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The Lone Ranger - "The Killers Code" (Old Time Radio, 1944) · The Lone Ranger | Old Time Radio

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: At Chief Thundercloud's camp, Tonto and Dan Reed find a
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: wounded Secret Service agent with coded plans tied to West
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: Coast defenses. It is a wartime chapter of The Lone Ranger,
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: The Killer's Code, part two of a six-part special series,
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  Speaker 1: first heard September 27, 1944. Jeff Darwin is determined to
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: recover those plans, while the Lone Ranger's presence is brief
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: and the immediate trail belongs to Tonto, Dan, and Darwin.
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: Brace Beamer is the Lone Ranger, with John Todd as
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: Tonto in episode 1824. Here is the original broadcast.
• 0:46
  Speaker 2: A fiery horse with the speed of light, a cloud
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  Speaker 2: of dust, and a hearty, how silver, the Lone Ranger.
• 1:26
  Speaker 3: Thank you. THE END.
• 2:46
  Speaker 4: With his faithful Indian companion Tonto, the mask rider of
• 2:49
  Speaker 4: the plains led the fight for law and order in
• 2:51
  Speaker 4: the early western United States. The stories of his strength
• 2:54
  Speaker 4: and courage, his daring and resourcefulness have come down to
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  Speaker 4: us through the generations. And nowhere in the pages of
• 3:01
  Speaker 4: history can one find a greater champion of justice. Return
• 3:05
  Speaker 4: with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear. From
• 3:08
  Speaker 4: out of the past and the thundering hoofbeats of the
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  Speaker 4: great horse Silver, the Lone Ranger rides again.
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  Speaker 5: Come on, Silver! Very big fellow! Hail Silver!
• 3:18
  Speaker 6: Hooray!
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  Speaker 5: Hooray!
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  Speaker 4: Aaron York sat at his desk in the well-furnished office
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  Speaker 4: in Prairie Bend. The desk was littered with a miscellaneous
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  Speaker 4: assortment of objects. A man's wallet, a clasp knife, a
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  Speaker 4: match safe, numerous things that Jeff Darwin, the Secret Service man,
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  Speaker 4: had carried. York opened the drawer of the desk and
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  Speaker 4: picked up a thick sheaf of papers. He turned to
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  Speaker 4: two men in the office.
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  Speaker 6: Now, sir, I'll tell you why I brought you and
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  Speaker 6: Baudry back here. You got these plans from the Secret Service, man,
• 4:00
  Speaker 6: but they're worthless.
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  Speaker 3: They're in code. Well, it stands to reason, York.
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  Speaker 6: If Jeff Darwin carried coded plans, he'd have to have
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  Speaker 6: the key to the code. Did you look through the
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  Speaker 6: stuff we took from him? You thick-headed, numb scull. I
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  Speaker 6: spent days pawing through this junk. Of course there's a
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  Speaker 6: key to the code, but I can't find it.
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  Speaker 3: Mr. York. What is it, Baudry? Maybe Darwin's got the
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  Speaker 3: key in his head. Maybe he memorized it. The boss
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  Speaker 3: has thought of that, Baudry. Of course I have.
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  Speaker 6: Well, all that writing don't mean nothing without knowing how
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  Speaker 6: to translate it, huh?
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  Speaker 3: I know. I know. As it stands, it's just a
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  Speaker 3: meaningless jumble of words.
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  Speaker 6: Decoded, it represents the detailed plans of every proposed fortification
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  Speaker 6: on the western frontier. And someday, someone, maybe a foreign country,
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  Speaker 6: will pay a fancy price for that information.
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  Speaker 5: Mr.
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  Speaker 6: York, if the government finds out that the plans have
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  Speaker 6: been stolen from Darman, won't the plans be changed? Don't
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  Speaker 6: you worry about that, Nizer. Remember, I got a friend
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  Speaker 6: in the East who keeps me posted.
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  Speaker 3: Ah, that's so. If you two fools hadn't killed Darwin,
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  Speaker 3: we'd be all right.
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  Speaker 6: I gave you implicit orders to stop him and get
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  Speaker 6: the plans. I know you didn't. Like I said before,
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  Speaker 6: he put up more of a scrap than we expected.
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  Speaker 6: I bet he was the toughest scrapper in the Secret Service.
