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The Lone Ranger - "Ghost Canyon" (Old Time Radio, 1942) · The Lone Ranger | Old Time Radio

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Speaker 1: January 12th, 1942 brought The Lone Ranger to episode 1,400,
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Speaker 1: Ghost Canyon. This broadcast continues the Legion of the Black
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Speaker 1: Arrow storyline as Jim Hamilton appears to be fleeing the
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Speaker 1: law and The Lone Ranger is drawn into the case.
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Speaker 1: Brace Beamer stars as The Lone Ranger with John Todd
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Speaker 1: as Tonto. Fran Stryker wrote the script for producer George W.
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Speaker 2: Trendle.
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Speaker 1: Now, from the radio trails of the early 1940s, here
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Speaker 1: is Ghost Canyon. And now, we return to the original broadcast.
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Speaker 3: Ghost Canyon.
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Speaker 4: A fiery horse with the speed of light, the cloud
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Speaker 4: of dust, and a hearty hi-yo silver, the Lone Ranger.
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Speaker 4: During the years of unrest that followed the Civil War,
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Speaker 4: a powerful secret organization called the Legion of the Black
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Speaker 4: Arrow sprang up in the western United States. Its members
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Speaker 4: were to be found everywhere, defying the law or using
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Speaker 4: the law for their own purposes. working toward the ultimate
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Speaker 4: goal of revolt and the foundation of a despotic empire.
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Speaker 4: It was the masked rider of the plains who led
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Speaker 4: the fight against this band of outlaws and traitors, and
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Speaker 4: for once his great strength and courage, his daring and
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Speaker 4: resourcefulness were taxed to the utmost in the cause of democracy.
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Speaker 4: Return with us now to those thrilling days when the
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Speaker 4: West was young. From out of the past come the
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Speaker 4: thundering hoofbeats of a great horse, Silver. The Lone Ranger
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Speaker 4: rides again.
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Speaker 5: Come on, Silver.
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Speaker 2: We're on the trail of the Black Owl.
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Speaker 6: Come on, Silver.
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Speaker 7: Hooray!
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Speaker 3: Mary Hamilton was the postmistress at Painted Bend.
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Speaker 4: One morning, just as she had finished sorting the mail,
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Speaker 4: someone knocked at the general delivery window.
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Speaker 8: Wendy, open up here.
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Speaker 6: Oh, right away. What was it you wanted?
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Speaker 2: I was wondering if you had some mail for me.
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Speaker 6: What's the name?
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Speaker 2: Jim Hamilton.
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Speaker 6: Jim Hamilton? Oh, my goodness, it is you, Jim.
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Speaker 2: Hello, sis.
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Speaker 6: Oh, your face is so dirty, I didn't recognize you.
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Speaker 6: And your clothes. Come around and back so I can
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Speaker 6: get a good look at you.
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Speaker 2: I can't climb through this window.
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Speaker 6: The door's over to your left. I'll unlock it. Come
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Speaker 6: on in. You can sit down in that chair.
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Speaker 5: No, thanks.
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Speaker 2: I'll just as soon stand. I can't stay long.
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Speaker 6: You can't stay long.
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Speaker 2: You're looking fine, Mary.
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Speaker 6: Well, I can't say the same for you. Where have
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Speaker 6: you been? What have you been doing? Why haven't you
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Speaker 6: let me hear from you?
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Speaker 2: Oh, I'm no hand for writing letters.
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Speaker 6: Well, you used to be a pretty fair hand at washing.
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Speaker 6: You look like an outlaw, Jim.
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Speaker 7: Do I?
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Speaker 6: I'll give you the key to my cabin. You go
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Speaker 6: over there and get cleaned up. You must have some
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Speaker 6: better clothes with you.
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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Mary. That don't fit into my plans. You see,
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Speaker 2: I just assumed folks didn't recognize me.
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Speaker 6: You what?
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Speaker 2: And I guess I can get by all right. Even
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Speaker 2: you didn't know it was me for a minute.
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Speaker 6: Jim, is something wrong?
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Speaker 7: Plenty.
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Speaker 6: What? What have you done? I... Are you mixed up
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Speaker 6: with the law some way?
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Speaker 2: I can't tell you much, sis, but I guess the
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Speaker 2: answer to that is yes.
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Speaker 7: Oh, Jim.
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Speaker 2: There's no need to get excited about it. I'm not
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Speaker 2: going to stay in town.
