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The Lone Ranger - "Murder Blooms at Night" (Old Time Radio, 1943) · The Lone Ranger | Old Time Radio

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Dan Reed returns from the Temple of the Sun with
• 0:02
  Speaker 1: an urgent appeal from rancher Mr. Saunders, and the Lone
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: Ranger and Tonto ride with him to Saunders' ranch. It
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: is part three of the El Mundo serial arc. The
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: Lone Ranger, Murder Blooms at Night, originally broadcast April 2nd, 1943,
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: episode 1591. Brace Beamer is heard as the Lone Ranger,
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: with John Todd as Tonto. Fran Stryker wrote the script,
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: and George W. Trendle produced. The installment follows The Temple
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: of the Sun, broadcast March 31st, and precedes Dan Goes
• 0:42
  Speaker 1: to Jail, broadcast April 5th. At the ranch, El Mundo's
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: scheme involves an unusual cactus plant and the moonlit night.
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: And now, our story begins.
• 0:59
  Speaker 2: The End.
• 1:16
  Speaker 3: A fiery horse with a speed of light, a cloud
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  Speaker 3: of dust, and a hearty hi-yo silver.
• 1:21
  Speaker 4: The Lone Ranger.
• 1:43
  Speaker 5: THE END.
• 2:14
  Speaker 6: Thank you.
• 3:02
  Speaker 3: With his faithful Indian companion, Tonto, the masked rider of
• 3:05
  Speaker 3: the plains led the fight for law and order in
• 3:07
  Speaker 3: the early western United States. The stories of his strength
• 3:11
  Speaker 3: and courage, his daring and resourcefulness have come down to
• 3:14
  Speaker 3: us through the generations. And nowhere in the pages of
• 3:18
  Speaker 3: history can one find a greater champion of justice. Return
• 3:22
  Speaker 3: with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear. From
• 3:25
  Speaker 3: out of the pass come the thundering hoofbeats of the
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  Speaker 3: great horse, Silver. The Lone Ranger rides again.
• 3:31
  Speaker 7: Come on, Silver.
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  Speaker 8: We're heading for Saunders Ranch.
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  Speaker 2: Hail, Silver.
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  Speaker 5: Hooray.
• 3:46
  Speaker 3: When the Lone Ranger and Tonto returned to their camp
• 3:49
  Speaker 3: after a hazardous visit to the mysterious Temple of the Sun,
• 3:52
  Speaker 3: they found Dan Reed waiting for them. he brought an
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  Speaker 3: urgent message for help from Mr. Saunders, the kindly old rancher.
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  Speaker 3: Suspecting another move by the evil El Mundo, the masked man, Tonto,
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  Speaker 3: and Dan rode back to.
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  Speaker 7: The Saunders' ranch with all possible speed.
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  Speaker 2: Was Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Saunders alone when you left, Dan?
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  Speaker 2: I didn't see anyone else, except Jim the foreman.
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  Speaker 4: We still plenty far from Saunders' ranch.
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  Speaker 6: I know it.
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  Speaker 3: We'll have to cover a lot of ground to get
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  Speaker 3: there before sundown.
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  Speaker 4: Come on, Sylvie! Faster, Victor!
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  Speaker 8: Get him up!
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  Speaker 4: Come on!
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  Speaker 7: In the meantime, elderly Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Saunders, although worried about a death threat he doesn't understand,
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  Speaker 3: has visited himself with his principal hobby and interest, the.
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  Speaker 7: Cultivation of his cactus garden.
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  Speaker 3: The old man's intense love of cactus plants is borne
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  Speaker 3: out by the thousands of varieties that crowd the wide
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  Speaker 3: terrace of his house.
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  Speaker 7: But Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Saunders' interest was subtly distracted by the sound of hoofbeats
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  Speaker 3: on the winding road that passed the ranch house.
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  Speaker 4: Who can that be? It ain't the Lone Ranger or
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  Speaker 4: Dan or... Ho, ho, boy, ho! Well, I'll be it's
• 5:03
  Speaker 4: a girl. What in tarnation does she want?
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  Speaker 2: Is this the Saunders' ranch?
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  Speaker 4: That's right, ma'am.
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  Speaker 2: I'm looking for Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Saunders. You're talking to him, miss.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm so glad to find you at home.
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  Speaker 4: Why don't ever get very far away? Why are you
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  Speaker 4: looking for me?
