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The Lone Ranger - "Reign of Terror in Selena County" (Old Time Radio, 1939) · The Lone Ranger | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: From October 27th, 1939, comes episode 1054 of The Lone Ranger.
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  Speaker 1: The title is Reign of Terror in Salina County. Settle
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  Speaker 1: in for another visit to radio's western range. And now,
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  Speaker 1: our story begins.
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  Speaker 2: The Lone Ranger Hiyo Silver, away!
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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 the hearty Hiyo Silver, the Lone Ranger.
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  Speaker 4: The Lone Ranger.
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  Speaker 2: THE END THE END In the early days of the
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  Speaker 2: western United States, the pioneers had to fight Indians and
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  Speaker 2: outlaws to protect their lives and property. Even when the
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  Speaker 2: frontier became more civilized, gun law still ruled the range country.
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  Speaker 3: And it was not until the masked rider of the
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  Speaker 3: plains started his great fight for justice that the local
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  Speaker 3: sheriffs were able to preserve.
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  Speaker 5: Law and order.
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  Speaker 3: Return with us now to those thrilling days when the
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  Speaker 3: West was young. From out of the past come the
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  Speaker 3: thundering hoofbeats of the great horse Silver. The Lone Ranger
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  Speaker 3: rides again.
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  Speaker 5: Come on, Silver! We're heading for Salina County!
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  Speaker 6: How are you, Silver?
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  Speaker 5: How are you?
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  Speaker 7: The worst reign of terror the district had ever known
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  Speaker 7: had come to Salina County.
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  Speaker 5: What had started as a.
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  Speaker 7: Minor quarrel between the owners of two great ranches had
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  Speaker 7: developed swiftly into a feud, dividing the county into two
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  Speaker 7: armed camps. Business in Salina City, the county's seat, was paralyzed.
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  Speaker 7: Few men dared to ride the open range alone. Fear
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  Speaker 7: and hatred had destroyed the normal life of the community.
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  Speaker 7: And in the face of this, the law was helpless.
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  Speaker 8: The gimbals just shot Clay Bowman.
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  Speaker 5: Sheriff! Sheriff!
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  Speaker 9: Come around here! Hurry!
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  Speaker 5: Stay where you are!
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  Speaker 9: Hey, hold on!
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  Speaker 5: Hurry, Sheriff! We can't wait!
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  Speaker 2: Come on, boys!
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  Speaker 9: Let's go!
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  Speaker 10: Get up!
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  Speaker 9: Get up! I want a posse to follow them fellas.
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  Speaker 8: I'm swearing in everybody here. You ain't swearing me in, Sheriff.
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  Speaker 8: I'm staying out of this.
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  Speaker 6: Me too.
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  Speaker 5: You want them fellas, Sheriff? Go get them yourselves. You're
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  Speaker 5: a bunch of spineless cowards. We're looking out for our health.
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  Speaker 5: And you better tend to Clay. There he is, laying
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  Speaker 5: in front of the feed store. Someone must have tipped
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  Speaker 5: off the Kindles. He's coming to town today. Bad hurt, Clayton.
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  Speaker 6: Where'd they get you?
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  Speaker 5: My shoulder, Tim. Bullet range clean through it. Clayton, you
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  Speaker 5: shouldn't have come to town.
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  Speaker 6: Was there a trick this time, Sheriff?
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  Speaker 5: But it'll be our turn next.
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  Speaker 6: One day we're going to plant every blasted Kimble six
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  Speaker 6: feet under.
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  Speaker 11: Oh, give me a hand on my feet.
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  Speaker 7: Brought to Salina County by news of the feud raging there,
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  Speaker 7: the Lone Ranger and his faithful Indian companion, Tonto, entered
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  Speaker 7: the district by the north trail. Suddenly, a band of
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  Speaker 7: riders rounded a turn in the trail and.
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  Speaker 5: Come on.
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  Speaker 6: Man, with the Redskins.
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  Speaker 5: What's your handle, mister? That's my business.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah? Well, I'm making it mine. I'm Duke Kimball. He's here,
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  Speaker 6: some of my men. Yes? Everybody comes into Salini County
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  Speaker 6: is either for us or against us. Which are you?
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  Speaker 5: I'm not against you. You'd better not. And I'm not
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  Speaker 5: for you.
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  Speaker 6: You looking for trouble?
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  Speaker 5: I am. It seems as though I came to the
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  Speaker 5: right place to find it.
