.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
And he'll turn mean and pull the same kind of
stun his brother did, and he'll land up the same way.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
Oh that's crazy. Why he doesn't even carry a gun.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
You've seen him off and enough.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
You know he doesn't.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
You can get a gun easy enough, and he will
the very first time he figures he needs one.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
Mister Posit, won't you talk to George? Maybe you can
make him see that I'm not a child that I
know my own mind.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Oh it seems to me we've all done enough talking
for one night. Anyway. I I sure could use a
little more sleep. You know, things may look different in
the mornings, I to think.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
So, you know, mister Posit's right, we'd better go to
bed too.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Things won't be any different tomorrow, by not as far
as I'm concerned. I'm telling you here and now you're
not to see young Coffin again.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Ever.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
I'm gonna marry him, George, what I wasn't intending to
tell you yet. I thought maybe later you'd come around,
But I guess you never will.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
I promised him tonight.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Promised him. You don't know what you're saying, y, we're
just doing this to spike me.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Atria will outfeach you.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
I'm in love with him, in love.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
With a man like that.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
You be takes me all night, My my, George.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
I'll get hold of your child you're gonna marry him,
or they'll be singing a different tombo him will see
out of the torch.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
She's fine.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
I don't care whose sister she is. Now look her
all right now, George, come on, let's go upstairs.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Spurlong.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Good Britt, what I'd done. I guess you must have
thought it was.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Some day she'll realize it was for her own good.
She can't marry him, Britt, she just can't well.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Treating her the way you did, it's have to make
her more set on it than ever.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
She'll get over that idea fast enough now that she
knows I mean business.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
Some day she'll thank me for slapping her.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Yeah, yeah, alright, let's get some sleep. Joy, Come on.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
You are listening to The Sick Shooter, starring James Stewart
as Britt puns It, the Texas plainsman whose name has
become legend throughout the West. Now act too of the
story called Blood Relations.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Well, it took me a little while to get back
to sleep, but I didn't hear anything more out of
George or Viola during the night, so that was something.
When I finally woke up again, I just didn't feel
like i'd had any rest at all, and it was
late too, nearly six o'clock. I got dressed and I
went downstairs while I was fixing breakfast, and her eyes
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were sort of red and there was a little splotch
on her cheek where George had slapped her. But she
didn't say anything about it, and I sure didn't see
any point and open up the subject. So a couple
of minutes later, George came in from doing his chores
and we all sat down the table. He didn't eat much,
just some coffee, and as soon as he was finished,
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he said he was riding out the high grass see
if the round up was on its way down. I
offered to go along with him, and so we got
on our horses. Let's start it off.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
You see, Britt, what I tell you, she's all right now.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
She got that nonsense about young Coffin out of her head.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Oh I saw. I saw.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
She didn't mention him again, did she?
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (16:16):
I reckon if she was still thinking about him serious,
she'd have said so. Yeah, she's a Wilcox, Britt. We
don't go around making fools of ourselves, not for long anyway.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
We kept on riding for a couple of hours until
we got to the high ground, but we didn't see
any signs around up, so finally we turned round headed
back to the ranch house.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
I don't know what's taking them so long. They should
have been down a couple of days ago. Oh, they
don't show up one morning, we'll have to start looking
for him. Oh whatever you say, Joran, here we are
Woa Britchie wool Who say you know something? Britt, I've
got kind of an appetite.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
I don't doubt us the way you've been eating late
ly Jesus, and.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
I'll sure make up afore it this noon. I wonder
what she's fixed for us. By we're back by, Hm
must be out in the kitchen. That's funny. Why she's upstairs.
That's why she didn't hear me. I bought them poor by, Why.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
I didn't know you'd be here? You you didn't say
anything when you left.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
I'm usually here for dinner, ain't I.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Yeah, Well, it'll take.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
A couple of minutes to get something ready. I I
just got back from town You what.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Right?
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Well, I guess i'll go washop.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
What were you doing in town by? I wanted to
see honey?
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Oh well, I suppose you did have to explain things
to him. I guess he was entitled that much.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
How'd he take it? Hm, and you told him you
couldn't marry him.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
I didn't tell him that.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
George, we're gonna get married as soon as we can.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
He's coming to get me tonight.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Well. I sure didn't feel like sticking around for another
one of their arguments, so I sort of sneaked out
the front door and climbed in in the saddle. Let's
go boy Quietly. I figured I'd ride into town and
get me some to eat while I was at it.
