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The Lone Ranger - "Goose Creek Killer" (Old Time Radio, 1942) · The Lone Ranger | Old Time Radio

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Speaker 1: Brace Beamer is the Lone Ranger, with John Todd as
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Speaker 1: Tonto in a Blue Network broadcast sponsored by General Mills.
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Speaker 1: From August 24, 1942, comes Goose Creek Killer, episode 1,496
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Speaker 1: of The Lone Ranger, from a script by Fran Stryker
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Speaker 1: and direction by Charles D. Livingston.
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Speaker 2: Mrs.
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Speaker 1: Porter asks the Lone Ranger and Tonto to find her
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Speaker 1: missing husband. Their search follows a watch chain clue and
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Speaker 1: the trail of a man known as Indian Tom. We
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Speaker 1: now take you back to the original broadcast.
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Speaker 3: ¶ ¶.
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Speaker 4: Fiery horse with the speed of light, the cloud of dust,
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Speaker 4: and a hearty hi-ho, Silver, the Lone Ranger.
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Speaker 2: THE END.
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Speaker 6: THE END.
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Speaker 4: With his faithful Indian companion, Tonto, the masked rider of
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Speaker 4: the plains led the fight for law and order in
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Speaker 4: the early western United States. The stories of his strength
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Speaker 4: and courage, his daring and resourcefulness have come down to
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Speaker 4: us through the generations. And nowhere in the pages of
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Speaker 4: history can one find a greater champion of justice. Return
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Speaker 4: with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear. From
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Speaker 4: out of the past come the thundering hoofbeats of the
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Speaker 4: great horse Silver. The Lone Ranger rides again.
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Speaker 6: Come on, Silver.
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Speaker 2: There's danger on the trail ahead.
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Speaker 7: Go, Silver.
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Speaker 8: Go away.
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Speaker 4: The Lone Ranger and Tonto, riding along a ridge, heard
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Speaker 4: the distant crack of a heavy caliber rifle.
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Speaker 2: Right up, Tonto.
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Speaker 9: Hold there.
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Speaker 2: You hear it? Yes, a rifle and a heavy one.
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Speaker 2: They're somewhere in the valley down there.
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Speaker 8: Maybe near Edge of River.
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Speaker 2: Another. There's no hunting around here. A rifle means one
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Speaker 2: of two things. Someone is signaling for help or someone
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Speaker 2: is getting shot at.
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Speaker 8: Wait. We watch valley.
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Speaker 2: Third shot will mean they need help.
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Speaker 8: We're not here third shot.
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Speaker 2: Wouldn't be hard for a man to get lost in
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Speaker 2: this country.
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Speaker 8: This is not far from town.
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Speaker 2: I know, Tonto. There are a lot of newcomers in town.
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Speaker 2: Population of Goose Creek has tripled in the last few weeks.
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Speaker 2: And the Easterners are likely to get lost if they
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Speaker 2: travel ten miles out of town. You wait. What is it,
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Speaker 2: Kimo Sabe?
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Speaker 8: We hear other sound. Sound of axe on wood.
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Speaker 6: Yes, Tullow. Wait.
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Speaker 8: Maybe we get location of sound.
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Speaker 2: Two rifle shots followed by an axe on wood. What
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Speaker 2: would that mean?
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Speaker 8: I may not know yet.
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Speaker 6: Maybe we.
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Speaker 2: What do you see, Tullow?
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Speaker 8: We ride downhill right to edge of water. See what there.
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Speaker 10: Get him up, Scout.
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Speaker 2: Come on, Silliman. You see those chips of wood floating
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Speaker 2: on the water from the ridge up there?
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Speaker 8: Ah, me see something floating water. Me go get him.
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Speaker 2: Get him up, Scout.
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Speaker 11: Me got chip of wood. Get him up, Scout.
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Speaker 2: We don't hear the X now, Tonto.
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Speaker 8: Not right.
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Speaker 6: But you take a look.
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Speaker 8: This chip come from plenty big tree, heavy wood tree.
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Speaker 2: Somewhere upstream.
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Speaker 8: If we go that way, we find who chopped tree
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Speaker 8: and find why rifle get fired.
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Speaker 2: We're heading toward town anyway. We might as well investigate.
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Speaker 8: We see chips of wood and stream after rifle shot.
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Speaker 2: Otto, the man who chopped this wood knew how to
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Speaker 2: handle an axe.
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Speaker 5: That's right.
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Speaker 2: His axe was mighty sharp. A dull axe won't take
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Speaker 2: this much out of a hardwood tree.
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Speaker 6: Let's get upstream.
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Speaker 2: Come on, Silver.
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Speaker 12: Come on.
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Speaker 4: While the Lone Ranger and Tonto rode upstream heading toward
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Speaker 4: Goose Creek, the sheriff sat in his office with a
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Speaker 4: deputy and a woman from the east.
