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Hopalong Cassidy - "The Coltsville Terror" (Old Time Radio, 1950) · Hopalong Cassidy | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: Caught in stormy weather, hop Along Cassidy and California Carlson
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  Speaker 1: take shelter in an apparently deserted church in Coltsville. From
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  Speaker 1: January fifteenth, nineteen fifty comes hop Along Cassidy the Coltsville
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  Speaker 1: Terror Program Number three. William Boyd stars as hop Along
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  Speaker 1: and Andy Clyde as California Carlson, with John McIntyre and
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  Speaker 1: Martha Wentworth in the cast. Their refuge stands beside an
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  Speaker 1: old graveyard, where a mysteriously active organ and an effort
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  Speaker 1: to prevent the church from being torn down draw Hoppy
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  Speaker 1: in California into the affairs of the nearly empty town.
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  Speaker 1: Ted Bliss directed and Walter White Junior produced the radio production.
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  Speaker 1: And now we returned to the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: It's hop Along Cavity, with action antuspense, out of the
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  Speaker 2: Old West, becomes the most famous hero of them all,
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  Speaker 2: hop Along Cassidy, darring William Boyd. The jingle of the
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  Speaker 2: Silver Spurs, Herald's last fabulous figure of the Early West.
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  Speaker 2: Hop Along Cassidy, the same happy your Cheer in motion pictures,
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  Speaker 2: with the same California You've laughed out a hundred times
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  Speaker 2: in your local theaters. These famous partners come riding.
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  Speaker 3: Into radio just as you've asked for them.
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  Speaker 2: William Boyd, A, hop Along Cassidy and Dan Decline at
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  Speaker 2: California Our Joy Tonight, the Coltsville Terror. It's amazing what
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  Speaker 2: a threatening set of weather conditions can do. At the moment,
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  Speaker 2: they are joining forces with hop Along Cassidy to get
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  Speaker 2: California into a church, a deserted church in the deserted
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  Speaker 2: town of Coltsville.
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  Speaker 3: Black clouds are piling up overhead.
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  Speaker 2: The church stands, silence and foreboding like the rest of
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  Speaker 2: the town.
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  Speaker 4: I'm thinking the saddle bag, you tid of horses that
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  Speaker 4: lean to him back.
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  Speaker 2: Poppy list, infernal ghost downs bad enough, But why do
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  Speaker 2: we have to pick an empty church to bunky?
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  Speaker 4: Well? What's wrong with that? Lots of people go to church.
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  Speaker 2: Well, but it ain't the church, Shoppy, it's that marble
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  Speaker 2: orchard out and back there. And you know how I
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  Speaker 2: feel about them things. They get under my scalp, tickle
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  Speaker 2: my brain.
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  Speaker 4: Just calm your goose, simple, California, No one out in
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  Speaker 4: the graveyard is gonna urt you. It's ten miles back
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  Speaker 4: to Fenwell. If we don't get out from one of
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  Speaker 4: those big black clouds. We're gonna have to paddle our
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  Speaker 4: way home to.
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  Speaker 2: The Bardwan Sharan coachfield. Not a soul around all them
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  Speaker 2: empty buildings. And you know what, I think i'd be
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  Speaker 2: interested to hear.
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  Speaker 4: I think you're just afraid to be alone with your conscience.
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  Speaker 4: Why don't you forget the ghosts and take care of
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  Speaker 4: the horses when I well, listen.
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  Speaker 5: You're sure this year church at occupied hoppy?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. Let's take a look. Sounds like it's
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  Speaker 4: coming from that room over there. Yeah, I'm not. That's
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  Speaker 4: going to the organ here where the wind blowing through,
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  Speaker 4: the fighting up and.
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  Speaker 3: The law the law, well, well.
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  Speaker 5: What do you know? The winding through it? Now I
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  Speaker 5: feel better, but not much better.
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  Speaker 4: Come on, now, there's a wood stove in the next row,
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  Speaker 4: and I could do some of those beans of yours.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it'd be nice having music with our dinner.
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  Speaker 4: A California. Ah, these beans want to waste the talent
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  Speaker 4: in California. You know you'd make some woman a wonderful wife.
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  Speaker 5: Gosh, she really thanks you, happy wife.
