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The Lone Ranger - "Dynasty of Terror" (Old Time Radio, 1942) · The Lone Ranger | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: On December 4th, 1942, the Lone Ranger reached episode 1540,
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  Speaker 1: Dynasty of Terror. Jim Blood, a criminal operator, uses a
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  Speaker 1: protection racket to terrorize the area. When young Ted Loomis
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  Speaker 1: refuses to cooperate, he is shot and his wife is abducted.
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  Speaker 1: With Loomis wounded and his wife in the gang's hands,
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  Speaker 1: the Lone Ranger and Tonto take up Blood's trail, with
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  Speaker 1: Brace Beamer and John Todd in their continuing roles. The
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  Speaker 1: script is by Franz Stryker, directed by Charles D. Livingston,
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  Speaker 1: and produced by George W. Trendle. Here is the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: I'll see you there.
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  Speaker 3: Bye-bye.
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  Speaker 4: Fiery horse with the speed of light, the cloud of.
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  Speaker 5: Dust, and a hearty hi-ho, Silver, the Lone Ranger.
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  Speaker 6: The Lone Ranger.
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  Speaker 7: THE END.
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  Speaker 2: With his faithful Indian companion, Tonto, the masked rider of
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  Speaker 2: the plains led.
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  Speaker 8: The fight for law and.
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  Speaker 6: Order in the early western United States.
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  Speaker 5: The stories of his strength and courage, his daring and
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  Speaker 5: resourcefulness have come down to us through the generations. And
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  Speaker 5: nowhere in the pages of history can one find a
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  Speaker 5: greater champion of justice. Return with us now to those
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  Speaker 5: thrilling days of yesteryear. From out of the past come
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  Speaker 5: the thundering hoofbeats of the great horse Silver. The Lone
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  Speaker 5: Ranger rides again.
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  Speaker 4: Come on, Silver!
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  Speaker 6: We're on the trail of applause! Oh, Silver! Hooray!
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  Speaker 9: Hooray!
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  Speaker 5: Jim Blood ruled the town of Oneida with an iron fist.
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  Speaker 5: His business code was blunt and profitable, peace at a price.
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  Speaker 5: Law-abiding citizens who wished to live unmolested were forced to
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  Speaker 5: pay him or suffer the consequences. Ruthless gunmen, masked riders
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  Speaker 5: who came in the night, terrorized those who refused, and
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  Speaker 5: no one dared defy them. Even the law was helpless,
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  Speaker 5: for Blood disguised his activities with a cloak of respectability.
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  Speaker 3: We find him talking to the owner.
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  Speaker 4: Of a cafe. Nice place you got here, Colby. I
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  Speaker 4: like it, Blood. How's business? Can't complain. Why? Just curious, Colby.
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  Speaker 4: Looks like you've got a mighty popular cafe. Be a
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  Speaker 4: pity if anything happened to it. What do you mean? Well,
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  Speaker 4: you never can tell without laws on the prowl. They'd
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  Speaker 4: better not come here. Huh? What would you do? I'd
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  Speaker 4: show him a trick or two with a six-gun myself. Ah,
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  Speaker 4: Dave Finley tried that. You heard what they did at
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  Speaker 4: his place. Yeah, the low-down skunks beat up old Finley
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  Speaker 4: and burned his store to the ground. Ah, there don't
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  Speaker 4: seem to be any way to stop them outlaws. They're
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  Speaker 4: worse than outlaws. They're parasites. Gunmen who force people into
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  Speaker 4: paying for protection they wouldn't need if it weren't for
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  Speaker 4: the gang. Finley would have showed more sense by giving
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  Speaker 4: them the cash.
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  Speaker 6: What?
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  Speaker 4: Sure. He suffered worse by opposing the gang. Them gunmen
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  Speaker 4: was to come in here... My advice would be to
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  Speaker 4: pay up and shut up. What do you know about it, Blood? Me? Why, nothing.
