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Gunsmoke: Mark Dillon Goes To Gough Eye (EP1085) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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we have a very special program to bring you. The title of today's
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show is Gunsmoke. But this should not be confused really with the classic western
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that gain fame over radio with William Conrad and on television with James Rness.
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You can listen to the radio version at OTR Westerns dot com hosted by Andrew
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Rhines and encourage you to do that. What we're actually playing is a concept
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or a series that was called gun Smoke. It was produced four years before
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the legendary Western began its run. The year was nineteen forty nine, and
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the hard boiled Private Eye was in vogue. And really, as was the
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case with mass media then and now, whenever anything was popular, it is
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duplicated, or to be a little less nuance, perhaps borrowed from as the
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basis of something new. We see this today, for example, when American
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Idol was a ratings hit and slowly there developed a wide variety of shows a
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similar present premises, some for singers and some extending to fashion models and even
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pet groomers. And I could probably give more examples of this trendy if it
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was pain as much attention to it. The hard Boiled Private Eye was huge,
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and there were so many different iterations. In nineteen forty nine you had
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Jeff Reagan, Sam Spade, Pat Novak, The Fat Man, Candy Manson
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in a nearly endless list of hard boiled shows. Of course, standing out
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in the midst of these could be a challenge. William Paley, the chairman
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of CBS, asked for a hard boiled Western series, a Philip Marlow of
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the Old West, and it fell to two of radio's greatest crime fighters,
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mort Fine and David Freaking to deliver, and indeed they did. With the
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today's script, Mark Dlon goes to GOAGEAI, So let's go ahead and take
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a listen. Gun Smoke, Gun Smoke. The story of the violence that
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moved westward with Young America. The story of one man who moved with it.
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Mark Gillen, United States. Marshall lives on the western plains where the
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tongue of fight and announce of brains who herds the cows as he robs the
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train and goes by the name of cow. He was part of it.
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A singing saddle bum, a cowboy had drifted. They all drifted here to
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Dodge City one time or another. It's the end of the track and the
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start of the wilderness. A dumping grin the odds and ends, beginnings,
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leftovers. It's a place to stop and take the kind of pleasure you need.
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It's a place to pass through. Sometimes it's a place to die.
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My part of it was a sunshod shack rent paid by the United States government
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and a Marshall's badge furnish free. I was at the window, watching the
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heat plump itself with Kansas dust and rolling towards the town. When the door
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opened. Your name Dylan jo in the United States marshall. She was about
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fifty hat pope, bonnet, press, gingham shoes, beaded Indian mocas.
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I heard about jew and Gaugai and said there was a steady marshal here and
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living for six months running. They've been lying to you for months. They
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say you can break a man's heart at fifty yards. I say, you
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and your gun's already done that. What's on your mind? I want you
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to saddle up and get down to Gougai. Why my husband husband owns to
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white buffalo. You let music drink, I say, the rue let tweels
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crooked. Look, ma'am, half the rule let wheels in the West are
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probably crooked, maybe, But in Gougai they kill a man for running a
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crooked wheel. Well, look, ma'am, I'm a g Contarius. That's
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my name. Yeah, Well, missus contirious, you don't need a marshal,
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You need an honest husband that t wheels no more crooked than you are.
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Wise from all I hear about you, it was I wouldn't take none
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of the money's worn from it. Oh sure, don't saw me, Marshal.
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The money don't just mean money to me. It means books for Indian
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kids, and writing stuff, slates and all. Oh missionary huh me with
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a gambler and the pilanderer and a tofa for a husband. I teach Indian
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kids. That's all he cam to behave, and a little learning, that's
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all. That's good work, ma'am. These towns could use more people like
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you. Never mind that if I don't get help, those kids will go
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back to their wild ways and I'll have a dead husband. You're coming.