Maybe while I was gone, George and viol had come
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to some sort of an understanding. Least I hope that
would took me about thirty minutes to reach Adobe junction. MM.
Looked like there was only one cafe, Molly's Home cooked
me uh, right next door to the mercantile. Whoo boy, whoo,
who's gone? Ooh? I tossed the reins over a hitching
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rail and car in the restaurant.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
Mister Ponsett, HM, you're you're a brit poncidt ain't you?
Speaker 3 (19:09):
That's right?
Speaker 6 (19:11):
Viola told me what you looked like, but I'd recognize
you anyway.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Oh, you're you're a six shooter.
Speaker 6 (19:18):
I've heard a lot about that gun. How fast you
are with it. My brother, well, he found out first hand.
Your brother jud Coffin.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
I see, my name is Hunt Coffin, Mister Ponsett.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Yeah, I sort of figured that.
Speaker 6 (19:37):
I uh just wanted you to know. I sure do
appreciate what you did last night, taking Viola's part with George.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
While George was pretty upset. I don't think he meant
to carry on that way. He's real fond of his
sister when you get right down to it.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
If he ever hits her again, I'll kill him.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Well, I guess you and Viola won't have to worry
much about George any longer. What do you mean, Well,
she says you're gonna get married right away. You're coming
out after tonight. Is that right? She told you that? Well,
sure that's true, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (20:09):
I didn't want him to know he'll try to stop us.
I told her not to see anything.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
We could have been gone before we ever found out. Now,
by all, is not the kind of a person to
do a thing behind anybody's back.
Speaker 6 (20:20):
Yeah, Well, maybe there's something else you ought to know
I bought me a gun this morning, mister Ponsett. Is
that so I'll be out at the Wilcox place as
soon as I get off work tonight, and I'll have
the gun with me.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Uh huh. And George said you'd get a gun the
first time you figured you needed one.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
Well, he was right.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Yeah, it sure looks like he was. Well, so long coughing.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
What thunder happened to you?
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Brett? Oh? I've thought maybe you and vi ah oh,
I have a chance to talk this out in private.
So I wrote her in town. You needn't have bothered. Huh.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Tried to talk to her, but she just wouldn't listen.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
She wouldn't. Uh.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
I don't know what to do, Brett. I just don't.
After last night, I thought she'd see things my way.
I guess you were right. She's more setting.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Marrying him now than ever. Paul was still alive, he'd
find some way of stopping her. I guess I'm letting
him down.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Well, where's Vie now upstairs? Packing?
Speaker 1 (21:38):
I thought about locking her in her room, but it
just wouldn't do no good. Besides, she ain't to blame,
not really.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
I tried, George. A person just can't help.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
Wald everything that's happened, and it's him I'm gonna take
care of.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
As a matter of fact, I ran in to hunt
Coffin while I was in town. You saw it, Yeah, Yeah,
we had a little chat. He uh, he's kind of
upset about what happened last night. He's upset.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
He'll have something to get upset about if he comes
around here tonight.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Well maybe you ought to know, George. He's got himself
a gun.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
There, what I tell you, just like his brother.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Why why are your friends coming out here with a gun?
Speaker 3 (22:24):
He needs to kill me.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
A man will take up a gun once.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
He won't stop, not as long as he lives.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Now, what do you think of it? Why? Only didn't
answer George. She just stayed upstairs and went on with
whatever she was doing. George walked into the hall. I
heard him rummaging around in the closet, and he was
gone for a minute or so, and then he came
back into the parlor. He was carrying his paws old
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Winchester rifle. He jammed some cartridges into the magazine geared
out of the window. The sun was just beginning to
drop behind the hills to the west and the shadows
and the slopes would turning orange, and George pulled up
a chair and sat down. The rifle was lying on
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his lap, the barrel pointing toward the open window beside him. George, Yeah,
you use that gun, you'll be doing the very thing
you accuse him of.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Uh, there's a different sprit. This is my property. I
left it to me out right. Sure, if on Coffin
set's foot on at east, trespasser, I got a right
to shoot a trespasser.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
Ain't I.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
No, you haven't, not under these circumstances.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
You gonna interfere, but you gonna take his side.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
I'm not taking anybody's side. I'm riding in the town.
