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Hopalong Cassidy - "Murder on the Trail" (Old Time Radio, 1950) · Hopalong Cassidy | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: In Rapid River, a killing is bound up with the
• 0:02
  Speaker 1: legend of Lost Canyon, and a museum map of the
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  Speaker 1: canyon's secret passages draws Hopalong Cassidy and California Carlson into
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  Speaker 1: the matter. From the Mutual Broadcasting System, in a General
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  Speaker 1: Foods presentation, this is the seventh broadcast episode of Hop
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  Speaker 1: Along Cassidy, Murder on the Trail, originally heard February 12, 1950,
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  Speaker 1: with William Boyd as Hop Along Cassidy and Andy Clyde
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  Speaker 1: as California Carlson. As local fears and conflicting motives gather
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  Speaker 1: around the map, Hoppy sets out to separate superstition from
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  Speaker 1: evidence and learn why its roots have become so dangerous.
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  Speaker 1: John Barclay wrote this Western mystery, produced by Walter White, Jr.
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  Speaker 1: Here is the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: It's Hop Along, Cassidy!
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  Speaker 3: With action and suspense, out of the Old West comes
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  Speaker 3: the most famous hero of them all, Hop Along, Cassidy,
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  Speaker 3: starring William Boyd. The Ring of the Silver Spurs heralds
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  Speaker 3: the most amazing man ever to ride the prairies of
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  Speaker 3: the early west, Hopalong Cassidy. This famous hero thrills his
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  Speaker 3: 60 million fans with action and dangerous adventure. In the
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  Speaker 3: role of Hopalong Cassidy is the popular star of the
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  Speaker 3: motion picture series, William Boyd. And appearing as that laughable
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  Speaker 3: old character, California, is Andy Clyde. Now to our story,
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  Speaker 3: Murder on the Trail. Some folks always seem to be
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  Speaker 3: right in the center of excitement. And that may be
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  Speaker 3: because some folks look for it. Of course, you'd never
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  Speaker 3: get Hopalong Cassidy to admit that, but his pal California
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  Speaker 3: strongly suspects it. And especially now that they interrupted a
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  Speaker 3: peaceful ride back to the Bar 20 to hitch over
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  Speaker 3: to Rapid River for the night.
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  Speaker 4: Well, there's the Rapid River Hotel up ahead on the right.
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  Speaker 4: Let's see if they have a couple of empty sacks.
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  Speaker 2: I'd sooner be out under the stars, and so would you, Hoppy.
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  Speaker 2: You can't fool me why we come here. You decided
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  Speaker 2: all of a sudden after you heard there was a
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  Speaker 2: little trouble. Me?
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  Speaker 4: Walk into trouble? Why, California, you hurt my feelings.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you're going to hurt my stomach if we don't
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  Speaker 2: get some drug pretty soon.
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  Speaker 4: Soon as we get a room lined up. Looks like
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  Speaker 4: the lobby seems pretty excited.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess they're talking about the killer. Who was it?
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  Speaker 5: Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Mills. He owns the stagecoach line.
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  Speaker 2: Robbery, I suppose?
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  Speaker 6: No, he was.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, you!
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  Speaker 3: Hey!
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  Speaker 2: You're Hopalon Cassidy, ain't you?
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  Speaker 4: That's right.
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  Speaker 7: You're wanted at the museum.
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  Speaker 2: Really?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I hadn't figured on being put on the glass
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  Speaker 4: quite so early in life.
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  Speaker 8: Ha, ha!
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  Speaker 2: You tell him, Hoppy. Go on over, pal.
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  Speaker 7: You'll enjoy yourself in a museum.
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  Speaker 4: What makes you think so?
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  Speaker 7: Well, you seem to like keeping an old relic around. Huh?
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  Speaker 2: What do you say? Why, why, why, if that ain't the.
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  Speaker 5: I ought to.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, let me talk on you.
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  Speaker 6: Come in, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Cassidy. I had a message to somebody here at the museum.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, yes, I sent a message. I saw you ride
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  Speaker 5: into town a little while ago, and I thought perhaps
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  Speaker 5: you could help me.
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  Speaker 4: Well, this is my partner, California Carlson.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, yes, I'm sorry. My name is Muncie.
