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The Lone Ranger - "Haunted Rock" (Old Time Radio, 1942) · The Lone Ranger | Old Time Radio

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Speaker 1: July 29th, 1942 marked episode 1,485 of.
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Speaker 2: The Lone Ranger.
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Speaker 1: From the long-running Western series comes Haunted Rock. Settle in
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Speaker 1: for another journey across the radio frontier where The Lone
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Speaker 1: Ranger's familiar call to action carried listeners from coast to coast. Now,
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Speaker 1: back to the golden age of radio.
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Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 3: A fiery horse with the speed of light, the cloud
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Speaker 3: of dust, and a hearty high old silver, the Lone Ranger.
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Speaker 2: THE END THE END.
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Speaker 3: With his faithful Indian companion, Tonto, the masked rider of
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Speaker 3: the plains led the fight for law and order in
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Speaker 3: the early western United States. The stories of his strength
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Speaker 3: and courage, his daring and resourcefulness, have come down to
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Speaker 3: us through the generations. And nowhere in the pages of
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Speaker 3: history can one find a greater champion of justice. Return
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Speaker 3: with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear. From
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Speaker 3: out of the past come the thundering hoofbeats of the
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Speaker 3: great horse, Silver. The Lone Ranger rides again.
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Speaker 1: Come on, Silver, this couple of pointed rocks.
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Speaker 5: Come on, Silver.
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Speaker 4: Come on.
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Speaker 3: A little group of frightened people sat huddled close to
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Speaker 3: the small campfire in the buffalo grass.
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Speaker 2: They had been asleep, but now they were awake.
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Speaker 3: And in the dark night, all of them were turning
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Speaker 3: toward the west, toward the narrow entrance between towering black cliffs.
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Speaker 2: Which they knew were there, but which they could not see.
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Speaker 6: I heard it.
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Speaker 2: I heard it, I tell you.
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Speaker 7: Shucks, it isn't anything, Abby.
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Speaker 8: I heard it, Carrie.
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Speaker 2: So did you.
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Speaker 8: It woke us up.
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Speaker 7: I don't hear nothing now.
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Speaker 2: We all heard it. Listen.
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Speaker 5: There it is.
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Speaker 2: Maybe it's a mountain lion.
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Speaker 5: It's not a mountain lion. Not a coyote, either. We
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Speaker 5: know what it is.
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Speaker 2: It's haunted rock, that's what.
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Speaker 5: Carrie, let's get back to town.
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Speaker 6: No, Abby.
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Speaker 8: I don't care if your father does own land in
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Speaker 8: that valley. I don't ever want to see it or
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Speaker 8: even hear about it.
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Speaker 2: But it's only.
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Speaker 6: No.
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Speaker 2: That.
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Speaker 5: That sound.
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Speaker 8: You know what it is, and so do I. We're
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Speaker 8: afraid to admit it.
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Speaker 5: Well, I'll admit it.
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Speaker 2: It's a ghost, that's what.
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Speaker 7: It's the ghost of.
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Speaker 2: Wait. There it goes again. Carrie.
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Speaker 6: Abby, sit down.
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Speaker 2: No, I'm going.
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Speaker 8: And you've got to come with me.
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Speaker 2: Abby, wait. Listen to that. Now, I got a hanger
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Speaker 2: to make tracks myself, Carrie. That thing sends shivers down
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Speaker 2: my spine. Steady, horse.
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Speaker 7: Well, I can see I can't reason with you. All right,
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Speaker 7: we'll go.
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Speaker 2: We'll go, but I.
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Speaker 8: No, no, we won't come back.
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Speaker 5: We'll never come back.
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Speaker 7: Oh, get up.
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Speaker 6: Get up now.
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Speaker 7: Abby, Abby, wait.
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Speaker 2: Go on.
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Speaker 7: Oh, come on, horse, get up.
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Speaker 6: It isn't any use.
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Speaker 2: Get up.
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Speaker 6: Stop that in.
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Speaker 2: Front of the lab and sit down, Jasper. I heard
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Speaker 2: you come in. I saw them, Crawford. You sound abused.
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Speaker 9: First it was the woman, young Abby Marston. Then it
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Speaker 9: was Don Kelso. They jumped on their horses and led
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Speaker 9: out for town like a herd of buffalo was after them.
