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The Lone Ranger - "The Masked Killer" (Old Time Radio, 1943) · The Lone Ranger | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: April 14th, 1943 marks episode 1,596 of The Lone Ranger.
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  Speaker 1: Our presentation is titled The Masked Killer. Settle in for
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  Speaker 1: another visit with one of radio's enduring western series from
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  Speaker 1: the years when these adventures rode the airwaves from coast
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  Speaker 1: to coast. And now, our story begins.
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  Speaker 2: A fiery horse with a speed of light, a cloud
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  Speaker 2: of dust, and a hearty, Hiyo Silver, the Lone Ranger.
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  Speaker 1: Hiyo Silver.
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  Speaker 3: THE END THE END THE END.
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  Speaker 4: With his faithful Indian companion Tonto, the masked rider of
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  Speaker 4: the plains led the fight for law and order in
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  Speaker 4: the early western United States. The stories of his strength
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  Speaker 4: and courage, his daring and resourcefulness have come down to
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  Speaker 4: us through the generations. And nowhere in the pages of
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  Speaker 4: history can one find a greater champion of justice. Return
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  Speaker 4: with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear. From
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  Speaker 4: out of the past come the thundering hoofbeats of the
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  Speaker 4: great horse Silver. The Lone Ranger rides again.
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  Speaker 5: Come on, Silver.
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  Speaker 6: We're on the trail of the killer. I'm Silver.
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  Speaker 3: Hooray!
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  Speaker 4: Dust plumed from beneath their horses' hooves as the Lone Ranger, Tonto,
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  Speaker 4: and Dan rode slowly along a sun-baked, rock-studded trail. Suddenly,
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  Speaker 4: Silver whinnied and broke into a trot, with Scout and
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  Speaker 4: Victor following suit. As the horses skirted a bend in
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  Speaker 4: the woodland trail, the masked man and his companions saw
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  Speaker 4: the reason.
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  Speaker 3: A creek winding through the trees.
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  Speaker 4: The water, as they hollered upon the creek bank, looked
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  Speaker 4: cool and inviting.
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  Speaker 3: Easy, Silver.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, golly, that water looks good. No wonder Silver made
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  Speaker 5: a beeline for it.
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  Speaker 3: Uh-huh. It plenty hot day. Horses need long, cool drink.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I guess we could all use a drink.
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  Speaker 3: Steady, big fella. Take it easy, Dan. Too much water
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  Speaker 3: isn't good for you when you've been a long time
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  Speaker 3: in the sun.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 3: Horses have good time in water. I don't blame them.
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  Speaker 5: Gosh, I wish we had time for a swim.
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  Speaker 3: I do, too, Dan. But we've got to push on
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  Speaker 3: if we want to make Sutter's Gulfs by nightfall. Now,
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  Speaker 3: we cook dinner on trail? No, Tonto. Wendy Smith, the
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  Speaker 3: old prospector we met about a year ago, lived just
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  Speaker 3: beyond that bend. I think we can arrange to have
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  Speaker 3: dinner there. Not right. He make us plenty good meal
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  Speaker 3: last time we see him. Golly, I hope he's home.
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  Speaker 5: I'm hungry.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you'll soon know. Here, Silver. What is it, big fella?
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  Speaker 3: What's the matter?
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  Speaker 5: He acts like he's listening for some.
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  Speaker 3: Behind that tree, Dan. What? Hurry. Yes, sir. Who do
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  Speaker 3: you think come? I don't know, Kimo Sabe. The outlaw
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  Speaker 3: known as the Masked Killer is supposed to hide out
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  Speaker 3: somewhere in these woods. I don't want to risk Dan unnecessarily.
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  Speaker 3: Masked Killer, plenty of bad medicine. Yes, he's murdered two
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  Speaker 3: people in Sutter's Gulch in the last six months. Robbed
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  Speaker 3: several more. Sheriff not able to catch him. No, he's
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  Speaker 3: been too clever concealing his trail. Oh, wait. Silver Winnie. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: it's a horse. Grab his bridle, fellow. Let me get him. Here. Bullet.