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Speaker 2: I'll tell you, Mrs. Porter, if your husband had been
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Speaker 2: in Goose Creek for.
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Speaker 7: Anything like a year, I'd have known about it.
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Speaker 2: So would Jim Tucker, wouldn't you, Jim?
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Speaker 8: I sure would.
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Speaker 9: Up to a few weeks ago, he knew every man, woman, child,
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Speaker 9: and dog in.
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Speaker 10: The 40-mile radius.
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Speaker 12: I came all the way from the east. I was
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Speaker 12: sure I could find out something about him.
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Speaker 2: Mr.
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Speaker 12: Lambert thought so, too.
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Speaker 2: Lambert? I reckon he must be a newcomer, too, huh?
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Speaker 12: Yes, he came here a few days before I did.
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Speaker 12: He thought he'd traced my husband to Goose Creek.
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Speaker 2: Oh, gone it all, Mrs. Porter. I'm sure sorry you
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Speaker 2: had this trip for nothing.
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Speaker 7: If you was a man, you might be able to
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Speaker 7: stake a claim like the others are doing.
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Speaker 2: Dig for gold.
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Speaker 9: I expect you're sort of stranded here now, huh?
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Speaker 12: Well, not exactly.
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Speaker 2: Now, Mrs. Porter, you're not the type of woman to
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Speaker 2: be happy in a place of this sort.
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Speaker 6: I can see that.
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Speaker 7: If you want to go back to the East, I
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Speaker 7: can fix it with a stage company. We'll take up
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Speaker 7: a collection for expense money.
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Speaker 12: Thank you, Sheriff. You're very kind.
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Speaker 2: We'll tend to it right away. Jim, you see.
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Speaker 12: No, but, Sheriff, I don't need money.
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Speaker 2: We'll let the boys know.
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Speaker 6: What's that?
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Speaker 2: I don't need money. You don't? You mean you've got
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Speaker 2: enough money to get back?
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Speaker 10: Oh, yes.
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Speaker 2: That's different. Most folks come here flat broke. If they
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Speaker 2: don't need cash, they stay in the East.
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Speaker 12: I didn't come here to strike it rich, you see.
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Speaker 12: I came to find my husband.
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Speaker 6: You're... I can see it now.
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Speaker 9: I'll fix up a reservation on the next stage, Mrs.
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Speaker 2: Porter.
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Speaker 9: Oh, no, please don't. You want to take care of
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Speaker 9: it yourself, then?
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Speaker 12: I'm not sure that I'll return to the East.
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Speaker 2: No?
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Speaker 12: I think I'll stay here for a time in case
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Speaker 12: there's some information about my husband.
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Speaker 2: Uh, his name was Henry, huh?
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Speaker 12: Yes, Henry Porter.
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Speaker 2: Never been anyone by that name around here. I'm dead
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Speaker 2: sure of it.
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Speaker 12: He might have changed his name.
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Speaker 2: Here's a picture of him.
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Speaker 12: The tint type he had made in St.
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Speaker 10: Louis.
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Speaker 13: Hmm.
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Speaker 6: There you look, Jim.
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Speaker 9: I never saw anyone like this.
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Speaker 2: Sure is a prosperous looking gent in this picture.
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Speaker 12: He was quite well to do.
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Speaker 2: And came west?
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Speaker 13: Yes.
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Speaker 2: Look at this, Sheriff.
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Speaker 12: Have you ever seen this watch chain?
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Speaker 2: No, can't say as I have. Have you, Jim?
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Speaker 10: Let me see it.
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Speaker 2: A heavy one.
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Speaker 8: Solid gold.
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Speaker 2: It was my husband's.
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Speaker 12: He wore it when he left home.
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Speaker 2: How'd you get it?
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Speaker 13: You see, here it has his.
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Speaker 8: Name on it.
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Speaker 12: And the name of our home, Fair Gardens, Virginia. Someone
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Speaker 12: must have found it and sent it to me there.
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Speaker 12: It came from Goose Creek's post office. That's why Mr.
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Speaker 12: Lambert and I came here.
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Speaker 2: Doggone strange. Doggone strange. How'd it get here?
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Speaker 4: The Lone Ranger and Tonto, riding upstream, came to the
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Speaker 4: place where a large tree had been felled on the bank.
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Speaker 4: A keen axe lay on the ground near the partially
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Speaker 4: trimmed tree.
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Speaker 8: Steady.
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Speaker 2: Look around here, Tonto. Someone left in a hurry. That's right.
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Speaker 8: Him leave axe here.
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Speaker 2: Brand new axe at that.
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Speaker 8: And here's a coil of rope. Me take look this way.
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Speaker 8: Me want to find him.
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Speaker 6: Kimisabe, look here.
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Speaker 2: What is it?
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Speaker 8: Come up here and drown him dead.
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Speaker 2: Yes. Pretty certain he was shot. Let's see if he
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Speaker 2: was hit once or twice.
