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The Lone Ranger - "Sheep Killers" (Old Time Radio, 1938) · The Lone Ranger | Old Time Radio

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: In Valley City, a series of sheep killings is driving
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: a wedge between sheep rancher Hammond and the local cattleman.
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: From December 28, 1938, this is The Lone Ranger, episode 924,
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: Sheep Killers. After a flock is driven over a cliff
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  Speaker 1: in Sweetwater Canyon, suspicion falls on cattleman Pete Lambert. Hammond's daughter, Peggy,
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  Speaker 1: maintains he has been wrongly accused. With the range community
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: divided and no witnesses to settle the matter, the Lone
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: Ranger and Tonto take up the investigation. Their inquiry moves
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: into a dispute threatening to become a bitter range feud.
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  Speaker 1: Earl Grazer is the Lone Ranger, with John Todd as Tonto.
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  Speaker 1: And now, we return to the original broadcast.
• 0:56
  Speaker 2: I owe it all to you, old boy.
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  Speaker 3: How are you?
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  Speaker 4: A fiery horse with a speed of light, a cloud
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  Speaker 4: of dust, and a hearty hi-yo silver. The Lone Ranger.
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  Speaker 5: THE END.
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  Speaker 4: THE END Cattle raising was the first great industry in Texas.
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  Speaker 4: But when the days of the open range passed, many
• 3:05
  Speaker 4: farmers and sheep herders settled in the new territory. There
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  Speaker 4: was bitter rivalry between these new settlers and the cattlemen...
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  Speaker 4: and their disputes over boundaries and water rights would have
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  Speaker 4: resulted in range wars if the masked rider of the
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  Speaker 4: plains had not interfered. He made both factions realize that
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  Speaker 4: the West could never be made safe for honest men
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  Speaker 4: unless they united and fought side by side for law
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  Speaker 4: and order. Return with us now to those thrilling days
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  Speaker 4: of yesteryear, when adventure lay at the end of every trail.
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  Speaker 4: The Lone Ranger rides again. Come on, Silver! We're heading
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  Speaker 4: for Valley City! Someone's waiting on the trail ahead! I'll
• 3:43
  Speaker 4: see you over Hawaii! Our story begins in Saul Bemis'
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  Speaker 4: general store at Valley City. Lefty Curtis opens the door and...
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  Speaker 4: Hi there, Lefty. Howdy, Saul. I'm looking for my boss.
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  Speaker 4: Is Mr. Hammond around here anyplace? You ain't blind, are you? Oh, hello, Mr. Hammond.
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  Speaker 4: Howdy there, Peggy. Hello. What are you looking for me for, Lefty? Boss,
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  Speaker 4: there's been more sheep drove into Sweetwater Canyon.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 4: Close to 100 heads. The dirty, sneaking, rotten crooks? They
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  Speaker 4: was drove right over the edge. You can see them
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  Speaker 4: pile up below. 100 head of prime sheep killed. Them
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  Speaker 4: blasted cattlemen? Lefty, did any of the boys see them
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  Speaker 4: do it? Did they leave a trail that could be followed?
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  Speaker 4: Was there anything to prove at all? I'm sorry, boss. Nothing.
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  Speaker 4: It was done like they always do it, when there's
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  Speaker 4: nobody to see them. Now, if we post guards towards
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  Speaker 4: Sweetwater Canyon, they'll turn around and drive the sheep into
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  Speaker 4: White Rock or Big Smoke here, one of them others.
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  Speaker 4: We'd have to hire a regiment to keep them from
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  Speaker 4: our critters. I'll have to tell the sheriff about this.
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  Speaker 4: I've already told him. He should be on his way
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  Speaker 4: here now. They're stopping his office trying to find you. Well, Peggy,
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  Speaker 4: I think they should convince you now.
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  Speaker 5: Of what, Pop?
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  Speaker 4: Of what?
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  Speaker 6: Why, of the kind of ornery low-down skunks them cattlemen are,
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  Speaker 6: that's what.
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  Speaker 5: I suppose you're referring to Pete Lambert.
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  Speaker 4: He's one of them.
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  Speaker 5: Pete wouldn't do anything like this. What's more, Pa, it
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  Speaker 5: ain't been proved yet that any of the cattlemen are implicated.
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  Speaker 4: Who else would try to kill off my sheep?
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  Speaker 5: I can't say, but I know that Pete wouldn't.
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  Speaker 4: Ah, turnin' again your own, Pa.
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  Speaker 5: Pa, that ain't true.
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  Speaker 4: If you'd forget Pete like any girl of sense would, and, uh.
