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Hopalong Cassidy - "Renegades of the San Rafael" (Old Time Radio, 1950) · Hopalong Cassidy | Old Time Radio

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Speaker 1: At a schoolhouse in the San Rafael Range, ranchers gather
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Speaker 1: over water rights charges involving the Triangle Water Company, a
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Speaker 1: matter affecting the local community. Hopalong Cassidy and California Carlson
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Speaker 1: are drawn into the dispute when an unexplained signature enters
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Speaker 1: the matter. The charges and signature lead them into a
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Speaker 1: mystery threatening the community. From the Mutual Broadcasting System comes
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Speaker 1: Hop Along, Cassidy.
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Speaker 2: Renegades of the San Rafael, broadcast on January 29th, 1950,
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Speaker 2: Mutual's Episode 5, with William Boyd as Hop Along and
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Speaker 2: Andy Clyde as California. The program was recorded August 9th, 1948,
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Speaker 2: and was produced by Walter White Jr., directed by Ted Bliss,
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Speaker 2: with music credited to Albert Glazer. And now, the original broadcast.
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Speaker 3: It's Hop Along Cassidy. With action and suspense, out of
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Speaker 3: the Old West comes the most famous hero of them all,
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Speaker 3: Hop Along Cassidy, starring William Boyd. The Ring of the
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Speaker 3: Silver Spurs heralds the most amazing man ever to ride
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Speaker 3: the prairies of the early West, Hop Along Cassidy. This
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Speaker 3: famous hero thrills his 60 million fans with action and
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Speaker 3: dangerous adventure. In the role of Hopalong Cassidy is the
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Speaker 3: popular star of the motion picture series, William Boyd. And
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Speaker 3: appearing as that laughable old character, California, is Andy Clyde.
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Speaker 3: Now to our story, Renegades of the San Rafael. Evening
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Speaker 3: shadows spread across the San Rafael Range to touch the
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Speaker 3: sun-baked little town of Kearneyville. There's an ominous quiet in
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Speaker 3: the air broken only by the stomp of restless horses
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Speaker 3: tied to the hitching rail in front of the schoolhouse.
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Speaker 3: Inside the schoolhouse, there's the creak of gun harness and
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Speaker 3: the ring of spurs on the plank floor as angry
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Speaker 3: ranchers mill about. A slim, brown-haired girl stands beside the
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Speaker 3: teacher's desk trying to make herself heard above the mutter
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Speaker 3: of their voices.
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Speaker 4: You've got to listen to me.
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Speaker 5: There must be some mistake.
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Speaker 4: Mistake? Nothing. John Carter sold out his neighbors. Here I come.
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Speaker 5: My uncle wouldn't cheat anybody.
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Speaker 6: Then why don't you show up and deny that he
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Speaker 6: sold his ranch to the Triangle Water Company so they
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Speaker 6: can take over and run the ruin in this valley?
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Speaker 7: Come on, answer me that.
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Speaker 5: My uncle will be back to explain his actions. I'm
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Speaker 5: sure of it.
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Speaker 4: John Carter's run out on us.
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Speaker 3: He's a coward because he ain't got the nerve to
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Speaker 3: face the folks he's wronged.
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Speaker 5: You can't say that about him. My uncle has been
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Speaker 5: a friend to you all.
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Speaker 7: He ain't no friend now.
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Speaker 4: Him and Dolan is in there together. They're both crooks.
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Speaker 4: Just a minute there.
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Speaker 7: I represent the Triangle Water Company.
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Speaker 4: Oh, sit down, Dolan. I don't know where Carter's gone.
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Speaker 4: I don't care. But I have a bill to take
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Speaker 4: to his ranch.
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Speaker 7: And the dam my company will erect is going to
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Speaker 7: benefit everybody. It'll benefit a lot of darn flybusters.
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Speaker 3: You know this land ain't fit for.
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Speaker 4: Nothing but cattle.
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Speaker 7: I'll have to remind you boys of something.
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Speaker 4: Remind us of what?
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Speaker 7: The laws of this country don't favor one group over another. Farmers,
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Speaker 7: or sodbusters as you call them, have as much right
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Speaker 7: here as you.
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Speaker 3: No, they ain't neither.
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Speaker 4: We was here first. Sure, we was here first. Wait
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Speaker 4: a minute.
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Speaker 7: Wait a minute, boys.
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Speaker 4: Quiet down.
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Speaker 3: All right, go ahead. Talk.
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Speaker 7: Soon as the dam on the Carter Ranch is finished...
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Speaker 7: There'll be water for all. How do you figure that, Dolan?
