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Hopalong Cassidy - "The Empty Saddle" (Old Time Radio, 1950) · Hopalong Cassidy | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: On March 19, 1950, Mutual brought Hop Along Cassidy to
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  Speaker 1: the air in the 12th episode of its 1950 radio run.
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  Speaker 1: At the Bar 20's fall roundup, Ace Beaumont fails to
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  Speaker 1: return from Three Forks, and his buckskin comes back riderless.
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  Speaker 1: Hop Along and California Carlson soon learn that other men
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  Speaker 1: have vanished. and their inquiries lead toward Shadow Canyon, an
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  Speaker 1: old prospector, and clues involving gold and gambling winnings.
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  Speaker 2: The radio series draws on the character created by Clarence E. Mulford.
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  Speaker 2: William Boyd is Hopalong Cassidy, with Andy Clyde as California
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  Speaker 2: Carlson in The Empty Saddle, sponsored by General Foods. Here
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  Speaker 2: is the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 3: The Empty Saddle.
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  Speaker 4: October has a special meaning for cowpunchers in the Bar 20,
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  Speaker 4: or anywhere else for that matter. The crisp nights, the
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  Speaker 4: bright blue sky, the red leaves on the maples in
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  Speaker 4: the creek bottoms are all background for the busiest time
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  Speaker 4: of the year, the fall roundup. So Hoppy is all
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  Speaker 4: business as he stands with California at the rail of
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  Speaker 4: the Bar 20 Corral.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Jim, what you doing down there?
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  Speaker 5: I'm trying to get this horse and the.
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  Speaker 6: Corral over here.
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  Speaker 3: California.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, Hoppy?
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  Speaker 6: What about Ace?
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  Speaker 8: Uh, who?
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  Speaker 6: Ace Beaumont. I want him to set up a corral
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  Speaker 6: for the wiener calves on the plant. Where is he?
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  Speaker 7: Uh, he, uh, well, he, uh... He ain't showed up, Hoppy.
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  Speaker 6: What do you mean? He was to be back last night.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I know. I was talking to the boys at
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  Speaker 7: the bunkhouse this morning. He rode over to Seafork's Friday,
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  Speaker 7: you know, and.
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  Speaker 6: I know. He went over to Seafork's to see his girl.
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  Speaker 7: Easy, Hoppy. Now, don't get sore.
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  Speaker 6: I've got a right to get sore when one of
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  Speaker 6: my best hands doesn't show up for the roundup.
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  Speaker 3: He's in love, Hoppy.
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  Speaker 7: You've got to make allowances for it.
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  Speaker 6: Well, maybe so. I sure didn't like him. He's never
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  Speaker 6: let me down before. He knows how bad I need
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  Speaker 6: him now with a couple of thousand head of cattle
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  Speaker 6: to round up and brand.
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  Speaker 7: Sure, Hoppy, but Ace is young, and the minute he
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  Speaker 7: set eyes on Ellie Summers over at Sea Fork, he
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  Speaker 7: couldn't hear a heifer bellowing right under his nose for
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  Speaker 7: the wedding bells and E.D.s.
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  Speaker 8: Wait.
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  Speaker 7: Huh?
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  Speaker 6: Turn around. Take a look.
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  Speaker 7: Gosh almighty.
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  Speaker 3: It's Ace's buckscape.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah. What's the matter, boy?
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  Speaker 3: Where you been?
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  Speaker 6: His hide's all tore up.
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  Speaker 7: His tail's full of burns.
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  Speaker 6: The cinch came loose. The saddle dropped down under his
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  Speaker 6: belly and scared him.
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  Speaker 7: Do you reckon he threw Ace somewhere?
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  Speaker 6: There is no horse alive that could throw Ace Beaumont.
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  Speaker 7: But what could have happened? Ace knows better than to
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  Speaker 7: leave his kind with some tide.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know, but I've never seen a time when
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  Speaker 6: a man's horse came back without the man that something
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  Speaker 6: wasn't wrong. Give me a hand with this saddle.
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  Speaker 3: Sure.
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  Speaker 7: It's me. Hey, look at them grease spots on the
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  Speaker 7: saddle skirt there.
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  Speaker 6: Not Greece, California. Hoppy, you mean there's... It's blood.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: Horses all cut up from buck brush. Probably came across
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  Speaker 6: the mountain from Three Forks.
