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The Lone Ranger - "Abbys Murder Plan" (Old Time Radio, 1939) · The Lone Ranger | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: August 11th, 1939 brings us to The Lone Ranger, episode 1021.
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  Speaker 1: This early broadcast is titled Abby's Murder Plan. Settle in
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  Speaker 1: for another visit with the masked rider of the planes
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  Speaker 1: from radio's long-running western series. And now, our story begins.
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  Speaker 2: A fiery horse with a speed of light, a cloud
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  Speaker 2: of dust, and a hearty Heil Silver, the Lone Ranger.
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  Speaker 2: THE END.
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  Speaker 3: THE END.
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  Speaker 2: The End.
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  Speaker 4: THE END.
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  Speaker 5: With his faithful Indian companion, Tonto, the Masked Rider of
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  Speaker 5: the Plains fought crime and criminals throughout the western United States.
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  Speaker 6: But justice meant.
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  Speaker 2: More to him than the letter of the law.
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  Speaker 5: And if a man or woman deserved a second chance,
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  Speaker 5: the famous Masked Rider was always ready to help them.
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  Speaker 5: Return with us now to the thrilling days when the
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  Speaker 5: West was young. From out of the past come the
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  Speaker 5: thundering hoofbeats of the great horse Silver. The Lone Ranger
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  Speaker 5: rides again.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, Silver! We're heading for Crow Ridge! Travel's waiting
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  Speaker 2: in the trail ahead!
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  Speaker 7: Hi-yo, Silver!
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  Speaker 2: Hooray! Night had fallen.
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  Speaker 5: Two men were camped in a small wood some miles
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  Speaker 5: to the east of Crow Ridge.
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  Speaker 2: One was masked, the other an Indian.
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  Speaker 5: They rested upon their blankets in silence while their mounts
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  Speaker 5: grazed nearby. Finally, the masked man lifted his head. The
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  Speaker 5: Indian lifted his companion inquiringly.
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  Speaker 2: What manner? Listen, Tulloch. Don't you hear it? Oh, now
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  Speaker 2: me hear him. Someone off to the south there. I
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  Speaker 2: don't like it. They chose this spot for a camp
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  Speaker 2: because it was out of the line of travel. What
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  Speaker 2: would anyone be doing here at this time of night?
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  Speaker 2: We don't know, boys. It sounds like trouble. One fellow
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  Speaker 2: heaps scared. I think they've stopped. I don't hear horses.
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  Speaker 7: Come on.
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  Speaker 6: What do we do?
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  Speaker 2: We'll see what this is about. Get horse? Leave the horses.
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  Speaker 2: They aren't far off. There are trees and brush that
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  Speaker 2: muffles the sound. That's right.
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  Speaker 6: This way.
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  Speaker 2: We'll walk quietly. We won't announce ourselves until we know
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  Speaker 2: what's up. To the left. That's that brush.
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  Speaker 6: No, you can't do that to me.
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  Speaker 2: Don't shoot me. They're not far now. Plenty of moonlight.
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  Speaker 2: We should be able to see them clearly. This way more.
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  Speaker 6: No, please don't.
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  Speaker 2: No, don't shoot me. There come a team. Yes, a
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  Speaker 2: little closer.
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  Speaker 6: You've got to listen.
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  Speaker 2: You're making a bad mistake. I ain't the fellow you want.
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  Speaker 6: I can't be.
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  Speaker 2: Why, I've never seen you before.
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  Speaker 5: This is the first time I was ever in this
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  Speaker 5: part of the country.
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  Speaker 2: What could you have against somebody you don't even know?
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  Speaker 2: What's your blasted warning? But look, you took my shooting iron.
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  Speaker 6: You got me covered.
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't have a chance to get away, even if
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  Speaker 2: I did make a break for it. So the least
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  Speaker 2: you can do before you finish me off is to
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  Speaker 2: tell me what for. Likely you wouldn't believe me if
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  Speaker 2: I told you. What? You know why you gotta die, mister?
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  Speaker 2: That's what I'm asking you. Because you got a red beard.
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  Speaker 6: What?
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  Speaker 2: I told you you wouldn't believe it. What in places
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  Speaker 2: has my beard got to do with it? The fellow
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  Speaker 2: that hired me described you. Said you had a red beard,
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  Speaker 2: so they couldn't mistake you.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's you.
