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The Lone Ranger - "Sheep Killers" (Old Time Radio, 1938) · The Lone Ranger | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: December 28th, 1938 takes us to episode 924 of The
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  Speaker 1: Lone Ranger. This installment bears the title Sheep Killers. Settle
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  Speaker 1: in for another visit with one of radio's enduring western series. Now,
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  Speaker 1: back to the golden age of radio.
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  Speaker 2: I owe it all to my father!
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  Speaker 3: A fiery horse with a speed of light, a cloud
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  Speaker 3: of dust, and a hearty high old silver. The Lone Ranger.
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  Speaker 2: The Lone Ranger.
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  Speaker 3: The Lone Ranger.
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  Speaker 1: THE END.
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  Speaker 2: THE END.
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  Speaker 3: Cattle raising was the first great industry in Texas. But
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  Speaker 3: when the days of the open range passed, many farmers
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  Speaker 3: and sheep herders settled in the new territory. There was
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  Speaker 3: bitter rivalry between these new settlers and the cattlemen, and
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  Speaker 3: their disputes over boundaries and water rights would have resulted
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  Speaker 3: in range wars if the masked rider of the plains
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  Speaker 3: had not interfered. He made both factions realize that the
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  Speaker 3: West could never be made safe for honest men unless
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  Speaker 3: they united and fought side by side for law and order.
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  Speaker 3: Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear,
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  Speaker 3: when adventure lay at the end of every trail. The
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  Speaker 3: Lone Ranger rides again. Come on, Silver! We're heading for
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  Speaker 3: Valley City! Someone's waiting on the trail ahead!
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  Speaker 2: Hi-oh, Silver!
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  Speaker 3: Away! Our story begins in Saul Bemis' general store at
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  Speaker 3: Valley City. Lefty Curtis opens the door and... Hi there, Lefty. Howdy, Saul.
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  Speaker 3: I'm looking for my boss. Is Mr. Hammond around here anyplace?
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  Speaker 3: You ain't blind, are you? Oh, hello, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Hammond.
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  Speaker 3: Howdy there, Peggy. Hello. What are you looking for me for, Lefty? Boss,
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  Speaker 3: there's been more sheep drove into Sweetwater Canyon. No. Close
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  Speaker 3: to 100 heads. The dirty, sneaking, rotten crooks? They was
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  Speaker 3: drove right over the edge. You can see them pile
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  Speaker 3: up below. 100 head of prime sheep killed. Them blasted cattlemen? Lefty,
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  Speaker 3: did any of the boys see them do it? Did
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  Speaker 3: they leave a trail or could be followed? Was there
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  Speaker 3: anything to prove at all? I'm sorry, boss. Nothing. It
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  Speaker 3: was done like they always do it, when there was
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  Speaker 3: nobody to see them. Now, if we post guards towards
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  Speaker 3: Sweetwater Canyon, they'll turn around and drive the sheep into
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  Speaker 3: White Rock or Big Smoke here, one of them others.
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  Speaker 3: We'd have to hire a regiment to keep them from
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  Speaker 3: our critters. I'll have to tell the sheriff about this.
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  Speaker 3: I've already told him. He should be on his way
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  Speaker 3: here now. They're stopping his office trying to find you. Well, Peggy,
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  Speaker 3: I think they should convince you now.
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  Speaker 5: Of what, Pop?
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  Speaker 3: Of what?
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  Speaker 4: Why, of the kind of ornery low-down skunks them cattlemen are,
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  Speaker 4: that's what.
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  Speaker 5: I suppose you're referring to Pete Lambert.
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  Speaker 3: He's one of them.
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  Speaker 5: Pete wouldn't do anything like this. What's more, Pa, it
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  Speaker 5: ain't been proved yet that any of the cattlemen are implicated.
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  Speaker 3: Who else would try to kill off my sheep?
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  Speaker 5: I can't say, but I know that Pete wouldn't.
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  Speaker 3: Turnin' again your own, Pa.
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  Speaker 5: Pa, that ain't true.
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  Speaker 3: If you'd forget Pete like any girl of sense would, and, uh.
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  Speaker 5: Go ahead, say it, Pa, if I'd marry Lefty instead.