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  Speaker 4: Harry. I judge you're upset because of the murder, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Muncie.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yes, indeed. I'm responsible for it.
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  Speaker 4: Your what?
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  Speaker 7: Just what I said.
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  Speaker 8: Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Mills would be alive now if it weren't for me.
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  Speaker 5: I deciphered a map showing the secret passage into Lost Canyon,
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  Speaker 5: and I showed it to Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Mills.
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  Speaker 5: He had always been so interested in the canyon. He
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  Speaker 5: started for there and set up, and by noon a
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  Speaker 5: rider found him dead.
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  Speaker 4: Well, that doesn't make you responsible.
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  Speaker 5: No, but I knew it would happen to anyone who
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  Speaker 5: tried to go up into the canyon. I knew it
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  Speaker 5: when I showed him that map.
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  Speaker 2: This is getting kind of complicated. Now, why is an
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  Speaker 2: old lost canyon so dangerous?
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  Speaker 4: Ah, there's a legend about that canyon, California. A true legend, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Cassidy, of the vow taken by the Jepson followers never
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  Speaker 5: to let anyone invade their canyon. It has been sealed
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  Speaker 5: up for 20 years. Disaster will overtake anyone who tries
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  Speaker 5: to enter Lost Canyon.
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  Speaker 4: But it doesn't seem like religious folks would take the murder.
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  Speaker 6: Don't you understand, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Cassidy? They're fanatics. They will stop at nothing.
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  Speaker 7: Look.
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  Speaker 8: Look here in this cabinet.
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  Speaker 5: Now, these are dum-dum bullets... They have a hollow nose,
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  Speaker 5: rip a man to pieces when they strike. The British
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  Speaker 5: developed them, and do you know why? To stop fanatics
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  Speaker 5: who couldn't be downed by an ordinary bullet.
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  Speaker 4: But you're speaking of savage frontiersmen, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Muncie.
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  Speaker 5: Then you aren't afraid of these people in Lost Canyon?
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  Speaker 2: You don't know Hop Long Cassidy very well. Or you
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  Speaker 2: know he ain't afraid of nothing.
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  Speaker 8: Then will you take the map?
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 5: The map to Lost Canyon.
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  Speaker 9: I'm not a brave man, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Cassidy.
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  Speaker 5: And now I'm terrified. I just want to live here
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  Speaker 5: among my treasures. I don't want any violence to befall me.
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  Speaker 4: I don't suppose any of us really wants violence. But
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  Speaker 4: you can cope with it.
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  Speaker 7: Please.
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  Speaker 5: Will you take the map?
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  Speaker 4: Well... Go ahead, Hoppy.
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  Speaker 2: You're just itching to get into more adventure. Good, good.
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  Speaker 8: I have it hidden in this room.
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  Speaker 5: I'll be right back.
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  Speaker 2: I know something like this should happen, Hoppy. You head
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  Speaker 2: for danger like chopper does to a field of wild oak.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, there's no danger in this. Mr. Muncie is just
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  Speaker 4: an excitable little man.
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  Speaker 2: What in blazes?
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  Speaker 5: Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Muncie.
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  Speaker 2: Hoppy. Hoppy, look. This axe, it's a bloody skull. It
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  Speaker 2: fell from the wall or maybe.
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  Speaker 6: I know what you mean.
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  Speaker 4: Go get a doctor, quick.
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  Speaker 3: Now back to Hop Along, Cassidy. Hoppy rode into Rapid
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  Speaker 3: River because he was curious about one murder and now
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  Speaker 3: he's mixed up in another. The town is in a
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  Speaker 3: nasty mood. They want somebody to pay for the killings,
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  Speaker 3: all of which puts Hoppy and California in a pretty
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  Speaker 3: tough spot. The Darth Little Museum is now bristling with
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  Speaker 3: outraged townsfolk, and the sheriff is not having much success
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  Speaker 3: keeping order.
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  Speaker 2: Get the two men who did it. Enough of this killing. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: bring them up before somebody else gets them. They were
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  Speaker 2: the only ones in the museum. Men, get back. I'm
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  Speaker 2: the law around here. This is my business. When our
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  Speaker 2: friends go getting killed, it's pretty much our business, I figure.
