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The Lone Ranger - "Cave of Terror" (Old Time Radio, 1950) · The Lone Ranger | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: October 25th, 1950 brought listeners episode 2,773 of The Lone Ranger.
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  Speaker 1: This installment is titled Cave of Terror. For generations, The
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  Speaker 1: Lone Ranger has held a familiar place in radio's Western tradition,
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  Speaker 1: with the masked rider and his faithful companion riding on
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  Speaker 1: from one adventure to the next.
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  Speaker 2: And now, the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 3: I'll send it!
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  Speaker 4: A fiery horse with the speed of light, a cloud
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  Speaker 4: of dust, and a hearty high old silver.
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  Speaker 5: The Lone Ranger. The Lone Ranger. THE END.
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  Speaker 3: THE END.
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  Speaker 4: For this faithful Indian companion, Toto, the daring and resourceful
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  Speaker 4: mask rider of the plains led the fight for law
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  Speaker 4: and order in the early western United States. Nowhere in
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  Speaker 4: the pages of history can one find a greater champion
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  Speaker 4: of justice. Return with us now to those thrilling days
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  Speaker 4: of yesteryear. From out of the past come the thundering
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  Speaker 4: hoofbeats of the great horse Silver. The Lone Ranger rides again.
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  Speaker 5: Come on, Silver.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go, big fellow.
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  Speaker 5: I am Silver.
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  Speaker 6: Hooray!
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  Speaker 2: Hooray!
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  Speaker 4: Bibb and Cliff Dalton, ages nine and eleven, sat on
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  Speaker 4: the ground near the barn of their widowed mother's small ranch.
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  Speaker 4: Both boys wore rapt expressions as they listened to their grandfather,
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  Speaker 4: Zeb Coleman, recount another of his lurid adventures. Bibb, however,
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  Speaker 4: was taking time out to study the sole of his foot,
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  Speaker 4: a foot from which he had just removed a makeshift bandage.
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  Speaker 5: And there I was, one white man again a hundred redskins.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, relatives, my foot is healing up good.
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  Speaker 5: They kept child, huh? What'd you say, Bibb? Oh, you
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  Speaker 5: don't want me to go on. Is that it? Oh, gosh, no, Gramp.
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  Speaker 5: Go ahead. I'm listening.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, him and his old foot. Go ahead, Gramp. What
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  Speaker 7: happened then?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, well, let's see now. Oh, yeah. Well, they kept
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  Speaker 5: charging in. I kept banging them dead. Killed all except
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  Speaker 5: one big brave. Shot him so full of holes he
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  Speaker 5: died of pneumonia in ten minutes. But my trouble was
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  Speaker 5: just starting. Uh-oh. Here comes your mother, boys.
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  Speaker 8: Bibb, Cliff, are you going to waste all morning out
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  Speaker 8: here listening to your grandfather? It's almost 8 o'clock. And
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  Speaker 8: you said an hour ago you were going into the
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  Speaker 8: hills and getting me some blackberries.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yes, Mom.
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  Speaker 8: We were just going, weren't we, Cliff?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, this very minute, Mom. You see the peals by
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  Speaker 7: the gate?
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  Speaker 5: Come on, Bibb. I'll race you to the gate.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, wait. You've got to hit start.
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  Speaker 5: And get back here as soon as you can. No
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  Speaker 5: playing around up there. We'll be back by noon.
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  Speaker 3: See you.
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  Speaker 8: Daddy, I wish that... Daddy, Bibb isn't wearing his shoes.
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  Speaker 8: And there's his foot bandage on the grass.
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  Speaker 3: Bibb!
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  Speaker 5: Bibb, do you hear me? No, they can't hear you now, Kathy.
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  Speaker 5: They're running too fast.
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  Speaker 8: But the sole of his foot is cut. He'll poison
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  Speaker 8: it walking and running in the dirt. And up there
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  Speaker 8: in the hills, he's liable to.