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  Speaker 6: I don't like the way you talk. I don't like
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  Speaker 6: the way you dress, nor the mask you wear, nor
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  Speaker 6: the engine you travel with. Fact is, I don't see
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  Speaker 6: nothing about you like... Hey, you want to make something
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  Speaker 6: out of that?
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  Speaker 5: Right. Watch out! Get him with you! You're coming with me!
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  Speaker 3: Your men fire, they'll have you for a target! Follow me, Tonto!
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  Speaker 8: Let him up, Scully!
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  Speaker 5: Come on, Silver! One side! Out of the way! One
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  Speaker 5: side against Pebble!
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  Speaker 6: Stop him, fellas!
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  Speaker 9: Make him let go of me!
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  Speaker 5: Shoot, you fools!
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  Speaker 6: Blast him!
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  Speaker 11: We can't go in the way!
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  Speaker 4: Come on! Come on, old man!
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  Speaker 5: That won't be in the air. You'll pay for this.
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  Speaker 5: You'll pay. Quiet.
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  Speaker 9: Hurry, old fellow.
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  Speaker 5: Get him up, scoundrel. Get him up.
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  Speaker 6: Let go of me.
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  Speaker 9: Let me go, I say.
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  Speaker 2: There.
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  Speaker 3: Now get down. Maybe this will teach you a lesson.
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  Speaker 3: Go back and join your men. Tell them the next
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  Speaker 3: time we meet on the trail to stay out.
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  Speaker 5: Of our way.
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  Speaker 6: I'll tell them to shoot you on sight.
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  Speaker 5: But there's a game two can play. Come on, boy.
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  Speaker 9: I'll get you.
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  Speaker 5: I'll get the both of you.
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  Speaker 3: Wait.
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  Speaker 5: Just wait and see if I know.
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  Speaker 7: That night, Salina County's discouraged sheriff came.
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  Speaker 5: To a decision.
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  Speaker 7: He stepped to the door of his office, opened it,
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  Speaker 7: and called outside to his chief deputy.
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  Speaker 5: Ray, come in here. Want me, Sheriff?
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  Speaker 11: Come inside.
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  Speaker 5: What's up?
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  Speaker 8: I made up my mind or something, Ray, and I
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  Speaker 8: want you to be the fellow to know it first.
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  Speaker 8: Most likely, you'll be chosen to fill my boots.
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  Speaker 5: Huh? Fill your boots? What are you talking about? Hey,
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  Speaker 5: what are you taking your badge off for? There she is.
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  Speaker 11: I'm resigning.
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  Speaker 9: What?
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  Speaker 8: The job's got too big for me, or else I
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  Speaker 8: just ain't the man to handle it.
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  Speaker 5: I've thought it all out.
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  Speaker 8: This ain't gonna be an easy thing for me to do,
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  Speaker 8: but it's all there is to do.
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  Speaker 5: I gotta make way for another man. Sheriff, you can't
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  Speaker 5: blame yourself. Why not? Somebody's to blame, ain't they?
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  Speaker 8: I'm the law here. Well, I'm supposed to be. If
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  Speaker 8: I ain't to blame, then who is? The Kimball's and
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  Speaker 8: the Bowman's. Which same I ought to be able to
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  Speaker 8: keep in line.
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  Speaker 5: You're staying in office, Sheriff.
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  Speaker 6: Walk and bring a mask back.
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  Speaker 5: There's no need to reach for your guns. I'm not
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  Speaker 5: an outlaw. Came here to have a little talk with you, Sheriff.
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  Speaker 5: What about? The feud between the Kimbles and the Bowmans.
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  Speaker 5: Are they taking the hiring gunmen? I don't know. Are they?
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  Speaker 5: Ain't you one? I'm not. What are you wearing? I
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  Speaker 5: heard part of.
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  Speaker 3: What was said in here before I came inside. Sheriff,
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  Speaker 3: I heard you say that you were resigning. I see
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  Speaker 3: that you've taken off your badge. I hope that you'll
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  Speaker 3: take it back.
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  Speaker 11: That's funny talk.
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  Speaker 3: Your deputy's right. You can't blame yourself for conditions in
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  Speaker 3: your county. When almost everyone has taken sides, there's not
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  Speaker 3: enough of the public left to enforce law and order.
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  Speaker 3: Without the public behind it, the law can do little. Sure,
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  Speaker 3: that's just the point I was trying to make.
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  Speaker 5: Let's see. Why would a masked fellow like you talk
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  Speaker 5: like that? I want to help the sheriff.
