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Gunsmoke - "Marshal Proudfoot" (Old Time Radio, 1958) · Gunsmoke | Old Time Radio

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Speaker 1: Chester Proudfoot's father comes to Dodge City convinced that his
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Speaker 1: son holds a far grander place in local law enforcement
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Speaker 1: than he actually does. That family visit sets the course
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Speaker 1: for Gunsmoke, Marshall Proudfoot, episode 328, first heard on CBS
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Speaker 1: July 20th, 1958. William Conrad stars as Marshall Matt Dillon,
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Speaker 1: with Parley Bear as Chester. Georgia Ellis is Kitty Russell,
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Speaker 1: and Howard McNeer, Doc Adams. Written by Tom Hanley and
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Speaker 1: produced and directed by Norman MacDonald, the story finds Dylan
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Speaker 1: and Chester's friends weighing how to handle the visitor's impression,
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Speaker 1: while Chester faces a test of nerve and responsibility. Here
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Speaker 1: is the original broadcast.
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Speaker 2: Around Dodge City and in the territory on west, there's
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Speaker 2: just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers,
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Speaker 2: and that's with a U.S. Marshal and the smell of
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Speaker 2: gun smoke.
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Speaker 2: Gunsmoke, starring William Conrad. The story of the violence that
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Speaker 2: moved west with young America. And the story of a
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Speaker 2: man who moved with it.
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Speaker 4: I'm that man. Matt Dillon, United States Marshal.
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Speaker 5: The first man they look for and the last they
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Speaker 5: want to meet.
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Speaker 4: It's a chancy job. And it makes a man watchful.
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Speaker 4: And a little lonely.
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Speaker 6: Well, Matt, you here?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm here, Doc.
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Speaker 5: Come on in.
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Speaker 6: Oh, well, how come you're in bed so early?
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Speaker 4: I'm not in bed, Doc. I'm just resting.
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Speaker 6: Oh, I see the cost of government's going up again.
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Speaker 6: What makes you say that? The soles of your boots.
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Speaker 6: They're worn almost through.
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Speaker 4: I don't care.
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Speaker 6: What's the matter? Aren't you feeling good?
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Speaker 5: Sure, I feel fine, Doc. I always lie in bed
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Speaker 5: till noon.
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Speaker 6: Well, it just doesn't look right for you to be... Oh,
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Speaker 6: for heaven's sakes.
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Speaker 4: What's the matter now? It's cold.
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Speaker 6: The coffee's cold in the rattlesnake's belly.
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Speaker 4: Don't drink it.
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Speaker 6: And it's no better hot. No man like I was saying,
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Speaker 6: a man in your position should have more to do
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Speaker 6: than just lie around.
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Speaker 4: Maybe I'm just tired, Doc.
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Speaker 6: Oh, now, don't try to tell me it was brought
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Speaker 6: on by upholding law and order all night.
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Speaker 7: Because I don't want to hear about it.
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Speaker 6: I had a bad night myself.
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Speaker 4: Well, then sit down and rest.
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Speaker 7: Yes, here you go.
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Speaker 6: Aren't you going to ask me what I was doing?
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Speaker 2: No.
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Speaker 4: Amen.
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Speaker 6: Well, I spent the whole night working for.
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Speaker 7: $ 4 fees.
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Speaker 2: Oh?
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Speaker 5: Well, there must have been somebody who didn't know you.
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Speaker 5: They knew it was Jeb Dorn. His wife had a
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Speaker 5: baby girl.
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Speaker 4: Jeb, huh? He was hoping for a boy, as I
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Speaker 4: recall it.
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Speaker 6: And that's what worries me.
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Speaker 4: Oh, why?
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Speaker 6: He refused to pay me.
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Speaker 4: No wonder you're tired.
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Speaker 7: Hey, thank you.
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Speaker 6: What's this thing all about? Well, who's this poster on?
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Speaker 4: It says right there, doesn't it?
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Speaker 7: Yes, it does.
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Speaker 6: Wanted, dead or alive, Jack Pargo for the torture and
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Speaker 6: subsequent murder of... This man is noted for armed holdup
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Speaker 6: and is believed heading in the general direction of Missouri, Kansas,
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Speaker 6: or Nebraska.
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Speaker 7: He's a mean-looking devil, isn't he? Uh-huh.