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  Speaker 5: Running around in the dirt will make his foot better
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  Speaker 5: quick than anything. Why, when I was attacked, I.
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  Speaker 8: Dad, that's what I want to talk to you about.
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  Speaker 8: If Bibb were here right now, you'd tell him the
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  Speaker 8: same thing. I'm trying to teach them discipline and to
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  Speaker 8: make them see things straight. And you all the time.
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  Speaker 5: I know, I know. I'm making mavericks of them. Telling
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  Speaker 5: them big lies.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, I never said you told lies. It's only when
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  Speaker 8: you tell them those outrageous stories of yours. I want
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  Speaker 8: Bibb and Cliff to have no illusions either about life
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  Speaker 8: or you. When they grow up, they'll have.
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  Speaker 3: To face it.
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  Speaker 4: That morning, as Horace Finley, president of the LaGrange Bank,
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  Speaker 4: opened the bank safe, two men wearing handkerchiefs over the
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  Speaker 4: lower part of their faces entered the rear door with
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  Speaker 4: guns drawn.
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  Speaker 2: All right, folks, leave that safe open.
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  Speaker 5: Stand up and put your hands in the air. And
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  Speaker 5: shut up!
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  Speaker 4: Bookkeeper Alice Britton began to scream.
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  Speaker 3: Robert, help!
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  Speaker 5: I said shut up! Oh, you won't, eh? Well, here then.
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  Speaker 9: Are you.
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  Speaker 5: You've killed her.
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  Speaker 4: Dick Elliott, the bank teller, ran at the bandit.
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  Speaker 5: The murdering is coming. You'll shut up, too.
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  Speaker 7: You want the same, Pop?
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  Speaker 5: You want to die, too? Oh, no. Take the money
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  Speaker 5: and get out. Get out.
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  Speaker 2: That's just what we're going to do.
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  Speaker 5: Come on.
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  Speaker 3: Be right with you.
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  Speaker 6: Pop, give us five minutes to get away. If you
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  Speaker 6: stick your head outside the door before then, you're a goner, too.
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  Speaker 5: Thanks for the money.
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  Speaker 4: Tonto, the Lone Ranger's Indian companion, was leaving the general
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  Speaker 4: store at the end of the street when the bank
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  Speaker 4: robber streaked by and headed for the hills. Back in
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  Speaker 4: the Lone Ranger's camp, Tonto told the story of the
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  Speaker 4: robbery and the murders. The masked man was grim.
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  Speaker 2: It's too bad you didn't go after them, Tonto. Ah,
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  Speaker 2: but me leave Scout and Stable no chance to get them.
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  Speaker 2: Whoever they were, they knew what they were doing. They
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  Speaker 2: had to know that few people would be on the
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  Speaker 2: streets of La Grange at the time they held up
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  Speaker 2: the bank. It's evident they knew the routine and layout
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  Speaker 2: of the bank also. Banker Finley not know voices when
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  Speaker 2: them talk. Toto, you say the sheriff and his men
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  Speaker 2: are searching for the robbers in the hills? That right, Kimisabe.
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  Speaker 2: Them ride off soon after crooks go. They'll probably keep
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  Speaker 2: looking in the hills until they find them or their trail.
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  Speaker 2: Crooks have strong horses, and me know horses if me
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  Speaker 2: see them.
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  Speaker 3: Did you tell the sheriff that? Did you describe the horses?
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  Speaker 2: No, me not get chance. Sheriff and posse ride off quick.
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  Speaker 2: Then it's possible we can learn some things on our own.
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  Speaker 2: There's a chance someone in the ranches along the way
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  Speaker 2: may have seen them. Suppose we visit a few ranches
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  Speaker 2: and ask questions. Cliff and Bibb Dalton had finished their
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  Speaker 2: berry picking. But instead of going directly home, they went
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  Speaker 2: to their secret cave in the hills. A cave which
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  Speaker 2: no one had ever known but them.