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Speaker 8: We hear two shots.
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Speaker 2: He must have been shot right here. There are his
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Speaker 2: footprints on the bank. He was walking upstream.
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Speaker 8: That's right.
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Speaker 2: He was shot here. He had to be shot at
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Speaker 2: close range. The trees come close to the bank and
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Speaker 2: they're thick. One bullet struck him, Tonto.
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Speaker 6: Just one.
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Speaker 8: First bullet missing.
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Speaker 2: I wonder who it was.
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Speaker 11: Get your hands up and keep them there.
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Speaker 8: Where'd that come from?
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Speaker 11: There's just a warning.
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Speaker 2: All right, our hands are up. Come out where we
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Speaker 2: can see you.
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Speaker 11: You think I'm loco?
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Speaker 2: Well, what do you want?
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Speaker 11: Face the river and keep facing that way.
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Speaker 8: We make jumper, fella.
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Speaker 6: Not now, Tonto.
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Speaker 10: That's it.
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Speaker 11: Just keep your faces that way if you don't want
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Speaker 11: to get shot.
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Speaker 10: Full of holes.
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Speaker 11: You would wear the mask. I reckon you're an outlaw
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Speaker 11: to start with.
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Speaker 2: There'd be no one sorry to find you dead.
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Speaker 11: Don't make a move or I'll let you have it.
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Speaker 2: Try and remember that voice, Tonto.
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Speaker 8: Tonto, do it.
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Speaker 6: I think he's moving away.
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Speaker 8: I hear him.
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Speaker 2: How long are we to stand this way?
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Speaker 6: He's gone, Donovan. Now we go after him.
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Speaker 8: Get to the saddle. Are you ready?
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Speaker 2: Come on, Silver.
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Speaker 8: Get him up.
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Speaker 2: Can't make any time in this woods. On a trail.
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Speaker 8: Him go this way.
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Speaker 2: He had a horse in the woods. He's riding now.
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Speaker 2: Me hear him.
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Speaker 8: Him go that way.
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Speaker 2: That man is a murderer. There's no doubt about that.
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Speaker 8: That's right.
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Speaker 2: Which way now? Can you see any tracks?
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Speaker 8: Me see him. This way.
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Speaker 2: Look, he must have you in the clearing. Over there
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Speaker 2: beneath that pine. Another man sprawled on the ground.
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Speaker 8: Maybe that fellow dead from other shot we hear.
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Speaker 2: Come on. on, Silver. This man's alive, Tonto.
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Speaker 3: Help me.
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Speaker 6: Help me.
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Speaker 2: Steady there. You're all right.
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Speaker 8: He'm not hit with bullet.
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Speaker 6: Don't hit me again.
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Speaker 2: I won't tell anyone. This man's an Easterner, Tonto. Look
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Speaker 2: at the clothes he's wearing. Who hit you? Man. Old man.
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Speaker 6: Had a heavy beard.
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Speaker 2: Here, take a drink of water. You're not badly hurt.
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Speaker 6: Thanks, stranger. Mask.
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Speaker 2: We're here to help you. We were following the man
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Speaker 2: who knocked you down.
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Speaker 6: I don't know who he was. Let me have some
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Speaker 6: more water. Sure, here. That's good. Thank you.
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Speaker 2: Now, tell us what the man looked like.
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Speaker 6: What did he do?
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Speaker 2: He shot a man over near the creek.
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Speaker 6: Dead?
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Speaker 2: Yes. I.
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Speaker 6: I think he would have shot me, too, if I'd
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Speaker 6: resisted at all. I don't know how long I've been here.
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Speaker 6: Who are you? My name is Lambert. I've only been
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Speaker 6: here for a short time. I came from the east.
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Speaker 2: Yes, I know.
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Speaker 6: I've been staying in town, Goose Creek. But you, who
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Speaker 6: are you?
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Speaker 2: For the time being, just call me friend. Sit up,
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Speaker 2: but don't try to stand.
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Speaker 8: For a little while.
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Speaker 6: My head feels as if it would burst.
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Speaker 2: Did the man hit you on the head?
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Speaker 6: I guess so.
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Speaker 2: Now, forget the fact that I wear a mask. Tell
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Speaker 2: me what you know.
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Speaker 3: I was coming through the woods. I left town to
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Speaker 3: take a hike. Didn't know how far I'd come. I
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Speaker 3: guess I'd lost my way.
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Speaker 6: Yes?
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Speaker 3: Well, this man was sitting here somewhere near this tree.
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Speaker 3: I came up to him to ask the way back
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Speaker 3: to Goose Creek. Then he came over close to me,
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Speaker 3: looked at me. I felt that he was insane. There
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Speaker 3: was a wild glint in his eyes. What did he do?
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Speaker 6: Well, he asked me to look around and back of me.
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Speaker 6: I did so, and that's all I remember.
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Speaker 2: You must have been unconscious for a long time.
