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The Lone Ranger - "Setup for Murder" (Old Time Radio, 1940) · The Lone Ranger | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: July 31st, 1940. The Lone Ranger rides again in episode 1173.
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  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, tonight's chapter is Set Up for Murder.
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  Speaker 1: From radio's long-running Western tradition comes another visit with the
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  Speaker 1: masked rider and his faithful companion, Tonto. Settle in now
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  Speaker 1: for this early 1940 broadcast. We now take you back
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  Speaker 1: to the original broadcast.
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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.
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  Speaker 3: Hi-yo silver, the Lone Ranger.
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  Speaker 4: THE END.
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  Speaker 3: THE END.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you. THE END.
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  Speaker 2: With his faithful Indian companion Tonto, the Masked Rider of
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  Speaker 2: the Plains fought crime and criminals throughout the western United States.
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  Speaker 2: No one could match his strength and courage. It was
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  Speaker 2: his ability to judge character that made him the greatest
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  Speaker 2: champion of justice the West ever knew. No matter what
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  Speaker 2: the circumstances, the man who was honest and innocent could
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  Speaker 2: always depend upon the Masked Rider's help. Return with us
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  Speaker 2: now to those thrilling days of yesteryear. From out of
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  Speaker 2: the past come the thundering hoofbeats of the great horse Silver.
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  Speaker 2: The Lone Ranger rides again.
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  Speaker 4: Come on, Silver!
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  Speaker 3: We're heading for the range country.
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  Speaker 5: It's going to be trouble.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, Silver, away! Helen Barker walked into the living
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  Speaker 2: room from the kitchen and stopped in surprise when she
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  Speaker 2: saw that her husband was getting ready to go out.
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  Speaker 3: Jack.
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  Speaker 4: Huh?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, hello there.
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  Speaker 4: Rub-butt ready?
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  Speaker 6: Everything's on the stove. Jack, where are you going?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, just out. Out where? Just down the trail a piece.
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  Speaker 6: Down the trail?
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  Speaker 4: Mm-hmm. I don't think it'll be going long, though. You
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  Speaker 4: can hold the vittles for a bit if I'm a
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  Speaker 4: minute or two late, can't you?
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  Speaker 7: I suppose, but why don't you want to tell me
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  Speaker 7: where you're going? Is there something you think you should hide?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, I'm... Is it, Jack?
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  Speaker 4: Helen, you have to get so curious.
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  Speaker 8: When a fellow has something to do and you can
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  Speaker 8: see he don't want to talk about it, can't you
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  Speaker 8: let him alone?
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  Speaker 4: Gosh, I think you're... Something's wrong. Listen, Helen, I.
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  Speaker 6: You've never acted like this before.
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  Speaker 4: But, Gully.
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  Speaker 7: And you're not leaving this house until I know where
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  Speaker 7: you're going. Jack, you've got to tell me.
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  Speaker 4: Oh.
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  Speaker 6: Please, Jack.
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  Speaker 4: All right, if you have to know. I got a
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  Speaker 4: message from your pa. I'm going down the trail to
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  Speaker 4: meet him.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, Jack, no.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I am.
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  Speaker 6: But you can't. It isn't true.
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  Speaker 4: Think I'm fibbing to you?
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  Speaker 3: But.
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  Speaker 6: I don't understand. You and father haven't spoken since the
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  Speaker 6: day we were married.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe he wants to make up.
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  Speaker 6: I don't believe it.
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  Speaker 4: Then maybe he don't. How do I know?
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  Speaker 8: All I know is he wants to see me about
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  Speaker 8: something or other, and I don't even let him think
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  Speaker 8: I'm scared of him by staying away.
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  Speaker 6: How do you know he wants to see you?
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  Speaker 4: He sent a note.
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  Speaker 6: From one of his men?
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  Speaker 4: No, a stranger brought it. Said your pa asked him
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  Speaker 4: to give it to me.
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  Speaker 6: Where is the note?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. Threw it away, I guess.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, what did it say?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, gosh, when it comes to asking questions... Jake, what
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  Speaker 4: did it say? Just what I told you. He wants
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  Speaker 4: to see me.
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  Speaker 8: He'll be at the grove over west. Didn't say nothing else.
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  Speaker 8: If I don't hurry and get started, I'll miss it.
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  Speaker 6: I won't try to stop you.
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  Speaker 4: I don't see no reason why you should.
