August 25, 2025 • 28 mins
Follow the thrilling cases of "Yours Truly Johnny Dollar," an insurance investigator with a knack for solving complex crimes. Perfect for fans of detective stories and classic radio dramas.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Of a man will move with it.
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I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States. Marshall, the first
man they look for and the last they want to meet.
It's a chancey job that makes a man watchful and
a little lonely.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Marshall, Dylon, come in, Marshall, come in, hellout theaters.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
You got time to give me a haircut.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
You're the only customer I've had in an hour.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Marshall.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
You hang your coat and your gun belt right over there.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
I'll get things ready for you.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Okay, haven't seen you around town lately, Marshall.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Well, I've been over in Abilene for a week. I
just got back late last night.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Oh must come in on the midnight Santa Fee.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Huh, Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
I wish I could.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Get out of dodge once in a while, and not
the way I have to do that you wouldn't.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
Maybe you're right, Marshall. Maybe you're right.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Hey, it's a new chairy you got it?
Speaker 6 (02:15):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Yes, sir, the finest barber's chair west.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Of Saint louis pretty fine. Say try it?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Ah comfortable?
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Well, i'll tell you after I find out if you've
raised your prices to pay for it. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Let me get this cloth over here? Here we are
aircut's still a quarter, Marshall.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
What about shaves?
Speaker 4 (02:38):
The price of shaves gone up a dime, Marshal, a
dime now, Marshall, you wouldn't stand in the way of
progress for the sake of a dime, would you?
Speaker 3 (02:45):
How about whose progress? Mmm? Anyway, you don't need a shave?
Not today, that's a good thing.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
See Marshall.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
You know me bell over at the Long Braine now well,
last Wednesday night.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Oh take a chair, stranger.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
I'll be with you in a few minutes, Last WEDNSDA.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
In a few minutes. Yeah, I write your next right in.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
Line, barber.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
I ain't next, of course, you are nobody's head of it,
I said, I ain't next.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
You mean you won't wait?
Speaker 3 (03:13):
That's right?
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Oh sure, well I work fast. It won't be longer
than ten minutes.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
It's the most. Now you just sit down. I don't
want to shave. I want to ride now. You can
cut his hair later. Why you heard me?
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Now?
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Look, mister, you don't know who you got optators.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Get out of that chair, mister, take that shit off
of the tators. All right there, okay, let's start right.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
I'm aunt and move. I want to sit down. You
don't understand. I don't understand what I didn't get out
of that chair, so as you could have it. You're
gonna be troublesome. I am, and the rest and much
you can do about it. He isn't there? You don't
say very well, mister? What I'm not wearing a gun
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that's hanging on the wall over there. You're gonna shoot
an unarmed man in front of a witness. Go get
your gun, put it on? Now, do it? You elect? Mister?
How you gonna make me do it? Should me? What
your gun on? I don't like killings, But if you
don't turn around and walk out that door, I'm gonna
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half kill you with my fists and now get moving. Alright.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
You got me this time, but next time you'll be
wearing a gun.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
It'll be something different. Then.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Oh my goodness, Marshall, you took an awful change. Who
was I never saw him before?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
But he might have killed your I have been murdered.
You can get hung for murder. I got check, and
let's get this hair cut over. Whether he won't be back? Oh, oh,
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mister Dyllan, Oh Lotchester. I was looking for you, and
I've been right here in the office the past half hour.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Yes, tru I no, I'm past the barbershop. Teeter's told me,
and he told me how you handle that fellow too?
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Ah?
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Today Teeter's described him to me, mister Joan, and I
know who he is.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
You do.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
He come here about a week ago, just after you
went to Abilee.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Oh what's his name?
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Springer? Nate Spring? Why should that's tried, mister John.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
He was sure that was Nate Springer.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
I couldn't have been nobody else. Why you said you
don't know him?
Speaker 3 (05:54):
I have heard about him, you have, We're all over.
Nate Springer's got quite a repue.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Is a gunman?
Speaker 7 (06:01):
You mean?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Yeah, he's a gunman, they say, He's the most nerveless
gunman that ever lived. He's all ye bad. Masterson told
me once about in Arizona, a man got the drop
on him and Springer started to laugh. The man asked
him what he was laughing about. In the Springers that
he'd never had before, and he didn't want to die
without seeing what it was like.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
Oh for evermore? What happened?