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Speaker 7: The more shares a man buys in my company, the
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Speaker 7: more water he'll get.
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Speaker 4: Pay for the water we used to get for free.
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Speaker 7: I'm a businessman, not a philanthropist. Carter sold his ranch.
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Speaker 7: Talk to him, not me.
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Speaker 8: He didn't have to sell.
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Speaker 4: No, I reckon he didn't.
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Speaker 3: And if John Carter ever shows his face here in
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Speaker 3: Curlyville again, he'll get his neck stretched by a hangrope.
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Speaker 4: He'll try him under the first tree.
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Speaker 7: I'm sorry, Miss Carter. Perhaps if we could get word
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Speaker 7: to your uncle.
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Speaker 5: I don't know where he is, Mr. Dolan.
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Speaker 7: Well, then let's hope he'll stay in the cupboard until
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Speaker 7: this thing quiets down. I.
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Speaker 5: I don't think Uncle John went away on his own
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Speaker 5: free will.
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Speaker 7: What do you mean, Miss Carter?
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Speaker 5: Something's happened to him. I know it.
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Speaker 7: Well, none of your friends seem to share that viewpoint.
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Speaker 5: There's one friend I can turn to.
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Speaker 9: Oh?
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Speaker 7: Who's that?
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Speaker 5: Hopalong Cassidy. You'll meet him soon enough.
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Speaker 10: And whoever is responsible for Uncle John's disappearance will pay
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Speaker 10: and pay dearly.
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Speaker 8: Thank you.
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Speaker 3: Now back to Hop Along, Cassidy. It's a beautiful spring
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Speaker 3: day down at the Bar 20 where Hoppy and California
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Speaker 3: are lounging on the ranch house porch looking over the
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Speaker 3: mail one of the cowhands just brought in from town.
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Speaker 3: California gives the half dozen envelopes an idle glance then
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Speaker 3: suddenly picks one out of the bunch. Doggone it, Hoppy.
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Speaker 3: That's all we need to disturb the tranquility of this
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Speaker 3: here ranch.
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Speaker 8: You mean tranquility, California.
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Speaker 3: Well, supposing I do. Look here.
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Speaker 8: It's just a letter. What about it?
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Speaker 4: What about it?
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Speaker 3: It's a letter from a gal. Smell the smellum.
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Speaker 8: You mean the perfume.
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Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 8: Oh, it's from Miss Carter. Laura Carter. I wonder if Well,
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Speaker 8: that must be old John Carter's niece. Envelope postmarked Kearneyville.
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Speaker 3: Well, I sure hope they ain't inviting us up there.
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Speaker 3: You promised we wasn't going to leave the bar 20
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Speaker 3: for a whole month.
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Speaker 8: Well, let's see what she has to say before you
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Speaker 8: start worrying.
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Speaker 3: Doggone it, Hoppy. All I want to do is just
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Speaker 3: sit right here. The spring fever's got me.
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Speaker 11: really got me something terrible.
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Speaker 8: You might as well read the bad news yourself, California.
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Speaker 5: Here.
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Speaker 3: Bad news, huh?
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Speaker 8: Sounds mighty odd to me.
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Speaker 3: Well, I'll be darned. Said John Carter up and sold
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Speaker 3: his ranch and lit out for the back country, yeah?
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Speaker 8: Well, his friends are going to lynch him if he returns.
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Speaker 3: Looks like the gal's in trouble, huh, Hoppy?
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Speaker 8: Eh, too bad, too. I promised we wouldn't be leaving
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Speaker 8: the ranch.
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Speaker 4: Oh, no.
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Speaker 3: Who said they wanted to stay around here? You think
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Speaker 3: I want to grow old laying in this hammock? Throw
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Speaker 3: a saddle on top of it while I get my
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Speaker 3: horse and let's go see what's happened.
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Speaker 5: That's all I can tell you, Mr. Cassidy. I'm so worried.
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Speaker 8: Oh, don't get yourself upset, Laura. Maybe your uncle just
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Speaker 8: went visiting.
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Speaker 3: Sure, probably just wanted to change the scenery.
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Speaker 10: I don't think so, California. It's all so, so mysterious.
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Speaker 10: No one saw Uncle John leave town. I inquired at
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Speaker 10: the stage depot and everywhere.
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Speaker 5: I could think of.
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Speaker 8: Well, John might have had to go someplace to take
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Speaker 8: care of business.
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Speaker 5: I'd have known about it if he had.
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Speaker 8: You took care of things for him?
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Speaker 10: I wrote all of Uncle's letters and read his correspondence
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Speaker 10: to him.
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Speaker 8: Oh, I see.