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  Speaker 7: Bring them two men out of the other room and
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  Speaker 7: let us tend to them.
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  Speaker 2: That's what we want.
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  Speaker 7: We'll give them justice.
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  Speaker 2: Now, quiet. Quiet, all of you. I'm drawing my gun,
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  Speaker 2: and the first man that interferes with me is going
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  Speaker 2: to get it, you understand? It's mobs like you that
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  Speaker 2: hang innocent men, and there'll be none of that in
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  Speaker 2: Rapid River. Then stop this murder. I will stop it.
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  Speaker 6: I will.
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  Speaker 2: In the right way. All right, deputy. Bring them two
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  Speaker 2: men out. Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: There's the poor man!
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  Speaker 6: Shut up!
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  Speaker 2: Shut up! This gun's cocked, and I mean business. Stay
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  Speaker 2: back if you want to keep your head on straight.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks, Sheriff. They don't seem very friendly.
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  Speaker 2: I'm here to keep the law, and if you're guilty,
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  Speaker 2: you'll hang just as they want. Now, look here, Sheriff.
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  Speaker 2: You don't know who you're talking to. Oh, am I
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  Speaker 2: supposed to bow when I meet you? No, but by golly,
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  Speaker 2: you'll take off in your hat when you meet my
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  Speaker 2: partner here. This is Hopalong Cassidy. Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 4: How do you do, Sheriff?
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  Speaker 2: You're Hopalong? I don't want to trick you, Sheriff!
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  Speaker 4: Shut up!
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  Speaker 2: Nobody tricks Sheriff Richards. So you're supposed to be Hopalong Cassidy, huh?
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  Speaker 4: No, Sheriff, I'm not supposed to be. I am.
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  Speaker 2: Ain't you never seen his pictures? The only pictures I
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  Speaker 2: ever see are the ones with wanted on them.
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  Speaker 9: That's true.
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  Speaker 8: He ain't Hopalong.
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  Speaker 2: Ain't nobody here ever seen Hopalong? I hear. Huh? Oh,
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  Speaker 2: shut up, Jake. A lot of good you'll do us.
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  Speaker 4: Well, if the fella knows me, bring him out, Sheriff.
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  Speaker 2: Nah, that's old Jake Peters, blind as a bat.
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  Speaker 9: I don't need eyes to know Hopalong, Cassidy.
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  Speaker 10: Let me through here.
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  Speaker 2: How in tarnation you gonna tell, Jake? I got ways. Where.
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  Speaker 10: where.
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  Speaker 7: Is this fella?
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  Speaker 4: Here I am. You must be the Jake Peters that
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  Speaker 4: used to ride range in Cheyenne.
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  Speaker 10: Now, now don't confuse me with talk. There's one sure
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  Speaker 10: way I can tell Hopalong. Don't matter now if I
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  Speaker 10: don't have eyes to see him... I'll still know him
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  Speaker 10: if I can just hear him walk.
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  Speaker 7: Huh?
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  Speaker 2: Go on, if this ain't something.
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  Speaker 10: Go ahead, you, walk.
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  Speaker 4: Like this, Jake?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. A little more. It's him, Sheriff. Let's
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  Speaker 2: hop along. I'd know the ring of his spurs anywhere.
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  Speaker 2: You sure, Jake?
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  Speaker 9: Of course I am.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's good enough for me. Welcome to Rapid River, Hoppy.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks, Jake. Your friends were hard to convince.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm right sorry, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Cassidy.
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  Speaker 2: But you know a fellow can't be too careful, especially
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  Speaker 2: when he's the law. Hoppy ain't used to treatment like this.
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  Speaker 4: I understand, Sheriff. And I'll be obliged now if I
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  Speaker 4: can help in any way to clean up this murder.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, thanks. But we don't need no help. We're used
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  Speaker 2: to handling our own affairs in Rapid River.
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  Speaker 4: Come on, men.
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  Speaker 2: Play out of this museum. We ain't getting nothing done
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  Speaker 2: hanging around here.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, Sheriff, do you mind if my friends and I
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  Speaker 4: stayed here for a while and looked over the displays?