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  Speaker 4: I just said... Seems to me you've said a mite
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  Speaker 4: too much. Why, you old mosshorn. I'm inviting you to
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  Speaker 4: leave before I start practicing with that six-gun. Have it
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  Speaker 4: your way, Colby. Wouldn't take a chance if I was you. Why,
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  Speaker 4: that dirty buzzard. That smooth-talking skunk. What was he saying, boss? Barkeep,
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  Speaker 4: that snake came here for just one reason. What is that?
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  Speaker 4: To warn me. He as much as said that if
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  Speaker 4: I didn't pay off, I'd be smashed.
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  Speaker 10: You figure blood is later the outfit that's been smashing
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  Speaker 10: things around here?
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  Speaker 4: I know it. But there ain't no way to prove it.
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  Speaker 4: What'd you tell him? I told him I wasn't gonna pay.
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  Speaker 4: I told him I... Boss, you said the wrong thing. Look,
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  Speaker 4: the doorway. Mask man. Hey, what's a mask for? Everyone
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  Speaker 4: stay still. There'll be dead men in the wreckage.
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  Speaker 6: Smash the place, boys.
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  Speaker 4: Stop it. My cafe. You dirty army lowlife rats. You'll
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  Speaker 4: pay for this. You'll pay, I tell you. Shut up, Colby.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe you need protection from gents like us.
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  Speaker 11: Blood's campaign of intimidation and terror held the town helpless
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  Speaker 11: in his grasp.
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  Speaker 5: His gunmen, led by the ruthless renegades Hutch and Drake,
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  Speaker 5: robed the streets of Oneida, revenging the gang boss on
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  Speaker 5: townspeople who refused or were unable to meet his demands.
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  Speaker 5: Harvey Myers made a living from a small gold claim.
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  Speaker 5: Like Colby, the cafe owner, he too had callers who
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  Speaker 5: wore masks.
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  Speaker 4: You're two weeks overdue on your payments. Protection pay. Jim
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  Speaker 4: Blood sent you here. Make sure you're faxed, Myers. Blow
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  Speaker 4: up the claim, boys.
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  Speaker 7: The End.
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  Speaker 4: Dane Whitaker was president of the bank. I'm not paying
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  Speaker 4: another cent. Give us a key to that safe. That's
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  Speaker 4: the depositor's money. Grab them, boys. Take the cash and
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  Speaker 4: wreck the bank.
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  Speaker 9: Come on.
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  Speaker 5: The following night, in the back room of a vacant house,
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  Speaker 5: Hutch and Drake, leaders of the gunmen, reported to Jim Blood.
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  Speaker 4: How'd it go, Hutch?
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  Speaker 1: Fine.
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  Speaker 4: Collect any cash? Yeah, here. Good. I got another job
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  Speaker 4: for you. Who? Tad Loomis. He owes us plenty. Tad Loomis, huh?
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  Speaker 4: That's the young squirt who just got married.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, he's been shooting off his mouth a lot to
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  Speaker 7: the ranchers too, Blood. You know, about the way we're
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  Speaker 7: running things.
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  Speaker 4: We'll take care of that. He's building a ranch just
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  Speaker 4: outside of town.
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  Speaker 10: You aiming for us to go out there now?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Only this time, I'm going, too.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, thought you didn't want to be seen on any
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  Speaker 7: of the jobs.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. I'll get Loomis alone, and he can't prove anything.
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  Speaker 4: His word against mine. Well, uh, what about his wife?
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  Speaker 4: She's visiting relatives ten miles from here. Gonna settle with
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  Speaker 4: him tonight and have an understanding. You two will go along,
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  Speaker 4: just in case you need it. But you can wait
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  Speaker 4: outside the house. Come on, now, let's get going.
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  Speaker 5: In the dark shadows of night, three horsemen reined in
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  Speaker 5: their mounts a short distance from the attractive, brightly lighted
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  Speaker 5: ranch house where Tad Loomis lived with his bride, Jane.
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  Speaker 3: Squinting at the house through his small, shrewd eyes, Jim Blood.