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  Speaker 3: They thought.
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  Speaker 7: We won't stay long, Bibb. We told Mom we'd be
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  Speaker 7: home before noon.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, we got plenty of time.
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  Speaker 8: Besides, you told me to bring along the candles so
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  Speaker 8: we could explore around inside, didn't you?
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  Speaker 5: So we got one. Cliff, here we are. Here it is.
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  Speaker 7: Now, Bibb, watch out you don't trip into that big
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  Speaker 7: hole in front of the entrance. That's where you cut
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  Speaker 7: your foot. Oh, you don't have to tell me.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not that dumb. Come on.
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  Speaker 4: The boys pushed through the underbrush, circled around a small
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  Speaker 4: pit near the entrance, and then entered the vast dark cavern.
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  Speaker 4: A brook with its source somewhere back in the endless
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  Speaker 4: recesses of the cave ran out through the entrance and
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  Speaker 4: into the open. It was along the banks of this
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  Speaker 4: brook that Cliff led the way inside. Better light that candle, Bibb.
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  Speaker 4: We'll explore back where the brook turns off, where we
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  Speaker 4: were last week.
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  Speaker 5: Wait a second while I get it lit. Yeah, there
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  Speaker 5: it is. Let me get in front now so as
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  Speaker 5: we can see. Get slow back here. We won't do any.
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  Speaker 1: Crawling in the dirt and stuff.
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  Speaker 4: The two boys walking into the interior did not hear
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  Speaker 4: the horses stop outside, nor did they hear the two
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  Speaker 4: men dismount and enter the cave. Warden Lowe and Eddie Leach,
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  Speaker 4: the bank bandits, had slowed down after their first mad
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  Speaker 4: rush from La Grange. By back trails and roundabout ways,
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  Speaker 4: they had made their way to this, the cave, which
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  Speaker 4: they felt sure no one knew of but themselves.
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  Speaker 2: We leave the money here behind these rocks, Ward, and
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  Speaker 2: change into our ranch clothes quick.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, we gotta get back to the east fence before
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  Speaker 6: anybody knows we're gone.
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  Speaker 3: Before Harley stops covering for us.
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  Speaker 2: We can pick up this money in a week or so,
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  Speaker 2: after the heat is off.
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  Speaker 4: At that moment, the Lone Ranger and Tonto dismounted in
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  Speaker 4: front of the Dalton Ranch.
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  Speaker 3: This is the Dalton Ranch, Tonto. Mrs.
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  Speaker 2: Dalton doesn't have any hands working here since her husband died.
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  Speaker 2: I think we better ask some questions, though.
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  Speaker 3: Why? They say Mrs.
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  Speaker 2: Dalton's father, old Zeb Coleman, knows everything that goes on
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  Speaker 2: in this territory without ever leaving the ranch. It's possible
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  Speaker 2: he knows something that might help us. There old man
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  Speaker 2: sit over there by barn.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, that must be Zeb. I will talk to him.
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  Speaker 3: I never met the man, but.
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  Speaker 4: Through the grove of trees toward him. His eyes bulged.
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  Speaker 4: He turned and ran as fast as his tottering legs
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  Speaker 4: could carry him. At the sight of the barn, he
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  Speaker 4: stooped and picked up the gun. Then he turned and
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  Speaker 4: walked toward the masked man and the Indian. His gun
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  Speaker 4: pointed purposefully.
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  Speaker 5: Get your hands up, you varmints! Get him up! I gotcha!
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  Speaker 3: You're Zeb Coleman, aren't you?
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  Speaker 5: You're Dern Tootin' I am, so keep your hands up.
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  Speaker 2: You better do as he says, Tonto. Is it this
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  Speaker 2: mask that has you upset?
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  Speaker 5: You're right it's a mask, you bank-robbing, woman-murdering jackals. The
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  Speaker 5: sheriff and his men were here. I heard all about you.