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  Speaker 3: We done the best we could, boss. We brought in
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  Speaker 3: everything he had, including his clothes. Did you look through
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  Speaker 3: them real good?
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  Speaker 6: Of course I did, Beaudry. I even ripped out the
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  Speaker 6: lining to see if anything was hidden beneath it. And
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  Speaker 6: you looked through all this stuff. What's he spent... Just
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  Speaker 6: leave those things alone. Those are the sketches Darwin made.
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  Speaker 6: What do you want us to do, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: York?
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  Speaker 3: I brought you two.
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  Speaker 6: Back to Prairie Bend to help me. Now, we've got
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  Speaker 6: to find the answer to this code. All the work
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  Speaker 6: we've done, all the risks we've taken, it's wasted unless
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  Speaker 6: we do.
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  Speaker 3: You're right about that.
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  Speaker 6: If it takes weeks, months, or a year, we've got
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  Speaker 6: to crack the code on these plans.
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  Speaker 4: After weeks of futile effort, the Secret Service had asked
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  Speaker 4: the Lone Ranger to try to locate Jeff Darwin. Sworn
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  Speaker 4: to absolute secrecy, the masked man had ridden away alone.
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  Speaker 4: That was why Dan Reed and Tonto were riding without
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  Speaker 4: their usual companion when they saw smoke signals in Chief
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  Speaker 4: Thundercloud's camp. Thundercloud's Indians had found Jeff Darwin, not dead,
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  Speaker 4: but badly beaten. The chief didn't know who Darwin was.
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  Speaker 4: But he did know that Darwin was desperately in need
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  Speaker 4: of help.
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  Speaker 5: We're friends who wear masks. Him not come with you.
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  Speaker 3: Lone Ranger. Him go away. Not tell where.
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  Speaker 5: Young fellow. Friend of Tonto.
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  Speaker 3: You bet I am.
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  Speaker 5: Good friend of Tonto. Him named Dan Reed. Nephew, Lone Ranger.
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  Speaker 3: Dan.
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  Speaker 5: This great chief, Thundercloud. Oh, Dan.
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  Speaker 3: It is good to know the great chief. My friend
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  Speaker 3: Tonto has told me you are a man of wisdom
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  Speaker 3: and a great hunter.
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  Speaker 5: Boy talk, good talk. Thundercloud like boy. Tonto see smoke
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  Speaker 5: signal from Thundercloud. You send for Tonto? Me want you,
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  Speaker 5: want Maskman too. Where Lone Ranger? For him go away.
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  Speaker 5: Tonto not know where. Tonto not know? Lone Ranger make promise.
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  Speaker 5: Not tell where him go or why. Lone Ranger never
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  Speaker 5: break promise. Ah, that good. Why Thunder Cloud send signal?
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  Speaker 5: You come see fella in Thunder Cloud camp. Oh.
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  Speaker 3: What fella in camp?
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  Speaker 5: Paleface. Me think him need help. Think you, Lone Ranger,
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  Speaker 5: help him.
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  Speaker 3: What wrong?
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  Speaker 5: Not know. Not savvy, Paleface. Him not talk. Thundercloud, think
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  Speaker 5: him frayed. Oh, paleface, meppy. Outlaw. Not think him outlaw.
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  Speaker 5: Think him good paleface. You come in here.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, Chief.
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  Speaker 5: What? These friends come see you.
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  Speaker 3: See me?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I don't... This boy, Dan Reed. Indian, Toronto.
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  Speaker 6: Well, if you're friends of Thundercloud's, I'm proud to know you.
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  Speaker 6: He saved my life. My name is Jeff.
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  Speaker 3: Jefferson, that is. Oh, tanto glad know you, Jeff. Same here, Mr. Jefferson.
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  Speaker 5: Indians find pale face. Him almost die.
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  Speaker 3: What happened, Mr. Jefferson?
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  Speaker 6: I made camp near the bend of the Wolf River.
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  Speaker 6: Someone attacked the camp during the night.
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  Speaker 3: Caught me off guard.
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  Speaker 5: Not Indian who attacked camp. White man. Leave plenty white
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  Speaker 5: man sign.
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  Speaker 6: That's all I know. That the men who attacked me
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  Speaker 6: were whites. They took everything I had. My horse, saddle, saddlebags, everything.