I won't be back. You'll have to hire somebody else
to handle your cattle.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Drive suits me. I'll be able to handle the cattle myself. Now,
I won't have to stay here after the night.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
You know, George, he might kill you, leastwise, if he
takes after his brother. There's a good chance of it.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
And it looks like you're gonna be around for it
whatever happens.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
There he is now pulling into the yard.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Coffin, get out of here.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Coffin, I don't want to know trouble, Wilcox, I stop moving.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
I'm taking file with me.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
You're not taking anybody.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
I can see Hunt Coffin through the window over George's shoulder.
He was climbing down from his buggy. Looked like he
was carrying a forty four in his holster. M George
Wilcox stood up his back, shut off my view of Hunt.
He shoved the stock of his rifle against his shoulder
and his finger curled around the trigger. He shifted his
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weight on the one foot and I got a glimpse
of Han again. His right hand was inching toward that
forty four, but he hadn't pulled it out yet.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
I'm coming in and get her.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Well, Dot, go on and draw.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
I know you gotta gun, go on, use it. I
don't think i'll need it.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
I give him a chance. You hurt me pretty well.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
It wasn't much tired to answer him. His finger was
already squeezing back, and there wasn't even time to get
over to him. I grabbed from my gun. The bullet
hit him right in the arm, spun him half around.
For a second. I didn't know what had happened. I
hadn't fired at him. I hadn't even had a chance
to finish drawn. Uh, And then I saw a little
spiral of smoke on the hall stairs behind him.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Boa put down that rifle. George, you're crazy?
Speaker 3 (25:46):
By what?
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Why?
Speaker 5 (25:48):
All right, stay there, Han, I'll be right out.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Put it down, George.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
Now I'm going away with hut. If you'll come after me,
it won't be humble will stop you.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
Kind of funny, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (26:06):
You always said Hunt would turn out bad because his
brother was that way, and they both had the same
blood in him.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
What about it?
Speaker 3 (26:14):
George?
Speaker 4 (26:15):
Would you be willing to shoot me?
Speaker 2 (26:17):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Buy?
Speaker 1 (26:20):
You know I'd never do a thing like that. Why not?
Speaker 5 (26:23):
I was willing to shoot you. We've got the same blood,
haven't we. Goodbye, George, good bye, mister Pompton Flah buy
good luck up way?
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (26:41):
She she wasn't making any sense, Bread asking if i'd
shoot her?
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Why, that's just plain foolishness. Yeah, yeah, Well I'll take
you into town. George. You'd better see the dark about
that arm.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
My own sister, my own flesh and blood, sure had
her figured wrong.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Well maybe you had young Cotton figured wrong too, And
come on, let's go. Well. The next morning the boys
brought in Georgie's herd, and what with that arm of
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his and all, I agreed to drive them north. It
was nearly three months before I got back to Dobe
Junction again. Why all on the hunt there were married,
and I had a little house in town. But George,
he hadn't been there. Me hadn't said a word to
buy since that night she left the ranch. I was
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kind of upset about it, but she kept telling herself
that sooner or later George would see where he'd been wrong,
and he'd come around. I don't know, maybe he will.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
The six Shooter is a transcribed NBC Radio Network production
and association with The Review Productions. It is written by
Frank Burt and is based on a character created by him,
Mister Stewart, may currently be seen in the Universal International
Picture The Glenn Miller Story. Others in the cast were
Barbara Eiler, Herb Ellis, and Sam Edwards. Special music for.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
This program was by Basil Adlam, and the.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Entire production is under the direction of Jack Johnstone. All
characters and incidents were fictitious, and any resemblance to actual
characters or incidents is dearly coincidental. Oh, by the way,
you will be interested innoying that the six shooter has
been chosen for broadcast to our men overseas through the
facilities of the Armed Forces Radio Services.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
This is John Wall speaking McDonald.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Carey stars in Jason and the Golden Fleece tonight on
the NBC Radio network.
In a moment, you'll hear James Stewart as the Sick Shooter.