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Speaker 6: Well, if you've done something, it won't do any good
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Speaker 6: to keep running away. You've got to stand up and
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Speaker 6: face the music.
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Speaker 2: You let me handle it my own way, sis. I'm
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Speaker 2: heading for Ghost Canyon.
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Speaker 6: Why Ghost Canyon?
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Speaker 2: Oh, it's a nice, quiet place.
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Speaker 6: They say there's outlaws there.
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Speaker 2: Do they?
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Speaker 6: And things happen. Do you remember the big house up
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Speaker 6: on the side of the canyon?
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Speaker 2: Ned Rockwell's place? Where he used to live when the
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Speaker 2: mine was going?
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Speaker 5: Yes.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember. What about it?
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Speaker 6: Well, Harry Starr was riding along the South Trail the
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Speaker 6: other night, and when he was passing the opening of
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Speaker 6: the canyon, he could see the house. There was a
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Speaker 6: funny blue light in one of the windows. Well, it's
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Speaker 6: no laughing matter.
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Speaker 2: Those old Indian stories are coming back to.
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Speaker 7: Life, huh?
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Speaker 6: Harry isn't one to imagine things.
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Speaker 7: Maybe not.
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Speaker 6: And he heard a cry, like a wolf, only there
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Speaker 6: was something human in it.
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Speaker 2: Has the story gone around yet?
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Speaker 6: Well, naturally, everybody in town has heard it. They believe it, too,
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Speaker 6: after what happened last week.
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Speaker 2: What happened then?
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Speaker 6: The sheriff found a dead man at the opening of
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Speaker 6: the canyon. Not a mark on him. And no papers either.
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Speaker 6: Nothing to tell who he was. Doctor said it was
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Speaker 6: heart failure. And the folks that saw him said there
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Speaker 6: was an awful look on his face. Like he'd seen
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Speaker 6: something horrible.
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Speaker 2: So they're all steering clear of the canyon.
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Speaker 6: Naturally.
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Speaker 2: Well, what about the outlaws?
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Speaker 6: Oh, that was a while back. Jed Hawkins saw a
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Speaker 6: band of men with bandanas over their faces. It was
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Speaker 6: up by the old mine.
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Speaker 2: Near the house?
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Speaker 6: Yes, but when the sheriff got up a posse and
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Speaker 6: went after them, they were gone.
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Speaker 2: Well, I ought to find it mighty peaceful in the canyon.
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Speaker 6: You can't go there.
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Speaker 2: I've got to.
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Speaker 6: Oh, no, you haven't. I wouldn't care if the canyon
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Speaker 6: was safe and the best place to hide out in
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Speaker 6: the whole country.
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Speaker 2: You aren't, uh, aiming to turn me over to the sheriff.
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Speaker 7: Are you, Mary?
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Speaker 6: I couldn't do that. You're my brother. But if you've
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Speaker 6: done something wrong, you have to pay for it, Jim.
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Speaker 6: You can't run away.
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Speaker 2: You won't tell anybody about my coming here, will you?
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Speaker 6: Not if you say I shouldn't.
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Speaker 2: Then don't. I wouldn't have tried it if I didn't
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Speaker 2: think I could trust you.
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Speaker 6: Oh, Jim, at least tell me what.
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Speaker 2: I'll tell you this. If you should happen to see
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Speaker 2: me in town, pretend you don't know me. That's important.
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Speaker 2: And don't worry too much. I hope it won't be
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Speaker 2: long before I get... Anybody here?
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Speaker 6: Somebody at the window.
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Speaker 2: I'll look myself out the back door. Is anybody here?
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Speaker 5: I'm coming.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, miss. Or should it be ma'am?
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Speaker 6: Miss is right. What can I do for you?
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Speaker 2: Well, I just rode into town and... Ah, there it is.
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Speaker 2: Postmistress Mary Hamilton. How do you do, Miss Hamilton?
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Speaker 6: How do you do?
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Speaker 2: I wonder if you can give me some information.
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Speaker 6: I'll try.
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Speaker 2: How do you get to a place called Ghost Canyon?
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Speaker 8: You are.
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Speaker 2: I mean, you're... Don't tell me a sensible-looking girl like
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Speaker 2: you believes in those stories.
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Speaker 6: What made you say that?
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Speaker 2: Your face. You seem to be afraid.
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Speaker 6: Oh, not at all. But there is something to the
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Speaker 6: stories they tell, and don't fool yourself about it. I
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Speaker 6: wouldn't go near Ghost Canyon.