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Speaker 3: And how come you didn't know about your Uncle selling
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Speaker 3: the ranch till Dolan shows up with a bill of sale?
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Speaker 5: That's what's so strange.
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Speaker 8: Laura, do you have a copy of your Uncle's signature around?
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Speaker 5: Why, yes. There should be something.
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Speaker 4: In this desk.
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Speaker 3: Poppy, why do you want that signature? You figure there's
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Speaker 3: something funny about all this?
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Speaker 8: Funny isn't a word for it, California.
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Speaker 5: Here's an old receipt. Will this do?
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Speaker 8: Sure, just the thing. Only, uh.
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Speaker 5: What's the matter, Hoppy?
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Speaker 8: Are you sure this is John Carter's signature?
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Speaker 5: Of course. I know it isn't very legible. Uncle wasn't.
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Speaker 5: I mean, isn't very good with the pants.
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Speaker 8: Ah, you go ahead and cry, Laura.
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Speaker 4: It'll do you good.
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Speaker 8: Come on, California.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, a shopping woman sure does sadden a fella.
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Speaker 5: Where are you going, Hoppy?
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Speaker 8: Just taking a little ride into town. I want a
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Speaker 8: real close look at Dolan's bill of sale.
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Speaker 4: Oh.
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Speaker 8: Let's try up here in front of the mercantile.
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Speaker 3: I'm getting me a bottle of Sarsaparilla. Oh, it sure
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Speaker 3: is hot.
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Speaker 8: Hey, you better hunt up a blacksmith shop.
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Speaker 3: A blacksmith shop?
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Speaker 4: Why?
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Speaker 8: Your horse has a bar off his shoe. Right foreleg.
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Speaker 8: Look at the footprint there on the stud.
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Speaker 3: Well, so it is. Well, it ain't hurting nothing.
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Speaker 8: No, but it'll make it mighty easy for anybody to
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Speaker 8: trail you.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I reckon the tracks would be sort of different
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Speaker 3: at that. Well, there's the blacksmith shop up yonder, and
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Speaker 3: I'll just, uh... Hey... Hoppy.
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Speaker 8: What's the matter?
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Speaker 3: See that fellow sitting on the bench in front of
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Speaker 3: the blacksmith shop, the one with the beard?
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Speaker 8: Yeah, what about him?
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Speaker 3: Well, he kind of looks familiar, that's all.
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Speaker 8: Well, don't let it worry you.
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Speaker 3: No, but it does worry me, Hoppy. Somehow that fellow
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Speaker 3: and trouble go together. I can feel it in my bones.
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Speaker 3: I've seen him somewhere.
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Speaker 4: Uh-uh.
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Speaker 3: By golly, I got it. His name's Milo. Milo Birch.
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Speaker 8: Well, I'm glad that's settled.
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Speaker 3: Known him about 15 years ago. Oh, he was a
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Speaker 3: bad one then.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, it doesn't look like he's improved much.
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Speaker 3: Now, what's Milo doing in a one-horse town like this, Hoppy? Yeah,
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Speaker 3: his gun was always for sale to the highest bidder.
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Speaker 8: Maybe he's between jobs.
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Speaker 3: No, Milo ain't very bright. But he'll always be where
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Speaker 3: somebody's shelling out the money.
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Speaker 8: Hmm. Well, suppose you renew an old friendship while I
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Speaker 8: see what there is to learn about the Triangle Water Company.
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Speaker 3: You know, Hoppy, a talk with Milo might be interesting.
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Speaker 4: Yep.
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Speaker 3: Real interest. Howdy there. Hey, mind if I sit down
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Speaker 3: on the bench?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I do mind.
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Speaker 3: Not even for an old friend?
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Speaker 4: Friend?
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Speaker 3: Sure, sure. I know you wouldn't turn away California Carson.
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Speaker 3: California Carson? Well, I'll be hanged.
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Speaker 10: You sure was, almost.
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Speaker 4: Almost what?
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Speaker 3: Almost hanged. That time in El Paso.
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Speaker 4: Remember? Yeah. And wasn't you with the bunch that run
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Speaker 4: me out of town?
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Speaker 3: Me?
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Speaker 4: Ha, ha.
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Speaker 3: I reckon you ought to know me better than that, Milo.
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Speaker 4: I don't know. I ain't so sure. But doggone it, anyway,
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Speaker 4: you and me are going to drink to the old days, California. Yep.
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Speaker 4: Soon as the jobs I'm doing is through, we'll have champagne.
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Speaker 3: Chasperilli for me.
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Speaker 4: All right, chasperilli. I'm full of it.
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Speaker 3: Say, you must be carrying a full money belt, huh?
