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The Lone Ranger - "Design for Murder" (Old Time Radio, 1942) · The Lone Ranger | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: Near the Canadian line, a dangerous dispute is developing around
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  Speaker 1: the Martin Copper Mine. It brings the Lone Ranger and
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  Speaker 1: Tonto into the high border country, where young Dan Frisbee
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  Speaker 1: and old Mac have become caught up in events, and
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  Speaker 1: where a silver bullet draws the notice of Snake Hansen.
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  Speaker 1: From December 16th, 1942, this is The Lone Ranger, Designed
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  Speaker 1: for Murder, episode 1545, part of the continuing Dan Frisbee
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  Speaker 1: and Martin Coppermine story. Brace Beamer is the Lone Ranger,
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  Speaker 1: John Todd is Tonto, and Fran Stryker wrote the script.
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  Speaker 1: And now, our story begins.
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  Speaker 2: The Lone Ranger. THE END THE END THE END With
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  Speaker 2: his faithful Indian companion, Tonto, the masked rider of the
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  Speaker 2: plains led the fight for law and order in the
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  Speaker 2: early western United States.
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  Speaker 3: The stories of his strength and courage, his daring and
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  Speaker 3: resourcefulness have come down to us through the generations. And
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  Speaker 3: nowhere in the pages of history can one find a
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  Speaker 3: greater champion of justice. Return with us now to those
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  Speaker 3: thrilling days of yesteryear. From out of the past come
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  Speaker 3: the thundering hoofbeats of the great horse Silver. The Lone
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  Speaker 3: Ranger rides again.
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  Speaker 4: Come on, Silver. There's danger on the trail ahead. Oh, Silver.
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  Speaker 3: Snake Anson was all that his name implied. An evil, slinking,
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  Speaker 3: cunning creature who stopped at nothing to gain his desires.
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  Speaker 3: Orange flames lashed from the gun in the dry gulch.
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  Speaker 3: Snake glanced at the figure on the ground that he'd
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  Speaker 3: shot in the back, then jerked at the watch fob
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  Speaker 3: of the dead man's vest.
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  Speaker 5: Then....
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  Speaker 3: Get up there. Sometime later, Snake dismounted at a cabin
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  Speaker 3: just south of the Canadian border.
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  Speaker 4: He hurried through the door and.
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  Speaker 3: Snake, what's the rush?
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  Speaker 6: What's happened?
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  Speaker 7: Is that Lone Ranger critter after you?
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 6: Now, by Thunder Flint, I'm after him. Look what I got.
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  Speaker 4: Let me see.
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  Speaker 6: A bullet.
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  Speaker 8: What about it?
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  Speaker 6: A silver bullet. Don't that mean anything to you?
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  Speaker 8: Can't say that it does. Nobody uses silver bullets in
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  Speaker 8: this turret.
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  Speaker 6: Except.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: The Lone Ranger.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 6: We're going to trump his ace with a silver bullet.
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  Speaker 8: I don't get it.
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  Speaker 6: I've been trying to figure some way to get the
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  Speaker 6: Lone Ranger. Now I've got it. Go on.
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  Speaker 9: If you've listened to the stories I've been told about him,
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  Speaker 9: you know folks think of him as a knight in
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  Speaker 9: shining armor.
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  Speaker 4: A knight in a white horse.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, maybe they're right, Flint. But the armor has a
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  Speaker 6: flaw in it. Flaw? Yeah, a soft spot. And that's
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  Speaker 6: the kid.
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  Speaker 2: Dan?
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  Speaker 6: Sure.
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  Speaker 9: Maybe you don't show it much, but the Lone Ranger
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  Speaker 9: thinks a lot of Dan.
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  Speaker 6: What of it? If the kid was in danger, he'd
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  Speaker 6: ride to save him.
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  Speaker 8: You mean.
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  Speaker 6: Dan feels the same about the masked man.
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  Speaker 8: Where does the slug fit in?
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  Speaker 6: The kid doesn't know you.
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  Speaker 9: He was to show him the silver bullet and say
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  Speaker 9: the Lone Ranger sent you.
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  Speaker 4: That's savvy.
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  Speaker 6: Good. Now the next thing is to get a hold
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  Speaker 6: of Dan.
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  Speaker 3: The Lone Ranger and Tonto rode across the snow outside
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  Speaker 3: of town. Though the mission which had brought them all
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  Speaker 3: the way from Texas to the snow-swept country just south
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  Speaker 3: of the Canadian border was concluded when an outlaw went
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  Speaker 3: to jail, they.