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  Speaker 5: I'll get the reward that's up for capturing you.
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  Speaker 3: Now, wait.
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  Speaker 2: You don't think we're the men who robbed the bank,
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  Speaker 2: do you? If the sheriff was here, then you know
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  Speaker 2: neither of the hold-up men was an Indian.
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  Speaker 3: Now, Tonto here is.
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  Speaker 5: That's right. Say.
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  Speaker 5: What's your friend's name again? Say it. Toto.
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  Speaker 2: Doggone.
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  Speaker 5: Now, wait, wait. Where's your horse, if you're who I
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  Speaker 5: think you are?
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  Speaker 2: Down by the gate. If you look through the trees,
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  Speaker 2: you can see both our horses.
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  Speaker 5: I'll do it. But keep your hands up just the
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  Speaker 5: same now. Let me see here. Why, sure enough, there
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  Speaker 5: couldn't be but one white horse in the whole world
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  Speaker 5: like that one. Well, oh, doggone it. Get down your
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  Speaker 5: hands and pardon me for covering you like it did. Now,
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  Speaker 5: what can I do for you gentlemen, huh? You just
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  Speaker 5: name it and old Zeb Coleman will do it.
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  Speaker 4: But Zeb Coleman could tell the Lone Ranger nothing. A
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  Speaker 4: short time later, he and Tonto rode away.
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  Speaker 2: Tonto, it could be the sheriff and his men have
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  Speaker 2: located the bandits already. But as long as we've started this,
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  Speaker 2: we may as well continue. We go on to the
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  Speaker 2: next ranch, Kimusami? Yes, the U-Star Z is about five
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  Speaker 2: miles from here. Then there's the Hook J further on.
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  Speaker 2: We'll keep going till sundown or until we learn something.
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  Speaker 3: Until then! Let's go!
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  Speaker 4: The two bandits, Enlo and Leach, sat mounted on their horses.
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  Speaker 4: They were hidden by thick brush, but were able to
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  Speaker 4: see the trail beneath them for miles on end. They
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  Speaker 4: had left the cave a few minutes before, but now
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  Speaker 4: they were nervous.
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  Speaker 5: Look, Eddie, as far as you can see, riders.
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  Speaker 7: They're holding to the trail and they're scouring the brush.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we can't go down there or even try to
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  Speaker 1: cross or learn anywhere along.
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  Speaker 5: Ward.
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  Speaker 3: What?
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  Speaker 2: Ward, right down here below, see?
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  Speaker 5: Horsemen, a lot of them.
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  Speaker 4: Do you think they see us?
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  Speaker 5: No, they don't.
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  Speaker 2: They'd be heading up if they did.
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  Speaker 5: But, Ward, we can't stay here. We'd better get back
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  Speaker 5: to the cave, quick.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, safe enough up there if they don't know about
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  Speaker 7: the place. Yeah, we'd better get back in the cave
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  Speaker 7: and stay there till they're gone and the trail's clear.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: Easy now. Back we go. Go ahead, little big boy.
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  Speaker 6: We gotta get away from here.
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  Speaker 4: Bibb and Cliff Dalton had finished their exploration partway back
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  Speaker 4: in the cave when their candle had burned out. Now,
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  Speaker 4: having taken longer than they should have, they hurried toward
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  Speaker 4: the place where they had entered. It was Cliff who
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  Speaker 4: saw the object behind the rocks.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, Bibb, look.
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  Speaker 7: There's a man over there behind the rocks. Oh, no,
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  Speaker 7: there can't be.
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  Speaker 5: We were just....
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  Speaker 3: Cliff, somebody is here.
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  Speaker 5: Somebody... Oh, golly, if.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, Bib, that's not a man.
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  Speaker 5: You can see now. It's clothes. You see, all rolled up.
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  Speaker 8: But they weren't here when we.
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  Speaker 5: Went back, were they? Gosh, I don't know. I don't remember.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, you want to see what kind of clothes they are?