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Speaker 2: Never mind them. What about Kerry Marston? Well... Did he run?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, but he didn't act scared, Crawford.
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Speaker 2: Didn't, uh... No, they hightailed toward town. He went after them.
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Speaker 2: But he acted more annoyed than scared. That's not good, Jasper.
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Speaker 7: They won't go back, Crawford.
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Speaker 6: They'd be glad to sell you their land. And for
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Speaker 6: a handful of salt, too.
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Speaker 10: I wouldn't be too certain. If Kerry Marston doesn't scare easy,
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Speaker 10: he'll be wanting to go back there. He doesn't give
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Speaker 10: up so easy.
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Speaker 6: Put your mind at ease, Crawford.
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Speaker 7: He's in love with his wife, ain't he?
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 6: Well, I'm here to tell you he'll never go back.
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Speaker 2: Not so long as she's convinced.
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Speaker 7: You are not hearing.
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Speaker 9: Well, Crawford, like we figured, I made sure Mrs. Marston
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Speaker 9: heard all about the ghost of Haunted Rock. That it
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Speaker 9: was where Indians massacred a party of pioneers camping there.
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Speaker 2: In the voice.
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Speaker 6: That was an Indian ghost putting his curse on the valley.
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Speaker 10: That's the same old yarn. Why should it have so
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Speaker 10: much effect on him?
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Speaker 9: For two reasons, Crawford. First of all, she's an Easterner.
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Speaker 9: This country kind of scares her anyhow. And second and
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Speaker 9: most important.
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Speaker 2: Come on, come on.
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Speaker 9: Seems she had a grandmother come out this way years ago,
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Speaker 9: heading for the Northwest Territory.
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Speaker 2: Jasper, if you don't stop that infernal laughing out... All right, Crawford,
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Speaker 2: all right.
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Speaker 9: Just by pure coincidence, mind you, Mrs.
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Speaker 2: Marston has somehow.
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Speaker 9: Or other got the idea that her grandpa was in
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Speaker 9: that party of pioneers... She was massacred along with the
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Speaker 9: rest that time near Hornet Rock.
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Speaker 2: Is that so?
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: Mighty fortunate, huh?
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Speaker 2: Where could she have gotten that idea, Jasper?
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Speaker 4: Oh, I happen to be talking to her?
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Speaker 2: You're mighty sly gombley, Jasper.
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Speaker 7: You're not so dusty yourself, Crawford.
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Speaker 10: I reckon we'll make a nice piece of change out
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Speaker 10: of this, providing nothing goes wrong.
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Speaker 2: May take a little more hinting, Mr. Crawford, but.
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Speaker 9: I'm willing to bet my best saddle that inside of
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Speaker 9: a week, Kerry Marston will walk into your bank and
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Speaker 9: offer to sell his land near Horned Rock.
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Speaker 2: Within a week, eh? It's worth waiting a year for.
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Speaker 4: You know, I almost believe that story myself.
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Speaker 2: What do you mean?
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Speaker 9: Well, it ain't nothing special, but I was out there
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Speaker 9: like I told you.
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Speaker 4: Near Horned Rock?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, watching him from a safe hiding place. It's a
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Speaker 2: mighty shivery sound, Crawford. I don't care for it.
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Speaker 9: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 2: Sort of dark out there, too.
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Speaker 9: And then all of a sudden, I thought I heard
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Speaker 9: a couple of horses right close by.
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Speaker 2: You thought you heard. Couldn't you be sure? It was dark.
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Speaker 2: There was a mist. The ground was soft. I looked
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Speaker 2: around and.
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Speaker 9: Well, Crawford, I almost imagined I saw an engine right past.
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Speaker 2: An engine riding a paint horse.
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Speaker 4: Then he was gone.
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Speaker 9: For a second, I figured maybe it was the ghost
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Speaker 9: of Hornet Rock.
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Speaker 1: Easy, Scout.
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Speaker 6: Easy, fella.
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Speaker 2: You may not blame Horst.
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Speaker 6: That sounds pretty spooky.
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Speaker 4: It's a legend of haunted rock, Tonto.
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Speaker 6: Indians should not like go near here at night.
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Speaker 4: I wonder what makes that weird sound.
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Speaker 6: Indian ghosts, like medicine men say.