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  Speaker 6: They even took the clothes I was wearing after leaving
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  Speaker 6: me for dead. Them must beat you plenty bad. I'd
• 8:44
  Speaker 6: be a dead man now if some of Thundercloud's Indians
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  Speaker 6: hadn't come along when they did.
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  Speaker 3: They brought me here, nursed me back to health.
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  Speaker 5: You say fellas take everything. Them take clothes you wear.
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  Speaker 3: Why? Well, I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: All I know is that I've got to find them.
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  Speaker 6: I've got to catch the men who raided my camp.
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  Speaker 6: I've got to get back everything they took from me.
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  Speaker 5: It may be too much trouble to get back horse, saddle,
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  Speaker 5: and clothes.
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  Speaker 3: But you don't understand, Tom. Why, fellas, take everything, Jeff.
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  Speaker 5: Why.
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  Speaker 3: What them look for? Well, that's something I can't tell you. Well,
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  Speaker 3: you'll not talk how we help you.
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  Speaker 6: But Chief Thundercloud said you were friends of the Lone Ranger's.
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  Speaker 6: He said he'd send smoke signals that you and the
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  Speaker 6: Lone Ranger would come.
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  Speaker 5: Lone Ranger not able come now. Him go away. Maybe
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  Speaker 5: for many moons. Tonto not know where him go. No
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  Speaker 5: one know where Lone Ranger go.
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  Speaker 6: The one man in all the West who could really
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  Speaker 6: help me. And no one, not even his best friends,
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  Speaker 6: know where to find him. You not savvy who attacked
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  Speaker 6: your camp? No, no idea in the world. It was night,
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  Speaker 6: total darkness. I wouldn't recognize the men if I saw them. Golly, Tonto,
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  Speaker 6: why don't you have Mr. Jefferson show us where his
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  Speaker 6: camp was?
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  Speaker 3: Maybe you could uncover some signs. Ah, Tonto willing to try.
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  Speaker 5: Tonto, best Indian scout, best tracker in country.
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  Speaker 6: I'll be glad to show you where the camp was.
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  Speaker 6: But the men who raided the place were careful to
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  Speaker 6: cover their tracks.
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  Speaker 3: Sometime even careful, fella. Make mistake. How far is it
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  Speaker 3: to the place? Maybe a half day's ride.
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  Speaker 5: Thundercloud, give your horse. You ride. Show Tonto where men
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  Speaker 5: rob you. Maybe we not come back here right away.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe Paleface stay with Tonto and Dan, Thundercloud.
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  Speaker 3: I'll get ready.
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  Speaker 6: And if it takes until doomsday, I'll stay on the
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  Speaker 6: trail of the men who took those.
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  Speaker 3: Took what, Jeff? Never mind. I'll stay on the trail
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  Speaker 3: of the men who robbed me.
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  Speaker 4: At the same moment, Aaron York was speaking to his
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  Speaker 4: right-hand man, Fred Neiser.
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  Speaker 6: Neiser, how long you figure it'd take you to ride
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  Speaker 6: from here to the place Darwin was camped?
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  Speaker 3: Uh, I don't know. Maybe a half a day.
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  Speaker 5: Why?
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  Speaker 3: Take a couple of the boys and go on back there.
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  Speaker 3: Go back? But what for?
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  Speaker 6: The search, you fool. We gotta find the answer to
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  Speaker 6: the code on these plans. Maybe you overlooked it. Maybe
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  Speaker 6: it's still there someplace. We took everything. Even the clothes
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  Speaker 6: Darwin was wearing. Yes, and you fought him in the
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  Speaker 6: dark before you killed him, didn't you?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, we did.
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  Speaker 6: Well, then it's possible he dropped a notebook or something
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  Speaker 6: from his pocket during the fight. Something you overlooked when
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  Speaker 6: you stripped him. Now go back there and look for it. Well,
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  Speaker 6: it's been some time since the fight, but we'll go look.
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  Speaker 6: We'll go over that place with a fine-tooth comb. And
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  Speaker 6: see that you do. And take Blackie with you. Let
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  Speaker 6: him look around there.
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  Speaker 3: Dan and Tonto didn't suspect that the man called.