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Speaker 2: Well, I've got to, Miss Hamilton. This is business.
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Speaker 6: I don't see how that can be. There's nothing there
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Speaker 6: but trees and rocks, a tumbledown old house and an
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Speaker 6: old mine.
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Speaker 2: That's it.
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Speaker 4: What?
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Speaker 2: The mine. I'm an engineer, and I've got to take
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Speaker 2: a look at it.
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Speaker 1: What for?
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Speaker 6: That mine hasn't been worked for five years.
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Speaker 2: Four years and eleven months, to be exact. Well, here's
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Speaker 2: the situation.
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Speaker 9: Ned Rockwell held that claim under the old law. If
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Speaker 9: five years pass without any work being done on it,
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Speaker 9: the claim goes back to the government.
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Speaker 2: And it's open for prospecting once more.
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Speaker 6: Ned Rockwell's dead?
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Speaker 7: Yes.
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Speaker 9: Right now it's his nephew that holds the title.
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Speaker 2: Oh.
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Speaker 6: He sent you to find out if the mine was
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Speaker 6: really worked out?
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Speaker 2: I sent myself.
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Speaker 7: I'm the nephew.
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Speaker 2: My name's Ned Rockwell, too.
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Speaker 6: Oh, I see.
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Speaker 2: There's no point in letting the mine go if it's
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Speaker 2: worth anything. How do you get to the canyon?
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Speaker 6: You're a stranger around here. You might lose your way.
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Speaker 2: You think I ought to get the sheriff to take
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Speaker 2: me there?
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Speaker 10: Oh, no.
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Speaker 6: No, I guess it isn't as hard as all that.
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Speaker 6: Just take the south trail out of town. The trees
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Speaker 6: are pretty thick at the opening of the canyon, but
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Speaker 6: if you look sharp, you can find it.
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Speaker 2: Thanks a lot. I suppose it's a waste of time.
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Speaker 6: Oh, I'm sure of it.
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Speaker 9: It wasn't any waste of time coming to a painted bend.
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Speaker 9: Even if the mine don't amount to anything, I'm going
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Speaker 9: to do some prospecting around here. I, uh, aim.
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Speaker 2: To stay for a long time.
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Speaker 7: Really?
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Speaker 2: Say, did anyone ever tell you you were the prettiest
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Speaker 2: girl in the whole United States?
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Speaker 6: Well, if anyone ever did, I'd put him down for loco.
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Speaker 9: Well, you can add my name to the list, Miss Hamilton.
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Speaker 9: And it won't be the last time I'll say it.
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Speaker 6: Is that all, Mr.
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Speaker 2: Rockwell? That's all for today. See you tomorrow.
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Speaker 6: Jim must be on his way there. I'll have to
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Speaker 6: warn him not to go near the mine. The post
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Speaker 6: office is closed for the next two hours.
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Speaker 3: The Lone Ranger and Tonto had received a note from
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Speaker 3: the mysterious girl.
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Speaker 4: The Lone Ranger and Tonto had received a note from
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Speaker 4: the mysterious girl, and in it were two words, Ghost Canyon.
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Speaker 4: Without question, they had headed north to investigate, and they
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Speaker 4: reached the canyon that night. Beyond the tangle opening near
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Speaker 4: the south trail, the trees and undergrowth disappeared, but the
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Speaker 4: walls rose sheer on either side.
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Speaker 2: Dark and forbidding.
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Speaker 4: Then farther on, the rocky ground sloped more gradually toward
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Speaker 4: the top of the ridge, and And it was here
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Speaker 4: that Ned Rockwell's mine was located. The Lone Ranger and
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Speaker 4: Tonto reined up below it.
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Speaker 7: Steady, Silver.
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Speaker 2: Steady, fella. Close down.
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Speaker 7: Close canyon, Tonto. Hit plenty dark.
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Speaker 2: Was that a coyote or a wolf?
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Speaker 7: It did not sound like either one.
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Speaker 2: You're right. There was something strange about that cry.
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Speaker 7: Indian tell many story about this canyon.
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Speaker 2: Yes, I've heard them, Tonto. We aren't interested in spirits.
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Speaker 2: We're looking for men.
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Speaker 7: Maybe Black Arrow used this place for hideout.
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Speaker 11: The girl wouldn't have sent us here without a good reason.
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Speaker 11: We've got to find out what it was.