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Speaker 4: There are no ghosts.
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Speaker 6: Maybe so. But what else doeth? If not animal, we
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Speaker 6: not see bird.
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Speaker 2: What's that?
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Speaker 4: Tonto, there in the brush.
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Speaker 2: Come on, silver. Not that gun.
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Speaker 6: Look out, him gun.
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Speaker 2: Oh, my hand.
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Speaker 7: My hands are numb.
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Speaker 11: I hit the gun, not your hands. A mighty poor shot, mister.
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Speaker 11: You were only 30 feet away. If you meant to
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Speaker 11: ambush us, I'd... Shucks, I.
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Speaker 7: Wasn't trying to hit you. I fired that shot, and
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Speaker 7: then I aimed to jump out of the brush and
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Speaker 7: ask you a few questions. But you and that white
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Speaker 7: horse are too all fired fast, so I didn't get
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Speaker 7: a chance to open my mouth.
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Speaker 11: Lucky for you, you're alive. Someone else might have aimed
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Speaker 11: at you, not the gun. I reckon I did a
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Speaker 11: fool thing. Hiring a shot that way is as foolish
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Speaker 11: as eating loco weed.
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Speaker 4: What made you do it?
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Speaker 6: Ah, you do not look like tenderfoot.
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Speaker 2: I'm not injured.
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Speaker 7: Raised and brought up out here. But I'm mighty upset
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Speaker 7: about my wife and Haunted Rock.
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Speaker 4: Haunted Rock?
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Speaker 7: Well, we were out here not three hours ago. We
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Speaker 7: had a campfire.
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Speaker 4: There were three of you?
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Speaker 2: That's right. We saw you leave.
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Speaker 4: Scared away by that steady silver table.
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Speaker 7: I'm not scared.
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Speaker 2: I never was.
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Speaker 7: But Abby can't stand it. And if she refused to
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Speaker 7: come out this way and live on my land, why,
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Speaker 7: I'll just have to sell the land. And I don't
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Speaker 7: want to sell.
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Speaker 4: Your name must be Marston. Yeah.
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Speaker 7: I reckon everybody knows about that land. It's good land,
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Speaker 7: but never been used, though.
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Speaker 6: Ah, nobody like haunted rock.
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Speaker 7: Oh, it sure is turning into a jinx for me.
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Speaker 7: That's why I came back out here after I left
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Speaker 7: Abby and Dawn back in Tamarack. You know, I've got
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Speaker 7: a notion somebody's doing all this deliberate.
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Speaker 4: That's why you tried to surprise us?
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Speaker 7: That's it, mister. You're wearing a mask, and I don't
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Speaker 7: like homers who wear masks.
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Speaker 4: You'd better head back for Tamarack, Marston. Huh?
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Speaker 7: I reckon you're what I figured in the first place.
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Speaker 7: Just a couple of.
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Speaker 6: Outlaws Are we not outlaws?
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Speaker 11: Never mind, never mind, Toto We're saying adios, Marston Wheel
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Speaker 11: your horse Well.
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Speaker 7: Kino, mister Adios Miss.
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Speaker 6: Harvey Why you do that?
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Speaker 4: We don't know how straight a story.
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Speaker 6: He's telling, Toto Him sound honest?
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Speaker 4: He is We'll find out soon enough Besides, I want
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Speaker 4: him to get mad.
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Speaker 2: Huh?
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Speaker 11: The sooner the mystery of Haunted Rock is cleared up,
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Speaker 11: the better. The madder Marston gets, the less likely he
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Speaker 11: is to sell his property.
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Speaker 6: Oh, time to savvy now. You think there may be
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Speaker 6: something wrong, huh?
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Speaker 11: There's something plenty wrong. We'll head for Tamarack and see
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Speaker 11: what information we can pick up there.
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Speaker 4: First, we're going to Haunted Rock. Come on, Silver, get
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Speaker 4: him out of here. Yes, Miss Marsden.
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Speaker 2: As soon as I heard you hadn't gone out to
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Speaker 2: your property, I headed right over to the hotel. Did
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Speaker 2: you change your plans?
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Speaker 8: We went out.
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Speaker 2: I reckon I understand, ma'am.
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Speaker 10: There's not many brave enough to head that direction in daylight,
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Speaker 10: let alone after dark. Where's your husband? I don't see him.