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  Speaker 6: But if you're going, I am going to ask you
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  Speaker 6: to leave your gun at home.
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  Speaker 4: Huh?
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  Speaker 6: You heard me, Jack. Leave it here.
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  Speaker 4: What in thunder for?
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  Speaker 7: Because I know your temper. I know how one word
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  Speaker 7: can lead to another until they end in a quarrel.
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  Speaker 7: I want you to go unarmed because if you're quarreled
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  Speaker 7: and anything should happen to either of you, I.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I don't even want to think about it.
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  Speaker 4: I ain't going to fight.
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  Speaker 6: You don't know what you'll do.
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  Speaker 4: Shucks, honey.
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  Speaker 6: Are you going to leave that gun?
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  Speaker 4: Nope, I don't reckon I will.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, Jack.
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  Speaker 8: I'll be careful, honey. I'll find out what your pa wants.
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  Speaker 8: And you got my word, I'll be back home inside
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  Speaker 8: an hour.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, oh, boy.
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  Speaker 4: Well, here we are, boy. I wonder where Helen's pa is. Mr. Sampson?
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  Speaker 1: Aye, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Sampson. I guess he ain't here yet. But I thought... Say,
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  Speaker 4: what in tongue it... It's him. It's him laying there.
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  Speaker 4: He's been drilled. What?
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  Speaker 3: Who's that?
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  Speaker 4: Look over here. Who is it? Then take it!
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  Speaker 3: Oh!
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  Speaker 5: Oh!
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  Speaker 4: Hey, fellas, you hear that shot? Where'd it come from?
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  Speaker 3: Over that way, Aunt Wanda.
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  Speaker 4: Sounds to me like it come from the grove. Then
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  Speaker 4: we better take a look. Come on. Get up, boys.
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  Speaker 4: I'll be. Look at here. Samson's done for. And who's this?
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  Speaker 3: It's Jack Barker.
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  Speaker 4: They had a gunfight.
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  Speaker 3: Jack's coming too.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, shut up.
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  Speaker 9: A second, will you, fellas? Now, wait a second, Jack.
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  Speaker 9: Don't try to get up till I've had a look
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  Speaker 9: at this place where you were shot.
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  Speaker 4: Oh. Hmm.
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  Speaker 9: It ain't so bad. Just creased your scalp and parted
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  Speaker 9: your hair.
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  Speaker 4: You was lucky. Help me up. Here. Here you are.
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  Speaker 3: Jack, how did it happen? What did you and Sampson
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  Speaker 3: fight over?
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  Speaker 4: Huh? What was it, Jack? What started the argument? But
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  Speaker 4: there weren't none. Huh?
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  Speaker 8: I never drilled them. I found them just like that.
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  Speaker 8: Then somebody yelled, and when I turned to look, they
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  Speaker 8: took a shot at me. I didn't even see who
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  Speaker 8: it was. That's all I can recollect till right now.
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  Speaker 4: Jack, that's pretty thin. You don't believe me?
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  Speaker 10: You figure we should when we find you with a
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  Speaker 10: gun in your hand and one shot fired out of it?
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  Speaker 4: With Samson's gun in his hand the same way? But, hey,
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  Speaker 4: this gun ain't mine. No? It ain't, I tell you.
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  Speaker 4: It ain't.
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  Speaker 8: The fella that done the killing must have left it
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  Speaker 8: and took mine. He left it to put the blame
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  Speaker 8: on me.
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  Speaker 3: It's all right, Jack.
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  Speaker 4: But I tell you.
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  Speaker 10: Folks around here always knew something like this was bound
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  Speaker 10: to happen one of these days, ever since you got
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  Speaker 10: hitched to his daughter against his orders.
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  Speaker 4: Wait, fellas, I'm telling you... Maybe you killed him in
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  Speaker 4: a fair fight. Listen, I.
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  Speaker 9: But that'll be for the law to decide. Pete, you'd
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  Speaker 9: better ride into town and bring the sheriff. We'll stay here.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 4: Get out of there.
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  Speaker 3: Wait.
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  Speaker 4: Won't you believe me, fellas? Won't you listen to what
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  Speaker 4: I say? I'm not guilty, I tell you.
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  Speaker 7: Cat?
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  Speaker 4: Well, we ain't got nothing to give you personally, so
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  Speaker 4: don't get us wrong.
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  Speaker 9: But a killing's a killing has to be dealt with according.