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  Speaker 5: Well, if there's nobody in them, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: But hurry.
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  Speaker 4: Afraid but curious, the two boys made their way to
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  Speaker 4: the bundle behind the rock. Trembling and ashen-faced, they unwrapped
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  Speaker 4: the bulky assortment of garments. And now, in the core
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  Speaker 4: of the bandits' clothes, they came upon the cash box.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, Bid, it's a box. A money box like Dad
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  Speaker 5: used to have.
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  Speaker 7: Let's see if there's anything in it.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, golly! It's money! Lots and lots of money!
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  Speaker 4: The excited boys were staring at the loot in the
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  Speaker 4: gray light of the cave. They neither heard the two
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  Speaker 4: men dismount outside, nor did they see them enter.
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  Speaker 5: Gosh, Bid, there's hundred-dollar bills!
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  Speaker 7: Hey, this must belong to Crooks.
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  Speaker 5: Somebody hid it here.
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  Speaker 3: You're right, Sonny.
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  Speaker 5: Somebody did hide it there. He's pointing a gun at us.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, what are we going to do?
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  Speaker 5: Shut up. Keep your mouth shut. Eddie, they're only kids.
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  Speaker 3: Come in here.
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  Speaker 5: Bring the horses in.
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  Speaker 4: Eddie Leach entered the cave, bringing the horses with him.
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  Speaker 7: They found the loose.
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  Speaker 5: They have the money for it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Mister, we didn't mean to find it.
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  Speaker 7: We were just looking, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Honest.
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  Speaker 7: We have blackberries in those pails outside in the bushes.
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  Speaker 5: We have to go home now.
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  Speaker 3: Do the folks know you're here?
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  Speaker 5: No, they don't even know about this place. We won't
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  Speaker 5: tell them you're here.
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  Speaker 6: You won't tell anybody anything, because you're going to stay
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  Speaker 6: here as long as we do.
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  Speaker 5: But we can't. We have to go home, mister, please.
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  Speaker 5: You'll go home, all right, when we let you go.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, and if you don't keep quiet and do what
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  Speaker 6: we tell you to do, maybe you'll never go home again.
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  Speaker 5: But why?
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  Speaker 2: Because maybe we'll kill you.
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  Speaker 4: The curtain falls on the first act of our Lone
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  Speaker 4: Ranger adventure. Before the next exciting scenes, please permit us
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  Speaker 4: to pause for just a few moments. Lone Ranger.
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  Speaker 5: THE END.
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  Speaker 3: Now to continue.
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  Speaker 8: It was mid-afternoon when the Lone Ranger and Tonto reached
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  Speaker 8: the B-Cross Bee Ranch.
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  Speaker 4: They had entered a gate along the east fence of
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  Speaker 4: the vast grasslands, and they saw a horseman galloping toward them,
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  Speaker 4: waving his arms and shouting, The rider stopped yelling and
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  Speaker 4: slowed his horse to a walk when he could distinguish
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  Speaker 4: the two men.
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  Speaker 10: I thought you were somebody else.
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  Speaker 4: The cowboy's hand was moving slowly toward his gun holster,
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  Speaker 4: but the lone ranger seeing the move had his gun
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  Speaker 4: out first.
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  Speaker 3: Get your hands up. I'll reach for that gun.
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  Speaker 4: The rider obeyed sullenly.
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  Speaker 3: Don't let this mask deceive you. We're not outlaws.
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  Speaker 2: We're merely here to ask some questions about two men
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  Speaker 2: some of your ranch hands may know about.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah? It's what you say. Who are the two men?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm not sure. We can only describe their horses.
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  Speaker 2: One ride, Big Bay. Others ride paint horse. You mean
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  Speaker 2: Enlaw and Leach? I didn't seem to know them. I
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  Speaker 2: said I didn't know them. Do they ride horses like
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  Speaker 2: I described? I keep those hands up.