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Speaker 8: I wouldn't know.
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Speaker 3: How was the man dressed? Well, he wore a blue shirt,
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Speaker 3: black trousers tucked into his boots, an old battered black hat,
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Speaker 3: and he carried a short rifle. He had a thick
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Speaker 3: black beard and a big mustache. But it was his eyes.
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Speaker 3: They were wild, staring. I'm sure the man was insane.
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Speaker 3: What kind of a horse did he have? Well, it
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Speaker 3: was black. That's about all I know about it.
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Speaker 2: Tonto, we can't be in three places at the same time.
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Speaker 6: That right.
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Speaker 2: One of us will have to take this man back
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Speaker 2: to Goose Creek. The other should examine the scene of
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Speaker 2: the crime or follow the killer's trail.
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Speaker 8: Ah, me study scene of crime, huh? Maybe find sign there.
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Speaker 2: All right, and I'll take this man to town. I'll
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Speaker 2: send the sheriff out. Leave things as they are until
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Speaker 2: he gets there. Maybe he'll know who the dead man is.
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Speaker 8: Ah, me go now.
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Speaker 10: Get him off his couch.
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Speaker 2: All right, standing up.
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Speaker 6: I'll try.
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Speaker 2: Let me lean on you. All right, come on. Can
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Speaker 2: you ride? A little. You ride with me. Come on,
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Speaker 2: I'll help you to the saddle. Can your horse carry
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Speaker 2: both of us?
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Speaker 6: Yes.
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Speaker 2: Up you go.
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Speaker 6: Oh, my head's splitting.
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Speaker 2: Is that a big fella?
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Speaker 6: There.
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Speaker 2: How long is it?
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Speaker 4: In Goose Creek, the Lone Ranger helped Lambert from the saddle.
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Speaker 4: Then mounting again, he headed for the office of the sheriff.
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Speaker 2: Brother Silver, hold tight.
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Speaker 10: Come on, Jim.
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Speaker 2: The critter's wearing the mask.
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Speaker 11: Come with your six-gun ready.
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Speaker 2: Hold on, Sheriff. I'm here to take you to the
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Speaker 2: scene of a murder. Who'd you kill?
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Speaker 9: I've got you covered. Don't make a sudden move.
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Speaker 2: This mask doesn't mean that I'm an outlaw. But you'll
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Speaker 2: let a killer escape if you don't come with me.
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Speaker 2: I'll show you where the body is.
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Speaker 9: You'd better take this shooting iron serious, stranger.
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Speaker 2: You won't shoot, Deputy.
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Speaker 8: Come on, Silver.
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Speaker 2: Dang it all, Sheriff. Saddle up, Jim. We've got to
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Speaker 2: go after that Aubrey and find out what he's talking about.
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Speaker 8: Come on.
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Speaker 4: Knowing the lawman would follow, the masked rider trotted his
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Speaker 4: horse downstream until he rejoined Tonto.
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Speaker 2: He was several minutes ahead of the sheriff and deputy. Oh, Silver, steady.
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Speaker 2: What have you found out, Tonto?
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Speaker 5: Oh, me find plenty sign. Here where tree chopped down.
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Speaker 5: And here where fella fall dead. And here rope.
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Speaker 2: Yes?
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Speaker 5: Killer plan to tie a dead man to trunk a tree.
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Speaker 5: Send them long way downstream.
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Speaker 2: There are no settlements for a long ways downstream.
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Speaker 8: That right.
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Speaker 5: Maybe fella never be found. Only Indian and downstream country.
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Speaker 2: And the killer was afraid someone in Goose Creek would
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Speaker 2: recognize the dead man and associate him with the man
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Speaker 2: who shot him.
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Speaker 8: Maybe that's right.
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Speaker 2: The sheriff is on his way here.
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Speaker 8: That's good.
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Speaker 2: That Easterner told me what the killer looked like, so
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Speaker 2: he shouldn't be hard to find. I wonder who this
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Speaker 2: poor fellow is.
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Speaker 8: He find faint track on grounds. Him walk here from
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Speaker 8: downstream and Indian country.
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Speaker 2: He did? Can we follow his back trail?
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Speaker 8: Maybe. Here, you look at boot. Red clay on boot.
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Speaker 8: Red clay?
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Speaker 2: That's a good lead.
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Speaker 8: Me know where red clay can be found. It long
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Speaker 8: way from here. Three day walk. Downstream.
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Speaker 2: Three days of walking, but we'll ride it before night.
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Speaker 2: That's the sheriff and his deputy.
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Speaker 8: And we wait here?
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Speaker 2: No, the sheriff didn't recognize me, and I don't want
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Speaker 2: to lose time answering a lot of questions. If we
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Speaker 2: don't follow the back trail before night, the dew might
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Speaker 2: wipe it out.
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Speaker 6: Steady, Scout. Steady.