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Speaker 2: In the lobby. He.
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Speaker 8: He went out.
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Speaker 2: Go on, Abby. Tell Mr.
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Speaker 4: Crawford.
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Speaker 8: He went back there.
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Speaker 2: Like the haunted rock? Carrie's a stubborn mule sometimes.
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Speaker 8: You came to see about buying our land. You can
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Speaker 8: have it for all of me. I won't live there.
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Speaker 8: This country's rough and strange.
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Speaker 2: Oh, now, Abby, you'll get used to it. You'll grow
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Speaker 2: to love it after a while. No, Don.
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Speaker 8: Perhaps any place else, but I couldn't abide haunted rock.
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Speaker 8: I keep thinking about my grandmother and Those Indians.
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Speaker 2: Now, don't upset yourself, ma'am.
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Speaker 5: Oh, why doesn't Carrie get back?
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Speaker 2: Now, don't upset yourself, ma'am. Sure. It's a long ride.
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Speaker 7: Why don't you go to bed, Abby?
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Speaker 2: No, I couldn't sleep.
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Speaker 5: I'll wait for Carrie.
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Speaker 2: Well, I won't bother anymore now, ma'am.
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Speaker 10: I did come over to see about that land, but
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Speaker 10: naturally I'll have to talk to Boston.
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Speaker 2: Tell him I dropped by, will you? Adios. I will, Mr.
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Speaker 4: Crawford.
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Speaker 2: Good night. Jasper. Jasper, where are you?
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Speaker 9: Right here, Mr.
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Speaker 2: Cromwell.
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Speaker 4: Did you make any progress?
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Speaker 2: Where are the horses? Right here. Can't hold them out?
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Speaker 6: Are we going someplace?
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Speaker 2: Yes. We're heading for Haunted Rock.
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Speaker 6: Haunted Rock?
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Speaker 2: Not so loud, you fool. Shut up, I said. The
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Speaker 2: horse is on the trail from Haunted Rock. It's dark,
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Speaker 2: but we'll find him. He's never getting back. Do you understand?
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Speaker 2: Come on, ride. Get up there. Get up there.
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Speaker 6: Get up there.
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Speaker 2: Halfway there.
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Speaker 6: There goes Marston now.
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Speaker 2: Of course, it must be him.
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Speaker 7: I'll use my six-shoes.
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Speaker 2: I've got a holster with that. Using bullets is too simple. Besides,
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Speaker 2: the sheriff might snoop around. I'll hold him up at
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Speaker 2: the point of a gun. You have a rope handy?
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Speaker 2: Never mind. I've got it all figured.
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Speaker 10: When we get through with him, nobody will see him anymore.
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Speaker 4: He'll be dead?
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Speaker 2: Yes, after a while. Get that rope ready. Get up, boy.
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Speaker 4: Drop your hands, Marston.
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Speaker 7: That's Crawford.
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Speaker 6: What is this?
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Speaker 7: You're just going to escort me back to Tamarack?
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Speaker 2: Put the rope over him. No, Marston, not to Tamarack.
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Speaker 10: You'll never see Tamarack again.
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Speaker 12: We searched all over, Miss Ambie.
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Speaker 2: Sun up this morning to sundown.
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Speaker 7: All the way from here to the foot of Haunted
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Speaker 7: Rock and back.
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Speaker 2: No sign of him. Perhaps he got lost, Mrs.
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Speaker 4: Marston.
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Speaker 5: He's lived here all his life.
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Speaker 7: You'll never see him again.
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Speaker 2: Shut up, Jasper.
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Speaker 4: Never again.
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Speaker 9: It's the ghost of Haunted Rock, that's what. The ghost
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Speaker 9: of Haunted Rock got him.
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Speaker 4: Get out!
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Speaker 5: Oh, please.
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Speaker 8: Please leave me alone.
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Speaker 5: Please get out.
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Speaker 2: Yes, you're right, ma'am. Come, Jasper. Come along, darling. Come along.
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Speaker 2: Try to rest, Miss Abby. Oh, Carrie.
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Speaker 5: Gone. I can't believe it.
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Speaker 4: Mrs.
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Speaker 2: Marston. What?
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Speaker 4: Here, the window.
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Speaker 2: Hector.