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  Speaker 2: It's just like they told me it would be. Your garden,
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  Speaker 2: it is lovely.
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  Speaker 4: Me?
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  Speaker 9: Some people in El Paso. Perhaps I'd better explain. They
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  Speaker 9: said you had the finest collection of cactus plants in
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  Speaker 9: the territory. That's why I rode out here to see them.
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  Speaker 9: But I didn't expect anything as beautiful as these.
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  Speaker 4: You interested in cactus?
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  Speaker 2: I've always admired them.
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  Speaker 9: And when I came west, I heard about you.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess most everybody around these parts knows about
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  Speaker 4: me and my cactus plants. Lots of folks think I'm
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  Speaker 4: kind of crazy to raise something that grows wild all
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  Speaker 4: over the desert.
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  Speaker 9: I don't think so. A flowering cactus plant is beautiful.
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  Speaker 9: And you have so many different species. What kind is
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  Speaker 9: that one over there?
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  Speaker 4: That's a desert Christmas. Bears a lot of bright red
• 6:10
  Speaker 4: fruit in the wintertime.
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  Speaker 2: How interesting. And those others right next to it.
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  Speaker 4: The one with the long white fuzz is called the
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  Speaker 4: old man cactus. Behind it's a Turk's head. See those
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  Speaker 4: flat ones? They're flapjacks and beaver tails.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I know. But I was hoping you would have
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  Speaker 2: some kinds of serious... Oh, I have.
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  Speaker 4: I got them grown in a window box inside the house.
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  Speaker 2: I wonder if you would let me see those, too.
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  Speaker 4: Why, sure thing. Come on in. in the bedroom. Plants
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  Speaker 4: get more sun from that side of the house.
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  Speaker 7: There.
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  Speaker 4: I bet you've never seen any serious prettier nose.
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  Speaker 9: They're beautiful. Such lovely colors and the one at the end,
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  Speaker 9: it isn't blooming.
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  Speaker 4: But only blooms at night. Haven't you ever seen one
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  Speaker 4: of those before?
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  Speaker 2: Night blooming serious. Yes, I've heard of them. I just
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  Speaker 2: wanted to be sure.
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  Speaker 4: If you'd like to see some giant cactus, I've got
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  Speaker 4: some planted in the field down by the corral. Viznaga, acolia,
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  Speaker 4: purple spines. No, I... What's the matter, miss?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I feel sort of faint. That long
• 7:29
  Speaker 2: ride in the hot sun. Could I have a drink
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  Speaker 2: of water, please?
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  Speaker 4: Why, sure thing. You just sit down in that chair.
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  Speaker 4: I'll fetch some water.
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  Speaker 7: Now.
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  Speaker 2: Night blooming serious. And by the window, exactly where it
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  Speaker 2: should be. There's not too much time. You'll be back
• 7:47
  Speaker 2: in a minute.
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  Speaker 4: Gloves.
• 7:49
  Speaker 2: I'll need my gloves to handle this package.
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  Speaker 5: There.
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  Speaker 9: What an ugly little... Saunders, he's coming back. Just time
• 8:02
  Speaker 9: to leave the note and.
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  Speaker 4: Here we are, miss, a dipper full of ice-cold well water.
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  Speaker 4: That ought to fix it. She's gone. Jumped through the window.
• 8:27
  Speaker 4: Grabbed her horse and she's heading south. That beats anything
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  Speaker 4: I've ever seen. I wonder what she.
• 8:36
  Speaker 4: What's this in the chair? A note addressed to me. No. No,
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  Speaker 4: I won't do it.
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  Speaker 7: I won't.
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  Speaker 4: And the place looks deserted.
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  Speaker 7: There's Jim, the foreman.
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  Speaker 4: You fellas really push them horses.
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  Speaker 6: I've been watching you since you topped the hill.
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  Speaker 4: Where's Mr. Saunders, Jim? I ain't seen him. Been down
• 9:12
  Speaker 4: at the corral all afternoon. Say, Dan, you sure skinned
• 9:15
  Speaker 4: out of here this morning. Mr. Saunders asked me to
• 9:17
  Speaker 4: run an errand. He might be inside. Come on in.
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  Speaker 7: Strange.
• 9:28
  Speaker 4: The door's locked. Saunders! Saunders! Oh, it's you. I wasn't
• 9:41
  Speaker 4: going to open the door until I was pretty sure
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  Speaker 4: who it was. What's the matter? Dan said you were worried.
