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The Lone Ranger - "The Ghost of Matt Carpenter" (Old Time Radio, 1940) · The Lone Ranger | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: June 5th, 1940 marks episode 1149 of The Lone Ranger.
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  Speaker 1: This installment is titled The Ghost of Matt Carpenter. Settle
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  Speaker 1: in for another visit with one of radio's enduring western series.
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  Speaker 1: We now take you back to the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: I'll sell my Hawaii!
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  Speaker 3: A fiery horse with a speed of light. A cloud
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  Speaker 3: of dust and a hearty hi-yo silver. The Lone Ranger.
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  Speaker 4: THE END The Lone Ranger. THE END.
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  Speaker 3: In the early days of the western United States... the
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  Speaker 3: grazing rights to the open range... were fiercely contested by
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  Speaker 3: sheep herders and cattlemen. Sheep ruined the range for cattle.
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  Speaker 3: The ranchers stopped at nothing to drive them from the country.
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  Speaker 3: Open warfare might have continued for years... if it had
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  Speaker 3: not been for the masked rider of the plains. It
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  Speaker 3: was he more than any other man... who convinced both
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  Speaker 3: factions there was plenty of room for all, and that
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  Speaker 3: only through cooperation could the winning of the West be accomplished.
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  Speaker 3: Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear.
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  Speaker 3: From out of the past come the thundering hoofbeats of
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  Speaker 3: the great horse Silver. The Lone Ranger rides again. Come on, Silver!
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  Speaker 3: There's going to be trouble!
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  Speaker 4: We've got to hurry! Hi-yo, Silver!
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  Speaker 5: Hooray!
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  Speaker 4: Hooray!
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  Speaker 3: One morning, unknown to the cattlemen whose territory lay to
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  Speaker 3: the north, an order was given that led to one
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  Speaker 3: of the most deadly range wars the district ever knew.
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  Speaker 3: On the level floor of a broad valley, thousands and
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  Speaker 3: thousands of sheep had been herded together, and around a tall,
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  Speaker 3: grim-faced man on horseback were clustered their herdsmen, each, in
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  Speaker 3: spite of his trade, a fighting man, and each carrying
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  Speaker 3: a rifle and sidearms. Finally, the mounted man spoke. Shut
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  Speaker 3: up and listen. Now then, I suppose you're wondering the
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  Speaker 3: reason for this meeting. Well, I'll tell you. Some of
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  Speaker 3: you work for me. Some don't. That don't make no
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  Speaker 3: never mind. I'm here to give you your orders. And
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  Speaker 3: you'll take them whether you're on my payroll or not.
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  Speaker 3: I'm speaking for your bosses just as much as for myself. Senor,
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  Speaker 3: what is it that we must do? It's the start
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  Speaker 3: of a new season. It's time them sheep started following
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  Speaker 3: the grass. Every year before this, you've taken them south.
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  Speaker 3: But this year, you're taking them north. But, senor. Well?
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  Speaker 3: To the north, that is cattle country, senor. Chief, they
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  Speaker 3: are not permitted. Oh, they ain't, eh? No, senor. It
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  Speaker 3: will mean trouble, much trouble. That's why we give you
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  Speaker 3: them extra guns. But, senor. Any trouble comes up, you'll
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  Speaker 3: be able to handle it all right. If you couldn't,
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  Speaker 3: you wouldn't be drawing wages. And another thing. Just keep
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  Speaker 3: this in mind. That's open range where you're going. Open
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  Speaker 3: to anybody, Savvy. Ain't no legal way any common can
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  Speaker 3: keep you off it. So if there's trouble, shoot to kill.
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  Speaker 3: The law's on your side. All right, get them sheep moving.
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  Speaker 4: All right, come on.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, turn them sheep back. Where do you think you're going?
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  Speaker 6: Stop going to get them sheep off this rain.
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  Speaker 2: Stop where you are, senor.