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  Speaker 5: Motioned to Drake and Hutch, who accompanied him, and together
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  Speaker 5: the three outlaws crept stealthily toward the ranch, their feet
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  Speaker 5: scraped softly in the gravel.
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  Speaker 3: Then Blood signaled a halt.
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  Speaker 4: Wait right here outside the door. Yeah, we savvy. I'll
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  Speaker 4: call if I want you.
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  Speaker 7: Wait a minute, I'm coming.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe he was sleeping. Well?
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  Speaker 9: Oh.
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  Speaker 7: Hello, blood.
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  Speaker 4: This is a surprise. Got something to talk over with you, Tad.
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  Speaker 4: Mind if I step in?
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  Speaker 9: No.
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  Speaker 4: No, of course not. Come on. Tell what's on your mind.
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  Speaker 4: I suppose you've heard about the way certain people have
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  Speaker 4: had trouble. The banker and Colby in the cafe. What
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  Speaker 4: about it? I understand you were invited to hire some
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  Speaker 4: men that'd see that you didn't have any trouble. You know,
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  Speaker 4: lots of things could happen to this nice place of yours.
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  Speaker 4: What are you getting at? You want the cards face up, huh?
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  Speaker 4: I can see the cards.
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  Speaker 3: It's pretty generally known that you're the boss of the
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  Speaker 3: gang of crooks.
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  Speaker 4: I suppose folks have a right to their suspicions.
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  Speaker 3: I'm surprised that you come here in person.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe I should be flattered at so much attention. Listen
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  Speaker 4: to me, you young pipsqueak. You want it straight and
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  Speaker 4: you'll get it that way. We're here alone and there's
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  Speaker 4: no use you trying to make trouble for me without witnesses.
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  Speaker 4: You either pay up right now or see what happens.
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  Speaker 4: No witnesses, huh? You thought Jane was out of town. Well,
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  Speaker 4: get your hands up. Jane, come on in here.
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  Speaker 8: I heard him threaten you, Ted. Now we've got evidence.
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  Speaker 4: So you didn't go away. Well, you should have. It
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  Speaker 4: would have saved lots of trouble. Come on in, boys.
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  Speaker 4: Drop the gun.
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  Speaker 6: Ted!
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  Speaker 4: Ted!
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  Speaker 8: You've killed him. You've killed him.
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  Speaker 4: Grab that woman. I've got her. Give me those unlighted lamps.
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  Speaker 4: Smash them. Spill oil around here. She's a fighter. Here's
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  Speaker 4: a couple of them, boss. Spread the coal oil. We'll
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  Speaker 4: set fire to this place.
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  Speaker 8: You beast. You filthy beast.
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  Speaker 4: Hang on to her. Take her with us in case
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  Speaker 4: that critter survives the fire. Here's more lamps. That'll do.
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  Speaker 4: You want to leave him there on the floor? Yeah. Now,
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  Speaker 4: give me that lighted lamp. We'll start things going. Here
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  Speaker 4: it is. Let me go.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, this place will burn like tinder.
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  Speaker 4: Give me a hand with this girl. Let me go.
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  Speaker 4: Let me go. Take her out.
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  Speaker 8: I'd sooner die here than go with you.
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  Speaker 4: Hurry it up. Hutch, give Drake a hand. Get her
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  Speaker 4: to hide out and hold her there, and I'll join
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  Speaker 4: you later. Now, hurry up before we're trapped in this fire.
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  Speaker 9: All right, Hutch. Come on.
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  Speaker 4: Come on.
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  Speaker 5: As the flames from the smashed lamp ignited the coal oil,
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  Speaker 5: a veritable curtain of fire leaped through the living room
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  Speaker 5: of the ranch. The flimsy furniture and new lace curtains,
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  Speaker 5: which Jane had so proudly put up only a short
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  Speaker 5: time before, were ready fuel for the now raging inferno.
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  Speaker 5: Thick palls of smoke settled over the room, almost obscuring
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  Speaker 5: the inert form of Tad Loomis, struggling for consciousness against
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  Speaker 5: the smoke and the flames which rapidly threatened him. Then
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  Speaker 5: as the outlaws rode away from the flaming ranch house
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  Speaker 5: where the girl they had kidnapped, two horsemen raced toward
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  Speaker 5: the fire.