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Speaker 11: Come on, Tuttle.
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Speaker 2: Get him up. Come on, Silver.
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Speaker 13: Hey there, Raina.
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Speaker 11: Stop him, Jim. You stop there.
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Speaker 9: Stop it, can you?
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Speaker 2: Jim, I saw the dead man back there. I want
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Speaker 2: that masked man. He's the one I want. Keep riding
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Speaker 2: after him till we get him.
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Speaker 4: The curtain falls on the first act of our Lone
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Speaker 4: Ranger story. Before the next exciting scenes, please permit us
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Speaker 4: to pause for just a few moments.
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Speaker 5: Lone Ranger.
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Speaker 2: THE END.
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Speaker 6: THE END.
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Speaker 4: Now to continue our story. Riding downstream, the Lone Ranger
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Speaker 4: and Tonto raced ahead of the sheriff and his deputy.
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Speaker 11: Come on, Silver!
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Speaker 4: The great horse, Silver, had to be held back so
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Speaker 4: Scout could stay alongside. But even so, the lawmen were
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Speaker 4: soon out of distance.
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Speaker 2: Easy, boy.
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Speaker 1: Easy, Silver.
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Speaker 2: Tonto, I think the trail of that man can be
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Speaker 2: found again when we get to the red clay banks.
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Speaker 2: We'll keep going till we get there.
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Speaker 8: That good?
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Speaker 2: If the sheriff won't take the dead man back to
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Speaker 2: Goose Creek, we will. Come on, Silver. Get him out, Scout.
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Speaker 1: Oh, Silver.
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Speaker 2: Oh, Silver.
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Speaker 8: Oh, Silver.
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Speaker 9: Oh, Silver.
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Speaker 2: Oh, Silver.
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Speaker 13: Oh, Silver.
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Speaker 2: Oh, Silver.
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Speaker 8: Oh, Silver.
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Speaker 2: There's Indian Tom sitting in the doorway. Ah. Look.
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Speaker 8: Him smoke pipe.
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Speaker 2: Not an Indian pipe, either.
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Speaker 6: Welcome, strangers, to the home of the poet. Tonto.
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Speaker 2: The way he's talking.
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Speaker 8: How, Tom?
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Speaker 10: Take yourselves at home. There's food, water, and rest.
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Speaker 2: Tom, we want to have a talk with you.
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Speaker 4: The Lone Ranger and Tonto were amazed when the hermit
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Speaker 4: Indian spoke in a cultured voice, unlike anything the masked
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Speaker 4: man had heard from the lips of a red man. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 4: the sheriff and his deputy rode into town with their
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Speaker 4: grim burden. Evening found them at the hotel talking to Mrs.
18:18
Speaker 2: Porter. We sure was surprised, Mrs.
18:20
Speaker 10: Porter.
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Speaker 7: When we got to the scene of the crime after
18:23
Speaker 7: chasing that masked man, we found out that he wasn't.
18:25
Speaker 2: A crook at all.
18:26
Speaker 12: The masked man wasn't?
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Speaker 7: Not by a jugful. There was a silver bullet beside
18:30
Speaker 7: the body of the poor critter we picked up.
18:33
Speaker 2: A silver bullet. That means it was the Lone Ranger
18:35
Speaker 2: that was there.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, we should have known who he was when we
18:38
Speaker 9: saw that white horse and heard it called Silver.
18:40
Speaker 2: We should have, but I never thought the Lone Ranger
18:42
Speaker 2: would come to a place like this.
18:43
Speaker 8: Anyhow, Mrs.
18:44
Speaker 9: Porter, the sheriff and I thought it was a good
18:46
Speaker 9: idea to bring the fellow here for a decent burial
18:48
Speaker 9: and see if anyone noticed him.
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Speaker 2: He didn't look anything like the picture you showed us, Mrs.
18:51
Speaker 8: Porter.
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Speaker 12: Oh, I'm sure it couldn't have been my husband, but Mr.
18:55
Speaker 12: Lambert will find out.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, he should be getting back by this time. It
18:58
Speaker 7: ain't but a hop, skip and jump to the coroner's office.
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Speaker 12: It was fine of Mr. Lambert to offer to go
19:02
Speaker 12: when he'd been through such a harrowing experience today. His
19:06
Speaker 12: head was aching frightfully. He must have suffered a terrible blow.
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Speaker 2: Sheriff.
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Speaker 10: Sheriff, come with me. Hurry.
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Speaker 2: Oh, what's the matter?
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Speaker 6: Mrs.
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Speaker 3: Porter, you've got to get away from Goose Creek. This
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Speaker 3: place isn't fit for you, the things that happen here.
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Speaker 2: Mr.
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Speaker 13: Lambert, what has happened?
19:17
Speaker 2: What's the matter with you, Lambert? The man I went
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Speaker 2: to see to try to identify, to make sure he
19:21
Speaker 2: was not Mr.