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  Speaker 4: Lingered because of Dan.
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  Speaker 3: Dan was a boy of 14, a lively, alert lad
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  Speaker 3: who had, since babyhood, been vitally interested in the stories
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  Speaker 3: his grandmother told him about the Lone Ranger.
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  Speaker 4: The boy's qualities had appealed strongly to the.
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  Speaker 3: Masked man, and there was something about him that stirred
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  Speaker 3: the imagination of Tonto. This boy named Dan had shown
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  Speaker 3: courage and resourcefulness.
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  Speaker 4: He had proved that his loyalty to the ideals of
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  Speaker 4: the Lone Ranger could not be shaken.
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  Speaker 3: But there was something more, something intangible that made the
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  Speaker 3: masked man and Tonto keenly interested in Dan. Suddenly, the
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  Speaker 3: thoughts of the Lone Ranger and his Indian friend were
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  Speaker 3: interrupted by the sight of an aged horse standing alone
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  Speaker 3: on the trail. The beast seemed to be nudging something
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  Speaker 3: on the ground.
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  Speaker 10: Can't tell from here, Tonto. That looks as if someone
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  Speaker 10: is hurt. Ah, maybe fall from horse.
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  Speaker 4: We'll find out.
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  Speaker 3: Come on, Silver.
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  Speaker 6: Get him up, Scout.
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  Speaker 8: Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho.
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  Speaker 11: On the ground. Hurt bad.
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  Speaker 4: Silly big fella. Take a look, Tonto. See if there's
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  Speaker 4: a chance.
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  Speaker 11: Ah, bullet in back. Looked like we come too late.
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  Speaker 4: Wait.
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 4: No pulse. He's gone, Tonto.
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  Speaker 12: Ah.
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  Speaker 4: Poor old fella. See if he's any one week.
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  Speaker 12: Ah.
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  Speaker 11: We know him.
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  Speaker 6: Old Mac.
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  Speaker 13: Ah.
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  Speaker 4: Reached the end of his trail at last.
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  Speaker 2: Ah.
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  Speaker 11: Long time since we see old Mac.
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  Speaker 4: He may have been six months getting this far north.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, Tata, look.
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  Speaker 4: Look at his watch fob. It's a bit of ribbon.
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  Speaker 4: Remember that?
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  Speaker 6: Ah.
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  Speaker 14: Him take silver bullet, you give him long time back.
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  Speaker 14: Tie to watch fob. Him say, always wear it.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, he said.
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  Speaker 10: And I can remember every word of it. I'll wear
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  Speaker 10: this silver bullet till my dying day.
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  Speaker 11: Remember.
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  Speaker 4: Watch hasn't been stolen.
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  Speaker 11: Your money belt.
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  Speaker 10: He wasn't shot to be robbed. Why would someone kill
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  Speaker 10: an old man with a silver bullet?
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  Speaker 4: I wonder.
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  Speaker 10: Toto, we're going to find this murderer. Careful where you step,
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  Speaker 10: there are footprints. Maybe we can find a clear one.
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  Speaker 11: He looked round. Maybe over this way.
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  Speaker 10: We'll see him caught, Mack, and punished. We'll see that
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  Speaker 10: your old horse gets green pastures.
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  Speaker 6: Fella.
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  Speaker 4: That's about all we can do for you now. What
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  Speaker 4: have you found, fella? Here.
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  Speaker 11: Here, boot print. It's plenty clear.
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  Speaker 6: Good.
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  Speaker 14: Fella shoot from gulch. Mark a boot here where ground
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  Speaker 14: plenty soft.
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  Speaker 10: A patch on the boot. We'll know it if we
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  Speaker 10: see it again. Find some hemlock branches. We'll cover this
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  Speaker 10: to protect it. It might be handy as evidence. Dan
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  Speaker 10: had heard about the Lone Ranger from his grandmother.
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  Speaker 3: The thrills of her many stories, told over a period
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  Speaker 3: of many years, were exceeded only by the actual meeting
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  Speaker 3: of the masked man. Now more determined than ever to
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  Speaker 3: emulate the Lone Ranger, Dan was practicing to improve his
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  Speaker 3: speed at drawing a gun.
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  Speaker 8: You've got a mighty.
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  Speaker 1: Lot of practice in you, Dan, if you hope to
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  Speaker 1: come up to the Lone Ranger.
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  Speaker 4: I guess so. I sure have a lot to learn, Graham.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, you're young, lad.