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  Speaker 3: One of them wore a black mask and rode a
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  Speaker 3: white stallion.
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  Speaker 5: The other was an Indian who sat a paint.
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  Speaker 4: It's too late to save the house, Toto. It burned
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  Speaker 4: and he passed. We'll make sure no one's trapped by
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  Speaker 4: the blaze. Come on. Help me. Listen. That man trapped inside.
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  Speaker 4: Come on, this way. Smoke and he's sick. Not see man.
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 8: Hello.
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  Speaker 7: Where are you?
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  Speaker 6: Over here.
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  Speaker 7: Hold on.
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  Speaker 4: We're coming. I thought you wouldn't find me. Don't talk.
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  Speaker 4: Take his feet, Tano. I can't walk. I've got his shoulders. Ready,
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  Speaker 4: Kimo Sabe?
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  Speaker 6: Be ready.
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  Speaker 7: Hurry.
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  Speaker 4: This roof will cave in any minute. Over there, Tano.
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  Speaker 4: Door ahead. Look out!
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  Speaker 7: The roof!
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  Speaker 6: Hurry, fellow!
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  Speaker 5: In an arroyo some distance from town stood a drab,
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  Speaker 5: weather-beaten cabin, half-concealed by a clump of cottonwood trees. Inside
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  Speaker 5: the cabin, Hutch and Drake sat at a table playing cards,
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  Speaker 5: while from behind them came a girl's low, uncontrollable sobs.
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  Speaker 4: Your deal, Hutch.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, blasted. What's eating you?
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  Speaker 7: That girl, sniffling and crying.
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  Speaker 3: Can't keep my mind on the game.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, she's been bawling her head off ever since we
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  Speaker 7: brought her here. What's Blood Warner for, anyway? We took
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  Speaker 7: care of her husband. What are we saving her for?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe he wants to guard against any slips. Like Tad
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  Speaker 3: being alive with a mind to talk.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, the only talking Tad will do will be to
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  Speaker 7: the ghosts. The bullet didn't finish him where the fire did.
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  Speaker 4: Where are you going?
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  Speaker 7: To stuff a gag in a girl's mouth. If I
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  Speaker 7: hear another whimper out of her.
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  Speaker 4: Don't rough stuff. The boss might not like it. Come here, you.
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  Speaker 8: Let me go.
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  Speaker 4: You little minx, you bit me.
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  Speaker 8: I warned you.
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  Speaker 4: Why, you. What's going on here?
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  Speaker 3: Howdy, blood.
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  Speaker 4: We've been waiting for you, boss. There go that girl, Hutch.
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  Speaker 4: I got plans for her. Just as you say.
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  Speaker 8: Murderers, all of you. You killed my husband.
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  Speaker 4: He had it coming to him. And if you don't
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  Speaker 4: do just like I say, you'll get the same.
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  Speaker 8: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 4: That's a big ranch your brother Ned owns on the
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  Speaker 4: other side of town. I reckon he has plenty of cash.
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  Speaker 8: You're wasting your time. Ned wouldn't pay you a cent
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  Speaker 8: any more than Tad.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe not. But he'd pay plenty to save your life.
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  Speaker 8: You don't mean it.
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  Speaker 7: Jake and me was wondering why you wanted the girl, boys.
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  Speaker 7: We didn't figure on anything as slick as this.
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  Speaker 4: No. You didn't think I'd miss a chance for easy cash,
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  Speaker 4: did you, boys?
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  Speaker 8: Ned won't give it to you.
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  Speaker 4: Get a paper and pencil from that table, Hutch. Oh, sure.
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  Speaker 8: Ned will know you killed Tad. He'll have you hanged,
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  Speaker 8: all of you.
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  Speaker 4: He'd have to show proof first. Where'd he find it
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  Speaker 4: in them ashes that's left of your house?