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  Speaker 3: Sure, we'll get hitched one of these days, Peggy. You'll
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  Speaker 3: come around to it in time.
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  Speaker 5: I think not.
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  Speaker 3: Shucks. You sure ain't gonna turn me down for Pete,
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  Speaker 3: are you? Ha, ha, ha. You wouldn't take him when
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  Speaker 3: you could get a man, would you? Forget it, Lefty.
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  Speaker 4: She's spoiled, and I'm to blame for it. But she's
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  Speaker 4: a Hammond. She won't always be so flighty and idle-headed.
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  Speaker 5: Here comes the sheriff, if you're sure you're through discussing
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  Speaker 5: me in public.
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  Speaker 3: You're a Hammond, girl. Just sure got your ma's tongue. Howdy, folks. Howdy, Sheriff.
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  Speaker 3: Lefty told you what happened, Sheriff?
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  Speaker 1: I've already sent out two of my deputies to see
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  Speaker 1: if they can't find some trace of the sidewinder.
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  Speaker 3: I reckon you know who done this. Uh-huh. The law
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  Speaker 3: still says I got to have proof before I can act.
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  Speaker 3: Then get proof. That's what I'm trying to do. But
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  Speaker 3: I'll get it. Don't you worry, Mr. Hammond.
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  Speaker 1: Them ranchers won't get by with their slick tricks forever.
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  Speaker 3: Wait a minute, Sheriff. Watch out. See that fellow Saul's
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  Speaker 3: waiting on? Here's the grub you asked for, stranger. Got
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  Speaker 3: it all wrapped up.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Here's your money.
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  Speaker 6: Two, three, three-fifty-five.
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  Speaker 3: Just right. Why, Heath, what's that, Lefty? Big Bill Nyberg.
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  Speaker 3: You're talking to me? Bill, how'd you get here? Where'd
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  Speaker 3: you come from? Hey, hold on, stranger. You're Big Bill.
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  Speaker 3: Hatch your hand. I think not. What was that drawl?
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  Speaker 3: I never seen the light. Just drop that gun back
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  Speaker 3: in its holster, Sheriff. You've mistaken me for another man.
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  Speaker 3: Don't try to act on that mistake. Wait, Sheriff. Huh?
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  Speaker 3: I reckon I did make a mistake. Stepping out of
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  Speaker 3: the shadows that way, the stranger sure did look like
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  Speaker 3: Big Bill just for a second. But he ain't, Sheriff.
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  Speaker 3: Bill weren't that tall, and he didn't hold himself so straight, neither.
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  Speaker 3: Doggone lefty, make up your mind. Is he or ain't
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  Speaker 3: he Bill Nyberg? I'm not Big Bill, and don't try
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  Speaker 3: to follow me. Just a second, stranger. Only the fella be, Sheriff.
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  Speaker 3: I told you you weren't Big Bill, didn't I? And
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  Speaker 3: don't go getting yourself sidetracked, Sheriff. It's them crooked ranchers
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  Speaker 3: I'm interested in, not strangers. Well, then, come along. We'll
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  Speaker 3: have a look at where your sheep are drove over.
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  Speaker 3: and see if my deputies was able to find any
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  Speaker 3: evidence that left he didn't. After leaving the store, the
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  Speaker 3: Lone Ranger made his way to the place where he
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  Speaker 3: had concealed his great horse, Silver. He mounted and then
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  Speaker 3: raced to the well-hidden camp where Tonto was waiting. Whoa, Silver! Whoa, boy! Whoa!
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  Speaker 3: Here are the supplies, Tonto. Oh, that? That's good. And
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  Speaker 3: Lefty fell for our trap. Him think you, Big Bill?
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  Speaker 3: Only for a moment. But a moment was enough. Every
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  Speaker 3: sheriff in the West has a reward notice describing Big Bill. Ah.
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  Speaker 3: But the only people who have ever seen him in
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  Speaker 3: person are the members of his old gang and the
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  Speaker 3: deputy sheriff who joined the gang to get evidence against them.