Speaker 3 (06:23):
It's kind of hard to shoot a man who's enjoying
his first laugh.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Yeah, why well, I'll be dying.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
What do you suppose he's doing in dogs?
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Springer's a killer, a paid killer. That's all he's ever
done anywhere.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Then why don't you go arrest him?
Speaker 3 (06:40):
And he's not wanted that I know of, I know
circulars out on him.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
Well, but you can't wait till he kills himbody no, and.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
I can't put him in jail till he does.
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Speaker 3 (08:24):
You got time for another cup of coffee?
Speaker 7 (08:25):
Man?
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Oh, I'll take time.
Speaker 7 (08:27):
Doc.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
That's good.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Here you are there, thank you.
Speaker 9 (08:34):
Well.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Things pretty wild up in Abilene. No, that's still a
camp with a hair on duck Worsen dodge. No, I
wouldn't say that, and I'll stay here. Oh, why you're
usually complaining about.
Speaker 7 (08:46):
Doc, I'm thinking about business man business. What's there to
do in a peaceful town? Oh aside from delivering a
baby down there and setting a broken leg?
Speaker 3 (08:57):
You know, sometimes you sound pretty bloodthurstay duck. I don't
know the shooting man.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
It's men like that Neat Springer you were telling me
about it.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
He uh, he is sitting over there in the corner, Doc. Yeah,
it's where there alone with his back to the wall.
Oh oh yeah, so oh.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
He looks like a killer out he is. Yeah. You
see how he keeps turning around me.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Oh, it's like he thinks everybody in this room.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
Is his enemy.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
I like that doesn't have friends.
Speaker 7 (09:32):
Oh oh oh, oh he's getting up man, he's oh well,
he's coming this way.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Yeah, he hasn't finished his dinner. He better turn around, duck.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
Okay, but you keep your eye on him.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
I don't like that.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Man.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Hey you me? Oh you staring at me?
Speaker 5 (09:53):
For I wasn't staring at you.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
No, mine stares at me without a reason. I don't
like him. I wanna know why you was doing it?
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Old o' here, mister, you're getting yourself all upset over nothing?
Are you ruin your dinner?
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Working yourself up there? Tell me why you were staring
at me. I'll put a hole in you.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
I'll do it well.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
You're awful jumping for a big gunman. Tell me I
show that springer. You getting into this myster I am?
Who are you anyway? Matt Dylan doing That's right? I
knew i'd run into you sooner or leader.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Oh why my line of work, there's always something of
all man wanting in the fear.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Shure, and that'll happen here spring. Are you kill anybody?
Fair fights? Fair fighting? Why I paid? I pick a
fight with him? Man? Like I said, more sure I
knew i'd run into you, Springer. When I find out
who you are after, I can probably find out who's
paying him, and i'll jail you and him both. You're
gonna lose a lot of sleep. Try and find I
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can stand it. The other one that needs sleep, Springer,
a lot of it without any bad dreams.
Speaker 7 (11:09):
Shhh, Well, looks like the man of ice is starting
to melt.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
Man.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Yeah, you know something's happening to him, dark and whatever
it is, it isn't good, kiddy. H I didn't see him, Mat,
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I sit on if you got time.
Speaker 9 (11:52):
I don't have to go to work till after sundown.
Good guess someone as well sit here and watch Front
Street with you?
Speaker 6 (11:58):
Is do anything else?
Speaker 7 (11:59):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Little air's good for you, h A.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
Lot of it had beaten better.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Well, you ought to buy a horse, Kitty, take a
ride up the river every day or so.
Speaker 6 (12:08):
I'm too broke, Matt.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Well, i'll lend you one. I got a little bay
that's pretty gentle.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
Mm imagine having more than one horse.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
That's about all the government gives me, Kitty, a couple
of cheap horses.
Speaker 6 (12:20):
I've seen you ride in your own well, I.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Gotta keep him in shape in case I decide to quit.
Speaker 6 (12:25):
The day you quit, that horse will be as old
as a man.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
I hope you're right, kitty.
Speaker 6 (12:30):
It look Matt what walking down the middle of the street?
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Yeah, Springer?
Speaker 9 (12:38):
Now, who'd expect a man like Springer to have a
little yellow dog?
Speaker 3 (12:42):
I don't know the dog's his kiddy. Maybe he's just
following him.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
He's right at his heel.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
I don't think Springer knows it.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
Oh he's trying to sniff at him. Matt. He shot him,
poor little dog. He didn't do anything.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
I'll be back, kitty man, What do you want? Marshall?