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  Speaker 11: Ah, help me.
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  Speaker 3: Who's in the right in this fight? Who started it?
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  Speaker 3: Who's responsible for keeping it up?
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  Speaker 11: Why.
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  Speaker 8: I guess when you come right down to it, both
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  Speaker 8: sides started it. You see, old man Kimball got into
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  Speaker 8: an argument with Steve Bowman. And after the fur had
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  Speaker 8: quit flying, things was a mess.
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  Speaker 5: Sure, but it's Duke that's made things as bad as
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  Speaker 5: they are. Duke? I believe I met him today. He's
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  Speaker 5: old man Kimball's nephew. When the old man's gone, the
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  Speaker 5: place will be his. What's he been doing?
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  Speaker 12: Well, the sheriff don't believe it. But I'm here to
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  Speaker 12: say that Duke wants a few to go on. I
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  Speaker 12: don't know why, but it's the only thing that explains
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  Speaker 12: some of the things he's done. Well, just last month,
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  Speaker 12: we might have got Steve Bowman and old man Kimmel
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  Speaker 12: to talk things over peaceable if it hadn't been for him.
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  Speaker 12: And it was he that started the fighting in town, too.
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  Speaker 12: For a while, Salina City was sort of a neutral ground,
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  Speaker 12: you might say. The fight was done outside.
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  Speaker 5: I see.
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  Speaker 3: Remember what I told you, Cheryl. Stay in office. The
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  Speaker 3: situation may get better. You'll learn later on.
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  Speaker 5: We ride to the Kimball place, Tudor. What's we do there?
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  Speaker 5: Remember that fellow who tried to cause us trouble on
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  Speaker 5: the trail today? Ah, him, that fellow. His name's Duke Kimball.
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  Speaker 9: Come on!
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  Speaker 7: Although Duke acted as his uncle's foreman and lived with
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  Speaker 7: him in the great Kimball ranch house... he preferred to
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  Speaker 7: spend his time in the company of the crew. That evening,
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  Speaker 7: he was talking with them in the bunkhouse and.
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  Speaker 3: Duke, I ain't asked you yet about that fellow you
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  Speaker 3: met up with on the trail today, the masked fellow.
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  Speaker 5: The boy's been telling me he kind of made monkeys
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  Speaker 5: out of them.
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  Speaker 6: That won't happen a second time.
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  Speaker 5: He sure savvied how to handle himself. Who was he?
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  Speaker 5: Somebody working for the bowmen? I don't know. We never
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  Speaker 5: found out.
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  Speaker 6: Most likely wasn't. We'd have heard if he was. Not
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  Speaker 6: him and the engine are strangers, I reckon. If they
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  Speaker 6: got any sense at all, they'll head back where they
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  Speaker 6: came from. They'll find getting off to the start they
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  Speaker 6: did in Salina County ain't exactly healthy.
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  Speaker 5: Seen your uncle since you was in town?
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  Speaker 6: Was he asking for me?
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  Speaker 5: You might call it that. Between cusses, he was right mad.
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  Speaker 6: Because we shot Clay Bowman?
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  Speaker 10: I reckon.
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  Speaker 13: I've got a notion he'd like to find some way
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  Speaker 13: to call the whole thing off, Duke.
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  Speaker 11: I think it's getting him some way.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah. Well, we don't call off nothing till every last
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  Speaker 6: Bowman's been run out of the county.
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  Speaker 5: There's room for.
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  Speaker 6: Just one top outfit here, and it's going to be us.
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  Speaker 5: Well, here's your chance to tell them how you feel, Duke. Huh?
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  Speaker 5: He's coming here. I've just seen him pass in the window.
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  Speaker 6: He don't scare me.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, Prince Boris. Duke.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: Get out of here. I want to talk to you. Sure.
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  Speaker 6: I'll be back before you turn in, fellas. Well?
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  Speaker 11: Why didn't you come to see me when you got
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  Speaker 11: back from town?
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  Speaker 5: Huh?
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  Speaker 6: What for? Something you wanted me to do?
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  Speaker 11: I want an explanation for what happened there.
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  Speaker 6: You mean Clay, huh?
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  Speaker 11: I do.
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  Speaker 6: Boy, shucks, it weren't nothing. None of the boys got hurt.
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  Speaker 11: Johnson rode by this evening. He says Clay Bowman might die.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah? What of it?
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  Speaker 11: This has gone far.