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  Speaker 3: Whoa, whoa, boy. Whoa there. Whoa, whoa. You'd pull a
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  Speaker 3: gun on me? Do not make a trouble. The sheep,
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  Speaker 3: they are going through. Like some they are. Senor, do
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  Speaker 3: not grow up. You dirty.
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  Speaker 4: Oh.
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  Speaker 3: That's one new amigo.
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  Speaker 4: New.
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  Speaker 3: You shot me. But you would not leave.
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  Speaker 4: Him.
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  Speaker 3: There comes Andy. Watch his hurry. Looks like something's up
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  Speaker 3: the way he's burning that bronc. Hey, listen. I think
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  Speaker 3: he's yelling something. The sheep are coming. What's that?
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  Speaker 2: Off the deadline.
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  Speaker 3: They're on our range. Whoa. Whoa, bro. Whoa.
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  Speaker 5: Whoa there.
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  Speaker 3: Whoa there.
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  Speaker 7: Hank Duncan tried to turn them back, and a murdering
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  Speaker 7: breed shot him down. It's just lucky Hank wasn't killed.
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  Speaker 7: Where's Matt Carpenter?
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  Speaker 3: He'll know what to do. Anybody seen Matt? Where's he at?
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  Speaker 3: Seen him down at the cafe. Think he's still there?
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  Speaker 3: In one side, out of my way.
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  Speaker 7: If them sheep ain't drove back, there won't be enough
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  Speaker 7: grass left to feed an ale and doggie.
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  Speaker 3: Get up. Get up, boy. Come on. We don't get
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  Speaker 3: those sheep. Try and tell us what to do, huh?
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  Speaker 5: We'll show Mike what we'll take.
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  Speaker 3: Matt Carpenter organized the resistance of the cattlemen. The reports
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  Speaker 3: that reached Hauser were not encouraging. And one day, about
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  Speaker 3: a week later.
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  Speaker 3: Well, what's the matter with you? Gunpowder Kettleman.
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  Speaker 8: Sit down and cool off. Getting under your skin, are they, Hauser?
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  Speaker 8: I'd like to sit. Where's the rest of the men?
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  Speaker 8: You the first one here? Sure, but I'm early. You
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  Speaker 8: ought to know that.
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  Speaker 3: It was you that called this meeting. What time is it?
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  Speaker 3: Just seven. Oh.
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  Speaker 8: The others ought to be along pretty soon. Hauser, what's wrong?
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  Speaker 8: I don't reckon you called this meeting for nothing.
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  Speaker 3: Dirk, it's Matt Carpenter. Yeah? His race came to the
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  Speaker 3: whole scheme. If it wasn't for him, it would have
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  Speaker 3: been a walkover. My sheep and yours and all the
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  Speaker 3: rest would have been feeding right now on the richest
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  Speaker 3: range this side of the Rockies. Yeah. We had enough
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  Speaker 3: breed gun hens to outnumber them two to one. But
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  Speaker 3: Matt's got them fighting mad. Making a stand over beyond
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  Speaker 3: Hank Duncan's place. Can't get them sheep one foot further. Look, Howzer.
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  Speaker 4: Well?
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  Speaker 8: I don't know whether I'd be so ready to tell
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  Speaker 8: the rest of the fellas that things ain't going just
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  Speaker 8: like they should if I was you.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe you'd better tone it down a little.
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  Speaker 4: Why?
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  Speaker 3: Well, in the first place, this was your scheme.
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  Speaker 8: You'll make us rich. Grab that range and we can
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  Speaker 8: feed twice as many sheep. Sure, but that's just one thing.
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  Speaker 8: The second is, when we agreed to it, we decided
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  Speaker 8: to leave the whole thing to you.
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  Speaker 3: Well? Things are going wrong.
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  Speaker 7: It's your fault. Can't put the blame nowhere else. But
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  Speaker 7: doggone it, all this I'm trying to tell you. Things
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  Speaker 7: wouldn't have gone wrong if... If what?
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  Speaker 3: Well, if it weren't for Matt. He's a fighting fool.