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Speaker 4: I sure am, California. I got something big. Cattle? Nope.
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Speaker 7: Sheep?
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Speaker 3: Or maybe it's gold?
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Speaker 4: Ain't no gold. But I can look out my front
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Speaker 4: door and see a couple of poor fools trying to
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Speaker 4: pan some.
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Speaker 3: You don't say, huh? Yeah.
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Speaker 4: And they ain't had any luck at all.
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Speaker 3: Milo.
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Speaker 4: Milo Birch has all the luck.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 3: And, Milo, where is this here job?
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Speaker 4: A 30-minute ride from here?
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Speaker 3: Mm-hmm. Well, now, seeing as how we're old friends here, Milo,
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Speaker 3: maybe you could kind of.
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Speaker 4: No, no, no, no. I'm sorry, California, but there ain't
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Speaker 4: room for no more. Come on, come on, and I'll
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Speaker 4: buy you that chasper, really.
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Speaker 3: Oh, I think I'll just sit right here in the sun, Milo.
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Speaker 3: I got some thinking to do.
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Speaker 8: Well, thanks for showing me the bill of sale, Dolan.
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Speaker 4: Not at all, Cassidy.
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Speaker 7: As you can see, the transaction was perfectly legal. Deeds
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Speaker 7: been recorded.
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Speaker 8: Any idea where Carter could have gone?
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Speaker 7: Frankly, Cassidy, I feel that two things prompted him to
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Speaker 7: leave this valley. First, the cattlemen are against him.
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Speaker 8: And the others?
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Speaker 7: Well, maybe John Carter wanted to see the big city.
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Speaker 7: A few wild oats he forgot to sow on his youth.
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Speaker 8: That doesn't sound much like John Carter.
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Speaker 7: The $ 15, 000 I paid him for the ranch might change
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Speaker 7: his thinking.
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Speaker 8: Maybe so. Just what do you plan to do with
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Speaker 8: the ranch?
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Speaker 7: Take a look at this map, Cassidy.
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Speaker 8: Oh, the Carter ranch.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: I plan to cut it up.
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Speaker 7: Into small farms. With big springs dammed up, the farmers
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Speaker 7: will have plenty of water for irrigation.
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Speaker 8: What about the cattle ranchers?
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Speaker 7: The dam won't bother them. Only this time, they'll pay
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Speaker 7: for their water.
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Speaker 8: And how about the price, Dolan?
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Speaker 7: That'll be taken care of.
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Speaker 4: Due time?
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Speaker 8: I wouldn't press those boys too far. Here's the deal.
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Speaker 7: When I want your advice, I'll ask for it.
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Speaker 8: You might be asking for it sooner than you expect, Dolan.
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Speaker 8: Good day.
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Speaker 7: Good day.
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Speaker 3: Hoppy, I ain't a bit hungry.
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Speaker 8: I'm not either, but a hotel dining room is a
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Speaker 8: good place to talk and look over the citizens of
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Speaker 8: this fair town. What did you find out from Milo Birch?
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Speaker 3: I hate to admit it, Hoppy, but I didn't learn
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Speaker 3: a darn thing.
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Speaker 8: Well, you must have found out something. What did Milo say?
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Speaker 3: Nothing, except he was going to make a lot of money,
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Speaker 3: but he ain't going to work very hard for it
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Speaker 3: if I know Milo.
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Speaker 4: Go on.
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Speaker 3: Well, oh, yes, he ain't working in town, because this
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Speaker 3: job's a 30-minute ride from here.
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Speaker 8: Anybody working with him?
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Speaker 3: Oh, don't think so. Only fellas he sees are a
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Speaker 3: couple of prospectors, pan and gold.
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Speaker 8: You know, California, I think you've found out a lot.
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Speaker 3: Ah, doggone it, Hoppy. Don't go riding me. Oh, look,
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Speaker 3: coming this way.
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Speaker 8: Oh, it's Laura Carter.
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Speaker 5: Oh, Hoppy, I'm so glad I found you.
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Speaker 8: Here, sit down.
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Speaker 4: What's the trouble?
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Speaker 10: Dolan is breaking ground for the dam tomorrow morning.
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Speaker 3: He's moving kind of fast, ain't he, Hoppy?
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Speaker 8: Yeah, maybe he believes a good offense is the best defense.
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Speaker 5: But, Hoppy, that's not all. The ranchers are holding a
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Speaker 5: meeting tonight at the schoolhouse.
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Speaker 8: That sounds like trouble.
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Speaker 5: They're going to vote whether to prevent Dolan from going
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Speaker 5: ahead with the dam.