Is just a dog that you think he was gonna buy?
Speaker 7 (13:09):
Ches?
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Springer?
Speaker 6 (13:10):
How do I know?
Speaker 3 (13:11):
I didn't know what it was, could have been anything
or anybody. I knew it wasn't a man, But you
just said I Care's what I said. That dog shouldn't
have been sniffing. No, run, not around you, that's for sure. Well.
Why don't think I got a drink? Springer? I think
you need one. I don't drink, Marshall never. Uh, you
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don't have any vices, do you? Marshall? Nothing? Go ahead?
Speaker 6 (13:56):
Mad? Is he crazy or something.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
I do.
Speaker 6 (14:00):
No, kiddy, Well, he's the meanest man I ever saw.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
He didn't shoot that dog out of meanness.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
No, why then he's jumping.
Speaker 9 (14:08):
Well, if he's that jumping, nobody need worry about him.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
He's more dangerous now than the way everybody tells me
he used to be. What do you mean, Suppose instead
of a dog sniffing at his heel, it had been
a man who just happened to bump into him.
Speaker 6 (14:20):
M I'd hate to be the man. He'd probably get killed.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (14:24):
Then Springer shouldn't be.
Speaker 9 (14:25):
Carrying a gun, Matt, Yeah, I know. Well, why didn't
you take it off him or run him out of town?
Speaker 3 (14:31):
If I did that, whoever's paying him? I just hire
another gunman kid him. The only way to stop these
killing is to find out who that is.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
Well, I hope you do before it's too late.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
That night, I had Chester follow Springer around keep an
eye on him, but all he did was to buck
the pharaoh bank for a few hours and then go
to bed earlier than the most respectable citizens. The next day,
Chester went back to the trailer, and while I sat
in the office and tried to figure a way to
trap him and the telling me who had hired him.
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By mid afternoon, I was no farther than when i'd started.
The only idea I had was to choke it on it.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
You, mister jolln Yeah, what is it?
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Chester hat dog on Nate Springer?
Speaker 4 (15:29):
He almost shot a girl over there, a girl over
at the Alpha Gams.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
What do you mean they almost shut her?
Speaker 10 (15:33):
Well?
Speaker 5 (15:34):
He stayed in his room all morning till just before noon.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Never mind that, what about the girl?
Speaker 5 (15:38):
That's what I'm getting to.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
And then just afternoon he went over to the Alpha
again and started gambling. He was sitting at the table
in the corner with his back again when named wooden windows.
Speaker 5 (15:47):
Uh huh, Well one of the girls it works here?
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Well, I guess she needed some air, so she slipped
in behind Springer's chairs, started pushing on that shutter.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
So I wonder if she got that far.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
He was raking in the pot. But when he heard her.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
I never seen a man move so fast, mister. Why
that poor girl near fainted the way he.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
Jumped around at him.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
She is lucky she doesn't get shot.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
He had his six guns stuck right in her face.
He was within a hair letting go of that hammer,
and then when he saw who it was, Oh, he
started cussing her something fierce.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
He's getting worse.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
He's gonna kill somebody, sure acting that way.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Yeah, and it won't even be the one he come.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
Here to kill.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Or fancy him about to shoot a woman.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
I guess I can't wait any longer. Chester, what you're
gonna do. I'm gonna try to shame him first. That
doesn't make him talking. I'm gonna have to run him
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Speaker 5 (18:16):
You know, mister Dillan.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
I can't help thinking all your friends who told you
about Nate Springer was mighty poor judges.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
He's about the uncoolest gunman I ever saw.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
I agree about that.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
Justice. Uh who told you about him last?
Speaker 3 (18:29):
I don't remember? That was towur three years?
Speaker 5 (18:32):
Uh, maybe it was just a lot of rumor. You
know how talk gets started sometimes.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Uh, Wyatt Earth was the first man who told me
about him.
Speaker 8 (18:38):
No.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Look, uh, when we got inside here, if you go
to the bar and stay there, huh.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
Yes, you.
Speaker 10 (18:57):
There is, mister Dillon, I see.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Springer. Springer come over here. You're interrupting my game. Yeah,
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game's over. Springer forgot? What does that mean? Get out
of Dutch? Well if you even paid him? Adventure, but
I give him his money back again, not gonna earn it.