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Speaker 6: Who are you?
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Speaker 7: What are you.
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Speaker 5: You're wearing a mask. There's an Indian with you.
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Speaker 4: We're your friends.
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Speaker 8: I've never seen you before.
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Speaker 4: We're friends to anyone in trouble. There's no word of
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Speaker 4: your husband?
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Speaker 2: No, none.
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Speaker 4: Don't worry.
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Speaker 7: What?
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Speaker 4: I said, don't worry. We'll help you.
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Speaker 2: But.
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Speaker 4: We're going now, but you'll see us later.
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Speaker 7: Here.
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Speaker 4: Keep this. Come along, Kimusabe. Ah.
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Speaker 5: This is a silver bullet. What does it mean? What
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Speaker 5: does he mean? He said, don't worry.
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Speaker 8: Who is that masked man?
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Speaker 4: I'll do that.
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Speaker 7: The curtain falls on the first act of our Lone
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Speaker 7: Ranger story.
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Speaker 4: Before the next exciting scenes, please permit us to pause
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Speaker 4: for just a few moments.
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Speaker 2: Now to continue our story.
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Speaker 3: For the rest of that week, the Lone Ranger and
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Speaker 3: Tonto watched hunting parties from Tamarack scour the tall buffalo
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Speaker 3: grass between the town and Haunted Rock. Day after day,
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Speaker 3: groups of men circled along the trail. Some even went
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Speaker 3: right to the very base of the Black Cliff itself.
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Speaker 2: Well, gents, I guess it's no use anymore.
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Speaker 7: Let's get out of here.
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Speaker 2: Ah, poor Carrie. Well, come on, we're heading back to Tamarack.
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Speaker 2: I reckon this half is a winner. Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 4: No more search, huh? I don't think so, Tonto.
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Speaker 6: What reason for all this, Kimasabi?
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Speaker 4: Marston's land. Banker Crawford wants it, and he wants it
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Speaker 4: for a cheap price. Come along. We'll head toward Tamarack ourselves.
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Speaker 4: Keep to the south side of the ridge. We don't
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Speaker 4: want to be seen.
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Speaker 6: Uh-huh.
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Speaker 2: Get him up, Scott.
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Speaker 4: Come on, son.
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Speaker 2: Get him up.
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Speaker 4: Get a boy.
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Speaker 6: What we do now, Kimasabi?
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Speaker 11: I want you to go into Tamarack. I'll be at
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Speaker 11: our camp in the woods. And keep an eye on Mrs.
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Speaker 4: Marston.
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Speaker 2: Uh-huh.
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Speaker 6: Me do that.
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Speaker 11: As soon as you see Crawford going to the hotel
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Speaker 11: or see her going to the bank, come back and
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Speaker 11: let me know at once.
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Speaker 4: Understand?
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Speaker 6: Tonto Savvy.
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Speaker 11: The search for Marston has failed. Crawford is going to
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Speaker 11: be increasingly anxious to buy that land.
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Speaker 6: But who will buy it from?
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Speaker 2: Mrs.
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Speaker 4: Marston. As a widow, that land is hers now. The
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Speaker 4: keeper to sell. The way she feels about this country
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Speaker 4: and about her husband's death, I'm certain she's not going
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Speaker 4: to keep it. Well, adios, Tonto. I'll be waiting to
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Speaker 4: hear from you.
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Speaker 2: Adios.
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Speaker 6: Get him up, Scout.
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Speaker 4: Steady, old fella. Steady, Silver.
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Speaker 11: It's only been two days since Tonto headed for Tamarack.
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Speaker 4: He'll be along soon. When he is, I.
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Speaker 6: Silver! Hi!
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Speaker 4: There, Silver, it's Tonto. Steady, big fella.
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Speaker 2: Come on, Silver! Come on, Silver!
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Speaker 9: How are.
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Speaker 2: You, Kimo-san?
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Speaker 4: How are you? You've been riding hard, don't you?
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Speaker 6: Ah, me come from Tamarack heap fast.
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Speaker 4: This is Marston, the banker?
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Speaker 6: That's right. Me see him. Woman and fellow named Don
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Speaker 6: go to bank.
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Speaker 4: How long ago was that?
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Speaker 2: Half hour, maybe.
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Speaker 4: She selling the land?