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  Speaker 7: What's we gonna do?
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  Speaker 6: Tell the boys we're going to Three Forks and we're
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  Speaker 6: not coming back till we find Ace Beaumont.
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  Speaker 4: Hop along, Cassidy, and the empty saddle. Ace Beaumont's buckskin
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  Speaker 4: horse has returned to the Bar 20, its blood-stained saddle
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  Speaker 4: dangling on a loose cinch, clearly telling Hoppy that something
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  Speaker 4: has gone wrong with one of his top hands. It's
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  Speaker 4: almost dark when he and California tie up in front
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  Speaker 4: of the Summers General Merchandise Store in Three Forks to
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  Speaker 4: find Ace's sweetheart, Ellie Summers, waiting on a customer inside.
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  Speaker 6: Hmm, she's got old Pike Peters in there.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, giving them a grub stake, I reckon. Poor old
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  Speaker 7: Pike's the unluckiest prospect for a life. Forty years of
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  Speaker 7: tramping the mountains and not a strike.
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  Speaker 8: Well.
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  Speaker 6: Wait a minute. Remember what I told you. Not a
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  Speaker 6: word to Ellie about Ace not showing up. I don't
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  Speaker 6: want to get her worried.
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  Speaker 8: Right.
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  Speaker 6: Hello, Ellie. Pike.
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  Speaker 3: Howdy, Hoppy. What's he doing here in three-fourths?
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  Speaker 6: Just dropped by for a visit.
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  Speaker 3: You see, by your partner here, you're still caring for
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  Speaker 3: the agent and infirm over at the Bar 20. Why,
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  Speaker 3: you old pack rat.
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  Speaker 7: Why, you were in the pension list four hours before.
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  Speaker 6: Don't mind us, Ellie. Go right ahead with Pike here.
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  Speaker 6: We'll wait while you're... till you're through.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 5: Now, let's see, Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Peters.
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  Speaker 5: That was 20 pounds of red beans, a pound of salt,
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  Speaker 5: a package of soda... A side of bacon and 50
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  Speaker 5: pounds of flour. Comes to $ 4. 20.
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  Speaker 3: Reckon you can put her on my account, Miss Ellie?
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  Speaker 5: When are you going to make that strike, Mr. Peters?
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  Speaker 3: I'm nearing your thing, Miss Ellie.
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  Speaker 5: And what happens when you find it?
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  Speaker 3: Well, we all get rich, just like I agreed. All
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  Speaker 3: you nice folks who've been grub-staking me for all these years. Now, well,
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  Speaker 3: about these supplies here... Go ahead.
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  Speaker 5: Take them along. I'll put them on your account.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks, Miss Ellie. Well, I'd better be running along.
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  Speaker 8: Bye, folks. Bye.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, if father were alive, he'd have a fit.
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  Speaker 7: Never make money that way, Ellie.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I guess I'm just soft-hearted. Now, what can I
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  Speaker 5: do for you?
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  Speaker 6: We need a little hardware over at the ranch. A
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  Speaker 6: few nails, a couple hundred feet of rope.
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  Speaker 7: A roundup coming off in a couple of days.
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  Speaker 9: Ace told me.
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  Speaker 5: Did he tell you about... I.
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  Speaker 6: Haven't had much time to talk to him.
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  Speaker 5: We're going to be married next month, after the roundup.
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  Speaker 6: Well, congratulations.
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  Speaker 5: Funny he didn't tell you. He said you were number
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  Speaker 5: one on his list. When did he get in?
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  Speaker 6: Well, last night sometime, I guess. I was out with
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  Speaker 6: the writers. Didn't get a chance to see him.
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  Speaker 5: Last night?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: That must have been quite an errand he had to do.
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  Speaker 8: Oh?
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  Speaker 5: He left here before noon yesterday. You act as if
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  Speaker 5: something were wrong, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Cassidy.
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  Speaker 3: Is there.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, nothing at all, nothing at all. Well, we'll see
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  Speaker 6: you tonight, Ellie, before we head back. You'll be home,
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  Speaker 6: won't you?
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  Speaker 5: Of course.
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  Speaker 8: Good.
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  Speaker 6: Come on, California.
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  Speaker 3: Bye, Miss Ellie.
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  Speaker 10: Hmm.
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  Speaker 6: So he left here before noon yesterday. Had an errand
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  Speaker 6: to run.