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  Speaker 4: That's a good one. What's the matter.
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  Speaker 5: I'm either losing my mind or I'm here in that
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  Speaker 5: organ player toom.
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  Speaker 4: Well, most organs do play tunes dot.
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  Speaker 2: Kong, stop being for calm hop here. I didn't want
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  Speaker 2: to come into this here spooky church in.
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  Speaker 5: The first place.
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  Speaker 4: Or would you rather be out of that downbour.
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  Speaker 2: In Chutner would I didn't like it when we first
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  Speaker 2: come into this church with the organ howling away, and
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  Speaker 2: you were telling me it was the wind, and now
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  Speaker 2: it started playing a tune.
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  Speaker 5: Well, well, what do you gotta say to me?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I'd say Coastville has very remarkable wins. And as
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  Speaker 4: much as I regret leaving these deans, I guess we
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  Speaker 4: better investigate. Come along, CALIFORNI yes.
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  Speaker 2: We continue with hop Along Cassidy in just a moment.
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  Speaker 2: Now back to hop Along Cassidy and the Coatsville Terrace.
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  Speaker 2: Happy in California have found shelter from the storm in
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  Speaker 2: an abandoned church in the deserted town of Colesville, Or
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  Speaker 2: at least they thought the church was abandoned until a
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  Speaker 2: moment ago.
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  Speaker 4: Come in California, defendish, where you're going. Let's take a
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  Speaker 4: look at that organ again.
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  Speaker 5: Why don't I just stay here? In mind these beings?
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  Speaker 4: And well, you'd rather be alone?
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  Speaker 5: Check and thought, I'm right behind your happy.
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  Speaker 4: I've never seen you so scared before.
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  Speaker 5: I ain't scared and nothing I can draw a beat on.
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  Speaker 5: But when it comes, why a ghost? Here we go?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I'm sorry if we frightened you, miss you see
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  Speaker 4: we Yes, yes.
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  Speaker 6: You did frighten me.
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  Speaker 7: Would you mind telling us what you're doing here?
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  Speaker 4: Well, ma'am, we thought we'd spend the night here out
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  Speaker 4: of the storm. I'm hop long, Cassie, and this is California, Carson.
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  Speaker 4: We think that the church was deserted like the rest
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  Speaker 4: of the town.
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  Speaker 7: And did you see it isn't so if you don't minute, mother,
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  Speaker 7: this was your father's church, Susan, I've seen no reason
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  Speaker 7: why it should be used as the hotel.
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  Speaker 8: By just a minute, mother, it happens to be my
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  Speaker 8: church now. Father used to think of it as a
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  Speaker 8: place of sheilder. As far as I'm concerned, it still is.
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  Speaker 8: If you care to spend the night here, mister Cathy,
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  Speaker 8: You're perfectly welcome.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you very much.
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  Speaker 6: I'm Susan Crowell and this is my mother.
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  Speaker 3: How do you do? Mother?
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  Speaker 6: And I come down in the evenings to play the organs.
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  Speaker 6: Very little else to do around here.
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  Speaker 4: I see you say this was your father's church.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, he's out in the graveyard now, mister Cassidy.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 8: My mother and I a Deacon Black, are the only
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  Speaker 8: ones left.
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  Speaker 6: In Coltsville now. Deacon Blank, Well, mister Black isn't the
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  Speaker 6: real deacon. We just call him that because he's a.
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  Speaker 8: Fine man who helped father build a church. He's been
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  Speaker 8: very faithful to us since his father was killed last spring.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it seems to me that's about the time Pele
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  Speaker 4: began leaving Coltsville.
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  Speaker 7: We'd prefer not to discuss that now, mister Cassidy.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry. Still, I can't help it be a little
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  Speaker 4: curious as to what would make a hundred people suddenly
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  Speaker 4: pack up and town. That sounds like we do for
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  Speaker 4: another downfour man, we'd be happy to take you home.
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  Speaker 4: I think that.
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  Speaker 6: We lived just down the street in s Cassidy. You
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  Speaker 6: would see the house in this window here the.
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  Speaker 5: Baby came down from the laptop.
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  Speaker 7: Er you all right, mother, or it just makes me.
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  Speaker 4: That thunderclap, jarted loose look crossed.
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  Speaker 6: Down on the organized right.