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  Speaker 8: You, you fiend.
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  Speaker 4: Here's a paper and pencil, blood. Give them to the girl.
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  Speaker 4: Here you. I won't take them. Yes, you will. Now
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  Speaker 4: write what I say. No, I won't do it.
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  Speaker 8: You won't get a cent from my brother.
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  Speaker 4: I'll show her. Hold on, Hutch. I'm giving you one
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  Speaker 4: more chance, Jane. What? Write that letter.
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  Speaker 8: I tell you I won't. You can't make me. I'd
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  Speaker 8: sooner die than write it.
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  Speaker 4: Don't worry about that. We won't kill you. If you
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  Speaker 4: don't write it, your brother will die. Just like Ted.
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  Speaker 5: The curtain falls on the first act of our Lone
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  Speaker 5: Ranger story. Before the next exciting scenes, please permit us
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  Speaker 5: to pause for just a few moments.
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  Speaker 6: THE END.
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  Speaker 3: Now to continue our story.
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  Speaker 5: The day after Jim Blood's threat, a man poked among
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  Speaker 5: the blackened timbers of the once attractive but now fire-gutted
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  Speaker 5: ranch house where Tad Loomis had lived with his bride, Jane. Suddenly,
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  Speaker 5: you heard a commanding voice.
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  Speaker 4: Put up your hand. Mask? What are you doing here?
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  Speaker 4: I guess you know why I'm here. You're looking for
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  Speaker 4: Tad Loomis. What if I am? You came to make
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  Speaker 4: sure he's dead. Yes. I couldn't believe it. I wanted
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  Speaker 4: to find out for myself. And for Jim Blood. What?
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  Speaker 4: I suspected Blood would send one of his gang to
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  Speaker 4: make sure Tad couldn't expose him. You aren't fooling me.
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  Speaker 4: You're the outlaw. Blood sent you to spy on me.
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  Speaker 4: Don't lie. Oh, I... If it weren't for those guns...
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  Speaker 4: You're coming with me. Well... Where are you taking me?
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  Speaker 4: To face the man you tried to murder.
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  Speaker 5: In the Lone Ranger's camp, beside a creek which trickled
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  Speaker 5: through a narrow ravine, Tonto bathed Tad's wound. The result
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  Speaker 5: of Drake's bullet before the masked man and the Indian
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  Speaker 5: rescued the young rancher from the fire. Along the trail,
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  Speaker 5: they saw two horsemen approaching.
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  Speaker 4: It's your friend, Tonto. I can tell by his white horse.
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  Speaker 8: Ah, that's silver.
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  Speaker 4: Who's that riding with him?
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  Speaker 9: Me not know.
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  Speaker 7: Well, oh, my shoulder.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you must. I guess I'm not as well as
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  Speaker 4: I thought. You've got bad wounds. Have no escape. Thanks
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  Speaker 4: to you two. If only I knew what's happened to Jane. Well,
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  Speaker 4: maybe we find out now. I don't know. That man
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  Speaker 4: riding with your friend. Oh, silver, hold it, hold it. Oh, Ned. Tad. Tad,
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  Speaker 4: I can't believe it. I thought you were dead. You
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  Speaker 4: know this man, Tad? Yes, he's Jane's brother. I see. Tad,
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  Speaker 4: what have they done to you? They've saved my life.
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  Speaker 4: I don't understand. This man's a mask and this Indian,
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  Speaker 4: they're outlaws. Easy, big fella. They both made a mistake, Ned.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know how I want to help Tad.
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  Speaker 6: That's right.
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  Speaker 4: Tell me about Jane.
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  Speaker 3: Is she safe?
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  Speaker 4: Temporarily, yes. What do you mean? Jane's been kidnapped. Kidnapped?
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  Speaker 4: How do you know? This note was delivered to me
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  Speaker 4: this morning. It wasn't signed. It tells how to ransom Jane.
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  Speaker 4: Let me see it. Jim Blood is the one. I
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  Speaker 4: suspected as much. Ned, is this your sister's handwriting? It's genuine.