Your saying thing, it's an hour out of Sunday. You'll
be out of town before duck. It's a long time
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since a man's talked to me like that. More, how
long is have been since a dog scared you into
shooting him? And since you had drove on a woman
you lost your nerve? Springer, you aren't gonna kill anybody?
Shut up? Yeah, I'll shut up if you tell me
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who hired you. No, no, oh, you're supposed to kill him.
I won't kill you, okay, I didn't think you wouldn't.
But you'll be out before dark, Springer, and don't ever
come back ever.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
I'll have hot Doc.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
Yeah, what he's standing out here for? And why aren't
you inside? We get feet on your desk the way
you usually are.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
I'm waiting for somebody, Duck. Oh oh, you're son un serious.
It's Night's Springer. He's got about twenty minutes to leave.
Tom was that soll wait?
Speaker 5 (21:21):
Finally had to come around here there.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
He's stelling the olive raganza over there. If he doesn't
come out before dark, I'm going in after him. M
oh h h here comes so many things. Huh uh
that's Chester. Oh yeah, so us is there gonna be
a shooting man? I doted Duck Springer is already back down.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
Well, you never know.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
I'm gonna get my things right.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
He just incas sure, Doc, and mister Dylan, I thought
i'd better come.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Tell you what.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
Chester Springer has been bellied up to that bar for
the last half hour.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
He has.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
He's been taking on one glass after another.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Uh, doc was right and never know what he's getting
ready to use his gun test him and I'm going
over and stopping.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
Hey, look you just come out.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Yeah hm, he dded his way. You'll stay here, Bishal.
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I thought you didn't drink Springer. I never did before,
but he started til late. You haven't time to find
your man. You're leaving in town. I've found him. What
he you You a'n't gonna kill? Oh? Hide your springing.
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Let's draw, Marshall. I feel like it. Now, let's draw.
I'll be a folio drunk, not that drunk. I can
kill you now. I'll be all right again. Now No, yes,
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shouldn't have tried that Springer he h I had wi
he youman prison two years. I come out scared, lost
my nerve in that prison. Then why did you take
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that job?
Speaker 5 (24:03):
I I had to.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Who Hiji spram? I did?
Speaker 7 (24:10):
Was?
Speaker 3 (24:12):
I hired me?
Speaker 4 (24:15):
I I had to face somebody like you that kept
my nerve back.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
I don't you understand?
Speaker 3 (24:26):
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Marshall, Dylon, come in, Marshall, come in, hellout theaters.
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You're the only customer I've had in an hour.
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Marshall.
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You hang your coat and your gun belt right over there.
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Okay, haven't seen you around town lately, Marshall.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Well, I've been over in Abilene for a week. I
just got back late last night.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Oh must come in on the midnight Santa Fee.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Huh, Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
I wish I could.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Get out of dodge once in a while, and not
the way I have to do that you wouldn't.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
Maybe you're right, Marshall. Maybe you're right.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Hey, it's a new chairy you got it?
Speaker 6 (02:15):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Yes, sir, the finest barber's chair west.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Of Saint louis pretty fine. Say try it?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Ah comfortable?
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Well, i'll tell you after I find out if you've
raised your prices to pay for it. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Let me get this cloth over here? Here we are
aircut's still a quarter, Marshall.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
What about shaves?
Speaker 4 (02:38):
The price of shaves gone up a dime, Marshal, a
dime now, Marshall, you wouldn't stand in the way of
progress for the sake of a dime, would you?
Speaker 3 (02:45):
How about whose progress? Mmm? Anyway, you don't need a shave?
Not today, that's a good thing.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
See Marshall.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
You know me bell over at the Long Braine now well,
last Wednesday night.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Oh take a chair, stranger.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
I'll be with you in a few minutes, Last WEDNSDA.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
In a few minutes. Yeah, I write your next right in.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
Line, barber.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
I ain't next, of course, you are nobody's head of it,
I said, I ain't next.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
You mean you won't wait?
Speaker 3 (03:13):
That's right?
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Oh sure, well I work fast. It won't be longer
than ten minutes.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
It's the most. Now you just sit down. I don't
want to shave. I want to ride now. You can
cut his hair later. Why you heard me?
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Now?
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Look, mister, you don't know who you got optators.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Get out of that chair, mister, take that shit off
of the tators. All right there, okay, let's start right.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
I'm aunt and move. I want to sit down. You
don't understand. I don't understand what I didn't get out
of that chair, so as you could have it. You're
gonna be troublesome. I am, and the rest and much
you can do about it. He isn't there? You don't
say very well, mister? What I'm not wearing a gun
(04:06):
that's hanging on the wall over there. You're gonna shoot
an unarmed man in front of a witness. Go get
your gun, put it on? Now, do it? You elect? Mister?