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  Speaker 3: Gray saddle horn. Mixed car. Yes, you're right. Whoever rode
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  Speaker 3: this horse was a target. Golly.
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  Speaker 5: You don't think that.
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  Speaker 3: Missiles on the saddle say TB. The horse can't have
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  Speaker 3: strayed far from his owner in that brush, Tonto. We'll
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  Speaker 3: see if we can trace his trail. Ah. You think owner, victim,
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  Speaker 3: or mass killer? I don't know, Kimo Sabe. We're going
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  Speaker 3: to make it our business to find out. Come on.
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  Speaker 4: Meanwhile, in Sutter's Gulch, Wendy Smith, the grizzled old prospector
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  Speaker 4: who lived in a cabin on the trail some miles
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  Speaker 4: from town, sat in the office of the sheriff.
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  Speaker 5: I swear, sheriff, I'd rather been spread eagle and hogtied
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  Speaker 5: than have such a thing happen. I ought to be
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  Speaker 5: shot for allowing him to go into Rex's pen in
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  Speaker 5: the first place.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, Sunder, Wendy, you can waste more words than anyone
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  Speaker 6: I know. Quit beating around the bush and say what
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  Speaker 6: you came for.
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  Speaker 5: I reckon I've got to sooner or later. It's your deputy...
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  Speaker 5: Todd Baker.
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  Speaker 3: Well, what about him?
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  Speaker 6: Hey, Todd went out looking for the mask killer.
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  Speaker 3: You don't mean he.
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  Speaker 5: Todd won't look for no more outlaws, Sheriff. He's dead.
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  Speaker 3: Dead? That mask coyote killed him?
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  Speaker 5: I wish to heaven he had, as long as poor
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  Speaker 5: Todd had to die.
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  Speaker 3: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 5: It wasn't the mask critter who done him in, Sheriff.
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  Speaker 5: It was my dog, Rex.
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  Speaker 6: That mastiff you keep penned up out at your cabin?
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  Speaker 6: I don't savvy this at all. It wasn't no fault
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  Speaker 6: of mine. I told Todd the dog was dangerous, but
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  Speaker 6: he wouldn't pay no attention. Just opened the gate of
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  Speaker 6: the pen and walked right in. What in thunder did
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  Speaker 6: he do that for?
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  Speaker 5: Said he wanted to feed Rex some of the vittles
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  Speaker 5: that cooked him for lunch. It was hardly more than
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  Speaker 5: a minute before it was all over.
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  Speaker 3: Leaping catfish. I didn't know that hound was a killer.
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  Speaker 5: What do you keep him for? For protection, Sheriff. I
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  Speaker 5: ain't as spry as I used to be. Kind of
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  Speaker 5: dangerous living way out on the trail like I do,
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  Speaker 5: with a mass killer hiding out in that neck of
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  Speaker 5: the woods.
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  Speaker 3: I reckon you're right, Wendy.
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  Speaker 5: He don't cut into strangers at all. Reckon I ain't
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  Speaker 5: the only person who can enter and leave that pen alive. Still,
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  Speaker 5: ain't no denying it's murder. And if you order me
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  Speaker 5: to have Rick shot, I'd be willing.
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  Speaker 3: To do it. Well, I don't see how that help matters, Wendy.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 6: The hound might come in handy if the masked killer
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  Speaker 6: took a notion to rob your place.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you, Sheriff. Reckon I'll leave it to you to
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  Speaker 5: notify Todd's folks, seeing as you were his boss. Well,
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  Speaker 5: I guess I better be getting along. Got a ways
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  Speaker 5: to travel before I get home. Evening, Sheriff.
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  Speaker 7: I brought you a jar of my new peach preserves that... Why,
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  Speaker 7: Wendy Smith, when did you come to town?
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  Speaker 3: Howdy, Betty.
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  Speaker 5: I just came in to see the sheriff.
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  Speaker 6: You must have got some of them there peaches in
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  Speaker 6: your cheeks, Betty. They're blooming prettier.
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  Speaker 3: In a picture.
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  Speaker 7: Maybe I did.