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  Speaker 9: So it's just a waste of breath trying to argue
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  Speaker 9: with us.
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  Speaker 4: But, fellas.
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  Speaker 3: One moment.
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  Speaker 4: One moment. A madman. A redskin. A crook.
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  Speaker 3: Don't stop, brother.
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  Speaker 4: You can't. Tonto, watch them. No, me watch them. What
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  Speaker 4: do you want? Is this a holdup?
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 4: Then what do you want? Quiet.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Tonto, I'll handle them. You examine Sampson. Uh, Tonto,
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  Speaker 3: do it.
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  Speaker 4: Say, what are you up to?
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  Speaker 3: Tonto and I heard the shots just as you did.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: You were closer and got here first. But we've seen
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  Speaker 3: what's gone on.
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  Speaker 5: Huh?
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  Speaker 3: And I have an idea you've made one very serious mistake. Tonto,
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  Speaker 3: was I right or wasn't I? Him still live, all right.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, you mean Mr. Sampson ain't dead?
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  Speaker 3: Wait. Will he live, Tonto? You think he can be
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  Speaker 3: brought to?
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  Speaker 4: Me not know.
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  Speaker 3: Him hurt pretty bad. Can you help him? I'll try. Good.
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  Speaker 3: Then pick him up and put him across your saddle.
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  Speaker 3: I'm giving the orders here. And remember this. You can
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  Speaker 3: hold Jack for the sheriff. The sheriff can jail him.
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  Speaker 3: But in case you're tempted to take justice into your
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  Speaker 3: own hands, Jack isn't the murderer until Samson dies. Here, Silver.
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  Speaker 4: The first man.
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  Speaker 3: To try for his gun stops lead. Ready, Tonto?
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  Speaker 4: Let's go.
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  Speaker 3: Come on, Silver.
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  Speaker 4: Shoot him down. You fools, hold your fire. Don't shoot.
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  Speaker 4: If Samson's still living, he might get hit. Hold your fire.
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  Speaker 3: This'll do, Tonto. Rain up. It's a good place to
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  Speaker 3: make camp. It's isolated and there's plenty of cover. You
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  Speaker 3: can make things ready while I'm gone. You'll ride? Yes, Kimusabe,
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  Speaker 3: to town.
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  Speaker 4: What do there?
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  Speaker 3: I'll call on the sheriff.
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  Speaker 5: Oh.
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  Speaker 8: Oh.
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  Speaker 3: And I'll be back by sundown. Come on, Silver. Hello, Silver!
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  Speaker 4: Hello, Silver!
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  Speaker 2: At that moment, Samson's foreman was talking with the sheriff
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  Speaker 2: in the lawman's office.
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  Speaker 4: I got a question to ask you, Sheriff. What's that, Carp?
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  Speaker 4: How do you feel about duels? Duels? What are you
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  Speaker 4: talking about?
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  Speaker 11: Well, suppose there's hard feelings between a couple of hombres.
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  Speaker 4: They get to hate.
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  Speaker 11: Each other so much that they finally decide to shoot
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  Speaker 11: it out. That used to happen a lot in the
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  Speaker 11: old days.
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  Speaker 4: Times have changed. Duels are against the law.
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  Speaker 11: They always was. But somehow or other, the guy who
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  Speaker 11: won never got hanged. You mean the jury to quit him?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, I can't answer for any jury. I've seen
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  Speaker 4: them do a lot of fool things. But I know
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  Speaker 4: what the law says, and as long as I'm sheriff,
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  Speaker 4: I'll do my best to enforce it. Unless it's an
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  Speaker 4: accident or in self-defense, a man who kills is a murderer.
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  Speaker 4: You'd arrest him? I sure would. Tell your boss that.
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  Speaker 4: You had some reason for worrying about Dool's carp. A
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  Speaker 4: man don't ask a question like that for no reason
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  Speaker 4: at all. Come on now, tell me the truth. Has
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  Speaker 4: old man Samson been threatening to shoot it out with
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  Speaker 4: his son-in-law? I didn't say that he... Well, you know
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  Speaker 4: how he talks. Yeah? It might be a good idea
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  Speaker 4: if you had a word with him. You can tell
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  Speaker 4: him what I said yourself. And you can add this
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  Speaker 4: to it. What? If I was him, I wouldn't count
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  Speaker 4: on any jury setting me free. The folks in this
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  Speaker 4: county want law and order. I guess you're right. Sheriff!