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  Speaker 3: That's right. The only ones until we caught him and
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  Speaker 3: turned him over to the law. Well, that news hasn't
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  Speaker 3: reached here yet. We get here plenty fast. I wanted
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  Speaker 3: to act on Big Bill's tip that when his gang
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  Speaker 3: was broken up and Notch Hopkins escaped, Notch came to
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  Speaker 3: this territory. Everything's fitting together. We know the two of
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  Speaker 3: Hammond's own men drove his sheep over the cliff. The
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  Speaker 3: breed they call Pedro and that fellow they call Fritz.
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  Speaker 6: Tonto not see him drive sheep, but Tonto see him
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  Speaker 6: come from that way.
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  Speaker 3: I have no doubt they were the men. They didn't
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  Speaker 3: drive the sheep over. They were close enough to see
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  Speaker 3: who did and report them. The fact that they didn't
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  Speaker 3: report anybody proves them guilty. I don't want them arrested, however,
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  Speaker 3: until we know who's behind them. They have no motive.
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  Speaker 3: Hammond wouldn't deliberately kill his own sheep just to drive
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  Speaker 3: the cattlemen off the range. As a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 3: he was here first, and the cattlemen didn't take over
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  Speaker 3: the north end of the range until Hammond assured them
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  Speaker 3: he didn't plan to use it. Not right. But if
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  Speaker 3: Hammond's daughter marries Lefty, Hammond plans to retire and turn
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  Speaker 3: over the management of the ranch entirely to Lefty. Of course,
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  Speaker 3: when Hammond dies, the whole spread will belong to Lefty.
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  Speaker 3: That's why he want Cattleman get out. It gives him
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  Speaker 3: a motive. I'm sure now that Notch Hopkins and Lefty
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  Speaker 3: Curtis are one and the same person. Notch was ambitious.
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  Speaker 3: That's why he turned crooked. Getting things honestly wasn't fast
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  Speaker 3: enough for him. It would be like Notch, or Lefty
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  Speaker 3: as he calls himself now, to want the whole range.
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  Speaker 3: And the fact that he'll get nothing until he marries
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  Speaker 3: Peggy Hammond, and that Peggy doesn't like him, wouldn't bother
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  Speaker 3: him at all. First place... Peggy isn't likely to marry
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  Speaker 3: anyone without her father's consent. And her father wants her
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  Speaker 3: to marry Lefty. In the second place, Lefty's own conceit
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  Speaker 3: won't let him believe she really doesn't like him. What
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  Speaker 3: you do now? All right, now I'm going to take
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  Speaker 3: all this disguise. It's done its work. Anyone who had
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  Speaker 3: been in Big Bill's gang would have thought I was
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  Speaker 3: him until he looked closer. Which is just what Lefty did.
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  Speaker 6: Tonto put disguise on plenty good.
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  Speaker 3: You did. And as soon as it's off, I'll tell
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  Speaker 3: you a plan I have. You tell all, Lefty, a
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  Speaker 3: fella named Notch? No. Even if we were believed, Lefty
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't get much of a jail sentence on the old
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  Speaker 3: charges against him. In a year or two, he'd go
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  Speaker 3: free to go on with his crimes. Ah, him plenty
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  Speaker 3: bad fella. However, if we can prove he's behind the
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  Speaker 3: killing of these sheep, he'll get what he deserves. And
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  Speaker 3: we're going to see that he does. That be plenty hard.
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  Speaker 3: Him not drive sheep. Pedro, Fritz do that. Yes, and
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  Speaker 3: the three of them working together on the same outfit...
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  Speaker 3: gives them a dozen opportunities a day to lay their
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  Speaker 3: plans without being observed.
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  Speaker 2: Ah.
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  Speaker 3: Nevertheless, Tonto, the only way we can clear the cattlemen
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  Speaker 3: and place the guilt on Lefty is to know when
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  Speaker 3: the next flock of sheep is going to be driven
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  Speaker 3: over the edge of the canyon. Then you take lawmen there, huh?
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  Speaker 3: That would still involve only Pedro and Fritz. If arrested,
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  Speaker 3: they might testify against Lefty, or they might not. No, Kimusabe.
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  Speaker 3: We don't even need to know where they plan to
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  Speaker 3: kill the sheep. Just find out when, and our plan
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  Speaker 3: will work.
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  Speaker 2: The End.