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  Speaker 2: So having a red beard is what's getting you killed.
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  Speaker 2: Then somebody hired you.
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  Speaker 6: Sure.
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  Speaker 2: Don't think I'd do this for nothing, do you?
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  Speaker 6: Who is it?
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  Speaker 2: Forget it. Don't waste too much time on your fool
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  Speaker 2: questions already.
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  Speaker 6: Just tell me.
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  Speaker 2: Where you're going, answers won't be no help no how.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 4: Then we, uh.
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  Speaker 6: Hold it.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, what the... Man, you... Take it.
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  Speaker 4: Oh!
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  Speaker 2: You take his gun.
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  Speaker 6: You just bet I will, stranger. But who are you?
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  Speaker 6: Where'd you and the engine come from?
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  Speaker 2: Save it.
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  Speaker 6: Tanner.
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  Speaker 2: Huh? Get this fellow back to camp. We'll ask him
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  Speaker 2: some questions of our own. Let me take him.
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  Speaker 6: You black.
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  Speaker 2: Quiet. Come along, stranger. We'll find out just why you
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  Speaker 2: were marked for murder.
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  Speaker 5: With the prisoner marching suddenly in front of them, they
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  Speaker 5: returned to camp. Then the Lone Ranger grasped the gunman
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  Speaker 5: by the shoulders and turned him so that his back
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  Speaker 5: was against a large tree.
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  Speaker 2: Stand right there. You're chomping me. You're lucky you don't
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  Speaker 2: get worse. Tie him up, Tudor. Let me get rope.
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  Speaker 2: You can't hold me. You ain't got no right to
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  Speaker 2: tie me up. No? You better not if you're savvy
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  Speaker 2: what's good for you. A couple minutes back, you stated
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  Speaker 2: you were going to kill this man.
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  Speaker 6: I don't have.
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  Speaker 2: He asked you a number of questions, but you refused
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  Speaker 2: to answer. And I ain't talking for you neither. We'll
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  Speaker 2: see about that. Got the rope, Kimo Sabe?
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  Speaker 8: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 6: Here, rope.
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  Speaker 2: Make sure he can't escape. He won't get away with it.
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  Speaker 2: Just as sure as I'm standing here, you fellas are
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  Speaker 2: going to be sorry for this. I'll get to you
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  Speaker 2: in a moment. You stranger, what's your name? Me?
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  Speaker 6: Me?
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  Speaker 2: My handle's Matt Rourke. You said this was your first
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  Speaker 2: visit to this section.
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  Speaker 6: That's so.
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  Speaker 8: I've been ranging around the West Forks country over Wyoming way.
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  Speaker 8: Just come here thinking maybe I'd sell out back home
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  Speaker 8: and settle in this part of the country.
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  Speaker 2: I see. You've got no idea why anyone would want
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  Speaker 2: to do away with you?
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  Speaker 6: I'm a clean beat.
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  Speaker 2: How can a fellow make enemies in a place he's
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  Speaker 2: never been? Someone had a motive. This fellow's admitted he'd
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  Speaker 2: been hired.
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  Speaker 8: Well, I ain't denying it. All I can say is
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  Speaker 8: that I I don't know what the motive could be.
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  Speaker 2: There's one possibility. Huh?
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  Speaker 6: What's that?
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  Speaker 2: You know anyone here? What I mean is this. Someone
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  Speaker 2: you knew. Someone who had been an enemy of yours
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  Speaker 2: in Wyoming might now be living near Crow Ridge. He
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  Speaker 2: might have seen you and hired this fellow to get
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  Speaker 2: rid of you.
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  Speaker 6: Shucks.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know anyone here. I.
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  Speaker 6: I'll take that back.
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  Speaker 8: There is somebody I know. But if you can figure
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  Speaker 8: why she'd want me killed, then you're a heap smarter
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  Speaker 8: than I am.
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  Speaker 2: Who is it?
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  Speaker 8: Well, shucks, a girl I used to know when she
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  Speaker 8: was living with her folks near my pa's old place.
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  Speaker 8: We was just about of an age. She disappeared when
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  Speaker 8: her pa and ma died, and I never did know
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  Speaker 8: what had become of.
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  Speaker 6: Her till today.
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  Speaker 2: You still haven't told me her name. Abby Sanders.