• 9:45
  Speaker 4: Come inside. It's better for talking.
• 9:46
  Speaker 7: Very well.
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  Speaker 4: Dan, take care of the horses. You sit down there.
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  Speaker 10: Thanks.
• 9:51
  Speaker 4: It's about El Mundo. Remember you were asking about him
• 9:54
  Speaker 4: last time he came here?
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  Speaker 10: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: You wanted information about him, and I couldn't help you
• 9:58
  Speaker 4: very much. Well, things have changed since then. They have? Plenty.
• 10:03
  Speaker 4: I've had some messages from him. He wants me to
• 10:06
  Speaker 4: join his outfit like my cousin did. Your cousin? Yeah,
• 10:09
  Speaker 4: he was all filled up with ideas of a better
• 10:11
  Speaker 4: life and all that sort of thing. He went out
• 10:13
  Speaker 4: to the disputed territory with some critter from El Mundo's outfit.
• 10:17
  Speaker 3: It was the last that he would ever heard of him. Sanders,
• 10:20
  Speaker 3: there are two kinds of people with El Mundo. His
• 10:23
  Speaker 3: headquarters can hardly be seen. There are just a few
• 10:26
  Speaker 3: slabs of rock above the ground. These are the entrance
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  Speaker 3: to a vast underground temple built generations ago by the
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  Speaker 3: Mayan Indians.
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  Speaker 4: Two kinds of people with El Mundo?
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Killers who do his bidding for cash and slaves. Slaves?
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  Speaker 3: People who seem to have gone there as your cousin did,
• 10:43
  Speaker 3: only to be put into a half-drug state that, well,
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  Speaker 3: robs them of their ability to think clearly.
• 10:49
  Speaker 4: What's the name of your cousin? Martin. He's called Tennessee Martin.
• 10:53
  Speaker 4: Fact is, he owns one-third interest in this ranch. Oh,
• 10:55
  Speaker 4: he does? Yeah, and Jim, the top hand, owns the
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  Speaker 4: other third. The three of us homesteaded the place and
• 11:00
  Speaker 4: everything went along swell until... Well, until Tennessee left us
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  Speaker 4: to join that Mundo outfit. First time I saw Tennessee
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  Speaker 4: after he joined was last night. He did act like
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  Speaker 4: he was half-drunked. He told me I had to join up.
• 11:15
  Speaker 4: Told you you had to join? Yes.
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  Speaker 10: Why?
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  Speaker 4: Well, he said if I didn't, I'd pay the penalty.
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  Speaker 3: And when we knocked on the door just now, you
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  Speaker 3: thought it was some of El Mundo's men.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it might have been. I've been worried, but not
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  Speaker 4: too much. Until after that girl left a note here
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  Speaker 4: this afternoon.
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  Speaker 10: Girl?
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  Speaker 4: What kind of note? Here, read.
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  Speaker 11: It.
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  Speaker 3: You have scorned El Mundo... Death will come with the moonrise.
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  Speaker 4: It's a threat, all right, but it doesn't make sense.
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  Speaker 4: You said a girl was here. Did she deliver this note?
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  Speaker 4: That's the only way I can figure it. Wasn't here
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  Speaker 4: before she came, and I found it after she'd gone.
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  Speaker 4: Who was the girl? You didn't tell me her name.
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  Speaker 4: Right pretty young woman. She was interested in cactus plants,
• 11:55
  Speaker 4: so I showed her my garden. What did she look like, Sundance?
• 11:58
  Speaker 4: Medium height, black hair, dark eyes. Might have been part Indian.
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  Speaker 4: Only she was prettier than any Indian I've ever seen.
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  Speaker 4: Dark complexion.
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  Speaker 10: Black hair.
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  Speaker 4: Myra.
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  Speaker 5: Then your mission was successful, Myra?
• 12:25
  Speaker 4: Person.
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  Speaker 6: What is he like?
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  Speaker 2: A dothering old fool whose world begins and ends with
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  Speaker 2: his cactus plants.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, I already have that information. That's why you carried
• 12:35
  Speaker 6: our little friend Latrodactys Mactans into his home.
• 12:39
  Speaker 2: Can't you ever talk plain English?
• 12:41
  Speaker 6: Not when a Latin term is more correct. The moon
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  Speaker 6: will rise at exactly five minutes of twelve tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Suppose the plan doesn't work.