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  Speaker 7: Errand? What do you figure he was up to?
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  Speaker 6: I don't know, but it's time we took this up
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  Speaker 6: with the sheriff.
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  Speaker 8: Now, take it easy, Ma. There's no use getting all
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  Speaker 8: riled up just because.
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  Speaker 11: You ain't heard me out, Sheriff. Maybe time I get through,
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  Speaker 11: you'll see I got reason to be riled.
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  Speaker 4: Oh.
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  Speaker 8: Well, hop along, Cassidy.
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  Speaker 6: Hello, Sheriff. You know California Carlson here.
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  Speaker 8: Sure. Howdy, California. Hiya, Sheriff. This here's Ma Strickland. Runs
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  Speaker 8: the double dot east of here.
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  Speaker 5: How do you, ma'am?
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  Speaker 6: How do you do?
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  Speaker 8: Ma figures a foreman busted his tie rope and took
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  Speaker 8: off without saying where.
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  Speaker 11: It ain't no joke and matter, Sheriff Lane.
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  Speaker 8: Who is it?
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  Speaker 9: Turkey Ed Higgins, best darn ranch hand in the county.
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  Speaker 7: What happened to Turkey Ed?
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  Speaker 11: Well, if I knew, I'd run right out and put
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  Speaker 11: a load of quail shot in the seat of his pants.
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  Speaker 8: How long's he been gone, Ma?
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  Speaker 9: Most a week now.
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  Speaker 11: I'm telling you something's powerful wrong here. And I'm asking
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  Speaker 11: you to get off in that chair and do something.
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  Speaker 8: And I'm telling you I ain't got time to go
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  Speaker 8: running after every cowhand in the county when he gets
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  Speaker 8: an idea he wants to go to the city for
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  Speaker 8: a spell. Now, you prop back the double dot and
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  Speaker 8: calm down. He'll show up in a day or two.
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  Speaker 6: Wait a minute, Sheriff.
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  Speaker 7: Huh?
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  Speaker 6: He's right. There is something wrong. I'm missing my best hand.
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  Speaker 7: Who's that?
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  Speaker 6: Ace Beaumont. He didn't show up at the bar at
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  Speaker 6: 20 this morning.
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  Speaker 8: Okay.
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  Speaker 9: What about that, Sheriff?
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  Speaker 8: Well, wouldn't it be the first time two cowpokes took
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  Speaker 8: a notion to go on a spree?
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  Speaker 9: Only Turkey Ed don't know this Ace Beaumont, from Adams
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  Speaker 9: or Fox.
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  Speaker 6: Anyone see Ace around town, Sheriff?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I did.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, this is Tom Oliphant, my deputy.
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  Speaker 6: Howdy.
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  Speaker 7: Howdy.
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  Speaker 3: Don't get riled up about Ace. He's all right.
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  Speaker 6: How do you know?
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  Speaker 3: I had a talk with him down at the Aurora
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  Speaker 3: Cafe Saturday night. Played a little poker. I know he's okay.
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  Speaker 8: What are you holding back, Oliphant?
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  Speaker 6: Fill it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Sheriff. Just a little private matter.
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  Speaker 6: A business secret.
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  Speaker 8: Maybe you better talk or maybe you'll get fired.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Go right ahead, Sheriff. It's a funny thing. I ain't
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  Speaker 3: too worried about my job right now.
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  Speaker 7: Well, so long, folks.
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  Speaker 8: Why, that young whippersnapper.
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  Speaker 6: Take it easy, Sheriff. California.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: Keep an eye on Oliphant. I want to know everywhere
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  Speaker 6: he goes tonight. And don't let him know he's being followed,
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  Speaker 6: you understand?
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: Now, what about Parmalee over at the Aurora Cafe? What's
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  Speaker 6: his line?
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  Speaker 8: Oh, gambling, booze, you know.
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  Speaker 6: Two men disappear. There's no connection between them. They don't
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  Speaker 6: even know each other. Both of them might have won
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  Speaker 6: heavily at the Aurora. Maybe this Parmalee couldn't afford to
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  Speaker 6: lose that much.
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  Speaker 9: Well, knowing Parmalee, I'd say that ain't a bad guess
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  Speaker 9: for a shotter.
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  Speaker 8: Well, I still ain't convinced, but I'll go along with you.
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  Speaker 8: Let's have a talk with Parmalee.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Sheriff, all right.
