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The Lone Ranger - "Cave of Terror" (Old Time Radio, 1955) · The Lone Ranger | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: This August 30th, 1955 broadcast brings us The Lone Ranger
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  Speaker 1: in Cave of Terror, episode 2773. Brace Beamer is heard
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  Speaker 1: as the Lone Ranger, with John Todd as Tonto, in
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  Speaker 1: a story that includes Bibb Dalton and Cliff Dalton. The
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  Speaker 1: script is by Steve McCarthy, Charles D. Livingston directed, and
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  Speaker 1: George W. Trendle produced. We now take you back to
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  Speaker 1: the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: A fiery horse with a speed of light, a cloud
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  Speaker 2: of dust, and a hearty high old silver.
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  Speaker 3: The Lone Ranger. The Lone Ranger. Before this exciting adventure,
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  Speaker 4: goal power. With his faithful Indian companion, Tonto, the daring
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  Speaker 4: and resourceful mask rider of the plains led the fight
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  Speaker 4: for law and order in the early western United States.
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  Speaker 4: Nowhere in the pages of history can one find a
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  Speaker 4: greater champion of justice. Return with us now to those
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  Speaker 4: thrilling days of yesteryear. From out of the past come
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  Speaker 4: the thundering hoofbeats of the great horse, Silver. The Lone
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  Speaker 4: Ranger rides again.
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  Speaker 3: Come on, Silver. Let's go, big fella. I am Silver. Hooray!
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  Speaker 4: Bibb and Cliff Dalton, ages 9 and 11, sat on
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  Speaker 4: the ground near the barn of their widowed mother's small ranch.
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  Speaker 4: Both boys wore rapt expressions as they listened to their grandfather,
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  Speaker 4: Zeb Coleman, recount another of his lurid adventures. Bibb, however,
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  Speaker 4: was taking time out to study the sole of his foot.
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  Speaker 4: a foot from which he had just removed a makeshift bandage.
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  Speaker 6: And there I was, one white man again a hundred redskins.
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  Speaker 3: Uh-oh, here comes your mother, boys.
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  Speaker 2: Bibb, Cliff, are you going to waste all morning out
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  Speaker 2: here listening to your grandfather? It's almost eight o'clock, and
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  Speaker 2: you said an hour ago you were going into the
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  Speaker 2: hills and.
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  Speaker 3: Getting me some blackberries. Oh, yes, Mom, we were just going,
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  Speaker 3: weren't we, Cliff? Oh, this very minute, Mom. You see
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  Speaker 3: the fields by the gate. Come on, Bibb. Daddy, I
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  Speaker 3: wish that... Bibb. Bibb isn't wearing his shoes.
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  Speaker 2: And there's his foot bandage on the grass.
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  Speaker 3: Bibb! Bibb, are you here?
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  Speaker 6: Running around in the dirt will make his foot better
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  Speaker 6: quick than anything.
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  Speaker 3: Why, when I was attacked.
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  Speaker 2: Dad, that's what I want to talk to you about.
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  Speaker 2: If Bibb were here right now, you'd tell him the
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  Speaker 2: same thing. I'm trying to teach them discipline and to
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  Speaker 2: make them see things straight. And you all the time.
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  Speaker 3: I know, I know. I'm making mavericks of them. Telling
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  Speaker 3: them big lies. Oh, I never said you told lies.
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  Speaker 2: It's only when you tell them those outrageous stories of yours.
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  Speaker 2: I want Viv and Cliff to have no illusions either
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  Speaker 2: about life or you.
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  Speaker 3: When they grow up, they'll have to face it.
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  Speaker 4: That morning, as Horace Finley, president of the LaGrange Bank,
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  Speaker 4: opened the bank safe, two men wearing handkerchiefs over the
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  Speaker 4: lower part of their faces.
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  Speaker 7: Entered the rear door with guns drawn.
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  Speaker 8: All right, Fox, leave that safe open.
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  Speaker 3: Stand up and put your hands in the air. And
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  Speaker 3: shut up! Bookkeeper Alice Britton began to scream. Robert!
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  Speaker 7: Help!
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  Speaker 5: I said shut up!
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  Speaker 3: Oh, you won't, eh? Well, here then.
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  Speaker 7: Are you.
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  Speaker 3: You've killed her. Dick Elliott, the bank teller, ran at
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  Speaker 3: the bandit. The murderer's coming. You shut up, too. You
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  Speaker 3: want the same, Pop? You want to die, too?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 3: Take the money and get out. Get out. That's just
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  Speaker 3: what we're going to do. Come on. I'll be right
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  Speaker 3: with you.