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  Speaker 6: You forget, Myra, that I've made an exhaustive study of Mr.
• 12:55
  Speaker 6: Saunders' habits. You said yourself that his world begins and
• 13:00
  Speaker 6: ends with cactus plants. Tonight, Mr. Saunders' world will end.
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  Speaker 7: The End.
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  Speaker 4: It's almost twelve o'clock.
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  Speaker 10: Ah, but moon not rise yet.
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  Speaker 4: It's nothing but a bluff. Those heathen devils think they
• 13:25
  Speaker 4: can scare me into joining them like Tennessee did.
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  Speaker 11: We've scarred every inch in this house and every square
• 13:30
  Speaker 11: yard of the ground around it.
• 13:32
  Speaker 4: Nobody can come within a mile here without us seeing them.
• 13:35
  Speaker 4: It's best to be on the safe side, Jim. Tonto.
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  Speaker 10: Uh-huh.
• 13:38
  Speaker 3: It's getting close to midnight. Keep circling the house and
• 13:40
  Speaker 3: keep your eyes open.
• 13:41
  Speaker 6: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 10: Me do it.
• 13:42
  Speaker 4: Don't worry.
• 13:43
  Speaker 6: Nothing living or dead will get past us.
• 13:45
  Speaker 4: What can I do?
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  Speaker 3: You sit right here, Dan, and watch that front door.
• 13:49
  Speaker 3: If anyone should get past Jim and Tonto, you can
• 13:51
  Speaker 3: give a warning.
• 13:52
  Speaker 7: What am I.
• 13:54
  Speaker 4: I mean... We better turn down the lamp. It makes
• 14:01
  Speaker 4: it kind of spooky sitting here in the dark.
• 14:03
  Speaker 3: Light shining through one of the windows makes.
• 14:05
  Speaker 4: A good target for a high-powered rifle.
• 14:07
  Speaker 6: There'll be plenty of light when that moon comes up.
• 14:09
  Speaker 4: Don't talk about it. I'm sorry. I guess I'm kind
• 14:13
  Speaker 4: of nervous. Why don't you just sit down and sound
• 14:14
  Speaker 4: his rest a while? I can't. I'd rather walk around.
• 14:17
  Speaker 4: I know, am I serious? No window box in the bedroom.
• 14:22
  Speaker 4: It blooms tonight. I'm not going to miss it for anything.
• 14:24
  Speaker 7: I'll go with you.
• 14:25
  Speaker 4: I'll wait here, Dan. Sure.
• 14:34
  Speaker 7: Yeah, there they are.
• 14:36
  Speaker 4: Ain't they beauties? Yes, I've admired them many times. These
• 14:39
  Speaker 4: two plants in the end are the finest cereals I've
• 14:41
  Speaker 4: ever seen. Their flowers are almost like orchids. Wait. Moon's
• 14:47
  Speaker 4: coming up. As soon as the light hits them, they'll blossom.
• 14:49
  Speaker 7: Yes, I know.
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  Speaker 3: Now wait right here, Mr.
• 14:51
  Speaker 4: Saunders. Don't leave the room. Where are you going?
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: I'll take a look outside, check with Tonto and Jim.
• 14:56
  Speaker 3: The moon's full now. We'll wait a few minutes, then
• 14:58
  Speaker 3: light the lamp.
• 15:02
  Speaker 4: Gosh, I guess I never will get tired of watching
• 15:05
  Speaker 4: a cactus bloom big and pretty like this. I.
• 15:10
  Speaker 4: What the.
• 15:12
  Speaker 5: Dan?
• 15:22
  Speaker 8: Yes?
• 15:23
  Speaker 4: Where's Mr. Saunders?
• 15:24
  Speaker 6: Oh, he's still in the bedroom.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, love.
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: That's all it was?
• 15:27
  Speaker 10: Me not savvy.
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: Light the lamp, Dan. I'll go in and tell Mr.
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: Saunders I think our scare has been for nothing.
• 15:36
  Speaker 4: Mr. Saunders? Saunders? How could... Saunders? Toto, Dan, bring the
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: lamp in here, quick.
• 15:45
  Speaker 5: What's wrong?
• 15:46
  Speaker 4: I mean, it's the boss. What is it?
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: What's wrong?
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: I don't know how it happened, but Saunders is dead.