How you gonna make me do it? Should me? What
your gun on? I don't like killings, But if you
don't turn around and walk out that door, I'm gonna
(04:26):
half kill you with my fists and now get moving. Alright.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
You got me this time, but next time you'll be
wearing a gun.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
It'll be something different. Then.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Oh my goodness, Marshall, you took an awful change. Who
was I never saw him before?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
But he might have killed your I have been murdered.
You can get hung for murder. I got check, and
let's get this hair cut over. Whether he won't be back? Oh, oh,
(05:21):
mister Dyllan, Oh Lotchester. I was looking for you, and
I've been right here in the office the past half hour.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Yes, tru I no, I'm past the barbershop. Teeter's told me,
and he told me how you handle that fellow too?
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Ah?
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Today Teeter's described him to me, mister Joan, and I
know who he is.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
You do.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
He come here about a week ago, just after you
went to Abilee.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Oh what's his name?
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Springer? Nate Spring? Why should that's tried, mister John.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
He was sure that was Nate Springer.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
I couldn't have been nobody else. Why you said you
don't know him?
Speaker 3 (05:54):
I have heard about him, you have, We're all over.
Nate Springer's got quite a repue.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Is a gunman?
Speaker 7 (06:01):
You mean?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Yeah, he's a gunman, they say, He's the most nerveless
gunman that ever lived. He's all ye bad. Masterson told
me once about in Arizona, a man got the drop
on him and Springer started to laugh. The man asked
him what he was laughing about. In the Springers that
he'd never had before, and he didn't want to die
without seeing what it was like.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
Oh for evermore? What happened?
Speaker 3 (06:23):
It's kind of hard to shoot a man who's enjoying
his first laugh.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Yeah, why well, I'll be dying.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
What do you suppose he's doing in dogs?
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Springer's a killer, a paid killer. That's all he's ever
done anywhere.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Then why don't you go arrest him?
Speaker 3 (06:40):
And he's not wanted that I know of, I know
circulars out on him.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
Well, but you can't wait till he kills himbody no, and.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
I can't put him in jail till he does.
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Speaker 3 (08:24):
You got time for another cup of coffee?
Speaker 7 (08:25):
Man?
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Oh, I'll take time.
Speaker 7 (08:27):
Doc.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
That's good.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Here you are there, thank you.
Speaker 9 (08:34):
Well.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Things pretty wild up in Abilene. No, that's still a
camp with a hair on duck Worsen dodge. No, I
wouldn't say that, and I'll stay here. Oh, why you're
usually complaining about.
Speaker 7 (08:46):
Doc, I'm thinking about business man business. What's there to
do in a peaceful town? Oh aside from delivering a
baby down there and setting a broken leg?
Speaker 3 (08:57):
You know, sometimes you sound pretty bloodthurstay duck. I don't
know the shooting man.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
It's men like that Neat Springer you were telling me
about it.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
He uh, he is sitting over there in the corner, Doc. Yeah,
it's where there alone with his back to the wall.
Oh oh yeah, so oh.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
He looks like a killer out he is. Yeah. You
see how he keeps turning around me.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Oh, it's like he thinks everybody in this room.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
Is his enemy.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
I like that doesn't have friends.
Speaker 7 (09:32):
Oh oh oh, oh he's getting up man, he's oh well,
he's coming this way.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Yeah, he hasn't finished his dinner. He better turn around, duck.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
Okay, but you keep your eye on him.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
I don't like that.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Man.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Hey you me? Oh you staring at me?
Speaker 5 (09:53):
For I wasn't staring at you.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
No, mine stares at me without a reason. I don't
like him. I wanna know why you was doing it?
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Old o' here, mister, you're getting yourself all upset over nothing?
Are you ruin your dinner?
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Working yourself up there? Tell me why you were staring
at me. I'll put a hole in you.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
I'll do it well.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
You're awful jumping for a big gunman. Tell me I
show that springer. You getting into this myster I am?
Who are you anyway? Matt Dylan doing That's right? I
knew i'd run into you sooner or leader.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Oh why my line of work, there's always something of
all man wanting in the fear.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Shure, and that'll happen here spring. Are you kill anybody?