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  Speaker 9: Pop, give us five minutes to get away. If you
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  Speaker 9: stick your head outside the door before then, you're a goner, too.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks for the money.
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  Speaker 4: Toto, the Lone Ranger's Indian companion, was leaving the general
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  Speaker 4: store at the end of the street when the bank
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  Speaker 4: robber streaked by and headed for the hills. Back in
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  Speaker 4: the Lone Ranger's camp, Toto told the story of the
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  Speaker 4: robbery and the murders.
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  Speaker 5: The masked man was grim.
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  Speaker 7: It's too bad you didn't go after them, Toto.
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  Speaker 5: Ah, but me leave Scout and Stable no chance to
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  Speaker 5: get them.
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  Speaker 10: Whoever they were, they knew what they were doing. They
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  Speaker 10: had to know that few people would be on the
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  Speaker 10: streets of LaGrange at the time.
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  Speaker 7: They held up the bank.
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  Speaker 10: And it's evident they knew the routine and layout of.
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  Speaker 7: The bank also.
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  Speaker 5: Banker Pinley, not no voices when them talk.
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  Speaker 7: Toto, you say the sheriff and his men are searching
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  Speaker 7: for the robbers in the hills?
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  Speaker 5: That right, Kimisabe. Them ride off soon after crooks go.
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  Speaker 10: They'll probably keep looking in the hills until they find
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  Speaker 10: them or their trail.
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  Speaker 5: Crooks have strong horses. And we know horses if we
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  Speaker 5: see them.
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  Speaker 7: Did you tell the sheriff that? Did you describe the horses?
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  Speaker 5: No, me not get chance. Sheriff and Posse ran right
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  Speaker 5: off quick.
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  Speaker 10: Then it's possible we can learn some things on our own.
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  Speaker 10: There's a chance someone in the ranches along the way
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  Speaker 10: may have seen them. Suppose we visit a few ranches
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  Speaker 10: and ask questions.
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  Speaker 4: Cliff and Bibb Dalton had finished their berry picking. But
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  Speaker 4: instead of going directly home, they went to their secret
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  Speaker 4: cave in the hills.
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  Speaker 7: A cave which no one had ever known but them,
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  Speaker 7: they thought.
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  Speaker 3: Better light that candle, Bibb. We'll explore back where the
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  Speaker 3: brook turns off, where we were last week.
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  Speaker 4: Warden Lowe and Eddie Leach, the bank bandits, had slowed
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  Speaker 4: down after their first mad rush from La Grange.
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  Speaker 3: By back trails and roundabout ways, they.
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  Speaker 4: Had made their way to this, the cave, which they
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  Speaker 4: felt sure no one knew of but themselves.
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  Speaker 8: We leave the money here behind these rocks, Ward, and
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  Speaker 8: change into our range clothes quick.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, we got to get back to the.
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  Speaker 9: East fence before anybody knows we're gone.
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  Speaker 7: Before Harley stops coming for us.
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  Speaker 8: We can pick up this money in a week or so, after.
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  Speaker 7: The heat is off.
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  Speaker 4: At that moment, the Lone Ranger and Tonto dismounted in
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  Speaker 4: front of the Dalton Ranch.
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  Speaker 5: There old man sit over there by barn.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, that must be Zeb. I will talk to him.
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  Speaker 7: I never met them there before.
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  Speaker 4: Zeb Coleman saw the two men walking through the grove
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  Speaker 4: of trees toward him.
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  Speaker 3: Get your hands up, you varmints. Get them up. I
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  Speaker 3: got you.
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  Speaker 7: You're Zeb Coleman, aren't you?
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  Speaker 6: You're Dern Tootin' I am, so keep your hands up.
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  Speaker 7: You better do as he says, Tonto. Is it this
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  Speaker 7: mask that has you upset?
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  Speaker 6: You're right it's a mask, you bank robbing woman murdering jackals.
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  Speaker 3: The sheriff and his men were here. I heard all
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  Speaker 3: about you.
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  Speaker 6: I'll get the reward that's up for capturing you.
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  Speaker 7: Now wait.
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  Speaker 10: You don't think we're the men who robbed the bank,
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  Speaker 10: do you? If the sheriff was here, then you know
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  Speaker 10: neither of the holdup men was an Indian. Now, Tonto
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  Speaker 10: here is.