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  Speaker 3: Go ahead, say it, Pa, if I'd marry Lefty instead.
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  Speaker 4: Sure, we'll get hitched one of these days, Peggy. You'll
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  Speaker 4: come around to it in time.
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  Speaker 5: I think not.
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  Speaker 4: Shucks. You sure ain't gonna turn me down for Pete,
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  Speaker 4: are you? Ha, ha, ha. You wouldn't take him when
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  Speaker 4: you could get a man, would you?
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  Speaker 6: Forget it, Lefty. She's spoiled, and I'm to blame for it.
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  Speaker 6: But she's a Hammond. She won't always be so flighty
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  Speaker 6: and idle-headed.
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  Speaker 5: Here comes the sheriff, if you're sure you're through discussing
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  Speaker 5: me in public.
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  Speaker 4: You're a Hammond, girl. You sure got your morse tongue. Howdy, folks. Howdy, Sheriff.
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  Speaker 4: Lefty told you what happened, Sheriff?
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  Speaker 7: I've already sent out two of my deputies to see
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  Speaker 7: if they can't find some trace of the sidewinder.
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  Speaker 4: I reckon you know who done this. Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 3: The law still says I got to have proof before
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  Speaker 3: I can act. Then get proof. That's what I'm trying
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  Speaker 3: to do. But I'll get it. Don't you worry, Mr. Hammond.
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  Speaker 3: Them ranchers won't get by with their slick tricks forever.
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  Speaker 3: Wait a minute, Sheriff.
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  Speaker 4: Watch out. See that fellow Saul's waiting on? Here's the
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  Speaker 4: grub you asked for, stranger. Got it all wrapped up.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you. Here's your money. Two, three, three, fifty-five. Just right. Why, he's...
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  Speaker 4: What's that, Lefty? Big Bill Nyberg. You're talking to me? Bill,
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  Speaker 4: how'd you get here? Where'd you come from? Hey, hold on, stranger.
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  Speaker 4: If you're Big Bill, hide your hands. I think not.
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  Speaker 4: What was that draw? I never seen the light. Just
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  Speaker 4: drop that gun back in its holster, Sheriff. You've mistaken
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  Speaker 4: me for another man. Don't try to act on that mistake. Wait, Sheriff. Huh?
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  Speaker 4: I reckon I did make a mistake. stepping out of
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  Speaker 4: the shadows that way, the stranger sure did look like
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  Speaker 4: Big Bill just for a second. But he ain't, Sheriff.
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  Speaker 4: Bill weren't that tall, and he didn't hold himself so straight, neither.
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  Speaker 4: Doggone lefty, make up your mind.
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  Speaker 3: Is he or ain't he Bill Nyberg?
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  Speaker 4: I'm not Big Bill, and don't try to follow me.
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  Speaker 4: Just a second, stranger. Holy, the fella be, Sheriff. I
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  Speaker 4: told you you weren't Big Bill, didn't I? And don't
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  Speaker 4: go getting yourself sidetracked, Sheriff.
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  Speaker 6: It's them crooked ranchers I'm interested in, not strangers.
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  Speaker 4: Well, then, come along.
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  Speaker 7: We'll have a look at where your sheep are drove over.
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  Speaker 7: and see if my deputies was able to find any evidence,
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  Speaker 7: and left he didn't.
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  Speaker 4: After leaving the store, the Lone Ranger made his way
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  Speaker 4: to the place where he had concealed his great horse, Silver.
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  Speaker 4: He mounted and then raced to the well-hidden camp where
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  Speaker 4: Tonto was waiting.
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  Speaker 3: Whoa, Silver! Whoa, boy!
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  Speaker 4: Whoa! Here are the supplies, Tonto. Oh, that's good. And
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  Speaker 4: Lefty fell for our trap. Him think you, Big Bill?
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  Speaker 4: Only for a moment, but a moment was enough. Every
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  Speaker 4: sheriff in the West has a reward notice describing Big Bill.
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  Speaker 6: Ah.
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  Speaker 4: The only people who have ever seen him in person
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  Speaker 4: are the members of his old gang and the deputy
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  Speaker 4: sheriff who joined the gang to get evidence against them.
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  Speaker 3: That's right.
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  Speaker 4: The only ones until we caught him and turned him
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  Speaker 4: over to the law. Well, that news hasn't reached here yet.