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  Speaker 8: Run into her in a store in town. Seemed a
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  Speaker 8: fluster or something. Shucks, who wouldn't be flustered to see
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  Speaker 8: somebody they'd known 30 years before? Well, you'd have an
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  Speaker 8: awful time making poor.
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  Speaker 6: Abby into a killer.
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  Speaker 2: Abby Sanders. Talk with her long? Just for a second
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  Speaker 2: or two. Did she tell you what had happened to
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  Speaker 2: her recently?
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  Speaker 6: Happened to her?
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  Speaker 2: It was discovered she was the heir to a fortune
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  Speaker 2: amounting to about $ 100, 000. The estate was left by an
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  Speaker 2: old lady named Sarah Randolph. Her lawyer searched for more
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  Speaker 2: than a year to find a relative who could claim
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  Speaker 2: the estate. And just by accident, it was found that
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  Speaker 2: Abby was a distant relation. She'll soon be a wealthy woman.
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  Speaker 7: Well, doggone good for Abby. You say it was just
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  Speaker 7: an accident she come into it?
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  Speaker 2: According to the story that's being told, it seems that
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  Speaker 2: she's been housekeeper to Judge Grevy and his wife for
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  Speaker 2: the last 12 years. Several days ago, the judge knocked
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  Speaker 2: Abby's sewing basket to the floor. Replacing the contents, he
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  Speaker 2: discovered a picture and some old letters that established the relationship.
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  Speaker 2: Abby hadn't known of it herself.
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  Speaker 6: Just like out of a storybook.
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  Speaker 2: She hasn't had an easy time of it, from what
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  Speaker 2: I've heard. This will make things much easier for her.
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  Speaker 8: Say, that's the best news I've heard for a month
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  Speaker 8: of Sundays. My gosh, I'm going to look her up
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  Speaker 8: again and tell her just how glad I am to
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  Speaker 8: hear it.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't look as though she'd have a motive for
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  Speaker 2: wanting you out of the way. Well, we'll see what
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  Speaker 2: this fellow has to say. You, what's your name? Try
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  Speaker 2: and find out. That's the way you're going to act, huh? Well,
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  Speaker 2: we can... You look here. What is it, Hunter? It's cash.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see that. Where'd you get it? It belonged to him.
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  Speaker 2: Quite a lot of money here. Several hundred dollars. So
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  Speaker 2: this is yours, huh? Doggone right it is. You take
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  Speaker 2: that and you're stealing it. I don't want it. I wonder, though.
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  Speaker 4: Well?
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  Speaker 2: I wonder this isn't what you were paid by whoever
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  Speaker 2: hired you. What if it is? You've been paid, so
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  Speaker 2: you have nothing to lose. by telling us who gave
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  Speaker 2: you this. You'd better talk. Go to blazes. I'm giving
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  Speaker 2: you good advice. Matt here owes you something for your
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  Speaker 2: attempted murder. If he doesn't care to give you what
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  Speaker 2: you've got coming, Tonto might enjoy working on you. What
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  Speaker 2: do you mean? Show him your knife, Tonto. Here. Your knife.
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  Speaker 2: Have you heard that Indians have their own ways of
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  Speaker 2: making prisoners talk? You can do as you wish. I'd
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  Speaker 2: better tell you, however, that if you won't talk, then
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  Speaker 2: Matt and I will take a little walk while Tonto... Hey,
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  Speaker 2: you can't do that. Why not? What mercy would you
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  Speaker 2: have had on Matt? I was just joking, just throwing
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  Speaker 2: a scare into him. I'd never have gone through with it.
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  Speaker 2: You say that now. Honest, if I told who hired me,
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  Speaker 2: he'd get me, no matter what. You could clear out
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  Speaker 2: of the district. No, no. Well, you've chosen. Come along, Matt.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Tonto, you can do as you wish. Just see that
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  Speaker 2: he talks. I won't ask you how you persuaded him
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  Speaker 2: to talk.
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  Speaker 6: Him.
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  Speaker 2: Him talk.
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  Speaker 6: Now, wait.
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  Speaker 2: Don't leave me here alone with no murdering Redskin. Well?
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you what you want to know. Very well.
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  Speaker 2: Who hired you?
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  Speaker 6: Smiley. Luke Smiley.