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  Speaker 4: Seems to be quite a fine collection.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: We rode quite a ways to see this museum. We'd
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  Speaker 4: be grateful if we could stay and look it over.
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  Speaker 2: Well, just because you're Hopalong Cassidy, don't think you're privileged
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  Speaker 2: character around here. I'd do the same for any citizen.
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  Speaker 2: You can stay for ten minutes.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks, Sheriff. That'll be fine.
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  Speaker 2: Why, that insulting tin horn, Sheriff. The idea, him talking
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  Speaker 2: to you the way he did.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, forget it. He was just trying to impress us.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know why you went to all that trouble
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  Speaker 2: to stay in this here museum anyway.
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  Speaker 4: Don't you know California?
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  Speaker 7: Really?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, all right.
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  Speaker 2: Of course you know. You think you can find something
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  Speaker 2: that the sheriff didn't in his investigation?
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure of it. Mr. Muncie was a nice little fellow,
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  Speaker 4: and I'm pretty put out that somebody would go to
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  Speaker 4: the trouble to murder him.
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  Speaker 2: But there ain't nothing to prove it was a killing.
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  Speaker 2: There's actions all over the room he was in that
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  Speaker 2: could have been an accident.
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  Speaker 4: Do you think it was?
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  Speaker 9: Well, I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: Come on in here. I know there's something that may
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  Speaker 4: help you decide.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, this blood all over the floor is giving me indigestion.
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  Speaker 4: That's impossible, California. You haven't eaten anything.
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  Speaker 2: Doggone, that's right. That's what I'm feeling. No supper.
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  Speaker 4: Now, look here. See these axes? Go on, take one
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  Speaker 4: off the wall.
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  Speaker 2: I'd rather just as well look at them from here.
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  Speaker 4: Don't you see something pretty obvious? Look at this one.
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  Speaker 4: And this row over here.
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  Speaker 7: See?
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  Speaker 2: I don't see nothing except a bunch of axes.
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  Speaker 4: But don't you realize that there's not one of them
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  Speaker 4: in here that is like the one that fell and
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  Speaker 4: killed Mr. Muncie?
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  Speaker 2: Well, sure there is. It was just like these red-handled ones.
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  Speaker 4: I don't mean the handle. I mean the other end. Uh,
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  Speaker 4: the blade. That's right. Every axe in here is so
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  Speaker 4: dull you couldn't cut summer butter with it. But the
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  Speaker 4: one that fell was sharp enough to slice a human skull.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you're right, Hoppy. Gee, Willikens, what do you think
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  Speaker 2: of that? Shh, quiet. Huh? Howdy, boys.
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  Speaker 4: Howdy.
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  Speaker 7: Mind if I go along on this little tour? My
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  Speaker 7: education has been kind of neglected.
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  Speaker 4: Come on in, mister, but don't hide behind doors. You
• 12:10
  Speaker 4: might get into trouble.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, I never get in trouble. But you might. Especially
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  Speaker 7: if I was to tell the sheriff that about an
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  Speaker 7: hour ago I delivered a message to you from Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Muncie.
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  Speaker 4: And how is that going to cause trouble?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it depends on what the message was.
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  Speaker 4: If I was to say that Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Muncie wanted you to please leave him alone, and he
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  Speaker 7: couldn't possibly make the payoff that you demanded... Why are
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  Speaker 7: you dirty?
• 12:33
  Speaker 2: Stop that.
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  Speaker 7: Fighting ain't the answer, cowpoke.
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  Speaker 4: No, I can see that. California, how much do you have,
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  Speaker 4: will you?
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  Speaker 7: What?
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  Speaker 4: Get out your pouch, California.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, please. We understand each other, eh, Mr. Cassidy?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we certainly do. I don't believe I know your name, though.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, the folks just call me Brick.
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  Speaker 2: Gold Brick, maybe.
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  Speaker 4: Now, listen, you old goat.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Brick?
• 12:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah, something to make you feel better. And don't go
• 13:00
  Speaker 4: causing any trouble, will you? We just want to stay
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  Speaker 4: out of this. That's better.
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  Speaker 7: You know, I was watching through the window all the time.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, you were. Huh? Well, don't say anything about our
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  Speaker 4: taking the map, will you? We're, uh, we're just collecting
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  Speaker 4: curios for our ranch.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks, sucker.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks.
