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Gunsmoke - "Doubtful Zone" (Old Time Radio, 1957) · Gunsmoke | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: William Conrad stars as Marshal Matt Dillon with the radio
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  Speaker 1: series Regular Supporting Cast, Parley Bear as Chester Proudfoot, Georgia
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  Speaker 1: Ellis as Kitty Russell, and Howard McNear as Doc Adams.
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  Speaker 1: From CBS Radio, this is Gunsmoke, Doubtful Zone, episode 254,
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  Speaker 1: first heard February 17th, 1957. Les Crutchfield's script begins with
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  Speaker 1: a break-in at a Dodge City store and a puzzling
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  Speaker 1: list of missing provisions, including a pistol and ammunition. A
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  Speaker 1: clue from Doc Adams points Dylan toward 16-year-old runaway Willie
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  Speaker 1: Deaver traveling in boys' clothes while the thefts become more serious.
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  Speaker 1: Norman MacDonald produced and directed. We now take you back
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  Speaker 1: to the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Gun smoke. Around Dodge City and in the territory on west,
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  Speaker 2: there's just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers,
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  Speaker 2: and that's with a U.S.
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  Speaker 3: Marshal and the smell.
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  Speaker 2: Of gun smoke.
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  Speaker 4: Gun smoke.
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  Speaker 2: Sun Smoke, starring William Conrad. The story of the violence
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  Speaker 2: that moves left with young America. And the story of
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  Speaker 2: a man who moves left.
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  Speaker 3: I'm that man. Matt Dillon, the 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. It's a chance, a jab, and it
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  Speaker 5: makes a man watchful.
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  Speaker 4: Morning, Miles. Morning.
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  Speaker 6: 17 minutes, Matthew.
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  Speaker 2: 17 minutes exactly since I sent that boy to find you.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, is that so?
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  Speaker 2: A crime has occurred, Matthew. Them dawdling over your breakfast
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  Speaker 2: coffee is not like you to bring the carpet to justice.
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  Speaker 3: The boy said somebody broke into your store last night, Marlowe.
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  Speaker 2: Aye?
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  Speaker 3: How'd they get in?
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  Speaker 2: Well, by breaking the glass in the back window.
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  Speaker 3: Two panes at $ 4.
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  Speaker 2: 32 to pay. You know, Miles, I.
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  Speaker 5: Told you a year ago you ought to put gratings
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  Speaker 5: over those windows like the rest of the stores in town.
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  Speaker 2: No, but gratings cost money, Matthew.
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  Speaker 3: And so do burglaries. Now, what do they take?
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  Speaker 2: They're like beans from filing a list. Now, here's exactly
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  Speaker 2: what you think. One blue blanket, retail price $ 6. 40. One
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  Speaker 2: blue denim jacket, size 36, retail price $ 3.
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  Speaker 6: 00.
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  Speaker 3: Prices aren't important, Miles.
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  Speaker 2: Well, to me they are. I have a certain respect
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  Speaker 2: for money.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so I've heard. What else is missing?
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  Speaker 2: You know, let me see. Uh, one hat, gray, and of.
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  Speaker 6: Course, finest quality.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know. I got one, Miles. Go on with
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  Speaker 3: the rest of your list.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Uh, one pair of boots, size six, untooled,
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  Speaker 2: inlaid with kid retail price.
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  Speaker 3: Here, let me take a look at it. What do
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  Speaker 3: you want? All right, thanks.
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  Speaker 5: Uh, two flannel shirts, five-pound slab of bacon, three pounds
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  Speaker 5: of dried beans, pound of salt, bucks of.
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  Speaker 3: Matches, a skillet.
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  Speaker 5: Looks like you've just grub-staked somebody, huh? I expect you
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  Speaker 5: to recover each.
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  Speaker 2: And every one of those items.
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  Speaker 3: I'll try to. One canteen, one hand axe, two pounds
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  Speaker 3: of cheese, and one.
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  Speaker 2: 144.
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  Speaker 3: Caliber Colt revolver.
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  Speaker 2: Model 6A. Retails at $ 56. 80. What about cartridges?
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  Speaker 3: You don't have them on the list.
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  Speaker 2: There are a multitude of cartridges I'm expecting to case
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  Speaker 2: in today.
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  Speaker 3: Well, the gun won't be much use without them. I
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  Speaker 3: wonder if any place else was robbed last night.
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  Speaker 7: Good heavens.
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  Speaker 3: Now, what's the matter?
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  Speaker 2: Ah, here's something else that's been taken, Matthew.
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  Speaker 7: There were three bottles right there on.
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  Speaker 2: That shelf, and now there's only two bottles of one. Yeah. Perfume.