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  Speaker 2: The lawyer?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You know him, Matt?
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  Speaker 7: Never heard of him before.
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  Speaker 2: There's something strange about this. Here, Silver.
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  Speaker 8: Well, I should think there was something strange. I'd call
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  Speaker 8: it that when a fellow I don't even know wants
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  Speaker 8: to get rid of me.
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  Speaker 2: That isn't what I meant. Tell the saddle silver for me.
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  Speaker 2: I'm riding to town. Wait.
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  Speaker 6: What do you mean that wasn't what you meant?
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  Speaker 2: Luke Smiley's a lawyer.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: And it happens that he's a lawyer representing Abby Sanders
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  Speaker 2: in her claim to the Randolph estate. Matt, Abby may
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  Speaker 2: be a friend of yours. She may be the most
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  Speaker 2: kind-hearted woman in this district. Nevertheless, there's some connection between
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  Speaker 2: her and the attempt to take your life.
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  Speaker 5: It was later that same night that Judge Grevy and
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  Speaker 5: his wife Ida, after spending the evening with Luke Smiley,
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  Speaker 5: rose to depart.
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  Speaker 2: Abby Sanders, who had accompanied them, hung back.
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  Speaker 4: You ain't coming with us, Abby? Well, I got some
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  Speaker 4: business to talk over with Mr. Smiley, ma'am. Well, don't
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  Speaker 4: be too long.
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  Speaker 6: Good night, Luke. Night, Judge. We'll leave the.
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  Speaker 7: Door unlocked for you, Abby.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you.
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  Speaker 6: Now then, what's the matter with you?
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  Speaker 4: Mr. Smiley, I've seen an old friend of mine this afternoon.
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  Speaker 6: I know it. You told me.
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  Speaker 3: He said he looked me up this evening and wanted
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  Speaker 3: to talk over old times.
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  Speaker 6: Very nice.
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  Speaker 4: But he never comes. He never showed up.
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 4: Don't talk to me like that, Mr. Smiley. You always
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  Speaker 4: act as though you was laughing at me.
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  Speaker 6: I am.
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  Speaker 4: But I.
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  Speaker 6: Now you listen to me, Abby. This man, what's his name? Matt.
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  Speaker 4: Matt Rourke.
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  Speaker 10: Well, you say he promised to pay a call this
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  Speaker 10: evening but didn't. Now you're excited about it.
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  Speaker 4: I know he meant to come.
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  Speaker 10: Maybe he did at the time. But how do you
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  Speaker 10: know what happened? Perhaps he forgot. Maybe he had business
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  Speaker 10: to attend to. Maybe he left town and won't be
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  Speaker 10: back again.
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  Speaker 6: For your sake, I hope that's just what he did.
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  Speaker 4: Matt. For my sake.
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  Speaker 6: He could spoil everything for you, couldn't he?
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  Speaker 4: Yes. Yes, I suppose so.
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  Speaker 6: And you wouldn't want that to happen, would you?
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  Speaker 4: Why, I don't know anymore. I just don't know.
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  Speaker 6: Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Smiley, will you swear to me you didn't do nothing
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  Speaker 3: to Matt? Will you tell me it's the honest truth
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  Speaker 3: you never had him harmed somehow?
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  Speaker 6: You won't ever put a thought like that in your head. Well, I.
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  Speaker 3: It's the only thing I seem able to think of
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  Speaker 3: when he never come like he said he would.
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  Speaker 6: You're being silly.
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  Speaker 10: Forget to worry about others. You've got enough worries of
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  Speaker 10: your own. Don't you realize that if anything goes wrong,
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  Speaker 10: you and I are.
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  Speaker 6: Out $ 100, 000? That's money that isn't found every day in
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  Speaker 6: the week.
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  Speaker 4: I wish that.
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  Speaker 6: Wish what?
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  Speaker 4: You'll just get mad if I tell you.
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  Speaker 6: Out with it.
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  Speaker 4: All right, I will tell you.
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  Speaker 6: I wish you would.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to go through with it, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Smiley. What?
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  Speaker 3: I thought having all that cash would be so fine
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  Speaker 3: and it'd make up for not coming by it on us.
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  Speaker 4: But I've had to lie to folks that have been
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  Speaker 4: good to me. I've got so I can't look nobody
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  Speaker 4: in the eye anymore.