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You have to ride that mule some more. Riding back to Gowgi. I'll
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be long. Make it soon, Marshall. There'll be a convulsion down there
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if you don't. It was nice when the town of Goujai came out of
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the wilderness and beckoned to me like a painted skinny hag. If Dodge said
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he had a tougher sister, this was it. I rode up to the
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white buffalo and started to time a horse to a hitching post, whittle of
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the shape of a pawny girl. When suddenly the gun in my back told
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me I wasn't alone. You won't like it here, Marshall, pretty as
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it is, you won't like it. No, no, And they don't
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turn around, Marshall. I'm shy and I'm modest, and I embarrassed.
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Easy. Isn't that so Harold? You see, Harol thinks it so.
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Harold had his tongue clipped apaches. Maybe it was too long. Oh no,
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that's not a genteel thing to say to Harold Marshall. He takes offense.
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I'm new here. Back in Dodge City, the etiquette's a little more
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formal. Then go back to Dodge. We're very happy here in Goaugai.
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Like little birds. You could spoil it. I was invited special invitation.
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Well, the party's over. No. No. Something lashed out across my
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skull. A beat of glass splitted my brain from far far away, I
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heard some words. I wanted a chill him, but I couldn't. I
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didn't know who he was. I hadn't seen his face, but I knew
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I'd never forget that voice and that crazy giggle. But I opened my eyes.
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I was in gaugaised dirt. I picked myself up and waited till the
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town stopped its dizzy dance. And a third time round I spotted a horse
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truck. I stuck my head and get rid of the blood of my face.
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I finally pushed my bones to the swinging doors of the white Buffalo.
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It was the usual kind of place, like missus Canduer has said, lad
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music drinks. I got halfway across the floor towards the bard, and I
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saw it and heard her slender hair molded black, something profane and exquisite distilled
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into her features. She looked at me, and when she spoke, it
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was as if she hadn't quit seen m Chico. Oh, a marshall,
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a marshall with a new scar and a muddy badge. You buy a drink,
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Chico, here's a buck, Buy yourself an egg? Where can I
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find the owner? Over there by the polkas table, the goatee and pompadoor.
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Thanks, yeah, but he's saying you your name cantires see, oh
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the bachelor from Dutch City. Oh you have the look at the large headaches
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And yeah, someone else besides you and your wife was expectingly. My bad.
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It wasn't good, so I see, but I'm glad you have come.
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Say marshall, look all you see my place, the white buffalo soul
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proprietor, and order me rapa el ramon Jose contuarias magnificent establishment. No,
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m looks like your magnificent establishment takes plenty for weeks. Now I'm losing money
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on the rolette wheel. Still people say this is crooked. Uh huh.
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Someone is swindling me, saying you are this someone. I swear I will
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kill dad unless you find him for me first. That is where my wife
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comes to you, ask you to come to Gauga. She had a little
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difference. She's afraid that someone might kill you. First. Oh, that
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might happen, but not so long as he can swindle me. Why kill
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the childen with the bowl and eggs and you? Well, let's have a
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look at this wheel. Ears see, wellow me well bred? Who's your
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spinner, Greg Hagen, based croupier in the territory. Uh huh. I
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suppose you'll let me look around myself as you wish, you'll find that someone
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who is swingling my wheels. I'll give it a try, mister Contarias.
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Contarias left me alone. I watched the table pro while nothing happened. Wheel
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didn't look crooked, and if it was being swindled, it was done clever.
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Finally, I moved around near the croupier Hagen. Yeah, see you
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a minute, Oh Marshall, Yeah, Bill, take over for a minute.
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Okay, Marshall, what can I do for you? This joint legitimate?
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Why ask me? Quarius n Sole proprietor? And on a rumor?
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Has it the wheels rigged? Is it? Suppose it is? Well?
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Man, and I could win. You could win two maybe twenty five percent
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of what I win, and Contarius wouldn't know. Keep talking. We both
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got to live fifty percent. Now get this, Contuarious is my friend.
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Sorry, I made a mistake. No hard feelings, plenty heart feelings.