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  Speaker 2: Imported all the way from Paris, France. What would a
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  Speaker 2: man like that grub-stake himself want to steal perfume for?
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  Speaker 3: Maybe it wasn't the man, Mylon.
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  Speaker 2: Huh?
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  Speaker 3: The size of those boots and the jacket. It's blue!
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  Speaker 2: Blue! Well, what in the name of heaven would she
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  Speaker 2: be up to?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Mr. Jones?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, what is it, sir? Wilbur Jones.
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  Speaker 7: Somebody come into his store, held him up a while ago.
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  Speaker 3: What? Did he recognize him?
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  Speaker 1: No, sir.
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  Speaker 7: He stuck a gun in his back, made him go
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  Speaker 7: into the storeroom, and locked the door on him. He
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  Speaker 7: said whoever it was had a real soft voice like
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  Speaker 7: a kid.
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  Speaker 6: Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Jones hadn't been to the bank yet, so at least
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  Speaker 7: there wasn't no.
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  Speaker 2: Cash, so.
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  Speaker 3: Well, what was stolen?
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  Speaker 2: Nothing, except a box of.
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  Speaker 7: 44 caliber cartridges.
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  Speaker 4: Let me smell that pigeon again, will you, Max? Yeah, sure, Kitty, do.
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  Speaker 4: Not anything I know.
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  Speaker 2: I'd sure like to.
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  Speaker 8: You say Miles has got two more.
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  Speaker 3: Bottles of it? No, I got this sample from one
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  Speaker 3: of them.
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  Speaker 9: Shouldn't be too hard to tie down.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, provided the person who stole it opens the bottle.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I'll keep sipping the drink now.
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  Speaker 3: All day, Miss Kitty.
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  Speaker 7: Sniffing and smelling around all the time. It's like a
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  Speaker 7: couple hound dogs. But we ain't caught a whiff of this, sir. Well,
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  Speaker 7: you wouldn't be likely to, Chester. Maybe this girl, if
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  Speaker 7: I is a girl, is already left behind.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: In a way, I kind of hope so.
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  Speaker 7: She might have wanted to be done just to protect herself.
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  Speaker 3: She wasn't protecting herself when she shoved it in Will
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  Speaker 3: Jonas' back this morning, Kitty. I know, but it was
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  Speaker 3: empty then. It's not empty now.
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  Speaker 4: Well, by golly.
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  Speaker 7: I was just wondering who I'd let buy me.
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  Speaker 3: A drink this evening.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: As far as I'm concerned, Doc, you're still wondering.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, good evening, Eddie.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, Doc.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, Doc.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, say, I understand somebody borrowed a few things off
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  Speaker 7: old man McCagg last night.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they did, Doc. Oh, they did, huh?
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  Speaker 7: Crime rampant, and the local law inhabits a saloon.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 3: Here, Doc. Smell this, will you?
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  Speaker 7: Say, what do you do, Matt?
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  Speaker 3: Put it on your hair or use it when you shave?
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  Speaker 3: You ever smell that scent anywhere before, Doc?
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  Speaker 2: Slightly familiar. No.
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  Speaker 3: What do you mean, slightly familiar?
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  Speaker 7: Well, I smell the same thing earlier today somewhere.
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  Speaker 2: Where, Doc?
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  Speaker 3: Where did you smell it today? I don't even remember. Say, Max,
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  Speaker 3: where do you think we get up a poker game? Doc,
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  Speaker 3: will you think where did you smell this perfume today?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 7: Let me see now.
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  Speaker 3: I was all over town at one time or another.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't at the livery stable, naturally.
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  Speaker 3: It was at the bank.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, forget it, man. I don't have the slightest idea.
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  Speaker 9: Uh-oh, uh-oh.
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  Speaker 2: Uh-oh. Now I remember, sir.
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  Speaker 7: I was talking to Mr. Dobie in the lobby of
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  Speaker 7: the Dodge house.
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  Speaker 6: And this kid came in.
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  Speaker 3: The Dodge house, huh? That's right. He leaked the stuff. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: that's where it was.
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  Speaker 7: He rented himself a room there.
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  Speaker 2: But why?
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  Speaker 9: I'll tell you later, Doc.
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  Speaker 3: Justin, come on.
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  Speaker 2: Come on. It's the next door on the left there, Mr. Jones.
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  Speaker 2: According to what Mr. Dobie said.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Be careful of that water, Vickie.
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  Speaker 7: Do you reckon we'll put up a fight?
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  Speaker 2: That she will?
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  Speaker 3: Or whichever? I don't know, Chester. All right, go ahead
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  Speaker 3: and knock. Let's get clear before the door opens up.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 4: I'll fetch you some drinking water.