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  Speaker 3: The rest of them cattlemen could have been licked in
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  Speaker 3: no time. So? There's a thing that's got to be done. What?
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  Speaker 3: Get rid of Matt. You mean that... I reckon you
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  Speaker 3: savvy what I mean without me putting it in no plainer.
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  Speaker 3: And that's why you called the meeting? Has to be done.
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  Speaker 3: But I ain't taking the blame alone. We've all got
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  Speaker 3: to agree to it. What? Where's most of the men now, Hauser?
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  Speaker 3: And you know something? Huh?
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  Speaker 8: If Matt's got to be took care of, I reckon
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  Speaker 8: there ain't none of us will holler.
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  Speaker 3: Come in, boys. Come in. Tuttle, pass me your rope. Uh-uh.
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  Speaker 8: Here.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, good.
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  Speaker 3: There's a runaway all right. Now we'll see who he
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  Speaker 3: belongs to.
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  Speaker 5: Come on, Silver.
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  Speaker 3: A little closer, old fellow. Just a little closer, boy. Now.
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  Speaker 3: Got him. Hold him, old fellow. Hold, boy. Hold, Silver. Hold.
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  Speaker 3: That's it, boy.
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  Speaker 4: Easy, boy.
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  Speaker 5: Stand still, fellow.
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  Speaker 3: Let's see where you came from. There. There are brand.
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  Speaker 3: C bar C. Who that? I think... Wait a moment.
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  Speaker 3: There are some initials on the saddle. They've been worn
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  Speaker 3: almost smooth, but it's still possible to make them out, Tonto. MJC. Kimisabe.
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  Speaker 3: This horse must belong to Matt Carpenter. That's right. You look.
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  Speaker 3: What is it? Look here. The stain. Tonto. What do
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  Speaker 3: you think? This looks as if Matt may have been shot.
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  Speaker 3: Back into the saddle, Tudor. We take horse? Let him loose.
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  Speaker 3: He'll find his way home all right. We've no time
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  Speaker 3: to bother with him. And what we do? We're back
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  Speaker 3: trailing until we find what's happened to Matt. Can you
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  Speaker 3: follow the trail all right, Tudor? Me follow it. Then hurry.
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  Speaker 3: Get him up, Scowl. Come on, Silver. Come on, old fellow.
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  Speaker 3: Come on. Two hours later, in a wild, deserted canyon,
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  Speaker 3: the Lone Ranger and his faithful Indian companion reached the
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  Speaker 3: end of the trail and.
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  Speaker 3: Dead.
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  Speaker 4: Hmm.
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  Speaker 3: Murdered, Hunter. Shot in the back. Look at his guns.
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  Speaker 3: Both still in his holsters. He never had a chance
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  Speaker 3: to defend himself. Not right. He was a fine man,
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  Speaker 3: Kimo Sabe.
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  Speaker 2: Hmm.
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  Speaker 3: Tonto, no. No one in the West could have wanted
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  Speaker 3: his death. Unless... What you think? Unless it were the
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  Speaker 3: sheepmen who have been trying to invade this range. Them killers.
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  Speaker 3: I know them, Tonto. Ex-rustlers, ex-bandits, ex-gunmen. The sweepings and
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  Speaker 3: the dregs of the cattle country. They banded together to
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  Speaker 3: raise sheep because no self-respecting cattlemen would do business with them.
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  Speaker 3: Now they're after more than wealth at the expense of
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  Speaker 3: the ranchers. Tonto, they're after revenge. Not right. And with
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  Speaker 3: Matt murdered, they're likely to get it. He was a
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  Speaker 3: grand fighting man. I'm afraid without him to lead them
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  Speaker 3: and keep up their spirits, the others are bound to
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  Speaker 3: be beaten. That'd be bad. Plenty bad. I hate to
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  Speaker 3: let them know that Matt... Wait. What matter? Tonto, he's
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  Speaker 3: just about my build. Darker, but that can be remedied.