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  Speaker 7: Now, I think five.
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  Speaker 8: Coffee.
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  Speaker 2: Coffee. Are you stark raving mad? What do you mean
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  Speaker 2: by paying off that little chiseler? Why did you tell
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  Speaker 2: him about finding the map?
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  Speaker 4: But I didn't find it, California. I just thought it
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  Speaker 4: might be interesting to see what he would do if
• 13:36
  Speaker 4: he thought I did. Come on, now. Let's have our
• 13:39
  Speaker 4: dinner and see what we can figure out.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, now you're talking. I can just taste a big
• 13:45
  Speaker 2: hunk of steak. Poppy, I just ordered something.
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  Speaker 7: What?
• 13:51
  Speaker 2: We can't buy no dinner. You gave that chiseler all
• 13:54
  Speaker 2: the money we had.
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  Speaker 4: What do you think of that? Well, the bank will
• 13:58
  Speaker 4: be open in the morning, so let's go dream of
• 14:00
  Speaker 4: a hearty breakfast.
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  Speaker 3: Before we continue with this exciting story, here is a
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  Speaker 3: word from your announcer.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Now back to Hopalong Cassidy and our story, Murder on
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  Speaker 3: the Trail. One of the leading citizens of Rapid River
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  Speaker 3: has been murdered because he started up into Lost Canyon.
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  Speaker 2: Then Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Munsey, curator of the museum, was killed by a fallen
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  Speaker 3: axe as he was about to give Hopalong Cassidy the
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  Speaker 3: map showing the secret passage into Lost Canyon. So now
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  Speaker 3: Hoppy and California are camped out on the edge of town,
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  Speaker 3: and they're trying to figure out two things. Who was
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: doing the killings and why?
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  Speaker 4: Ah, it doesn't add up, California. Just two men have
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  Speaker 4: been killed for no apparent reason.
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  Speaker 2: But the little turd at the museum told you the reason.
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  Speaker 2: That they're religious groups.
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  Speaker 4: No, California. I don't think that's the answer. It's very
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  Speaker 4: seldom that wars are fought or murders are committed because
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  Speaker 4: of religion. People generally kill for a very earthly position.
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  Speaker 2: You mean money?
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  Speaker 4: Uh-huh. But in this instance, I can't figure out who
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: will gain and who will lose because of this map
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  Speaker 4: showing the secret passage into Lost Canyon.
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  Speaker 2: I sure wish you hadn't told that brick fella that
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: we have the map.
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  Speaker 4: That may bring the murderer out into the open. Why,
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: we may even have visitors before the night's over.
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  Speaker 2: You think so? Say, maybe we should have gotten a
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  Speaker 2: hotel room after all.
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  Speaker 4: Why, California. You said you didn't want to ask for
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: a room without having the money to pay in advance.
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  Speaker 4: You were afraid of being embarrassed.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: Well, I'd rather be embarrassed than dead.
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: Do I detect a note of fear someplace?
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: I just don't want to die on an empty stomach,
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: that's all. If I hadn't... If I'd have had supper,
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't have mind laying out here to be shot.
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: But think how much you have to look forward to.
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: As soon as the bank is open in the morning,
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: I'll buy you the biggest breakfast in Rapid River.
• 17:30
  Speaker 7: You will, Harvey?
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: You bet. Buckwheat cake stacked a foot high. You dream
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: about that.
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: Swimming in sheriff and.
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: That's right. And brown little sausages to spice them up.
• 17:45
  Speaker 8: Buckwheat cakes.
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: Sausages.
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: And a pile of scrambled eggs.
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: Scrambled eggs. Sausages. Sure.
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: Sweet dreams, California. I'd better shut up and get to
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: sleep myself. All this talk of food is killing me. California,
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: wake up.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Breakfast time. Ready?
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: Chopper.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: Snakes, what's that?
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: Let's find out. No time to saddle up. Come on.
• 18:26
  Speaker 6: I'm coming, Hoppy.
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: Come on, Chopper. Over toward these bushes.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: Hey, maybe it's a trap, Hoppy.