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I think I like it better. Back at the table, look around yourself,
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make up your own mind about the wheel. So I did. Mostly
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I hung around the roulette table as far as I could see. The wheel
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was given the house and the customers an even break. Just about the time
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I started to walk away, two new players came up to the crowded table,
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one pasty face, handsome in a weak chin sort of way. The
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other a big, silent hulk of a man with a drooping lower lip.
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I didn't seem to be together or even know each other. On the next
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spin, the ball fell into twenty nine and bounced out, rolled around thirteen,
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finally settled in double are. Just as it did, Pasty Face reached
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out and put one hundred dollar bill on double Oh, Greg Hagen, the
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croupier looked up and spoke soft but fast. Sorry, mister, you placed
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your bed after the ball settled. The house can't accept it. I had
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that one hundred dollars down before you started a spind Pay me a sorry,
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mister, The house says, you take back your money. Pay me brother,
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before I make brush out of this joint. You first. Yeah,
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this man placed the bed after the ball goes Ah. He's crazy. He
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had to bet down it plenty of times. So I sorry, say you're
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the croupier is always right, Take your bill from the table, and if
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you please get out. He did fast, too fast. As he went,
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I started to remember his voice. I'd heard it before. It was
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the voice behind my back when I first hit Tom, And all of a
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sudden it made sense, and I knew I'd found out one way. The
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Spaniard was getting rooked Pasty Face on the Huk for a team. When Pasty
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Face picked up the bill, there was a blue chip under it, hunt
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double oh, and a house paid off to the Hulk, all according to
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the oil, except for one thing. The whole cat and placed any vets
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with a good stunt. There had to be more to it than that,
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So I gave Cantarrius a nod and followed Pasty Face as he left. I
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got out of the casino just in time to see him disappear around the corner.
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I took it easy for light and easy, and a bullet nubbed the
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dust at my feet. I ducked into the shutters and whipped out my guns.
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A flash had come from a narrow passageway between two buildings. I'm in
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there, Sally Marshall, come on in and get me. Wait right there,
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kid, I'm waiting. He was in there, somewhere in that long
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slab of night that was too black to see through, somewhere in there.
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I put my back against the wall and slid into it. Strike a match.
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I want to see your face when it happens to you. Try me,
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no Marshall. You shoot first, you'll miss, you know that,
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Marshall, But I won't because your gun flesh will tell me where you are.
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Real clever. That was clever what you did back at the White Buffaloes.
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Now tell me about it. You and your friend that was Harold Eh,
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a giggler with a talent for pistol. Whip him. Tell me some
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more about it. You throw down one hundred dollars built with a blue chip
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underneath it. After the ball drops it gets yourself thrown out. Harold collects
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thirty five to one. Did Harold do that? Oh? Hell? Did
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you do that? And there he was framed in the entrance of the alley.
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I was caught between them, hasty face and the mute, cold herald.
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The big guns in Harold's hands turned over and over. His face held
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all the evil in the world. You're right, Harold, take up.
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He was shooting waste tile on the wall, and it was getting close.
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There was only one thing to do, and I couldn't mess. You got,
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Harold, Masha, But you made a mistake. Your gunflesh gave your
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way. When I opened my eyes, I was in a place I'd never
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been before, kind of cottonwood clearing. I eased the wound in my shoulder
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and come across a smoldering campfire. I saw the girl full of white.
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Buffalo of a morning sun lighted up the features of a man at her feet.
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It was Signor Raffael Ramon Jose Contwie, and the bullet hole in the
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middle of his forehead gave him an extra furnish. Now it was Signor Raffael
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Marshal and gun smoke safe around his corson. You were long, Chico without
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dreams? How do you know there were no dreams? Because I saw death
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to be a little piece of himself and then right away on a black pony.
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Yeah, I'm lucky. Who are you? How'd you get here?
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They called me Tomat. I brought you here the wagon over there on the
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borough. You are morely lucky, Chico. The bullet was for your heart,
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but it spent itself on your shoulder. It was not your time to
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die, but it was canturious time. Huh. Perhaps his grave has been
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empty too long? And you know him well? See I know him well.