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  Speaker 3: The curtain falls on the first act of our Lone
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  Speaker 3: Ranger story. Before the next exciting scenes, please permit us
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  Speaker 3: to pause for just a few moments.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you.
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  Speaker 7: Now to continue our story. On the morning following Mr.
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: Saunders' mysterious murder, a coroner informed the Lone Ranger that
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: death had been caused by poison. The masked man wasn't
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: satisfied with this explanation, but he was unable to find
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: any other.
• 17:25
  Speaker 7: As he and Tonto searched Mr. Saunders' bedroom.
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: Tonto, you're sure no one could have passed you last
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: night and reached the house? No.
• 17:33
  Speaker 10: Me keep eyes plenty sharp. Me see, not see anyone.
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: Mr.
• 17:38
  Speaker 6: Saunders was poisoned here by the window.
• 17:40
  Speaker 7: I'd have heard a noise if the window had been opened.
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: El Mundo promised death by moonrise. Within five minutes after
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: the moon had risen, Saunders was dead.
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: It's too perfect. Where's Jim?
• 17:52
  Speaker 10: Let him go to barn, feed the stock.
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: The only thing to do is keep on searching this room.
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: The answer is here someplace.
• 17:58
  Speaker 12: There's nothing here, except a bed and a chair and
• 18:01
  Speaker 12: those cactus plants.
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: It's here, Dan, somewhere. Our job is to find it.
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: Come in. Ah, Myra.
• 18:31
  Speaker 6: Good morning, my dear.
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: Did you sleep well?
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: Not very. I really didn't sleep at all until after midnight.
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: Oh, that's too bad.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: I kept thinking of Mr.
• 18:42
  Speaker 7: Saunders.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: Oh, he loved his cactus plant.
• 18:44
  Speaker 6: You should keep unpleasant thoughts out of your mind.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: El Mundo, don't you ever think of any of the
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: people you.
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: Oh, please, please, Myra.
• 18:52
  Speaker 6: You know how that subject annoys me, especially before breakfast. Incidentally,
• 18:59
  Speaker 6: did you receive a report from El Paz?
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: One of the Indians just threw her out from town.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: The body of Mr. Saunders was brought in there this morning.
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: Oh, splendid.
• 19:12
  Speaker 6: What is it?
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: The Lone Ranger and.
• 19:15
  Speaker 9: The boy who travels with him and the Indian, they
• 19:18
  Speaker 9: are all at the Saunders' ranch.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: They were there last night when.
• 19:22
  Speaker 6: The old gentleman met with an unfortunate accident? I suppose so.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: What's so funny?
• 19:29
  Speaker 6: Oh, don't you see, Myra? The heroic Lone Ranger was there.
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: He must have read my note. And yet Saunders died
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: in spite of him and died right under his nose.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: From all I've heard, this masked man isn't stupid. He
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: may be dangerous to you.
• 19:46
  Speaker 6: Oh, Myra, my sister, your childlike observations amuse me.
• 19:51
  Speaker 9: Remember, he has many friends in high positions with the
• 19:55
  Speaker 9: American government.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: He might.
• 19:57
  Speaker 6: Oh, I know all those things. This meddling masked rider
• 20:02
  Speaker 6: has tried to interfere with my plans on two previous occasions. Well,
• 20:10
  Speaker 6: give him one more object lesson.
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: The Lone Ranger, Dan, and Tonto searched all day for
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: some clue to the mysterious poison death of Mr.
• 20:31
  Speaker 7: Saunders. Sundown found them no nearer a solution.
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: Golly.
• 20:36
  Speaker 12: That Armundo must use magic when he murders people.
• 20:39
  Speaker 10: No, Dan.
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: The only thing he uses is something too obvious for
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: us to see.
• 20:43
  Speaker 10: We search room plenty good.
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: Everything but tear up the boards and the floor. That
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: won't be necessary. We must keep.
• 20:50
  Speaker 10: Hey, look at this.
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: Just like Saunders got yesterday. What is it, Jim?
• 20:53
  Speaker 11: I was inside the barn. Heard something thud against the
• 20:56
  Speaker 11: door and came out and found this arrow. It must
• 20:58
  Speaker 11: have been shot from that clump of trees on the
• 20:59
  Speaker 11: other side of the ridge.
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  Speaker 10: Let me see it. Well, that's not Indian era.
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: Pato's right. This isn't.