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  Speaker 6: Who are you?
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  Speaker 4: Please, Mr. Smiley, please. I just can't go on with it.
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  Speaker 4: I just can't.
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  Speaker 6: No?
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  Speaker 4: Can't you see how I feel?
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  Speaker 6: So. To save your squeamish feelings, you expect me to
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  Speaker 6: give up $ 100, 000. Well, I.
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  Speaker 10: Will you listen to me? I'm getting that money. You
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  Speaker 10: can't stop me. Nobody can stop me. And if you
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  Speaker 10: or anybody else gets in my way, he'll wish he hadn't.
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  Speaker 2: I'll kill my horse!
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  Speaker 5: The curtain falls on the first act of our thrilling
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  Speaker 5: Lone Ranger drama. Before the next exciting scenes, please permit
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  Speaker 5: us to pause for just a few moments.
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  Speaker 2: THE END.
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  Speaker 7: THE END.
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  Speaker 5: Now to continue our story. The Lone Ranger, sent to
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  Speaker 5: Luke Smiley's home by the gunman's confession, raced back to
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  Speaker 5: camp with the information he had gained.
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  Speaker 2: Whoa, whoa, Silver.
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  Speaker 6: What'd you do, stranger? Where have you been?
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  Speaker 2: I acted on what this fellow told us, and I
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  Speaker 2: believe I partially learned why Smiley wanted your death. By
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  Speaker 2: the way, have you found out what this killer calls
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  Speaker 2: himself yet? Uh-huh. Him named Pecos. Pecos, huh?
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  Speaker 6: Look here, mister.
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  Speaker 2: I've told you what I could. You gonna let me go?
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  Speaker 2: Not yet. Maybe I was gonna kill this fella. But
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  Speaker 2: I didn't, did I? You can't make me pay for
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  Speaker 2: something I didn't do. Perhaps we could. Perhaps not. That
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  Speaker 2: isn't the point. But I don't... I think you're going
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  Speaker 2: to be useful to us. If you are and Matt
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  Speaker 2: agrees to it, you'll have a chance at freedom. If
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  Speaker 2: you won't follow orders, you'll be turned over to the law.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe you could beat a trial. You know best about that.
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  Speaker 2: I've got an idea, though, that you have a reputation
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  Speaker 2: that wouldn't help you in a court of law. What
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  Speaker 2: do I have to do? I'll tell you that later.
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  Speaker 6: Just a second. Yes?
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  Speaker 8: You said you found a reason why this here lawyer
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  Speaker 8: wanted me out of the way.
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  Speaker 6: I'll believe what you tell me, stranger.
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  Speaker 8: I'd sure hate to think that Abby was mixed up
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  Speaker 8: in it.
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  Speaker 2: She is, however.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: But not in the way you fear, Matt.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 8: You mean she didn't have nothing to do with hiring
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  Speaker 8: this pool cat here?
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  Speaker 2: She didn't.
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  Speaker 6: What was it you found out?
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: That there's a fraud of some kind, and that somehow
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: Abby has no right to the fortune she's claiming. You
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: don't say. I believe from what I heard that Abby
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: regrets her part in the affair, and that she's obeying
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: Luke Smiley from fear. You rotten skunk. Oh, I'd like
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: to get my hands on that hombre in place.
• 17:54
  Speaker 9: Later, maybe.
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: Not now.
• 17:55
  Speaker 6: Huh?
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: For the present, you'll play dead.
• 17:58
  Speaker 7: Dead?
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: As long as Smiley thinks you dead, I believe we
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: can break up his game. Alive, well, we probably could anyhow.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: But not without involving Abby. She's not guiltless, Matt. Nevertheless,
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: a woman who has lived a life as hard as
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: hers has some excuse for being tempted. And if possible,
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: we're going to bring Smiley to justice while keeping Abby
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: in the clear. Stranger, I like your style.
• 18:22
  Speaker 8: That's just what I'd have wanted done.
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: Tonto, you'll have to make a disguise for me.
• 18:26
  Speaker 6: Uh-huh.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: And what you do? Matt will stay here. Pecos and
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: I will go to town. You came with us, Abby.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: You'll have your part to play also. Me do it. Good.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: You Pecos, you're going to take my orders? They're going
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: to get me in bad. Not if you do exactly
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: as I say. But what about afterwards? What happens to
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: me then? Matt has something to say about that. Matt,
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: if Pecos helps us bring Smiley to justice, will you
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: agree to let Pecos go?