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Speaker 6: Ah, me come tell you heap quick. Pretty soon it'd
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Speaker 6: be too late to stop him, huh?
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Speaker 4: We won't stop it by standing here. Hit the trail, Silver.
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Speaker 4: Get him up.
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Speaker 6: Come on, Silver.
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Speaker 4: Come on.
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Speaker 2: Here you are, Mrs. Marston, pen and ink.
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Speaker 7: Yes.
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Speaker 10: And here's the money. Only good hard cash. You just
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Speaker 10: sign there and take your money, and I'll take the
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Speaker 10: land off your hands.
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Speaker 5: Yes, I want to go back east.
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Speaker 2: Here's some ink on the point. Just one second. Let
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Speaker 2: me read that bill of sale just once more. Well,
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Speaker 2: I'm a friend, ain't I?
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Speaker 4: Yes.
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Speaker 7: You've read that bill of sale a dozen times already.
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Speaker 2: You're just trying to lay this down.
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Speaker 8: It's no use, Don. I can't live out there. Certainly
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Speaker 8: not with Kerry gone. I appreciate everything you're trying to do.
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Speaker 2: Doggone it, Miss Abby. Don't sell.
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Speaker 5: I've got to, Don.
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Speaker 2: Then sell it to somebody else or wait for a
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Speaker 2: better price. A better price from where? You, for example?
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Speaker 2: I would if I could. You haven't got a dollar
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Speaker 2: to your name.
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Speaker 3: Mrs.
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Speaker 2: Marston needs the money now. Please, Don. Ma'am, I hate
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Speaker 2: to say this, but my patience has been tried beyond endurance.
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Speaker 2: Either we finish this deal right this minute or... I'm sorry,
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Speaker 2: but the offer is withdrawn. No, no, I... Don.
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Speaker 4: Oh, Keno, that's the way it is.
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Speaker 2: That's the way. Here you are, ma'am. Have your sign
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Speaker 2: right here.
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Speaker 1: There.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, and here is your cash. And the transaction
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Speaker 2: is complete. Thank you. You're rich, you'll pay $ 800, and
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Speaker 2: I have the rest. Hey, what's that?
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Speaker 6: A masked man and an engine.
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Speaker 8: A masked man and an engine?
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Speaker 7: Well, they're coming in here.
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Speaker 12: Gee, horse if had it, couldn't be a whole lot.
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Speaker 2: Look out. Let's get to my desk.
19:30
Speaker 8: Don't shoot their friends.
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Speaker 2: Nonsense man. A masked man. Look out! Drop that.
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Speaker 7: Hello.
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Speaker 4: That man at the window.
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Speaker 6: Me see him.
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Speaker 2: I've got coffee. My hand. That's enough.
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Speaker 4: Just leave your guns where they are. We're here on
19:46
Speaker 4: a peaceable errand.
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Speaker 2: Mister, you shoot like a gunfighter. Not the gun right
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Speaker 2: out of our hands. My fingers tingle like they was frostbit.
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Speaker 6: I tried to.
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Speaker 8: Tell you not to shoot. These men are not outlaws.
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Speaker 4: She's right, Crawford. You're the outlaw. You and that smirking
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Speaker 4: coyote beside you.
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Speaker 2: What are you trying to tell her?
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Speaker 4: Just what I said.
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Speaker 2: Mister, I'll have you know that I'm the most respected
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Speaker 2: banker in this territory. Now, now, hold on, Crawford.
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Speaker 12: We'll agree you're a banker, but I don't figure there's
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Speaker 12: many that respect you.
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Speaker 2: Mrs.
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Speaker 4: Marston, you're not selling that land.
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Speaker 2: I'm not.
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Speaker 4: No, you can't.
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Speaker 2: You're my late mass man. She's already sold it.
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Speaker 6: Huh?
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Speaker 2: Yes, Injun. Down here witnessed the transaction, didn't you?
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Speaker 4: Well.
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Speaker 2: Don't deny it. That's true. Miss Abby signed the paper
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Speaker 2: and took the cash. Yes. Here's her signature right here.
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Speaker 2: That land belongs to me now.
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Speaker 4: That's where you're wrong, Crawford. Don't laugh. It was never
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Speaker 4: hers to sell.
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Speaker 8: Not mine to sell?