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Speaker 7: Kimo Sabe, you look.
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Speaker 2: What?
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Speaker 5: They're light.
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Speaker 8: Yes.
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Speaker 2: Someone's inside the house.
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Speaker 10: What's that?
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Speaker 2: Sounds like a cry for help.
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Speaker 7: They come from house?
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Speaker 2: We're near it.
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Speaker 7: Let's go.
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Speaker 5: Get them up.
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Speaker 2: Up the hill, Silver. Watch your step, Tonto. Some of
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Speaker 2: these boards may be rotten. The door's open.
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Speaker 7: That's right.
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Speaker 2: Can't see any light now.
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Speaker 7: Plenty dark. Yes.
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Speaker 2: Much darker inside here. I'll let them at you.
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Speaker 7: Nobody used this room for a long time.
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Speaker 2: Kitchen must be that way.
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Speaker 7: Why do you want to go to kitchen?
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Speaker 2: The other can smell cooking. Oh. Wait a minute now.
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Speaker 2: I'll light another match. Ah.
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Speaker 7: They have lantern on table.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 2: Now we'll be able to see what's here.
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Speaker 3: Ah.
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Speaker 7: This is kitchen. There's stove.
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Speaker 2: Still warm. There's a skillet. What's used tonight?
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Speaker 7: Marks and dust and flour. Plenty fresh, too.
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Speaker 2: Someone cook supper here tonight. And then, listen. On the
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Speaker 2: back porch. Man, Kimo Sabe. He's unconscious.
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Speaker 7: There water in here. Counter get it.
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Speaker 11: He hasn't been wounded. At least there's no... Oh, here's
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Speaker 11: a nasty cut. Someone hit him over the head.
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Speaker 7: Here, water.
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Speaker 2: You take bandana, wash cut.
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Speaker 7: Yes.
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Speaker 2: He's coming around. Don't. This might have been made by
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Speaker 2: a gun butt.
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Speaker 7: Maybe so.
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Speaker 2: See if you can find any tracks, horses or men. No,
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Speaker 2: time to do that. What happened? Someone hit you. Your mask.
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Speaker 7: You're an outlaw.
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Speaker 2: Never mind that.
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Speaker 11: We were down below and we heard you cry out.
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Speaker 11: Haven't you any idea what happened?
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Speaker 7: It was a wolf.
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Speaker 2: Yes, we heard that too.
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Speaker 12: I went out on the porch. It sounded awful close,
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Speaker 12: but when I stepped through that door, something jumped on me.
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Speaker 2: Something? You mean someone. I can only tell you what
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Speaker 2: I thought.
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Speaker 9: Of course, I'd just heard the wolf and I had
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Speaker 9: a feeling it was an animal.
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Speaker 2: I tried to free myself. That's all. Everything went black.
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Speaker 2: And you were hit by a man. Who are you?
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Speaker 2: Ned Rockwell. This mine belongs to me. How long have
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Speaker 2: you been here? Since noon today.
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Speaker 7: I wonder.
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Speaker 2: I wonder if there is something to those stories after all.
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Speaker 7: He was hiding.
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Speaker 2: Did you find anything, Tyler?
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Speaker 7: A place where a horse was tied.
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Speaker 2: Over there by the big pine?
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Speaker 5: That's right.
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Speaker 2: Well, that's where my horse was. Isn't he still there? No. No.
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Speaker 7: Horse not there.
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Speaker 2: Was there any tracks?
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Speaker 7: No. Ground plenty high.
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Speaker 2: Oh, wait a minute. A mask man and an engine.
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Speaker 2: Maybe you've been using this place for a hideout. You
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Speaker 2: didn't like me coming back here, so you tried to
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Speaker 2: scare me out. That isn't true, Rockwell.
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Speaker 7: No. Mask man helped you. Bandage him. Sure, after he
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Speaker 7: hit me.
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Speaker 2: Just so as I'd hightail it back to town and
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Speaker 2: stay out of the canyon.
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Speaker 11: You're making a mistake about us. But as for the
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Speaker 11: rest of it, well, you may be right.
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Speaker 7: Huh?
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Speaker 2: You understand, Tulloch? Uh-huh.
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Speaker 7: And what do we do?
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Speaker 11: It starts a canyon. We can leave Rockwell here and.
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Speaker 2: Yes, I heard it. You heard what? Quick, Tonto. Put
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Speaker 2: the lantern out.