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: We'll have to risk it.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: Look over here. Yeah, that's his horse. Easy, easy, boy.
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: Who is it?
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: Is that you, Hoppy?
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: Why, Jake.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: Jake Peters. He's hurt bad, Hoppy.
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: Take it easy, Jake. We'll get you to a doctor.
• 18:49
  Speaker 9: It ain't no use. He rode up behind me and
• 18:53
  Speaker 9: put these slugs into me.
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: Who did, Jake?
• 18:56
  Speaker 6: The murderer.
• 18:57
  Speaker 9: He knowed I was riding out here to warn you.
• 19:00
  Speaker 9: He's after you now, Hoppy. If I'd had eyes, I
• 19:04
  Speaker 9: could have found you. The fella at the forge told
• 19:08
  Speaker 9: me you camped out on this road.
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: Jake, who put the slugs in you?
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: Who was it? No use, Hoppy. He ain't hearing you now.
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: Poor old Jake. California, we're dealing with someone who will
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: shoot a blind man in the back.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: I'd sure like to get my hands on the barman, Doug.
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: I've got a hunch Mrs. Mills may know something about
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: these murders. You meet me there later.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: Where are you going now?
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: To the bank as soon as it opens.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: If it's for breakfast money, Hoppy, forget it. I ain't
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: hungry now.
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: No, I'm going to try to find out who is
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: the wealthiest man in this town.
• 19:44
  Speaker 6: Why should you.
• 19:54
  Speaker 8: Be taking such an interest, Mr.
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: Cassidy?
• 19:56
  Speaker 8: You didn't know my husband.
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: No, Mrs. Mills, and I didn't know the man at
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: the museum. And I'd only met Jake Peters. But it
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: still winds me up inside to see cold-blooded murder.
• 20:05
  Speaker 8: The whole town knows that there are religious fanatics up
• 20:08
  Speaker 8: in Lost Canyon.
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: The whole town may know that. But what about you?
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: Do you know it? I... You don't believe that story
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: any more than I do, Mrs. Mills. There's someone right
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: here in this town that's doing the killing. I only
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: want to know the route into Lost Canyon so that
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: I might be able to bring the murderer out into
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: the open.
• 20:23
  Speaker 8: Yes, I want that too. I'll tell you what I'll do.
• 20:26
  Speaker 8: I won't give you the route, but I will act
• 20:28
  Speaker 8: as your guide and lead you up there.
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: Oh, but that's too dangerous.
• 20:31
  Speaker 8: There's no man in my family now, Mr. Cassidy. I've
• 20:33
  Speaker 8: got to be father and mother both to my children,
• 20:36
  Speaker 8: and their father would ride up and gain what Lost
• 20:38
  Speaker 8: Canyon has to give us.
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: All right, Mrs. Mills, with a spirit like that, come
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: along with me, and we'll clean up this whole dirty mess. Ah,
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: this is bad business. I'm sorry I agreed to let
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: you come with me.
• 21:00
  Speaker 8: Living is bad business, Mr.
• 21:01
  Speaker 7: Cassidy.
• 21:02
  Speaker 8: You have to have courage to take chances.
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: Ah, you trust me, and we may both come out
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: of this alive.
• 21:08
  Speaker 8: What's the matter? Do you hear something?
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: Someone's coming up the trail overtaking us.
• 21:12
  Speaker 8: Why, it's the sheriff.
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: Hello, Mr.
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: Richards.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: Hello, Mrs.
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: Mills.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: And it's you, Cassidy.
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: That's right, Sheriff. Who did you expect?
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: I expected you to have better sense, I'll tell you that.
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: Or maybe you mean I shouldn't have had such good sense.
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: You saw what I did with that mob back in
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: the museum, Cassidy. I cocked my gun like this. And
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: I threatened to use it on the first man that
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: tried to take the law into his own hands.
• 21:32
  Speaker 8: Oh, but Sheriff, you don't understand.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: Mr.
• 21:34
  Speaker 8: Cassidy is.
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: If this is Mr. Cassidy, the only man in Rapid
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: River that vouched for him was blind Jake Peters. You
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: mean dead Jake Peters.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: If he's dead, you're the only one that knows about it, Cassidy. Well,
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: there's been enough talk. My deputy's right down the trail
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: waiting for my whistle. So now I'm sending you back
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: to town for safekeeping.