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  Speaker 4: We get here plenty fast. I wanted to act on
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  Speaker 4: Big Bill's tip that when his gang was broken up
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  Speaker 4: and Notch Hopkins escaped, Notch came to this territory. Everything's
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  Speaker 4: fitting together. We know the two of Hammond's own men
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  Speaker 4: drove his sheep over the cliff. The breed they call
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  Speaker 4: Pedro and that fellow they call Fritz. Tonto not see
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  Speaker 4: him drive sheep, but Tonto see him come from that way.
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  Speaker 4: I've no doubt they were the men. They didn't drive
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  Speaker 4: the sheep over. They were close enough to see who
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  Speaker 4: did and report them. The fact that they didn't report
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  Speaker 4: anybody proves them guilty. I don't want them arrested, however,
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  Speaker 4: until we know who's behind them. They have no motive.
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  Speaker 4: Hammond wouldn't deliberately kill his own sheep just to drive
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  Speaker 4: the cattlemen off the range. As a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 4: he was here first, and the cattlemen didn't take over
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  Speaker 4: the north end of the range until Hammond assured them
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  Speaker 4: he didn't plan to use it. Not right. But if
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  Speaker 4: Hammond's daughter marries Lefty, Hammond plans to retire and turn
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  Speaker 4: over the management of the ranch entirely to Lefty. Of course,
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  Speaker 4: when Hammond dies, the whole spread will belong to Lefty.
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  Speaker 4: That's why he want Cattleman get out. It gives him
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  Speaker 4: a motive. I'm sure now that Notch Hopkins and Lefty
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  Speaker 4: Curtis are one and the same person. Notch was ambitious.
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  Speaker 4: That's why he turned crooked. Getting things honestly wasn't fast
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  Speaker 4: enough for him. It would be like Notch, or Lefty
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  Speaker 4: as he calls himself now, to want the whole range.
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  Speaker 4: And the fact that he'll get nothing until he marries
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  Speaker 4: Peggy Hammond... and that Peggy doesn't like him, wouldn't bother
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  Speaker 4: him at all. First place... Peggy isn't likely to marry
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  Speaker 4: anyone without her father's consent. And her father wants her
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  Speaker 4: to marry Lefty. In the second place, Lefty's own conceit
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  Speaker 4: won't let him believe she really doesn't like him. What
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  Speaker 4: you do now? All right, now I'm going to take
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  Speaker 4: all this disguise. It's done its work. Anyone who had
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  Speaker 4: been in Big Bill's gang would have thought I was
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  Speaker 4: him until he looked closer. Which is just what Lefty did.
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  Speaker 4: Tonto put disguise on plenty good. You did. And as
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  Speaker 4: soon as it's off, I'll tell you a plan I have.
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  Speaker 4: You tell all, Lefty, a fella named Notch? No. Even
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  Speaker 4: if we were believed, Lefty wouldn't get much of a
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  Speaker 4: jail sentence on the old charges against him. In a
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  Speaker 4: year or two, he'd go free to go on with
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  Speaker 4: his crimes. Ah, him plenty bad fella. However, if we
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  Speaker 4: can prove he's behind the killing of these sheep... he'll
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  Speaker 4: get what he deserves, and we're going to see that
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  Speaker 4: he does. That be plenty hard. Him not drive sheep. Pedro,
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  Speaker 4: Fritz do that. Yes, and the three of them working
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  Speaker 4: together on the same outfit. Gives them a dozen opportunities
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  Speaker 4: a day to lay their plans without being observed. Ah. Nevertheless, Tonto,
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  Speaker 4: the only way we can clear the cattlemen and place
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  Speaker 4: the guilt on Lefty is to know when the next
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  Speaker 4: flock of sheep is going to be driven over the
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  Speaker 4: edge of the canyon. Then you take long in there, huh?
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  Speaker 4: That would still involve only Pedro and Fritz. If arrested,
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  Speaker 4: they might testify against Lefty or they might not. No, Kimusabe.
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  Speaker 4: We don't even need to know where they plan to
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  Speaker 4: kill the sheep. Just find out when and our plan
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  Speaker 4: will work. Both the masked man and Tonto trailed Lefty
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  Speaker 4: as best they could throughout the following week. But as
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  Speaker 4: the Lone Ranger had pointed out earlier, there were still
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  Speaker 4: times when Lefty could give instructions without being overheard. The
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  Speaker 4: week passed and one day Peggy Hammond was sitting alone
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  Speaker 4: on the seat of a buckboard in front of the
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  Speaker 4: general store and.
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  Speaker 5: Stand still there, Spock.
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  Speaker 4: Why, Peggy. Peggy.
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  Speaker 3: I thought that was your poor buckboard, but I didn't
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  Speaker 3: see you at first.