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  Speaker 2: Ben says I got my preserves all over everything else
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  Speaker 2: in the pantry.
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  Speaker 5: How's Ben making out with the livery stable?
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  Speaker 7: Livery stable?
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  Speaker 2: Why, Wendy, haven't you heard? Ben sold that two weeks ago.
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  Speaker 2: He's going to buy a freight line.
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  Speaker 3: Sure. Betty and Ben have struck it rich.
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  Speaker 6: An uncle in the East that Cleen forgot about died
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  Speaker 6: and left him a heap of money.
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  Speaker 7: Ben says it was you who brought us good luck, Wendy.
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  Speaker 2: He says just before he picked up the letter from
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  Speaker 2: the lawyer with the news, you happened by and gave
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  Speaker 2: him a rabbit's foot for his watch job.
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  Speaker 3: Say, if you got any more of them rabbit feet, Wendy,
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't mind having one myself.
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  Speaker 5: Well, Plum happy to hear about it, Betty.
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  Speaker 3: Uh....
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  Speaker 5: You two ain't spent all of your inheritance already, have you?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, heavens, no.
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  Speaker 2: We haven't even begun. Been saving it to buy the
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  Speaker 2: freight line. But we took the money we got for
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  Speaker 2: the livery stable and refurnished the whole house.
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  Speaker 3: Mighty handsome looking house it is now. You ought to
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  Speaker 3: see it, Wendy.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, yes, you must.
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  Speaker 5: Much mighty nice of you, Betty. I'd like nothing better
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  Speaker 5: than to oblige, but... I've got to be starting for home.
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  Speaker 3: It's kind of late to be starting back now.
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  Speaker 7: Much too late.
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  Speaker 2: Something might happen to you riding that trail alone at night. Why,
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  Speaker 2: you might even run into the mass killer.
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  Speaker 5: Appears to me you've got more to fear from that
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  Speaker 5: critter Betty than a poor old codger like me. What
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  Speaker 5: with all that money you've got in your house.
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Ben and I have thought of that. But it's in
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  Speaker 2: a safe place. The coffee jar in the pantry. He'd
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  Speaker 2: never think to look there.
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  Speaker 3: Only a woman would think of hiding money in a
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  Speaker 3: place like that.
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  Speaker 5: It is awful dark outside for riding a trail home.
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  Speaker 5: Reckon I got no choice, though.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, you have.
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  Speaker 2: You're spending the night in town. Ben and I can
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  Speaker 2: put you up in our new guest room. You'll be
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  Speaker 2: the first to use it.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, shucks, Betty.
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  Speaker 5: I don't want nobody going to all that bother for
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  Speaker 5: an old coot like me.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, it's no bother at all.
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  Speaker 2: Ben would never forgive me if I didn't bring you
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  Speaker 2: to see him after the good luck he brought us.
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  Speaker 5: Well, if you put it that way, you reckon I
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  Speaker 5: can't refuse?
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  Speaker 7: Of course you can't. Come along now. I've got to
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  Speaker 7: get dinner. We'll make it an evening to remember.
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  Speaker 3: Keep a tight grip on that horse's rein, Dan. Don't
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  Speaker 3: want to lose him in the dark. Ah, him may
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  Speaker 3: be murder clue. We not find Ryder anywhere.
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  Speaker 5: Golly, this horse could only talk. I'll bet the mass
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  Speaker 5: killer knows where his Ryder is.
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  Speaker 3: There, cabin ahead. Wendy Smith's place. Doesn't look as if
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  Speaker 3: there's anyone home. There isn't a light. Maybe sleep. Perhaps,
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  Speaker 3: although it's still early. Oh, Silver Boy. I'll take charge
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  Speaker 3: of that horse now, Dan. Here's the range. Thanks.
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  Speaker 5: Gosh, look at the size of that dog. He's half
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  Speaker 5: as big as a horse.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, boy. Come to welcome us, huh? Dad, wait. Don't
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  Speaker 3: go in that pen. Oh, he isn't dangerous.
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  Speaker 5: He's just trying to be friendly.