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  Speaker 3: Both the masked man and Tonto trailed Lefty as best
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  Speaker 3: they could throughout the following week. But as the Lone
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  Speaker 3: Ranger had pointed out earlier, there were still times when
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  Speaker 3: Lefty could give instructions without being overheard. The week passed,
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  Speaker 3: and one day, Peggy Hammond was sitting alone on the
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  Speaker 3: seat of a buckboard in front of the general store, and.
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  Speaker 5: Stand still there, boss.
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  Speaker 3: Why, Peggy. Peggy. I thought that was your boss' buckboard,
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  Speaker 3: but I didn't see you at first.
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  Speaker 5: Now, that's a fine thing.
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  Speaker 3: Shucks, I reckon you know how I meant it. You
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  Speaker 3: come to town alone?
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  Speaker 5: Lefty drove me in. He's in the store now.
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  Speaker 3: Jealous? Of that ordinary lowdown. I'm sorry, honey. But every
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  Speaker 3: time I think of that skunk, I get hot under
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  Speaker 3: the collar. You sure do. I got reason, I guess. Gosh, Peg,
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  Speaker 3: it seems like I never get to see you anymore.
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  Speaker 5: Pa won't let you come to the house.
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  Speaker 1: No, and he won't let you come to town unless
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  Speaker 1: him or Lefty is with you. Blast it all, it
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  Speaker 1: ain't fair.
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  Speaker 5: Do you think I like it, Pete?
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  Speaker 3: I suppose not.
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  Speaker 1: But the worst of it is being kept away from
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  Speaker 1: you on account of being blamed for something I never done.
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  Speaker 5: Pa don't blame you, Pete.
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  Speaker 1: He don't blame me. He blames all us cattlemen together.
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  Speaker 1: So it amounts to the same thing in the end.
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  Speaker 5: I'm sorry, Pete.
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  Speaker 4: Hey.
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  Speaker 5: What's the matter?
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  Speaker 3: Nothing, honey. Just got an idea is all.
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  Speaker 5: An idea?
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  Speaker 3: Uh-huh. I suppose that's left his horse tied to the
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  Speaker 3: end of the buckboard. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Then what do you say I untie it? Leave it
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  Speaker 1: at the hitch rail and put my horse in its place.
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  Speaker 5: But whatever for?
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  Speaker 3: Well, then maybe I'd.
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  Speaker 1: Climb on the buckboard with you and drive you on home.
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  Speaker 1: That way we'd have a chance to talk together. And
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  Speaker 1: as long as Lefty's horse is left behind, he wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: have to walk home either.
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  Speaker 5: Do you think we dare?
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  Speaker 3: Why not?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, but if Pa saw me with him.
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  Speaker 3: He won't. I'll leave you before we get inside of
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  Speaker 3: the house and ride on back. Then where? Say, ain't
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  Speaker 3: I a fellow with good ideas? I'll untie his horse.
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  Speaker 5: I'll watch and see he don't come out.
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  Speaker 3: Come on, fellas. Just let me get that rope now. Hurry, Pete.
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  Speaker 3: You bet. All right, horse. Over here now. Got your
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  Speaker 3: eye on him, honey?
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  Speaker 5: He's still talking to Saul.
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  Speaker 3: He'll be hopping mad about this, which will just suit
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  Speaker 3: me fine.
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  Speaker 5: Hurry and climb up.
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  Speaker 3: There we are. Hand me that whip and we'll get going. Hey, there. Oh, no.
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  Speaker 3: That Pete's all. Lefty, why couldn't you have stayed inside?
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  Speaker 3: Get down off of that wagon, you sheep killer. Lefty.
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  Speaker 3: What'd you call me? Just what you are. Now get down. Peggy,
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  Speaker 3: were you going to drive away with this Tidewinder?
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  Speaker 5: You're not my boss, Lefty.
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  Speaker 3: You're Paul here about this. Why, heavens, Pete, are you
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  Speaker 3: getting down or do I have to drag you from
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  Speaker 3: that seat? I'll get down.
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  Speaker 1: And I'll ask you to take that back, that about
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  Speaker 1: being a sheep killer.
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  Speaker 3: Take it back? Why, that's just what you are, ain't it?
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  Speaker 3: You and all them thieving dry gulch and skunks. You
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  Speaker 3: hit me. You'll pay for that. Stand up and take
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  Speaker 3: the rest you got coming. Pete, watch out. A knife.
