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Gunsmoke - "Where'd They Go?" (Old Time Radio, 1957) · Gunsmoke | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: December 29th, 1957 brought CBS Radio back to Dodge City
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  Speaker 1: for Gunsmoke, episode 299. It is Christmas time, and a
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  Speaker 1: robbery accusation sends Marshal Matt Dillon and Chester toward a
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  Speaker 1: homesteader's cabin while a hard winter storm gathers. The man
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  Speaker 1: they seek maintains his innocence, but urgent work at the
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  Speaker 1: isolated farm and concern for his wife keeps the marshal
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  Speaker 1: and his deputy from making a quick return. William Conrad
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  Speaker 1: is Matt Dillon, with Parley Bear as Chester. The cast
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  Speaker 1: also includes Howard McNear, Georgia Ellis, Joseph Kearns, Virginia Gregg,
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  Speaker 1: and Ralph Moody. Les Crutchfield wrote the script, and Norman
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  Speaker 1: MacDonald produced and directed... The episode is Where'd They Go?
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  Speaker 1: Here is the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Around Dodge City and in the territory on west, there's
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  Speaker 2: just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers,
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  Speaker 2: and that's with a U.S. Marshal and the smell of
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  Speaker 2: gun smoke. Gunsmoke, starring William Conrad. The story of the
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  Speaker 2: violence that moved west with young America. And the story
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  Speaker 2: of a man who moved with it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm that man. Matt Dillon, United States Marshal. The first
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  Speaker 3: man they look for and the last they want to meet.
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  Speaker 3: It's a chancy job, but it makes a man watchful.
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  Speaker 4: And a little lonely.
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  Speaker 5: We gonna stop in at the Long Branch for a minute, Mr. Dillon?
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  Speaker 4: Might as well, Chester. There won't be much doing around
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  Speaker 4: town tonight.
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  Speaker 6: So I do hope they got a rip-snorting fire going.
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  Speaker 4: The wind's got a nip.
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  Speaker 5: To it, all right. And it's gonna blow up worse
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  Speaker 5: one morning, too. Listen, Yeah. I thought Doc might be here,
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  Speaker 5: but I don't see him no place.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, Matt.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, there you go, Miss Kitty.
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  Speaker 7: You want to go over to the stove?
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  Speaker 6: It's warm.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it feels warm right here, Kitty, after that wind outside.
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  Speaker 7: It goes right through you, doesn't it?
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  Speaker 5: So I think I'll reach on over to the stove, Mr. Dillon.
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  Speaker 6: Might be some kind-hearted stranger who'll buy me a beer.
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  Speaker 4: Justin never gives up hope, does he?
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  Speaker 5: Sit down, Kitty. See if you're not too busy.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks, Matt.
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  Speaker 7: Don't you believe in kind-hearted strangers?
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  Speaker 4: No, not since I was nine years old.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not sure if you're so large.
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  Speaker 4: I was kind of slow growing up. Would you like
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  Speaker 4: a beer?
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  Speaker 7: If you'll let a kind-hearted stranger buy it.
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  Speaker 4: I wouldn't exactly call you a stranger, Kitty.
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  Speaker 7: Well, you'll have to admit I'm kind-hearted, then. Sam, a
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  Speaker 7: cup of beer.
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  Speaker 5: All right, mister. Thank you.
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  Speaker 7: You think a real bad storm's coming up, Matt?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's that time of year.
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  Speaker 7: I remember the blizzard last year around Christmas time.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: It was a rough one, all.
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  Speaker 5: Right, wasn't it?
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  Speaker 7: Matt, things would be rough this time of year, even
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  Speaker 7: if the weather weren't bad.
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  Speaker 6: Oh?
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  Speaker 5: What's that mean?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, holiday season. Families getting together and all. Just ordinary, decent,
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  Speaker 7: good times.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. Do people still live that way, Kitty?
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  Speaker 7: Not many out here.
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  Speaker 5: I sure don't.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry, man.
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  Speaker 7: I've been here... I was thinking too much and remembering
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  Speaker 7: too much.