Just one of many fine programs brought to you each
week on NBC Tomorrow Night, there's Top Comedy Entertainment with
The Bob Hope Show, The Phil Harris Alice Fay Show,
and Can You Top This with Senator Ford. Bob Hope
delivers rapid fire comedy routines, while Phil Harris and Alice
Fay bring both mirth and music. It's a great Friday
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night lineup of comedy programs, all of them heard only
on NBC. James Stewart as the Sick Shooter. The man
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in the saddle is angular and long legged. His skin
is sun dyed brown. The gun in his holster is
gray steel and rainbow mother of pearl, its handle unmarked.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
People call them both the Sick Shooter.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
The NBC Radio Network presents James Stewart as The six Shooter,
a transcribed series of radio dramas based on the life
of Britt Ponset, the Texas plainsman who wandered through the
Western territories, leaving behind a trail of still remembered legends.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
It was a little over four years since last time
I worked for the Wilcox Cox fet But when George
Wilcox wrote me about his pause death and said he
needed somebody to handle the cattle drive east to Abilene, well,
there weren't exactly any other demands on my services, so
I headed up to Adobe Junction and rode through the
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town to the Wilcox ranch couple miles beyond. It was
getting on toward evening when I pulled into the yard
and whoa, boys, woll star, whoa? Only about eight or
ten steers in the main corral over back of the house.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Maybe George hadn't finished the round up yet, or maybe
he was gonna start the drive from out on the rain. Huh.
Whatever it was, he had to get started pretty soon
or the weather be against it. Yes, good evening, ma'am.
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I was George Wilcox had.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
Well, mister Promston, don't you remember me?
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Why?
Speaker 5 (03:03):
I'm Viola Wilcox, George's sister, Viola.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
No you, Well, I just can't believe it.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
I guess I have changed since you last saw me.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Change. Why see, were you practically growing up overnight? Viola?
Speaker 5 (03:20):
There are some folks around here who wouldn't agree with you.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Mister poms.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Oh, it's mister ponsit.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
George Frick, Why frit for you, old rattlesnake.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
It's about time you turned up here.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Ah, you're already good, pretty good.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Put on another plate, vibritt'll be here for supper.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Oh, I wouldn't like to impose now. I mean you
probably weren't expect me tonight.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Why we've been expecting you for the last week. Buy's
had the spare room ready since Monday. Well, if you're
sure there's not food, viol Oh, there'll be plenty of bricks.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
As a matter of fact, I will be eating supper at.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Home tonight, now, Viola, I told you you weren't o
e when everything's ready. I guess we might as well
wait in the parlor. Bread sure, sure, I hope I'm
not too late for the drive, George late. Well, you
said you've been expecting me for several days. I didn't
see my stock in the corral.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Oh, the boys are still out on the round up.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
They're a little late.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
I couldn't go out with him this year.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Well that's all.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
They'll probably show up sometime tomorrow, a Friday at the latest.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
You can start off.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Then you uh, you won't be going along.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
No, I'm gonna stick around here.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Uh huh uh. I was real sorry to hear about
your father, George.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
He went easy, Britt. I'm thankful for that.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Yeah, yeah, you know. I I just can't get over
how vile has changed. Why she's turned out to be
a real pretty young lady, hasn't she. I bet she's
got more bow than any other girl in the whole county.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
She could have. I guess if she wanted him, Britt,
do you remember Judge Coffin.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Coffin Coffin, he.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Was that outlaw from up around Cloud City. You had something.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
To do with capturing him, as I recollect.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
M m well, I was sort of in the neighborhood
when it happened.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
I was just a kid then, but Pot took me
over the Cloud City to see Coffin's trial and uh
hanging afterward.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
I guess he figured it'd be a good lesson for me.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Uh huh.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
He was right too.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
I never forgot it. There's something else I never forgot either.
The way jud Coffin looked, his eyes, his nose, everything
about him. He was born to be a killer, was
read all over him.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
No, I don't know, No, George.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Well I do, and now he's back here again.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Well, what are you talking about? Jud Coffin was hung?
You saw it yourself, You just said so.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
J Judd had a brother a few years younger. I
don't remember his name, but I saw him at the
trial too.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, not to mention. It seems to
me there was another Coffin boy. What about him?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
There's a young fella started working for the Mercantile and
Adobe junction.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
And if he ain't, everything's.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
On the table, George, just after this is when you
finished eating, and I'll do him when I get home.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Now you hold up a minute, Viola, Come over here, Britt,
over here to the window.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
What there? He isn't that button? Now you take a
good look.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Well, now, don't he look just like Judd? Well it's
been quite a while, George, I've sort of forgotten jud Cough.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Well I ain't forgotten.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
I couldn't not ever.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
I can still see him when the let him up
to them gallows. I can still see his eyes, killer's eyes.
And that's his brother out there riding away with my sister.