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Speaker 3: If I know them powers, it'll be gunstock and not vote.
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Speaker 8: Maybe so, California, but there's still time before the meeting.
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Speaker 5: Oh, if Uncle John would only come back.
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Speaker 3: They'd string him up to the nearest tree.
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Speaker 8: No, Laura's right. We need John Carter. And if he's alive,
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Speaker 8: I'll find him before the meeting.
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Speaker 3: Before we continue with this exciting story, here is a
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Speaker 3: word from your announcer.
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Speaker 5: The End.
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Speaker 8: THE END.
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Speaker 3: To all appearances, John Carter has sold his ranch to
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Speaker 3: a man named Dolan, who plans to erect a dam
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Speaker 3: and form the Triangle Water Company. Enraged by this, the
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Speaker 3: Valley ranchers are threatening to take a rope to Carter
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Speaker 3: if he ever sets foot in the district again. At
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Speaker 3: the moment, Hoppy and California are talking to Laura Carter
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Speaker 3: in the Hotel Dunning.
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Speaker 5: Oh, Hoppy, did you see Dolan?
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Speaker 8: Yes, and the signature on Dolan's bill of sale is
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Speaker 8: genuine compared to the receipt you gave me.
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Speaker 5: I just know Uncle would never sign away his ranch
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Speaker 5: and then... That man out there.
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Speaker 3: I don't see nobody.
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Speaker 5: Through the front window.
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Speaker 8: Well, she's pointing at your old saddle park, California.
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Speaker 3: Oh, Milo Birch.
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Speaker 10: I'd forgot about him until now. He's the man who
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Speaker 10: came out to the ranch and bought a horse from
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Speaker 10: Uncle John.
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Speaker 8: Well, there's nothing strange about that.
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Speaker 5: I don't know.
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Speaker 10: About two weeks ago, he bought a broken-down old gray
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Speaker 10: that Uncle had been trying to sell. I wasn't at
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Speaker 10: the ranch, but Uncle pointed him out to me on the.
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Speaker 5: Street one day.
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Speaker 3: A broken-down gray. Yes. Poppy, I told you Milo was
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Speaker 3: kind of stupid.
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Speaker 8: I wonder if he's that stupid.
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Speaker 10: Uncle fancies himself quite a horse trader, and it tickled
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Speaker 10: him to put something.
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Speaker 5: Over on this map.
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Speaker 8: By any chance, did your uncle give Birch a bill
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Speaker 8: of sale for the horse?
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Speaker 5: Why, yes. Come to think of it, he did.
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Speaker 8: Laura, you get back to the ranch and stay there.
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Speaker 5: But what if the ranchers come out and start trouble?
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Speaker 5: The meeting's right after sundown.
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Speaker 8: If everything goes right, those ranchers may have a surprise
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Speaker 8: when they call that meeting to order. California, I have
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Speaker 8: a job for you.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Hoppy.
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Speaker 8: When Milo Birch leaves town, see if you can trail him.
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Speaker 4: Sure.
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Speaker 8: But wait until after I've talked to him.
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Speaker 3: You're going to speak with Milo, eh?
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Speaker 8: Yeah, and you keep out of sight. Don't let him
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Speaker 8: know we're working together.
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Speaker 3: Reckon Milo Birch will be plumb surprised to know I
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Speaker 3: was the partner of Hopalong Cassidy.
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Speaker 8: He'll know in due time.
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Speaker 5: Please be careful, Hoppy. I'm sure that that man is dangerous.
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Speaker 8: Don't you worry about me.
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Speaker 3: It's Milo Birch that'll have to do the worrying.
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Speaker 8: Howdy, stranger.
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Speaker 4: Howdy.
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Speaker 8: You gonna go for a ride?
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Speaker 4: What do you think I'm tightening this hinge for? Of
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Speaker 4: course I'm taking a ride if it's any of your business.
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Speaker 8: Maybe it is my business.
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Speaker 4: Just what are you getting there?
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Speaker 8: That's a nice pinto you got there.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 8: Got good lines. Found horses. You don't know how to
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Speaker 8: pick horse flesh.
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Speaker 4: Sure. I know a good horse. Want to see one?
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Speaker 8: I don't have to get up before breakfast to beat
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Speaker 8: you in a horse trade.
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Speaker 4: Oh, yeah. I reckon he sure would.
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Speaker 8: Then why did you buy a broken down old grave
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Speaker 8: from John Carter?
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Speaker 3: Why, I.
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Speaker 4: How'd you know that?
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Speaker 8: Laura Carter told me.
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Speaker 4: Now, looky here. I don't aim to start no trouble.
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Speaker 8: Neither do I. Where is the gray horse?