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  Speaker 8: That's no good, Kitty. This is a hard town and
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  Speaker 8: a hard country. You go soft and they'll kill you.
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  Speaker 5: Hmm.
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  Speaker 7: I remember nights you'd come in here after you had
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  Speaker 7: to kill a man. Nights you stayed till sun up,
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  Speaker 7: not talking, alone mostly, and dying a dozen deaths inside.
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  Speaker 4: You know something, you're as sentimental as Jester.
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  Speaker 9: No.
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  Speaker 5: Well, give me a chance to... I've been robbed, Marshal.
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  Speaker 5: Held up right in my own store.
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  Speaker 4: How'd it happen?
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  Speaker 6: A fellow come riding in after closing time.
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  Speaker 9: Bandana over his face. Stuck a gun in my stomach
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  Speaker 9: and took everything in the cash drawer.
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  Speaker 5: Sixty-eight dollars.
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  Speaker 4: It sure took you long enough to get around telling
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  Speaker 4: me about it.
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  Speaker 5: He tied me up. Left me there in the back room.
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  Speaker 5: I just now got loose. You got to go after him, Marshal.
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  Speaker 8: That's kind of a tall order, isn't it, trailing a
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  Speaker 8: five-hour head start?
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  Speaker 5: Well, that don't matter now, because I know who he is.
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  Speaker 4: I thought you said you couldn't see his face.
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  Speaker 9: I couldn't, but I could tell by his voice and
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  Speaker 9: his walk and everything about him.
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  Speaker 5: It was Clint Doty.
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  Speaker 4: Clint Doty?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, he's the homesteader up the river.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I know him, I know him. I can't believe
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  Speaker 4: Clint's the kind who'd do a thing like that.
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  Speaker 5: Well, it was him, all right. I'm 100% certain.
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  Speaker 9: Well.
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  Speaker 4: All right, we'll ride out in the morning and bring
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  Speaker 4: him in.
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  Speaker 5: In the morning?
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  Speaker 4: Well, if it was him, he'd be there.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, but Marshal.
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  Speaker 8: Look, Jonas, I'm not going to ride 12 miles up
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  Speaker 8: that river bottom at midnight with a blizzard coming up
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  Speaker 8: for $ 68.
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  Speaker 4: No. We'll leave in the morning. Let's sun up.
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  Speaker 5: Well, he must have heard us riding up, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Jones. Yeah, you'd think so.
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  Speaker 5: I suppose he's got a hole up in the house
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  Speaker 5: and just tried to shoot it out.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think Dodie's his type, Chester.
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  Speaker 5: Well, nobody didn't think he was the type to hold
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  Speaker 5: up Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Jones, either.
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  Speaker 5: Well, morning, Marshal. Chester.
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  Speaker 6: Dodie.
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  Speaker 4: How are you, Dodie?
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  Speaker 5: Come on in and sit. I got some coffee on
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  Speaker 5: the stove.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we might warm our hands a little bit. Come on, Chester.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, Chester.
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  Speaker 10: I reckon Medora can rustle up some eggs inside and
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  Speaker 10: eat if you ain't at.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks, Dottie, but we had breakfast before we left Dodge.
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  Speaker 5: And you can get warm at least. What you trying
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  Speaker 5: to do, Marshal? Blow up a storm?
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  Speaker 4: That looks that way.
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  Speaker 10: It's been snowing since daybreak out here in the river bottoms.
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  Speaker 10: With that wind blowing, it's going to start drifting.
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  Speaker 4: It probably will.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I'll heat this coffee up with. What brings you
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  Speaker 5: out this way, Marshal?
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  Speaker 4: You, Sody?
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  Speaker 5: Me? What do you mean?
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  Speaker 4: We're here to arrest you. Take you back in.
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  Speaker 5: What for?
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  Speaker 4: Armed robbery.
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  Speaker 5: Armed robbery? You mean that hold up at the general store?
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  Speaker 8: That news seems to travel fast, doesn't it?
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  Speaker 4: How'd you know about it?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I... What's all this about armed robbery? Oh, you
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  Speaker 5: know my wife again.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, sure. How are you, my darling?