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  Speaker 11: You have a lifetime ahead of you.
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  Speaker 8: Do you think the Lone Ranger was as gun-fast when
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  Speaker 8: he was 14?
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  Speaker 11: I don't think so, lad.
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  Speaker 9: Wait.
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  Speaker 11: Looks like that man's coming here.
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  Speaker 6: You know him?
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  Speaker 11: I don't think so.
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  Speaker 4: You looking for us, stranger?
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  Speaker 6: Reckon so.
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  Speaker 7: Looking for the Lone Ranger's friend.
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  Speaker 8: I guess you're the one.
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  Speaker 4: I'm his friend, all right.
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  Speaker 8: Young.
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  Speaker 6: What about the Lone Ranger?
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  Speaker 7: Where is he?
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  Speaker 5: Son, I hate to bring anyone bad news.
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  Speaker 8: Has something happened to him? Well, as to that, I
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  Speaker 8: can't say. I can't say for sure.
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  Speaker 4: What about him?
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  Speaker 8: He sent me to you. That is, I guess he did.
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  Speaker 8: Your name's Dan?
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  Speaker 13: Yes.
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  Speaker 8: Go on, go on, mister. He wanted me to fetch you.
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  Speaker 8: And to take you where he is.
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  Speaker 7: Why'd he send you?
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  Speaker 5: Maybe because I happen to be handy, eh? I didn't
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  Speaker 5: ask why he picked me. He did, that's all. Oh,
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  Speaker 5: by the way, he said you might suspect something funny.
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  Speaker 5: He said to hand this bullet to you to show
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  Speaker 5: him on the level.
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  Speaker 6: Bullet?
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  Speaker 4: Look, Graham, it's a silver bullet. I've got to go.
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  Speaker 14: I don't know, Dan.
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  Speaker 7: But I've got to go, Graham.
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  Speaker 4: He wants me.
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  Speaker 13: I don't know what you could do that an older
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  Speaker 13: man couldn't do.
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  Speaker 8: Probably safer if you.
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  Speaker 7: Well, maybe the Lone Ranger feels he can trust me.
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  Speaker 6: Gee, I've got to go right away. I'll be back
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  Speaker 6: as soon as I can.
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  Speaker 11: Well, be careful now, Dan. Don't run risks.
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  Speaker 6: The Lone Ranger wouldn't want it.
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  Speaker 8: I reckon he wouldn't send for the boy if there
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  Speaker 8: was risk, ma'am.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I'll get a horse and be right with you.
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  Speaker 4: You'll take care of the boy, won't.
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  Speaker 8: You, mister?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, sure.
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  Speaker 4: Don't you worry. He'll be taken care of.
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  Speaker 11: I wonder why the Lone Ranger would send for a
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  Speaker 11: boy at Dan's age.
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  Speaker 3: An hour later, the Lone Ranger and Tonto reached Grandma's
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  Speaker 3: house after their ride from the trail where they had
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  Speaker 3: buried Old Mac.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, thank goodness you're safe and sound.
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  Speaker 12: Safe?
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  Speaker 4: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 8: Well, where's Dan?
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  Speaker 4: Didn't he come with you? No, I haven't seen him.
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  Speaker 6: But he went to you with the man you sent
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  Speaker 6: for him.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't send anyone.
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  Speaker 11: You didn't send a man with a silver bullet?
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 8: Well, Dan went.
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  Speaker 4: What about the silver bullet?
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  Speaker 8: He was a stranger.
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  Speaker 11: Oh, a mean-faced man. I didn't like his looks.
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  Speaker 4: Which way did they go?
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  Speaker 11: Well, Dan went to the shed for a horse. The
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  Speaker 11: man followed him.
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  Speaker 1: Then they rode off toward the north that way.
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  Speaker 4: Come on, Tonto.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, Silver.
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  Speaker 6: Come on.
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  Speaker 3: A few of the silver bullets sent the masked men
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  Speaker 3: and Tonto in fast pursuit of Dan and the man
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  Speaker 3: described by Grandma. In a few moments, the lone ranger
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  Speaker 3: reined up. The tracks of two horses met tracks of many.
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  Speaker 3: Tonto leaped to the ground and spent precious minutes studying
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  Speaker 3: the mass of indentations in the soft ground.
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  Speaker 4: Then quite suddenly.
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  Speaker 11: Look here, Kimisabe.
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  Speaker 4: What did you find?
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  Speaker 11: Marked by boot with patch. Marked a fellow who killed
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  Speaker 11: old Mac.