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Speaker 4: I got him pastured up yonder.
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Speaker 8: You have the bill of sale card I gave you?
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Speaker 4: That ain't none of your business. Now get out of here.
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Speaker 8: I want an answer, Birch.
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Speaker 4: Here and now.
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Speaker 3: Here's your answer. Let go.
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Speaker 4: You're breaking my arm.
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Speaker 8: Don't ever put a gun on a man unless you're
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Speaker 8: fast enough to use it. Now drop that gun. Drop it.
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Speaker 4: All right, all right.
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Speaker 8: That's better.
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Speaker 4: Yeah. There's two of you anyhow, stranger.
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Speaker 8: The name's Cassidy. Hop along, Cassidy.
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Speaker 4: Hop along, Cassidy?
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Speaker 8: If you were a younger man, you'd have come out
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Speaker 8: worse than you did.
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Speaker 4: Next time we meet, it'll be different. It sure will.
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Speaker 8: It's liable to be at that, Milo. Your kind usually
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Speaker 8: winds up at the end of a rope. Go on,
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Speaker 8: get on your horse while you're still able.
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Speaker 7: I ain't forgetting this.
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Speaker 4: Tommy.
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Speaker 8: California, where are you?
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Speaker 4: Over here in the alley.
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Speaker 8: Milo's riding out of town. Yeah, I'll follow him.
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Speaker 3: But you better do something.
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Speaker 7: What do you mean?
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Speaker 3: I just seen some of them ranchers ride in. They're
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Speaker 3: packing rifles and spoiling for trouble.
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Speaker 8: I'll go have a talk with them, see if I
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Speaker 8: can cool them off. You take care of Milo.
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Speaker 4: Sure, Hoppy.
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Speaker 3: I'll find his hideout or my name ain't California Carlson.
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Speaker 3: Doggone it, Milo came this far. I know it.
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Speaker 5: Pretty slick.
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Speaker 3: Riding up the creek so he couldn't be trapped.
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Speaker 4: What you doing up here, California?
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Speaker 3: Why, Milo, I was just getting some fresh air.
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Speaker 4: I figure that you've been following me.
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Speaker 3: Why, that ain't so, Milo.
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Speaker 4: I've been sitting up here watching you come up the trail.
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Speaker 3: Now, would I be doing any harm to an old
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Speaker 3: friend like you?
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Speaker 4: And another thing. I've been thinking it over.
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Speaker 5: Tonight.
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Speaker 3: almost.
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Speaker 4: Sure you was with that bunch that run me out
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Speaker 4: El Paso.
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Speaker 3: Now, wait a minute, Milo.
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Speaker 4: Put up that gun.
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Speaker 3: You'll be shooting somebody if you ain't careful.
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Speaker 4: And it'll be you.
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Speaker 3: Unbuckle your gun belt.
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Speaker 7: Now, Milo.
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Speaker 4: Go to the tray.
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Speaker 3: Well, yeah, sure, sure.
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Speaker 4: All right, all right.
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Speaker 3: What else can I do with a gun mussel staring
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Speaker 3: at my wishbone? There.
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Speaker 4: That's better. Now, get on up ahead and don't try nothing.
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Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 8: Where are we going?
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Speaker 4: To see the boss. He'll know what to do with
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Speaker 4: the likes of you.
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Speaker 11: Like I've been telling you, Cassidy, there ain't going to
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Speaker 11: be no holding the boys if something ain't done, Prado.
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Speaker 3: Us ranchers is plumb sick of things.
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Speaker 8: Well, flying off the handle won't solve anything.
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Speaker 3: Well, I never said it would. But we figured Dolan
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Speaker 3: and Carter is trying to freeze us out of the country.
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Speaker 8: Dolan, maybe, but not Carter.
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Speaker 3: Now, wait a minute, Cassidy. I know your reputation, and
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Speaker 3: I'm willing to string along.
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Speaker 6: But some of my friends think it's awful funny how
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Speaker 6: you keep sticking up for Carter.
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Speaker 8: Carter's my friend.
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Speaker 6: Then why don't you get him to tell the truth
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Speaker 6: if he's.
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Speaker 3: All fired on us?
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Speaker 8: I will if I find him alive.
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Speaker 4: Alive?
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Speaker 3: Are you hinting that Carter's been killed?
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Speaker 8: I'm not hinting at anything.
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Speaker 4: Well.
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Speaker 3: Well, I can't do any more than I have, Cassidy.
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Speaker 8: Just get the boys to hold off until the meeting tonight.
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Speaker 8: California should be back soon.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, you've been saying that for an hour.