Ain't it well, ain't it?
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Well? Maybe he does sort of resemble Judd in a way.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
But it's more than a resemblance, s Brit. I've seen
him up close.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
He's a spitting image.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
I don't see what difference it makes, George, unless he's
been causing trouble. And even then, Ritt, he's only been
around here for a couple of months.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Just give him time. He'll cost plenty of truck.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
So maybe so. But now listen, George.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Wait, if a man's got bad blood of him, it's
bound to come out, sooner or later.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
It's bound to George. It seems to me if I
ought not to be blame for what his brother's.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Done, if he ain't up to something, then why don't
he admit who he is?
Speaker 3 (07:13):
What do he mean?
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Says his name's Hank Wallace says he never heard of
Judd Coffin.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
He's a lying Brett. You saw the resemblance yourself.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Well, resemblance does always prove any day.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
You know, you think I want a man like that
going around with my own sister.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
She's barely eighteen.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
She don't know nothing about the world or about people.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
I'm all she's got now.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Can't let her throw her life away on Judd Coffin's brother.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
I've got to stop her.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Yeah, I guess she is sort of your responsibility. But
I say, yuh, George, how about that supper. I'm got hungry.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
You go ahead, Brett. I ain't got much appetite.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Oh god, Brett. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Maybe this sounds like I'm button into vised business, but
I got no choice. Just before he died, a warning
told me what would happen, No Grit.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
It wasn't six weeks.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
After the funeral before she started going around with this fella.
I tried to talk sense to her.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Don't do no good.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Now, I gotta put my foot down. You understand how
I feel, don't you, Britt?
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Yeah, George, Sure, I understand.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Well.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
I went. I had and had some supper, cold ham,
potato salad, bacon in it, and stewed peaches for dessert.
Wasn't anything exceptional, but it was falling enough. And afterwards,
since George hadn't eaten anything, I decided maybe I'd go
ahead and do the dishes. The dishpan was hanging right
side the sank, so I pumped some water in it.
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There was only a couple of plates and cup was
but the handle on that cup just wasn't very substant ansel,
and when it slipped a dog garn it uh well,
looked like it was beyond the glue on stage. So
I kind of got the pieces swept together and put
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'em in the garbage bucket. I wasn't exactly trying to
hide them or anything like that, but they well, there
were plenty of other cups in the cupboard anyhow. I
walked back into the parlor and said good night to
George went upstairs at the bed. I figured he was
going to wait up for Viola and I. I didn't
suppose she'd liked the idea, but it wasn't none of
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my business, though. I was kind of tired anyway, and
Viola sure didn't like it either, at least that's how
it sounded to me when I woke up about one
o'clock and heard her and George going at it, hammer
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and tongs, and the downstairs hallway where I go, I'm
your brother, l Well, you're not my keeping. He's no good.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
If he was, he wouldn't keep you out until who
hours of.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
The night staying up with my idea.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
I didn't want to come home because I knew i'd
had to sit here and listen to you.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Well you're gonna listen.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
I told you who he was.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
But you wouldn't believe me. Now maybe you'll believe Writt.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
Don't rake him into this, please please Wrint.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Why are you still awake, George?
Speaker 5 (10:19):
Not to Wrint?
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, what's trouble?
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Do you mind coming down here?
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Well it only take a minute, Brett. Well, I ah, George,
give me a chance to put my pants on. I
sure didn't like the idea of mixing into a family argument,
but I didn't look like I was going to get
any sleep till George that summer down. So I pulled
on my trousers and I slapped the cold water in
my face. Yeah, and I'm headed out in the hall.
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I could see Violas standing at the bottom of the stairs,
and her her face was real white, eyes were kind
of wide open and determined. George was holding on to
her arm. His jaw was many this.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Well, I do care. It's for your own goodbye. O.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Uh, it ain't an by all.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
I'm awful sorry that you have to get involved in this.
And I'm ashamed too what you ought to be. Not
for myself, I'm ashamed for you.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Jil for me.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
I'm not running around with no outlaw disgrace in my family.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
You tell her, tell her who he.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Really is, now, George, I never saw the man before
in the whole life.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
You noticed the resemblance right off, didn't you. You remarked
on it, that man Judg Coffin's brother.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
V Is that what you got? Mister ponsit down here
to tell me?
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Well?
Speaker 4 (11:45):
Ain't that reason enough?