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Speaker 4: No, Mrs.
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Speaker 2: Marston. You seem to have some ideas about the law, mister.
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Speaker 2: What makes you think she can't sell it? She was
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Speaker 2: the wife of Marston, wasn't she?
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Speaker 4: Yes, Crawford.
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Speaker 11: Let's stop right there. You needn't go any further. That
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Speaker 11: land belongs to Carrie Marston. He's the only one who
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Speaker 11: can sell it.
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Speaker 8: Oh, stop that.
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Speaker 5: My husband is dead.
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Speaker 4: Is he?
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Speaker 11: What's that?
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Speaker 4: How about it, Crawford?
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Speaker 2: I've had enough of these. Yes, but keep watching for
21:14
Speaker 2: the marshal. The street's getting filled up. When the marshal
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Speaker 2: comes along.
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Speaker 4: We won't wait for the marshal. You're going along with
21:19
Speaker 4: us now.
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Speaker 7: You're a plumb loco.
21:20
Speaker 4: Your horses are out at the hitching rail. Start walking.
21:22
Speaker 4: Where's your horse, Don?
21:23
Speaker 2: Over at Thunder Hotel. Miss Abbey's got a rig there, too.
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Speaker 4: Then get it and come along with us. All right, Crawford.
21:29
Speaker 2: You can't do this.
21:29
Speaker 4: The door's open. Move your legs.
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Speaker 6: You go too, Andre.
21:32
Speaker 7: Sure, sure, ain't you?
21:33
Speaker 4: I'm not making any trouble.
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Speaker 8: Masked Man, where are we going?
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Speaker 4: To the Haunted Rock.
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Speaker 2: Haunted Rock? You'll never get me there. No. My collar.
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Speaker 2: Let go of it.
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Speaker 4: Not the darn on your horse, Crawford. We're going to
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Speaker 4: Haunted Rock, all of us.
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Speaker 2: Especially you.
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Speaker 4: Too fast. You make horse go slower, huh?
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Speaker 6: Sure, Inger.
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Speaker 2: This is all a mistake.
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Speaker 4: Is it, Crawford? Are you all right back.
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Speaker 7: There, Mrs.
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Speaker 2: Marston? Yes.
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Speaker 5: Yes, we're all right.
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Speaker 8: Darling, do you think Carrie's still alive?
22:16
Speaker 2: We'll see how it can be. Yet that masked fellow
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Speaker 2: said he.
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Speaker 5: I saw them before. They told me not to worry.
22:22
Speaker 5: The tall man gave me this. Huh? This silver bullet.
22:25
Speaker 2: Ah, what good is a silver bullet?
22:29
Speaker 4: Why.
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Speaker 2: Well, I'll be doggone. Sure. Engine named Tonto. White horse
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Speaker 2: named Silver. Well, I'll be doggone. Don, what is it?
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Speaker 2: Miss Abby, that mask fellow is.
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Speaker 4: A lone ranger.
22:40
Speaker 2: He's a lone ranger?
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Speaker 4: Yep.
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Speaker 12: And if he says Carrie's still alive, then by thunder
22:43
Speaker 12: I believe him. What's more, we can follow him wherever
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Speaker 12: he wants us to go.
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Speaker 5: Yes.
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Speaker 8: Yes, even to the top of the haunted rock itself.
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Speaker 2: Well, doggone, where in places could Carrie be? Well, we
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Speaker 2: searched every place.
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Speaker 7: When we get closer, you can leave the wagon at
22:57
Speaker 7: the base of the cliff, Mrs.
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Speaker 4: Marston, and ride double with us. Going to the top
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Speaker 4: of the rock.
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Speaker 3: All right, here we are.
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Speaker 8: Right on top of Haunted Rock.
23:10
Speaker 5: You know what?
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Speaker 8: Somehow I thought I'd be frightened when I got up here.
23:31
Speaker 8: But now it looks like any other rock. And the
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Speaker 8: view of the setting sun is wonderful.
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Speaker 4: That's how most things are, Mrs.
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Speaker 2: Marston.
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Speaker 11: They frighten you from a distance. When you get up close,
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Speaker 11: you find there's nothing alarming about them.
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Speaker 5: I don't hear that awful sound, either.