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  Speaker 3: Die for my hair, stain for my skin... Masabi, I
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  Speaker 3: think I have it. You got plan? Tutter, say nothing
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  Speaker 3: of Matt's death to anyone. To anyone, understand? Me savvy.
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  Speaker 3: The sheepmen won this round, Tutter. But we may rob
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  Speaker 3: them of victory yet. It was on the evening of
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  Speaker 3: the next day that Hauser and Dirk rode toward the
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  Speaker 3: sheepherder's camp. Hauser, how much you gonna tell Manuel? About Matt? Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: No more than I have to. Just enough so him
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  Speaker 3: and the rest of them breeds will get their nerve
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  Speaker 3: back and keep going. Once Matt's found... Well, that'll be
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  Speaker 3: just about the finish of any fighting we'll have to do.
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  Speaker 3: That'll show them cattlemen we mean business. It ought to.
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  Speaker 3: Then if Manuel and his pods get a move on,
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  Speaker 3: their range ought to be ours inside another week. Bowser? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Don't get me wrong. If I ask anything you'd rather
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  Speaker 3: not tell, just say so. But as long as there's
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  Speaker 3: just the two of us, there's nobody to hear. What
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  Speaker 3: are you getting at? Well, I've been wondering just how
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  Speaker 3: you did fix Matt. And where. Over by one of
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  Speaker 3: them canyons outside of Ball Mountain?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Sure. Trailed him till he went where there weren't no
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  Speaker 3: danger of me being seen. Did he put up much
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  Speaker 3: of a fight? No. But how? You know why? No.
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  Speaker 3: Because he never even knew I was there. He never
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  Speaker 3: knew what hit him. Figured that's the way you'd do it.
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  Speaker 3: What'd you mean by that? Now, don't get mad, Hauser.
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  Speaker 3: No harm meant. You better not. Just because I was
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  Speaker 3: the one did the shooting don't mean the rest of
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  Speaker 3: you ain't just as much to blame as me. You
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  Speaker 3: were first. I know, I know. And don't go hitting
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  Speaker 3: I'm yellow. Shucks, you're too touchy. Never meant no such thing. Look, Hauser,
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  Speaker 3: I was thinking.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, what the.
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  Speaker 3: Hold still, dog. Go on, you hold still there. Hey,
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  Speaker 3: what's the thing that scared him? I don't know, but
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  Speaker 3: I'll teach the pesky... Hold it. Huh? What's that over there?
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  Speaker 3: Something kind of white and wiggling around. But that's what
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  Speaker 3: done it. Say, that looks like... That looks like a man.
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  Speaker 3: Come on, get up. Get up. It does. Get up there.
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  Speaker 5: Whoa, whoa, fella.
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  Speaker 3: Whoa, whoa, whoa. It's Manuel. Yeah, tight and gag. Now,
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  Speaker 3: who done this?
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  Speaker 5: Now, give me a knife, quick.
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  Speaker 3: Here you are. Cut his ropes. I'll take care of
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  Speaker 3: the gag. Well, hurry. Hold still, doggone it. Manuel, who
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  Speaker 3: done it? Hey, put yourself together. Did you hear it, Dirk?
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  Speaker 3: Who tied you up? It was the Senor Carpenter. Huh?
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  Speaker 3: What's that? He catch me. Diablo. He tie me up. Sacred.
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  Speaker 3: He say if I make the trouble one day, he
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  Speaker 3: kill me. You say it was Matt Carpenter? Si, si, Senor.
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  Speaker 3: You're loco. You must have been seeing things. It couldn't
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  Speaker 3: have been him. No, Senor, it was. I see him
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  Speaker 3: with my own eyes. How, sir? Were you lying to us? No, Dirk.
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  Speaker 3: I tell you, I wasn't. Matt. Matt can't be alive.
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  Speaker 3: Or if he is... Yeah? He couldn't be human.
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  Speaker 4: I'll kill my Hawaii!
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  Speaker 3: The curtain falls on the first act of our Lone
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  Speaker 3: Ranger drama. Before the next exciting scenes, please permit us
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  Speaker 3: to pause for just a few moments.