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  Speaker 10: I'm not taking them down. Yeah, yeah, they ride horses
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  Speaker 10: like that. When I saw the Indians paint horse.
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  Speaker 3: I thought it was Ward Enlaw.
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  Speaker 5: He's the one with the paint. We've been waiting for
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  Speaker 5: the two of them all day. They should be back.
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  Speaker 3: Should they? From where?
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  Speaker 5: What do you care if you don't know them? All right,
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  Speaker 5: all right. Don't point your gun like that.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to use it, but it's important to
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  Speaker 2: us if you know where those men are. Enloe and
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  Speaker 2: the other one.
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  Speaker 5: Leach. Eddie Leach. Oh?
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  Speaker 10: Well, uh, well, he rode off this morning and asked
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  Speaker 10: me to ride this part of the post till they
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  Speaker 10: come back.
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  Speaker 2: Said it wouldn't be too long.
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  Speaker 3: Where'd them go?
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  Speaker 5: How'd I know?
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  Speaker 10: They always went into the hills before when I covered
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  Speaker 10: for them.
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  Speaker 5: But they come back quick.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: Now they've gone too long.
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: I can't cover for them any longer. When they left
• 18:07
  Speaker 5: this morning.
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: They went into the hills?
• 18:09
  Speaker 10: No, they said they'd be in the hills. When they
• 18:12
  Speaker 10: left here, they took the back trail of La Grange.
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  Speaker 2: Kimo Sabe.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: That sounds like the men we see in La Grange.
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: All right, you.
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  Speaker 2: We don't want to chance your shooting at us after
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: we start to leave here. Turn your horse and gallop
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: away from here toward the ranch house. But I don't...
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: You heard what I said. Thank you for the information,
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: but get going. All right.
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: Come on, get around.
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  Speaker 3: Come on. Hello and meet you. Hello. Let's ride into
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: the hills.
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  Speaker 5: Come on.
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: The Lone Ranger and Tonto skirted around members of the
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: sheriff's posse as they crossed the trail and rode into
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: the hills. They were galloping along a path that few
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: others knew when Tonto suddenly pulled up his horse.
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  Speaker 2: Between trees, down the road, we see two people.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I see them, Tonto. Let's find out who they are.
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  Speaker 3: Have your gun ready.
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: The Lone Ranger and Tonto guided their horses to the
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: spot where Tonto had pointed. But they found no bank robbers. Instead,
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: they saw in the dusk two frantic people, Zeb Coleman
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: and his daughter Kathleen.
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  Speaker 3: Stay there, Silver. Zeb Coleman, what's the matter?
• 19:35
  Speaker 8: Zeb Coleman, a trifled dazed, was still able to calm
• 19:42
  Speaker 8: his daughter.
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  Speaker 5: Dad, you don't know what you're saying. These men are good.
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: This one in the mask is the fellow I was
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: telling you about before. The one you didn't believe I met. Stranger,
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: something pretty awful has happened to us.
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: Zeb Coleman told of Cliff and Bib. It was the
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: sobbing mother who concluded, however.
• 20:01
  Speaker 8: Something terrible has happened to them, I know.
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  Speaker 5: They won't come back, I know it.
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: Now, now, Mrs. Dalton. Perhaps they went to town, or they.
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: No, they didn't go into town.
• 20:10
  Speaker 8: We know that.
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: That's right. Trail all day, searching for those bank robbers.
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: They didn't see the boys. Besides, we're sure they're here
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: in the hills. I followed their trail up here part
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: of the way. I used to do a little trailing
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: in the old days. Wasn't hard to follow Bibb's trail.
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: He cut his foot the other day. He and Cliff
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: are barefooted. You can see Bibb's trail easy on account
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: of his favor and a sore foot. You follow me.
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: I'll show you just where the chain.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: Is.
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: The Lone Ranger and Tonto went to the spot in
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: the dirt road... where Zeb Coleman showed them the faint
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: marks of bare feet... with a long diagonal mark on the.