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  Speaker 3: Aren't you, boy? What kind of pen say him killer?
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  Speaker 3: This way, Dad. I'll handle the dog. See?
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  Speaker 5: He just wants to be friends. What's your name, boy, huh?
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  Speaker 5: What's your name?
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  Speaker 3: That's strange. Signs say him plenty dangerous. Let's take a
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  Speaker 3: look at that sign, Dada. You... You read it. Beware
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  Speaker 3: of the dog. He is a man killer. Tonto, look.
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  Speaker 3: Paint's still wet. Ah. Well, he must paint sign today. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: but why? That dog is perfectly tame. Me not know.
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  Speaker 5: Aye.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go on to the house. Maybe Wendy can tell us.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, put down that towel, Wendy. Ben will give me
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  Speaker 2: all the help with the dishes I need.
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  Speaker 8: Sure, you just pick out a chair and make yourself comfortable, Wendy.
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  Speaker 7: And when you get sleepy, just say the word and
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  Speaker 7: I'll show you to your room.
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  Speaker 5: Well, if it ain't too much trouble, Betty, I feel
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  Speaker 5: kind of tuckered out right now. Reckon I can't stand
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  Speaker 5: them trips to town like I used to.
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  Speaker 7: I thought you looked a bit peaked.
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  Speaker 2: You look different somehow from the last time we saw you.
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  Speaker 7: Doesn't he, Ben?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, sort of younger.
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  Speaker 3: Don't seem to be as much gray in your beard
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  Speaker 3: as they used to be.
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  Speaker 5: I guess that's what comes from living in the woods, Ben.
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  Speaker 5: Plenty of fresh air and sun. Makes a man look younger.
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  Speaker 7: I'll bring the lamp.
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  Speaker 3: Come along, Wendy.
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  Speaker 5: You've got the best room in the house. Sure does
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  Speaker 5: a man a powerful lot of good to see you
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  Speaker 5: youngsters looking so happy.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, you're the cause of it, Wendy. You and your
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  Speaker 7: rabbit's foot.
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  Speaker 3: If it hadn't been for that, we might not have
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  Speaker 3: received the inheritance.
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  Speaker 2: There isn't a thing in the world Ben and I
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  Speaker 2: want for now. We have each other and money to
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  Speaker 2: buy just the business Ben has always envied.
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  Speaker 5: Must take a heap of money to buy a freight line.
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  Speaker 3: Twenty-five.
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  Speaker 7: Come on, Wendy.
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  Speaker 5: Shut up and gee horse a fat. Don't see how
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  Speaker 5: you can sleep a wink with all that money in
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  Speaker 5: the house. If I was you, Ben, I'd put it
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  Speaker 5: in the bank for safekeeping.
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  Speaker 3: After tonight, I won't need to be concerned about it, Wendy.
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  Speaker 8: I'm exchanging it for the freight line tomorrow.
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  Speaker 7: Here's your room, Wendy.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, mighty pretty, too. Say, don't mind if I sleep
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  Speaker 5: with my gun under.
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  Speaker 3: My pillow, do you, Betty? Why.
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  Speaker 7: No, but what for?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I just got a peculiar feeling something's going to
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  Speaker 5: happen tonight.
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  Speaker 3: Happen here?
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  Speaker 5: Wendy, what do you mean? Now, there's no reason for
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  Speaker 5: you to get upset. It's just a feeling I got
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  Speaker 5: in my bones. Kind of get the itching when there's
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  Speaker 5: trouble brewing. Same as when there's rain in the air.
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  Speaker 3: What kind of trouble could happen to us?
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  Speaker 5: Well, that mask quitter's been mighty active around town lately.
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  Speaker 5: And that money you got hid here is mighty tempting.
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  Speaker 3: Ben.
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  Speaker 7: You don't think the masked killer will come here?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, of course not, honey.
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  Speaker 7: But if he heard that we have money in the house.
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  Speaker 3: Well, how could he?
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  Speaker 8: Nobody in town knows where we keep it except the sheriff.