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  Speaker 3: I'll show you. Bless you. I'll get you for that.
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  Speaker 3: I'll show you.
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  Speaker 5: He'll stab you, Pete.
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  Speaker 3: No, he won't. I'll fix you. My arm. Drop that
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  Speaker 3: knife or I'll break your arm off. Let me go.
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  Speaker 3: Let me go. Drop it. There it is. Now then.
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  Speaker 3: But you ain't got the best of me yet. Then
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  Speaker 3: take this. And this. Don't hit me. Let me go.
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  Speaker 3: You lying pool cat. I've had enough. Now here's one
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  Speaker 3: to finish up the job. No, no, no. You'll pay
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  Speaker 3: for this, Pete. You'll see if you don't. I'll fix you.
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  Speaker 3: I'll show you. You think I can't, don't you? But
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  Speaker 3: you'll wait. You'll see. No, give me that, you piggy.
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  Speaker 3: You dirty skunk.
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  Speaker 1: I'm driving a home like I saw you before.
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  Speaker 3: Get up there. Get up. I got a way to
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  Speaker 3: fix him. He'll see.
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  Speaker 1: You sure got a licking left, eh? Let me give
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  Speaker 1: you a hand to stand up. Pete didn't break a jaw,
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  Speaker 1: did he, Lefty? Get away from me.
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  Speaker 3: Let me be. I can take care of myself. I'll
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  Speaker 3: show him and you and everybody. A man's gone, Ray. Why?
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  Speaker 3: He was hit behind that building. Now, who in blazes
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  Speaker 3: was that fellow? Well, I got other things to figure
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  Speaker 3: out right now. Wait till I see Saul. Why, heaven,
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  Speaker 3: Saul had better do what I tell him. Saul! Where
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  Speaker 3: are you, Saul? Come here, blast your thief and hide.
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  Speaker 3: Where are you? Here I am, Lefty. Why didn't you
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  Speaker 3: help me out just now? Why didn't you give me
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  Speaker 3: a hand with Pete? Well, I heard a ruckus, but
• 14:25
  Speaker 3: I was too busy to pay any attention. Say, your
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  Speaker 3: eyes most swelled shut. And your shirt all ripped off here.
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  Speaker 3: What's happened? That's what Pete done. Yeah? The poor cat.
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  Speaker 3: He must have got the best of you. Maybe he
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  Speaker 3: did for now. Yes, but he... But what I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to do to him is plenty. And so, you're going
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  Speaker 3: to help him. Oh, but Lefty, I ain't no fighter.
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  Speaker 3: I could... Who's asked you to fight your yellow bag
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  Speaker 3: of bones? Just shut up and listen for once. But
• 14:52
  Speaker 3: what do you... Or would you rather I told the
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  Speaker 3: boss about how you've been cheating him on supplies... How
• 14:57
  Speaker 3: you been charging for two barrels of flour and delivering one?
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  Speaker 3: How you been doing a lot of other things? Quiet.
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  Speaker 3: Keep still. Don't lefty. Quiet. Now do you think you
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  Speaker 3: can help me? Just don't say no more about them things.
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  Speaker 3: It's blame lucky for you. Nobody else around here knows
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  Speaker 3: about your crooked tricks. Sure, lefty, sure. But please don't.
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  Speaker 3: And it's darn lucky for me the same as you.
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  Speaker 3: Because it's going to be your word and mine, Saul.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to fix Pete Lambert the way I want
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  Speaker 3: him fixed. Blast him.
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  Speaker 1: The curtain falls on the first act of our thrilling
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  Speaker 1: Lone Ranger drama.
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  Speaker 6: Before the next exciting scenes, please permit us to pause
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  Speaker 6: for just a few moments.
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  Speaker 2: The Lone Ranger.
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  Speaker 3: Now to continue our story. After the Lone Ranger had
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  Speaker 3: watched the fight in town between Pete Lambert and Lefty Curtis,
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  Speaker 3: he rode back to camp once more. Oh, Silver. Oh, Father. Oh, boy.
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  Speaker 3: You want me, Father Lefty, now? Donald, it won't be necessary.