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  Speaker 4: One of the gang.
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  Speaker 11: Tonto.
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  Speaker 4: That bullet was stolen as part of a big scheme.
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  Speaker 11: That's right.
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  Speaker 4: How many in this gang?
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  Speaker 11: Looked like 12, maybe 15.
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  Speaker 10: They're headed from here directly toward the border. They can
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  Speaker 10: cross to Canada. The laws of the states can't touch them.
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  Speaker 6: Come on.
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  Speaker 3: Ahead of the Lone Ranger, Snake Anson led his gang
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  Speaker 3: across the border. Dan had long since found that resistance
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  Speaker 3: was hopeless and escape far out of the question. When
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  Speaker 3: he realized that the United States was back of him,
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  Speaker 3: that he was in the Northwest Territory, he wondered what
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  Speaker 3: scheme the outlaws had in mind.
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  Speaker 4: You rats will get yours.
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  Speaker 6: This is the Mounties' country. Shut up while I look
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  Speaker 6: through these binoculars.
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  Speaker 8: See anything on the back trail, Snake?
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  Speaker 6: Yep, we're being followed. That's perfect, just what I wanted.
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  Speaker 4: Lone Ranger?
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  Speaker 6: Same. I hope you found my boot marks.
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  Speaker 4: Now what?
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  Speaker 6: I'll take the kid with me on foot. This march, you.
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  Speaker 4: What if I won't?
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  Speaker 6: You'll be dragged.
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  Speaker 7: What'll we do, Snake?
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  Speaker 9: You and the rest ride on. I'm walking the kid
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  Speaker 9: up the trail in the face of that cliff there.
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  Speaker 9: When we get to the ledge where the old cave is,
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  Speaker 9: we'll come down on a rope. When I signal with
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  Speaker 9: a shot, you and the boys come back shooting. The
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  Speaker 9: lone ranger will be trapped on that ledge.
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  Speaker 7: Couldn't we lie in wait and ambush him easier?
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  Speaker 9: Not with that red skin. That critter would smell and
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  Speaker 9: ambush him right away. Do it my way and we
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  Speaker 9: won't run no risks. All right, get down, you.
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  Speaker 7: All right. Sure you don't need me to help you, Snake?
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  Speaker 6: You would have said. Go on, Dan. Start hiking up
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  Speaker 6: that trail ahead of me.
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  Speaker 4: All right, follow me, boys.
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  Speaker 3: The trail up the face of the cliff was sharp
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  Speaker 3: and difficult... Long before Dan reached the ledge, he was
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  Speaker 3: out of wind. But Snake in back of him was
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  Speaker 3: almost gasping for breath. Ultimately, the two reached the top.
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  Speaker 6: You do just what I tell you or you'll get
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  Speaker 6: hot lead. Well? Take this rope and throw it around
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  Speaker 6: that rock. So both ends of the rope fall to
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  Speaker 6: the plane below.
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  Speaker 4: And slide down the rope, I suppose.
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  Speaker 6: That's right. And I'll be right in back of you.
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  Speaker 4: Look here, Snake Hanson. I don't know why you want
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  Speaker 4: to kill a lone ranger.
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  Speaker 6: You needn't know nothing. Just keep your trap shut and
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  Speaker 6: do what I say. And maybe you'll come out of
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  Speaker 6: it alive. You know I won't.
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  Speaker 7: You got no intention of letting me live to tell
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  Speaker 7: the Mounties about this.
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  Speaker 6: Get on that rope.
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  Speaker 9: Remember, I've got you covered. If I don't... Look, you
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  Speaker 9: young whippersnapper. You're going down, either by the rope or
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  Speaker 9: by a drop.
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  Speaker 6: And right now, too. All right.
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  Speaker 7: I'll take the rope.
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  Speaker 12: Hey, look out!
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  Speaker 6: Why, you clumsy, confounded fool. You knocked my binoculars over
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  Speaker 6: the edge.
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  Speaker 4: Too bad.
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  Speaker 12: Get down that rope before I lose my temper and
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  Speaker 12: throw you down.
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  Speaker 3: Van slid down the rope and picked up the binoculars.
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  Speaker 3: He stood looking at them with a sudden idea entering
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  Speaker 3: his mind. Then Snake came down the rope.
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  Speaker 9: Have you worn those glasses?
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  Speaker 6: I'm done with them now. As soon as I haul
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  Speaker 6: this rope down... Stand still.
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  Speaker 7: I'm not moving.