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I'm to kill him. I did not kill him, Senior Contwaris was
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my protector. What did he protect you from himself? I like your much
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better when it is gentle Chico. And who did kill him? How would
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I know he was there like that? When we arrived? Why'd you bring
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me here? I like you, Chico. That's why I tell you.
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If you leave, go back to Dodge City. If you die, die
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in Dodge City. It is not good here for either one. Why didn't
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pasty face finish the job right after you were wounded? I came along.
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I persuaded him you were dead. He persuades easy. Huh, he persuades
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easy for Tomore. The shots were heard, people came, Senor. Drudo
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does not like attention, and his name is Drew? But why here?
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What did you bring me here for? I thought compliers could help you?
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After all, he was your friend. How do you know that? I
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saw you talking together in the white buffalo. But tonight, out of the
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darkness, death dons and quiet? Where is he? An tommy woman around
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the horse with you? Within an inch of your life? There? Senora,
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Hello Marshall, enjoying yourself. Get up, contarrious, get up.
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He's dead man. He shouldn't be lying there on the cold ground. I
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left him under the card. I will help you, Senora, if you
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so much as touching your care come alone. Give me that blanket, Marshal,
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you won't need it. Sure here, ma'am, you're pretty strong to
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lift him by yourself. I've done it before you hurt, Marshal. I'll
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be all right. You can come too, if you want to Marshall,
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I'll take you back to town. Yes, ma'am. I didn't think she'd
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make it, but she did. Somewhere on that long wagon ride back to
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town, she squeezed a tear onto the cheek, just one tier. But
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for missus Cantires there was a major emotion. The sun was doing its best
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to char the wood frame buildings when we hit Gaugist. All right, Marcia,
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get out of the wagon. Why bring me back to Gauchi just so
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I could pick my own gutter? That door, check door right over there,
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try it? Get up? Oh, come on, Dylan. All
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you have to do is lift your arm and knock on the door. Yeah.
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Ooh, Marshall, what's the offer this time? One hundred and fifty
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per hey get hurt? Come on in nights? Who sent you here?
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Missus Kantoy warries, Oh, I better cut away that chat. Why should
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send me here? Greg? Not need Marshall, not need at all?
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Why here? Greg? You would duck? Well, I still get some
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things. You haven't answered my question. I do things with my hand,
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Marshall, spin rolett wheels and extract bullets between spins. You would duck.
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Yeah, I'm a duck. Was had a shingle shiny one, and they
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said I couldn't have it anymore. They had a word for it, malpractice.
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They said, I did something. What are you looking at? I
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had rolett wheel on the table over there. It's a matter of Greg,
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don't you get enough practice of the white buffalo? You want this wound fixed
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or not? Yeah? Yeah, sure, said Greg. Yeah. I
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once heard about a croupier enough to spin a wheel and drop a ball into
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any slot he wanted. Hit it about once out of five times, not
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bed once in four is better? What about him? I could mention it
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to missus Contareous, round up you and Drew and go back to Dodge City.
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Rue, pasty faced guy, the guy who pulled a fast trick with
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a chip and one hundred dollars bill last night. I didn't know I refused
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the bet, didn't I. Yeah, that's what doesn't fit. I'd stop
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worrying about it. If I were you, Marshall, I could keep this
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wound open and let it bleed. And the other hand, you could take
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the bullet out. Yeah. I could do that, and I'd owe you
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something I wouldn't have to remember you, Missus Contarious. It's like this Marshall.
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First, I just wanted to tame the wheel. Ben it got out
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of hand, Tam, I have anything to do with it getting out of
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hand. What do you know about. I'm ready to take the bullet out
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of Marshal. You're going to keep what you know to yourself? Take the
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bullet out. Oh bite my lip? Yeah, do that, Marshall.
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It's a nice pose. I bit my lip. But all I got was
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pain in my mouth. I didn't need that. There was enough pain.
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There was enough pain that was painted in red, and it couldn't decide whether
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it was a flame or an icicle. When I woke up, Greg was
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talking to someone. It didn't take long to recognize the voice. You should
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have let him die, Chic. You will only cast trup. He's got
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nothing on me. Only trouble I got is you every man in town.