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  Speaker 12: Turkey Ed Higgins played cards here a week ago. Ace
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  Speaker 12: Beaumont Saturday night. Both of them took me for a ride.
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  Speaker 12: Is there any law against that?
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  Speaker 8: Might be. If both Ace and Turkey Ed disappear real sudden.
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  Speaker 7: Disappear?
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  Speaker 6: That's right, Parley.
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  Speaker 12: So, you think I shot him down on a trail
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  Speaker 12: somewhere to get my money back, huh?
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  Speaker 3: Didn't say that at all.
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  Speaker 12: Well, that's what you're implying. So I shot him down
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  Speaker 12: in cold blood. And while I was at it, I
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  Speaker 12: did the same thing for one of.
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  Speaker 3: My own dealers.
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  Speaker 6: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 8: Bill Hendershot.
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  Speaker 3: He's been missing for five days now.
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  Speaker 6: Three total strangers. Ed, Ace, and this Hendershot. Nothing to
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  Speaker 6: do with each other. Maybe Turkey Ed had an enemy
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  Speaker 6: or two. Don't know a ranch boss who hasn't. And
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  Speaker 6: there might be someone who's gunning for Ace.
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  Speaker 9: I know half a dozen like to have Hendershot hide.
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  Speaker 6: Sure. But who'd have a grudge against all three?
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  Speaker 4: Hoppy.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, excuse me, folks. Did you trail Arnathan?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, he just saddled up. I followed him out of
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  Speaker 7: town to Shadow Canyon Trail. Now, what do you reckon
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  Speaker 7: he's starting up into the mountains this time of night?
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  Speaker 6: That's what we're going to find out, California. Let's get going.
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  Speaker 10: There ain't much you can go further, Hoppy, with them
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  Speaker 10: clouds over the moon.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I can't see a thing. Probably might catch up
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  Speaker 6: with him if he's too fast for us. Hold it.
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  Speaker 7: Something's up?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, not too far off. Let's go up a little farther.
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  Speaker 7: I ain't exactly comfortable riding this trail like a sitting duck.
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  Speaker 7: If that moon comes.
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  Speaker 8: Out again, we'll... You're right.
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  Speaker 6: We'll have to wait for a day break.
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  Speaker 4: Uh-oh.
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  Speaker 6: Pack mule up ahead. Must be Pike Peters.
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  Speaker 8: Pike! Pike! Who is it?
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  Speaker 6: It's me, Hopalong Cassidy. Oh.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Mr. Cassidy. Say, I was getting a mite nervous.
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  Speaker 3: Heard some shooting up the canyon.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, and if you're smart, you'll stay where you are, Pike.
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  Speaker 3: You heard the shooting?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: I think it's got something to do with the disappearance
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  Speaker 6: of three men.
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  Speaker 3: Three men? What you talking about?
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  Speaker 6: We'll know more about it tomorrow. If I get my way,
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  Speaker 6: Sheriff Lane will have a posse up in these hills
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  Speaker 6: by sunup. Come on, California, let's go back.
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  Speaker 8: Cassidy, where in tarnation do you go?
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  Speaker 6: Rode a ways up Shatter Canyon.
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  Speaker 8: How far?
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  Speaker 6: Far enough convinced me our three boys aren't off on
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  Speaker 6: a spree.
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  Speaker 8: I guess we're all convinced, Hoppy. We'll have a posse
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  Speaker 8: together by six tomorrow morning. There ain't three boys with
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  Speaker 8: a way.
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  Speaker 6: Huh?
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  Speaker 7: Four.
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  Speaker 8: Like I say, I'm convinced now. Oliphant's force just showed
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  Speaker 8: up at the corral. Without Oliphant. Resaddle.
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  Speaker 4: Four men have mysteriously disappeared from the little town of
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  Speaker 4: Three Forks within a week. And with the last one,
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  Speaker 4: Tom Oliphant, the sheriff's own deputy, Sheriff Lane is convinced
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  Speaker 4: it's a job for a posse. Meanwhile, Ellie Summers sits
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  Speaker 4: alone in her house at the edge of town waiting
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  Speaker 4: for Hoppy to drop by for the hardware he ordered
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  Speaker 4: a few hours ago at the store. It's late at
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  Speaker 4: night when.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Cassidy. Well, it's about time you got here, Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Cassidy.
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  Speaker 5: I've been... Oh.