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Speaker 6: Well, I can see that he'll certainly find his comeuppance
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Speaker 6: if he sticks his head in Dodge City.
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Speaker 4: Well, I tell you, Doc, I'll worry about that if
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Speaker 4: he comes here, huh?
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Speaker 6: Oh, well, that gives me a nice safe feeling. Marshal,
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Speaker 6: here is he.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I'm the Marshal.
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Speaker 6: I say, Marshal Proudfoot, hereabouts is he.
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Speaker 4: Marshal Proudfoot? Huh?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, no, neither one of you. I say, neither one
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Speaker 7: of you, ain't the Marshal, I can tell.
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Speaker 4: I'm his pa.
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Speaker 7: I know him anywhere.
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Speaker 3: Uh.
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Speaker 5: Doc, go find Chester, will you?
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Speaker 4: Sure, Matt.
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Speaker 6: No, no, no need to get up. Just come see
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Speaker 6: my boy, Marshal Chester Proudfoot.
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Speaker 7: Made good somehow, he did. Chester never was one of
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Speaker 7: my brightest boys. Eleven boys I had, I remember. Say,
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Speaker 7: I ain't shook a hand here yet. What's your name, sonny?
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Speaker 4: Dillon. Matt Dillon. Dillon?
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Speaker 7: Funny name for a man. I knew a man one
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Speaker 7: time had the name Hairgrove. Hairgrove.
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Speaker 6: I thought that was the funniest up.
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Speaker 4: Till now, but Dillon. Doc, you better go get Chester.
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Speaker 7: Who's that fella?
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Speaker 4: Well, that's Doc Adams.
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Speaker 6: Nice to know you, sir.
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Speaker 7: Saying something, is he?
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Speaker 6: I said it's nice to know you. Now, my name
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Speaker 6: is Wesley Proudfoot. Sire to Marshal, turns out. Yes, sir.
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Speaker 6: Eleven boys I had.
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Speaker 7: Chester was nowhere near the brightest. No, sir, he'd rate
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Speaker 7: about number nine there.
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Speaker 4: That's very interesting, Mr.
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Speaker 7: Proudfoot. Chester bordered on being ignorant, I'd think. Oh, now,
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Speaker 7: I can't imagine how he ever got to be a Marshal.
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Speaker 7: Chester Wesley Proudfoot, Marshal of Down City.
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Speaker 4: Look, Mr. Proudfoot.
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Speaker 7: He named all them boys with the middle name of Wesley.
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Speaker 7: After me, it is. Hoped at least one of them
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Speaker 7: would mount something like me. What's your name was? It's Adams.
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Speaker 6: Dr. Adams.
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Speaker 4: Dr. Adams.
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Speaker 7: Horse or people?
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Speaker 6: What?
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Speaker 7: What's the matter with you? I say, Dr. Horses or people? Horses.
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Speaker 6: People.
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Speaker 7: Ah, well, it's too bad for you. I wouldn't ever
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Speaker 7: let a people doctor work on me, and I got
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Speaker 7: a great many things wrong with me, too. Hey, where's Chester?
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Speaker 5: He's out getting the mail for me.
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Speaker 7: Ah, good for him.
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Speaker 6: Got spunk.
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Speaker 7: Probably running down some of them bad men he always
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Speaker 7: writes about.
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Speaker 6: Used to have an assistant.
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Speaker 7: Named Dylan working for him. What have become of him?
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Speaker 4: Dylan, that's me, Mr. Proudfoot. Matt Dylan, that's me.
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Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 7: Well, you do a fair job, Gordon Chester. Says he
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Speaker 7: can usually depend on you.
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Speaker 4: Well, that's very nice of him. Look, Mr. Proudfoot, maybe
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Speaker 4: you should know something.
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Speaker 6: Hello, Doc.
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Speaker 7: Chester.
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Speaker 6: There wasn't none too much mail, Mr. Dylan.
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Speaker 4: Forget it, Chester.
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Speaker 7: What?
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Speaker 6: Chester, you've got confidence. Who's the fat fella?
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Speaker 4: That's Chester. That's the Marshal Proudfoot.
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Speaker 2: Paul.
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Speaker 6: You know, Mr. Dillon, I.
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Speaker 6: Paul, that's you, Chester?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's him, Mr. Proudfoot.