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  Speaker 3: That's right. Say, what's your friend's name again?
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  Speaker 7: Say it.
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  Speaker 3: Tonto.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, God.
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  Speaker 3: Now, wait, wait. Where's your horse, if you're who I
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  Speaker 3: think you are?
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  Speaker 7: Down by the gate.
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  Speaker 10: If you look through the tree, you can see both
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  Speaker 10: our horses.
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  Speaker 3: I'll do it.
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  Speaker 6: But keep your hands up just the same now.
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  Speaker 3: Let me see here.
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  Speaker 7: Why.
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  Speaker 3: Sure enough.
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  Speaker 6: There couldn't be but one white horse in the whole
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  Speaker 6: world like that one.
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  Speaker 3: Well, oh, doggone. Get down your hands and pardon me
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  Speaker 3: for covering you like it did. Now, what can I
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  Speaker 3: do for you gentlemen, huh?
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  Speaker 6: You just name it and old Zeb Coleman will do it.
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  Speaker 4: But Zeb Coleman could tell the Lone Ranger nothing. A
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  Speaker 4: short time later, he and Toto rode away.
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  Speaker 10: Toto, it could be the sheriff and his men have
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  Speaker 10: located the bandits already.
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  Speaker 7: About as long as we've started this, we may as
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  Speaker 7: well continue.
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  Speaker 4: The two bandits, Enloe and Leach, sat mounted on their horses.
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  Speaker 4: They were hidden by thick brush, but were able to
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  Speaker 4: see the trail beneath them for miles on end. They
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  Speaker 4: had left the cave a few minutes before, but now
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  Speaker 4: they were nervous.
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  Speaker 7: Look, Eddie, as far as you can see, riders.
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  Speaker 3: They're holding to the trail and they're scarring the brush.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, we can't go down there or even try to
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  Speaker 8: cross the line anywhere along.
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  Speaker 3: Ward.
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 3: Ward, right down here below, see?
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  Speaker 7: Or some in the lot of them. Do you think
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  Speaker 7: they see us?
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  Speaker 3: No, they don't.
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  Speaker 8: They'd be heading up if they did.
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  Speaker 3: But, Ward, we can't stay here. We'd better get back
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  Speaker 3: to the cave, quick.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Come on, easy now. Back we go. Go ahead, big boy.
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  Speaker 3: We've got to get away from here.
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  Speaker 4: Bibb and Cliff Dalton had finished their exploration partway back
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  Speaker 4: in the cave when their candle had burned out. Now,
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  Speaker 4: having taken longer than they should have, they hurried toward
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  Speaker 4: the place where they had entered. It was Cliff who
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  Speaker 4: saw the object behind the rocks.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, Bibb, look.
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  Speaker 3: There's a man over there behind the rocks. Oh, I know.
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  Speaker 3: There can't be.
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  Speaker 4: We were just.
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  Speaker 3: Liv, somebody is here. Oh, golly. Hey, Ben, that's not
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  Speaker 3: a man. You can see now. It's clothes. You see,
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  Speaker 3: all rolled up. But they were here when we went back,
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  Speaker 3: weren't they?
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  Speaker 7: Gosh, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I don't remember. Hey, you want to see what kind
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  Speaker 3: of clothes they are? Well, if there's nobody in them, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: But hurry.
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  Speaker 4: Afraid but curious, the two boys made their way to
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  Speaker 4: the bundle behind the rock... Crumbling and ashen-faced, they unwrapped
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  Speaker 4: the bulky assortment of garments. And now, in the core
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  Speaker 4: of the bandits' clothes, they came upon the cash box.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Bid, it's a box. A money box like Dad
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  Speaker 3: used to have. Let's see if there's anything in it. Oh, golly!
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  Speaker 7: Money!
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  Speaker 3: Lots and lots of money!
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  Speaker 4: The excited boys were staring at the loot in the
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  Speaker 4: gray light of the cave. They neither heard the two
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  Speaker 4: men dismount outside, nor did they see them enter.
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  Speaker 3: Gosh, Bid, there's hundred-dollar bills! Hey, this must belong to Cooks.
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  Speaker 3: Somebody hid it here. You're right, sonny. Somebody did hide
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  Speaker 3: it there. He's putting a gun at us. Shut up.
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  Speaker 7: Keep your mouth shut.
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  Speaker 3: Eddie, there are only kids.
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  Speaker 7: Come in here.