Fair fights? Fair fighting? Why I paid? I pick a
fight with him? Man? Like I said, more sure I
knew i'd run into you, Springer. When I find out
who you are after, I can probably find out who's
paying him, and i'll jail you and him both. You're
gonna lose a lot of sleep. Try and find I
(11:01):
can stand it. The other one that needs sleep, Springer,
a lot of it without any bad dreams.
Speaker 7 (11:09):
Shhh, Well, looks like the man of ice is starting
to melt.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
Man.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Yeah, you know something's happening to him, dark and whatever
it is, it isn't good, kiddy. H I didn't see him, Mat,
(11:50):
I sit on if you got time.
Speaker 9 (11:52):
I don't have to go to work till after sundown.
Good guess someone as well sit here and watch Front
Street with you?
Speaker 6 (11:58):
Is do anything else?
Speaker 7 (11:59):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Little air's good for you, h A.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
Lot of it had beaten better.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Well, you ought to buy a horse, Kitty, take a
ride up the river every day or so.
Speaker 6 (12:08):
I'm too broke, Matt.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Well, i'll lend you one. I got a little bay
that's pretty gentle.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
Mm imagine having more than one horse.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
That's about all the government gives me, Kitty, a couple
of cheap horses.
Speaker 6 (12:20):
I've seen you ride in your own well, I.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Gotta keep him in shape in case I decide to quit.
Speaker 6 (12:25):
The day you quit, that horse will be as old
as a man.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
I hope you're right, kitty.
Speaker 6 (12:30):
It look Matt what walking down the middle of the street?
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Yeah, Springer?
Speaker 9 (12:38):
Now, who'd expect a man like Springer to have a
little yellow dog?
Speaker 3 (12:42):
I don't know the dog's his kiddy. Maybe he's just
following him.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
He's right at his heel.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
I don't think Springer knows it.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
Oh he's trying to sniff at him. Matt. He shot him,
poor little dog. He didn't do anything.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
I'll be back, kitty man, What do you want? Marshall?
Is just a dog that you think he was gonna buy?
Speaker 7 (13:09):
Ches?
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Springer?
Speaker 6 (13:10):
How do I know?
Speaker 3 (13:11):
I didn't know what it was, could have been anything
or anybody. I knew it wasn't a man, But you
just said I Care's what I said. That dog shouldn't
have been sniffing. No, run, not around you, that's for sure. Well.
Why don't think I got a drink? Springer? I think
you need one. I don't drink, Marshall never. Uh, you
(13:34):
don't have any vices, do you? Marshall? Nothing? Go ahead?
Speaker 6 (13:56):
Mad? Is he crazy or something.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
I do.
Speaker 6 (14:00):
No, kiddy, Well, he's the meanest man I ever saw.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
He didn't shoot that dog out of meanness.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
No, why then he's jumping.
Speaker 9 (14:08):
Well, if he's that jumping, nobody need worry about him.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
He's more dangerous now than the way everybody tells me
he used to be. What do you mean, Suppose instead
of a dog sniffing at his heel, it had been
a man who just happened to bump into him.
Speaker 6 (14:20):
M I'd hate to be the man. He'd probably get killed.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (14:24):
Then Springer shouldn't be.
Speaker 9 (14:25):
Carrying a gun, Matt, Yeah, I know. Well, why didn't
you take it off him or run him out of town?
Speaker 3 (14:31):
If I did that, whoever's paying him? I just hire
another gunman kid him. The only way to stop these
killing is to find out who that is.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
Well, I hope you do before it's too late.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
That night, I had Chester follow Springer around keep an
eye on him, but all he did was to buck
the pharaoh bank for a few hours and then go
to bed earlier than the most respectable citizens. The next day,
Chester went back to the trailer, and while I sat
in the office and tried to figure a way to
trap him and the telling me who had hired him.
(15:08):
By mid afternoon, I was no farther than when i'd started.
The only idea I had was to choke it on it.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
You, mister jolln Yeah, what is it?
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Chester hat dog on Nate Springer?
Speaker 4 (15:29):
He almost shot a girl over there, a girl over
at the Alpha Gams.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
What do you mean they almost shut her?
Speaker 10 (15:33):
Well?
Speaker 5 (15:34):
He stayed in his room all morning till just before noon.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Never mind that, what about the girl?
Speaker 5 (15:38):
That's what I'm getting to.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
And then just afternoon he went over to the Alpha
again and started gambling. He was sitting at the table
in the corner with his back again when named wooden windows.