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  Speaker 6: I've got you covered every second. And don't think I
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  Speaker 6: ain't ready to shoot if I have to. The same
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  Speaker 6: rope will do to tear you.
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  Speaker 9: I'll head for those big rocks. I'll tell you there
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  Speaker 9: where the Lone Ranger won't see until I'm ready. And
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  Speaker 9: don't get any ideas of things, because you'll be gagged.
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  Speaker 9: You won't make a sound on my part to put
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  Speaker 9: a dozen slugs in the Lone Ranger's head.
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  Speaker 13: The curtain falls on the first act of our Lone
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  Speaker 13: Ranger story. Before the next exciting scenes, please permit us
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  Speaker 13: to pause for just a few moments.
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  Speaker 2: Now to continue our story.
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  Speaker 3: Following the outlaw's trail across the border into Canada, the
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  Speaker 3: Lone Ranger and Tonto suddenly came upon the thing they
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  Speaker 3: were looking for.
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  Speaker 4: Marks on the ground made by a boot with a
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  Speaker 4: patch on the sole. Gang went on, Tonto. No, Max
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  Speaker 4: Murderer and someone else went up that trail. I dismount.
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  Speaker 14: We follow him.
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  Speaker 11: The force is here, huh?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: I can't be sure, but I think the killer has
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  Speaker 4: Dan with him.
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  Speaker 11: Uh-huh. Tents look like Dan's.
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  Speaker 4: Some sort of a cave on the ledge ahead of us.
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  Speaker 11: Let me see it.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe that killer's in hiding there.
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  Speaker 11: Are we in Canada now?
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  Speaker 4: I think we are, Kimo Sabe. Dan will know for sure.
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  Speaker 11: Steady now.
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  Speaker 4: Keep back. Let me go ahead.
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  Speaker 11: No, me take lead.
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  Speaker 4: I got back. I'm going to have a look inside
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  Speaker 4: that cave.
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  Speaker 11: Wait, Kimo Sabe. You see something here.
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  Speaker 4: What is it, Kimo Sabe? Oh, a rope was passed
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  Speaker 4: around that rock. Not right. Recently. That's it. Hug the ledge.
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  Speaker 4: Keep your head down. That shot came from below.
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  Speaker 11: And it aimed at us?
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  Speaker 4: Wait till I find out more about it. Keep out
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  Speaker 4: of range.
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  Speaker 11: You go and cave. Me, take a look below.
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  Speaker 4: Keep your head down.
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  Speaker 3: There's someone over there.
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  Speaker 4: I've got the back trail watched.
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  Speaker 11: We try other direction. Maybe ledge go higher. Maybe trail above, safer.
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: It's worth a try. I don't want to get too
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: far from Scout and Silver. We have to cross.
• 17:06
  Speaker 14: Mocky Hula.
• 17:06
  Speaker 11: What's that?
• 17:07
  Speaker 6: Crook got all the way watch.
• 17:09
  Speaker 11: If we go ahead, fella watch trail. If we go back,
• 17:11
  Speaker 11: fella watch trail.
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: If we stick our heads up here, we're in range
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: of others.
• 17:14
  Speaker 11: Ah, this plenty slick trap.
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: They simply wanted to kill us. They went to a
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: lot of trouble.
• 17:19
  Speaker 14: Plenty other fella try kill you. Them not go to
• 17:22
  Speaker 14: plenty trouble. Them go to jail.
• 17:24
  Speaker 10: Right here in front of the caves, the only place
• 17:26
  Speaker 10: we're out of range.
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: I wonder how many there are in that outfit.
• 17:30
  Speaker 11: Let me find track of 15 horse.
• 17:32
  Speaker 10: Only two came up here. The others must have ridden
• 17:35
  Speaker 10: on then turned back. I'm going to throw some shots
• 17:38
  Speaker 10: out there and take a quick look while my bullets
• 17:40
  Speaker 10: keep their heads down. Here, put my head on the
• 17:42
  Speaker 10: end of that twig and hold it up to draw
• 17:44
  Speaker 10: fire while I get into position.
• 17:45
  Speaker 6: Uh-huh.
• 17:45
  Speaker 11: Let me fix it.
• 17:47
  Speaker 10: I had a chance to look around.
• 17:53
  Speaker 11: What'd you see?
• 17:54
  Speaker 10: Otto, there's a big boulder about 50 yards from the
• 17:56
  Speaker 10: base of this cliff. In plain view, at one side
• 17:59
  Speaker 10: of it, our young friend is sprawled on the.
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: Ground, roped.