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Speaker 7: Ah, you've fatted up a good deal, Chester. Your assistant
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Speaker 7: here looks better than you do.
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Speaker 4: I'd like an explanation. Matter of fact, so would I, Chester.
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Speaker 6: Mr.
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Speaker 7: Dillon, I.
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Speaker 4: Doc, I... Hello, Paul.
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Speaker 3: What are you.
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Speaker 6: Going to do about Matt?
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Speaker 4: Do about what, Doc?
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Speaker 6: Chester. Telling his father that he's the Marshal.
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Speaker 4: What can I do?
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Speaker 6: Well, you're not going to let him get by with.
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Speaker 7: It, are you?
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Speaker 4: I don't know, Doc.
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Speaker 6: Wait a minute, Matt. No, Matt, no.
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Speaker 7: Let me by.
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Speaker 6: No. And a system doesn't make too much, you know.
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Speaker 4: Easy, Doc. Hello, Doc.
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Speaker 6: Matt.
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Speaker 5: Hello, Kitty.
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Speaker 8: Doc, you're looking pretty strange today.
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Speaker 1: How come?
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Speaker 6: Tell her, Matt.
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Speaker 4: You tell her, Doc. You're the one looking strange.
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Speaker 8: Well, come on. Somebody tell me.
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Speaker 3: Sit down.
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Speaker 7: Thank you.
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Speaker 6: Have you seen Chester, Kitty? No.
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Speaker 8: No, why?
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Speaker 4: We may never see him again.
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Speaker 6: What? What happened?
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Speaker 5: Not much, really, but I'm sure he wishes he was
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Speaker 5: dead right now.
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Speaker 8: Oh, what's this all about?
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Speaker 6: Chester's father came to town today.
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Speaker 8: Well, what's so terrible about that?
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Speaker 6: He thinks Chester is the marshal here. What?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right, Kitty.
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Speaker 5: Chester wrote to his father, and he probably stretched the
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Speaker 5: truth a little bit, like we all do sometimes.
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Speaker 6: Oh, no.
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Speaker 8: Well, where are they now?
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Speaker 4: Over at the Dodge house. He's getting the old man
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Speaker 4: a room there.
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Speaker 6: I never saw Chester look so scared in my life, Kitty.
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Speaker 6: You should have seen him. He grabbed his pawn. He
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Speaker 6: lit out of the office like his coat was on fire.
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Speaker 4: Don't be hard on him, Matt. I'm not going to
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Speaker 4: be hard on him.
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Speaker 8: Well, his father must be pretty old.
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Speaker 7: Oh, he's older, I guess.
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Speaker 6: He can't hear good and he can hardly see. But
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Speaker 6: he's a bright old fellow.
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Speaker 8: Well, you can't let the old man be disappointed, Matt.
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Speaker 4: Well, what would you suggest I do, Kitty?
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Speaker 1: I don't know.
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Speaker 8: Just don't hurt him, that's all.
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Speaker 5: I'm not gonna hurt him, Kitty. I don't care if
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Speaker 5: the old man thinks Chester's a marshal.
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Speaker 8: Matt, we should think of something to make Chester look
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Speaker 8: good while his father's in town.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: I heard the old man tell Chester that he was
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Speaker 6: only going to stay for a few days. Oh, see, Matt. Now,
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Speaker 6: maybe you could lie low for a while.
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Speaker 4: I wouldn't mind that. I need a rest.
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Speaker 6: Hey, I got it.
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Speaker 8: Why don't you get somebody to pretend to hold up
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Speaker 8: and then let Chester play Marshall and take him in?
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Speaker 8: You can turn him loose when his father leaves.
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Speaker 4: No, Kitty, I couldn't do a thing like that.
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Speaker 8: Well, something's got to be done, Matt.
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Speaker 7: Yes, did you.
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Speaker 6: I could put you to bed, Matt.
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Speaker 4: What are you talking about, Doc?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, you get sick and I'll examine you and say
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Speaker 6: that you've got a, oh, a rare blood disease and
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Speaker 6: you have to go to bed for a few days.
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Speaker 8: It might work, Matt. I can't let that old man
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Speaker 8: go away thinking Chester's been lying to him all this time.