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You couldn't even leave the Marshal alone. Come, yeah, you're christ I
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found the Marshall in the cotton with clearing, like I told you it was
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there when I came. Yeah, keeping you a little rundever with Cantorius.
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I warned you tomorrow. I told you if I ever caught you with Contarrious
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again, I'd kill him, and I did. I'm sorry I heard you
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say that. Greg. Don't be sorry. Just leave town. I couldn't
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let you die, Marshall. I'm gonna take you Greg, but first I'm
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gonna give you some advice. Yeah, get rid of tomorrow. One of
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his stories is bad, either the one she told you or the one she
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told me. She told me she brought me to the Cottonwood clearing persuaded Drew
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that I was dead. If that's true, then it follows that Drew's cutting
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your time, the same as contware as was. You can't kill everybody.
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Tomorrow takes up with the Marshall talking through his wound. Tomorrow. He's delirious.
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He's lying, Greg. I found him in the clearing as I told
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you. Well, Greg, who do you believe me? Or tomorrow?
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Get out, Marshall, Get out and leave town. Can't Greg, not
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yet. Gotta take you. Also, there's a personal matter to attend.
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I could have let you die, Marshall. Remember, Yeah, I'll testify
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at your trial killing Greg. Kill now shut up? You know tomorrow you
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got too many friends. Everything he says is a lie. Maybe we'll stay
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one more night in Galgai, Just one more night. That's all. We'll
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need. No good Greg. I'll have to take you with your shooting nominous
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sling. I don't think so. I'll gamble on a Greg want odds.
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I got up and left Greg's shack. He didn't try to stop me one
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thing about Greg. He wasn't afraid of me or anybody else. I went
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back to the White Buffalo and waited. About an hour later, Missus Cantuarreus
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drove up. She was wearing black. She just come from her husband's funeral.
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Send me your good arm, Marshall. I do want to rip his
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dress, yes, ma'am. Hey was it a nice funeral? Man,
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Yes, Marshall. The kids behaved real nice. You've done a good job
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on him. Man. Thanks, Come in and have a drink, Marshall,
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you look. I followed her under the casino, then an hour began
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to fill up. I hid myself behind the stairs, but I had a
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clear view of the roulette table and waited. About eight Tamar walked through the
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door. Tamar in a dress of red, Tamar buckled with silver. She
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strolled over to the table and put some chips on the black as Gregg's fun
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There was no sign of recognition between them. Seven black, seven pays black,
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pays plac your bets. On the next spin, Tamarrow won again.
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Then she lost. She doubled her bets and one more times than she lost.
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After a while, she stopped playing colors and switched to single numbers thirty
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five to one. She kept on winning, but one out of four.
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Like Greg said, in an hour, there was roughly twenty thousand dollars stacked
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in front of her. Just before she bet number thirteen, I saw Greg
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hold his thumb under his palm and rubbed the side of his face. Thirteen
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black, thirteen pays black. Pasye lucky. You're very lucky tonight, Tama,
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tonight, Senora. But I'm always lucky at your tables. No,
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not as lucky as tonight. Sorry, man, this is a private table
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from now on. You can all move to the second. We're right over
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there. Private table, Senora, Yes, just you and this gentleman,
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a man abigail thumbdad over his shoulder was mister Drew in person. I put
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my good hand on my gun and prepared to finish my unfinished business, and
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I decided to wait for the piece to play itself out. I didn't know
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what missus Cantwarre has had in mind, but this show was too good to
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spoil, Tamar, Greg and Drew, I don't know. This is my
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last spin, that's all right, Tamar Our mister Drew. Once is just
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one spin, right, mister Drew. Eh, guys, one spin with
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the little lady. But I missed it, true, Yeah, but I
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do not feel like better. We will spin once more when no all of
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my chips on number one, number one, eh, and that's a good
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number number one. I'll take ten thousand in gold and number one three red,
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three pays, Red pays. Craig didn't have a chance. The knife
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he tried to draw his hammered back by the bullets that tore through his hand
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and across his chest. Suddenly, his face changed. He looked young and
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hurt and ashamed of the blood that he couldn't hold back. It'll make me
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happy if no one tries to follow us. Let's go tomorrow. He held
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his guns like there were dogs on a leash that could snap easy. He
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waited for tomorrow to scoop up the money, and they backed out of the
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casino. You'll let him get away, Marssel. I don't think so,
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ma'am. He knows I'll come and get him. He'll be waiting for me.