Speaker 5 (11:46):
No, it's not enough.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
He's been lying to.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
You, pretending to be somebody else. Don't you care?
Speaker 5 (11:50):
He hasn't lied to me, George, I know who he is.
I've noticed since we first met. He told me he
was Hunt Coffin. He he told you afraid folks around
here would hold it against him.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
That's why he changed his name. And it looks to
me like he was right.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
You knew who he was, and you went right on
seeing him.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
To understand, George, he's not the blame for something his
brother did. They're two different people.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
The same blood's in him that was in Judd Coffin.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
And he'll turn mean and pull the same kind of
stun his brother did, and he'll land up the same way.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
Oh that's crazy. Why he doesn't even carry a gun.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
You've seen him off and enough.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
You know he doesn't.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
You can get a gun easy enough, and he will
the very first time he figures he needs one.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
Mister Posit, won't you talk to George? Maybe you can
make him see that I'm not a child that I
know my own mind.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Oh it seems to me we've all done enough talking
for one night. Anyway. I I sure could use a
little more sleep. You know, things may look different in
the mornings, I to think.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
So, you know, mister Posit's right, we'd better go to
bed too.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Things won't be any different tomorrow, by not as far
as I'm concerned. I'm telling you here and now you're
not to see young Coffin again.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Ever.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
I'm gonna marry him, George, what I wasn't intending to
tell you yet. I thought maybe later you'd come around,
But I guess you never will.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
I promised him tonight.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Promised him. You don't know what you're saying, y, we're
just doing this to spike me.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Atria will outfeach you.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
I'm in love with him, in love.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
With a man like that.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
You be takes me all night, My my, George.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
I'll get hold of your child you're gonna marry him,
or they'll be singing a different tombo him will see
out of the torch.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
She's fine.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
I don't care whose sister she is. Now look her
all right now, George, come on, let's go upstairs.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Spurlong.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Good Britt, what I'd done. I guess you must have
thought it was.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Some day she'll realize it was for her own good.
She can't marry him, Britt, she just can't well.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Treating her the way you did, it's have to make
her more set on it than ever.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
She'll get over that idea fast enough now that she
knows I mean business.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
Some day she'll thank me for slapping her.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Yeah, yeah, alright, let's get some sleep. Joy, Come on.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
You are listening to The Sick Shooter, starring James Stewart
as Britt puns It, the Texas plainsman whose name has
become legend throughout the West. Now act too of the
story called Blood Relations.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Well, it took me a little while to get back
to sleep, but I didn't hear anything more out of
George or Viola during the night, so that was something.
When I finally woke up again, I just didn't feel
like i'd had any rest at all, and it was
late too, nearly six o'clock. I got dressed and I
went downstairs while I was fixing breakfast, and her eyes
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were sort of red and there was a little splotch
on her cheek where George had slapped her. But she
didn't say anything about it, and I sure didn't see
any point and open up the subject. So a couple
of minutes later, George came in from doing his chores
and we all sat down the table. He didn't eat much,
just some coffee, and as soon as he was finished,
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he said he was riding out the high grass see
if the round up was on its way down. I
offered to go along with him, and so we got
on our horses. Let's start it off.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
You see, Britt, what I tell you, she's all right now.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
She got that nonsense about young Coffin out of her head.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Oh I saw. I saw.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
She didn't mention him again, did she?
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (16:16):
I reckon if she was still thinking about him serious,
she'd have said so. Yeah, she's a Wilcox, Britt. We
don't go around making fools of ourselves, not for long anyway.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
We kept on riding for a couple of hours until
we got to the high ground, but we didn't see
any signs around up, so finally we turned round headed
back to the ranch house.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
I don't know what's taking them so long. They should
have been down a couple of days ago. Oh, they
don't show up one morning, we'll have to start looking
for him. Oh whatever you say, Joran, here we are
Woa Britchie wool Who say you know something? Britt, I've
got kind of an appetite.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
I don't doubt us the way you've been eating late
ly Jesus, and.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
I'll sure make up afore it this noon. I wonder
what she's fixed for us. By we're back by, Hm
must be out in the kitchen. That's funny. Why she's upstairs.
That's why she didn't hear me. I bought them poor by, Why.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
I didn't know you'd be here? You you didn't say
anything when you left.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
I'm usually here for dinner, ain't I.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Yeah, Well, it'll take.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
A couple of minutes to get something ready. I I
just got back from town You what.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Right?