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  Speaker 2: Swear you were sitting susan operation that are my too
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  Speaker 2: close for comfort.
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  Speaker 3: Let me see that this.
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  Speaker 7: Church is only two years old. I don't see how
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  Speaker 7: an accident like that.
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  Speaker 4: Wait, it wasn't an accident, man, What do you mean?
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  Speaker 6: Well?
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  Speaker 4: This timbers then sought almost through I think someone figured
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  Speaker 4: the vibration of those organ pipes that jarred loose so
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  Speaker 4: it would drop right on the bench.
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  Speaker 6: Why who would do that?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know who, miss trial. It looks like somebody
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  Speaker 4: was trying to kid you kill me, I think.
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  Speaker 3: So.
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  Speaker 4: Now, why don't you be sensible and tell me about
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  Speaker 4: this colescale business?
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  Speaker 7: But nothing can be done about it now?
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  Speaker 4: Maybe not, but I'd like to hear about it anyway, all.
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  Speaker 6: Right, mister Cassidy.
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  Speaker 4: Good right now, though, I think the best place to
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  Speaker 4: talk is home.
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  Speaker 5: Now.
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  Speaker 4: You say your father builds the church and strow.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, with his own money. The land was donated by
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  Speaker 6: the community.
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  Speaker 7: He intended to give.
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  Speaker 6: It to the people in a few years.
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  Speaker 7: And that's when it started, mister Cassidy. What started this
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  Speaker 7: feeling of dread and terror? It fell over the whole
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  Speaker 7: town like a shadow.
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  Speaker 8: And there were shooting, strange disappearances. No one knew would
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  Speaker 8: be next. Everyone kept their doors locked or moved away.
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  Speaker 7: There was no reason for it, no explanation, only fear everywhere.
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  Speaker 4: But didn't you suspect someone that was the terrible.
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  Speaker 5: Part of it?
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  Speaker 7: No one else had any idea who was behind it.
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  Speaker 7: Folks be came Hannick's Chicken and whispered about the coast terror.
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  Speaker 6: Father refused to run away.
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  Speaker 8: He tried to get the people together to fight it. Then,
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  Speaker 8: four months ago, on his way home from church one night,
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  Speaker 8: he was shot from ambush, no warning.
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  Speaker 6: Nothing, excuse me, mister Black, come here, Susan pray.
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  Speaker 9: I haven't thought lease, I've just talked to mister Riker.
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  Speaker 7: And oh, mister Black, this is mister mister Black.
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  Speaker 4: How do you do?
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  Speaker 8: Mister Cassidy and a stander standing on the night over
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  Speaker 8: at the church on account of a storm?
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  Speaker 6: Oh what were you saying about, mister Riker?
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  Speaker 9: He was completely unreasonable, insists the church belongs to no
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  Speaker 9: one since it stands on public land.
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  Speaker 7: You mean he's going to tear it down, mister Black.
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  Speaker 4: I'm afraid so he has.
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  Speaker 6: No right to tear that church down. My father bought
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  Speaker 6: the lumber and built it himself.
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  Speaker 4: I told him that.
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  Speaker 9: I told him, abandoned or not, it was still a
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  Speaker 9: place of worship. I said he was committing a sacrilege.
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  Speaker 4: He wouldn't listen to me. Excuse me, You say that
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  Speaker 4: man wants to tear down the church.
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  Speaker 6: That's right, he's been threatening two for a week.
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  Speaker 8: Why we claim they needs finished lumber for a mine building.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, that's a funny reason. That's funny, a finished lumber.
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  Speaker 4: And thenwell, you don't know.
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  Speaker 3: What this means to us, mister Cassidy.
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  Speaker 9: The three of us, Susan, Missus Crowell and I have
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  Speaker 9: stayed here in Coatsville. We've defied this terror, risked our
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  Speaker 9: lives in the hope that someday the people would return,
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  Speaker 9: there'd be a real congregation in that church.
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  Speaker 5: Again.
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  Speaker 4: Yet this, this ranker fellow, wants to tear down.
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  Speaker 6: It doesn't belong to him, mister Cassidy. How can he?
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  Speaker 4: Seems to me that's a question for the court to settle.
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  Speaker 4: Does he affirmation or an order of any kind?