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  Speaker 3: Bring the horses in. Eddie Leach entered the cave bringing
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  Speaker 3: the horses with him.
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  Speaker 5: They found the loot.
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  Speaker 3: Here's the money, boy.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: We have to go home, mister, please.
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  Speaker 8: You'll go home, all right, when we let you go.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, and if you don't keep quiet and do what
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  Speaker 9: we tell you to do, maybe you'll never.
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  Speaker 7: Go home again. Why? Why?
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  Speaker 3: Because maybe we'll kill.
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  Speaker 11: You.
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  Speaker 4: We'll continue our Lone Ranger adventure in just a moment.
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  Speaker 9: All over the country, in every direction, all you, all
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  Speaker 9: you're doing is a question.
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  Speaker 3: And here's one.
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  Speaker 5: That people have to say.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, we need friends.
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  Speaker 3: Doing okay.
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  Speaker 7: Doing okay?
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  Speaker 11: You bet the champs in good old New York are.
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  Speaker 7: Listen.
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  Speaker 11: Now, in New York, we wait for days to see
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  Speaker 11: a guy called Willie Mays, because Wheaties keeps him leaping
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  Speaker 11: high to grab those line drives on the fly. And
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  Speaker 11: Yogi Berra's a Wheaties lad whose batting style makes pitchers sad.
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  Speaker 11: No matter how they throw the ball, that Yogi belts
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  Speaker 11: it through the wall. And look, both Willie Mays and
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  Speaker 11: Yogi Berra turn to Wheaties for extra energy because there's
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  Speaker 11: a whole kernel.
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  Speaker 3: Of wheat in every Wheaties flake. Wheaties, breakfast of champions.
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  Speaker 7: Now to continue.
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  Speaker 9: It was mid-afternoon when the Lone Ranger and Toto reached
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  Speaker 9: the B-Cross Bee Ranch.
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  Speaker 4: They had entered a gate along the east fence of
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  Speaker 4: the vast grasslands, and they saw a horseman galloping toward them,
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  Speaker 4: waving his arms and shouting.
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  Speaker 7: Hold him over, hold him over. Get your hands up.
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  Speaker 7: I'll reach for that gun.
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  Speaker 4: The rider obeyed sullenly. Now, let this mask deceive you.
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  Speaker 4: We're not outlaws.
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  Speaker 10: We're merely here to ask some questions about two men
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  Speaker 10: some of your ranch hands may know about.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: It's what you say.
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  Speaker 7: Who are the two men?
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  Speaker 10: Well, I'm not sure. They can only describe their horses.
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  Speaker 10: One ride, Big Bay. Other ride, Paint Horse. You mean
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  Speaker 10: Enloe and Leach?
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  Speaker 5: I didn't seem to know them.
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  Speaker 10: I said I didn't know them. Do they ride horses
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  Speaker 10: like I described? I keep those hands up.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not taking them down.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, they ride horses like that. When I saw
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  Speaker 8: the Indian's Paint.
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  Speaker 7: Horse, I thought... He was, uh... Ward Enloe.
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  Speaker 5: He's the one with the paint. We've been waiting for the.
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  Speaker 7: Two of them all day.
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  Speaker 5: They should be back.
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  Speaker 7: Should they? From where?
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  Speaker 8: When they left here, they took the back trail of
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  Speaker 8: La Grange.
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  Speaker 5: Kimosabe.
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  Speaker 11: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: That sounds like the men we see in La Grange.
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  Speaker 3: Hello.
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  Speaker 7: Let's ride into the hills. Come on.
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  Speaker 4: The lone ranger and Tonto skirted around members of the
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  Speaker 4: sheriff's posse as they crossed the trail and.
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  Speaker 3: Rolled into the hills.
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  Speaker 4: They were galloping along a path that few others knew
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  Speaker 4: when Tonto suddenly pulled up his horse.
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  Speaker 8: Between trees down the road, we see two people.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, I see them, Tonto. Let's find out who they are.
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  Speaker 7: Have your gun ready. All right, come, Silver.
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  Speaker 8: Come up, Scout.
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  Speaker 4: The Lone Ranger and Tonto guided their horses to the
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  Speaker 4: spot where Tonto had pointed.
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  Speaker 7: Go, Silver. Easy, Scout. Stay there, Silver. Zeb Coleman. What's
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  Speaker 7: the matter?
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  Speaker 6: These men are good. This one in the mask is
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  Speaker 6: the fellow I was telling you about before. The one
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  Speaker 6: you didn't believe I met. Stranger, something pretty awful has
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  Speaker 6: happened to us.