• 21:05
  Speaker 11: But look, this was tied onto it. A note just
• 21:07
  Speaker 11: like the boss got.
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: May I read it?
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: Here.
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: What does it say? Jim Wilson.
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: El Mundo will strike again at 10 o'clock tonight. There's
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: a crude drawing of a blazing sun down in the
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: right-hand corner.
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: El Mundo. Gee. What do we do, Kim Asabi?
• 21:25
  Speaker 11: If any of them heathen varmints think they're going.
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: To poison me... Oh, wait a minute, Jim.
• 21:29
  Speaker 7: They succeeded last night, even though we were watching for it.
• 21:31
  Speaker 7: But I ain't gonna just stand around and wait.
• 21:34
  Speaker 11: I wouldn't be surprised if that crazy cousin of Saunders
• 21:36
  Speaker 11: didn't have a hand in it.
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: First he joins that outfit, then the boss is killed...
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: I'll wait, Jim.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: I don't know how El Mundo does it. But I'm
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: sure I know the reason for his threats and murders.
• 21:46
  Speaker 7: What do you mean? Dan.
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: Yes? Saddle Victor and ride into El Pas.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: Land office may be closed, but I want you to
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: find the agent and get a map of the southern
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: part of the territory.
• 21:54
  Speaker 7: I'll go right now.
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: And Dan. Yeah?
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: I want you to stay in town for the evening.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: Don't come back out here until after ten o'clock.
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but I... All right.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: I'll stay there.
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: Why in thunder did you send the kid after a map?
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: To check on El Mundo's plans.
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  Speaker 7: Jim.
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  Speaker 3: You're about my same height, aren't you?
• 22:14
  Speaker 7: Guess we do stack up about the same.
• 22:16
  Speaker 6: Why?
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: What would you normally be doing at 10 o'clock at night?
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: Out in the bunkhouse, sleeping.
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: Good. We'll go down there now and change clothes.
• 22:25
  Speaker 7: Change.
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: Why?
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: Because I want to find out exactly how El Mundo
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: poisons someone who's sitting in a locked room.
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: No, it ain't fair for you to risk your life....
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: Except for the mask I'm wearing, I think I can
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: pass for you, Jim. Especially since it's dark in here. Yeah,
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: you do look something like me.
• 22:59
  Speaker 10: What we do, Kimo Sabe?
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: Walk down with the corral. Keep in plain sight.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: If all those poigners are watching, I want them to
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: be convinced that Jim is in here alone.
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: How long are you going to stay here? At least
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: until ten o'clock.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: Now hurry, let's leave everything wide open for them. The
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: Lone Ranger, dressed as Jim Wilson, waited quietly in the
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: bunkhouse for several hours.
• 23:32
  Speaker 7: There was no sound or movement, although he was alert
• 23:34
  Speaker 7: for any emergency.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: Meanwhile, Tonto and the foreman waited in the shadows at
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: one corner of the big corral.
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: Seems like it ought to be almost ten o'clock by now.
• 23:43
  Speaker 11: I wonder if we should mosey back up to the bunkhouse.
• 23:47
  Speaker 10: Lone Ranger say wait for him. Better we wait.
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess he knows what he's doing. Tonto, back
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: up here.
• 23:55
  Speaker 11: Look, it's... Why are you sneaking farming out?
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: No, not your gun. You can't get away with this.
• 24:04
  Speaker 8: It was a harder job than I expected. Now I
• 24:08
  Speaker 8: must first tie the Indian. And now, Jim Wilson, the
• 24:21
  Speaker 8: compliments of the master, El Mundo.
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: More than I expected. Adios, Mr. Wilson.
• 24:35
  Speaker 8: Give El Mundo's regards to Mr.
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: Saunders. Ha, ha, ha.
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: 1030 in Los Anabel, Mundo. Evidently, this is one time
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: he did bluff. Well, I'll tell Toto and Jim.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: Toto?
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: Toto, are you.
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: Tied hand and foot and Jim. Toto, what happened? Take
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: off these ropes.
• 25:12
  Speaker 10: Somebody hit me with a club in back.
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: Plenty quick. Who was it? Do you know? No. Me
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: don't see him.
• 25:21
  Speaker 10: How Jim Wilson?
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: He's not tied up the way you are, but he
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: was evidently hit the same way. There. Feel any better?
• 25:28
  Speaker 10: Maybe all right now.
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: I wonder if they... Hold it. Hold it. Hold it.