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  Speaker 4: What's up?
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  Speaker 3: There's been a shooting in Miner's Grove. You better come quick.
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  Speaker 4: A shooting? Anybody hurt?
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  Speaker 3: Jack Barter wounded.
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  Speaker 4: Who done it?
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  Speaker 3: Old man Samson.
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  Speaker 4: I was afraid he might.
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  Speaker 3: But the old man got the worst of it. He's dead.
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  Speaker 4: No. Come on. You gonna arrest Jack? That's my duty
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  Speaker 4: and that's what I aim to do. Wounded or not,
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  Speaker 4: he'll be in jail within an hour.
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  Speaker 2: I reckon that'll hold.
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  Speaker 4: You, young fella. You won't be breaking out of this jail.
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  Speaker 4: You dirty... Now, look here, Jack. Being the sheriff, I
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  Speaker 4: ain't doing nothing but my duty. The fella said it
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  Speaker 4: looked like a fair fight. You both had guns out.
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  Speaker 4: You got Samson, and his shot came close to getting you. Now,
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  Speaker 4: maybe you will be acquitted, but that's for the jury
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  Speaker 4: to decide, not me. You've got to stand trial. Doggone it, Sheriff.
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  Speaker 8: How many times do I have to tell you there
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  Speaker 8: weren't no gunfight?
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  Speaker 4: Mr. Sampson had been done for when I got there.
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  Speaker 4: That masked gent said he weren't dead yet. Well, maybe
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  Speaker 4: he wasn't. I don't know. I thought he was. And
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  Speaker 4: what's that got to do with anyway? I'm still saying
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  Speaker 4: he weren't shot by me. Bound and determined to stick
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  Speaker 4: to that story, huh? It's true. Won't get no jury
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  Speaker 4: to believe that. I tell you... And I don't mind
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  Speaker 4: saying I don't myself. You'd be better off if you'd
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  Speaker 4: just come clean.
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  Speaker 8: Ah, the dickens would try to argue with you. Here,
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  Speaker 8: do me a favor, Sheriff.
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  Speaker 4: Anything that ain't unreasonable. Send for my wife. Tell her
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  Speaker 4: where I am, and I want to see her. Oh, sure.
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  Speaker 4: That can be done.
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  Speaker 6: It won't be necessary.
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  Speaker 4: Helen.
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  Speaker 6: I already know what's happened. The cop has told me.
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  Speaker 4: Howdy, Sheriff. Hello, cop. Tough lines, Jack. Yeah.
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  Speaker 11: But I knew someday you and the boss would tangle.
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  Speaker 11: It was one of them things just had to happen.
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  Speaker 4: If it did, you ain't sorry. What do you mean?
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  Speaker 8: What do you think he is? Wasn't him your pa
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  Speaker 8: wanted you to marry? Wasn't it why your pa made
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  Speaker 8: carp foreman? Wasn't it because I cut him out that
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  Speaker 8: your pa and me fought?
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  Speaker 11: Jerks, fella, that's old ancient history. I never held it
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  Speaker 11: against you. Helen chose you, so I.
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  Speaker 6: There's no need to discuss it.
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  Speaker 4: Sir, it isn't.
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  Speaker 6: And, Jack, I came here for just one reason. I
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  Speaker 6: came to tell you that we're through.
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  Speaker 4: What's that?
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  Speaker 6: It can't be any other way. Maybe Father started the quarrel.
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  Speaker 6: Maybe he forced you to draw. But I can't forget
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  Speaker 6: that he was my father. That I begged you not
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  Speaker 6: to meet him armed.
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  Speaker 4: But, honey, you don't know the facts. It weren't that
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  Speaker 4: way at all.
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  Speaker 8: I never.
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  Speaker 6: I know the story you've told him. And I can't
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  Speaker 6: believe it any more than the others do.
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  Speaker 4: But, honey... I won't talk about it.
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  Speaker 6: I can't.
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  Speaker 4: Come.
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  Speaker 6: Take me out of here.
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  Speaker 11: Well, sure, Helen. You come along. See you later, sir. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I... I'll be. Didn't expect anything else, did you, Jack?
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  Speaker 4: Even she wouldn't believe me. And if your own wife won't,
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  Speaker 4: that means... Huh? Won't nobody else, neither. Young fella, if
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  Speaker 4: it turns out Samson's really done for, I'm afraid things
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  Speaker 4: are going to go so good for you. Then, Sheriff,
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  Speaker 4: you've got to find him. That's what I aim to do.