• 18:51
  Speaker 8: He's a skunk and a hired killer. But the man
• 18:54
  Speaker 8: that's hired ain't as bad as the man that hired him.
• 18:58
  Speaker 8: He helps me get Smiley in for all of me
• 19:00
  Speaker 8: he can clear out.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: Agreed, Pecos? Just tell me what to do.
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: The following morning, Luke Smiley saw a horseman draw his
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: mount to a stop in front of his office. The
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: lawyer pushed back his chair, rose to his feet, and...
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: That blasted fool!
• 19:27
  Speaker 6: Smiley!
• 19:28
  Speaker 7: You confounded idiot! Listen!
• 19:29
  Speaker 6: What are you doing here? I told you to clear out.
• 19:32
  Speaker 10: You said if I paid you in advance, you'd get
• 19:33
  Speaker 10: out of this part of the country and stay out.
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: But I tell you... You did as I told you? Yeah,
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: but listen.
• 19:38
  Speaker 7: Then in heaven's name.
• 19:39
  Speaker 6: Blasted Mr.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: Smiley, give me a chance to talk.
• 19:42
  Speaker 6: I done what you told me.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: I got that red-bearded fella, but things went wrong.
• 19:46
  Speaker 6: He got away from you? No. You drilled him?
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I drilled him, but the.
• 19:49
  Speaker 6: That's all you had to do. That's all they give
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: you orders to do.
• 19:52
  Speaker 7: Now get out of here before I.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: Mr. Smiley, I was seen.
• 19:55
  Speaker 6: What?
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: Two fellas seen me do the job.
• 19:57
  Speaker 7: Why, you blunder and half-like... I couldn't help it.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: I took him to the woods like you said to.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: How was I to know them fellas was camped there?
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: I couldn't guess it, could I?
• 20:06
  Speaker 6: Couldn't you have made sure first?
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: Look close with them woods in the dark and give
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: that hombre a chance to break away?
• 20:11
  Speaker 6: Who saw you? Where are they now? They were strangers.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: I don't know where they are.
• 20:15
  Speaker 6: Then how do you know you were seen? Well, they
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: chased me.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: That's why I just not got here. Took me most
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: of the night just to give him the slip.
• 20:22
  Speaker 10: And if you didn't, then you brought those men right
• 20:24
  Speaker 10: to me.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: Right. What? Right where you are. Don't kill me, mister.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: It was this fellow hired me. I was just obeying orders.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: Don't shoot.
• 20:32
  Speaker 6: Don't shoot. You dirty double-crosser.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: Hold it. Reach for that gun and I'll let you
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: have it.
• 20:36
  Speaker 6: You've got nothing on me.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: Plenty on this fellow here. All right, you. We're going
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: to the sheriff's office. No, no, wait. I ain't going
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: to take the whole blame. He hired me. Honesty did. Here, look.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: Look at this cash. He'd give it to me for
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: the killing. Anybody in town will tell you I never
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: had this much cash on me before last night. Don't
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: that prove I ain't lying, don't it?
• 20:57
  Speaker 6: You jerk.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: Stand back. I heard you, Luke Smiley.
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: I heard all you said. You had Matt killed. I
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: knew last night something had happened to him. I could
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: just feel it.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: Close the door, Tata.
• 21:07
  Speaker 6: Wait, listen.
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: I done all the waiting and listening.
• 21:09
  Speaker 6: I'm gonna.
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: I've had all I'm gonna have to do with your
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: crooked work. I should never have listened to you in
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: the first place. I was wrong and I know I was.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: Don't think I could have gone through with it anyhow,
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: but now that the Indian brought me here so I
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: can learn how you killed Matt, I'm through.
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: Do you hear me?
• 21:24
  Speaker 6: I'm through.
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: And I'll tell the law everything I know.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: I don't think that's going to be necessary, Emmy. I
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: think after I've had a little talk with Smiley here,
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: he's going to protect you and like it.
• 21:35
  Speaker 7: The End.
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: Sending Abby, Tonto, and Pecos away, the Lone Ranger served
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: Luke Smiley with an ultimatum.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: You're in a bad spot, Luke. Right now, you face
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: not only a charge of fraud, but a charge of
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: murder as well.