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  Speaker 4: There's no question about that. I'd know Jane's handwriting anywhere.
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  Speaker 4: What note say? Address to Ned, Kimo Sabe. Unless he
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  Speaker 4: delivers $ 10, 000 to the gang at Painted Rock tonight at midnight.
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  Speaker 4: Jane will die. What have you done about the ransom, Ned?
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  Speaker 4: I withdrew $ 10, 000 from the bank. Keep your money, Ned.
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  Speaker 4: We'll save Jane and without spending a cent. Instead of ransom,
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  Speaker 4: we'll give them the end of a rope. We don't
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  Speaker 4: know where Jane is, Ted. We'll surround those crooks at
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  Speaker 4: Painted Rock. Make them tell us where they're holding her.
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  Speaker 4: The note says for Ned to come alone. What if
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  Speaker 4: he does it? They'll have men watching the trail. First
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  Speaker 4: sign of an attack, they'll escape. It might cost Jane
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  Speaker 4: her life. Oh, gosh. I didn't think of that. Well,
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  Speaker 4: what do we do? Apply with the terms of the note, Ned.
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  Speaker 4: You mean... Take $ 10, 000 with you to Painted Rock. No.
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  Speaker 4: I can't let him do that. Jane's my wife.
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: If anybody pays the ransom.
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: It should be me. I haven't the money. If my
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: plan works, the money will be returned, Tad.
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: Returned?
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: And there'll be enough evidence to wipe out blood in
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: his whole gang.
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: That night, in the glow of a full moon, the
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: sinister shadows of creeping men stole into the.
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: Dark patch cast by painted rock.
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: Some took concealed positions overlooking the trail, and silence hung
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: like a heavy pall as the gang settled down to
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: watch for waiting for Ned's.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: Arrival with a ransom.
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: What time is it, Drake? I don't know. Must be
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: close to midnight, though.
• 20:18
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I wish the girl's brother'd hurry up and come.
• 20:22
  Speaker 7: This quiet gives me the willies.
• 20:24
  Speaker 10: You'll feel better when we get that $ 10, 000 ransom, don't you?
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: Maybe he won't show.
• 20:28
  Speaker 10: Yeah, he'll show. Blood says the girl and her brother
• 20:31
  Speaker 10: are thicker than two peas. He'll put up the cash
• 20:34
  Speaker 10: rather than take a chance.
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: Reckon you're right. Listen.
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: Hey, Hutch. What is it, Limpy?
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: A horseman coming down the road. Looks like it might
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: be Ned. Is he alone?
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: Let me see.
• 20:47
  Speaker 10: That hombre's double-crossed us and brought a sheriff's posse with him.
• 20:50
  Speaker 10: We'll hide-head it before we put our necks in the noose.
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: He's alone, all right.
• 20:55
  Speaker 7: Ain't nothing besides him between here and town but gopher holes.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: That's why Blood picked this spot. Nobody can creep up
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: on us.
• 21:01
  Speaker 6: Oh, boy, boy, boy.
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: Lift them hands. You needn't worry. I'm not armed. Looks
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: like you took your instructions to heart. I'll not take
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: chances where my sister's safety is concerned.
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: Good.
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: You got the cash? It's in this envelope.
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: Blindfold him.
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: Blindfold me?
• 21:16
  Speaker 10: What boss is kind of particular about keeping the location
• 21:18
  Speaker 10: of the hideout a secret?
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: Round up your men. Right away. Get your horses, boys.
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: We're ready to run. All right, boys.
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: Get going.
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: Get up there.
• 21:26
  Speaker 6: Get up there.
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: The gang's almost out of sight, Tonto. Their trail shouldn't
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: be hard to follow in this moonlight. That's right. Well,
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: we were lucky to find that crevice in the rock
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: so we could keep out of sight. Tonto, Blood won't
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: let that girl go. He knows she can testify against him.
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: Follow the trail, Kimisabe. I'll join you later. Get him up, Scalabos.
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: Let's go.