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  Speaker 5: Now, that's a fine thing.
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  Speaker 3: Shucks, I reckon you know how I meant it. You
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  Speaker 3: come to town alone?
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  Speaker 5: Lefty drove me in. He's in the store now.
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  Speaker 3: Jealous? Of that ornery lowdown.
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  Speaker 8: I'm sorry, honey, but every time I think of that skunk,
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  Speaker 8: I get hot under the collar.
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  Speaker 5: You sure do.
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  Speaker 3: I got reason, I guess. Gosh, Peggy, it seems like
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  Speaker 3: I never get to see you anymore.
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  Speaker 5: Pa won't let you come to the house.
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  Speaker 8: No, and he won't let you come to town unless
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  Speaker 8: him or Lefty is with you. Blast it all, it
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  Speaker 8: ain't fair.
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  Speaker 5: Do you think I like it, Pete?
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  Speaker 3: I suppose not. But the worst of it is being
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  Speaker 3: kept away from you on account of being blamed for something.
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  Speaker 4: I never done.
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  Speaker 5: Pa don't blame you, Pete.
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  Speaker 8: He don't blame me. He blames all us cattlemen together.
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  Speaker 8: So it amounts to the same thing in the end.
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  Speaker 5: I'm sorry, Pete.
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  Speaker 4: Hey.
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  Speaker 5: What's the matter?
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  Speaker 4: Nothing, honey.
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  Speaker 3: Just got an idea is all.
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  Speaker 5: An idea?
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  Speaker 3: Uh-huh. I suppose that's left his horse tied to the
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  Speaker 3: end of the buckboard. Yes.
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  Speaker 8: Then what do you say I untie it, leave it
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  Speaker 8: at the hitch rail and put my horse in its place?
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  Speaker 5: Whatever for?
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  Speaker 8: Well, then maybe I'd climb on the buckboard with you
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  Speaker 8: and drive you on home. That way we'd have a
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  Speaker 8: chance to talk together. And as long as left his
• 12:20
  Speaker 8: horse is left behind, he wouldn't have to walk home either.
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  Speaker 5: Do you think we dare?
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  Speaker 4: Why not?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, but if Pa saw me with him.
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  Speaker 4: He won't.
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  Speaker 8: I'll leave you before we get inside of the house
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  Speaker 8: and ride on back.
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  Speaker 4: Then where?
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  Speaker 3: Say, ain't I a fellow with good ideas? I'll untie
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  Speaker 3: his horse.
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  Speaker 5: I'll watch and see he don't come out.
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  Speaker 3: Come on, fella. Just let me get that rope now.
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  Speaker 5: Hurry, Pete.
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  Speaker 4: You bet. All right, horse.
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  Speaker 3: Over here now. Got your eye on him, honey?
• 12:46
  Speaker 5: He's still talking to Saul.
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  Speaker 3: He'll be hopping mad about this, which will just suit
• 12:51
  Speaker 3: me fine.
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  Speaker 5: Hurry and climb up.
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  Speaker 4: There we are.
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  Speaker 3: Hand me that whip and we'll get going. Hey, there.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 4: That beats all.
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  Speaker 3: Lefty, why couldn't you have stayed inside?
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  Speaker 4: Get down off of that wagon, you sheep killer.
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  Speaker 6: Lefty.
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  Speaker 4: What'd you call me? Just what you are. Now, get down. Peggy,
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  Speaker 4: were you going to drive away with this Tidewinder?
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  Speaker 5: You're not my boss, Lefty.
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  Speaker 4: You're Paul here about this. Why, heavens, Peter, are you
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  Speaker 4: getting down or do I have to drag you from
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  Speaker 4: that seat? I'll get down.
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  Speaker 3: And I'll ask you to take back that about being
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  Speaker 3: a sheep killer.
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  Speaker 4: Take it back? Why, that's just what you are, ain't it?
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  Speaker 4: You and all them thieving dry gulch and skunks. You
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  Speaker 4: hit me.
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  Speaker 3: You'll pay for that. Stand up and take the rest
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  Speaker 3: you got coming.
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  Speaker 4: Pete, watch out.
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  Speaker 5: A knife.
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  Speaker 4: I'll show you. I'll get you for that. I'll show you.
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  Speaker 5: He'll stab you, Pete.
• 13:37
  Speaker 4: No, he won't. I'll fix you. My arm.
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  Speaker 3: Drop that knife or I'll break your arm off. Let
• 13:42
  Speaker 3: me go.
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  Speaker 4: Let me go.
• 13:43
  Speaker 3: Drop it.