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  Speaker 4: Jefferson with a month's growth of beard on his face
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  Speaker 4: was the one for whom the Lone Ranger searched. The
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  Speaker 4: two followed Jefferson to his last campsite on the bank
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  Speaker 4: of the Markison River.
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  Speaker 3: They reigned up in late afternoon.
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  Speaker 5: This where you make last camp, Jefferson?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, right here.
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  Speaker 6: I had my blanket spread out beneath that tree there.
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  Speaker 6: It was too dark for me to recognize the men.
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  Speaker 6: They must have known you were going to be here.
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  Speaker 6: I think they did, Dan. They may have followed me
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  Speaker 6: during the day, or they may have known I would
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  Speaker 6: camp here. In either case, they took pains to keep
• 12:16
  Speaker 6: their hats well.
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  Speaker 3: Down over their eyes. Well, there are plenty signs of
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  Speaker 3: fight here. How many fell attack you? Two.
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  Speaker 6: I'd made my camp, and I was just about to
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  Speaker 6: turn in when I saw the two men riding toward me.
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  Speaker 6: They came in close and dismounted.
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  Speaker 3: They asked their way to Parker's.
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  Speaker 6: Bend, and I told them. But I didn't like the
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  Speaker 6: way they acted. One of them kept trying to get
• 12:37
  Speaker 6: behind me. I drew my gun and told him to
• 12:39
  Speaker 6: shove on. One word led to another.
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  Speaker 3: Stranger, we don't take that kind of talk. I'll back
• 12:47
  Speaker 3: it up. With that shooting iron?
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  Speaker 6: Listen, I can draw on fire before you can squeeze
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  Speaker 6: that trigger.
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  Speaker 3: Don't try it.
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  Speaker 5: Why not?
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  Speaker 3: Good work, Nizer. Fix him. I'll show him. No, you don't. Fighting, huh?
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  Speaker 3: Get behind him. He's a fighting fool. Then slap him.
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  Speaker 3: I fought as long as I could, but.
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  Speaker 6: They started clubbing me with a gun barrel. I went
• 13:13
  Speaker 6: down and they kept beating me. Then I lost consciousness.
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  Speaker 6: Didn't know anything else till I came to in Thunder
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  Speaker 6: Cloud's camp. Golly, it's a wonder you weren't killed. I
• 13:22
  Speaker 6: guess they thought they had killed me.
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  Speaker 5: You hear one fella call the other one Nizer.
• 13:28
  Speaker 3: Yes, Nizer's the name of one of them.
• 13:30
  Speaker 5: Tracks a horse, not show on hard ground.
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  Speaker 6: No, there'd be no chance to follow their tracks after
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  Speaker 6: all this time. Can't even see my back trail.
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  Speaker 3: Fellers, take your horse, huh? Horse, clothes, saddlebags, everything I have. Wait, wait.
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  Speaker 3: What's the matter?
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  Speaker 5: Horse, come this way.
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  Speaker 3: I don't hear anything. Me feel hoofbeats and ground. Dan,
• 13:48
  Speaker 3: you take all horses and lead them down there. Get
• 13:51
  Speaker 3: them out of sight. Come on, Scout.
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  Speaker 5: This way, Victor.
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  Speaker 3: Come along, Dan. Why'd you send the horses away, Tarno?
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  Speaker 3: Maybe better we hide. Now I can hear the hoofs.
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  Speaker 5: We go over there near stream. Get back a brush.
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  Speaker 5: Damn keep horses out of sight.
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  Speaker 3: Good idea. You got gun? Yes, Thundercloud, lonely one. I wonder.
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  Speaker 3: They say a criminal always returns to the scene of
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  Speaker 3: his crime. Come this way. We get back a brush.
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  Speaker 5: All right, right up here.
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  Speaker 3: Whoa, whoa, whoa.
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  Speaker 6: This the place, all right? Yeah, this mouth. You too, Blackie.
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  Speaker 6: The boss says you've got such sharp eyes. You prove
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  Speaker 6: it now and take a good look around here.
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  Speaker 5: Hello.
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  Speaker 3: To my pest.
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  Speaker 5: It better be plenty good.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, there's new hook marks here. Yeah. What do you
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  Speaker 3: make of them, Blackie? These tracks are fresh made. The
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  Speaker 3: grass ain't sprung back. Look here, Nizer. Nizer! What's that?