• 18:01
  Speaker 11: You mean Dan?
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 18:03
  Speaker 11: Why him there?
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: He's in plain sight. The answer is obvious. They'll shoot
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: him if we make too much trouble for them.
• 18:08
  Speaker 11: Him gagged?
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: Hurt?
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: I couldn't tell.
• 18:10
  Speaker 10: He wasn't moving around. I'm sure there were at least
• 18:12
  Speaker 10: two men behind that boulder. I could see their shadows
• 18:15
  Speaker 10: sliding out from the side.
• 18:17
  Speaker 11: How long we stay here like bear and trap?
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: I don't know. I wish I did.
• 18:21
  Speaker 6: Watch it. Wait, Tonto. Listen.
• 18:22
  Speaker 15: We got the two of them trapped up there.
• 18:26
  Speaker 7: All you boys keep close watch.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: You get the bad suit.
• 18:29
  Speaker 6: Suit to kill.
• 18:30
  Speaker 7: That's a ticket, Snake.
• 18:32
  Speaker 6: I didn't say so, Clint. This was a no-go-sleep scheme.
• 18:35
  Speaker 6: We had a chance to escape. Just a matter of time.
• 18:37
  Speaker 7: I reckon you know you crossed the border into Canada.
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: Sure.
• 18:40
  Speaker 6: Which means that the lawmen of the States can't trail
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: us here.
• 18:42
  Speaker 8: That's so.
• 18:43
  Speaker 6: We had to leave a track alone, Regicant, Father. But
• 18:45
  Speaker 6: we didn't want no sheriff coming to bust up our
• 18:47
  Speaker 6: little affair.
• 18:48
  Speaker 8: He stuck his head up again.
• 18:53
  Speaker 6: You ain't the only one that's seen him, eh? Did
• 18:56
  Speaker 6: you hear the other boys fire?
• 18:58
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 18:59
  Speaker 7: Say, where's your binoculars?
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: Yeah, they got busted. That fool kid knocked them off
• 19:02
  Speaker 6: the ledge while we was up there.
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: That's too bad.
• 19:04
  Speaker 6: Yeah. Had to wait a long time to find another
• 19:07
  Speaker 6: pair out here. Ain't many of them in this part
• 19:10
  Speaker 6: of the country.
• 19:11
  Speaker 8: That kid's mighty quiet. Ain't hurt, is he?
• 19:13
  Speaker 6: No, he ain't hurt.
• 19:15
  Speaker 8: Maybe one of the Lone Ranger's bullets hit him.
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: Lone Ranger don't shoot that careless.
• 19:19
  Speaker 8: Maybe he thought he was one of us.
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: Hey, what's going on there? Kid's all right, but take
• 19:24
  Speaker 6: a look. He turned his back on us.
• 19:26
  Speaker 8: Can he get out of them ropes?
• 19:28
  Speaker 6: Not the way I tied him.
• 19:30
  Speaker 8: Seems to be working on something.
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: Hey, you.
• 19:34
  Speaker 7: Kid, turn so that we can see your hands.
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: Did you hear what you was told? Turn around here.
• 19:40
  Speaker 11: Hey, Budgen.
• 19:42
  Speaker 8: You should have tied his hands to the back.
• 19:43
  Speaker 9: Don't tell me how to tie a man. Hands to
• 19:45
  Speaker 9: the front, wrists together. And the same rope to the
• 19:47
  Speaker 9: neck and ankles. He can't even straighten his leg.
• 19:50
  Speaker 8: He's up to something, Snake. I hanker to know what.
• 19:54
  Speaker 9: Keep a sharp watch on the ledge. I'm gonna see
• 19:57
  Speaker 9: what he's doing. If the Lone Ranger shows himself, shoot.
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: Snake Anson made his way toward Dan.
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: As he drew near, he saw a tiny wisp of
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: smoke curling from in front.
• 20:10
  Speaker 6: Of the boy. What are you doing? I'll show you.
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: Dan leaped to his feet, free to the ropes.
• 20:14
  Speaker 6: I'll get you.
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: As Snake brought up his gun to fire, a shot
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: streaked from the ledge.
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: Oh, my head.
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: He's firing at you.
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: Gunfire broke from the men behind rocks as the Lone
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: Ranger and Tonto.
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: Shot to cover the escape of the boy.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: Dan raced madly toward the nearest horse, knowing the lives
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: of a masked man and Indian depended upon him.
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: In his own life, he cared nothing.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: Bullets split the air around him, but the outlaws were
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: shooting too fast for accuracy.