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  Speaker 4: There it is.
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  Speaker 3: Now then.
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  Speaker 4: But you ain't got the best of me yet. Then
• 13:48
  Speaker 4: take this.
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  Speaker 3: And this.
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  Speaker 4: Don't hit me.
• 13:52
  Speaker 3: Let me go.
• 13:53
  Speaker 4: You lying pool cat. I've had enough.
• 13:54
  Speaker 3: Now here's one to finish up the job.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, no. You'll pay for this, Pete. You'll see
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  Speaker 4: if you don't. I'll fix you. I'll show you. You
• 14:04
  Speaker 4: think I can't, don't you? But you'll wait. You'll see. No,
• 14:07
  Speaker 4: give me that, you piggy. You dirty skunk.
• 14:10
  Speaker 3: I'll break every bone in your body.
• 14:12
  Speaker 4: Get up there. Get up. I got a way to
• 14:15
  Speaker 4: fix him. He'll see. You sure got a licking left, eh?
• 14:18
  Speaker 4: Let me give you a hand to stand up. Pete
• 14:20
  Speaker 4: didn't break your jaw, did he, Lefty? Get away from me.
• 14:23
  Speaker 4: Let me be. I can take care of myself. I'll
• 14:26
  Speaker 4: show him and you and everybody. Oh! A man's gone, Ray. Why,
• 14:30
  Speaker 4: he was hit behind that building. Who in blazes was
• 14:34
  Speaker 4: that fellow? Well, I got other things to figure out
• 14:37
  Speaker 4: right now. Wait till I see Saul. Why, heaven, Saul
• 14:41
  Speaker 4: had better do what I tell him. Saul, where are you, Saul?
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  Speaker 4: Come here, blast your thief and hide. Where are you?
• 14:48
  Speaker 4: Here I am, Lefty. Why didn't you help me out
• 14:51
  Speaker 4: just now? Why didn't you give me a hand with Pete?
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  Speaker 3: I heard a ruckus, but I was too busy to
• 14:57
  Speaker 3: pay any attention. Say, your eyes most swelled shut. And
• 15:01
  Speaker 3: your shirt all.
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  Speaker 4: Ripped off here.
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  Speaker 3: What's happened?
• 15:03
  Speaker 4: That's what Pete done. Yeah? The poor cat.
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: He must have got the best of you.
• 15:08
  Speaker 4: Maybe he did for now.
• 15:10
  Speaker 3: Yes, but he.
• 15:10
  Speaker 4: But what I'm going to do to him is plenty.
• 15:13
  Speaker 4: And so, you're going to help me. Oh, but Lefty,
• 15:17
  Speaker 4: I ain't no fighter. I could... Who's asked you to
• 15:19
  Speaker 4: fight your yellow bag of bones? Just shut up and
• 15:22
  Speaker 4: listen for once. But what do you... Or would you
• 15:24
  Speaker 4: rather I told the boss about how you've been cheating
• 15:27
  Speaker 4: him on supplies... How you been charging for two barrels
• 15:30
  Speaker 4: of flour and delivering one? How you been doing a
• 15:32
  Speaker 4: lot of other things? Quiet. Keep still. Don't lefty. Quiet.
• 15:36
  Speaker 4: Now do you think you can help me?
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: Just don't say no more about them things.
• 15:40
  Speaker 4: It's blame lucky for you. Nobody else around here knows
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: about your crooked tricks.
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: Sure, lefty, sure.
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: But please don't. And it's damn lucky for me the
• 15:50
  Speaker 4: same as you. Because it's going to be your word
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: and mine, Saul. It's going to fix Pete Lambert the
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: way I want him fixed. Blast him. The curtain falls
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: on the first act of our thrilling Lone Ranger drama.
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: Before the next exciting scenes, please permit us to pause
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: for just a few moments. Now to continue our story.
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: After the Lone Ranger had watched the fight in town
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  Speaker 4: between Pete Lambert and Lefty Curtis, he rode back to
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: camp once more.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Silver.
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: Oh, Father. Oh, boy. You want me, Father Lefty, now? Donald,
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: it won't be necessary. I think Lefty will act tomorrow.
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: You'll find out. I just saw him take the beating
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: of his life from Pete Lambert. He can't act today.
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: There isn't enough time. He'll likely make his plans tonight
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: and strike tomorrow. That's what Tonto thinks. We'll have to
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: take the chance that Lefty will act as we think
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: he will. Him do that all right. I don't doubt
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: that he will. It isn't like him to wait. He'll
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: get revenge just as soon as he can. During the night, Tonto.