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Speaker 6: No. We'll get Moss Grimmick to stage a fake hold-up,
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Speaker 6: you see. Then we'll come and get Chester, and right
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Speaker 6: in front of his father, he'll capture the bandit.
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Speaker 4: You're the one with a rare disease, Doc, and it's
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Speaker 4: not in your blood, it's in your brain.
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Speaker 8: Do it, Matt.
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Speaker 6: You got to.
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Speaker 5: No, I don't got to. I don't want any part
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Speaker 5: of a fake hold-up. You just get that out of
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Speaker 5: your head.
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Speaker 6: Oh, Matt.
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Speaker 4: Well, I'm going back to the office.
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Speaker 1: Oh, sure.
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Speaker 6: Go ahead. Yeah, go ahead. Ruin an old man in
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Speaker 6: his last days. What do you think, Doc?
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Speaker 4: Well, I.
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Speaker 6: Old Matt will come around all right, Kitty. He always does.
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Speaker 6: I'll go talk to Moss Grimmick and have it all set.
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Speaker 7: Anybody here? I say, anybody in here?
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Speaker 6: Oh, there you are, Dillon.
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Speaker 7: Well, took to your bed kind of early, didn't you?
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Speaker 7: Ain't but four o'clock.
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Speaker 4: Hello, Mr. Broadfoot. Where's Chester?
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Speaker 7: Yes. Well, I guess you got such a dead little
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Speaker 7: town on your hand, you can do that, you and Chester.
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Speaker 4: I say, where is Chester? Saying something? I said, where's Chester?
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Speaker 7: Don't yell like that. Hurts me your pants when you
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Speaker 7: bell around like that. Got a pretty big voice on
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Speaker 7: you there, Dylan. What's the matter with you? Feeling poorly,
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Speaker 7: are you? I say, feeling poorly, are you?
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Speaker 4: I feel terrible.
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Speaker 7: Ah, too bad. Chester ain't feeling too good, neither. Oh,
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Speaker 7: been lolling around on my bed over at the Ruben
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Speaker 7: house all day. Good thing you boys got this dead
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Speaker 7: talent on your hands.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, people be up the creek with both the marshal
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Speaker 7: and his sister in bed. Ooch over there.
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Speaker 6: I say, ooch over there.
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Speaker 7: Let me take a look at you. Let me look
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Speaker 7: at your eyes. Tell everything about how a man feels
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Speaker 7: by looking to his... Look at me, Dillon.
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Speaker 4: I can't help looking at you.
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Speaker 7: That's it. That's coming.
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Speaker 6: Yes, sir.
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Speaker 7: You've got bad eyes there, Dillon. That one in particular.
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Speaker 7: You've got a good voice, but bad eyes. It reminds
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Speaker 7: me of Chester's Uncle Hector. Last time he looked all
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Speaker 7: slack-jawed like that, he died the next day.
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Speaker 3: Huh?
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Speaker 4: What say? Nothing. I didn't say anything.
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Speaker 7: Oh, I thought you talked.
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Speaker 4: No.
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Speaker 7: That's, uh, Hector was Chester's fighting uncle. Reckon that's where
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Speaker 7: Chester gets all his get.
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Speaker 6: Up and go.
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Speaker 4: Uh-huh.
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Speaker 7: Well, something different, though. Hector fought again the law Hector did.
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Speaker 7: Ever seen a man stirred up again in the law
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Speaker 7: all the time like old Hector was?
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Speaker 4: Have you had your dinner yet, Mr.
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Speaker 5: Prosser?
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Speaker 7: Oh, indeed, he was a winner. You're right there. Won
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Speaker 7: all his battles. Killed two marshals, Hector did.
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Speaker 6: Killed them dead. It's a good.
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Speaker 7: Thing Chester's on the side of the law. Man, it's
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Speaker 7: a pair like that ought to be on the side
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Speaker 7: of the law.
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Speaker 6: Hey, Matt, you here?
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Speaker 7: Hello, Sponset.
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Speaker 5: You what?
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Speaker 7: Oh, you're here.
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Speaker 6: Look here, you got a sick deputy.
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Speaker 7: Here, Adams. Better go get a horse doctor and get
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Speaker 7: him straightened out.
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Speaker 6: What are you doing in bed, Matt?
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Speaker 5: I'm in bed because I'm sick, Doc.