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Speaker 7: You heard what?
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Speaker 2: A noise inside the house. There's someone in there. I
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Speaker 2: didn't hear anything and I still think this is a trick.
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Speaker 2: It may be, but we didn't plan it. Now you
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Speaker 2: stay here and try not to make any noise. Let's go, Tonto.
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Speaker 2: You have been ready. Did you locate the sound? Any
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Speaker 2: idea where it came from?
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Speaker 7: Maybe.
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Speaker 2: front room. That's the way it seemed to me.
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Speaker 7: Door closed.
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Speaker 2: We didn't close it. That's what we heard. You think wind?
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Speaker 2: There is no wind. Well, here goes.
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Speaker 8: There's a little light behind you, mister. One more step
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Speaker 8: and I shoot.
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Speaker 4: The curtain falls on the first act of our Lone
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Speaker 4: Ranger story. Before the next exciting scenes, please permit us
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Speaker 4: to pause for just a few moments.
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Speaker 2: THE END.
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Speaker 3: Now to continue our story.
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Speaker 4: As the lone ranger opened the door from the kitchen
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Speaker 4: to the front room, he stood outlined by the moonlight,
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Speaker 4: and a voice from the darkness ordered him to stand
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Speaker 4: where he was.
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Speaker 8: Don't reach for your guns. Just unhitch your belt.
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Speaker 2: What if I refuse?
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Speaker 8: I'll have to let you have it.
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Speaker 2: I know where you are now. Yeah? You're close to
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Speaker 2: the front door. Maybe.
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Speaker 8: You'd still have to guess a little. And me, I
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Speaker 8: can see you. Don't forget my gun is drawn. It's
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Speaker 8: leveled straight at you.
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Speaker 11: So you don't think it would be a good idea
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Speaker 11: to try and draw?
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Speaker 8: It would be the easiest way to commit suicide I
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Speaker 8: ever heard of.
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Speaker 2: Why are you here?
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Speaker 8: You answer that question.
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Speaker 2: We heard someone call for help. We? Who's with you?
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Speaker 2: No one. Not now.
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Speaker 8: So you got a partner somewhere around?
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Speaker 2: Somewhere.
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Speaker 7: Go on.
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Speaker 9: I'm not saying I'll believe this, but I'll listen.
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Speaker 8: You heard a cry for help when you rode up here.
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Speaker 2: That's right. We found a man out on the back porch.
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Speaker 2: He was unconscious. Hit over the head with a gun butt.
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Speaker 8: Ned Rockwell.
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Speaker 2: Oh, so you know him. I knew he was here.
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Speaker 8: Hey, where do you keep your matches?
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Speaker 2: My shirt pocket.
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Speaker 8: Reach for one. I'll light it. Slow, mister. Hold it
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Speaker 8: closer to your face.
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Speaker 2: This way?
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Speaker 10: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: A masked man, huh?
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Speaker 7: Yes.
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Speaker 8: Let's get rid of that belt.
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Speaker 2: I've heard your voice before.
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Speaker 8: Seems to me I've heard yours. Hey, that white horse outside,
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Speaker 8: what do you call him?
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Speaker 7: I call him.
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Speaker 2: Get him, Tonto. He's right in front of you.
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Speaker 5: I'll get his gun.
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Speaker 2: You can let him go now, Tonto. Well, I guess
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Speaker 2: that proves what I wanted to know. What's that? You're smart.
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Speaker 2: Your partner was in back of you when you opened
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Speaker 2: that door. You kept me talking so he could slip
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Speaker 2: around the front door and grab me.
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Speaker 7: Yes.
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Speaker 2: Now it's your turn to answer questions. You mind if
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Speaker 2: I line a match? No. I hope my disguise isn't
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Speaker 2: too good. Hello, Jim. I came pretty close to messing
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Speaker 2: things up, didn't I?
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Speaker 7: Howdy.
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Speaker 2: Howdy, Tano. Why are you here in Ghost Canyon? The
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Speaker 2: same reason you are, I guess. The Black Arrow? What's that?
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Speaker 2: If you don't know, never mind. The sheriff reported there
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Speaker 2: were outlaws seen here about a month ago. And then
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Speaker 2: just last week, he found a dead man at the
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Speaker 2: entrance of the canyon. The doc reported the death was
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Speaker 2: from natural causes. But some of the details made me suspicious,
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Speaker 2: so I decided to investigate. Well, that's the reason for
18:46
Speaker 2: your clothes. Yeah. If there were outlaws hanging around, I
18:50
Speaker 2: figured I might join up with them and find out
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Speaker 2: what they've been up to. There are outlaws, all right.