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  Speaker 4: You've got to find that mask man and see where Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Samson was took. Uh-huh. Then what are you standing there for?
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  Speaker 4: Go on. Go on, dog. Go on and find him.
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  Speaker 3: Looking for me?
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  Speaker 8: What.
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  Speaker 4: The Masked Man.
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  Speaker 3: The curtain falls on the first act of our Lone
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  Speaker 3: Ranger drama. Before the next exciting scenes, please permit us
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  Speaker 3: to pause for just a few moments.
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  Speaker 7: The Masked Man.
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  Speaker 2: Now to continue our story. Startled by the sudden appearance
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  Speaker 2: of the masked man, the sheriff instinctively slapped his hand
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  Speaker 2: to his holster, was stopped by the lone ranger's lightning draw.
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  Speaker 3: Careful, Sheriff.
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  Speaker 4: Sheriff, watch out. He's got the drop on you.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't come looking for trouble, Sheriff. But anything you start,
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  Speaker 3: I'll finish.
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  Speaker 4: Why did you come here?
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  Speaker 3: For the answer to certain questions, which you and Jack
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  Speaker 3: should be able to furnish.
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  Speaker 4: Stranger, where's Samson? What'd you do with him? He's still alive,
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  Speaker 4: or ain't he?
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  Speaker 3: You'll answer my questions first, Sheriff. Yours will come later.
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  Speaker 4: Ha, ha, ha. Well, looks like you're boss. What do
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  Speaker 4: you want to know?
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  Speaker 3: Who were Samson's enemies? Who would benefit by his death?
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  Speaker 4: What are you getting at?
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  Speaker 3: I have reason to believe Jack has been telling you
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  Speaker 3: the truth. I believe he's innocent. In that case, you'll
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  Speaker 3: have to look elsewhere for your killer.
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  Speaker 4: You believe in me, Maskman?
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  Speaker 3: I do.
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  Speaker 4: Why?
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  Speaker 3: For one very excellent reason. I've seen both Jack and Samson.
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  Speaker 3: They were found under circumstances that made it appear they
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  Speaker 3: had shot it out. But there's one fact that won't
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  Speaker 3: agree with that story.
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  Speaker 4: What fact's that?
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  Speaker 3: If they had fought, their shots would have been fired
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  Speaker 3: at almost the same time.
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  Speaker 4: But they weren't.
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: Samson's wound was made almost an hour earlier than Jack's.
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: You're sure of that, Stranger?
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: How do you know?
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: You might have seen the same thing if you'd had
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: the opportunity to make a comparison.
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: I would have if you hadn't took Samson away.
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: I had a reason for that. If I had left
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: him where he was, it might have been shown that
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: Jack was innocent.
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: Then what?
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: But by taking him away, I'll do more than that.
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: I'll also learn who was guilty.
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: Maskman, you do that and I'll be your part for life.
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: Outlaw or not. You make it sound good, stranger. But
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: how do I know you ain't talking through your hat?
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: Give me the information I've asked for and I'll prove
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: I'm not.
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: You mean tell you who might want Samson done in?
• 17:06
  Speaker 10: Yes.
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: I wouldn't do no harm to tell you that, I reckon.
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: If you don't, I will, Sheriff. Oh, don't get hasty,
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: young fella. Now, let's see. There's Buck Klein and there's
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: Sam Jenks. Him and Samson was always fighting.
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: Buck Klein, Sam Jenks, Nick Seeley. There were half a dozen, Tata.
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: Each was Samson's enemy, or had something to gain by
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: his death. Ah. So any one of those men might
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: have shot Samson and framed Jack for it. Not right.
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: The sheriff wanted to investigate each one and learn what
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: kind of an alibi he had for the time of
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: the shooting. Ah. But I talked him out of that.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: Our plan is not only easier, but more certain. And
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: I don't want any of them to think that he's
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: under suspicion.
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: That's a good idea.
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: The sheriff agreed to it. Him help? He will, Kimisabe.
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: What him do? I think tomorrow he'll spend quite a
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: bit of his time in the cafes in town.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: Telling the townsmen just what he's been instructed to say.
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: You seen the masked man, Sheriff?