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  Speaker 3: Howdy, Miss Ellie.
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  Speaker 5: Pike, what are you doing here?
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  Speaker 8: Well, I.
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  Speaker 3: I ran on to Mr. Cassidy in Shadow Canyon and
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  Speaker 3: figured there's something you and me ought to talk over.
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  Speaker 3: Mind if I come in?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, no, of course not. I've been waiting for Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Cassidy to drop by.
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  Speaker 3: You've been playing cards, I see.
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  Speaker 5: Solitaire.
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  Speaker 3: Solitaire's no game for a nice young gal like you
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  Speaker 3: to be playing, Miss Ellie.
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  Speaker 5: What is it, Pike?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, well, uh... Mr. Cassidy says that a posse foreman
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  Speaker 3: tomorrow is going to strike up into the hills.
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  Speaker 5: A posse? Is something wrong?
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  Speaker 3: Well, yes and no. It seems there's been some mysterious disappearances.
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  Speaker 5: What do you mean, Pipe?
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  Speaker 3: Turkey Ed Higgins and Bill Hendershot and Tom Oliphant, they
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  Speaker 3: all disappeared. Oh, and one other, Ace Beaumont.
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  Speaker 7: Ace? Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Posse's gone hunting for her son.
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  Speaker 9: Disappeared?
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  Speaker 5: I don't understand.
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  Speaker 3: If you'd give us a good thank you, well.
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  Speaker 5: Higgins, Hendershot, Oliphant, and Higgins.
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  Speaker 6: Hi!
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  Speaker 3: Strange, ain't it?
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  Speaker 5: The four men who grub-staked you. They each have a
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  Speaker 5: share in any gold you find.
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  Speaker 3: I know you'd figure it out, Miss Ellie.
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  Speaker 5: Get out of here, Pike. Did you hear what I.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, easy now, Miss Ellie. With this here gun in
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  Speaker 3: my hand, I might take a notion to make you disappear, too.
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  Speaker 3: Sit down now and be comfortable. Sit down.
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  Speaker 5: What are you going to do, Pike?
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  Speaker 3: Take a look at this, Miss Ellie. That's just a
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  Speaker 3: sample there. She ran 500 to the ton, according to
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  Speaker 3: the assay officer. A hundred thousand in the strike I made.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe two. Maybe a million.
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  Speaker 5: What did you do to those men?
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  Speaker 3: Forty years now I've been hunting. Forty years of bacon
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  Speaker 3: and beans and sody biscuits. Forty years of dry camps.
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  Speaker 3: Tramping those mountains. Miles, dry miles with my tongue like
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  Speaker 3: leather and my mouth swole up so I couldn't swallow.
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  Speaker 8: Well, I found her.
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  Speaker 3: After 40 years of looking, and I don't aim to
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  Speaker 3: share and share alike with... What did you do with them? Well,
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  Speaker 3: I sent each of them a note. One by one,
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: told them I'd made this strike and keep it a secret.
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: Told them to ride up Chattic Canyon and meet me.
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: I was waiting for them all right with my old
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: single-shot sharp rifle.
• 15:41
  Speaker 5: You mean the ace?
• 15:43
  Speaker 6: Ace.
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's where I made my mistake. Then Jay Bird
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: flew down and spiled my aim. Knocked him off on
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: his horse, but the varmint crawled up on a ridge
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: and holed up.
• 15:55
  Speaker 5: He's up there now, wounded.
• 15:57
  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah.
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: That's why I dropped in tonight, huh? You're going to
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: help me get him down. Figured with me down below
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: holding a gun in your back, Ace Beaumont would be
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: real reasonable.
• 16:12
  Speaker 5: And if I won't go with you?
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: You're coming all right.
• 16:17
  Speaker 5: And now, You're not being very smart, Pike.
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: Mr.
• 16:21
  Speaker 5: Cassidy will see an unfinished solitaire game on the table.
• 16:24
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: Put the cards away. And hurry up about it.
• 16:28
  Speaker 13: I don't want to keep Ace waiting.
• 16:42
  Speaker 8: What do you make of it, Cassidy?
• 16:44
  Speaker 6: I don't know. Ellie's door open, lamp still burning.
• 16:47
  Speaker 9: You say she told you she'd be here?