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Speaker 11: One of them hit young Ned Rockwell over the head.
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Speaker 11: I believe it has something to do with the mine.
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Speaker 2: That's possible. The mine belongs to him, you know. Yes.
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Speaker 2: He came here to see if it was worth holding
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Speaker 2: on to. The land's open to new prospectors if the
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Speaker 2: mine isn't worked within the next month. They may be
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Speaker 2: trying to keep everybody away from it. Yeah. We'd better
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Speaker 2: take a look at the mine first.
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Speaker 7: Kimotami.
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Speaker 2: What's the matter, Tano? Night in kitchen. It's Ned. He's
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Speaker 2: got that linen. Where are you, nice man? Right in here.
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Speaker 2: I can't help it myself. I can hardly stand up.
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Speaker 2: But even if you are a crook, you've got to
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Speaker 2: do something.
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Speaker 7: Help whom?
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Speaker 2: What are you talking about? There was a girl outside
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Speaker 2: just a minute ago.
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Speaker 7: Take the linen, Tano.
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Speaker 2: Here, sit down in this chair. Go on, now. There's
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Speaker 2: a girl named Mary Hamilton. She runs the post office
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Speaker 2: in town. That's my sister. Are you Jim?
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Was Mary outside? No, another girl. I couldn't see her face.
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Speaker 7: She kept in the shadows, but she.
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Speaker 2: Called me by name. What about Mary?
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Speaker 12: This girl said she was waiting at your camp. But
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Speaker 12: there were outlaws near there, and they might take her prisoner.
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Speaker 2: Where's your camp, Jim? Not far. On the other slope
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Speaker 2: of the canyon.
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Speaker 7: Come on.
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Speaker 2: You rode over here, didn't you?
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Speaker 7: Yes.
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Speaker 2: Who could this girl be, the one who brought the message?
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Speaker 2: We don't know, but she's helped us before. It was
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Speaker 2: her note that brought us here. Steady, Silver. Lead the way. Right.
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Speaker 5: Well, we ought to be hitting the.
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Speaker 3: Main tunnel pretty soon now.
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Speaker 7: Yeah. And where?
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Speaker 5: To the left.
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Speaker 2: That's heading for the main entrance, isn't it?
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: There's a place where the tunnel broadens out. That's where
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Speaker 5: the boys are.
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Speaker 6: Are we in the mine now?
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Speaker 2: Never mind the talk, sister.
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Speaker 5: Just keep moving.
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Speaker 6: Does my brother belong to your gang?
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Speaker 5: You're the postmistress, aren't you?
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Speaker 6: Yes, but from the way Jim talked, of course he
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Speaker 6: may not be using his right name.
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Speaker 5: I thought you said that was your brother's camp where
20:53
Speaker 5: we found you.
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Speaker 6: That's where he was camped today.
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Speaker 7: No, sister.
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Speaker 5: We saw that, Omri. He isn't a member of the gang.
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Speaker 6: Oh, thank goodness.
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Speaker 5: He'd be better off if he was.
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Speaker 2: To the left here, huh?
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: What are you going to do with me?
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Speaker 5: It depends on how nice you act. Maybe we'll let
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Speaker 5: you pay us a nice long visit.
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Speaker 2: Hey, there's a light.
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Speaker 5: Sing out to them so they'll know who you are.
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Speaker 5: Don't shoot, boys. It's Jake and Mark. We've got a prisoner.
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Speaker 6: Young Ray, you in there?
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Speaker 5: His sister. That's almost as good.
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Speaker 8: His sister? Let's have a look at it.
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Speaker 5: You can look while you're tying her up. Hands and feet.
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Speaker 2: Keno, how about the man in the house?
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Speaker 5: Knocked him out like you said.
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Speaker 2: That was right, huh, Matt? Yeah.
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Speaker 10: We'll scare him out if we can. If he's still
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Speaker 10: around tomorrow morning, we'll let him have it.
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Speaker 5: Then leave him outside the canyon.
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Speaker 6: Do you have to tie those ropes so tight?
21:40
Speaker 5: Shut up. Don't kick while I'm tying your feet.
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Speaker 10: You said it was almost as good getting the girl
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Speaker 10: as the man.
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Speaker 5: I don't savvy.