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  Speaker 4: Lone Ranger Now to continue our story. The Lone Ranger and.
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  Speaker 2: Tonto raced toward a small wood.
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  Speaker 3: And there they took cover among the trees. Oh, there's
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  Speaker 3: the scout. Steady, Silver. Steady. Well, Santa, we've given them
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  Speaker 3: something to think about. That's right. How's my disguise now?
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  Speaker 3: It's good. You'll still take me for Matt? And we'll
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  Speaker 3: soon strike again. First, Tonto, for a message. You'll have
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  Speaker 3: to carry it. There's paper in your saddlebags. Give it
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  Speaker 3: to me. What? What message? I'll address it to Hank Duncan.
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  Speaker 4: Ah.
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  Speaker 3: Here. Your paper. Thanks. Hank was a good friend to Matt,
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  Speaker 3: but I doubt that he knew Matt so well that
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  Speaker 3: he'd be able to say that this wasn't Matt's handwriting. Ah. There.
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  Speaker 3: Take it. Ah. You got it. All right. I'll ride
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  Speaker 3: for town. Need you to find Hank at the cafe.
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  Speaker 5: Get him up, Scone.
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  Speaker 3: Get him up.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, fellas.
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  Speaker 3: Listen to this. Look at what I got here. Hank,
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  Speaker 3: what is it? A note from Matt. What is that
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  Speaker 3: you're talking about? The engine just brought it. You see
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  Speaker 3: Matt's engine? Where's he at? Why ain't he here? I mean,
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  Speaker 3: not talk.
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  Speaker 6: Leave the Redskin be, fellas. Matt says here he don't
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  Speaker 6: want anybody to know where he is.
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  Speaker 3: What's the idea? Them coyotes of sheepmen are out to
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  Speaker 3: drill him. Sure, we could guess that. But he ain't
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  Speaker 3: afeard of them, is he? Afeard? Matt? Don't talk loco.
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  Speaker 3: Then what are you getting at?
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  Speaker 6: Fellas, Matt's got his own way of fighting.
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  Speaker 3: Sure, but all the same... And it's a good'un, as
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  Speaker 3: we ought to know.
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  Speaker 6: Well, he says we're to keep on holding back them sheep.
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  Speaker 3: And he says... Huh?
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  Speaker 6: He says it's going to make them skunks wish they'd
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  Speaker 6: stayed where they belong.
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  Speaker 3: Are we going to do like he says, fellas? Are
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  Speaker 3: we going to keep on fighting? Fine, I knew you would.
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  Speaker 3: You heard him, Injun.
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  Speaker 6: Wherever Matt is, you tell him we'll fight as long
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  Speaker 6: as there's one of us left alive.
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  Speaker 4: Come on!
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  Speaker 3: They said that, Tonto? Uh-huh. I now have time to
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  Speaker 3: carry out the rest of my plan. It means a
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  Speaker 3: week's journey. But if they'll hold for that long, all
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  Speaker 3: will go well. Where are you riding? After the closest
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  Speaker 3: United States Marshal, Tonto. Oh. The range is open. As
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  Speaker 3: far as the law is concerned, sheep have as much right...
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  Speaker 3: to it as cattle. I don't know. In cases where
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  Speaker 3: the two parties conflict, the law usually refuses to step in.
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  Speaker 3: That's right. So they can't be arrested for invading the
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  Speaker 3: cattleman's territory, Kimasabe. But they can be jailed for murder.
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  Speaker 3: But how proven killer? I've got a way to force
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  Speaker 3: a confession, Tyler. But that can wait until my return.
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  Speaker 3: You'll stay here. Keep an eye on the ranchers. Help
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  Speaker 3: them if you can. You can look for me back
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  Speaker 3: within the week. Come on, Silver. Hurry, old fellow. Hurry.
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  Speaker 3: Riding day and night, scarcely pausing for either rest or food,
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  Speaker 3: the Masked Man raced for Cascade Falls, a little town
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  Speaker 3: where the United States Marshal for that district made his headquarters. Then,
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  Speaker 3: once there, Marshal, I said I'd prove those men are murderers.