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Speaker 4: Did you ever hear of anything like that?
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Speaker 6: You're sick?
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Speaker 4: Uh-huh.
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Speaker 7: You are, Matt?
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Speaker 6: Oh, say, that's fine.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I figured you'd think so. Doc, would you
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Speaker 4: do me a favor and take Mr. Proudfoot out to dinner? Anything,
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Speaker 4: just get him out of here.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, sure, Mac. Oh, gee, your eyes look kind of
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Speaker 6: beady there.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, we've been through all that.
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Speaker 6: Well, if I didn't know that, I'd say that you
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Speaker 6: had a fever. Adams, I say you got a sick
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Speaker 6: boy there.
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Speaker 4: Doc, would you go right now?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, oh, sure. Mr.
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Speaker 7: Proudfoot, you come with me.
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Speaker 6: Come with me, Mr. Proudfoot. I'll take you to dinner.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, dinner?
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Speaker 7: Oh, no, too early for dinner. Take a little glass
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Speaker 7: of duck water with you, though, but don't let on Chester,
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Speaker 7: will you?
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Speaker 6: Yes, sir. I'll see you later, Matt, and I'll let
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Speaker 6: Kitty know you're with us.
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Speaker 4: Oh, fine, Doc. Good. You let Kitty know I'm with you.
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Speaker 4: You just go. Yes, sir, Adam.
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Speaker 7: That boy there is sicker than a pig.
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Speaker 4: Let Kitty know I'm with you. Doc! Doc, you come
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Speaker 4: back here!
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Speaker 3: Thank you.
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Speaker 4: Hey, Kitty.
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Speaker 1: Doc.
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Speaker 4: Where's Doc?
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Speaker 6: I don't know, Matt.
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Speaker 8: He was here a little while ago.
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Speaker 6: Why?
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Speaker 5: I've wasted a half hour looking at all the Eden
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Speaker 5: houses for him.
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Speaker 4: He's got Chester's father with him. I've got to stop him.
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Speaker 4: Stop him from what? From that fool idea that you
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Speaker 4: and he had.
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Speaker 8: What do you mean, fool idea? Doc came by and
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Speaker 8: said it was on, that you were playing sick in bed.
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Speaker 5: Kitty, I was in bed because I really was sick,
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Speaker 5: and I still am sick.
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Speaker 4: Have you and Doc lost your senses?
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Speaker 8: Well, we're just trying to help Chester, that's all.
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Speaker 5: Now, look, what if somebody else sees that hold-up Moss
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Speaker 5: Grimmick is staging?
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Speaker 4: How do they know that he's just playing games?
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Speaker 8: Doc and I aren't going to let anybody get hurt, Matt.
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Speaker 8: And you know Chester, he'll play along all the way.
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Speaker 4: That's exactly what I'm afraid of.
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Speaker 6: Oh, Kitty.
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Speaker 7: All set, Kitty.
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Speaker 4: Oh, hello, Matt.
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Speaker 6: Oh, you're on your feet for the fun.
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Speaker 5: You call this thing off right now, Doc.
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Speaker 6: Oh, no, no, no. It's too late, Matt. Chester and
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Speaker 6: his father are up at the Dodge house in exactly
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Speaker 6: three minutes from now. Moss Grimmick is going to rush
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Speaker 6: up there and say there's a hold up at the
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Speaker 6: livery stable.
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Speaker 5: I'm putting a stop to it before somebody gets in
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Speaker 5: the way.
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Speaker 6: What's that? I don't know. It's not time yet.
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Speaker 4: Oh, come on, Doc. You can watch the fun you started.
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Speaker 6: Come on. You know, something.
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Speaker 4: Ought to knock your head off.
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Speaker 6: Now, Matt, now, take it easy, Matt. Marshal Dillon. What?
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Speaker 6: You better hurry. Chester just shot a man at the doghouse.
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Speaker 8: Good Lord.
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Speaker 4: Come on, let me through here, will you please? Move aside.
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Speaker 4: Let me through.
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Speaker 7: Stand there.
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Speaker 5: Matt, Matt, wait.
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Speaker 6: Look. Chester's sitting on somebody.
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Speaker 4: Chester, what are you doing? Get off of that man.
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Speaker 5: Doc, check that one line over there.
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Speaker 7: I will.