23:47
Speaker 4: That sound comes only after sundown. It's a trick of
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Speaker 4: the air. You see the cool currents from the valley
23:52
Speaker 4: sweep up these cliffs. Now, you'll notice the top of
23:55
Speaker 4: the peak over there is honeycombed with tunnels.
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Speaker 11: Oh, yeah, that's so. Well, that's what makes it sound.
24:01
Speaker 11: The air current sweeping through those tunnels. It's like a
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Speaker 11: giant organ.
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Speaker 5: Masked men, I'm almost afraid to ask you.
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Speaker 2: Is my husband.
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Speaker 4: Tonto's gone behind that rise. I'll call him.
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Speaker 2: Tonto.
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Speaker 4: Bring him out now, Tonto.
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Speaker 5: Bring him.
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Speaker 2: Miss Abby. Miss Abby, look. It's Carrie.
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Speaker 5: Carrie. Carrie. Carrie, Carrie, darling.
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Speaker 2: Hello, Abby.
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Speaker 8: You were safe all the time.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, honey, I was safe, thanks to the masked man.
24:37
Speaker 2: But do you.
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Speaker 7: Reckon we can live on my land now, or are
24:41
Speaker 7: you still afraid of haunted rock?
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Speaker 8: You mean you were up here all the time?
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Speaker 4: That's right, Mrs.
24:46
Speaker 2: Marston.
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Speaker 11: Crawford and Jasper caught your husband on his way back
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Speaker 11: to Tamarack. Crawford knew a body would be hard to conceal.
24:52
Speaker 2: So he tried to.
24:53
Speaker 7: So those skunks brought me here, tied me up, and
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Speaker 7: left me to starve. You knew nobody'd ever come to
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Speaker 7: the top of Haunted Rock, didn't you, Crawford?
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Speaker 2: I have nothing to say.
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Speaker 7: Sure you did. But you counted without the masked man.
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Speaker 7: You trailed them, didn't you, masked man?
25:06
Speaker 4: Yes, Tonto and I found the trail. What led to
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Speaker 4: the top of this rock? Well, we followed it.
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Speaker 8: Gary, you asked me a moment ago if I'd stay
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Speaker 8: out here with you. I will, darling.
25:17
Speaker 2: I will always.
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Speaker 6: Oh, Abby.
25:20
Speaker 4: Kimo Sabe, time we go, huh? Yes, Tonto. Don, suppose
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Speaker 4: you drive Mr. and Mrs.
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Speaker 11: Marsden back to Tamarack in the rig. Tonto and I
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Speaker 11: will take these coyotes back to the town marshal.
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Speaker 2: Keno, mister. Adios.
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Speaker 4: Get moving, Crawford. You're heading for jail. You go along.
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Speaker 6: Carry Abby.
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Speaker 4: Yes, mister. The sun has gone down now. Pretty soon,
25:41
Speaker 4: Haunted Rock will start its weird song. When you get
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Speaker 4: about a half a mile away from here, will you
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Speaker 4: stop and watch the rock?
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Speaker 6: Oh, we sure will, mister.
25:52
Speaker 7: And thanks for everything. Adios.
25:54
Speaker 4: Adios. Daddy Silver. Remember, you're half a mile away.
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Speaker 5: Carrie, how long do we have to wait here?
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Speaker 2: The mask man said... No, no, just a mite longer.
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Speaker 2: Sound again.
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Speaker 8: Carrie will live on your land, I know, but... Isn't
26:23
Speaker 8: there some way we won't have to hear that awful.
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Speaker 2: Horse of that. Did you see that? An explosion. It
26:35
Speaker 2: blew the top of the rock all to smithereens.
26:37
Speaker 4: Yeah, Don.
26:38
Speaker 7: Before we left, the Lone Ranger put a charge of
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Speaker 7: blasting powder up there with a slow-burning fuse.
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Speaker 2: Abby, from now on, will never hear that ghostly voice again.
26:46
Speaker 2: It's just busted to bits.
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Speaker 8: I'm so glad.
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Speaker 2: Haunted rock. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
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Speaker 12: From now on, I reckon we'd better change the name.
26:56
Speaker 12: Maybe we'd better call it Honeymoon Rock.
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Speaker 6: Honeymoon Rock.
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Speaker 2: THE END THE END THE END.
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Speaker 3: of the Lone Ranger Incorporated.
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