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: What's he saying? Jets are still alive. What's that masked
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: Jets game? Hold on, fellas, now. Hold on. I don't
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: mind telling you about it, but how can I with
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: all you fellas talking to one?
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: Well, how'd the masked man happen to look you up, Sheriff?
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: Because I'm the law, that's why. Why wouldn't he?
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: But ain't he a crook?
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: Maybe, but I got my own notions about that. But
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: how about Samson? He's alive, all right. That ain't to
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: say that he's going to live.
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: What do you mean by that?
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: Well, the masked fellow says he's going to be kind
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: of touch and go. He's still unconscious. Can't be moved
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: or anything. The masked fellow's got a red-skinned poor attendant
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: to him. Where are they? That's something I ain't saying.
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: The masked man going to let you know what happens
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: to Samson?
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: That's all been fixed. And Jack? Stays right where he
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: is in jail. Maybe he's telling the truth about that
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: shooting and maybe he ain't. If Samson lives to tell
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: his story, we'll get the facts. Till then, Jack's staying
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: behind bars.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: But how long is that going to be?
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: Don't know for sure. Then why don't... But it won't
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: be too long. The masked man said they ought to
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: know whether Samson's going to pull through or not inside
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: of 48 hours.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: Hello, Sheriff.
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: Oh, it's you, stranger.
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: I've been waiting for you. You've been all around town.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: You let everyone know what I told you to say?
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: Sure have, mister. By this time, if there's a man, woman,
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: or child in these parts don't know about it, they
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: must be deep.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: Good.
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: Stranger, just a second. Yes? I've answered all your questions
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: when you ask them. Mind if I put a few
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: to you?
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: Go on.
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: Ain't anything you should mind answering. First off, this Injun
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: part of yours you've mentioned, you ain't told me his name.
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: It wouldn't be Tombo, would it?
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: It would. But how did you know?
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: Oh, I just had a hunch when I heard you
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: ride off last night calling that horse of yours Silver.
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: Would you mind my looking at your guns? Just one
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: of them will do.
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Take it. Satisfied?
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: Bullets of silver.
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: Mister, you may be wondered why I didn't put up
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: no bigger argument when you told me your scheme.
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: It was logical. And you certainly could see I had
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: nothing to gain by it.
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: But, mister, that wouldn't have been enough by a long sight.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: No?
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: It was cause I had a blame good notion who
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: you was.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: Then in that case, maybe you'll be ready to carry
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: out the rest of my plan.
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: What do you mean?
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: Recall the names of those men we discussed last night.
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: The men whom I'd gained by Samson's death.
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: Oh, sure.
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: Well, tomorrow send for them. Have them brought here to
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: your office. But what for? What'll I say? That you're
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: forming a posse. That you've chosen them to ride in it.
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: Huh?
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: Listen, Sheriff. And I'll tell you exactly what I have
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: in mind.
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: Hey, Sam, you to home?
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: The sheriff wants you. Sheriff wants you in town right now.
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: What's that you said? Sheriff's forming a posse, Cobb. You've
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: got to be in it. Get in, fella.
• 21:20
  Speaker 8: Get in.
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: Get in. Feed the sheriff, won't you?
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Sheriff, send fire.
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: You get to town. Hurry, Jake.
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: The sheriff wants you. Come on, Silver. Come on, old fellow.
• 21:36
  Speaker 7: Get him out.
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: Get him out.
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: Get him out.
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: Where are we going? See that cliff tunnel? This is it.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: That's where we're headed, Kimo Sabe.
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: If we signal from there, the smoke will be seen
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: in town. Come on, old fellow.
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: Hurry, boy.
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: Get him up, scoundrel.
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: Get him up.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: Hail Silver, away. We'll be right back.
• 22:19
  Speaker 10: Doggone it, Sheriff. You sent for us and said we
• 22:22
  Speaker 10: was needed for a posse. Well, if we are, why
• 22:25
  Speaker 10: don't we do something? Why don't you get away from
• 22:27
  Speaker 10: that window and tell us who we're going after? We're
• 22:30
  Speaker 10: all set and ready.
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: Well, maybe I should have told you a little more.
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: But you see, fellas, I've been so busy watching for
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: the signal, it kind of slipped my mind. What signal?
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: The one that Mask Man's gonna send. Mask Man? That's right, Buck.
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: Then this has got something to do with Samson?
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: Fellas, the Mask Man told me Samson would either come
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: to this morning and pull through, or he never would.