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Well, I guess i'll go washop.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
What were you doing in town by? I wanted to
see honey?
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Oh well, I suppose you did have to explain things
to him. I guess he was entitled that much.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
How'd he take it? Hm, and you told him you
couldn't marry him.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
I didn't tell him that.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
George, we're gonna get married as soon as we can.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
He's coming to get me tonight.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Well. I sure didn't feel like sticking around for another
one of their arguments, so I sort of sneaked out
the front door and climbed in in the saddle. Let's
go boy Quietly. I figured I'd ride into town and
get me some to eat while I was at it.
Maybe while I was gone, George and viol had come
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to some sort of an understanding. Least I hope that
would took me about thirty minutes to reach Adobe junction. MM.
Looked like there was only one cafe, Molly's Home cooked
me uh, right next door to the mercantile. Whoo boy, whoo,
who's gone? Ooh? I tossed the reins over a hitching
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rail and car in the restaurant.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
Mister Ponsett, HM, you're you're a brit poncidt ain't you?
Speaker 3 (19:09):
That's right?
Speaker 6 (19:11):
Viola told me what you looked like, but I'd recognize
you anyway.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Oh, you're you're a six shooter.
Speaker 6 (19:18):
I've heard a lot about that gun. How fast you
are with it. My brother, well, he found out first hand.
Your brother jud Coffin.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
I see, my name is Hunt Coffin, Mister Ponsett.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Yeah, I sort of figured that.
Speaker 6 (19:37):
I uh just wanted you to know. I sure do
appreciate what you did last night, taking Viola's part with George.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
While George was pretty upset. I don't think he meant
to carry on that way. He's real fond of his
sister when you get right down to it.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
If he ever hits her again, I'll kill him.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Well, I guess you and Viola won't have to worry
much about George any longer. What do you mean, Well,
she says you're gonna get married right away. You're coming
out after tonight. Is that right? She told you that? Well,
sure that's true, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (20:09):
I didn't want him to know he'll try to stop us.
I told her not to see anything.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
We could have been gone before we ever found out. Now,
by all, is not the kind of a person to
do a thing behind anybody's back.
Speaker 6 (20:20):
Yeah, Well, maybe there's something else you ought to know
I bought me a gun this morning, mister Ponsett. Is
that so I'll be out at the Wilcox place as
soon as I get off work tonight, and I'll have
the gun with me.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Uh huh. And George said you'd get a gun the
first time you figured you needed one.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
Well, he was right.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Yeah, it sure looks like he was. Well, so long coughing.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
What thunder happened to you?
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Brett? Oh? I've thought maybe you and vi ah oh,
I have a chance to talk this out in private.
So I wrote her in town. You needn't have bothered. Huh.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Tried to talk to her, but she just wouldn't listen.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
She wouldn't. Uh.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
I don't know what to do, Brett. I just don't.
After last night, I thought she'd see things my way.
I guess you were right. She's more setting.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Marrying him now than ever. Paul was still alive, he'd
find some way of stopping her. I guess I'm letting
him down.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Well, where's Vie now upstairs? Packing?
Speaker 1 (21:38):
I thought about locking her in her room, but it
just wouldn't do no good. Besides, she ain't to blame,
not really.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
I tried, George. A person just can't help.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
Wald everything that's happened, and it's him I'm gonna take
care of.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
As a matter of fact, I ran in to hunt
Coffin while I was in town. You saw it, Yeah, Yeah,
we had a little chat. He uh, he's kind of
upset about what happened last night. He's upset.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
He'll have something to get upset about if he comes
around here tonight.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Well maybe you ought to know, George. He's got himself
a gun.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
There, what I tell you, just like his brother.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Why why are your friends coming out here with a gun?
Speaker 3 (22:24):
He needs to kill me.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
A man will take up a gun once.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
He won't stop, not as long as he lives.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Now, what do you think of it? Why? Only didn't
answer George. She just stayed upstairs and went on with
whatever she was doing. George walked into the hall. I
heard him rummaging around in the closet, and he was
gone for a minute or so, and then he came
back into the parlor. He was carrying his paws old
(22:53):
Winchester rifle. He jammed some cartridges into the magazine geared
out of the window. The sun was just beginning to
drop behind the hills to the west and the shadows
and the slopes would turning orange, and George pulled up
a chair and sat down. The rifle was lying on
(23:15):
his lap, the barrel pointing toward the open window beside him. George, Yeah,
you use that gun, you'll be doing the very thing
you accuse him of.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Uh, there's a different sprit. This is my property. I
left it to me out right. Sure, if on Coffin
set's foot on at east, trespasser, I got a right
to shoot a trespasser.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
Ain't I.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
No, you haven't, not under these circumstances.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
You gonna interfere, but you gonna take his side.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
I'm not taking anybody's side. I'm riding in the town.