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  Speaker 9: Oh, he isn't that kind of a man, mister Cassidy.
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  Speaker 9: He told me he'd be at the church tomorrow morning
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  Speaker 9: with ten of his men ready to start.
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  Speaker 5: I couldn't reason with.
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  Speaker 3: Him at all.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe you didn't talk the right language, mister Black California
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  Speaker 4: and I'll be on and when mister Ragger pulls up
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  Speaker 4: in the morning. Don't you let his worry. We'll do
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  Speaker 4: our best to make him understand facing spat ready, hoppy breakfast,
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  Speaker 4: laugh away, I'm over the windows. What is it? Looks
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  Speaker 4: like mister Ranker and party are right on schedule.
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  Speaker 3: Hi, we're.
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  Speaker 5: Cowie. Bring an army with him.
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  Speaker 4: He's got a lot of foresight, that man. Where time
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  Speaker 4: I knew a six gun was standing equipment for a carpenter.
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  Speaker 4: Come on, California, this gang means business.
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  Speaker 2: We'll rejoin hop Along Cassidy in just a moment, But
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  Speaker 2: first a word from your announcer.
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  Speaker 10: Chack Chack.
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  Speaker 7: Mo ne.
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  Speaker 2: Now back to hop Along Cassidy and the Colt Bill Terra.
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  Speaker 2: A violent and evil force has driven away the inhabitants
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  Speaker 2: of this little town. Now a gang of thugs from
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  Speaker 2: a neighboring town have come to tear down the abandoned church.
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  Speaker 2: Happy is determined to protect the interests of the late
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  Speaker 2: minister's daughter, Susan Crowell. So he in California have been
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  Speaker 2: waiting at the church waiting for writer, and he's getting
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  Speaker 2: to arrive and attempts the demolition.
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  Speaker 5: Happier. Are we going right up to him? There's a
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  Speaker 5: lot of them.
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  Speaker 4: Are only two of a shave? Two men turned on
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  Speaker 4: a steamboat. You must be getting old as ten men,
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  Speaker 4: ried yet happy. Don't got it there? You must be
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  Speaker 4: mister Riker.
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  Speaker 5: Who are you?
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  Speaker 4: The name is Cassidy.
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  Speaker 3: What are you doing here?
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  Speaker 4: We just spent the night at the church. You just
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  Speaker 4: made it well. It won't be here another night. We're
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  Speaker 4: tearing it down. You you've got the owner's permission. I
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  Speaker 4: got all the permission I need.
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  Speaker 5: Mister.
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  Speaker 4: It's her church stands on public land. It's abandoned, and
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  Speaker 4: in my Lord books, that means he belongs with a
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  Speaker 4: man who can best use it. You know I don't
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  Speaker 4: see it that way at all. Oh, you don't take
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  Speaker 4: it easy, boys. I'll handle this this bug.
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  Speaker 2: If you don't mind, mister Riker, keep your hands off
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  Speaker 2: and your hips Wile Hoppy explained.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think I need to explain. Mister Riker knows
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  Speaker 4: as well as I do that he has to have
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  Speaker 4: a court order to demolish a building.
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  Speaker 6: Excuse me, excuse me.
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  Speaker 4: I'm just straightening things out for mister Riker. Miss Crow,
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  Speaker 4: you didn't straighten out nothing. A church is coming down
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  Speaker 4: and no one's gonna stop it.
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  Speaker 5: Ker. I tried to tell you last night.
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  Speaker 4: We shut up too, Black, I'm through talking about it.
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  Speaker 4: Or's your mother, Susan, she's here too. You better take
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  Speaker 4: her inside the church? Would you go along with him,
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  Speaker 4: mister Black.
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  Speaker 9: Mister Cassidy, I'm trying to consider Susan's father in this.
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  Speaker 9: Rather than have more violence, more bloodshed, I think we
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  Speaker 9: should let mister Riker do as he wants.
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  Speaker 4: Well, what about it, Cassidy, Susan, No.
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  Speaker 6: It's not right, and I won't stand for it.
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  Speaker 4: That's all I want to know.
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  Speaker 6: Come on, mother, I'll go with you.