• 22:03
  Speaker 6: You can't prove either one.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: Don't try to bluff it out, Smiley. It doesn't pay
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: to bluff when you know your bluff will be called.
• 22:08
  Speaker 6: I tell you.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: As far as the fraud is concerned, all Abby has
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: to do is to go to the law with her story.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: There'll be an investigation and the truth will come out
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: soon enough.
• 22:16
  Speaker 6: If she does that, she'll be in just as bad
• 22:19
  Speaker 6: as I am. She won't dare. I don't care what
• 22:22
  Speaker 6: she threatens. She won't.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: She will. And for a very good reason.
• 22:27
  Speaker 6: What reason?
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: Because you and I are going to make a bargain.
• 22:31
  Speaker 6: Bargain? What kind of a bargain?
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: Your life against Abby's freedom.
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: I don't get it.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: We both know that Pecos will tell what happened last
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: night if he's arrested. It'll be easy enough for the
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: sheriff to find the place where Pecos says he shot Matt.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: That's all the evidence the law will require. You and
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: Pecos will hang.
• 22:50
  Speaker 10: If you're going to turn me over to the law
• 22:52
  Speaker 10: for that killing, do it now and get it over with.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: Whether I turn you in or not depends entirely on you.
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: On me?
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: Go to the law. Judge Grevy, if you wish. Tell
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: the law that your scheme to get the Randolph estate
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: was yours entirely. That you threatened Abby's life if she
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: didn't agree to play her part. And perhaps nothing will
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: be said about the murder.
• 23:12
  Speaker 6: I'm to make it look as though Abby was forced
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: into the scheme?
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 23:16
  Speaker 10: And if I do, you won't tell about my hiring
• 23:19
  Speaker 10: Pecos to kill Matt Rock?
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: I won't.
• 23:22
  Speaker 10: But what if the law finds Matt's body? What if
• 23:26
  Speaker 10: they suspicion Pecos and make him talk and he implicates me?
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: I give you my word that won't happen.
• 23:34
  Speaker 6: How do I know what your word is worth?
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: You don't. But I can tell you this.
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: Huh?
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: If you refuse, you know you'll be held for murder.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: Whether you accept my proposition or not, your only chance
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: is to do what I say. A sentence for fraud
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: will get you a prison term. The other will see
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: you hung.
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: If, uh, if I could believe you.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: You can. I, uh, I, uh... Well?
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: You've got me. I've got to take your terms.
• 24:06
  Speaker 9: And I'll keep my word as long as you keep yours.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: An hour later, Mrs.
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: Greedy, returning home from a visit with friends, found her
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: puzzled husband trying to comfort Abby.
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: Heavenly days. What's this about? Maybe whatever's happened. Please, please
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: don't make.
• 24:38
  Speaker 7: Me tell you.
• 24:38
  Speaker 6: Peter, what is it?
• 24:39
  Speaker 7: Please don't ask me. I can't get a word out
• 24:42
  Speaker 7: of her.
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: Here now, Abby.
• 24:44
  Speaker 7: Why don't you tell us what's troubling you? Maybe we
• 24:47
  Speaker 7: could help.
• 24:48
  Speaker 9: No, no.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: Get in there.
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: What the?
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: All right, Smiley. Here, Judge Gravy. You're talking to him.
• 24:54
  Speaker 6: Hey, oh, wait.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Or shall I do the talking?
• 24:56
  Speaker 10: I'll tell.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: Mr.
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: Smiley, what is it?
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: He'll explain.
• 24:59
  Speaker 7: Now look here, stranger.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: Judge, I'd advise you to wait until you've heard what
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: Smiley has to say.
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: Talk. I.
• 25:05
  Speaker 10: I schemed it, Judge. I schemed the whole thing. Abby
• 25:08
  Speaker 10: wasn't to blame at all.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: Schemed? Schemed?
• 25:12
  Speaker 7: What in blazes are you talking about? I.
• 25:15
  Speaker 10: I fixed it to look as though Abby was related
• 25:17
  Speaker 10: to Sarah Randolph. As though she inherited the money Mrs.
• 25:20
  Speaker 10: Randolph left.
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: For God's sakes, whatever are you talking about?