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  Speaker 5: Enough, Duke.
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  Speaker 3: I'll admit I'm to blame in part for all that's happened.
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  Speaker 3: I'll admit it was Steve Bowman and me that was
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  Speaker 3: the cause of it. But it can't go on. Somehow,
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  Speaker 3: this fighting's got to be stopped.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, it's to be stopped, is it?
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  Speaker 10: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: How about the fellas drawing Kimball pay that would kill
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  Speaker 6: fighting for us? We're to forget them? We're to go
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  Speaker 6: to the Bowmans and say, well, you murdered friends of ours,
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  Speaker 6: but that don't matter.
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  Speaker 5: Just pass it off.
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  Speaker 6: We ain't holding grudges. Kill some more if you're a
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  Speaker 6: mind to. We ain't backing them up. You'd make us
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  Speaker 6: out a pack of cowards.
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  Speaker 5: Good men have died on both sides.
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  Speaker 6: There ain't half enough died yet on the other side.
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  Speaker 5: You can tell you.
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  Speaker 6: Now ain't life finished. Those men in here in the bunkhouse.
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  Speaker 6: Expect me to face them and tell them we're coming
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  Speaker 6: to terms with the Bowmans and all the fighting they've
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  Speaker 6: done is wasted, huh? You tell them that. You tell
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  Speaker 6: them that those of them that died, died for just
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  Speaker 6: nothing at all. I dare you. You figure it's just
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  Speaker 6: our fight? If you do, you're crazy. It's got to
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  Speaker 6: where it's their fight just as much as ours.
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  Speaker 11: Well, I see there's no use talking to you.
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  Speaker 6: You bet there ain't.
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  Speaker 11: You seem to.
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  Speaker 5: Forget I'm the owner here.
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  Speaker 6: Forget? I ain't forgetting nothing. You're doing that. You're forgetting
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  Speaker 6: that paying wages don't give you the right to tell
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  Speaker 6: men to act like yellow coyotes.
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  Speaker 3: Duke, you're like most the others around here. You've done
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  Speaker 3: so much killing that you've lost the power to see
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  Speaker 3: things straight. You've got the whole thing twisted in your mind.
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  Speaker 3: All the time you're getting worse.
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  Speaker 6: I got my own opinion about that.
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  Speaker 11: Well, I'm sorry we can't see things the same way.
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  Speaker 11: I'm going back to the house. Better come along pretty quick.
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  Speaker 11: And think it over tonight. Maybe tomorrow you'll see where
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  Speaker 11: I'm right.
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  Speaker 5: Good night.
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  Speaker 6: Tomorrow won't be no different from today. You old fool
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  Speaker 6: trying to tell me what to do.
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  Speaker 5: Heard the conversation, Duke.
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  Speaker 11: Talked right up to your uncle, didn't you?
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  Speaker 6: Said he didn't scare me, didn't I?
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  Speaker 5: Maybe you'd better be scared.
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  Speaker 6: Might show more sense.
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  Speaker 11: He don't have to leave you the ranch, you know.
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  Speaker 10: No?
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  Speaker 6: No. Say, I savvy him like the palm of my hand.
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  Speaker 6: He'd no more think of leaving a place to anybody
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  Speaker 6: but me than, well, than he'd think of shooting his settle.
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  Speaker 6: That don't worry me none.
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  Speaker 11: So the fighting keeps on, huh?
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  Speaker 6: Till the last bowman's gone and the Kimball's boss of
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  Speaker 6: the county.
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  Speaker 13: Maybe I ain't real smart, but just what good is
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  Speaker 13: it gonna do you? Like your uncle said, he's still
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  Speaker 13: the owner.
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  Speaker 6: For now.
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  Speaker 5: Huh? After him, I am.
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  Speaker 11: Well, you've got plenty long to wait.
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  Speaker 5: He's good for another 30 years anyhow.
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  Speaker 6: Maybe.
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  Speaker 5: Meaning?
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  Speaker 6: Meaning that maybe it won't be so long till I
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  Speaker 6: own the place as some folks think.
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  Speaker 5: What are you doing?
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  Speaker 6: I've said all I'm going to. Just think it over.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe you'd better think it over, Duke. What the? Or
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  Speaker 5: run into trouble you didn't expect. Duke. Duke, it's a
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  Speaker 5: mask man. Come on, kill me.
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  Speaker 6: He was listening to us. And he said I'd run
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  Speaker 6: into trouble, huh? Well, let me get my hands on
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  Speaker 6: that fellow and anything comes my way won't be a
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  Speaker 6: patch on what I'll do to him.