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: Call on every man I told you about yesterday. I'll
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: take care of the sheriff myself. Tonto, do that. Good.
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: I think we're going to end these sheep killings and
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: bring a criminal to justice at the same time. No
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: sooner had the sun set than Tonto leaped into the saddle,
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: gave a shouted command to scout, and sent the fleet
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  Speaker 4: horse racing toward the north end of the fertile rangeland.
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: The masked man himself was in the saddle before dawn... Silver,
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: a flashing, flying ghost, swept toward town, outracing the wind.
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: At length, in the first light of dawn, the Lone
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: Ranger reached his destination and drew rain in front of
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: the sheriff's home. Whoa, Silver! Oh, boy! Oh, there! Sheriff,
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  Speaker 4: open the door! Who's there? Open up!
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  Speaker 3: Is there trouble somewhere?
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: Just a second. I'll come in. Close the door.
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  Speaker 3: Close it.
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  Speaker 4: What is this? What do you want? You're already dressed. Good.
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: Get into your coat and come with me. Don't argue
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  Speaker 4: with my six-gun, Sheriff. But where are we going? What's
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: the idea? What's that mess? You and I are going
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: to the Hammond Ranch. We're going to trap the men
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: who have been killing Hammond's sheep. Hey, you know who
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: they are? Perhaps. Then tell me what you know. I'm
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: not going to tell you. I'm going to show you.
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  Speaker 4: Now get into your coat. Give a fella a chance,
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: will you? Sheriff, what time do Hammond's men leave the bunkhouse?
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: They'll be out by dawn. Why, you want to get
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: there before they're gone?
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: Just after they're gone. Come on.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: This looks to me like some kind of a trick.
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: It is. Is your horse saddled?
• 18:45
  Speaker 7: I hold the saddle up before I fix me my breakfast.
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  Speaker 7: He's standing around the side of the house.
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  Speaker 4: Get him.
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: He'll come when I call.
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: Here, Chief. Come here, boy.
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  Speaker 3: But you just admitted this is a trick.
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: Not on you, Sheriff, on the crooks.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah? Well, I ain't got nothing but your word for it.
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  Speaker 4: Which you'll have to take.
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  Speaker 3: If I wasn't covered up.
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  Speaker 4: We're going to Hammond's place, you say? We are steady, Silver. Hey,
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: what did you call that? Don't stop the talk. Get going.
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: Come on, Silver. Get up. Get up there. Now, with
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: the early sun to light their way, the masked man
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: and the sheriff sent their mounts plunging down the trail
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  Speaker 4: toward the distant Hammond Ranch house. When they left the
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  Speaker 4: main trail, the sound of their horses' hoofs brought both
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: Hammond and his daughters to the door of their home.
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  Speaker 4: Come on, Phil. Up the steps. Is it a holdup?
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  Speaker 4: It isn't, Peggy. You needn't be alarmed.
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  Speaker 6: Well, if it ain't a holdup, what's the mask for?
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: And why the gun? I'm making sure you do as
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: you're told. Who's inside the house?
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: Why, no one.
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  Speaker 4: Your men. Where are they? Out on the range where
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: they belong. And there's no one but you with the
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: ranch now?
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  Speaker 5: No one but the cook.
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  Speaker 6: Good.
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  Speaker 4: Now inside with you, all three. Hey, you can't... Inside,
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: I said.
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  Speaker 5: Please, Bob, don't argue with him.
• 20:08
  Speaker 6: I'd argue if I had a six-gun in my hand.
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  Speaker 4: Inside. You too, Sheriff.
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  Speaker 7: I wish you'd explain what you're up to.
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  Speaker 4: You'll learn before I'm through. Now take chairs and place
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: them in front of the window so that they face
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: that barn across the yard.
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: This is the doggonest hocus-pocus.
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: I ever heard tell of. There's a reason for it.
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  Speaker 4: The only reason is that them cattlemen are up to
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: some trick again. Now then, Hammond, you can see the
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: door of that barn over there. Tell me this. Is
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: there any other way it can be entered or left? Well, Astrid,
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: what's the idea of a fool question like that? I
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: expect an answer.
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  Speaker 6: Well, that door's the only way I know of to
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  Speaker 6: get in or out, short of busting in the side
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  Speaker 6: of the barn.