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Speaker 10: We left our horse at the camp on a trail
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Speaker 10: that anybody can follow from there to here.
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Speaker 5: He'll come after her.
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Speaker 2: Well, you're a moco.
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Speaker 10: We'll be waiting for him, Sam. In about five minutes,
21:57
Speaker 10: these lanterns go out, and.
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Speaker 5: Then we'll... I hear somebody now. They made it fast.
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Speaker 5: Out with the lights and quiet everybody.
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Speaker 2: Don't let the girl make any noise.
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Speaker 5: I got it.
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Speaker 3: He's carrying the lantern.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, the fool.
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Speaker 5: Keep back to the side. Up with him, mister. He's gone, Jake.
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Speaker 7: I got it. The lantern, Sam.
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Speaker 6: That isn't my brother.
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Speaker 5: It's the hombre from the house, the one we knocked out.
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Speaker 6: What made you come in here?
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Speaker 7: I saw a light.
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Speaker 5: You had to find out what was going on, huh?
22:30
Speaker 5: I found out plenty.
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Speaker 2: You've been working this mine. You've hit a vein of
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Speaker 2: pure gold.
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Speaker 5: That cook's your goose.
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Speaker 2: The mine belongs to me.
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Speaker 5: You're Ned Rockwell?
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 5: It won't be yours in another month. Oh, yes, it will.
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Speaker 2: You've done some work here.
22:42
Speaker 5: That saves it for me. Who's going to know we've
22:44
Speaker 5: done any work?
22:45
Speaker 2: I saw it with my own eyes.
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Speaker 5: We'll close him for you. Close him for good.
22:48
Speaker 6: You can't. You can't murder him.
22:50
Speaker 7: It's easy.
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Speaker 5: Just one bullet.
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Speaker 2: Go ahead.
22:53
Speaker 5: After we get the girl's brother. I don't want any
22:55
Speaker 5: shooting to warn him off. Tie up Mr.
22:57
Speaker 10: Rockwell, boys, and then put out the light. We'll wait
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Speaker 10: for our other visitors.
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Speaker 2: Well, the chair's led us right back to the mine.
23:15
Speaker 2: But this isn't the entrance by the house. It's a
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Speaker 2: new one. Lots of fresh gravel around. Mine's being worked.
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Speaker 2: They've been using this tunnel instead of the old one.
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Speaker 7: Tunnel not like it. Trail too easy to follow.
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Speaker 2: We aren't stopping here, Kimo Sabe.
23:27
Speaker 7: Crook wait for you inside mine.
23:29
Speaker 2: We'll have to have some kind of a light to
23:30
Speaker 2: go in there. We'll pick up a few pine branches.
23:32
Speaker 7: Ah, here. Here one.
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Speaker 11: Yes, here's some more. We won't use these until we
23:37
Speaker 11: have to. I'm worried about the other entrance.
23:39
Speaker 2: What do you mean? They can escape by it. You
23:42
Speaker 2: better go around there and stand guard, Tonto. Ah. How
23:44
Speaker 2: to do it? Come along, Jim. Just a second while
23:46
Speaker 2: I get this lit. Not yet. We can follow the
23:48
Speaker 2: tunnel without a light for a while.
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Speaker 11: Come on.
24:02
Speaker 2: What's the matter? Healing the walls.
24:04
Speaker 5: Well?
24:05
Speaker 2: We've hit another tunnel at right angles to this one.
24:07
Speaker 2: Which way do we turn?
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Speaker 11: The front entrance would be to the left. Let's try that.
24:12
Speaker 11: This must be the way.
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Speaker 2: Yes, but be quiet. Hold it. You all right? I
24:16
Speaker 2: just stumbled. I ought to learn to pick up my feet.
24:19
Speaker 2: You suppose anybody heard that? Masked man, that was a woman.
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Speaker 2: My sister. Steady. She isn't far away. We'll go on.
24:27
Speaker 2: A bird? Inside the mine? That was Tonto. About a
24:30
Speaker 2: hundred feet up ahead. There between us and him. Yeah.
24:33
Speaker 11: Now's the time to light our torches. They'll start shooting then.
24:36
Speaker 11: I'm going to light it fast and throw it up ahead.
24:39
Speaker 11: It may show us where they are.
24:40
Speaker 2: If it doesn't go out too fast, the woods dry.
24:43
Speaker 2: And over this way a little, so they won't be
24:44
Speaker 2: able to see the match. Right. It's catching. Throw it.