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  Speaker 4: That wasn't so corporal, Cassidy. They're able to get hurt
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  Speaker 4: in there when we start work. Tell me something, Riker, Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: what are you really after? You wouldn't go to all
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  Speaker 4: this trouble for some second hand lumber you could buy
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  Speaker 4: for twenty dollars in Funwell, the cattle business is a
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  Speaker 4: great game, Cassidy. Maybe you'd better stay in it. Now,
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  Speaker 4: get out of this time before I lose what patience
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  Speaker 4: I got left. I'm not getting out. Will you show
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  Speaker 4: me a court order to demolishist church? Okay?
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  Speaker 3: Check?
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  Speaker 4: That wasn't smart, Riker?
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  Speaker 5: Not smart at all.
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  Speaker 4: I'll show you who's run.
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  Speaker 5: Nice work.
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  Speaker 3: Copy quick into the church. Don't get.
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  Speaker 5: Get out the wall.
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  Speaker 4: Those walls are thin. No, keep down, mister.
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  Speaker 7: I knew this had happened. I knew it.
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  Speaker 5: Easy, missus Clower.
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  Speaker 6: Sometimes it said it a fight, mother. That's what your
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  Speaker 6: father said, not what happened to him.
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  Speaker 9: I told you, mister Cassidy, we should have.
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  Speaker 4: It's too late to do anything about that now. At
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  Speaker 4: least Riker knows he'll have a fight on his hands California.
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  Speaker 4: Take a look out that window. What are they doing?
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  Speaker 5: Looks like he's talking to the men out saying that
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  Speaker 5: grove trees.
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  Speaker 2: I could pick off Riker like a flying a white ceiling.
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  Speaker 4: Put your gun down.
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  Speaker 5: I don't mean to argue.
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  Speaker 2: Hoppy brokes me like we've gone about as far as
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  Speaker 2: we can with diplomachy.
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  Speaker 4: I gotta think this out. And I'm sure once twenty
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  Speaker 4: dollars worth of lumber, I wonder why keep down, everybody,
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  Speaker 4: mister Brack. You stay here with the women. There might
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  Speaker 4: be some old furniture something in the basement we'll need
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  Speaker 4: at the barricade these windows.
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  Speaker 3: Mister Cassidy, how long do you intend.
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  Speaker 4: To keep this up until mister Raker decides it's cheaper
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  Speaker 4: to buy his lumber and Sundwell, come on, California, let's
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  Speaker 4: see what we can find that EVENTU hout to do
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  Speaker 4: for the front window.
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  Speaker 5: I got it.
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  Speaker 4: This thing looks like a furea. They need some help
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  Speaker 4: getting it up the stairs. I what you? What's your
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  Speaker 4: mar You smell something funny?
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  Speaker 5: Where I got this bench of a nose?
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  Speaker 4: You put it down?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Now nope, don't smell nothing.
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  Speaker 4: I sure do. I wonder could.
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  Speaker 2: You wonder just as well after we get to stop upstairs,
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  Speaker 2: I mean before riker shoots out all the window.
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  Speaker 4: Wait a minute, I think I know why a raker
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  Speaker 4: wants this lumber. H wonderful I could get through the fenwell,
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  Speaker 4: they'd have the records. They're in the courthouse. Come here,
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  Speaker 4: let's take a look out the windows.
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  Speaker 5: Wait, what's heating now?
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  Speaker 4: And hard to see through this thing? The glass is
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  Speaker 4: all there. I might have known it. They run off
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  Speaker 4: our horses and I'll have to steal one.
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  Speaker 5: You mind telling me what you're talking about.
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  Speaker 4: You're going to have to hold the port alone. California,
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  Speaker 4: give me five minutes and let go with both the
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  Speaker 4: coat and the Winchester from the south side of the building.
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  Speaker 4: Never mind naming, just get their attention. What will you
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: be doing stealing one of their horses? I got a
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  Speaker 4: date with a man and Friendwell listened, writer, I didn't
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: bargain for nothing like this. Yeah, I won't shut up.
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  Speaker 4: We'll never get away with this strong arm stuff.
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  Speaker 6: And you know it.
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  Speaker 3: I got the law and friend.
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  Speaker 4: Will you heard what the boss said, didn't you? The
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: church comes down by nightfall or ell, yeah, by dying.