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: I think I'd better explain it after all. Judge, you
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: were tricked. And tricked cleverly. Tricked? I've heard of the
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: evidence that convinced you Abby was entitled to the Randolph estate.
• 25:33
  Speaker 11: Why, of course she's entitled to it. I found that
• 25:36
  Speaker 11: evidence myself. What kind of nonsense is this? I'm not
• 25:41
  Speaker 11: sure what this is all about, but there's one thing
• 25:43
  Speaker 11: I can say for certain.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: Yes?
• 25:45
  Speaker 7: Any talk of trickery on Abby's part is.
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: is just poppycock.
• 25:50
  Speaker 11: Why, she didn't know herself that she was entitled to
• 25:52
  Speaker 11: the estate until I told her. If it had been
• 25:54
  Speaker 11: a fraud, she would have tried to convince me, not me, her.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: That's just where Smiley was clever.
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: Huh?
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: As I heard the story, you accidentally spilled Abby's sewing basket.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: When replacing her things, found several open letters. That's correct.
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: You saw enough at first glance to make it important
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: to look further. When you did, it appeared that Abby's
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: mother had been distantly related to Sarah Randolph. So distantly,
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: in fact... That Abby had never known of the relationship.
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: Yes, but what.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: Now wait. What happened was this. Smiley forged those letters.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: He knew that if Abby herself came forward with a claim,
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: it would be investigated. The truth probably discovered. So those
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: letters were placed where, sooner or later, either you or
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: your wife would find them. It didn't matter when. For
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: a prize of $ 100, 000... Smiley could afford to be patient.
• 26:42
  Speaker 7: You mean finding them myself convinced me they were authentic?
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: Well, didn't it?
• 26:47
  Speaker 6: Why, that's just what it did. Abby, you've deceived us.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: One moment. Smiley has already confessed that he forced her
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: to fall in with his scheme.
• 26:57
  Speaker 6: Is that true? It's true, Judge. I made her do it.
• 27:01
  Speaker 6: Threatened her. Threatened her life.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: Don't you think, in view of what Smiley has just confessed,
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: that you can afford to forget the part Abby played
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: in this, Judge?
• 27:08
  Speaker 6: Well, I.
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: Edric, if you hurt poor Abby after what this scheming
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: poke had just admitted, I'll never speak to you again
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: as long as I live.
• 27:16
  Speaker 6: Now, I... You know me better than that.
• 27:21
  Speaker 7: I reckon I can figure out a way to see
• 27:23
  Speaker 7: she don't come to harm.
• 27:24
  Speaker 10: Good.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: Did you hear that, Abby? Did you hear what the
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: judge promised?
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: Well, it's more than I deserve.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: Perhaps, but it's certain that you were never as much
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: to blame as Smiley. And I'd like to ask you
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: just one question.
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: Yes?
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: Did Matt Rourke have exposed you? Did he know enough
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: about you so that you couldn't have carried out the deception?
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: He did. Poor Matt.
• 27:43
  Speaker 7: Matt? Matt Rourke?
• 27:44
  Speaker 6: Who's he? You promised you wouldn't tell.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: I promised you wouldn't hang for murder, and you won't.
• 27:48
  Speaker 6: Murder?
• 27:48
  Speaker 7: What are you talking about?
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: You've heard enough to jail him, Judge. You have all
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: the evidence you need.
• 27:52
  Speaker 7: Enough to jail him and keep him there for the
• 27:54
  Speaker 7: most of his life, stranger.
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: Good. Smiley, you may be interested to meet a man
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: who's been anxious to meet you.
• 28:00
  Speaker 6: Who's that?
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: Look.
• 28:01
  Speaker 6: Matt. Matt Rock.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: Alive and kicking.
• 28:04
  Speaker 6: You tricked me, blaster. You made me confess what I
• 28:07
  Speaker 6: didn't have to.
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: You'll head for.
• 28:09
  Speaker 6: The sheriff's office.
• 28:10
  Speaker 8: And if you've got notions of revenging yourself on a
• 28:13
  Speaker 8: masked man, forget him.
• 28:14
  Speaker 7: In a case like that, it'd please me to deal
• 28:16
  Speaker 7: with you myself. I'll deal with you.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: THE END THE END THE END THE END.
• 30:00
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• 30:03
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• 30:12
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