19:21
Speaker 10: Porter.
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Speaker 2: He's gone. Gone where? I don't know.
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Speaker 9: He sure couldn't have walked away.
19:26
Speaker 3: The rear of the corner's place had been broken into.
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Speaker 3: The body was missing. No signs of anyone around there.
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Speaker 2: Oh, Juniper. Jim, I sure wish that Lone Ranger was
19:33
Speaker 2: here now. This thing is getting beyond me.
19:35
Speaker 10: Who did you say?
19:36
Speaker 2: The Lone Ranger. I reckon you never heard of him, Mr. Lambert.
19:39
Speaker 10: Oh, wait, wait.
19:39
Speaker 2: I'll go with you.
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Speaker 10: Mrs.
19:41
Speaker 2: Porter, I'll rejoin you soon.
19:42
Speaker 10: Yes, Mr.
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Speaker 6: Lambert. Who is the Lone Ranger?
19:45
Speaker 2: Well, he's the one that brought you into town, Lambert.
19:47
Speaker 2: On that white horse of his.
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Speaker 6: Oh, the corner.
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Speaker 9: Place is right down here, a couple of doors.
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Speaker 2: Are you sure you got to the right place, Lambert?
19:54
Speaker 6: Of course I did.
19:55
Speaker 7: Maybe the Lone Ranger will be coming back. If he does,
19:57
Speaker 7: I'll bet you he'll get to the truth of things.
19:59
Speaker 7: If the stories I've heard him are right.
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Speaker 8: There's the coroner's.
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Speaker 3: The front door is still unlocked, Sheriff. I didn't lock
20:03
Speaker 3: it because I knew it would be coming right back.
20:06
Speaker 3: Here's the key you loaned me.
20:06
Speaker 10: Thanks.
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Speaker 2: Did you leave the lamp going?
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Speaker 6: Yes.
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Speaker 9: Is everything just as you left it here?
20:12
Speaker 6: Yes, it seems to be.
20:13
Speaker 7: There's not much we can do tonight. We'll hunt for
20:15
Speaker 7: tracks around the rear of the place when morning comes.
20:17
Speaker 7: You think this Lone Ranger will be here? Maybe he's
20:20
Speaker 7: in town right now. Sometimes he wears a disguise, so
20:24
Speaker 7: they say. You can bet your neck he'll be here
20:25
Speaker 7: if there's unfinished.
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Speaker 2: Business, won't he, Sheriff? I reckon he will be. He's
20:29
Speaker 2: not here now. He'll be heading this way.
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Speaker 10: Come on.
20:38
Speaker 2: Ain't good time, Cotto. All the way back here before midnight. Ah,
20:42
Speaker 2: that bloody past ride. Oh, there's Silver. Hi there, mister.
20:46
Speaker 10: Is that horse named Silver?
20:48
Speaker 2: Yes. Why?
20:49
Speaker 10: Any other gent? No question about it. I got a
20:52
Speaker 10: message for you. I was told to watch for you.
20:53
Speaker 2: Who gave it to you?
20:54
Speaker 10: I don't know him. There was something for it.
20:56
Speaker 2: Well, what's the message?
20:57
Speaker 10: Are you looking for a man with a black beard?
20:59
Speaker 2: What do you know about him?
21:00
Speaker 10: I know where he can be located.
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Speaker 2: Where?
21:02
Speaker 10: Camped alongside a campfire that's likely burned low by this time.
21:05
Speaker 10: South of town, with a quick run through the gorge.
21:08
Speaker 10: It's at the bottom of the gorge, camped like I said.
21:10
Speaker 2: Thanks.
21:11
Speaker 10: You ride to the bridge, you see the fire. Is
21:14
Speaker 10: there anything left of it?
21:14
Speaker 2: We're not through yet, Silver. More riding, big fella. Come on.
21:31
Speaker 2: Here's the bridge, Tonto. Ocean will steady move.
21:36
Speaker 8: They'll light a small fire.
21:38
Speaker 2: There's a camp of some sort down there, Kimo Sabe.
21:41
Speaker 8: Not sea color. Maybe him sleep in blanket.
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Speaker 6: City big fella.
21:46
Speaker 2: Look down into the gorge.
21:48
Speaker 8: We leave Silver and Scout here?
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Speaker 6: Yes, Tonto.
21:50
Speaker 8: It'll be dark here.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 1: Stay there, Silver.
21:57
Speaker 2: Go ahead, Tonto. Bring up the rear.
22:00
Speaker 8: You watch step. Side of gorge, plenty rocky.
22:03
Speaker 2: It's a wonder we haven't waken the killer. The man
22:07
Speaker 2: below is still asleep. You can see him rolling these blankets.
22:11
Speaker 6: There.
22:13
Speaker 2: Let me have a look at him. Tonto, something's the
22:16
Speaker 2: matter up at the rim. Silver's trying to warn us.