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  Speaker 3: Zeb Coleman told of Cliff and Bibb.
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  Speaker 7: It was the sobbing mother who concluded, however.
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  Speaker 2: And something terrible has happened to them, I know.
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  Speaker 3: They won't come back, I know.
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  Speaker 7: Now, now, Mrs. Dalton.
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  Speaker 3: Perhaps they went to town only. No, they didn't go
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  Speaker 3: into town. We know that. That's right.
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  Speaker 6: There have been riders in the trail all day, searching
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  Speaker 6: for those bank robbers. They didn't see the boys. Besides,
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  Speaker 6: we're sure they're here in the hills. I followed their
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  Speaker 6: trail up here part of the way. I used to
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  Speaker 6: do a little trailing in the old days. It wasn't
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  Speaker 6: hard to follow Bibb's trail.
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  Speaker 3: He cut his foot the other day. He and Cliff
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  Speaker 3: are barefooted.
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  Speaker 6: You can see Bibb's trail easy on account of his
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  Speaker 6: favor and his sore foot.
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  Speaker 3: You follow me. I'll show you just where the trail is.
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  Speaker 4: The lone ranger and Toto went to the spot in
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  Speaker 4: the dirt road where Zeb Coleman showed them the faint
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  Speaker 4: marks of bare feet with a long diagonal mark on
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  Speaker 4: the sole of one. The ranger and Toto, greatest trailers
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: in the West, were able to follow the footprints into
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: the brush, even in.
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: The dusk which was now around them.
• 16:17
  Speaker 7: There's a footprint again over here.
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: You're sure?
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  Speaker 7: Yes, it was made today. Is that right, Toto? Ah.
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  Speaker 5: Kimisabe.
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  Speaker 3: You remember something.
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  Speaker 7: What is it, Toto?
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  Speaker 3: Near Ridge, that very deep brush.
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  Speaker 5: A stream come down that spot and go into cave.
• 16:32
  Speaker 7: A cave near here?
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  Speaker 5: Well, it's not far. We go past.
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: We get there quick.
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  Speaker 7: Then let's not wait. You lead the way, Tonto. Come, Mrs. Dalton.
• 16:39
  Speaker 7: I'll help you.
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  Speaker 11: I'll be brave.
• 16:41
  Speaker 7: I'll be brave.
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: The last ray of the day's light seemed to hit
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: the entrance of the cave. At the very moment, Tonto
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: led the way to the almost inaccessible spot. And that
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: one dying ray revealed a figure in the entrance.
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: Kimusabi, look.
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: Doggone, a man.
• 17:01
  Speaker 7: Watch out, he's going to shoot down.
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: It was right over my head.
• 17:05
  Speaker 7: Stay down. He can't aim in that darkness.
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: You know what? I bet it's him, bank robbers. There
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: we are.
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  Speaker 5: You come a step further, we'll kill you. There we are.
• 17:16
  Speaker 7: Who said we? Deb, you're right. It's the bank robbers.
• 17:18
  Speaker 7: We've got two kids in here.
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: You come near, we'll kill you. The boys are in there.
• 17:24
  Speaker 7: We'll kill them, I say.
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: How do you want that?
• 17:26
  Speaker 7: No, but we'll wait here. You can't escape. You can't
• 17:30
  Speaker 7: get away. Listen to me, each of you. Mrs. Dolph,
• 17:33
  Speaker 7: can you handle a gun?
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: I can shoot, but not now.
• 17:35
  Speaker 10: You won't have to aim at anyone, but you will
• 17:37
  Speaker 10: have to shoot from time to time, you.
• 17:39
  Speaker 7: And Zeb, to keep those two men inside the cave.
• 17:41
  Speaker 7: She and me, you said.
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: We can't see in the dark. Where are you two going?
• 17:45
  Speaker 7: Toto's going to La Grange and get the sheriff and
• 17:46
  Speaker 7: his men. I'm going to get into that cave some way.
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: Kemosabe?
• 17:50
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: Me no other way. It way only Indians know.
• 17:54
  Speaker 10: Zeb, there are a lot of dried up branches and
• 17:55
  Speaker 10: leaves around here. Start a fire by lighting a branch
• 17:58
  Speaker 10: with leaves on it.
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: Yes, sir.
• 17:59
  Speaker 10: Then throw it into the pit. While you and your
• 18:01
  Speaker 10: daughter are hiding in the bushes, feed the fire with
• 18:03
  Speaker 10: more leaves and branches.