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  Speaker 9: Leave it out here in the hall.
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  Speaker 7: Okay, but you better get it before the ice melts.
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  Speaker 3: All right, walk off the way, sir. Get your hands up.
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  Speaker 3: You're under arrest.
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 3: Chester, come and take the gun.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: All right, get back in the room. No use getting
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  Speaker 3: the whole hotel stirred up.
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  Speaker 9: I ain't done nothing. You got no call to arrest me.
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  Speaker 2: Inside, I said.
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  Speaker 7: Johnny, if you wasn't right, Miss.
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  Speaker 3: Gillen, it is a girl.
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  Speaker 9: I wouldn't mind your own business. Who are you anyway?
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  Speaker 7: Well, he's a U.S.
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  Speaker 2: Marshal.
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  Speaker 7: That's who he is.
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  Speaker 9: A Marshal?
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  Speaker 3: Where did you get that shirt you're wearing? And the boots.
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  Speaker 3: And what about this gun?
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  Speaker 9: Well, you think I got it.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think I know. Now, what's your name? What
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  Speaker 3: kind of a name is that for a female? How
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  Speaker 3: old are you?
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  Speaker 6: Sixteen.
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  Speaker 9: Why did you break into that store last night? Who
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  Speaker 9: says I did?
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  Speaker 5: The clothes you're wearing, that stepping on the bed over there,
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  Speaker 5: the stuff all over this room, every bit of it
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  Speaker 5: was stolen.
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  Speaker 9: How'd you figure it was me, Marshal?
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  Speaker 3: That perfume you took. Doc Adams was down in the
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  Speaker 3: lobby when you rented your room here. He smelled it
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  Speaker 3: on you.
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  Speaker 4: Oh.
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  Speaker 8: I just don't know that perfume is going to bring
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  Speaker 8: bad luck. Then Mother seems I need it. Never had
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  Speaker 8: one before. Never even smelt nice. Just heard about it.
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  Speaker 3: What are you doing right away from home?
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  Speaker 9: I ain't running. I'd already run.
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  Speaker 2: You wish that.
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  Speaker 8: Bradley was wild horses, I wouldn't go back there.
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  Speaker 3: Why not?
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  Speaker 9: You know my stepfather, you wouldn't ask why not.
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  Speaker 3: Work.
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  Speaker 7: Work a body to the death, that's all he knows.
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  Speaker 8: He's got a dry farm down here. He ain't never
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  Speaker 8: gonna be worth nothing no matter what.
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  Speaker 9: He'll work day and night just like a man. I
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  Speaker 9: never even owned a drink. I don't believe him going
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  Speaker 9: in for frills.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I see.
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  Speaker 9: He beats me, too.
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  Speaker 8: Last time he'd done it two days ago, I just
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  Speaker 8: lit out.
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  Speaker 9: Look, mister. You see that bruise on the side of
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  Speaker 9: my head?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we will. You make a move, Marshal, and I'll
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  Speaker 2: blow this bell or that bell clean through his belly.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not moving. Just take it easy.
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  Speaker 9: Get back off now, mister. Away from the door.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I.
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  Speaker 9: I didn't run away from home just to end up
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  Speaker 9: in no jail.
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  Speaker 3: Where are you going to end up, bully?
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  Speaker 7: Never you mind about me, Marshal. Now you two just
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  Speaker 7: stay put.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I just.
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  Speaker 3: I'm awful sorry, Mr. Dillon.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't have no idea what she was up to.
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  Speaker 3: She doesn't either, Justin. That's her trouble.
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  Speaker 9: Darn fool kid.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Darn fool kid. With a loaded gun.
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's see now, Matthew. This shirt's not been worn.
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  Speaker 2: Won't have to discount it, at least.
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  Speaker 3: The same goes for the skeleton, huh? And the blanket, canteen, handbags.
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  Speaker 3: None of these beans that you need, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: McKay.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, just hold your horses, you two.
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  Speaker 2: I get to weigh this cheese.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, well, I'm saving it for later.
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  Speaker 7: A man can't calculate his profits without knowing his costs.
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  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm. Uh-huh. I knew something that was going. I think
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  Speaker 2: he ate about 20 cents worth off that corner there.
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  Speaker 2: 22 cents to be exact.
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  Speaker 3: Well, at least she didn't have time to eat any bacon, Miles.
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  Speaker 3: There you are. Yeah, it's about the size of it.
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  Speaker 3: That's all we've found in her room.
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  Speaker 2: Well, if it wasn't just for the low-priced items, Matthew,
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  Speaker 2: she still got away with a $ 12. 50 pair of boots.
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  Speaker 2: She hasn't gotten away yet, Miles.