• 16:50
  Speaker 6: Yeah. Wait a minute. What's this? Looks like Ellie was
• 16:55
  Speaker 6: playing cards. She left the ace of spades face up
• 16:59
  Speaker 6: on the desk with this rock on top of it.
• 17:01
  Speaker 8: Let's see it. Gold? High grade ore. Why?
• 17:06
  Speaker 9: Looks like the sample Turkey Edge showed me just before
• 17:09
  Speaker 9: he disappeared.
• 17:10
  Speaker 6: He showed you a sample like this one?
• 17:11
  Speaker 9: Yeah, he got them every once in a while. It
• 17:14
  Speaker 9: was grub steak and old Pike Peters.
• 17:16
  Speaker 8: Funny.
• 17:17
  Speaker 7: So was Bill Hendershot.
• 17:18
  Speaker 6: That's it. I'll bet Ace Beaumont was in on it, too.
• 17:22
  Speaker 9: What do you reckon?
• 17:23
  Speaker 6: It's the one thing that links those three men. They
• 17:25
  Speaker 6: all had a steak and Pike Peters. That's what happened
• 17:28
  Speaker 6: to Ellie. That's why she left the ore sample on
• 17:31
  Speaker 6: top of the Ace. Ace Beaumont. Peter's got it up
• 17:35
  Speaker 6: in the hill somewhere. Where?
• 17:36
  Speaker 9: But where? An army couldn't find crazy old Pike Peters
• 17:40
  Speaker 9: in them mountains if he wanted to hide.
• 17:42
  Speaker 6: Well, he must have had his samples tested. Go get
• 17:44
  Speaker 6: the sheriff. Tell him California and I'll meet him at
• 17:47
  Speaker 6: the assay office.
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: Oh, I just gotta stop, Mr. Peters.
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, you ain't stopping.
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: But I'm tired. I feel faint.
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: Here, get up. You hear me?
• 18:08
  Speaker 7: Get up.
• 18:09
  Speaker 9: Let me go.
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: You're trying to stall, are you? Yeah, I'm too smart
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: for that, lady. Here, where'd you get that knife?
• 18:17
  Speaker 8: I'll kill you.
• 18:18
  Speaker 7: Get away.
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: Get away from that. Let go of me. Drop that knife.
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: That ain't a nice thing for a lady to be carrying.
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: Somebody might get hurt.
• 18:36
  Speaker 6: There.
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: There's a good place for your knife. Now, now get
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: back up in front there before I lose my patience
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: and kill you.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: All right, Mr.
• 18:47
  Speaker 6: Peters.
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: I'll go.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: I'll go.
• 18:57
  Speaker 6: Ah, it's no use, Sheriff. I just grilled Crawford at
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: the SA office. He doesn't know where the mine is.
• 19:02
  Speaker 8: Well, we're licked before we start. Ain't got the chance
• 19:05
  Speaker 8: of a snowball in Haiti to find Pike Peters in
• 19:08
  Speaker 8: them hills.
• 19:08
  Speaker 6: California and I will start out now. You can follow
• 19:11
  Speaker 6: the posse at sunup. And, uh, Sheriff.
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: I'll drop by your office for a high-powered rifle. Looks
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: like I might need it.
• 19:18
  Speaker 9: The End.
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: Why are we stopping?
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: It's getting light now. I thought you might want to
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: see the sun come up, Miss Ellie. And in a
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: minute or two, you'll be able to look down the
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: valley of art and granite cliffs next to the trail.
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: What about them?
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: I'm going to give them a new name. I got
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: my own special name for every spot in these hills
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: here now. You can't decide, though, whether to call them
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: Higgins Cliffs or maybe Hendershot Cliffs. Toss-ups, you know. Both
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: of them are buried at the bottom. Oliphant, too, but
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: I'm saving his name for later.
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: How much longer is this to go on?
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: Are you getting tired?
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: Want to see Ace?
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: Oh, please, pipe for heaven's sake.
• 20:19
  Speaker 6: Okay. Okay.
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: Here.
• 20:22
  Speaker 8: Oh.
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: Here.
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: Stay right where you are there now.
• 20:26
  Speaker 8: Now, don't move.
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: I've got my. 44 right on your back. Ace? Ace Beaumont?
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: Where is he?
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: Right below us. The cave in the rocks. He hears
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: me all right.
• 20:46
  Speaker 8: Ace Beaumont.
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: Ace, I've got your gal here. Gonna blow her to
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: kingdom coming if you don't come out of there.