• 18:04
  Speaker 7: Right. You can push them into the pit while exposing yourselves,
• 18:06
  Speaker 7: I'm sure. That'll build up the fire.
• 18:09
  Speaker 10: Now, here's what my plan is. The flame will light
• 18:11
  Speaker 10: up the cave entrance....
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  Speaker 4: A short time later, a flaming tree branch sparked from
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: the darkness into the pit, lighting the cave entrance. Enloe
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: and Reach fired wildly from the cave, their shots aimless,
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: their target hidden.
• 18:31
  Speaker 9: Eddie, they got us bottled up here. We can't get
• 18:34
  Speaker 9: away with that fire burn out there. They'll mow us down.
• 18:37
  Speaker 9: Those kids are the cause of.
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: Boy, do you hear that? Horses. More horses coming up
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: from the trail.
• 18:42
  Speaker 9: That means we'll be killed no matter what. Well, lynching
• 18:45
  Speaker 9: makes you just as dead as bullets. We've got to
• 18:47
  Speaker 9: take a chance. We can go out there? Yeah, taking
• 18:49
  Speaker 9: the kids as shields. And killing the kids like we
• 18:51
  Speaker 9: said if they don't let us pass through.
• 18:53
  Speaker 7: Come on, we'll untie the kids.
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: Since entering the far entrance to the cave, an entrance
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: small and hidden, the lone ranger had crawled along the
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: ground following the tiny stream that became a brook outside
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: the main cave entrance... Bat zoomed overhead in the darkness.
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: But now, after a grueling passage of time, the Lone
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: Ranger saw an orange light.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: The flame burning outside.
• 19:22
  Speaker 7: The cave opening.
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: Almost noiselessly, the Lone Ranger tiptoed to the rear of
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: the scene taking place at the cave's entrance. Enloe and
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: Leach stood behind the boys, using them as shields. Enloe
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: was shouting into the trees behind the flames at the
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: people he knew were hidden there.
• 19:37
  Speaker 9: And if you don't let us and our horses through.
• 19:40
  Speaker 6: We'll do what we did to those two this morning.
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: You don't think so, huh?
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: Well, you'll see. We'll shoot them. Oh, no, you won't.
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: Hank. Startled, the two crooks let go of the boys
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: and turned toward the cave. As the boys ran away
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: into the darkness, the men reached for their guns. A
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: lone ranger's gun fired first, shattering the gun hands of
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: the bandits. As their guns fell to the ground and
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: the bandits' reeling clutched at their wounds, the sheriff and
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: a host of figures rushed from behind the.
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: Trees and brushed. My boys are saved!
• 20:09
  Speaker 7: Cleve's dead!
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: Cleve's dead!
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: Within half an hour, Enloe and Leach had been bandaged
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: and taken off to jail by the sheriff.
• 20:32
  Speaker 7: I'm so happy.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: You're really safe. But tomorrow, I'm going to give you
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: the licking of your life. Well, Prince Mark, if it
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: wasn't for us, you and Grant wouldn't be.
• 20:42
  Speaker 6: Getting the $ 5, 000 reward for catching those crooks.
• 20:44
  Speaker 7: That's right, Mom.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: Isn't it, Mr.
• 20:46
  Speaker 6: Finkel?
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: Well, I suppose you're right, boys.
• 20:49
  Speaker 8: As president of the bank, I personally thought the masked
• 20:52
  Speaker 8: man and the Indian should.
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: Have shared in it. But they said no.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: I want to thank them again.
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: I want to be.
• 20:58
  Speaker 7: But.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: Where are they?
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: They rode off just a few minutes ago.
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: The way that door could shoot.
• 21:05
  Speaker 7: Best in the world.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: And everybody could see he was my friend. My friend, Kathleen.
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: Do you believe that?
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: I do, Dad. But, Dad, who is he?
• 21:18
  Speaker 6: Imagine not recognizing him. He's one of the best friends
• 21:22
  Speaker 6: I ever had. The Lone Ranger.
• 21:25
  Speaker 7: You see? THE END.
• 22:01
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• 22:05
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• 22:09
  Speaker 4: The Lone Ranger is played by Brace Beamer. Your announcer,
• 22:12
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• 22:20
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• 22:26
  Speaker 1: The Lone Ranger's Cave of Terror has concluded. Good night,
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: and thank you for sharing an evening of classic radio.