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  Speaker 3: And I will. You won't regret taking me at my word.
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  Speaker 3: We'll return to my camp. Follow me. Come on, Silver.
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  Speaker 3: Come on.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah. The horse ridden by the marshal was no
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  Speaker 3: match for Silver. But with the masked man to lead
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  Speaker 3: the way and to urge the other on, they made
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  Speaker 3: good time. On the fourth day... Oh, oh, there's Silver. Oh, what?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, what?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, hey!
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  Speaker 3: Tell me, plenty glad to see you. Santa, what's happened
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  Speaker 3: while I've been gone? The ranch is still holding out? Oh,
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  Speaker 3: them make good fight. Fine. The marshal here says he
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  Speaker 3: won't take sides. But if we can prove who murdered Matt,
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  Speaker 3: he'll arrest the man or men responsible. Not good. Which
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  Speaker 3: means work for you, Kemosabe. Not all right. You'll call
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  Speaker 3: on the ranchers. You'll take them where I tell you,
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  Speaker 3: when I tell you. Uh-huh. No mistake must be made.
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  Speaker 3: They must be there just when I say. And where
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  Speaker 3: may I take them? Remember that old line cabin in
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  Speaker 3: the hills where we made camp once before? Uh-huh. It
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  Speaker 3: hasn't been used for years. It's isolated. Whatever happens there,
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  Speaker 3: no one will ask questions. That's right. Get as many
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  Speaker 3: of the ranchers as you can. Tell them to wait
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  Speaker 3: until dark. Then take them to that cabin without being seen. Tonto,
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  Speaker 3: do it. And in the meantime... What you do? You'll
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: disguise me to look like Matt again. And I'll make
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: some calls myself. Ah. The men I call on won't
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: be pleased to see me, Tonto. When I'm done, they'll
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: be headed for the rope. Then, that night, at spaced
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: intervals but losing no time, the Lone Ranger paid several calls.
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: Who is it? What are you... Matt! Matt! Matt Carpenter. Outside. No, no.
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  Speaker 3: Let me be. I didn't try to shoot you. No, please.
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: No use calling for help. Into the saddle we go. Matt, please.
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: Come on, Silver.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: Come on.
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  Speaker 3: You're another man I want, Squint. Right ahead of me.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: Or get blasted out of that saddle.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: Let him blaze his feet.
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: Reach for that gun, Hauser, and I'll let you have it.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: That carpenter. Didn't expect to see me alive again, did you? Well,
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: we'll square accounts tonight, Hauser. Out the door. Don't shoot.
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: Don't shoot.
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: Keep going, Hauser. Keep going. Hauser was the last of
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: 12 men to be made a prisoner by the Lone Ranger.
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: He was taken to a lonely line cabin. And when
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: the door was thrown open.
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: Quiet! Quiet, I said! Inside, Hauser. Go on. I keep
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: my promises. One attempt to make a break and it'll
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: be your last. Got you two houses? What do you
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: think it looks like? Well, I just... Quiet! When I
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: want you to speak, I'll let you know it. Matt,
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: you look here.
• 24:33
  Speaker 7: You got some kind of notion you can scare us
• 24:36
  Speaker 7: into clearing out.
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: Or something, you're clean crazy. Maybe you have got us
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: tied up, but you can't... But what? Well... You seem
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: to forget that you are tied, every one of you.
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: That every one of you here is at my mercy. Now, you...
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: Remember that. Don't get up, Matt Dirk. Matt, uh... Look.
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: What are you figuring to do? Can't we get together somehow?
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: After attempting my murder? What murder? You weren't killed. But
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: the attempt was made. Ha, ha, ha.
• 25:03
  Speaker 7: Hauser, quit acting like a yellow pup. Can't you see
• 25:06
  Speaker 7: he's all bluff? Figure it out for yourself. You think
• 25:09
  Speaker 7: he'd bring a whole dozen of us out here and
• 25:12
  Speaker 7: finish us off all by himself?
