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The Lone Ranger - "The Killer Horse" (Old Time Radio, 1946) · The Lone Ranger | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: On February 13th, 1946, the Lone Ranger reached episode 2038.
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  Speaker 1: Its title, The Killer Horse. Here is another Western broadcast
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  Speaker 1: from radio's long-running Lone Ranger series. And now, our story begins.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: A fiery horse with a speed of light, a cloud
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  Speaker 3: of dust, and a hearty hi-yo silver.
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  Speaker 2: The Lone Ranger.
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  Speaker 4: The Lone Ranger.
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  Speaker 2: THE END Thank you. THE END With his faithful Indian companion, Tonto,
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  Speaker 2: the daring and.
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  Speaker 5: Resourceful masked rider of the plains.
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  Speaker 3: Led the fight for law and order in the early.
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  Speaker 2: Western United States.
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  Speaker 3: Nowhere in the pages of history can one find a
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  Speaker 3: greater champion of justice. Return with us now to those
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  Speaker 3: thrilling days of yesteryear. From out of the past come
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  Speaker 3: the thundering hoofbeats of the great horse Silver. The Lone
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  Speaker 3: Ranger rides again.
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  Speaker 6: Jim Jackson was 18, but he was small for his
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  Speaker 6: age and so thin that people thought he was a
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  Speaker 6: couple of years younger.
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  Speaker 1: The horse he rode was one that was considered an outlaw.
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  Speaker 2: Steady there, boy. Steady now. He didn't be afraid of me.
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  Speaker 2: No more than I'm afraid of you. Steady. Steady down there.
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  Speaker 2: Easy now.
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  Speaker 3: It was a big horse that seemed to hate all men.
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  Speaker 3: A horse that had been spoiled by mistreatment. Jim had
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  Speaker 3: bought the strong animal for practically nothing and learned to
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  Speaker 3: stay in the saddle.
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  Speaker 2: All right, boy. Now run. Stretch him out. Yippee! Yippee!
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  Speaker 4: Oh, boy!
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  Speaker 2: That's the beast. Here, Jackson. Want to talk to you. Oh, yes, sir. Oh, golly, Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Jones, what are you doing at this stove-in range?
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  Speaker 2: Marshall's here because I brought him here, Jackson. Oh, I see. Mr. Grant,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry that my horse threw you, son. And you'll
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  Speaker 2: be sorry, young man. Jackson, that horse of yours came
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  Speaker 2: near to killing the banker's son. I know it. The
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  Speaker 2: beast is a killer. It's a killer horse. Mr. Grant,
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  Speaker 2: I told Jeff not to try to ride him. I
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  Speaker 2: warned him.
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  Speaker 8: Who are you to tell my son what he shall
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  Speaker 8: and shall not do? You wouldn't even have a place
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  Speaker 8: to sleep if I hadn't gotten you a job on
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  Speaker 8: this ranch. Jeff took the horse when I wasn't looking, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Grant. It's not my fault he was thrown. Well, I
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  Speaker 2: vow the horse will never try to kill anyone else. Jackson...
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  Speaker 2: The horse will have to go. Go? You've got to
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  Speaker 2: get rid of it before sundown. You mean I shoot
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  Speaker 2: the beast? But he's mine. I paid $ 5 for him.
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  Speaker 2: Here's your $ 5. Pick it up. I'll see here, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Grant.
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  Speaker 2: That's the ruling, Jim. It ain't none of my doing.
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  Speaker 2: You've got to get rid of that killer horse. If
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  Speaker 2: it's here tomorrow morning, I'll shoot it myself. That's final.
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  Speaker 6: Come on.
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  Speaker 2: I won't shoot you, big fella. I won't do it.
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  Speaker 2: What matter? You got trouble? No, I guess I got
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  Speaker 2: a cold in the head or something. It's not cold
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  Speaker 2: in the head. It's trouble about horse. I've got to
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  Speaker 2: shoot this horse, but I won't do it. Bloody strong horse.
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  Speaker 2: Why you shoot him? What's the difference? You tell Tonto.
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  Speaker 2: Is that your name? You tell what happened, huh?
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  Speaker 3: Tonto listened to Jim's story, then agreed to help the
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  Speaker 3: boy by taking the horse away so Jim wouldn't have
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  Speaker 3: to shoot it. Tonto left the killer horse with friendly Indians,
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  Speaker 3: then went on to meet his masked friend, the Lone Ranger.