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  Speaker 3: I think Lefty will act tomorrow. You'll find out. I
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  Speaker 3: just saw him take the beating of his life from
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  Speaker 3: Pete Lambert. He can't act today. There isn't enough time.
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  Speaker 3: He'll likely make his plans tonight and strike tomorrow. That's
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  Speaker 3: what Tonto thinks. We'll have to take the chance that
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: Lefty will act as we think he will. Him do
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  Speaker 3: that all right. I don't doubt that he will. It
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  Speaker 3: isn't like him to wait. He'll get revenge just as
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  Speaker 3: soon as he can. During the night, Tonto. Call on
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  Speaker 3: every man I told you about yesterday. I'll take care
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  Speaker 3: of the sheriff myself. Tonto, do that. Good. I think
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: we're going to end these sheep killings and bring a
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: criminal to justice at the same time. No sooner had
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: the sun set than Tonto leaped into the saddle, gave
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: a shouted command to scout, and sent the fleet horse
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: racing toward the north end of the fertile rangeland. The
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: masked man himself was in the saddle before dawn... Silver,
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: a flashing flying ghost, swept toward town, outracing the wind.
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: At length, in the first light of dawn, the Lone
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: Ranger reached his destination and drew rain in front of
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: the sheriff's home. Move, Silver! Move, boy! Sheriff, open the door!
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: Open up! Is there trouble somewhere? Just a second. I'll
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: come in. Close the door. Close it. What is this?
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: What do you want? You're already dressed. Good. Get into
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: your coat and come with me. Don't argue with my six-gun, Sheriff.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: But where are we going? What's the idea? What's that mess?
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: You and I are going to the Hammond ranch. We're
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: going to trap the men who have been killing Hammond's sheep. Hey,
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: you know who they are? Perhaps. Then tell me what
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: you know. I'm not going to tell you. I'm going
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: to show you. Now get into your coat. Give a
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: fella a chance, will you? Sheriff, what time do Hammond's
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: men leave the bunkhouse? They'll be out by dawn. Why,
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: you want to get there before they're gone? Just after
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: they're gone. Come on. This looks to me like some
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: kind of a trick. It is. Is your horse saddled?
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: I hold the saddle up before I fix me my breakfast.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: He's standing around the side of the house.
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: Get him. He'll come when I call. Here, Chief. Come here, boy.
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: But you just admitted this is a trick. Not on you, Sheriff,
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: on the crooks. Yeah? Well, I ain't got nothing but
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: your word for it. Which you'll have to take. If
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: I wasn't covered up... We're going to Hammond's place, you say?
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: We are steady, Silver. Hey, what did you call that?
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: Don't stop the talk. Get going. Come on, Silver. Get up.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: Get up there.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: Now, with the early sun to light their way.
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: The masked man and the sheriff sent their.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: Mounts plunging down the trail toward the distant Hammond Ranch house.
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: When they left the main trail, the sound of their
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: horses' hoofs brought both Hammond and his daughters to the
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: door of their home. A mask for us. Come on, Phil.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: Up the steps. Is it a holdup? It isn't, Peggy.
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: You needn't be alarmed. Well, if it ain't a holdup,
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: what's the mask for? And why the gun? I'm making
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: sure you do as you're told. Who's inside the house? Why,
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: no one. Your men. Where are they? Out on the
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: range where they belong. And there's no one but you
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: with the ranch now?
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: No one but the cook.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: Good. Now inside with you, all three. Hey, you can't... Inside,
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: I said.
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: Please, Pop, don't argue with him.
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: I'd argue if I had a six-gun in my hand. Inside.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: You too, Sheriff.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: I wish you would explain what you're up to.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: You'll learn before I'm through. Now take chairs and place
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: them in front of the window. so that they face
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: that barn across the yard.
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: This is the doggonest hocus pocus I ever heard tell of.
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: There's a reason for it.
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: The only reason is that them cattlemen are up to
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: some trick again.
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: Now then, Hammond, you can see the door of that
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: barn over there. Tell me this. Is there any other
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: way it can be entered or left? Well, Astrid, what's
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: the idea of a fool question like that? I expect
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: an answer.
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: Well, that door's the only way I know of to
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: get in or out, short of busting in the side.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: Of the barn. Very well. The three of you are
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: staying right where you are. You're keeping your eyes on
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: that barn. I don't know how long you'll have to
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: stay here, but I do know this. You will stay
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: and make no attempt to make a break for it.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: The End.