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  Speaker 5: Well, maybe so. But if I was you, Ben, I'd
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  Speaker 5: sleep with my shooting iron under my pillow. Same as me.
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  Speaker 5: That masked coyote has a way of finding things out.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, go on with you, you old windbag. You're worse
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  Speaker 3: than an old woman with your rich and bones.
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  Speaker 7: Have a good night's sleep, Wendy.
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  Speaker 5: I'll try to, Betty, but I don't know. Considering the
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  Speaker 5: feeling I got....
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  Speaker 3: There's old Codger.
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  Speaker 8: I'll bet if he saw a mouse, he'd leap clear
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  Speaker 8: out of bed.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, Ben, I'm worried.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, now, honey, don't let your imagination get the best
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  Speaker 8: of you.
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  Speaker 3: We bought locks for all the doors.
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  Speaker 2: But the mass killer might be in town right this minute.
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  Speaker 2: He might be anybody. Maybe even the sheriff, for all
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  Speaker 2: we know.
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  Speaker 3: Wait. You have got it, Ben.
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  Speaker 2: I'm serious, Ben. I wish we'd listen to Wendy sooner
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  Speaker 2: and put the money in the bank. At least promise
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  Speaker 2: me this. Sleep with your pistol under your pillow.
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  Speaker 3: All right, honey.
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  Speaker 8: And if that mass killer so much as puts his
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  Speaker 8: foot in this house, I'll pepper.
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  Speaker 3: Him full of holes. The End I'll get my gun.
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  Speaker 7: Wait here, Benny. No, I'm going with you.
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  Speaker 3: There he is.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, Ben, be careful. It's the masked killer. Lift your
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  Speaker 7: hands or I'll... Look out! He's raising his gun!
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  Speaker 1: The curtain falls on the first act of our Lone
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  Speaker 1: Ranger story.
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  Speaker 4: Before the next exciting scenes, please permit us to pause
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  Speaker 4: for just a few moments.
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  Speaker 2: Now to continue our story.
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  Speaker 3: As the shot echoed in the dark, Ben staggered and
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  Speaker 3: crumpled to the floor. Betty quickly knelt beside.
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  Speaker 2: Him, sobbing and cradling his head in her lap.
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  Speaker 3: Then she heard footsteps approaching.
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  Speaker 7: Who? Who is it?
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  Speaker 5: It's me, Wendy. I heard the shot. What in thunders happened, Betty?
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  Speaker 5: What are you sitting here in the dark for?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, Wendy. Ben's been shot. It was a mass killer.
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  Speaker 5: The low-down skunk. I wish I'd been here. I'd have
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  Speaker 5: drilled him to kingdom come. Let me light this lamp.
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  Speaker 5: We'll see how bad Ben's been hurt. Let me look
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  Speaker 5: at that wound. Well, it ain't nothing but a scratch.
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  Speaker 5: Bullard just grazed his forehead.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, thank heaven. I'll get some water.
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  Speaker 5: Sounds like the sheriff, Betty. Reckon half the town must
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  Speaker 5: have heard that shot.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, I'll let him in.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, what happened, Betty? Who fired that gun?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, Sheriff, I'm so glad you're here. It was the
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  Speaker 7: masked killer. He tried to kill Ben.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, the snake. Did he steal your money?
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  Speaker 4: The money?
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  Speaker 3: The money?
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  Speaker 7: I've been so worried about Ben. I haven't looked.
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  Speaker 3: Seth, you take a look around outside. Might be some
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  Speaker 3: footprints we can trail.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, you say, Sheriff.
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  Speaker 3: How is he, Wendy? Did he get it bad?
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  Speaker 5: Just a scratch, Sheriff. Won't take a minute to bring
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  Speaker 5: Ben around.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I'm all right, Wes. What happened? Sheriff!
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  Speaker 7: Sheriff, the money!
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  Speaker 5: It's gone! What happened? You don't mean to say that
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  Speaker 5: masked coyote stole your whole inheritance?
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  Speaker 3: Betty, you don't mean.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Biff, it's all gone.
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  Speaker 3: $ 25, 000.