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  Speaker 4: They don't make any difference to the boss where the
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: law is Once that church is down, the crowd or licked. Now, look, Jerry,
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: you're in for your percentage, same as the rest of us.
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: If you get a beef, why don't you take it
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: right to the boors. Well, I ain't gonna walk up
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: to a woman had neither the mye. I get around
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  Speaker 4: to the south side with the rest of the boys.
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: Cassidy wants to shoot it out. It's okay with me.
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  Speaker 9: That won't be good enough, Riker, huh oh, boss, shut up,
• 20:31
  Speaker 9: got break your lousy neck.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: I'm doing the best. I I'm not good enough. You
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: had Cassidy right under your nose this morning.
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  Speaker 9: Ten men behind you why'd you let him get inside
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  Speaker 9: that church?
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: I couldn't shoot him down, or you're gonna have to.
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: Do it now.
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  Speaker 4: Huh.
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  Speaker 9: I've got a hunch he's gonna try and break through,
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  Speaker 9: get over the.
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  Speaker 4: Penwell, that's all they're worried about.
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  Speaker 3: Boss, Enough, isn't it.
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: You can't get a chance. You got the horse, Riker, Riker,
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: the matter? Jerry Canty? What of at Catterdy? Just go
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: right away one of our horses.
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  Speaker 5: You see what I mean?
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  Speaker 4: Riker, Get the boys, Jerry, run up and follow up?
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: What do you run off?
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: All our horses bred clean out over the country side.
• 21:16
  Speaker 9: Don't stay in the Riker, Get the boys together. I
• 21:19
  Speaker 9: don't care how you do it, but you've got to
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  Speaker 9: stop Cassidy before he gets to Fenwell.
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: Tom, Tom Adams were happy.
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: You ol farmit?
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: Oh, entire nation you've made No time is off Tom.
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  Speaker 4: But give me the cold Fill property records. You've got
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: him here. I'm just two. What's her happy?
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: I don't know yet.
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  Speaker 4: Look, I want all correspondence, copies of letters, anything you
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: got on that Coldsville section because everybody left town. Ah,
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: get nid happy? I just yes, it's Tom. If you
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: might check with the sheriff see if they can round
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: up a party in a hurry. If I am right,
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: we're gonna need it.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: What's that sheriff I name? It's a round up a posse, Jeff,
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  Speaker 2: and do it quick.
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  Speaker 5: You mean there's trouble, not.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: Yet, but the world be sum We're riding into Coltsville,
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: coldsfil what's the matter, Dad?
• 22:34
  Speaker 6: What are you and the sheriff talking about?
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: I'm asking Jeff to join a posse to ride into Coldsville.
• 22:39
  Speaker 6: Man, Oh, no, dead, You can't. You know what always
• 22:42
  Speaker 6: happened for.
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: Somebody's got to do it.
• 22:44
  Speaker 6: Mary, You're all I got love dead.
• 22:47
  Speaker 7: They even got my husband's sheriff. You can't take dead.
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  Speaker 9: But if we could clean there's awful mayors up, we
• 22:53
  Speaker 9: could move back to Coldsville.
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: Wouldn't you like that?
• 22:55
  Speaker 7: Honey?
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: There ain't nobody ever going to clean that up. It's
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: evil and terrible.
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: There's one man that can do it, ma'am. Up along Cassidy.
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: Cassidy, he's here.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: He's on his way in the Coatsville now alone. That's
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: why I want to round up this hip posse quick.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: Why in tarnation didn't you say so before? What do
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: you say now, honey, don't just stand there.
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: Dad, get your horse.
• 23:17
  Speaker 7: Why if I didn't have on a skirt, I'd hitch
• 23:19
  Speaker 7: up the horse my belt.
• 23:30
  Speaker 9: I can't tell you.
• 23:31
  Speaker 6: I can't stand in more of this vision. We've got
• 23:33
  Speaker 6: to hold out, mother.
• 23:35
  Speaker 9: I've done all I can do, Susan. I risked my
• 23:38
  Speaker 9: life by going outside to see mister Riker. I pleaded
• 23:41
  Speaker 9: with him, and he's finally agreed to let us all go.
• 23:44
  Speaker 7: In peace if we leave now, mister cousin, I appeared
• 23:48
  Speaker 7: to stay here a minute longer.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, ma'am, how you told me to hold if
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: all Kelley got back and we're staying right here?