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: In the meantime, at some distance from the ranch house,
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: Lefty Curtis was standing beside his horse. He kept looking impatiently,
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: first at the broad expanse of range that was spread
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: out below him, then over his shoulder toward the trail
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: from town. At last, he heard a horse approaching. Whoa there. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: I couldn't make it no sooner, Lefty. Well, you're late enough, so...
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: But what I want to know is what's keeping Pedro
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: and Fritz. They're even later than you are. You said nobody,
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: but you was going to see me here. Don't get
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: head up. We ain't meeting the boys. I picked out
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: this place up here so we could see them when
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: they got started. Yeah, look down below. See where them
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: sheep are scattered out? Uh-huh. Well, Fritz and Pedro will
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: come riding from over beyond there. They'll get the sheep
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: started with the dogs, then head them for the canyon. Now,
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: you send the dogs? Won't they try to keep the
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: sheep out of danger? Ha, ha, ha. They won't be
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: needed after the sheep is bunched. The boys will shoot them. Oh.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: That'll get Hammond madder than losing his critter's will. Why'd
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: we have to come here at all? You gave them
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: their orders, didn't you? Yeah, and I'm making sure they're obeyed.
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: There they are. It took them long enough. They got
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: the dogs rounding up the sheep now. Let's see. Five
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: minutes to get them in a flock. Fifteen or so
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: to reach a canyon. More than an hour for us
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: to get back to the ranch house. It's safe enough.
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: Come on. Blast you. Stand still. All right, Saul. Here's
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: where Pete Lambert and his friends are fixed for good
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: and all. Get up. Get along there. Get up there.
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: Get up. Get up. Back at the ranch house, Hammond,
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: his daughter, Peggy, and the sheriff were forced to obey
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: the masked man. The hours dragged by slowly as they
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: watched the barn the Lone Ranger had pointed out. Dad,
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: rat it, masked man.
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: Can't we take a walk around or do something or other?
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: I'm getting so tired of sitting in one place I'm
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: beginning to ache.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: You'll stay where you are. Sure, if I ain't heard
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: you complain none at all. You must like being kept prisoner.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: It ain't that I like it, Hammond. Just that I'm
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: reserved in judgment. Reserved in judgment? Look. See something, Peggy?
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: It's Lefty, riding back to the house.
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: What's bringing him here? Well, by thunder, that's all with him. Maskfella,
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: you figure on making them prisoners, too?
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: No. They're drawn up. They look kind of excited.
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: Sheriff, if the cattlemen have been up to something, and
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: you let this stranger hold us here.
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: Boss, that... What the... Don't slap leather, Lefty. You dirty killer.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: Has this fellow held you up, Hammond? Not so far. Lefty,
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: what are you doing back at the ranch house this
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: time of day? Gosh, your maskfella near drove it out
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: of my head. Boss, them cattlemen got your sheep again.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: Watch them. But this time they wasn't as slick as
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: they thought they was. Go on, Saul, tell them what
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: you've seen. By heaven, Saul, did you see something? Well...
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: It was like this, Hammond. I, uh... Get on with it!
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: I'm not trying to.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: I was riding over towards the old resident place, figuring
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: on having a look at the house and maybe buying.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: It, and, uh... You doggone putter and old fool. Get
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: to the point. Well, I was just trying to explain
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: how I happened to be riding near Big Smoky Canyon.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: That's where the sheep was drove over? Uh-huh. And was
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: Pete Lambert and Ike Billings at Denny's? No.
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: Oh, no, it couldn't have been.
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: Didn't you just hear Saul say so? You couldn't get
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: around that, Peggy. How many did they kill this time?
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: Saul looked me up and we rode over. Judging roughly,
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: I'd say somewhere between 75 and 100. And, Sol, you
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: seen Pete Knight so you could swear to it? Well, I...
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: Go on. Sure. Sure I could swear to it. I
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: seen him plain, stranger. Yes, Sheriff?
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: I wasn't saying anything while you held this here because
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: I heard what you called your horse.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: That and the mask you're wearing put me in mind
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: of a fellow I'd heard of.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Well, either you ain't the fella I thought you was,
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: or he ain't the kind of fella most folks think
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: he is.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: You think I was in on the plot to kill
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: Hammond's sheep?