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: He isn't there. No.
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: He can't move with that leg. He was there when
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: I left him. You go. Go ahead.
• 21:08
  Speaker 6: Ace.
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: Ace, it's me.
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: I'm coming out, Ellie.
• 21:15
  Speaker 9: No, no, stay where you are, Ace.
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: I wanted to warn you, dear.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: I wanted to.
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: Get up now.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: Come out of there, Ace. I can't move. Throw your
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: gun out. You hear me?
• 21:29
  Speaker 8: Throw it out.
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: There it goes.
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: All right, Ellie.
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: Go on down there.
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: Ace. Ace, where are you?
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: Wait, wait.
• 21:46
  Speaker 8: Not too fast now.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: Oh, Ace. Ace, darling. You shouldn't have come. I didn't
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: give her no choice.
• 21:58
  Speaker 8: Shut up, Peters.
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: Oh, sure. Sure, I'll shut up. You got a right
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: to your last minutes together. You're crazy, Pike. I don't
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: know what you're doing. All right. I don't know what
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: I'm doing, huh? Listen, Pike.
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: Listen, you'll never get away with it. They'll comb these
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: mountains till they find you.
• 22:20
  Speaker 8: So?
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: Well, I ain't worrying none. First place, they couldn't find
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: me if they was hunting. Second place, they ain't hunting.
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: Because all of us who know about our little grub-steak
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: agreement is either over there at the foot of the cliff...
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: Or right here.
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: Pike.
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: Pike, listen to me. I've always tried to be fair
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: with you. More than that sometimes.
• 22:44
  Speaker 7: Just.
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: Just do one thing, Pike. Give us a little time. Please.
• 22:49
  Speaker 8: A few minutes.
• 22:50
  Speaker 7: Maybe.
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: Maybe an hour.
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: Now, Miss Sally. That'd be pretty stupid, wouldn't it? Sun's
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: almost up now. Posse's starting out from three-fourths. I don't
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: think they'd... You stole me that long, did you? Wait
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: a minute, Pike. Don't do it.
• 23:11
  Speaker 6: Pike!
• 23:15
  Speaker 8: Ellie.
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: What happened?
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: A shot. A rifle shot from that clearing across the canyon.
• 23:22
  Speaker 7: Pike. Pike.
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: He's dead.
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: Oh, wait. Eighth.
• 23:28
  Speaker 9: Oh, wait, darling.
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: Ellie.
• 23:31
  Speaker 6: Eighth.
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: It worked. It worked!
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: Since the rifle shot from across the gully dropped Pike
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: Peters at Ace.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: And Ellie's feet.
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: Then they see who was behind the rifle.
• 23:59
  Speaker 8: It's Hoppy. Hoppy!
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: Hoppy!
• 24:02
  Speaker 7: Ace!
• 24:02
  Speaker 8: Oh, Mr.
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: Cassidy.
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: Did I get him? You sure did.
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: He's down for keeps.
• 24:08
  Speaker 6: Ace!
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: Ace!
• 24:09
  Speaker 8: Boy, how are you?
• 24:11
  Speaker 6: I'm okay, California.
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: Got a bad leg, though. I can't move.
• 24:16
  Speaker 6: Let me take a look. Yeah, might be broken just
• 24:21
  Speaker 6: above the knee. Looks like you're going to miss the roundup.
• 24:24
  Speaker 7: You're mighty lucky you didn't miss more. If it wasn't
• 24:27
  Speaker 7: for Miss Ellie here.
• 24:28
  Speaker 8: Ellie?
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: What do you mean? Well, didn't she tell you?
• 24:31
  Speaker 13: Mr.
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: Cassidy.
• 24:33
  Speaker 6: You're going to have to go some down smart your wife, Ace.
• 24:35
  Speaker 6: She thinks pretty fast in the clinches.
• 24:37
  Speaker 8: What is this, Ellie?
• 24:38
  Speaker 6: I'd never have found you if Ellie hadn't used her
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: head down below just before Pike left the trail.
• 24:43
  Speaker 7: We tracked that old barman up the mountainside like a
• 24:45
  Speaker 7: monkey climbing a rope.
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: Tell me, what did you do, Ellie?
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: Oh, it wasn't much, Ace. I just jabbed a knife
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: in that 50-pound sack of flour on the back of
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: Pike's pack mule.
• 25:07
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• 25:11
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