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Speaker 3: Where is this partner, anyway?
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Speaker 8: That's what I'm beginning to wonder. California should have been
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Speaker 8: back before this.
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Speaker 3: Where'd he go?
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Speaker 8: Oh, someplace that's about a 30-minute ride from there.
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Speaker 3: He could have rode 30 minutes in any direction. That
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Speaker 3: don't mean nothing.
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Speaker 8: That's a place where they're panning gold.
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Speaker 3: There ain't no gold around here.
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Speaker 8: Not even a couple of prospectors still trying to turn
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Speaker 8: up some dust?
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Speaker 4: Huh.
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Speaker 6: Come to think of it, there was a couple of
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Speaker 6: fellas working out along the Crooked Creek Road.
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Speaker 8: Crooked Creek Road, huh?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, out west of town.
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Speaker 8: Thanks, mister. Thanks a lot.
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Speaker 6: Well, if that don't beat all, this town's like a
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Speaker 6: powder keg with a fuse half-lit, and he's going off
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Speaker 6: to pan gold.
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Speaker 3: Why, I just can't understand you, Milo. Me and you
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Speaker 3: being friends for so long.
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Speaker 4: Shut up. And quit looking at that rifle by the door.
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Speaker 4: I'll put a slug in you before you can get
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Speaker 4: off that chair.
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Speaker 3: I never seen the beat. You sure are a suspicious hombre.
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Speaker 3: There's that thumping sound again. Under the floor.
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Speaker 4: It's a wind.
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Speaker 3: Yeah?
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: It couldn't be old man Carter down there, could it?
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Speaker 4: If you don't shut up, you'll get down there with him.
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Speaker 3: Oh, there's John Carter. You've been holding him prisoner.
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Speaker 4: If you don't shut up, you.
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Speaker 3: Somebody's coming.
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Speaker 4: Yeah. You sit there in that chair and don't move.
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Speaker 4: I'm taking a look out the window. It's the boss.
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Speaker 7: I came a long way around so nobody could follow me.
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Speaker 7: I gotta work fast, Milo. Rancher's a hold'em.
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Speaker 4: Who's that?
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Speaker 7: A feller that... I knew you were short on brains, Milo,
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Speaker 7: but I didn't know you were that stupid.
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Speaker 4: But Dolan... I told you.
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Speaker 7: Never to bring anybody out here.
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Speaker 4: But he was following me, so I brung him along. Oh,
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Speaker 4: following you, huh?
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Speaker 7: Who are you working for, anyway?
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Speaker 3: Myself.
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Speaker 4: Oh, well, we'll take care of you and Carter. But, Dolan,
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Speaker 4: I thought you wanted to keep the old man alive
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Speaker 4: in case you wanted him to sign something.
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Speaker 7: He don't need his signature, no.
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Speaker 8: Get your hands up, Dolan.
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Speaker 4: You too, Milo.
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Speaker 10: Hoppy!
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Speaker 4: What's the idea, Captain?
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Speaker 8: I've been out there in the brush for ten minutes.
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Speaker 8: I figured Milo was waiting for the boss, and I
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Speaker 8: knew that his name was Dolan.
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Speaker 4: Why, you've been eavesdropping, Hoppy. Well, I'll be doggone.
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Speaker 7: Get in the gun, Scallop.
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Speaker 3: It'll be a pleasure.
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Speaker 7: You're not going to get mine?
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Speaker 4: Look out, Hoppy!
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Speaker 8: Those fingers will sting for a while, Dolan, but you're
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Speaker 8: not hurt.
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Speaker 7: You don't pay for this, Cassidy.
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Speaker 8: Now, don't try to pick up that gun. Next time,
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Speaker 8: I'll do more than shoot it out of your hand.
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Speaker 3: Hoppy, they got Carter downstairs.
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Speaker 8: So I heard. We'll get him and ride into town.
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Speaker 7: What do you figure to do with me?
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Speaker 8: You and Milo will have a nice long time to
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Speaker 8: think of your sins up in state prison. But first,
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Speaker 8: we're all going to attend a meeting in Kearneyville. The
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Speaker 8: ranchers you tried to swindle are going to be very
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Speaker 8: happy to learn the truth, Dolan.
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Speaker 3: Come on.
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Speaker 4: Hold on there, boys.
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Speaker 8: The first man that crosses that line will find himself
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Speaker 8: in trouble. Go ahead, Carter. Tell him the truth.
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Speaker 9: Men, the ranch ain't sold. There's going to be water
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Speaker 9: from the springs just like before.
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Speaker 4: How come you signed the bill.
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Speaker 7: Of sale if it's a doggone honest, Carter?