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: Hold it.
• 25:35
  Speaker 12: Golly, what happened?
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: We don't know for sure, Dan. Let's carry Jim up
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: to the house tunnel. Did you get the map, Dan?
• 25:41
  Speaker 12: Yeah, and a list of all the people who own
• 25:43
  Speaker 12: land in the territory. It was easy, but what happened here?
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: Open the door for us, Dan. Sure.
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: Jim Wilson looks bad.
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: Put him right down here, tunnel.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: Is there anything I can get? How about some cold water?
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: We'll know in just a minute. He.
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: Guess there's no water needed, is there?
• 26:08
  Speaker 10: He's dead.
• 26:09
  Speaker 12: But how can he be?
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: Poisoned, just like Saunders.
• 26:13
  Speaker 10: El Mundo say kill. You can kill.
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: You're right, Tonto.
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: Not only did he kill, but he knew I was here.
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: And somehow he guessed exactly what I would do. How
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: him do that? Tonto, El Mundo is the cleverest crook
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: we've ever known. He has brains. And when that's combined
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: with dishonesty... It's dangerous.
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: Hey, gosh.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: Look at that funny-looking bug crawling on Mr.
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: Wilson's neck.
• 26:41
  Speaker 7: Damn!
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 26:43
  Speaker 7: Don't touch that.
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: Gee, I.
• 26:45
  Speaker 10: That bug plenty bad. It bite and kill.
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: Tonto, that's it. That's the answer.
• 26:50
  Speaker 10: You're not savvy.
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: What is it? A spider.
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: I've never seen one exactly like it. But it's one
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: of the species known as a black widow.
• 26:58
  Speaker 10: That... that right.
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: Whoever hit Tonto and Jim over the head put the
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: spider on Wilson. Probably in his shirt. Gee, I never...
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: And that must have been the way Saunders died, too.
• 27:06
  Speaker 12: Yeah, but nobody was around him. All he was doing
• 27:09
  Speaker 12: was watching that cactus plant that blooms at night.
• 27:11
  Speaker 7: Yes, I.
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: You've solved it, then.
• 27:15
  Speaker 7: What do you mean?
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: Let's go into the bedroom and take a look at
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: the night blooming serious.
• 27:22
  Speaker 10: Moon just coming up. Cactus flower open now.
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: And this is what happened last night. See?
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: Ah, black.
• 27:31
  Speaker 10: With a spider inside flower.
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: El Mundo knew that Sanders liked to watch this plant blossom.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: So the girl Myra stopped here yesterday afternoon and put
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: the black widow inside the flower.
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: Gee.
• 27:42
  Speaker 7: Watch out, step on the top.
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: Give me that map, Dan.
• 27:45
  Speaker 6: Yeah, here.
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: El Mundo gained his end here by killing Sanders and
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: Jim Wilson. Now the ranch belongs to Tennessee Martin, Sanders' cousin.
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: And he'll hand it over to El Mundo.
• 27:54
  Speaker 7: Does the map help any?
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: Now I know what he's trying to do. Look on
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: the map.
• 27:59
  Speaker 7: Yeah, right here.
• 28:00
  Speaker 6: Yeah, you mean this line down near the Mexican border?
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: That's the disputed territory where El Mundo has a temple.
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: If he can gain control over all this property along here,
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: he'll have an important wedge.
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: Between the United States and Mexico.
• 28:12
  Speaker 6: Golly, he will at that.
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: I don't know where he intends to strike next, but
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: there's no time to lose at the horse's tunnel. Ah,
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: me get him.
• 28:18
  Speaker 7: Where are we going?
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: To warn and try to help all these ranchers. The
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: first one is Mrs.
• 28:22
  Speaker 7: Purdy.
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: She's east of here. Come on.
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: El Mundo has been successful so far in his murderous
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: and evil scheme.
• 28:42
  Speaker 7: But the Lone Ranger knows his plan now. In the
• 28:44
  Speaker 7: next episode, we hear.
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: I don't want to draw a gun against a woman.
• 28:48
  Speaker 9: You'll get no chance to draw a gun. El Mundo's
• 28:51
  Speaker 9: methods are not that crude. You were marked for death
• 28:56
  Speaker 9: the instant you stepped inside this house. The story you
• 30:29
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• 30:32
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• 30:48
  Speaker 1: The music fades on murder blooms at night. This is
• 30:51
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