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  Speaker 2: In the year that followed, the matter was forgotten.
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  Speaker 3: It was a year later when the men in front
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  Speaker 3: of the big pine cafe saw a stranger dressed in
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  Speaker 3: the style of the northern cowboy. The stranger had a
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  Speaker 3: powerful black horse that reared and plunged at the hitching.
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  Speaker 4: Hold there.
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  Speaker 2: Hold there. Quiet down. Steady, I tell you. There's a
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  Speaker 2: wild one. Having some trouble, stranger? Some horse you got there. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: it's a critter, ain't he? Need some help, mister? He's
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  Speaker 2: all right now. He always acts up this way when
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  Speaker 2: he don't like the looks of people. He don't like
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  Speaker 2: our looks, eh? What was it you called your horse, stranger? Killer.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of a curious name for a horse. He's earned it. Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Kill somebody? I'd advise you gents to stay away from him.
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  Speaker 2: Takes a man to handle that horse. Now, listen, mister.
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  Speaker 2: We're no greenhorns. You won't take us. Yeah. But you see,
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  Speaker 2: Killer's from Montana. Yeah. He's used to men who know
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  Speaker 2: how to ride. Texans just irritate him.
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  Speaker 9: Just where do you come from, stranger? North, and the
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  Speaker 9: name is Bates. Well, Bates, what's your idea? Maybe we
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  Speaker 9: irritate you, too. Maybe you think we don't know.
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  Speaker 2: How to ride. Anybody can talk big when he doesn't
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  Speaker 2: mean to back it up. Who's the best rider around here?
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  Speaker 2: The best rider? Hey, there comes Bill Steadman. He's good.
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  Speaker 4: Right on the ass.
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  Speaker 2: Bill Steadman.
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  Speaker 3: Bill!
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  Speaker 2: Hi there, Bill. Bill's the man. Come here, Bill. I'm coming.
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  Speaker 10: What's going on here?
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  Speaker 4: Come here, Bill.
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  Speaker 2: What's on your mind, Sheriff?
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  Speaker 11: Bill, here's a northerner that's belittling us.
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  Speaker 2: He says Texans can't ride.
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  Speaker 10: Well, now that's a right broad statement.
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  Speaker 2: I got cash to back it up. Maybe it's too
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  Speaker 2: much to expect men to back their opinions with cash
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  Speaker 2: in a tin horn place like this. A tin horn, huh?
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  Speaker 2: How do you like that? Missy, you're going to bake
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  Speaker 2: these men too far. Well, if you're so proud sure
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  Speaker 2: of yourselves, why not make a little bet? No, you talk.
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  Speaker 2: I got $ 2, 000 to bet that there ain't anyone around
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  Speaker 2: here that's man enough to ride killer. If that's more
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  Speaker 2: than you can cover by pooling your cash, take any
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  Speaker 2: part of it. We'll take it all. And as much
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  Speaker 2: more as you want. You got only 2,000?
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  Speaker 10: You show your cash, fella. Then stand aside and let
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  Speaker 10: me out that killer. Oh, wait, just a minute. As
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  Speaker 10: long as there's cash on this, let's be fair to
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  Speaker 10: the horse.
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  Speaker 2: Backing down, huh? Oh, I'm not backing down. Here's the point. Well?
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  Speaker 2: My horse has carried me a long way today. He's tired.
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  Speaker 12: Well, let Bill ride him. He'll wake him up. After
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  Speaker 12: Bill rides him, I'll take him on. Of course he
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  Speaker 12: can be ridden. You're going to have one man after
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  Speaker 12: another try it till one of you stays on. Any
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  Speaker 12: horse would weaken in time.
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  Speaker 2: Then what's your notion of what's fair? How about postponing
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  Speaker 2: this until tomorrow sometime? Say, tomorrow afternoon. That's fair enough.
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  Speaker 2: Put up your cash with the barkeep. It'll be covered.
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  Speaker 2: This contest ought to be held where there's plenty of room.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of cramped here in the main street. He's right, Sheriff.
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  Speaker 2: I rode across a plain to the north of town.