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: Sole of one.
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: The Ranger and Tonto, greatest trailers in the West... were
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: able to follow the footprints into the brush.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: footprint again over here.
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: You're sure?
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: Yes, it was made today. Is that right, Tonto?
• 21:10
  Speaker 9: Ah, Kimisabe, me remember something.
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: What is it, Tonto? What are you looking up there for?
• 21:16
  Speaker 9: Me remember this part of country from long back. Maybe
• 21:20
  Speaker 9: that's where boys go.
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: Go where?
• 21:24
  Speaker 8: You think you know where they might have gone?
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: You do?
• 21:27
  Speaker 9: Me not sure, but me remember. Oh, Kimusabe, near ridge.
• 21:32
  Speaker 9: They're very deep brush. Stream come down that spot.
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: And go into cave.
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: A cave near here?
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: Well, if not far.
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: We go fast. We get there quick.
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: Then let's not wait. You lead the way, Taro. Come, Mrs. Dalton.
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: I'll help you.
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: I'll be praying.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: I'll be praying.
• 21:48
  Speaker 8: I'll be praying.
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: The last ray of the day's light seemed to hit
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: the entrance of the cave. At the very moment, Tonto
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: led the way to the almost inaccessible spot. And that
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: one dying ray revealed a figure in the entrance.
• 22:05
  Speaker 9: Kimusabe, look!
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: Doggone, a man!
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: Watch out, he's going to shoot down!
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: That was right over my head!
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: Stay down. He can't aim in that darkness.
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: You know what? I bet it's him, bank robbers! There
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: we are! If you come a step further, we'll hit you!
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: There we are!
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: He said we. Zeb, you're right. It's the bank robbers.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: I'll keep still a minute. I'm going to talk to them.
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: Enloe, Leach, you hear me? We know you're in there.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: Come out or we'll go in and get you.
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: We're here, all right.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: My man said their names.
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: You won't come in. We've got two kids in here.
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: You come near, we'll kill them. The boys are in there.
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: We'll kill them, I say. How do you want that?
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: No, but we'll wait here. You can't escape. You can't
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: get away. Listen to me, each of you. Mrs. Dolphin,
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: can you handle the gun?
• 22:52
  Speaker 8: I can shoot, but not now.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: You won't have to aim at anyone, but you will
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: have to shoot from time to time, you and Zeb,
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: to keep those two men inside the cave.
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: She and me, you said. We can't see in the dark.
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: Where are you two going?
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: Tonto's going to La Grange and get the sheriff and
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: his men. I'm going to get into that cave some way.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: Kimo Sabe?
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: Me no other way. It way only Indians know. Long
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: time ago, Indian friends show me.
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: It way, way back.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: Maybe men not know where it is, but me know.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: Tell me where to find it.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: Well, niche your way before we go to town. It's
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: easy to find when you know secret.
• 23:24
  Speaker 7: You out there!
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: Don't come near here! I told you what'll happen to
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: the boys if you do!
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: We'll stay here. We can wait.
• 23:32
  Speaker 9: Mrs.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: Dalton.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: Yes? Father will give you his gun, and I'll go
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: to the rear entrance to the cave he just told
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: me about. You and Zeb lie low behind those heavy
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: bushes there, near the pit.
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: I'm afraid, but I'll do it.
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: I knew you would.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: Zeb, there are a lot of dried-up branches and leaves
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: around here. Start a fire by lighting a branch with
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: leaves on it. Yes, sir. Then throw it into the pit.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: While you and your daughter are hiding in the bushes,
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: feed the fire with more leaves and branches.
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: You can push them into the pit without exposing yourselves,
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: I'm sure.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: That'll build up the fire. Now, here's what my plan is.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: The flame will light up the cave entrance.