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: You must have been. And I'll see you hung for it.
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: Maybe you've got the drop on us now, Maskfella, but
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: you'll get yours before I'm through.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: I'll show you something. Watch that barn. Maybe then you'll
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: understand why I forced you to stay here. You can't
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: fool us no more. Wait. Pete, Ike, all of you,
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: come out. Now, what?
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: There's Pete and Ike Billings and there's Thurston and there's
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: two cowhands.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: Well, I'll be doggoned. And there's Westover and Lock and
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: then the Roper boys. They must have... In that barn
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: all the time. Every cattleman that uses the range was there.
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: You said yourself there was no way in or out
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: of that barn except by the door you were watching.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: There wasn't a cattleman free to destroy the sheep, as
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: Saul and Lefty claimed they did. But I don't say...
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: Come on in, fellas. Feed all of you. There's some
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: explaining to be done here. Howdy, Peggy. Howdy, Mr.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: Hammond.
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: Am I gone, loco? Saul says Pete and I killed
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: my sheep. But me and the sheriff and Peggy here
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: know blamed well it was in my barn all the time.
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: Now, how's that going to be explained? It was a
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: scheme of Lefty's. I didn't know Saul was in on it.
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: There's no doubt Lefty used him so that the evidence
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: would be clinching. It's a lie.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: It seems to me, Saul, it must have been you
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: that were straying from the truth.
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: You've seen for yourself. Pete and I didn't do it. Well, I...
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: Must have been some other fellows you've seen. Yeah, Lefty.
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: I reckon it was. But you both know the sheep
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: were destroyed, of course. Sure we do. That's why we
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: thought it was a cattleman. Tonto just rode up with
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: two horsemen. Perhaps he'll have something to say about that.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: Come on in, Tonto. The ancient's got a gun on
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: Pedro and Fritz. I have done nothing, senor. Nothing, I
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: swear it. Let the ancient let us go, will you?
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: We can't be blamed for what we've never done.
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: You stopped them in time, Tonto? Ah, me follow them.
• 26:10
  Speaker 6: Them head flock for canyon. Then me make them stop.
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: Then the sheep are safe.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: That right. Good work, Himasabi. Now, Lefty and you, Saul.
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: How do you explain reporting those sheep killed when they
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: haven't been? Well, I don't know. Well, maybe it's all
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: lied to me. You ain't going to make me the
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: goat for this, Lefty. You ain't going to leave me
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: holding the bag. I never wanted to have.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: Nothing to do with this trick in the first place.
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: It was you made me do it. Si, that is so, senor. Lefty,
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: he make us do what he say. That is the truth.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: That clinches it. You're all under arrest. Take him out, boys.
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: Mr.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Hammond, I hope you ain't going to bring me and
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: the other ranchers here no more for the trouble there's been.
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: Of course not, Pete. But I don't see why Lefty... Well,
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: the engine told us about that part of it, Mr. Hammond.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: You see, Lefty figured on Mary and Peggy. But he was.
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: I know, honey. But Lefty didn't.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: And he figured with his self married to Peggy, the
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: ranch turned over to him, and us cattlemen drove off the.
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: Range, he'd be kingpin in these parts. And the engine
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: said something more, Sheriff.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: He said if you looked it up, you'd find where
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: Lefty used to call himself Notch Hopkins.
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: And Notch Hopkins was.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: One of Big Bill Nyberg's gang.
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: Now, where'd that mash fella get to? I got some
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: apologies to make to him. I... Dog gone. I should
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: have known he wouldn't wait to be thanked.
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: But why wouldn't he, Sheriff?
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: If you folks guessed who he was like I did,
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: you wouldn't ask me that.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: Friends, that masked fellow was the Lone Ranger.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: The Lone Ranger.
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: Come on, Silver, old boy! There's justice to be done
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: in Cedarville! Hi-ho, Silver! Hawaii!
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: THE END.
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: THE END.
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: THE END The story you have just heard is a
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: copyrighted feature of the Lone Ranger Incorporated.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: And so we leave the Lone Ranger with sheep killers.
• 30:07
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