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  Speaker 2: How about having a trial out there? Good idea. That's
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  Speaker 2: a good place. What time do you reckon your horse
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  Speaker 2: will be rested up? Well, I've got a couple of
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  Speaker 2: errands to do tomorrow. How about making it around four o'clock?
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  Speaker 2: Get all right with you, Bill? Sure thing, sir. Pick
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  Speaker 2: your best man. See if he's on hand. I'll have
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  Speaker 2: killer there. We'll be there, Bates. The whole town will
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  Speaker 2: be there. With bells on.
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  Speaker 3: By nightfall, word of the contest had spread through the
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  Speaker 3: town like wildfire. Everyone planned to attend the contest in
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  Speaker 3: the hope that the obnoxious man from the north would
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  Speaker 3: learn a costly lesson about the riding ability of Texas men.
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  Speaker 2: Tonto had been in town.
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  Speaker 3: He heard the news and carried it with him when
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  Speaker 3: he rode into camp that night to join the masked man.
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  Speaker 2: Tonto, did you get a good look at this fellow
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  Speaker 2: who calls himself Bates? Ah, me get good look. Are
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  Speaker 2: you sure Bates is a man who went under the
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  Speaker 2: name of Ridgeway at Center Springs? Uh-huh, that's right. He
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  Speaker 2: must also be the one who called himself Taylor that
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  Speaker 2: time over in New Mexico. Something else. What's that, Tonto?
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  Speaker 2: You remember a year ago me tell you about a
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  Speaker 2: fellow named Jim Jackson? Jim Jackson? Ah, him not far
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  Speaker 2: from here. Him own killer horse. Oh, is that the
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  Speaker 2: boy whose horse was sentenced to die? That same feller.
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  Speaker 2: What about him, Tonto? That horse, same one Bates owns.
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  Speaker 2: It is? Ah, me sure. Me know a horse anyplace. Tonto,
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  Speaker 2: it can't be coincidence. Oh, what's that? Bates has goaded
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  Speaker 2: people into these contests in several towns.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: And in each case, there's been a big robbery while
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  Speaker 2: the contest was in progress. While nearly everyone was out
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  Speaker 2: of town. We go tell Sheriff? No, that wouldn't do
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  Speaker 2: any good, Tonto. The Sheriff knew about it. He'd talk
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  Speaker 2: to Bates. Possibly accuse Bates of being in league with
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  Speaker 2: the outlaws. Contest would be called off, and so would
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  Speaker 2: Bates' plans. Then what do we do? We've got to
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  Speaker 2: find a way to get proof against Bates. Get the
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  Speaker 2: men who are working with him.
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  Speaker 3: The following morning found the town crowded with men who
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  Speaker 3: had ridden in from the nearby ranches to see the
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  Speaker 3: man from the north humbled. No one paid any particular
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  Speaker 3: attention to the tall man in the working clothes of
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  Speaker 3: a cowboy. No one suspected that the almost legendary character,
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  Speaker 3: the Lone Ranger, had disguised himself to come to town
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  Speaker 3: and see what he could learn. It was Bates who
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  Speaker 3: held the center of interest in front.
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  Speaker 2: Of the cafe. Well, fellas, seven hours more before you
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  Speaker 2: pay off. So you really think your horse can't be rode, huh?
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  Speaker 2: You'll find out about riding. Bill can ride any horse
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  Speaker 2: that ever lives. I've made my bet. I guess that
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  Speaker 2: shows what I think of your champ. You'll be feeling
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  Speaker 2: a heap different tonight. Well, Bates... Oh, hello, Sheriff. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's too bad you.
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  Speaker 11: Didn't ask some questions around here before you talked so much.
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  Speaker 11: If you'd have known a little more about Bill Steadman,
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  Speaker 11: maybe you wouldn't have wanted to bet.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Bill's one more top on as a rodeo's rounding
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  Speaker 2: about and you can shake a stick at. Yeah. He's
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  Speaker 2: never rode a Montana horse. He'll ride one this afternoon. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: something happened down the road. What's going on? Hank's coming
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  Speaker 2: on the run. What does he want to hear? What is...
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  Speaker 2: Bill Stedman's been hurt. What's that you said? What about Bill?
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  Speaker 2: Come on, see him. The stage just came in. Some
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  Speaker 2: fool kid nearly walked in front of it. Bill twisted
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  Speaker 2: his back, threw the fella out of the way to
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  Speaker 2: save him. Is he hurt so he can't ride? I
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  Speaker 2: don't know.