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: A short time later, a flaming tree branch sparked from
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: the darkness into the pit, lighting the cave entrance... Enloe
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: and Leach fired wildly from the cave, their shots aimless,
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: their target hidden. Each time they fired, more wood and
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: leaves seemed to land in the flaming pit, lighting the
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: entire area before the cave. Two endless hours had passed,
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: and Ward Enloe was panicky to the point of breaking.
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: Eddie, they got us bottled up here. We can't get
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: away with that fire burn out there.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: They'll mow us down.
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: Those kids are the cause of... Boy, do you hear that? Horses.
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: More horses coming up from the trail. That means we'll
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: be killed no matter what. Well, lynching makes you just
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: as dead as bullets. We gotta take a chance.
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: You mean go out there? Yeah, taking the kids as shields.
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: And killing the kids like we said if they don't
• 25:01
  Speaker 6: let us pass through. Come on, we'll untie the kids.
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: Since entering the far entrance to the cave, an entrance
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: small and hidden... The Lone Ranger had crawled along the ground,
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: following the tiny stream that became a brook outside the
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: main cave entrance. Bat zoomed overhead in the darkness. But now,
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: after a grueling passage of time, the Lone Ranger saw
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: an orange light, the flame burning outside the cave opening.
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: Almost noiselessly, the Lone Ranger tiptoed to the rear of
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: the scene taking place at the cave's entrance. Enloe and
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: Leech stood behind the boys, using them as shields. Enloe
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: was shouting into the trees behind the flames at the
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: people he knew were hidden there.
• 25:47
  Speaker 6: And if you don't let us and our horses through,
• 25:50
  Speaker 6: we'll do what we did to those two this morning.
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: You don't think so, huh? Well, you'll see.
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: We'll shoot them.
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: Oh, no, you won't, Hank.
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: Startled, the two crooks let go of the boys and
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: turned toward the cave. As the boys ran away into
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: the darkness, the men reached for their guns. The Lone
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: Ranger's gun fired first, shattering the gun hands of the bandits.
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: As their guns fell to the ground and the bandits'
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: reeling clutched at their wounds, the sheriff and a host
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: of figures rushed from behind the trees and brush.
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: My boys are saved! Cleve did! Cleve!
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: Within half an hour, Enloe and Leach had been bandaged
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: and taken off to jail by the sheriff. There was
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: still a large crowd of townspeople still around the fire
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: in front of the cave, questioning the boys, now revived
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: and dazzled by their status as celebrities.
• 26:54
  Speaker 8: I'm so happy. You're really safe. But tomorrow, I'm going
• 26:59
  Speaker 8: to give you the licking of your lives.
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: Willikens, Mom.
• 27:01
  Speaker 8: If it wasn't for us, you and Gramps wouldn't be
• 27:03
  Speaker 8: getting the $ 5, 000 reward for capturing those crooks.
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: That's right, Mom. Isn't it, Mr. Finley? Well, I suppose
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: you're right, boys. As president of the bank, I personally
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: thought the masked man and the Indian should have shared
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: in it. But they said no.
• 27:17
  Speaker 8: I want to thank them again.
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: I want to be... What? Where are they?
• 27:22
  Speaker 7: They rode off just a few minutes ago.
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: The way that filler could shoot. Best in the world.
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: And everybody could see he was my friend. My friend, Kathleen.
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: You believe that? I do, Dad.
• 27:38
  Speaker 8: But, Dad, who is he?
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: Imagine not recognizing him. He's one of the best friends
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: I ever had. The Lone Ranger.
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: Thank you. THE END.
• 28:39
  Speaker 9: THE END.
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: THE END.
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: This is a feature of the Lone Ranger Incorporated. Created
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: by George W.
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: Trendle.
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: Produced by Trendle Campbell Enterprises. Directed by Charles D. Livingston.
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: and edited by Fran Stryker. The part of The Lone
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: Ranger is played by Brace Beamer.
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: The Lone Ranger.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: Our presentation of The Lone Ranger, Cave of Terror, now
• 29:56
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