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He'll be wanting to finish me off if he can, and I'm gonna
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give him his chance. I figured there was only one place to look,
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and there they were, resting easy in the cottonwood clearing. I knew you'd
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have to come after me. Marshall. You're funnier than an actor. I
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saw one once in Dodge. You're funnier. Maybe a laugh too easy,
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drove like it killed too easy. Yeah, Marshall with a gun. I'm
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on a sling chase and a killer. Go away, Marshall, Go away
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while there's still time. I got nothing but time. I'll wait. You're
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wrong, my should You've got no time at all? Yeah, Chico,
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Chico this. I do not believe. It is impossible that someone could shoot
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faster than senior droop and when your left hand, Oh Chico, you are
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so very quick with your gun. I like that about him. Man,
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take it easy tomorrow, come on, let's go go not No, Marshall,
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there's time. Sit here, sit here next to them like this.
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M see you know what I think. Don't talk now. I think you
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had a great thing with Greg. You could put that ball in any number
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you bet, only that wasn't enough for you. But it doesn't matter now,
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Darling. You thought you could double your profits by thrown in Withdrew.
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Maybe you were going to double cross him too, I don't know. Don't
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worry about it, Chico. The money is yours too. It belongs to
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missus cantireus. That's who's gonna get it. What what are you talking about?
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Take your choice. Come back with me to the jail in Gaugai,
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or I'll turn you over to missus cantyas I don't think she could stand having
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you alive. You this is the first time I've ever held a gun on
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a woman. Surely, surely you are playing with me. You're an accessorate
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a murder. Tomorrow we go away together, You and I Mako New Orleans.
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Listen to me, Chico, You and I let's go tomorrow. Listen.
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Listen to me. There's plenty money yours and mine. Listen to She
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put her arms around my neck and her lips close to my ear. And
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for a long time, for a long long time, first in English and
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in Spanish, then in Cherokee, then in a language I couldn't recognize.
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She whispered at me, me every foul name in the book. She was
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talented. She didn't repeat herself once, Tamar, I didn't understand that a
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marshall had a job to do, and that the job got done. On
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my way back to Dodge, I came across a cottonwood clearing i'd never noticed
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before. I rode down into it. A small animal scurried off a log
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and lost itself in the shadows. And I was alone for a time after
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that. For a long time after that, I thought about tomorrow. He'd
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given her her guitar, but I knew she wouldn't be singing much longer.
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The rest of the way home, the country was dust got inside of my
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mouth. Mid stayed there Welcome back. Well. As interesting as this was
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as a concept, I think the problem in execution is that even though the
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program was set in the nineteenth century, you know, it's still had a
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very much a nineteen forties feel to it. But I think you can't just
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take a Private Eye script and write in a few Western setting pieces and make
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it work, which is basically what was done here. This was taken from
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an episode of Michael Shane called The Crooked Wheel. Not a bad performance though,
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but I understand why it wasn't picked up. They ended up doing a
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much more straightforward Western audition, only to find out that they could not get
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the actor who would start in the second pilot, and then eventually the name
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was taken over by Norm MacDonald and John Meston, who made it into gun
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Smoke in the legendary series that it became all right, well, that will
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actually do it for today. We will be back tomorrow with an episode of
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Nick Carter and next Wednesday, yours truly, Johnny Dollar resumes. I do
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want to once again encourage you. If you want to hear more of the
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actual gun Smoke, go to OTR Westerns dot com Andrew rys is up to
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the seasons from the nineteen fifty five year or so. Check that out,
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