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  Speaker 5: Come on, we've got to go find out. If Bill's hurt,
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  Speaker 5: there goes.
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  Speaker 6: Our $ 2, 000.
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  Speaker 13: There ain't another rider around here half as good as
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  Speaker 13: Bill is.
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  Speaker 2: Wouldn't that look pretty hard luck?
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  Speaker 3: There he is.
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  Speaker 2: There's the killing person. Look at the young fella. The
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  Speaker 2: boy looks half-starved. Ah, me know him. You know him, Toto? Ah,
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  Speaker 2: that Jim Jackson. Him fella who sell killer horse. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 2: Why'd you get in the way of that stage? Why'd
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  Speaker 2: you do it? Oh, I didn't even see it, Sheriff.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't mean to hit you. You didn't mean to? Why,
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  Speaker 2: dead rat, you skinny rat. You know what you've gone
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  Speaker 2: and done? You fixed it so our best man can't
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  Speaker 2: ride a bronc this afternoon. You old dead rat, and
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  Speaker 2: I could skin you.
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  Speaker 10: Sheriff, it wasn't the kid's fault.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my back.
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  Speaker 5: Bill.
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  Speaker 2: Say, this ain't hurt bad. You can ride, can't you, Bill?
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  Speaker 10: Oh, I can't hardly stand how I'm finally gonna ride.
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  Speaker 10: Why didn't you let the stage run him down? Yeah,
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  Speaker 10: why'd you have to be a hero or something?
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  Speaker 2: Well, gents, I suppose you want to back out of
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  Speaker 2: the deal, huh?
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  Speaker 5: We'll find a man to ride your horse. Chef, you
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  Speaker 5: still around here? You better clear out of town. But
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  Speaker 5: I can ride, Chef.
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  Speaker 2: You? Maybe I can make up for what I've done.
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  Speaker 11: There's just one thing you can do, kid. Get out
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  Speaker 11: of town and stay out. You ain't popular around here.
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  Speaker 2: But, Sheriff, I.
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  Speaker 5: Can't you hear me? Get going before I jail you
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  Speaker 5: for being a vagrant.
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  Speaker 3: Go on.
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  Speaker 2: Get going and keep going. You ain't wanted in Big Pine, kid.
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  Speaker 2: All you mean to us is bad luck. You heard
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  Speaker 2: the sheriff. Clear out. I'm proud of him. You got
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  Speaker 2: your chance. You'd better take it before we make you sorry.
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  Speaker 2: I'm leaving. Jim. Mister, I didn't mean no harm. Honest,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't. But I'm going if you want me to. Wait.
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  Speaker 2: Don't you remember Tonto? Tonto? Ah. We talked one day,
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  Speaker 2: a year ago. Oh. Oh, yes, I remember. It was
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  Speaker 2: the day that I got rid of my horse. Jim,
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  Speaker 2: how would you like to see your horse? Oh, you
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  Speaker 2: mean that? Is he around here? Where is he? I
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  Speaker 2: think fate must have sent you here. Come with us.
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  Speaker 2: The curtain falls on the first act of our Lone
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  Speaker 2: Ranger story. Before the next exciting scenes, please permit us
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  Speaker 2: to pause for just a few moments. Now to continue
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  Speaker 2: our story.
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  Speaker 3: At noon, while the townsman tried to find a bronc
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  Speaker 3: buster to take the place of Bill Stedman, the man
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  Speaker 3: who called himself Bates rode away on a pretext of
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  Speaker 3: resting his horse for the contest. Twenty minutes outside of town,
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  Speaker 3: he reined up in a clearing.
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  Speaker 2: Who? Who?
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  Speaker 3: Jake.
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  Speaker 2: Pete.
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  Speaker 6: You here?
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  Speaker 2: Here we are, boss. They're staying back in the bush
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  Speaker 2: till we know it was you. How's everything? Did you
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  Speaker 2: line up the time? Yep. Oh, no. Everything's all set. Hmm. Hmm.
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  Speaker 2: These gents sure rile up when you touch their pride.
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  Speaker 2: What time's the contest to be? Four o'clock. On the
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  Speaker 2: plane north of town. You think everyone will be there?