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: Don't be a fool. You don't even look so frightened, Hauser.
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: That isn't my plan. Didn't I tell you? Well, mister,
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: just what did you figure to gain by this? I'm
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: going to turn the lot of you over to the law.
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: What's that? For trying to dry-gouch me. Matt, did I
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: hear you right? You did. You really mean to say
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: you're going to turn us over to the law? I am.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: On what charge? I've told you that already. Attempted murder.
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: But you ain't cute. That doesn't enter into it. Matt,
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: you're barking up the wrong tree.
• 25:47
  Speaker 7: Just try and find any lawman in this territory that'll
• 25:49
  Speaker 7: jail anybody for just attempting to kill him. He'll have
• 25:53
  Speaker 7: about as much chance as you would have find in
• 25:55
  Speaker 7: snow in summertime.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: But you do admit you did try to get me, huh?
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: I didn't. Hauser did. That right, Hauser? Yes, you jerk.
• 26:02
  Speaker 7: Ah, what do you care whether Matt knows it or not?
• 26:04
  Speaker 7: Can't you get it through your head that as long
• 26:06
  Speaker 7: as you didn't get him, it don't make no difference?
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: You'll get more yellow by the minute. Well, maybe it
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: don't matter. So you're the fellow. Well, I shot at you, sure.
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: The rest of these men had nothing to do with it? Nothing.
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: They had plenty to do with it. Maybe they didn't shoot,
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: but they was in on it just the same. It
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: was agreed between the bunch of us. Just happened I
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: was the one to try it. Oh, it's different when
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: I tell about you fellas, huh? You say it don't
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: hurt for Matt to know about me. But you polecats
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: don't aim to share the blame. Bowser's right, fellas. We're
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: all in on this. All right, Matt. Now you know
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: the whole thing. Just what he aimed to do about it.
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: I'll show you. Where are you going to... Shut up.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: Bring the marshal and the rest of the.
• 26:52
  Speaker 6: Men in here.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: The United States marshal. And the cattlemen. They went outside
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: and heard everything that was said. And every one of
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: you scum says gonna hang.
• 27:02
  Speaker 6: Rotten pack of sneaking killers. We never killed nobody. You
• 27:05
  Speaker 6: can't do a thing. I don't care what you heard.
• 27:08
  Speaker 7: As long as Matt's still alive, you can't hang us
• 27:10
  Speaker 7: for nothing.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: But I'm not Matt. And Matt isn't alive. I've got
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: to show them. Here, take this stain off my arm.
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: Don't do it. Fellas, that is a stain. It's coming off.
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: That ain't Matt. He was disguised. Which is how he
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: was able to trick you.
• 27:27
  Speaker 6: You was willing to admit you tried to kill Matt
• 27:29
  Speaker 6: because you thought Matt.
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: Was still alive. The marshal told you, men, Hank?
• 27:33
  Speaker 6: He did, stranger. And thanks for everything you've done. We
• 27:37
  Speaker 6: owe you more than we can tell you.
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: Forget it. You fool. You fool, Dirk. It was you
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: who made me talk. You thought you knew so much.
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: I'll tell you before he strangles Dirk. We ought to
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: let him. We'd save the law some expense. This will
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: end any trouble over the range, Andy. I think your
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: worries are over. You bet they are, friend.
• 27:53
  Speaker 7: But these skunks, their worries are just beginning. All right, fellas,
• 27:56
  Speaker 7: let's help the Marshal herd these gents to town.
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 27:59
  Speaker 7: On your feet, you polecats. Well, maybe you don't like
• 28:03
  Speaker 7: walking so much. But when you're hanging from a rope, you'll.
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: Wish you could. Now just keep moving.
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: All right. THE END.
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: THE END THE END THE END The story you have
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  Speaker 3: just heard is a copyrighted feature of the Lone Ranger Incorporated.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: Our presentation of the Lone Ranger, the ghost of Matt Carpenter,
• 30:11
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