• 20:37
  Speaker 11: Then.
• 20:37
  Speaker 8: Get up there, boy.
• 20:40
  Speaker 7: Get up there.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: Get away.
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: Shoot him.
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: Drop him.
• 20:42
  Speaker 7: I'm trying to.
• 20:45
  Speaker 6: Yeah, you missed. That little ranger got me. Shot the
• 20:49
  Speaker 6: gun right out of my hand.
• 20:50
  Speaker 9: Now that doggone kid got away.
• 20:52
  Speaker 8: Yeah, and the masked man's out of sight again.
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: Hang it all, when that kid made his break, shots
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: flew from the ledge faster than I ever seen.
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: I didn't dare stick my head out.
• 21:00
  Speaker 6: To fire back. Hey, that kid... I never thought.
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: How'd he get away?
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: It was time. He unscrewed one of the hooks of
• 21:07
  Speaker 6: glass and used it as a burning glass.
• 21:09
  Speaker 12: Concentrated the sun till the rope was burned through.
• 21:11
  Speaker 8: So that's what he was doing.
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: Yeah, bring help.
• 21:14
  Speaker 8: We gotta work fast. Mighty fast, Snake. We're to get
• 21:16
  Speaker 8: that masked man.
• 21:17
  Speaker 6: We will. Now I'm done with waiting around. I'm gonna
• 21:20
  Speaker 6: get him. Boys, all of you, listen to me.
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: Can you hear me?
• 21:24
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 21:25
  Speaker 7: There's a lot of brush around the bottom of that ledge.
• 21:28
  Speaker 7: Make a run for it and start a fire going.
• 21:30
  Speaker 7: We'll smoke him up.
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: Snake Anson knows this cave tunnel.
• 21:38
  Speaker 10: He wouldn't have started the fire.
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: The draft, the mouth of the cave, looks like an
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: oven door. The smoke will be sucked right around us.
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: It won't be able to take it for long.
• 21:47
  Speaker 14: And we not get shot at crook over ledge. And
• 21:50
  Speaker 14: safe enough there.
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: Fire's going good now.
• 21:52
  Speaker 11: Oh, you're plenty big. He'll heat way up here.
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: Throw me the wet grass.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: Stop the smoke going.
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: Well, at least Dan got away. I'm glad of that.
• 22:01
  Speaker 11: Ah, maybe him tell Lawman, huh?
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: I don't think that will help, Tonto.
• 22:04
  Speaker 11: Lawman not help?
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: Remember, we're in Canada. No sheriff will come across the border.
• 22:08
  Speaker 11: Ah, that word gang, plenty smart.
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: Snake Anson is smart. Nearly as smart as Greg, who
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: taught him crime.
• 22:14
  Speaker 11: Smoke, start now. How long? I wonder.
• 22:18
  Speaker 7: Smoke bad.
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: It's going to get worse.
• 22:22
  Speaker 6: Lots worse.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: Fire it on.
• 22:24
  Speaker 15: Throw on some wet grass. Start another fire going alongside
• 22:34
  Speaker 15: the first. Get two fires going.
• 22:36
  Speaker 11: Get three.
• 22:37
  Speaker 7: Get a dozen. Make the smoke so thick it'll be
• 22:39
  Speaker 7: cut with a knife. Snake, are you sure the smoke's
• 22:42
  Speaker 7: going into the cave?
• 22:42
  Speaker 6: Look for yourself, Lint. See the way it's sucked right
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: across the legend into the cave.
• 22:46
  Speaker 8: Think them two can get fresh air at the back
• 22:48
  Speaker 8: of the cave?
• 22:48
  Speaker 9: Nah, it's to displace more langos.
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: And know the location. Let's either strangle those two or
• 22:53
  Speaker 6: bring them into the open where we can drill them.
• 22:54
  Speaker 8: Maybe the kid will get help.
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: We won't waste time.
• 22:57
  Speaker 15: More smoke, boys!
• 22:59
  Speaker 7: Make it ten times that big!
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: The smoke became more dense with every passing moment. The
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: Lone Ranger and Tonto felt tears streaming from their tortured eyes,
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: and their tongues felt swollen and throats that were raw
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: with the acrid fumes. Though they hugged the ground on
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: the edge, gasping for air, they found no relief.
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: Starting more fires. Can't wait much longer.
• 23:22
  Speaker 11: Let me see him.
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: We go. Mosabi, we go together.
• 23:30
  Speaker 11: We make run.