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  Speaker 3: We'll find her before the night's over.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, we know what she looks like now, at least.
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  Speaker 7: And we know her name. Wade Deaver.
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  Speaker 2: Hi.
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  Speaker 9: A little homeless little child, you say?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. A dry farm down in Florida, let's say. In
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  Speaker 3: case of too much work, I guess. And too little
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  Speaker 3: of anything else.
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  Speaker 2: Mighty hard living, dry farming. Doesn't pay much of anything.
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  Speaker 3: To speak of. Not much.
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  Speaker 2: Matthew, if you catch her and you get back those
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  Speaker 2: boots and that gun and the other items, well... What
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  Speaker 2: I mean is this. She can keep that perfume if
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  Speaker 2: she wants it.
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  Speaker 6: Well, for every moment.
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  Speaker 3: I couldn't tell it anyway.
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  Speaker 2: She's used some of them.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, sure, Miles. I understand.
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  Speaker 2: You were tired? A girl wandering around alone?
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  Speaker 7: Well, don't just stand there staring at me.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not staring at you, Miles. I'm just listening to you,
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  Speaker 5: that's all.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm smirking like a cat in a birdcage. I
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  Speaker 2: told you that perfume isn't saleable, Miles. You go on
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  Speaker 2: out and catch that young ruffian. You bring her to justice.
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  Speaker 2: You link them honest, God-fearing folks. Violating private property.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Miles. All right.
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  Speaker 2: And if you get that gentleman with the boots back
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  Speaker 2: and does not hurt any, then the gentleman will judge
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  Speaker 2: it too. Well, I'll give that child a dress right
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  Speaker 2: out of my stock. My land of graciousness. Well, it's
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  Speaker 2: not a matter of sentiment, no. It's just that it
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  Speaker 2: isn't fit for a young girl to go into court
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  Speaker 2: just like a man. It's no decent.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, sure, sure, Miles. I know what you mean. Just
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  Speaker 3: a proper respect for appearances. That's all it is, isn't it?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I'll confound the both of you. You're trying to
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  Speaker 2: accuse a man of charity when he hasn't an ounce
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  Speaker 2: of it in his entire nature. Well, wait a minute.
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  Speaker 3: Is that Ted Reed, your fatality? Yeah, come on, Chester.
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  Speaker 3: Let's find out. So help me, Marshal, I didn't know.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't have the least idea. Well, it wasn't your fault, Jason. Chester,
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  Speaker 3: did you send somebody to find Doc?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we did. The Dyson boy went to take the mission.
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  Speaker 3: I'd load with a girl.
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  Speaker 7: I'd just open the safe and then let her have
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  Speaker 7: the money.
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't have shot an old girl. Not if I'd known.
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  Speaker 3: It couldn't have been expected, you know, Jason.
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  Speaker 2: Oh. That bandana over her face, dressed like she was.
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  Speaker 2: Pointing that gun just as rock steady.
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  Speaker 3: As any man I ever seen.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. And you know, I always keep my gun stuck
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  Speaker 2: right between the safe and the desk.
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  Speaker 3: It just kicks you something like this.
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  Speaker 2: So I made like I was going to open the
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  Speaker 2: safe and.
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  Speaker 3: Are you sure, Marshal?
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  Speaker 6: Are you sure she's dead?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm afraid she is, isn't.
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  Speaker 2: She?
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  Speaker 3: Killing a girl. I've never done nothing so bad in
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  Speaker 3: my whole life.
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  Speaker 2: So help me, Marshal.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't know. Look, anybody else would have done the
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  Speaker 3: same thing. Now, it couldn't be helped. It's done, and
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: blaming yourself won't undo it. Now, look, why don't you
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: go outside a while and get some fresh air, huh?
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  Speaker 3: I reckon maybe I better.
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  Speaker 3: I reckon I'd just better get outside a while.
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  Speaker 2: Old Jason's broke up pretty bad over there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess most anybody would be.
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  Speaker 2: Dang, poor young'un.
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  Speaker 3: Well, she paid for it, Chester. Well, there's no point
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  Speaker 3: leaving her there on a dirty floor. Let's lift her
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  Speaker 3: up on the counter.
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  Speaker 2: Let me get her shoulders.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, you know, She wasn't fine.
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  Speaker 2: She.
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  Speaker 3: She has got a bruise on her head. I guess
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  Speaker 3: you're a poet. That's bigger, all right. Poor little thing.
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  Speaker 3: All right. Let's lift her.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, what's that fella in her jacket look....
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  Speaker 6: Is she doing.
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  Speaker 2: It?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know. Her perfume....
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  Speaker 1: Gunsmoke, Doubtful Zone, originally broadcast February 17th, 1957, has been
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