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  Speaker 2: He took it from the coffee jar.
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  Speaker 3: Great day.
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  Speaker 5: How in tarnation did he know where to look for
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  Speaker 5: the cash? Just like I was telling Betty and Ben
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  Speaker 5: after dinner. Ain't no way of figuring how the masked
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  Speaker 5: killer knows things. He just knows.
• 17:12
  Speaker 7: Oh, Wendy, we'd only listened to you before.
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: Oh, it's my fault.
• 17:16
  Speaker 8: And he warned us this might happen, and I laughed
• 17:18
  Speaker 8: at him.
• 17:18
  Speaker 5: Oh, no, Ben.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: You mustn't reproach yourself. I guess it just wasn't meant
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: to be for us to spend.
• 17:24
  Speaker 7: All that money.
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: Which way did that hombre go, Betty?
• 17:27
  Speaker 7: Oh, Sheriff, I don't know.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: All I can remember is seeing him with that gun
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: and the flame and Ben falling to the floor.
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: Either of you see what he looked like? It was
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: too dark to see much of anything. Yeah, the boys
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: may have been searching for that footprint, Sheriff. Ain't no
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: sign of him. Ground's too hard-packed. Oh, this don't beat everything.
• 17:43
  Speaker 6: Ain't a single clue to the masked killer anywhere.
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: Reckon you'll just have to scour them woods near my
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: cabin where he's supposed to hide out, Sheriff.
• 17:49
  Speaker 6: I'll scour them, all right. If need be, I'll burn
• 17:52
  Speaker 6: them down and smoke the killer out. Now, don't you
• 17:55
  Speaker 6: give up hope, Eddie. I'll track down that critter and
• 17:57
  Speaker 6: turn in my star. First thing tomorrow, I'm taking a
• 18:00
  Speaker 6: posse near Wendy's place. I aim to catch the masked
• 18:02
  Speaker 6: killer and make him swing.
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: Early the next day, the Lone Ranger and Tonto saddled
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: their horses in front of Wendy Smith's cabin where they'd
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: spent the night. Dan was taking leave of the mast
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: that he'd become friendly with.
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: There, that does it, Tonto. We ready to ride now.
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: Come on, Dan. We're leaving for Sutter's Gulch.
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: Yes, sir. Goodbye, boy. Maybe you and I will meet
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: again sometime, huh? He sure is a fine dog. Wish
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: we could take him with us.
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: Steady, big fella. You'll have enough to handle keeping a
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: tight rein on this stray horse.
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: Easy, boy. We're going to turn him over to the sheriff?
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: Yes, Dan. You'll know whose initials are on the horse's
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: saddle if anyone does. You'll also be interested in learning
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: the identity of the mass killer. Golly, you don't mean...
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: Come on, Silver.
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: Get him up. Come on, Victor. Get on with it.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: Keep together, boys.
• 19:16
  Speaker 6: It'll be time to spread out when we get to
• 19:18
  Speaker 6: the woods near Wendy's place.
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: All right, Sheriff.
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: You ain't serious about smoking the mass killed out of
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: them woods, are you, Sheriff? That's a powerful lot of brush.
• 19:25
  Speaker 6: I promised the townsfolk I'd bring back that murdering coyote, Wendy,
• 19:28
  Speaker 6: and by thunder I will.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: If it takes me.
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: Sheriff, look.
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: Horsemen heading this way.
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: Hey.
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: The tall hombre on the white horse, he's masked.
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: He's a masked killer.
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: Masked killer. Rain up. Rain up or we'll kill you.
• 19:40
  Speaker 6: Let's talk Baker's horse and get with him.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: There's his initials on the saddle.
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: TB.
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: It's a darn different age. How'd you come by that horse, stranger?
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: My friends and I found it wandering in the woods.
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: He's the mass killer, Sheriff, and my name ain't Wendy Smith.
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: Is your name Wendy Smith?
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: You heard me say it, didn't you?
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: You don't recognize me or Tonto?
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: You doggone tootin' I recognize you. Same as any man
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: would who ain't blind in one eye and can't see
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: out the other. You're the mass killer.