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: Some time later, the outlaws, led by Hutch and Drake,
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: rode up to the hideout where Blood was waiting. Removing
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: the blindfold from Ned's eyes, they pushed him into the
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: dimly lighted cabin.
• 22:22
  Speaker 6: Ned!
• 22:23
  Speaker 7: Ned!
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: Oh, Ned!
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: Jane! Jane, let me look at you. Are you all right?
• 22:28
  Speaker 8: I'm all right, Ned.
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: Regular family reunion, ain't it? Jim Blood. Break it up, Hutch.
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: You heard him, you two. Break it up. Don't push me.
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: I have a right to talk to myself.
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: Leave him alone!
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: Sit down.
• 22:38
  Speaker 6: You beast!
• 22:40
  Speaker 8: You contemptible beast!
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: Shut up or I'll hand you the same. Where's the ransom?
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: Here it is, blood in this envelope.
• 22:47
  Speaker 7: Ten thousand in folder money.
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: Ten one thousand dollar bills. Don't look like much, does it, boys?
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: But it's just as good as gold and a lot
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: easier to carry. When do we split the cash, boss? Well,
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: I'm of a mind to, Drake. You'll get your share,
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: don't worry. I've carried out my part of the bargain, Blood.
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: I expect you to carry out yours. Huh? What do
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: you suggest, Ned? Let me take my sister home. If
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: you hear that, boys, they want to go home. If
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: you take me for a fool, you ain't going anywhere.
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: Either of you.
• 23:22
  Speaker 8: He won't let us go. I tried to let you
• 23:24
  Speaker 8: know in the note between the lines.
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: You dirty double-crosser. You knew you weren't going to let
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: me take Jane when you made her write that note.
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: I'm getting warm. Blood, you've got your money. Jane and
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: I can't mean anything more to you. Let us go.
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: At least let Jane go. This $ 10, 000 was easy cash.
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: Maybe there's more where it came from. I don't understand. Well,
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: I'll make it clear to you. If you was to
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: write to your bank instructing them to pay the bearer
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: your note $ 10, 000, they'd give it to him, ain't that so?
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: But I haven't got $ 10, 000. No? How much have you got?
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: Practically none. The money I gave you was just about
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: all I had. Don't lie to me. It's the truth,
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: I tell you. Most of my income is tied up
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: in cattle in the ranch. Oh, that's too bad. I'm
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: downright sorry for you, Ned. You should have taken care
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: to keep more ready cash. It might have saved your life.
• 24:21
  Speaker 6: Oh, Ned.
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: What do you mean, Blood? You're no longer any use
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: to me alive. There's no sense in my letting you
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: stay that way. And Jane? I'm figuring on a double funeral.
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: One that'd gain you to kill us, Blood. You'll just
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: be putting your neck in a noose. You're a little
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: mixed up, Ned. I'd be inviting a rope if I
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: didn't kill you. You and the girl would make mighty
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: handsome witnesses for the sheriff to pin this kidnapping on me.
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: We won't talk. I give you my word. I ain't
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: taking any chances. I know your lips will stay buttoned
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: when you're six feet under.
• 24:54
  Speaker 8: It's no use, Ned. He's meant to kill us from
• 24:57
  Speaker 8: the first, murder us in cold blood, just as.
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: He did Tad. Tad isn't dead, Jane. What's that?
• 25:03
  Speaker 8: Ned, I... I don't understand.
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: You said... Tad's alive. He didn't die in that fire.
• 25:07
  Speaker 8: Tad alive? Oh, I.
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: I can't believe it. You're lying. Don't you wish I was.
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: We put a bullet in him before we started the blaze.
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: We left him baked in the middle of an oven.
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: He didn't have a chance to break out. He didn't
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: break out. He was rescued. Rescued? Yes. Two men saw
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: the flames. They dragged Tad out just before the roof
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: caved in.
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: Thank heaven.
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: Who are these hombres? One of them wears a mask.
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: The other's an Indian. Blood. That sounds like... Does the
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: masked man ride a white horse? Yes. Calls him Silver.