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  Speaker 3: We want you.
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  Speaker 6: Let them have it. There they are.
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  Speaker 5: Hit leather.
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  Speaker 3: Get away. They're coming for us. Nizer. Nizer, wait.
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  Speaker 5: I'm hit.
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  Speaker 3: My leg. I can't move. That's your worry, Blocky. No,
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  Speaker 3: don't leave me. No. Get up there. Get up. That's Nizer.
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  Speaker 3: That's the man I want. They called his name. Come
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  Speaker 3: back here, Nizer. I'll let you have it. Tonto. Tonto,
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  Speaker 3: get Dan back with those horses. We've got to catch
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  Speaker 3: that pair.
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  Speaker 5: Wait.
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  Speaker 3: Wait, Jeff. Over here, got wound. Dirty buzzards. Hurt plenty bad.
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  Speaker 3: The one they called Nizer put a bullet in him.
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  Speaker 3: I was hit in the leg. I couldn't mount, so
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  Speaker 3: Nizer finished me. You know where I can find Nizer?
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: I know. You come close, I'll tell you.
• 15:39
  Speaker 4: The curtain falls on the first act of our Lone
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: Ranger story. Before the next exciting scenes, please permit us
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  Speaker 4: to pause for just a few moments.
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  Speaker 3: Lone Ranger Now to continue our story.
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  Speaker 4: Jeff Darwin thought he would learn about where his property
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  Speaker 4: had been taken by Nizer... when one of the outlaws
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: lay mortally wounded. Tonto had been unable to learn the
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: Secret Service man's true identity... knowing Darwin only as Jeff
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: or Jefferson. The Indians suspected that Jeff was interested in
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: getting back more... than the horse, saddle, and clothing that
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: had been stolen. Jeff and Tonto leaned close to the
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: dying outlaw... As Dan brought the horses back to camp.
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  Speaker 3: I saw one of the crooks shoot that man on
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  Speaker 3: the ground. That's right, Dan.
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  Speaker 6: Skunk, when he saw that this man couldn't mount up
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  Speaker 6: to escape, he fired point blank.
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: Here, take water.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Oh, that's good. Thanks. Who are you? They call me... Blackie.
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  Speaker 3: You traveled with Nizer? Yeah, with Nizer. Do you know
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  Speaker 3: who I am? Yeah. I know. Nizer was the one
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  Speaker 3: that robbed me, wasn't he? But I wasn't with him. Blackie,
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: plenty weak. Him not last long. Blackie, I'll get Nizer.
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: I'll get those killers for you. You want that, don't you? Yeah.
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: Here's more water to help. Sano, keep him with us
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: till he talks. Here, take another drink. Thanks. Now, Blackie,
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: where will I find those men? You... you... Blackie. You go...
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: go to... Tell me one word.
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  Speaker 5: Where?
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: Where? Where? He's got to tell me. He's got to... Tonto,
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: he's gone. Now you stay here.
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: Me go.
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  Speaker 3: Here, Scout. Where are you going, Tonto?
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  Speaker 5: Me pull a trail of men who'll get away. Dan,
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: you take Jeff to our camp. Count will meet you there.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, Tonto.
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: Nyser and Beaudry reached Aaron York's office in the town
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  Speaker 4: of Prairie Bend just before midnight.
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 18:39
  Speaker 6: I've been taking those pencil sketches up on the wall. Well,
• 18:43
  Speaker 6: what'd you fellas find out about... Where's Blackie?
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: Blackie won't be back, York. He, uh, he's made his
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: last ride. What do you mean by that? Blackie's dead, boss.
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: What happened? Who killed him?
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: I did.
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: I don't know what kind of a riddle this is,
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: but you better explain, and quickly. Sure. We went out
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: to Darwin's camp. Me and Blackie and Baudry here.
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: Go on.
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: We ran into kind of a surprise. Huh, Baudry? That's right, Chief.
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: We.
• 19:12
  Speaker 6: Shut up and let Nizer tell the story. What kind
• 19:15
  Speaker 6: of a surprise?
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: What do you mean?
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: We just got there and started looking around, and Blackie
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: seen signs of someone being there just ahead of us.