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: And you, Mrs.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: Mills, and I are going right on up this trail. Yes, Sheriff.
• 21:59
  Speaker 8: I'm glad you came when you did, for we're approaching
• 22:00
  Speaker 8: the passage now.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: You ride on, Mrs. Mills. I'll catch up with you.
• 22:03
  Speaker 6: All right, Sheriff.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: Howdy, Sheriff.
• 22:07
  Speaker 7: Looks like I rode up just in time.
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: Brick, you take Cassidy back to town and watch him.
• 22:11
  Speaker 7: Okay, Sheriff.
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: Well, so Brick here is your newly appointed deputy. Seems
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: like only last night that he was a cheap blackmailer.
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: Shut up, Cassidy.
• 22:20
  Speaker 7: I got me a badge now. And if the sheriff
• 22:24
  Speaker 7: don't get out of Lost Canyon alive, I'll be head man.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: Don't say a thing like that. I'm coming back.
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: What's the matter, Sheriff? You kind of superstitious?
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: I'll tend to you later, Cassidy. Right now, I'm going
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: with Mrs. Mills after the murderer. Of course, it might
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: be dangerous for a woman to be riding up into
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: the canyon. No telling what might happen.
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: You know, Sheriff... You sound just like a man who's
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: trying to establish an alibi.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: Huh?
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah, an alibi. In the event Mrs. Mills doesn't come
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: back alive.
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: You know, Mrs.
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: Mills, it was a sad day that your husband found
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: that map showing the secret passage into Lost Canyon.
• 23:09
  Speaker 8: Oh, it was a horrible day. But how did he
• 23:12
  Speaker 8: know it would cost him his life?
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: Well, I guess he didn't.
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: But that Mr. Munsey at the museum knew the danger.
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: He wanted to get rid of the map.
• 23:20
  Speaker 8: He wanted to give the map to Mr. Cassidy.
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but he never did. Because I killed.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: Him and took the map myself. What?
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: Yes, Mrs. Mills, I killed Mr.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: Munsey and I killed your husband.
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: I thought they was the only two that knew the passage.
• 23:33
  Speaker 7: Sheriff! Sheriff!
• 23:34
  Speaker 8: What are you saying?
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: That I can't let anybody living know the passage, Mrs.
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: Mills.
• 23:39
  Speaker 8: But I know it.
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: That's right.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: I don't like doing this.
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: In fact, I never enjoy killing.
• 23:44
  Speaker 8: Hey, Peter, you killed him, too.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: Oh, he was a worthless old coot, but he was
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: nosy and got to suspecting things. He was on his
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: way to blab to Cassidy, so I had to get
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: rid of him.
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: Sheriff, this is incredible.
• 23:55
  Speaker 8: How can you go on killing and killing?
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: You're the last. Then I'll be safe. Everything I've got
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: will be saved.
• 24:02
  Speaker 8: What do you mean?
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: I'm a rich man, Mrs.
• 24:04
  Speaker 7: Mills.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: I ain't just a ten-horned sheriff like folks think. I
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: got a barrel full of money. But I'd lose it
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: all if this here secret passage is found.
• 24:11
  Speaker 8: You're really going to kill me.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: Get off your horse, Mrs.
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: Mills.
• 24:15
  Speaker 7: No, no, no.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: Come on, Mawson, that's all right. Let's get this over quick. No.
• 24:20
  Speaker 9: Sheriff, I have children.
• 24:23
  Speaker 7: You can't.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: Maybe I'll adopt them, Mrs.
• 24:25
  Speaker 6: Mills.
• 24:25
  Speaker 8: Forget the passage.
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: I'll leave Rapid River.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: I'll let me live. In your prayers, Mrs.
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: Mills.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: This is it.
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: What's that? Who's over there?
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: Get up here, you.
• 24:34
  Speaker 8: Take your hands off me.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Stay right here. We've got visitors out in the bushes.
• 24:39
  Speaker 8: Let me go.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: You stay right in front of me.
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: I'll come back after you, Sheriff.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: I thought it was you, Cassidy, hiding behind them bushes.