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: Sure.
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: The sable robb bet a $ 25, 000 in cash last night.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: Most likely he's got the money on him, Sheriff.
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: If he ain't, he knows where it's hid.
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: Yes, I think I do know where it's hidden. That's
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: all the proof I need. Take off that mask. Don't
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: touch that mask.
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: I'll get it, Sheriff. Oh, doggone you like to have
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: broke my hand.
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: That'll teach you not to carry a gun in it.
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: Listen to me, all of you. I'm not the mask killer,
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: but I do know who he is. Follow me and
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: I'll prove it.
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: No, no, don't listen to him, Sheriff. It's a trick.
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: A trick so he can turn himself and his parts loose.
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: Here, my gun, Sheriff. This should convince you I'm up
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: to no trick. I ain't saying, but I'll take him.
• 20:47
  Speaker 6: All right, mister, wheel your horse around and take us
• 20:49
  Speaker 6: to that proof you spoke of.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: Of all the darn fools... Shut up, Wendy.
• 20:53
  Speaker 6: This hombre is the mass killer. We've got him hogtied.
• 20:56
  Speaker 6: If he ain't, we'll know when we get to the
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: money who is.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: The End.
• 21:10
  Speaker 6: Thunder's got into that mash, Quitter Sheriff. That's my place
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: he's heading for. Yeah, there's that man killing Mastiff of yours.
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: Maybe he's taking us to the woods on the other.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: Side of your cabin, Wendy. What in tarnation are we
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: stopping here for, stranger? This is Wendy Smith's place. Yes,
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: I know.
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: Down, Rex, down! I told you Rex don't cotton to strangers, Sheriff.
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: He's in a mean mood. We better be moving on.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: Blast his insides. I'd like to drill him for killing
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: poor Todd Baker. What do you mean, Sheriff?
• 21:40
  Speaker 6: I mean that hound's a man killer. He done in
• 21:42
  Speaker 6: one of the best deputies the Sheriff ever had. Is
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: that what Wendy told you?
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: Sure as shooting is, stranger. You want to make something
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: of it?
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: Yes, a lie. Dan? Yes, sir? Does that look like
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: a mean and vicious dog to you?
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: Mean and vicious?
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: For golly, no.
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: He just wants to be friendly. Here, I'll show you.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: Come back here. What do you think you're doing? He's
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: going to prove that the dog isn't a killer, Sheriff.
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: Don't let him go in that pen.
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: He'll be mangled. Come back here, boy. That hound will
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: murder you.
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: The dog's jumping at him.
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: He's licking the boy's hand. Well, I'll be doggone. Wendy,
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: I thought you said.
• 22:21
  Speaker 6: Sheriff, likely the kid stopped here before and made friends
• 22:24
  Speaker 6: with Rex. He never acted that way before. He's always
• 22:27
  Speaker 6: acted that way to people who treated him with kindness.
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: Would you like to prove it, Sheriff?
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: Me?
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: No, no, I'll take your word for it. Very well, steady.
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: We'll go into the house.
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: No, you don't. That's my house. And I ain't admitting
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: the likes of you.
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: I don't say what we're stopping here for anyway.
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: To prove the identity of the masked killer.
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: It's a trap, Sheriff.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: Don't go with him. You keep quiet. A gun.
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: The Indians got the drop on us.
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: And you, Sheriff, get off horse. Go in house like
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: mask man say.
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: If this is a trick, stranger, you'd better start saying
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: your prayers. The boys will riddle you when you try
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: to come out of that house.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: They'll have no occasion to fire. My friends and I
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: spent the night in this cabin, Sheriff. I think it'll
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: prove as interesting to you as it did to us.
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: Prowlers!
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: Sheriff, I... Do not go in house. You wait here. Ben,
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: you come with me. Right, Sheriff. Look. Open the door, Sheriff.
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: It's unlocked. Go ahead. Look around. You may find some
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: of the things I found. After I learned the dog
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: wasn't the man-killer Wendy tried to make him appear. I don't, Savvy.