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  Speaker 7: The curtain falls on the first act of our Lone
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  Speaker 7: Ranger story. Before the next exciting scenes, please permit us
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  Speaker 7: to pause for just a few moments.
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  Speaker 2: THE END THE END.
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  Speaker 5: Now to continue our story.
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  Speaker 7: It was late in the afternoon of the next day
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  Speaker 7: that a rider approached the Bowman Ranch house by a
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  Speaker 7: roundabout roof. Keeping the ranch house between himself and the
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  Speaker 7: corrals beyond, he finally reined in, dismounted swiftly, and took
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  Speaker 7: the steps leading to the front porch two.
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  Speaker 5: At a time.
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  Speaker 2: Judd, get in here.
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  Speaker 5: Who's around? Nobody.
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  Speaker 11: Jenny's in with Clayton.
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  Speaker 5: Anybody see you come here?
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  Speaker 11: I don't think so.
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  Speaker 6: I rode up from the south.
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  Speaker 5: I've only got.
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  Speaker 6: A minute, because Duke will be expecting me at the
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  Speaker 6: bunkhouse before dark.
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  Speaker 11: He don't suspicion you're working for me, does he? Think
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  Speaker 11: I'd be alive to tell it if he did?
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  Speaker 13: No, I've got him convinced I'm just about his right-hand man.
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  Speaker 5: You've got news or you wouldn't have come here. What's up?
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  Speaker 11: Look, Mr. Bowman, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Kimball would like to see this fight stopped.
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  Speaker 11: That don't surprise me. He's no fool.
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  Speaker 5: But it won't. Because Duke's got plans of his own.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 11: In the first place, he aims to be top dog
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  Speaker 11: around here.
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  Speaker 5: He can never be there.
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  Speaker 11: As long as you and Clayton are in the same county.
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  Speaker 5: He figures he's got to run you out. Only we
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  Speaker 5: don't run. Well, that ain't all.
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  Speaker 13: I got a notion from some things he's entered that
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  Speaker 13: he's scheming something against his uncle besides. I got a
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  Speaker 13: notion just as soon as he gets you licked, his
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  Speaker 13: uncle ain't gonna have long to live.
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  Speaker 5: Get us licked? Why, is that dirty?
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  Speaker 13: I'm just telling it to you the way he's got
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  Speaker 13: it figured. But there's more news still.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: He's gonna ride here with every man he can get together.
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  Speaker 6: He's gonna try to finish you off or chase you
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  Speaker 6: out once and for all.
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  Speaker 5: You sure of that?
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  Speaker 6: He was talking about it this morning.
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  Speaker 11: How many men can he get?
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: Close to 50. You got that many, Mr.
• 17:51
  Speaker 11: Bowman?
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: Not over 30.
• 17:52
  Speaker 10: He even figured on the Circulo outfit to fight on
• 17:55
  Speaker 10: our side.
• 17:55
  Speaker 6: Well, at least you got warning. When's he planning to
• 17:58
  Speaker 6: do all this?
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: Come on, Knight, late.
• 18:00
  Speaker 11: They're hoping to take you by surprise. Once they run
• 18:02
  Speaker 11: you off, they figure to.
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: Fire your buildings.
• 18:04
  Speaker 10: Well, we'll be waiting for them. And I can tell
• 18:07
  Speaker 10: you now, they won't have the walk over.
• 18:08
  Speaker 6: They're scheming.
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: Then I got to be going.
• 18:10
  Speaker 11: Tail seems to be clear. Don't see nobody.
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: Hey, Mr. Bowman, whose white horse is that just yonder?
• 18:19
  Speaker 9: I don't know.
• 18:20
  Speaker 10: Mine.
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: What?
• 18:20
  Speaker 9: The mass man again.
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: Careful. Keep your hands from your holsters.
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: I followed you here, Judd. I thought perhaps Duke had
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: sent you to make an attempt on Bowman's life.
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: Judd works for me. So I found out. That's all
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: the better. Stranger, who are you?
• 18:33
  Speaker 13: What's your stake in this?
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: First I thought you was again Duke, but now I
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: can't see... I told Duke the truth that day on
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: the trail. I'm not for either side.
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: Then what if.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: All I want is to see this fighting brought to
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: an end before more men are killed.
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: Bowman.
• 18:47
  Speaker 11: Well?