Speaker 5 (15:47):
Uh huh, Well one of the girls it works here?
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Well, I guess she needed some air, so she slipped
in behind Springer's chairs, started pushing on that shutter.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
So I wonder if she got that far.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
He was raking in the pot. But when he heard her.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
I never seen a man move so fast, mister. Why
that poor girl near fainted the way he.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
Jumped around at him.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
She is lucky she doesn't get shot.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
He had his six guns stuck right in her face.
He was within a hair letting go of that hammer,
and then when he saw who it was, Oh, he
started cussing her something fierce.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
He's getting worse.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
He's gonna kill somebody, sure acting that way.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Yeah, and it won't even be the one he come.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
Here to kill.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Or fancy him about to shoot a woman.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
I guess I can't wait any longer. Chester, what you're
gonna do. I'm gonna try to shame him first. That
doesn't make him talking. I'm gonna have to run him
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Speaker 5 (18:16):
You know, mister Dillan.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
I can't help thinking all your friends who told you
about Nate Springer was mighty poor judges.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
He's about the uncoolest gunman I ever saw.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
I agree about that.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
Justice. Uh who told you about him last?
Speaker 3 (18:29):
I don't remember? That was towur three years?
Speaker 5 (18:32):
Uh, maybe it was just a lot of rumor. You
know how talk gets started sometimes.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Uh, Wyatt Earth was the first man who told me
about him.
Speaker 8 (18:38):
No.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Look, uh, when we got inside here, if you go
to the bar and stay there, huh.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
Yes, you.
Speaker 10 (18:57):
There is, mister Dillon, I see.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Springer. Springer come over here. You're interrupting my game. Yeah,
(19:34):
game's over. Springer forgot? What does that mean? Get out
of Dutch? Well if you even paid him? Adventure, but
I give him his money back again, not gonna earn it.
Your saying thing, it's an hour out of Sunday. You'll
be out of town before duck. It's a long time
(19:55):
since a man's talked to me like that. More, how
long is have been since a dog scared you into
shooting him? And since you had drove on a woman
you lost your nerve? Springer, you aren't gonna kill anybody?
Shut up? Yeah, I'll shut up if you tell me
(20:15):
who hired you. No, no, oh, you're supposed to kill him.
I won't kill you, okay, I didn't think you wouldn't.
But you'll be out before dark, Springer, and don't ever
come back ever.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
I'll have hot Doc.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
Yeah, what he's standing out here for? And why aren't
you inside? We get feet on your desk the way
you usually are.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
I'm waiting for somebody, Duck. Oh oh, you're son un serious.
It's Night's Springer. He's got about twenty minutes to leave.
Tom was that soll wait?
Speaker 5 (21:21):
Finally had to come around here there.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
He's stelling the olive raganza over there. If he doesn't
come out before dark, I'm going in after him. M
oh h h here comes so many things. Huh uh
that's Chester. Oh yeah, so us is there gonna be
a shooting man? I doted Duck Springer is already back down.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
Well, you never know.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
I'm gonna get my things right.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
He just incas sure, Doc, and mister Dylan, I thought
i'd better come.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Tell you what.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
Chester Springer has been bellied up to that bar for
the last half hour.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
He has.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
He's been taking on one glass after another.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Uh, doc was right and never know what he's getting
ready to use his gun test him and I'm going
over and stopping.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
Hey, look you just come out.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Yeah hm, he dded his way. You'll stay here, Bishal.
(22:46):
I thought you didn't drink Springer. I never did before,
but he started til late. You haven't time to find
your man. You're leaving in town. I've found him. What
he you You a'n't gonna kill? Oh? Hide your springing.
(23:07):
Let's draw, Marshall. I feel like it. Now, let's draw.
I'll be a folio drunk, not that drunk. I can
kill you now. I'll be all right again. Now No, yes,
(23:38):
shouldn't have tried that Springer he h I had wi
he youman prison two years. I come out scared, lost
my nerve in that prison. Then why did you take
(24:02):
that job?
Speaker 5 (24:03):
I I had to.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Who Hiji spram? I did?
Speaker 7 (24:10):
Was?
Speaker 3 (24:12):
I hired me?
Speaker 4 (24:15):
I I had to face somebody like you that kept
my nerve back.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
I don't you understand?
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Yeah, yeah, I understand. It didn't work, no A and
I paid everything that I had for it.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
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