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: What? What about Darwin's body? Still there, wasn't it?
• 19:27
  Speaker 6: His body was there, all right. And wide awake and
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: throwing lead at us. Him and some red skin and
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: some other... You mean to say that Darwin is alive?
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: He's plenty alive. And we just got away with the
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: skin of our teeth.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: Me and Boudre here. And Blackie?
• 19:38
  Speaker 6: The red skin knocked him down. A shot in the leg.
• 19:41
  Speaker 6: He couldn't get to the saddle, so I drilled him.
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: Oh.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: You killed him before he could talk. That's it, Chief.
• 19:46
  Speaker 6: At least I don't figure he had time to tell
• 19:48
  Speaker 6: him anything. I'd have got that Redskin and Darwin, too.
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: There wasn't time.
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: I had to get away. It's a good thing you
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: didn't kill Darwin. Well, I thought you... Aye, you fool.
• 19:57
  Speaker 6: If you'd killed Darwin, I'd have been tempted to kill you.
• 20:01
  Speaker 6: Don't you see Darwin's the answer to our whole problem?
• 20:04
  Speaker 6: We have the plans, but the whole thing isn't code.
• 20:07
  Speaker 6: Darwin alive can give us a solution to the code.
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: Oh. From now on, your job is to find Jeff Darwin.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: Find him and bring him here alive.
• 20:17
  Speaker 6: And so help me if you fumble this job.
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: It'll be your last.
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: When Tonto returned to his camp, he found Dan Reed
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: and Jeff anxiously awaiting his arrival.
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: Oh, Scott. Oh, fella. Did you learn anything, Tonto? Those men, they...
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: They got away, huh?
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: Well, me not able to follow trail at night, Jeff.
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: Maybe me go back tomorrow.
• 20:49
  Speaker 6: I wish I knew something about trailing men in this country.
• 20:53
  Speaker 6: I'd get on that trail and never leave it until
• 20:54
  Speaker 6: I came up with them.
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: Maybe. But you not tell Tonto why you anxious to
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: find men who rob you.
• 21:03
  Speaker 6: Tano, I know you're a good and loyal friend. So
• 21:06
  Speaker 6: is Dan here. But please believe me, it... Well, I
• 21:10
  Speaker 6: can't tell you.
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: I can't. Well, maybe you've got plenty good reason.
• 21:17
  Speaker 6: Believe me, I have the best reason in the world
• 21:19
  Speaker 6: to keep after those men until I catch up with them.
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: Can't believe you, Jeff. You must be hungry, Tano. I'll
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: stir up the fire a little and get supper for you.
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: Ah, me take care of Scout while you do that, Dan.
• 21:30
  Speaker 6: Tano, I want to ask you... Are you sure it's
• 21:33
  Speaker 6: all right for me to stay here with you and Dan?
• 21:35
  Speaker 6: I mean, I don't want to be any trouble.
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: You say you want to see and talk to Lone Ranger.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: You stay here. Maybe him come. I want to talk
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: to that man more than anything else in the world. I.
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: But you and Dan may get in trouble on my account.
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: If anyone should find this place looking for me.
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: Time to make sure they'll not find you, Jeff. Me
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: fix place back in cave near here for you to stay.
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: Anyone come here... Sem not see you. Now, me take
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: care of Scout.
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: You'd better get something to eat yourself.
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: Ah, then we get some sleep. Maybe ride long trails tomorrow.
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: More than a thousand miles to the east, a small
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: group of grim-faced men held a conference. Their meeting place
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: was a government building in Washington, D.C. And every man
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: present was a member of the United States Secret Service.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: It's been over a month since Jeff Darwin disappeared.
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: I assume that you all realize what could have happened.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: For one thing, Darwin may have been waylaid. The plan's
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: taken from him.
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: That's true. For all we know, he may be dead.
• 22:47
  Speaker 6: If anyone knew the tremendous importance of the papers Darwin
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: was carrying, I doubt if they'd stop at murder to
• 22:51
  Speaker 6: get them.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: There's one other possibility which we haven't considered, gentlemen. You
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: know that I hate to consider this a possibility. But
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: men have been known to turn traitor.
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: Oh, Jeff wouldn't do anything like that, Mr.
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: Sanders.