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: Now's the crisis.
• 22:56
  Speaker 11: If he dies, ain't nothing much we can do but
• 22:58
  Speaker 11: go on with the case again, Jack. You got some
• 23:00
  Speaker 11: kind of notion he didn't shoot Samson? There's certain things
• 23:04
  Speaker 11: kind of point that way.
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: You better let me finish. If Samson comes to, he'll
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: be able to tell us who shot him. If it
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: was Jack, well, all right. But if it weren't, then
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: we want to grab the skunk that did just as
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: fast as we can. That's right.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: But how about this, your signal you mentioned?
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: The mask man will make it. It'll be a smoke signal.
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: One smoke will mean Samson's done first. Yeah? And two
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: will mean he's conscious. He can talk. Get in there, Chase. Chief, fillies,
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: look towards the hill. Smoke. Where do you see it?
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: There it is. How many, Carp? How many? Just one.
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: Then that means.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: Samson's cashed in his chips.
• 23:43
  Speaker 11: Well, then I reckon that's that. He ain't gonna talk.
• 23:47
  Speaker 11: We wasted our time. Me, I'm gonna... Wasted our time,
• 23:51
  Speaker 11: did we? There's the second signal. You take a look.
• 23:54
  Speaker 11: He just got a go.
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: Come on, you hombres. Get to the saddle. We're riding
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: for the hill. Keep going, fellas. Ain't much further. Get
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: along there, boy. Get up there. Get up there.
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: Hi.
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: There's the last man now.
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: He's waving.
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: He's yelling something. Pull up. Pull up there. Right in, fellas.
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: Whoa there.
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: Whoa there. Whoa there.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: Oh, there's Sylvia.
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: Oh, boy.
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: Sheriff, it worked.
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: I know doggone well it would. Which way did the
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: skunk go?
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: Tonto and I were watching from above. We saw him
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: drop back when he rolled through those trees there and
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: raced to the south.
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: You'll find out what we're talking about later, fellas. Right now,
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: there ain't time to explain.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: Follow me. Tonto's already on his trail. Come on, Sylvia.
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: Come on.
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: There's the engine.
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: Who's that? It's Jason.
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: Hey, it's Carl.
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: But he started out with us.
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: And that's you with the first opportunity to make his escape.
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: He's the man who shot Samson. Ride that fellow down. Hurry, Silver. Hurry.
• 25:06
  Speaker 8: Go, go, go.
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: The polecat's shooting at us. I'll take care of that.
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: I'm riding ahead. Come on, old fellow.
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: Look at that white horse stretch out.
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: Covers the ground like he was flying.
• 25:26
  Speaker 7: Get back.
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: Get back. Listen to car power.
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: The masked man's making a loop. He's getting ready to
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: throw a toxic rope.
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: Get up, boy.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: Get up.
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: Get up, boy. Get up now. He got him. Cops
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: on the ground.
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: He's fighting like a wildcat. The masked man will handle him.
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: Hold on to this skunk, masked man.
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: No. Stand still, Karp. We're saving you for a hanging.
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: You can't hang me. Just what made you think we can?
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: Because Samson never died.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: But he did.
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: What? What's that?
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: He died immediately when you shot him. You gave yourself away.
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: But I thought... The sheriff said.
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: What I told him to say.
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: We let you think Samson had a chance to pull
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: through a purpose.
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: So when the guilty man was convinced Samson was going
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: to live to testify against him, he'd do exactly what
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: you did.
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: Attempt to escape. God bless you. What was the idea, Karp?
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: Figure if you could put the blame on Jack, Jack
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: could hang and you could get hitched to the widder?
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: What if I did? You'll find that out after your trial.
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: And you'll likely find out more.
• 26:28
  Speaker 11: Yeah?
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: If I'm not mistaken, you've guessed close, Sheriff. But you've
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: guessed at only part of the truth. Carp would have
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: liked to marry Samson's daughter so he could get his
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: hands on the ranch.
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: Uh-huh.
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: But it wouldn't surprise me if you learned that Carp
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: had been stealing from his employer, was facing exposure, and
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: had to resort to murder to escape conviction.
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: All the better. That'll just make his hangin' double sure.
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: And Jack will be released?
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: As quick as we can get to town. All right, boys,
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: back to the horses. We'll take this polecat to jail.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: Come on, fellas.
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: Have a nice day.
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: THE END THE END THE END.
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