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Speaker 4: I'm a proud man, boys.
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Speaker 7: I never had book learning. Well, that ain't nothing to
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Speaker 7: be ashamed of. Yes, it is. Boys, I can't read
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Speaker 7: or write.
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Speaker 4: Your fat don't feed all. I've known you for 20 years.
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Speaker 4: That's the first time I ever heard that.
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Speaker 8: Carter, I knew that's the way it was. Because if
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Speaker 8: you couldn't read, you'd never sign away your land.
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Speaker 4: I was so.
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Speaker 9: Happy to get the best of Milo Birch and that
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Speaker 9: horse deal that I just didn't think when I signed
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Speaker 9: that paper there'd be a bill of sale for my ranch.
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Speaker 3: But.
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Speaker 9: As long as it watered my springs, you'll get all
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Speaker 9: you want and it won't cost you a bling cent.
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Speaker 9: And I ain't never gonna sign my name to another
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Speaker 9: thing till I learn to read.
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Speaker 7: The End.
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Speaker 8: Now back to our story.
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Speaker 3: Hey, Hoppy, what made you so darn sure that Dolan
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Speaker 3: and Birch was working together?
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Speaker 8: Birch wanted to fight when I had to see the
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Speaker 8: bill of sale for the horse he bought from Carter.
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Speaker 8: An honest man wouldn't do that.
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Speaker 3: Ah, doggone it, Hoppy. Quick, run in and tell me,
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Speaker 3: how come you found the hideout so easy?
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Speaker 8: Ha, ha, ha. I just looked where you'd be, and
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Speaker 8: there you were.
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Speaker 3: That wasn't as easy as that. I seen other hoof
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Speaker 3: prints along that creek bank.
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Speaker 4: Sure.
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Speaker 8: There was only one set that belonged to a shiftless,
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Speaker 8: lazy fellow who wouldn't take the time to have a
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Speaker 8: new shoe put on his horse.
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Speaker 3: By golly, you're right. A plumb forgot about that missing bar.
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Speaker 3: But how do you know where to look?
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Speaker 8: You told me.
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Speaker 3: Oh, I told you?
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Speaker 4: Well, sure.
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Speaker 8: You said two prospectors were panning gold. And you said
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Speaker 8: that Milo claimed it took him 30 minutes to ride
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Speaker 8: to his job. I found out the prospectors were working
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Speaker 8: on Crooked Creek and sure enough... There were the tracks
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Speaker 8: of your horse.
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Speaker 3: Well, doggone. I sure helped, didn't I?
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Speaker 4: Oh, you helped a lot.
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Speaker 3: Oh, and another thing, Hoppy. How come you knew Carter
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Speaker 3: couldn't read or write?
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Speaker 8: Laura told us she read these letters to him, remember?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right. Never thought of it.
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Speaker 4: Carter could read.
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Speaker 8: He'd have read his own letters.
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Speaker 3: Well, I guess there ain't nothing else to do but
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Speaker 3: head for home.
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Speaker 8: Well, how about getting a new shoe for your horse?
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Speaker 3: Uh-oh, there ain't no hurry about it.
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Speaker 8: Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
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Speaker 3: What's so funny, California? Oh, that Putin off business. Say,
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Speaker 3: it's a good thing I didn't think of that yesterday.
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Speaker 8: How do you mean?
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Speaker 3: Well, if yesterday I'd have done what I could have
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Speaker 3: done today, I mean, if I'd done today, what... Mixed up, huh?
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Speaker 3: Doggone it, yeah. What I'm trying to say is this.
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Speaker 3: If I'd have had that shoe fixed yesterday, you wouldn't
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Speaker 3: have seen that missing bar and never found me. And looky,
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Speaker 3: what would have happened today?
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Speaker 8: I have nothing to say.
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Speaker 3: Hmm, I got you, Hoppy, huh? For once, you ain't
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Speaker 3: got an answer. You ain't got a word to say.
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Speaker 3: Goodbye from Hopalong Cassidy. We hope you'll be back with
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Speaker 3: us when Hoppy and California again ride out from the
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Speaker 3: Bar 20 for another dangerous and exciting adventure of the
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Speaker 3: Old West. Apollon Cassidy, starring William Boyd, is transcribed and
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Speaker 3: produced in the West by Walter White Jr. Renegades of
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Speaker 3: the San Rafael was written by Dean Owen and Howard Swart.
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Speaker 3: All stories are based upon the characters created by Clarence E.
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Speaker 10: Mulford.
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Speaker 8: This is a Commodore production.
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Speaker 1: This concludes our visit with Hopalong Cassidy's Renegades of the
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