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: Silver?
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: Silver. I'm hightailing it out of here. Me too, Hutch.
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: I've been up against that hombre before. What's eating you two?
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: Who is this masked critter anyway? He's a lone ranger, yeah.
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: And knowing him, he's on our trail right now.
• 25:43
  Speaker 8: The lone ranger?
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: You double-crosser. You've been in cahoots with that critter all
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: the time. I didn't even know who he was. Oh,
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: I suppose you didn't go to the sheriff for that
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: ransom note either, huh? No, I didn't. Before I'm through
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: with you, you'll wish you had. Watch the trail from
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: that window, Hutch. You can see a posse approaching in
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: plenty of time for us to make a getaway. Yeah,
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: I'll watch for them. Grab a hold of that girl, Drake.
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: Come here, you. Let go of me. I'm taking care
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: of you now, Ned. Don't shoot. I'm handing you a
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: one-way ticket to a graveyard. No, don't do it. Shut up, you.
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: Your number's up next. Blood. What do you want? Something's
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: wrong with the chimney. It's choking with smoke. What? It
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: must be stopped up. Smoke's coming back down the chimney
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: instead of going out. Tell him, put out the fire,
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: you fool. I can't.
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: The fireplace is full of smoke.
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: I can't get near it. Do something, Drake. Open the windows.
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: It ain't no use, Blood. The place is too full
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: of smoke already. My eyes are smart and so I
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: can hardly see. I can't breathe either. Open the door.
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: Let's get out of here. Bring the girl, Drake. I'll
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: take Ned. Come on. Now we can breathe. Yeah. Get
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: the smoke out of our eyes, too. Hey. Look up
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: on the roof.
• 26:51
  Speaker 7: A Redskin's up there with his blanket over the chimney.
• 26:53
  Speaker 7: No wonder it was stopped up.
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: I'll riddle that engine. Do my hands! Him, the masked man!
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: Put on your guns. We've got you covered, you low-down snake.
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: The sheriff, too. We've been tricked. We ain't licked. I'll
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: call the boys. We'll fight it out.
• 27:04
  Speaker 8: You're too late.
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: Your gang's already surrendered to my men. Take hush, Tulloch. Uh-uh,
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: me get him. Take your hands off me, Henson.
• 27:10
  Speaker 8: Pat, you hang a drink.
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: I'll handle him and it won't be Chetney the skunk.
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: I want you, Blood. I'll fan leather first. I wouldn't
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: try it. Stay where you are, you masked coyote or
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: I'll drill the girl. Come on, Silver. I warned you.
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: You winked me again.
• 27:22
  Speaker 7: Take over, Sheriff.
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: Jane and Ned will supply you with enough evidence to
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: jail the entire gang. I've been waiting a long time
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: for this, Blood.
• 27:29
  Speaker 10: You and them other polecats have been running things to
• 27:32
  Speaker 10: suit yourselves.
• 27:33
  Speaker 7: Just because I couldn't prove what a crooked, slimy bunch
• 27:36
  Speaker 7: you were.
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: But now I've got proof.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: And from now on, the whole lot of you will
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: be looking at things from behind bars.
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: If we hadn't been smoked out of that cabin, you
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: wouldn't have had any evidence. We'd have killed a girl
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: and her brother and riddled you. The masked man figured
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: you would. That's why he wouldn't let my men attack
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: you while you were inside.
• 27:57
  Speaker 6: Ted!
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: Oh, Ted! Oh, Jane.
• 28:00
  Speaker 8: Ted, I thought you were dead.
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: I would be, honey, if it hadn't been for Tonto
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: and the masked man.
• 28:05
  Speaker 8: The Lone Ranger, Ted.
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: The Lone.
• 28:08
  Speaker 7: So.
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: That's who he is. And he wouldn't even stay to
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: be thanked.
• 28:13
  Speaker 6: I'll see you later!
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: Bye!
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: THE END.
• 28:48
  Speaker 6: THE END.
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: THE END.
• 29:30
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• 29:36
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• 30:01
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