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: Kimball wants peace. From all I can gather, you do also.
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: On fair terms.
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: Kimball can't control his men because Duke has them convinced
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: they're fighting as much for themselves as they are for
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: the outfit that employs them.
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: Judge told me as much. How about your men?
• 19:01
  Speaker 11: Well, the boys think a heap of clait. More than
• 19:03
  Speaker 11: they do of me.
• 19:05
  Speaker 10: They won't never host to their shooting arms till they've
• 19:07
  Speaker 10: paid the Kimballs back.
• 19:09
  Speaker 6: Not even if I asked them to.
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: But if they were shown this entire fight was engineered
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: just for the sake of one man's ambition.
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: The ambition of a man who would murder.
• 19:17
  Speaker 11: Huh? What do you mean?
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: You're referring to Duke.
• 19:20
  Speaker 11: Right.
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: You know as well as I, Judd. This fight reached
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: the proportions it did for just one reason. Because Duke
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: plans first to make the Kimball outfit the most powerful
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: ranch in the county. And second, to become the owner
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: of the Kimball ranch. Even if it means murder.
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: Sure, I know it.
• 19:34
  Speaker 10: And if the crews knew it, Duke would be lucky
• 19:37
  Speaker 10: to get out of the county alive.
• 19:39
  Speaker 11: But even if you accused him to his face, he'd
• 19:40
  Speaker 11: just deny it.
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: Of course.
• 19:42
  Speaker 6: Well, then what do you.
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: Would you admit if it were proved that fighting would
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: be brought to an end? Well, I should smile. It would.
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: Then the fighting will end. Take my word for it, Bolton.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: The feud between your outfit and Kimball's will be finished
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: tomorrow night.
• 19:53
  Speaker 7: The masked man explained the plan he had in mind.
• 20:09
  Speaker 7: And when he finished, Judd left the Bowman Ranch house,
• 20:12
  Speaker 7: mounted and returned to the Kimball place. After unsaddling and
• 20:15
  Speaker 7: turning his mount into the corral, he found Duke and
• 20:18
  Speaker 7: quietly suggested they work together in the future.
• 20:22
  Speaker 6: Judd, you're quicker on the uptake than I'd even figured you.
• 20:26
  Speaker 6: I got a notion you're going to be a real
• 20:28
  Speaker 6: good man to have around. Shucks, it was plain enough
• 20:31
  Speaker 6: what you was hinting last night, Duke.
• 20:33
  Speaker 13: And I don't mind saying you're the kind of hombre
• 20:35
  Speaker 13: I'd like to tie to.
• 20:37
  Speaker 6: When you know what you want, you go out and
• 20:39
  Speaker 6: get it. Well, that's my style.
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: We could make a team.
• 20:43
  Speaker 6: Doggone if I don't think so, too.
• 20:47
  Speaker 13: There's plenty of reason why as long as you figure
• 20:49
  Speaker 13: to get your uncle out of the way.
• 20:50
  Speaker 11: Anyhow, now's the time to do it. Well.
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: Just figure it for yourself.
• 20:55
  Speaker 13: After tomorrow night, if everything goes according to plan, the Bowmans.
• 20:59
  Speaker 11: Will be finished.
• 20:59
  Speaker 6: You bet they will. All right.
• 21:01
  Speaker 13: When that's done, then the fighting's over. And if your
• 21:05
  Speaker 13: uncle's still alive after the fighting... It's going to be
• 21:07
  Speaker 13: harder to get rid of them later on without questions
• 21:09
  Speaker 13: being asked.
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: Uh-huh.
• 21:11
  Speaker 13: Finish them off now.
• 21:12
  Speaker 11: They can be blamed on the Bowmans. It's just what
• 21:15
  Speaker 11: folks would expect.
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: Just be part of the trouble that's gone before.
• 21:19
  Speaker 11: That's so.
• 21:20
  Speaker 13: Then you'd be owner of the ranch right now. If
• 21:27
  Speaker 13: your uncle was killed and the Bowmans blamed for it...
• 21:29
  Speaker 13: then the men are going to raid tomorrow night more
• 21:31
  Speaker 13: willing than ever. They'd be riding to get even. If
• 21:34
  Speaker 13: they was outnumbered two to one, which they won't be...
• 21:36
  Speaker 13: they'd still be fighting mad raring to pay the Bowmans off.
• 21:41
  Speaker 13: Don't that make sense?
• 21:42
  Speaker 6: It does. Well, then, that's what we do. And even
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: you ain't seen one good reason for it, Judd.