22:18
Speaker 2: Get that man the blankets and go up. You're covered, mister.
22:20
Speaker 2: Don't make a move.
22:21
Speaker 10: Let me get him.
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Speaker 8: Here, Tonto, with whiskers.
22:25
Speaker 2: Tonto, wait. Him dead?
22:27
Speaker 10: Yes. Up there.
22:30
Speaker 2: That fella. Firing on us. Can't shoot at him. He's
22:33
Speaker 2: right in front of Silver. Here, back of this rock.
22:36
Speaker 2: He knows we can't fire on him, Toto.
22:39
Speaker 6: We'd hit Silver.
22:39
Speaker 8: That's right.
22:43
Speaker 2: Don't answer.
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Speaker 6: No.
22:44
Speaker 2: Keep back of the rock, Tonto. I'm going to take
22:46
Speaker 2: another look at the dead man.
22:47
Speaker 8: Me take look. You stay here.
22:48
Speaker 2: No, keep watching the man above. He's firing as fast
22:52
Speaker 2: as he can load.
22:53
Speaker 8: That bullet hit rock.
22:54
Speaker 6: I'll creep over just a few yards.
22:56
Speaker 2: Fire a shot over the head of the horses to
22:57
Speaker 2: keep his attention.
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Speaker 8: Tonto, do it.
22:59
Speaker 2: Tonto, just as I thought.
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Speaker 8: What that?
23:06
Speaker 2: That man on the rim is the one who held
23:07
Speaker 2: a gun on us before.
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Speaker 8: Him got same voice.
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Speaker 6: He's a poor shot.
23:11
Speaker 2: I know the answer now stay here and keep that
23:16
Speaker 2: fella busy. I'll go after him You can't shoot straight
23:22
Speaker 2: enough to get me I'm coming after you You can't
23:28
Speaker 2: hit anything took two shots to kill the man you
23:31
Speaker 2: ambushed You think my horse will keep me from firing
23:35
Speaker 2: your own I'll show you Silver, hoi! Now I can
23:40
Speaker 2: have a clear shot. That ends your rifle shooting for good.
23:44
Speaker 2: Come on, Tonto. He's on the run.
23:46
Speaker 8: You won't get me.
23:48
Speaker 13: You won't get me.
23:49
Speaker 11: Here, Silver.
23:51
Speaker 2: That's it, boy. After him now. Stop running or I'll
23:56
Speaker 2: rope you.
23:58
Speaker 9: All right.
23:58
Speaker 2: Then I'll have to use the rope.
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Speaker 7: There.
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Speaker 2: Oh, Silver. Oh, back.
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Speaker 11: Back, big fella, back.
24:05
Speaker 2: Now we'll head for town and have the showdown.
24:12
Speaker 13: Sheriff, I can't imagine what the masked man had to tell,
24:25
Speaker 13: but your deputy said it would be a great surprise
24:27
Speaker 13: to me.
24:27
Speaker 6: Yeah, Mrs.
24:28
Speaker 2: Porter, I sure reckon it will be.
24:29
Speaker 12: Where's the Lone Ranger now?
24:31
Speaker 2: He's out back in the office with Jim. That's my deputy,
24:33
Speaker 2: you know.
24:34
Speaker 10: Oh, yes.
24:34
Speaker 6: He'll be right in.
24:36
Speaker 2: I think this is the gent now.
24:38
Speaker 11: I'll be through in a few minutes, Tonto. Have the
24:39
Speaker 11: horses ready.
24:40
Speaker 8: I'm ready now.
24:42
Speaker 2: Mrs. Porter, I think we know the story now. You
24:45
Speaker 2: came here because you received a watch chain that belonged
24:47
Speaker 2: to your husband.
24:48
Speaker 9: That's right.
24:49
Speaker 2: We never saw a husband around here. He lived near here, though.
24:52
Speaker 2: He lived with Indian Tom. The Indian hermit?
24:54
Speaker 6: Yes.
24:55
Speaker 2: You see, he found peace and happiness in that life.
24:58
Speaker 2: He taught Indian Tom English and grammar, Latin and mathematics,
25:01
Speaker 2: a lot of other things. In appearance, he changed a lot. Yes.
25:06
Speaker 2: In the meantime, he knew he had left you with
25:07
Speaker 2: plenty of money, which was being watched for you by Mr.
25:10
Speaker 6: Lambert.
25:11
Speaker 2: Isn't that the case?
25:12
Speaker 9: Yes, Mr.
25:13
Speaker 12: Lambert had charge of my money.
25:14
Speaker 2: The years went on, and your husband wanted to see
25:16
Speaker 2: you again. He sent a letter in the watch chain,
25:19
Speaker 2: but you never saw the letter.
25:21
Speaker 9: Oh, I saw no letter.