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: Why, I've known Jeff Darwin for years. I've known Jeff
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: longer than anyone here. He wouldn't sell out at any price.
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: Any price?
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: Could be a large amount of money, John. Those plans
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: would be worth a large sum to anyone interested in
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: our western fortifications. Personally, I'm inclined to agree with your sentiments.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: I was merely discussing possibilities.
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: That's right. We do have to look at every angle.
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: What about the man who was tracing Jeff Darwin? Any
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: reports from him, Mr. Sanders?
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: Not a word.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: However, I'm sure that he... You said he was reliable.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: The Lone Ranger? Oh, don't worry. He's reliable. And if
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: there is anyone in the West who can find a
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: trace of Jeff Darwin, the Lone Ranger is the man.
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: Strange we haven't heard from him. After all, it's been
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: nearly five weeks since... I beg your pardon, Mr. Sanders.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: Telegraph message. It's been decoded.
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: Let me have it.
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: Yes, sir. Listen. Listen to this. This message is from
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: the man we were just discussing, from the Lone Ranger.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: I'm afraid it isn't what you might call good news.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: This message is from Parker's Bend. Lone Ranger Millie says.
• 24:25
  Speaker 7: Apparently the man I'm seeking has disappeared. It was already
• 24:29
  Speaker 7: confirmed he was last seen at Parker's Bend. Since leaving there,
• 24:33
  Speaker 7: he's vanished. However, I'll continue to search for Darwin and
• 24:37
  Speaker 7: I'll remain on his trail until definite proof of his
• 24:39
  Speaker 7: whereabouts has been established. I'll find Jeff Darwin dead or alive.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: We can only hope that the Lone Ranger finds Jeff
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: Darwin alive.
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: It was nearly midnight.
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: In the cave which Dan and Tonto shared with Jeff,
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: the Indian stirred, then roused to complete wakefulness. Unmoving, staring
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: alertly into the false dawn.
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: Then... Dan!
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: Dan!
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: Wake up! Where is I? What's wrong, Tonto? Quick! You
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: get Jeff Pillar awake. Tonto, hear something move. Maybe someone
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: come look for Jeff. Golly! I'll wake him up right away.
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: Is anyone probably around this place? Plenty around here, Tonto,
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: not savvy. Maybe Jeff, all right.
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: Maybe.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: Dan!
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: Dan, come quick!
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: What's the matter, Tano? What's that, Jan? Look, Dan. We
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: find message. Message from Lone Ranger. Golly! You mean the
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: Lone Ranger was here? In this camp tonight? Masked Man
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: leave here just now. What's that you're saying about the
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: Lone Ranger? Let me see that note, Tano. The Masked
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: Man was here? Well, where is he?
• 25:57
  Speaker 6: Quickly, I've got to find him. He's the only one
• 25:59
  Speaker 6: who can help me. You won't find the Lone Ranger
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: until he's ready to be found. He left this note
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: for Tano and me to let us know that he's
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: all right. But what's the message say? The Lone Ranger
• 26:07
  Speaker 6: is on a secret mission, Mr.
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: Jefferson. So secret that he can't even tell us about it.
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: This note he left while we were sleeping simply says...
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: I'll be in touch.
• 26:15
  Speaker 7: With you from time to time. And as soon as
• 26:18
  Speaker 7: this mission is completed, I'll return. And we'll ride the
• 26:21
  Speaker 7: distant trails together again. Until then, adios.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: That's all it says. I wonder... Just what sort of
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: secret mission he's on.
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: That's something only Lone Ranger know.
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: Well, now there's fate for you. The Lone Ranger was
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: within speaking distance of the man for whom a nation hunted.
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: If he could only confide in Dan and Tonto. But
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: of course he can't. He's pledged to secrecy. When the
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: Lone Ranger continues this biggest of all manhunts in the
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: next episode, he finds the first clue, but it's one
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: that Aaron York planted to be found. Be sure to
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: tune to the next episode for the amazing adventure in
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: York's Cave.
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: The Lone Ranger.
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: THE END Thank you.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: THE END.
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: The story you have just heard is a copyrighted feature
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: of the Lone Ranger Incorporated.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: That was the Lone Ranger in The Killer's Code. We'll
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: return to the radio trails another time.
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: Good night.