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: Very well. The three of you are staying right where
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: you are. You're keeping your eyes on that barn. I
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: don't know how long you'll have to stay here, but
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: I do know this. You will stay and make no
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: attempt to make a break for it. In the meantime,
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: at some distance from the ranch house, Lefty Curtis was
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: standing beside his horse. He kept looking impatiently, first at
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: the broad expanse of range that was spread out below him,
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: then over his shoulder toward the trail from town. At last,
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: he heard a horse approaching. Whoa there. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: I couldn't make it no sooner, Lefty. Well, you're late enough, so...
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: But what I want to know is what's keeping Pedro
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: and Fritz. They're even later than you are. But you
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: said nobody, but you was going to see me here.
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: Don't get head up. We ain't meeting the boys. Then
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: what was that? I picked out this place up here
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: so we could see them when they got started. Yeah,
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: look down below. Huh? See where them sheep are scattered out? Uh-huh. Well,
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: Fritz and Pedro will come riding from over beyond there.
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: They'll get the sheep started with the dogs, then head
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: them for the canyon. They're using the dogs?
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: Won't they try to keep the sheep out of danger?
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: Ha, ha, ha. They won't be needed after the sheep
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: is bunched. The boys will shoot them. That'll get Hammond
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: madder than losing his critter's will. Why'd we have to
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: come here at all?
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: You gave them their orders, didn't you?
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I'm making sure they're obeyed. There they are.
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: It took them long enough.
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: They got the dogs rounding up the sheep now.
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: Let's see. Five minutes to get them in a flock.
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  Speaker 4: Fifteen or so to reach a canyon. More than an
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: hour for us to get back to the ranch house.
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: It's safe enough. Come on. Blast you. Stand still. All right, Saul.
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: Here's where Pete Lambert and his friends are fixed for
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: good and all. Get up. Get along there. Get up there.
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: Get up.
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  Speaker 5: Get up.
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: Back at the ranch house, Hammond, his daughter, Peggy, and
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: the sheriff were forced to obey the masked man. The
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: hours dragged by slowly as they watched the barn the
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: Lone Ranger had pointed out. Dad, rat it, masked man.
• 23:09
  Speaker 6: Can't we take a walk around or do something or other?
• 23:13
  Speaker 6: I'm getting so tired of sitting in one place I'm
• 23:15
  Speaker 6: beginning to ache.
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  Speaker 4: You'll stay where you are.
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: Sure, if I ain't heard you complain none at all.
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: You must like being kept prisoner. It ain't that I
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: like it, Hammond. Just that I'm reserved in judgment.
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: Reserved in judgment? Look.
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: See something, Peggy?
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: It's Lefty, riding back to the house.
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: What's bringing him here?
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: Well, by thunder, that's all with him. Mask Fully, you
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: figure on making them prisoners, too? No.
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: They're drawn up.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: They look kind of excited.
• 23:42
  Speaker 6: Sheriff, if the cattlemen have been up to something, and
• 23:45
  Speaker 6: you let this stranger hold us here.
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: Boss, I.
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  Speaker 4: What the... Don't slap lover, Lefty. You dirty killer. Has
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: this fellow held you up, Hammond? Not so far.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: Lefty, what are you doing back.
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: At the ranch house this time of day? Gosh, your
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: Mask Fully near drove it out of my head. Boss,
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: them cattlemen got your sheep again. Washed them? But this
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: time they wasn't as slick as they thought they was.
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: Go on, Saul, tell them what you've seen. By heaven, Saul,
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: did you see something? Well... It was like this, Hammond. I, uh...
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: Get on with it!
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: I'm not trying to.
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: I was riding over towards the old resident place, figuring
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: on having a look at the house and maybe buying it.
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: And, uh... You doggone putter and old fool. Get to
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: the point. Well, I was just trying to explain how
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: I happened to be riding near Big Smoky Canyon.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: That's where the sheep was drove over?
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: Uh-huh. And was Pete Lambert and Ike Billings that done it? No.
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: Oh, no, it couldn't have been.
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: Didn't you just hear Saul say so? You couldn't get
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: around that, Peggy. How many did they kill this time?
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: Saul looked me up and we rode over. Judging roughly,
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: I'd say somewhere between 75 and 100.
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: And, Sol, you seen Pete Knight so you could swear
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: to it?
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: Well, I... Go on. Sure.
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: Sure I could swear to it. I seen him plain, stranger.
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: Yes, Sheriff?
• 24:50
  Speaker 7: I wasn't saying anything while you held this here because
• 24:53
  Speaker 7: I heard what you called your horse. That and the
• 24:55
  Speaker 7: mask you're wearing put me in mind of a fellow
• 24:57
  Speaker 7: I'd heard of. Well, either you ain't the fella I
• 25:00
  Speaker 7: thought you was, or he ain't the kind of fella
• 25:03
  Speaker 7: most folks think he is.