I won't be back. You'll have to hire somebody else
to handle your cattle.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Drive suits me. I'll be able to handle the cattle myself. Now,
I won't have to stay here after the night.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
You know, George, he might kill you, leastwise, if he
takes after his brother. There's a good chance of it.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
And it looks like you're gonna be around for it
whatever happens.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
There he is now pulling into the yard.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Coffin, get out of here.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Coffin, I don't want to know trouble, Wilcox, I stop moving.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
I'm taking file with me.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
You're not taking anybody.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
I can see Hunt Coffin through the window over George's shoulder.
He was climbing down from his buggy. Looked like he
was carrying a forty four in his holster. M George
Wilcox stood up his back, shut off my view of Hunt.
He shoved the stock of his rifle against his shoulder
and his finger curled around the trigger. He shifted his
(25:02):
weight on the one foot and I got a glimpse
of Han again. His right hand was inching toward that
forty four, but he hadn't pulled it out yet.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
I'm coming in and get her.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Well, Dot, go on and draw.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
I know you gotta gun, go on, use it. I
don't think i'll need it.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
I give him a chance. You hurt me pretty well.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
It wasn't much tired to answer him. His finger was
already squeezing back, and there wasn't even time to get
over to him. I grabbed from my gun. The bullet
hit him right in the arm, spun him half around.
For a second. I didn't know what had happened. I
hadn't fired at him. I hadn't even had a chance
to finish drawn. Uh, And then I saw a little
spiral of smoke on the hall stairs behind him.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Boa put down that rifle. George, you're crazy?
Speaker 3 (25:46):
By what?
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Why?
Speaker 5 (25:48):
All right, stay there, Han, I'll be right out.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Put it down, George.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
Now I'm going away with hut. If you'll come after me,
it won't be humble will stop you.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
Kind of funny, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (26:06):
You always said Hunt would turn out bad because his
brother was that way, and they both had the same
blood in him.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
What about it?
Speaker 3 (26:14):
George?
Speaker 4 (26:15):
Would you be willing to shoot me?
Speaker 2 (26:17):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Buy?
Speaker 1 (26:20):
You know I'd never do a thing like that. Why not?
Speaker 5 (26:23):
I was willing to shoot you. We've got the same blood,
haven't we. Goodbye, George, good bye, mister Pompton Flah buy
good luck up way?
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (26:41):
She she wasn't making any sense, Bread asking if i'd
shoot her?
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Why, that's just plain foolishness. Yeah, yeah, Well I'll take
you into town. George. You'd better see the dark about
that arm.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
My own sister, my own flesh and blood, sure had
her figured wrong.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Well maybe you had young Cotton figured wrong too, And
come on, let's go. Well. The next morning the boys
brought in Georgie's herd, and what with that arm of
(27:27):
his and all, I agreed to drive them north. It
was nearly three months before I got back to Dobe
Junction again. Why all on the hunt there were married,
and I had a little house in town. But George,
he hadn't been there. Me hadn't said a word to
buy since that night she left the ranch. I was
(27:47):
kind of upset about it, but she kept telling herself
that sooner or later George would see where he'd been wrong,
and he'd come around. I don't know, maybe he will.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
The six Shooter is a transcribed NBC Radio Network production
and association with The Review Productions. It is written by
Frank Burt and is based on a character created by him,
Mister Stewart, may currently be seen in the Universal International
Picture The Glenn Miller Story. Others in the cast were
Barbara Eiler, Herb Ellis, and Sam Edwards. Special music for.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
This program was by Basil Adlam, and the.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Entire production is under the direction of Jack Johnstone. All
characters and incidents were fictitious, and any resemblance to actual
characters or incidents is dearly coincidental. Oh, by the way,
you will be interested innoying that the six shooter has
been chosen for broadcast to our men overseas through the
facilities of the Armed Forces Radio Services.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
This is John Wall speaking McDonald.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
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