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Speaker 6: He shot and wounded one fellow and we subdued the
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Speaker 6: other one.
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Speaker 4: All right, Mr.
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Speaker 1: Paul.
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Speaker 7: Ain't a bad night's work, is it?
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Speaker 4: No, Chester, will you get up?
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Speaker 6: Mr. Dillon, he tried to kill me and Paul. Get up.
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Speaker 4: I said he's unconscious. Oh, Matt, wait a minute.
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Speaker 6: Look here.
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Speaker 4: What is it, Doc? Look at this man.
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Speaker 6: It's Jack Pargo.
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Speaker 4: What?
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Speaker 6: You know, the man on that wanted poster?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that is Pargo, all right.
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Speaker 7: What's the matter, Dillon? That fellow a friend of yours,
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Speaker 7: is he? He tried to hold up the hotel office here.
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Speaker 4: No, Mr. Proudfoot, it's not a friend of mine.
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Speaker 6: Huh?
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Speaker 7: What say?
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Speaker 6: Anybody catch that cop, then? Chester! Chester!
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Speaker 7: Hurry up, Chester.
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Speaker 6: There's a holdup at the livery stable.
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Speaker 4: Moss, go home.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, but Doc told me to go.
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Speaker 5: Just go back to your livery stable and call off the.
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Speaker 4: Holdup, huh?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, forget it, Moss, forget it.
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Speaker 7: We've had the real thing right here.
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Speaker 6: Whoa, whoa, whoa.
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Speaker 4: Well, goodbye, Moss. Will you?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, sure. Sure, goodbye.
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Speaker 4: Goodbye. Goodbye.
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Speaker 7: Yes, goodbye.
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Speaker 6: Wait a minute. Now, fella, come here.
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Speaker 7: Noticed something here, did you, Dillon?
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Speaker 6: Chester was right on.
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Speaker 7: The spot, he was.
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Speaker 6: That's the reason he took my bed for so long. Uh-huh.
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Speaker 7: He's got an instinct for these things, Chester has. Put
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Speaker 7: him right here on the spot for this holdup.
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Speaker 6: Now.
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Speaker 7: There's a reason for everything, I always say, Dillon.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, there's a reason, all right. What say, Dillon? Mr.
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Speaker 6: Dillon.
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Speaker 7: I can explain all this.
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Speaker 4: No, Chester, you and your father take care of things here.
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Speaker 4: I'm sick and I'm going to bed.
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Speaker 7: Don't count on me taking care of things, Dillon. I'm
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Speaker 7: leaving on the morning stage. Now I saw my boy
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Speaker 7: at action.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, all right, Mr. Proudfoot. Goodbye and good luck
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Speaker 4: to you.
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Speaker 7: You wait right here a minute, Pop.
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Speaker 6: Mr. Dillon?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, what?
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Speaker 6: Mr. Dillon, I... Mr.
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Speaker 7: Dillon, I can explain.
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Speaker 4: You don't have to, Chester. But yes, I do have
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Speaker 4: to explain. I.
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Speaker 7: I swear I've never been so humiliated in all my
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Speaker 7: whole life. I've been thinking about it all day, Mr.
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Speaker 6: Dillon. I never wrote but two letters to Pa. Well,
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Speaker 6: maybe I did stretch a couple things.
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Speaker 7: Pa, he.
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Speaker 4: Well, Pa, he put.
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Speaker 6: It all together and made me out more important than
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Speaker 6: what I am.
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Speaker 7: But I'll set him straight, Mr. Dillon.
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Speaker 6: I'll tell him the truth and I'll do it right now.
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Speaker 4: Chester. You do and you're fired. You go on back
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Speaker 4: and help your father take care of things.
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Speaker 7: Yes, sir, Mr.
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Speaker 1: Dillon.
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Speaker 6: Oh!
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Speaker 4: Gunsmoke.
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Speaker 2: Produced and directed by Norman McDonald. Stars William Conrad as
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Speaker 2: Matt Dillon, U.S.
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Speaker 4: Marshal.
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Speaker 2: Featured in the cast were Marley Bear as Chester, Howard
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Speaker 2: McNair as Doc, and Georgia Ellis as Kitty. You have
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Speaker 2: been hearing Gunsmoke, episode 328, Marshall Proudfoot. This is Victor Sterling.
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