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: You think I was in on the plot to kill
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: Hammond's sheep? You must have been. And I'll see you
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: hung for it.
• 25:09
  Speaker 6: Maybe you've got the drop on us now, Masked Fella,
• 25:12
  Speaker 6: but you'll get yours before I'm through.
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: I'll show you something. Watch that barn. Maybe then you'll
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: understand why I forced you to stay here. You can't
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: fool us no more. Wait. Pete, Ike, all of you,
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: come out. Now, what?
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: There's Pete and Ike Billings and there's Thurston and there's
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: two cowhands.
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: Well, I'll be doggoned.
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: And there's Westover and Lock and then the Roper boys.
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: They must have... In that barn all the time. Every
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: cattleman that uses the range was there. You said yourself
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: there was no way in or out of that barn
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: except by the door you were watching. There wasn't a
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: cattleman free to destroy the sheep, as Saul and Lefty
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: claimed they did. But I don't say... Come on in, fellas.
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: Feed all of you.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: There's some explaining to be done here. Howdy, Peggy.
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: Howdy, Mr.
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: Hammond.
• 25:51
  Speaker 6: Am I gone, loco? Saul says Pete and I killed
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: my sheep. But me and the sheriff and Peggy here
• 25:57
  Speaker 6: know blame well it was in my barn all the time. Now,
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: how's that going to be explained?
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: It was a scheme of Lefty's. I didn't know Saul
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: was in on it. No doubt left to use him
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: so that the evidence would be clinching.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: It's a lie. It must have been you that were
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: straying from the truth. You've seen for yourself. Pete Knight
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: didn't do it.
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: Well, I... Must have been some other fellows, you seem. Yeah, Lefty.
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: I reckon it was. But you both know the sheep
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: were destroyed, of course. Sure we do. That's why we
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: thought it was a cattleman. Tonto just rode up with
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: two horsemen. Perhaps he'll have something to say about that.
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: Come on in, Tonto.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: The ancient's got a gun on Pedro and Fritz.
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: I have done nothing, senor. Nothing, I swear it. Let
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: the ancient let us go, will you? We can't be
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: blamed for what we've never done. You stopped them in time, Tonto.
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: Me follow them. Them head flock for canyon. Then me
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: make them stop. Then the sheep are safe.
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: That right.
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: Good work, Himasabi. Now, Lefty and you, Saul. How do
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: you explain reporting those sheep killed when they haven't been? Well,
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: I don't know. I... Well, maybe it's all lied to me.
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: You ain't going to make me the goat for this, Lefty.
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: You ain't going to leave me holding the bag. I
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: never wanted to have.
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: Nothing to do with this trick in the first place.
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: It was you made me do it.
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: Si, that is so, senor. Lefty, he make us do
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: what he say. That is the truth. That clinches it.
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: You're all under arrest.
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: Take him out, boys.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: Mr.
• 27:16
  Speaker 8: Hammond, I hope you ain't going to bring me and
• 27:18
  Speaker 8: the other ranchers here no more for the trouble there's been.
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: Of course not, Pete. But I don't see why Lefty.
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: Well, the engine told us about that part of it, Mr. Hammond.
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: You see, Lefty figured on Mary and Peggy.
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: But he was.
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: I know, honey. But Lefty didn't.
• 27:32
  Speaker 8: And he figured with his self married to Peggy, the
• 27:34
  Speaker 8: ranch turned over to him, and us cattlemen drove off the.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: Range, he'd be kingpin in these parts. And the engine
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: said something more, Sheriff.
• 27:42
  Speaker 8: He said if you looked it up, you'd find where
• 27:45
  Speaker 8: Lefty used to call himself Notch Hopkins.
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: And Notch Hopkins was.
• 27:49
  Speaker 7: One of Big Bill Nyberg's gang. Now, where'd that mash
• 27:52
  Speaker 7: fella get to? I got some apologies to make to him. I.
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: Doggone.
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: I should have known he wouldn't wait to be thanked.
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: But why wouldn't he, Sheriff?
• 28:04
  Speaker 7: If you folks guessed who he was like I did,
• 28:07
  Speaker 7: you wouldn't ask me that.
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: Friends, that masked fellow was the Lone Ranger.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: The Lone Ranger.
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: Come on, Silver, old boy! There's justice to be done
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: in Cedarville! I owe Silver away! The Lone Ranger. THE END.
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: The Lone Ranger.
• 29:59
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• 30:16
  Speaker 2: of the Lone Ranger Incorporated.
• 30:35
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