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: Suppose you start with the mantle over the fireplace. Say,
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: this here looks like Todd Baker's watch. It is his.
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: It's got his wife's and baby's picture in the back.
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: Then take a look at that table drawer.
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: Well, I had some money pouch from the city bank.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: Didn't the mass killer rob the bank and kill one
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: of the guards some time ago? He sure did. I
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: see it now.
• 24:03
  Speaker 8: The mass killer came here to rob Wendy while he
• 24:05
  Speaker 8: was visiting Betty and me in town.
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: Isn't it more likely that the mass killer lives here?
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: You mean Wendy knows who that murdering coyote is? I'm
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: sure he does. Let me show you something. Now, this
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: frame used to hold two tin tags, one of Wendy
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: and one of his son. Now there's only one picture
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: in it, the one of the son. Thunderation.
• 24:25
  Speaker 6: I clean forgot about old Wendy having a son. Didn't
• 24:28
  Speaker 6: turn out so well as I remember. Got mixed up
• 24:30
  Speaker 6: with a Crowder gang across the county line... rustling steers
• 24:33
  Speaker 6: and waylaying stagecoaches. He sure is a spitting image.
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: Of his old man. There have been other changes made, too.
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: Wendy Smith never touched a drink in his life. Now
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: there's a bottle of whiskey on the table. Say, that's funny. Yeah.
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: And Wendy used to be a good cook. But that
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: stove hasn't been used for some time. Doggone it, that
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: ain't right. I don't understand. I do.
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: The reason things ain't the same here as they used
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: to be is because the mass killer is living here
• 25:00
  Speaker 6: and forced Winnie to change his habits.
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: Now, all we have to do is ask... The last
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: time I saw Wendy Smith was a year ago. Todd
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: and I had dinner with him. Yet today, he didn't
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: even recognize us. Hey, where in Sam Hill do you
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: think you're going? Outside. Are you coming? You're darn trooping
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: I'm coming. You ain't getting away that easy. Keep those
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: guns out. You'll need them. Just try to make your getaway, Mr.
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: Al Ridley. Look! Sheriff's caught his man. Yeah, Sheriff's got
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: the drop on him.
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: About time you followed my advice, Sheriff.
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: It was plain as day this hombre was the mass
• 25:29
  Speaker 6: killer when we first lit eyes on him.
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: Hey, take your hands off me.
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: Let's have a real look at you. Sheriff, stop him.
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: He's aiming to kill me.
• 25:35
  Speaker 6: Let Wendy go, stranger, or I'll shoot. Do not shoot.
• 25:37
  Speaker 6: I'm showing you up for what you really are. The
• 25:39
  Speaker 6: masquerade is over.
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: A false beard.
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: This man is not Wendy Smith, Sheriff. He's his outlaw son.
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: Great day.
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: Sure on, the old coot's son. When I came home,
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: I found him dying.
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: I knew he was popular around town, so I thought
• 25:51
  Speaker 6: I'd pass myself off as him.
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: So nobody'd suspect who.
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: I really was.
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: You know me better as the mass killer. And I'm
• 25:57
  Speaker 6: living up to my reputation right now.
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: I got it.
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: Pull the gun. Not very far. And this. If you
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: look through his pockets, Ben, I think you'll find the
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: money he stole from you. Well, you're right.
• 26:10
  Speaker 8: Why, it's all here, the whole 25,000. And the mask,
• 26:14
  Speaker 8: the disguise of the masked killer.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: Thunderation. To think that murdering coyote was right where we
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: could get him all the time. We didn't know it. Here,
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: mask man, take back your guns. Thanks, Sheriff. I'm glad
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: to admit I was wrong. That fellow on the ground
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: there murdered Todd Baker. Probably because Todd came too close
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: to the truth.
• 26:32
  Speaker 8: Well, he won't kill anyone else in Sutter's Gulch.
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: Thanks to this mask man who.
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: Where is he? Well, Dad read it. If he didn't
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: slip away right out from under our noses.
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: I'll send the man away!
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: THE END THE END Oh, my God.
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• 28:26
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• 28:43
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• 28:47
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