• 23:55
  Speaker 9: What heavens, mister Carlson, can't you be reasonable?
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: It's dark outside.
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: We've been here all.
• 24:00
  Speaker 7: And maybe you can tell us Simus to Cassidy walked
• 24:03
  Speaker 7: out without so much as a word to.
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: It, Missus Crowe.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: I don't know how long many years Stastnshire took to
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: riding with hoplong casht here. I trusted him the minute
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: we met, and I I'm in trusting him every since.
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: So I ain't ever been wrong.
• 24:19
  Speaker 8: Mister Carson's right, mother, there's no time to give up.
• 24:22
  Speaker 7: How do we know he got through. He might have
• 24:24
  Speaker 7: been shocked. They might be holding in anything.
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: Oh it's not quite that serious, missus Crowell.
• 24:31
  Speaker 7: We're happy where you've been born.
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: Funwell. Trying to find out what makes mister Riker so
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: anxious about getting this lumber. It's an interesting question, Missus Crowell,
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: and I have found a very interesting answer.
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: We returned to hop Along Cassidy in just a moment.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: Now to conclude the story the Coltsville Terror. Hoppy has
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: just returned from Fenwell. Sure now he has found the
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: answer to the riddle of mister Riker's lumbers, and the
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: answer too to the terror that has struck the little
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: town of Coltsville.
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: What do you mean, Hoppy? What about the lumber?
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: It wasn't the lumber, It never was.
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: What is it, mister Castle? See why?
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: A few minutes after I got the fenwel to look
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: at the property records on this land, the stage pulled in.
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: There was a man from the east on him, a
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: fella named Edward Hines. Anyone ever heard of him? No,
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: I had to talk of mister Hines. I found out
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: that all the land and Coltsville, except for the twenty
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: egcres of Church property here had been brought up by
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: one man.
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: What I thought the land was workless.
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: Oh, this one fella didn't. He planned to sell it
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: to mister Hind for over one hundred thousand dollars, provided
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: he could deliver the property on the dome itself.
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: Do what what's the dome?
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: It's once the church sits right on top of California,
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: an oil dome so rich that the oil is seeking
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: into the basement. That's when I smelled this morning.
• 26:43
  Speaker 7: Where Joe Ghost and who's been buying.
• 26:46
  Speaker 6: Up the property?
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: Well, it's been brought in the names of a dozen men.
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: Most of them met bunch with Riker, working for a percentage,
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: but they were private arrangements between them and the feller
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: they called a boss.
• 26:56
  Speaker 7: And this man was responsible for what happened here.
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: Of course he was. He's the kind of a man
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: who will stopped at nothing, murder, robbery, terror.
• 27:08
  Speaker 6: Mister Black.
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: So it was never mind that.
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: Now, Yeah, okay, you hurt Tom all right, that second
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: one did at California. I think mister Black's career is
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: about over. Yes, student, the thinker.
• 27:28
  Speaker 7: I can't believe it.
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: Neither good eye until I saw it in black and white.
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: What what about writers. They got the fenwell just in
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: time to meet the posse. Well, looks like you got
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: a job on your hands in the students, convincing the
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: folks who left town that cold still wants some back,
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: only this time to live in peace.
• 27:46
  Speaker 6: I don't know how to thank you, mister Cassidy.
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: Then just forget it. I like doing favors for people happy.
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: What is it California as a.
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: Special favors being all?
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Next time we get caught in a thunderstorm and
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: we run across to an empty church, what do you
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: say we just get to wake Things are going to
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: be mighty different in Coltsville now thanks to hop Along Cathody,
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: I and California are heading back to the bar twenty now.
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: They hope to get a spell of rest, but you
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: can just bet that won't last. Along.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: There'll be somebody in trouble, and then hop He'll go
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: into action again. Hop Along Cassidy, starring William Boyd, is
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: transcribed and produced in the West by Walter White Jr.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: The Coltsville Terror was written by Harold Swanton. All stories
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: are based upon the characters created.
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  Speaker 3: By Clarence Mulfer. This is a Commodore production.
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  Speaker 1: We close with hop Along Cassidy and the Coltsville Terror.
• 29:42
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