• 21:50
  Speaker 11: What's that?
• 21:51
  Speaker 6: If he was to see us getting ready to leave tomorrow...
• 21:54
  Speaker 6: And to be bound to, he'd do his best to
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: try and stop us. Might get some of the boys
• 21:59
  Speaker 6: to think him. This way, he won't be there to meddle,
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: and anything I order will go without question.
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: Yes, sir.
• 22:07
  Speaker 6: But how?
• 22:10
  Speaker 11: Leave that to me, Duke.
• 22:12
  Speaker 6: I got it all figured out.
• 22:16
  Speaker 11: Just leave it to me.
• 22:23
  Speaker 7: Late the following evening, Duke was sitting with his uncle
• 22:25
  Speaker 7: in the living room of the ranch house. Suddenly he rose,
• 22:29
  Speaker 7: walked to the hook where his gun belt and holsters
• 22:31
  Speaker 7: were hanging, and lifted them down.
• 22:34
  Speaker 11: His uncle watched him for a moment, and then.
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: Duke, what do you think you're up to?
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: Oh, just stepping over to the bunkhouse.
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: That's all.
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: What are you strapping them guns on for?
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: They won't be needed.
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: Well, wear them if I want to.
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: Duke, you're planning something.
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: The mortuary all evening.
• 22:52
  Speaker 11: Been acting nervous as a cat. Now, what's this about?
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: Don't interfere.
• 22:57
  Speaker 11: I've noticed the men. Even they've been acting like something's up.
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: You've been noticing too much.
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: Duke, you ain't going out. You're going to stay.
• 23:04
  Speaker 6: You fool.
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: I've been too easy with you. I've let you go
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: too far on your own. You got around the way
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: you think. You're the boss of the place.
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: Instead of me, I.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: Duke.
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: Duke, put that gun back. Shut up.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: Duke, no.
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: Now, what are you doing, Duke?
• 23:17
  Speaker 6: I'm setting things here and now. I'm coming out in
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: the open and showing you just where I stand. I'm
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: the boss here.
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: You're finished. You're done with. No, Duke, no.
• 23:25
  Speaker 6: And you ain't standing in my way no longer.
• 23:26
  Speaker 9: No.
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: Take it. No.
• 23:34
  Speaker 6: Where'd them shots come from?
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: Sounded like they'd come from the house. What's happened? Maybe
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: it's a raid.
• 23:42
  Speaker 6: Boys!
• 23:43
  Speaker 9: Hi, boys!
• 23:44
  Speaker 8: Where's Duke?
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: Hey, Duke! Who fired them shots? Somebody shoot at you.
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: What's the trouble? It was him. I seen him. He
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: fired through an open window.
• 23:52
  Speaker 9: Killed my uncle.
• 23:53
  Speaker 8: Which way did that scum go? Will you take after
• 23:55
  Speaker 8: him and string him up?
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: Come on, fellas. Get to your horses. Feed him your guns. Wait, fellas. Wait!
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: We won't waste our time chasing him. We'll ride straight
• 24:04
  Speaker 6: to his ranch. We'll clean out the whole pack of
• 24:07
  Speaker 6: sneaking killers to once. Every one of them will pay
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: for this.
• 24:11
  Speaker 8: Come on, men! Saddle up and grab your gun belts! Tonight,
• 24:15
  Speaker 8: we don't leave a bowman alive!
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: Come on!
• 24:30
  Speaker 7: Two hours later, with Duke in the lead, the crew
• 24:33
  Speaker 7: from the Kimball Ranch thundered down upon the dark and
• 24:35
  Speaker 7: silent buildings of the Bowman outfit.
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: Duke shouted an order at them.
• 24:39
  Speaker 6: Fellas!
• 24:40
  Speaker 8: Fellas, ride down on them, yelling for all you're worth!
• 24:42
  Speaker 8: Make it sound like there's a thousand of us! And
• 24:45
  Speaker 8: start shooting them in if they stick.
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: Out their heads!
• 24:48
  Speaker 9: Come on, let's go!
• 24:49
  Speaker 6: Get up there!
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: Hey, you!
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: Why?
• 24:54
  Speaker 8: There's something wrong. They ain't showing themselves. That don't look
• 24:57
  Speaker 8: like anybody's here. I was just noticing the same thing.
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: What the.
• 25:00
  Speaker 6: Brain up! Brain up, fellas!
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: Brain up! Brain up!