25:22
Speaker 2: It was mailed, mailed with the watch chain. When he
25:25
Speaker 2: didn't hear from you, he thought you didn't want to
25:27
Speaker 2: see him again. Then he heard that you'd come here,
25:30
Speaker 2: and he sent you a note. Indian Tom brought the
25:33
Speaker 2: note to your lawyer, Mr.
25:34
Speaker 6: Lambert.
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Speaker 12: I didn't see that note.
25:36
Speaker 2: No, because Lambert didn't show it to you. Lambert disguised
25:39
Speaker 2: himself and went out to meet and kill your husband.
25:43
Speaker 6: No.
25:44
Speaker 2: He was a splendid hand with an axe, but a
25:46
Speaker 2: poor shot with a rifle. To conceal the death, he
25:48
Speaker 2: was going to send your husband's body downstream on a log.
25:51
Speaker 2: And he heard me coming. He took off the disguise
25:55
Speaker 2: and let me find him, making me think he'd been
25:57
Speaker 2: attacked by the man he described. Jumping juniper, it all
26:00
Speaker 2: fits like a glove.
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Speaker 13: I can't believe this of Mr.
26:03
Speaker 9: Lambert.
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Speaker 12: Why should he do such a thing?
26:05
Speaker 2: He didn't want you to identify your husband, so I
26:08
Speaker 2: moved him away from here. He got word to me,
26:10
Speaker 2: sending me to the gorge. He put a disguise on
26:13
Speaker 2: your husband, planning to kill me and kill Tonto. Then
26:17
Speaker 2: tell you, Sheriff, that we had been shot in a
26:19
Speaker 2: fight with a dead man. You were to think we
26:21
Speaker 2: had killed him. The description would tally with the one
26:24
Speaker 2: given by Lambert. You'd think you'd caught the man who
26:27
Speaker 2: was a killer instead of the man who was killed.
26:30
Speaker 2: How'd you know all this? A part of its theory.
26:33
Speaker 2: I don't think you'll find a better explanation. Bring Lambert
26:36
Speaker 2: in here. Bring him in, Jim.
26:37
Speaker 9: Come in. Get in there, you coyote.
26:39
Speaker 6: Mr.
26:39
Speaker 2: Lambert. How about it, Lambert? Do you care to confess?
26:43
Speaker 6: What's there to lose? Might as well admit it.
26:46
Speaker 2: Was you who tried to talk like a western outlaw
26:48
Speaker 2: when you stood behind me at the edge of Goose Creek.
26:51
Speaker 8: Yes.
26:51
Speaker 2: And you stole the letters Porter sent to his wife.
26:53
Speaker 6: I admit it.
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Speaker 12: Now I understand. I came into the hall of my
26:57
Speaker 12: home as you held that watch chain in your hand.
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Speaker 9: You had to show it to me.
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Speaker 8: You saw it, yes.
27:02
Speaker 12: You'd already hidden the letter that came with it.
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Speaker 11: Yes.
27:04
Speaker 2: Why, Lambert?
27:05
Speaker 6: Gambling.
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Speaker 3: I'd misused the money. I couldn't have accounted for it.
27:11
Speaker 3: I knew that if Porter came back, he'd won an accounting.
27:14
Speaker 6: I thought....
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Speaker 3: Well, I hope that I could marry Mrs. Porter if
27:19
Speaker 3: her husband never returned and then I wouldn't have to account.
27:21
Speaker 2: Lonely ornery pool cat.
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Speaker 10: You'll hang for this.
27:25
Speaker 2: Oh, no, I won't. Hey, stop him.
27:26
Speaker 11: Hold on.
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Speaker 2: Me, stop him. Good work, Redskin.
27:29
Speaker 9: I'm not running out.
27:30
Speaker 2: I'll get him broke before he comes conscious. Well, that's
27:33
Speaker 2: all there is for us to do, Sheriff.
27:34
Speaker 10: Oh, but wait.
27:35
Speaker 12: Let me show my appreciation to you.
27:36
Speaker 2: Thank you, Mrs.
27:37
Speaker 8: Porter.
27:37
Speaker 2: You can do that by helping people here.
27:39
Speaker 6: Adios.
27:40
Speaker 8: But wait. Sheriff, he's gone.
27:42
Speaker 2: He wouldn't take thanks, ma'am.
27:44
Speaker 12: What did he mean, helping people here?
27:46
Speaker 7: Well, I reckon we need ladies of your sort here
27:50
Speaker 7: mighty bad. But this isn't the place for you.
27:53
Speaker 12: I do want to stay here. Here where poor Henry lived.
27:59
Speaker 12: In the country he loved.
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Speaker 6: Mrs.
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Speaker 7: Porter, maybe we got some bad hombres, all right. But
28:05
Speaker 7: nothing as sneaking and scheming as that coyote on the floor.
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Speaker 12: You may have some bad hombres, Sheriff, but you also
28:13
Speaker 12: have some very fine ones.
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Speaker 11: Hail, silver, holler!
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Speaker 6: THE END.
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