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  Speaker 2: Count on that. I got them all so sore at me,
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  Speaker 2: they'll go a hundred miles to see me humbled. There
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  Speaker 2: won't be much of anybody left in town. Only those
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  Speaker 2: that can't get away. Maybe a few women and kids.
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  Speaker 2: What's our best bet? The office of the stage line.
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  Speaker 2: There's fooling money there. Waiting for a special stage that'll
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  Speaker 2: leave tomorrow. We'll clean up plenty on this. Stage office, huh?
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  Speaker 2: That's just fine. At four o'clock, we take it over.
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  Speaker 2: And where do we meet afterwards? We're going to Grand Pass.
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  Speaker 2: I'll meet you at the camp we used last time
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  Speaker 2: we were there. Right. What did you do? Make your
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  Speaker 2: usual bet? Yeah. You gonna win it? I am. They
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  Speaker 2: had just one man I was afraid might be able
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  Speaker 2: to ride killer. Huh? Had one man? He was hurt
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  Speaker 2: rescuing a kid who came close to being run over
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  Speaker 2: by the stage. Boys... When we leave Big Pine, we
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  Speaker 2: leave a town that's stripped clean.
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  Speaker 3: In the meantime, at the camp of the Lone Ranger
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  Speaker 3: and Tonto not far from town, Tonto told Jim about
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  Speaker 3: his horse.
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  Speaker 2: Me take horse to Indian village. Indian there, plenty friendly.
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  Speaker 2: What's the horse doing here in town? Jim, the Indians
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  Speaker 2: were attacked and a number of their horses stolen. Oh.
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  Speaker 2: And one of the stolen horses must have been your
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  Speaker 2: black outlaw. Then he's in the hands of crooks. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: If they haven't treated him right, I'll... I think they've
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  Speaker 2: given your horse better treatment than they've given their fellow men.
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  Speaker 2: But how about you, Jim? Otto told me you had
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  Speaker 2: a job on the Kayboy Ranch. That didn't last long.
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  Speaker 7: When I met the banker's son and made me get
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  Speaker 7: rid of the horse, he said things that got under
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  Speaker 7: my skin.
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  Speaker 2: I knocked him down. I see.
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  Speaker 7: Then Banker Grant made me lose my job. Since then,
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  Speaker 7: I've been traveling all around, working a little here and
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  Speaker 7: a little there, and, well, trying to find a steady place.
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  Speaker 2: Jim, if you can still ride that horse of yours,
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  Speaker 2: I think you'll find a steady place right here.
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  Speaker 7: Didn't you hear what the sheriff said to me? He
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  Speaker 7: told me to get. I'm downright unpopular in these parts.
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  Speaker 7: I think we can fix that.
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  Speaker 2: I think we can fix that.
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  Speaker 3: At four o'clock, a great crowd gathered on the plain
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  Speaker 3: north of town. Practically everyone was on hand, hoping to
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  Speaker 3: see the boastful man from the north made to admit
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  Speaker 3: that Texas had good riders. But there was doubt and
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  Speaker 3: head shaking on all sides when the men looked at
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  Speaker 3: the fiery black horse that stood waiting.
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  Speaker 13: If we only had Bill Steadman. Yeah, only we ain't
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  Speaker 13: got him. Four critters down flat with that sprained back. Boys,
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  Speaker 13: I don't like the looks of things. Neither do we, Sheriff.
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  Speaker 2: Where at is Judd Hawkins? Right over there. He don't
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  Speaker 2: feel none too sure of himself. Poor critter will feel
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  Speaker 2: a lot worse a few minutes from now. Hey, Sheriff,
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  Speaker 2: the beach is coming over this way. Sheriff! Where's the Sheriff?
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  Speaker 2: Here I am. What do you want? You holding the stakes?
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  Speaker 2: Baldy right over there's got them. All right. I just
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  Speaker 2: wanted it clearly understood that I expect to be paid
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  Speaker 2: off as soon as your man has been thrown.
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  Speaker 11: You will be, mister, if he's thrown. Only don't be
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  Speaker 11: too doggone sure about that ahead of time. Maybe you'll
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  Speaker 11: get surprised.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: Stedman isn't riding, is he? No, but we got the
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: next best rider. Where is he? It's almost four o'clock.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: He's right over there by your horse. Come along. I'll
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: introduce you to him. Lead the way. Judd? Yeah?