• 23:31
  Speaker 12: Oh, wait.
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: One minute more. Close your eyes.
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: Better keep the smoke out.
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: Clear as possible.
• 23:41
  Speaker 11: Then shoot some more. Who yelled?
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: Otto, I'm out of here.
• 23:47
  Speaker 11: You hear that? Boy, bring help.
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: I'm going to look over the ledge. No, wait.
• 23:51
  Speaker 11: The gang may be ready. Shoot you.
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: But they're not.
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: Look, I'm standing up. They're paying no attention to us.
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: Come on, down the trail.
• 24:00
  Speaker 12: See you over there.
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: That's where the Mountie is, back of that rock.
• 24:02
  Speaker 11: I'll meet him. There's Snake Anson.
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: He's had to come to this side. Give him something
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: to think about.
• 24:07
  Speaker 11: There are other fellow with him.
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: Better lead near them.
• 24:17
  Speaker 11: That make him hot.
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: He's between two fires now.
• 24:19
  Speaker 11: Scout and Silver still wait.
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: Get the saddle.
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: We'll take Snake Anson.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: He's the leader.
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: Get up.
• 24:23
  Speaker 8: Be ready. Get him up, Scout.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: Come on, Silver. Come on.
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: No, you don't.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: Get him.
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: Let me shoot hands. Tell your men to surrender. Hurry
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: up or I'll drag you out of the saddle.
• 24:41
  Speaker 6: I give up.
• 24:42
  Speaker 7: Boys, boys, give up. There's a whole army after us.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: A whole army.
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: Ensign.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: Good man.
• 24:47
  Speaker 11: Good money.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: Men aren't plentiful. Sergeant. Sergeant.
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: I suppose this young friend of mine brought you.
• 25:01
  Speaker 6: Yes, and he told me something about you.
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: I'll not question the fact.
• 25:05
  Speaker 11: That you wear a mask.
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: Dan, you saved our lives.
• 25:09
  Speaker 10: I didn't do anything except go for this friend.
• 25:11
  Speaker 6: Of mine on the Mounted Police. You can't touch me.
• 25:13
  Speaker 6: I didn't kill anyone on the side of the border.
• 25:16
  Speaker 6: You can't touch me for what I do in the States.
• 25:18
  Speaker 10: You're going to the States. There's a murder trial waiting
• 25:22
  Speaker 10: for you, Anson. And that patch on your shoe will
• 25:25
  Speaker 10: hang you.
• 25:25
  Speaker 12: You can't touch me. Well, I went in the States,
• 25:28
  Speaker 12: got nothing to say in Canada.
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: Then, before I leave, thanks. We'll meet again.
• 25:34
  Speaker 6: Sure, but you say you're leaving?
• 25:36
  Speaker 10: Snake Hanson is going to the other side of the
• 25:38
  Speaker 10: border to pay for old Mac's murder.
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: That's where you're wrong.
• 25:42
  Speaker 12: I'm not crossing the border.
• 25:43
  Speaker 6: I reckon this official in the red coat would want
• 25:46
  Speaker 6: me for disturbing the peace or something. So I'll stand
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: trial here.
• 25:49
  Speaker 12: I've done nothing here they can hang me for.
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: I'm not crossing the border. Hanson, this masked man isn't
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: an official of the law.
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: Why, if he wanted to drag you over the border.
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: You'll have to stop him. I'm your prisoner.
• 26:01
  Speaker 16: I might have to stop him if I could. But,
• 26:03
  Speaker 16: of course, I have your friends to watch. And besides,
• 26:07
  Speaker 16: I'm studying that ledge. Curious how that cave happens to
• 26:11
  Speaker 16: be there. Probably sometime in the past a river come
• 26:15
  Speaker 16: out of that.
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: Made a waterfall. Hey, let me down. Let me down. Stop.
• 26:19
  Speaker 6: You can't do this.
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: The waterfall would have dropped right over the ledge. That
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: must have been quite a sight.
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: The Lone Ranger has found qualities in Dan that amaze him.
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: His keen interest in the boy is pointed towards something,
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: but what is it? Is it possible that Dan or
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: his grandmother played a part in the mysterious and unrevealed
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: past of.
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: The masked mystery writer?
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: Be sure to tune in the next of this surprising
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: sequence of Lone Ranger stories in the high border country.
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: Who is Dan?
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: Who is Dan? THE END THE END The story you
• 28:12
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• 28:18
  Speaker 2: Ranger Incorporated.
• 28:44
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• 28:48
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