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: You're wasting your bullets, Sheriff. I got you covered. Your
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: little game is up.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: If you shoot me, Cassidy, you shoot Mrs. Mills first.
• 24:54
  Speaker 7: Come on.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Behind these rocks. Oh, be careful.
• 24:56
  Speaker 8: You're too close to the edge.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: I see you're sneaking for the trail, Sheriff, but I'm
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: sitting up here to see you don't make it. Why,
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: you sniveling skunk. Think you can trap me, do you?
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: There you are, Mr. Miles.
• 25:06
  Speaker 8: Let me go.
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: You're hurting me.
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: Why, I ought to.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: I see you're half-cassidy. You're out on the ledge, Sheriff.
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: We got you covered both ways. You might as well
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: drop your gun.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: Ah, you think I'll give up, do you? I'm used
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: to living hard, and I'll die the same way. You're
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: not going to take me alive. And I'll die laughing.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: Because I'm taking Mrs. Mills with me.
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: Stop it, Charles.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: You're pulling her over the ledge.
• 25:33
  Speaker 7: Stop it.
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: Oh, we're falling.
• 25:36
  Speaker 7: Let me go.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: Now back to Hop Along, Cassidy.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: Oh, Garnet Hoppy, that was the fanciest ropean I ever seen.
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: Did I hurt your arm, Mrs.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: Mills?
• 26:37
  Speaker 8: Oh, I don't think so.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 26:41
  Speaker 8: I'm just so thankful to be alive.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: It was a mighty close call. If it hadn't been
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: for Hoppy's roping, you'd be at the bottom of the
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: ravine with the sheriff there.
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: And if you hadn't ridden up the trail, California, and
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: helped me disarm Briggs... Well, I.
• 26:52
  Speaker 8: Oh, it's so horrible. This sheriff must have been insane
• 26:55
  Speaker 8: wanting to kill me for no reason.
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: Oh, he had a reason, all right.
• 26:58
  Speaker 10: But what?
• 26:59
  Speaker 8: Who could it matter to him that I knew the
• 27:00
  Speaker 8: secret passage?
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: Well, didn't you want to use it to build up
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: your stagecoach business, Mrs.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: Mills?
• 27:04
  Speaker 8: Well, yes, but no one knew that.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: Don't see how that mattered.
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: To the sheriff, Hockey. He was a very wealthy man, California.
• 27:11
  Speaker 8: Yes, he told me that, but I just thought he
• 27:13
  Speaker 8: was raving.
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: Oh, no, I managed to find that out at the bank.
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: He owned controlling interest in a railroad that runs from
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: Rapid River to Dodge City.
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: What?
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: That's right. A railroad that would almost run your stage
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: line out of business. Now, if you were to root
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: your stages through Lost Canyon, you could beat train time
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: and get the business back again.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: Well, if that ain't the dag-buster, this doggone... Why.
• 27:33
  Speaker 8: It's incredible. He did all that killing to protect his railroad.
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: Yes, but now you're free to root your stages through
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: the canyon.
• 27:39
  Speaker 8: Yes, I must do that. I've got to support the children.
• 27:42
  Speaker 8: I guess the first thing is to find a good
• 27:44
  Speaker 8: driver and try the canyon road.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: Hoppy, do you suppose there really is a fanatical religious
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: cult up here in this canyon? I get a feeling
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: we're kind of being watched.
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: Well, I know one sure way of finding out.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: Uh-uh. How's that?
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: You drive Mrs. Mills' stage through this canyon. And if
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: there are any religious folks up here, you'll probably scale
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: them right up into the hills.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: Well....
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: Hoppy and California are heading back Bar 20 way. Got
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: a lot of things to take care of at the ranch.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: But it won't be long till Hoppy gets that feeling
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: and they'll be heading out again for more excitement and adventure.
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: We'd like mighty well to have you along. Hop Along Cassidy,
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: starring William Boyd, is transcribed and produced in the West
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: by Walter White Jr. Murder on the Trail was written
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: by John Barclay. All stories are based upon the characters
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: created by Clarence E.
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: Mulford.
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: This is a Commodore production.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: And so ends this broadcast of Hop Along Cassidy, Murder
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: on the Trail.
• 29:18
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