• 19:31
  Speaker 11: This hombre is named Bates. He owns this horse you're
• 19:34
  Speaker 11: going to ride. Bates, this is Judd Hawkins.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: Howdy. How do you do? Think you can ride killer, huh?
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: I aim to try. Hmm. I'm sorry for you. Suppose
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: we get down to business. You can tell a heap
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: better when I make my try than you can from
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: any talking I can do. Yeah, perhaps you're right. You ready?
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: Ready as I'll ever be. I'll hold, killer, while you're mounting.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: That's the only way you'd ever get in the saddle. And, uh, yeah? Well,
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: all I wanted to say is that you're doing this
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: at your own risk. I don't expect to be held
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: responsible if you're injured. Mister, don't you worry none about me.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: Just hold that little old horse while I'm in the saddle.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: And get out of the way, because there's sure going
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: to be fur flying. Don't stand back now. Make room
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: so you won't get hurt. Judd's ready to round. Get
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: way back, everybody. That's right. Now stay like that and
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: don't get in the way. All right, Judd, you can... Hey, look,
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: a masked man. Hey, who's that a-coming? A masked crook.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: Get out of his way. He'll write you all down.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: Get out of here. He's masked. Who's with him? Who's
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: that in the saddle with him? Hey, that's the kid.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: That's the kid I told to clear out of town.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: What's he coming here for? Maybe we'll get reason to
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: drill that troublemaker. Hold on. Who are you? What's that
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: mask for? Hey, you, stay where you are. Don't move.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: You're covered. Take it easy, Sheriff. I'm the law here.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: I've brought a rider for you. Like fun you have.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: That's the horse. Sure of it, Jim?
• 20:55
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: Hey, boy.
• 20:57
  Speaker 14: Hey there, fella.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: What's he talking about? If this is some sort of trick...
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: Stand right there, stranger. I've got the drop on you.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: Put your hands up and take off that mask. Don't
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: be a fool. I brought a rider who'll win. Go on, Jim, hurry.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: You better win. Hey, make him get out of the way.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: Jud's the one to ride.
• 21:13
  Speaker 10: Go on, Jim, hit that saddle and follow me.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: Right. This will count as your trial.
• 21:17
  Speaker 12: If that kid can't stay on my horse, you'll lose
• 21:19
  Speaker 12: your bet.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: Watch that boy. He's your boy. This way, Jim. Get up, boy.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: What are you doing?
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: In the meantime, while the town was practically deserted, the
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: Confederates of Bates reined up before the office of the
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: stage line.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: We'll make this fast, Jake. Grab the cash and make tracks. Right.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: Good afternoon, Judge. Good afternoon. I didn't figure anybody would
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: be calling here with all the doings outside town. What
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: can I do for you? All alone here, are you? Hey,
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: I could stay in town today. Man, stick up your hands.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: Get them up. Hey, what the... And don't get no
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: fool notions or we'll drill you. Now, hold on. If
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: this is a stick-up... What's it look like? Take it
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: easy and do as we say and you won't get hurt.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: You crooks.
• 22:21
  Speaker 14: We're after the folding cash you got here. Don't waste
• 22:23
  Speaker 14: time trying to tell us there ain't none we know better.
• 22:25
  Speaker 14: It's in that safe there right behind you.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: Now get it out. You dog. Don't waste time talking.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: I'll get you for this. You can't rob the stage
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: line and get away with it. Come on, open that safe, quick.
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: All right, all right, I'll open it.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: While the station agent dialed the combination of the safe,
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: fast hoops thundered across the plain north of town. The
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: masked man led the way with Jim Jackson riding close
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: behind on the powerful black horse. They were followed by
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: Bates on the second horse of his string, the sheriff,
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: and all those who had gone to witness the riding contest.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: Kill him! Get that masked man! Why not shoot him?
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: Get him! Maybe the horse is running away with him.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: I'll get him. Put the gun down. I'll show him.
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: He can't shoot.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: But that kid. He's doing what he said he'd do.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: He's running on your property. Yeah, but he's running away
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: with it. Any more gunplay and I'll bust your arm.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: Get up there.