24:49
Speaker 7: There.
24:54
Speaker 4: As the torch flared through the darkness, the outlaws opened fire.
24:56
Speaker 4: But almost at once, they lost their momentary targets. The
24:59
Speaker 4: torch continued to burn where it had fallen. And the
25:01
Speaker 4: figures of the gunmen became more distinct. The leader moved quickly.
25:04
Speaker 2: Don't shoot.
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Speaker 5: I'm using the girl as a shield.
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Speaker 2: No.
25:07
Speaker 5: Stay right where you are. But go out the front way.
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Speaker 5: All right. Get moving. You can see her back there,
25:12
Speaker 5: can't you? If you shoot, you'll hit her.
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Speaker 6: Mark.
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Speaker 7: What's the matter?
25:17
Speaker 8: Something happened to Sam. I can't see, but I heard
25:19
Speaker 8: him get out.
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Speaker 5: What's going on there? You let go, girl.
25:22
Speaker 8: Good night, Tullow.
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Speaker 7: Come on, Jim.
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Speaker 5: Are you all right, Mary?
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Speaker 8: Are you hurt?
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Speaker 7: You stand still.
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Speaker 5: Can't he get away and try to hit you like others?
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Speaker 2: Stand back, Tullow.
25:30
Speaker 5: He's got a gun. Oh, not good.
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Speaker 7: You shoot gun out of hand.
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Speaker 5: Now you can talk, Mary.
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Speaker 7: Are you hurt?
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Speaker 2: No. No.
25:37
Speaker 6: Ned Rockwell's over there.
25:38
Speaker 7: Ah, time to cut rope. Take off, Jack.
25:40
Speaker 6: I guess you saved my life, Jim. But I don't
25:43
Speaker 6: know whether I'm grateful or not.
25:44
Speaker 2: What do you mean by that?
25:46
Speaker 6: I can see what your friends are like now.
25:47
Speaker 5: A masked man and an Indian.
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Speaker 2: You are an outlaw. Don't judge your brother by the
25:52
Speaker 2: company he keeps, Miss Hamilton.
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Speaker 11: He's a United States Marshal.
25:56
Speaker 7: A what?
25:57
Speaker 2: You can handle the prisoners, can't you, Jim? Sure thing.
25:59
Speaker 2: There are no condition to make trouble. Then, Tonto, I'll
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Speaker 2: be on our way.
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Speaker 5: Oh, Rockwell, all right.
26:03
Speaker 7: I sure am.
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Speaker 5: Adios.
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Speaker 2: So long, Masked Man. Financials, Tonto. Did I hear right?
26:07
Speaker 2: Are you really a marshal, Jim? Yeah. Then I guess
26:09
Speaker 2: you're the one to tell.
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Speaker 9: Those crooks are trying to keep folks away from the
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Speaker 9: canyon because they found a new vein of gold and
26:15
Speaker 9: they wanted the mine for themselves.
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Speaker 2: Still belongs to you, doesn't it? Sure does. Won't be
26:19
Speaker 2: long before I can think of getting married.
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Speaker 6: Never mind that.
26:23
Speaker 2: Give me a hand here, Ned. We've got to get
26:25
Speaker 2: these crooks tied up. It's a pleasure.
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Speaker 6: I still can't understand it. How can a United States
26:31
Speaker 6: Marshal be friends with a masked man?
26:33
Speaker 5: I wish he hadn't been, that's all. Maybe you can
26:35
Speaker 5: tell her who he is. I've got an idea.
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Speaker 2: There isn't a crook in the West who likes to
26:38
Speaker 2: meet that particular masked man, sis. Liz Omri's right. It
26:42
Speaker 2: was he and Tano who saved your life, not me.
26:44
Speaker 4: All I did was take orders and help as much
26:46
Speaker 4: as I could.
26:46
Speaker 5: Well, who is he?
26:47
Speaker 6: There.
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Speaker 2: Well, leave your feet untied.
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Speaker 5: You've got a long walk ahead of you, mister.
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Speaker 6: Who is he, Jim?
26:52
Speaker 5: Why, I'm almost ashamed of you, Mary, that a sister
26:55
Speaker 5: of mine could be so plum ignorant.
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Speaker 6: Well, how should I know?
26:57
Speaker 2: That was the Lone Ranger.
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Speaker 7: Oh, Jim!
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Speaker 2: Oh, Jim!
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