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: This is doggone funny. Wait, wait, shut up.
• 25:09
  Speaker 6: Keep still, all of you.
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: Nothing.
• 25:14
  Speaker 6: Not a single sound. You think they got warning and
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: cleared out? I don't know what to think.
• 25:20
  Speaker 8: If there was anybody here that has showed themselves before now...
• 25:23
  Speaker 8: Showed ourselves? They'd have been throwing lead so fast as
• 25:26
  Speaker 8: they could pull the triggers.
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: I don't like it. It looks funny to me. Me too.
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: Climb out of your saddles and search them out. The
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: buildings are empty. We'll burn them down anyhow.
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: But, Duke, what if it's a trick?
• 25:36
  Speaker 8: What if this is just something to catch us off guard?
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: Shut up and do like I say.
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: Get out of the saddle.
• 25:44
  Speaker 6: A mass man.
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: Men, shoot him down. One shot and I take you
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: with me. And look around you. You're surrounded. There's a
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: rifle trained on every man here.
• 25:53
  Speaker 8: There's somebody by them trees.
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: There's somebody else.
• 25:56
  Speaker 6: Over by the pub.
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: They're behind you and in front of you. And on
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: each side.
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: You rode into a trap, men. You rode into a
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: trap led by Duke Kimball.
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: The blazes were the trap, fellas. There ain't as many
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: of them as there is of us. Come on, we'll
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: bust right through it.
• 26:09
  Speaker 11: Don't make a move.
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: You'll do nothing.
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: These men aren't fools enough to fight for a schemer
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: who'd try to kill his own uncle, put the blame.
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: On someone else.
• 26:16
  Speaker 6: You're a liar.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: Men, listen to me. The shots you heard at the
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: ranch were fired by Duke. When he claimed he'd seen
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: Steve Bowman, he was lying. Duke's behind all the trouble
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: there's been. He's used you for his own purpose. When
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: the Bowman's destroyed and his uncle dead, he'd rule the county.
• 26:33
  Speaker 9: Lies, a pack of lies.
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: What are you listening to him for, man?
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: Come on, follow me. If I'm lying, Duke, we'll see
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: what your uncle has to say. Sheriff, Kimball, Bowman, come here.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: Kimball's dead.
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: He was murdered back to the ranch. Ask Duke. Well,
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: I'll be... my uncle.
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: And if Chuck here hadn't put blanks in your guns, Duke,
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: you'd have killed me just.
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: As you schemed. And I'm here and now arresting Duke
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: for attempted murder. Is this true, Duke?
• 27:00
  Speaker 8: Did you try to drill your uncle and tell.
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: Us a lying story about him?
• 27:03
  Speaker 7: Well, I.
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: Of course you did. Need my word proof enough? Any
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: of you men ever know me to lie to you?
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: Duke ought to be strung up. The last man's right then.
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: Duke was just using us. Men, are we going to
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: let the polecat get away with it? Then grab him.
• 27:16
  Speaker 9: Somebody get a rope.
• 27:17
  Speaker 6: Let's bring him up right here.
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: Hold on.
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: Stand back.
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: There's been enough lawlessness in this county. The sheriff's here.
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: He's arrested Duke. Duke will get his punishment from the law.
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: Leave it at that.
• 27:29
  Speaker 8: He'll get his meetings, fellas. You won't have to worry
• 27:32
  Speaker 8: about that. But we owe him plenty. And he'll get plenty.
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: Don't argue, men. The law's taking over and making it stick.
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: It's all right with me, just so Duke gets his.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: Let's go.
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: Kimball and Bowman would have called off this fight a
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: long time ago if they could have. But now it's over,
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: and peace is here to stay. Is that right, Kimball?
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: It is. Bowman? You bet. You're responsible for this, Judd.
• 27:53
  Speaker 6: It was your idea, you dirty double-crosser. Then you went
• 27:56
  Speaker 6: and put blanks in my gun.
• 27:58
  Speaker 13: Duke, all I did was get you to try now
• 28:00
  Speaker 13: what you plan to do later anyhow.
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but.
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: And besides, you're all wrong about the whole thing. It
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: wasn't my idea at all. All I did was help.
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: There's a fellow you can thank for getting found out, Duke.
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: The Masked Man.
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: I'm still behind! I'm still behind!
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: THE END.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: THE END The End.
• 29:56
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• 29:59
  Speaker 7: of the Lone Ranger Incorporated.
• 30:08
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• 30:11
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