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: Get up there.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: From time to time during the mad race, the voice
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: of the Lone Ranger rose above the thundering hoop beats.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: Come to this.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: The powerful white stallion kept half a length ahead of
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: the strong black killer horse. It was a display of
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: fine horse flesh and sterling horsemanship such as those who
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: followed had never seen. In town, Jake and Pete thought
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: they were having an.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: Easy time of it. That's all the cash you need.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: You're sure about that? Wouldn't try to hold out on us,
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: would you, mister? No, no, no. So help me. That's
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: all of it. I reckon it'll do. Now then, mister,
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: you just stand back there against that wall. What are
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: you going to do? What do you think? Sorry, but
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: we can't let you tell the law what we look like.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: You're not going to shoot me? You wouldn't have cared
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: better on that, would you? Don't shoot you. Promise you.
• 24:24
  Speaker 14: I've missed a lot of things in our day. He
• 24:27
  Speaker 14: kept some of them promises we'd had our necks stretched.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: A long time ago. Hey, Pete, there's hoose. Come on,
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: we gotta clear out. Right. Bates finished sooner, I figured.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: You drop guns. What the... Good for you. I'll help. Why, you...
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: That's the idea. One more.
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: Good, good.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: That dropped the scope. My arm. My arm is busted.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: I've got you covered. Make a move and I'll bust
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: the other arm. I need a doctor. You'll get a
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: lot of things you need as soon as the sheriff
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: gets here. Sheriff and plenty others in town now. Where'd
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: you come from, Indian? Me come in side window. Me
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: watch while crook make you open safe. You'll find yourself
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: a nice reward from the stage line, Indian. I can't
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: stand this pain. It's killing me. Give me some help.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: You'll just have to stand it for a little while.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: Open that door, Indian. Tell the sheriff he's needed. Wait
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: for a minute. Sheriff busy. His business is in here.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: There's plenty of business outside, too. Him come here in
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: a minute. Everyone's reined up outside in the front. What's
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: that doing there? You see Maskman there? Hey, who's he?
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: Is he with these two crooks? No, no. Him not
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: with crooks. Bates' fella with crooks. The one with the
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: outlaw horse? Ah, same fella. Here comes Sheriff. Here's the
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: two of them. Just like the man said. Hank's got them. Hank,
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: what happened here? Hey, one's out cold. My arm is busted. Here,
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: take over, Sheriff.
• 25:42
  Speaker 8: These two would have got away with the cash while
• 25:44
  Speaker 8: their partner had all you men out of town if
• 25:45
  Speaker 8: it hadn't been for that Indian.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: Put the cuffs on these two. You've got no evidence
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: against me, Sheriff. Nothing but the word of that mask man.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: Besides what these two said about dates.
• 25:55
  Speaker 8: You'll get a conviction all right enough.
• 25:57
  Speaker 11: Well, Bates, looks like that masked man in gym here
• 26:00
  Speaker 11: intended us to chase him to town so we could
• 26:02
  Speaker 11: get these two pals of yours.
• 26:04
  Speaker 13: Looks like Bates lost all the way around. Yeah, how'd
• 26:07
  Speaker 13: you like that riding, Bates? Nothing but a kid. He
• 26:10
  Speaker 13: rode your horse like nothing at all.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: Hey, wait. Where is that kid? I'm right here. Now,
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: don't be scared, kid. We're with you. You sure redeemed yourself.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: One question. Listen to me and answer straight. What's your state? Well...
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: I never been out of Texas in my life. Come on, Bates.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: You boys bring the other two. You'll have to carry
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: one of us. Oh, Sheriff, just a minute. That black horse.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: You want that little old horse, Jim? It was mine
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: in the first place. It's yours again. Bates ain't gonna
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: need no horse. I'll see you here, Sheriff. Bates, you.
• 26:43
  Speaker 11: I said the boy could have that horse. You got
• 26:46
  Speaker 11: any objections? Well, take it, son.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: If you want to stay in town, you see me
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: about a job. Oh, golly. But what you going to
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: call your horse? You can't call a good horse killer.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: I'm going to call him Ranger. Ranger!
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: THE END.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: THE END THE END.
• 28:37
  Speaker 11: The story you have just heard is a.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Copyrighted feature of the Lone Ranger Incorporated.
• 28:46
  Speaker 8: The Lone Ranger.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: Incorporated Our time with the Lone Ranger and the Killer
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: Horse is finished. Thank you for joining us for this broadcast.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: Good night.