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  Speaker 7: Did I hear you accusing Clint of robbery, Marshal?
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  Speaker 4: That's more a matter of Wilbur Jonas accusing him, ma'am.
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  Speaker 5: When did this happen, Marshal?
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  Speaker 4: Yesterday evening around 7 o'clock.
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  Speaker 6: Clint hasn't been away from this place for two days.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I know, Medora.
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  Speaker 8: My wife's word might not stand for much under those circumstances, Medora.
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  Speaker 5: Are you calling me a liar? No, Medora, stop that.
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  Speaker 5: There's people seeing me in town yesterday evening.
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  Speaker 4: Wilbur Jonas claims he's one of them.
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  Speaker 5: Well, the way I heard it, the fellow that held
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  Speaker 5: him up was wearing a mask.
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  Speaker 4: Because he recognized your voice.
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  Speaker 7: I saw apples of the head and mouth full of them.
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  Speaker 8: Well, I guess that'll be something for the judge.
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  Speaker 4: To decide, ma'am.
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  Speaker 5: Then you're going to take me into jail?
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  Speaker 4: Unless you can prove you were.
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  Speaker 8: Somewhere else at 7 o'clock last night.
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  Speaker 5: Well, that might be kind of hard to do, Marshal.
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  Speaker 4: Then we'd better get started. We've got a hard ride
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  Speaker 4: ahead of us.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, no, wait a minute. I can't go off and
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  Speaker 5: leave Medora like this with a storm coming on.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe one of the neighbors should come over and stay
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  Speaker 4: with us.
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  Speaker 7: There's none closer than five miles, Marshal, and they all
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  Speaker 7: got plenty of troubles of their own this time of year.
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  Speaker 10: I ain't even got enough firewood to split it up
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  Speaker 10: the last term more than a day and a half.
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  Speaker 10: I was aiming to get some laid in today.
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  Speaker 8: I'm sure she's made out before.
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  Speaker 10: Well, maybe so, but not in her condition.
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  Speaker 4: Condition? What are you talking about?
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  Speaker 5: Well, she's going to have a baby, Marshal.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, for the love of me.
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  Speaker 5: It's mighty hard on a woman having her man took
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  Speaker 5: off to jail and not even wood in the house
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  Speaker 5: to keep warm.
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  Speaker 4: Now, look, Doty.
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  Speaker 5: You know, it wouldn't take no time at all if
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  Speaker 5: the three of us were to pitch in together.
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  Speaker 8: All right, Doty, let's get at it.
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  Speaker 4: THE END.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, God, the vessel.
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  Speaker 4: What's the matter, Chester?
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  Speaker 6: Well, this piece of ax needs sharpening again, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Dillon.
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  Speaker 10: It ain't too good a steel.
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  Speaker 5: And the marshal's got the vessel.
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  Speaker 4: You couldn't prove it by me.
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  Speaker 5: Well, listen, Chester, don't hold it there. Or here, Chester,
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  Speaker 5: let me touch it up for the stove. Oh, my gracious,
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  Speaker 5: that itches my teeth. If you ask me, we've already
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  Speaker 5: chopped enough wood to last through this.
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  Speaker 6: Winter and a half of it.
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  Speaker 9: Stop that, Dodie.
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  Speaker 5: That stove eats it up pretty fast.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, Chester's right, Dodie. We've chopped enough.
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  Speaker 5: Well, she's got to use some of it to cook with, too,
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  Speaker 5: you know.
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  Speaker 4: It's enough here to laugh so she can make other arrangements. Now,
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  Speaker 4: let's pack it into the shed and.
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  Speaker 8: Head back for town before that snow gets anywhere.
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  Speaker 5: Well, whatever you say, Marshal.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, sir. I must see him.
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  Speaker 5: You must be sure I've taken on some vittles.
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  Speaker 7: I've got some nice hot stew ready.
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  Speaker 5: Did you say vittles?
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  Speaker 4: Now, we've got to get started, Medora. It's getting late.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, it won't do no harm to you. First, it'll
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  Speaker 10: make the trail shorter, Marshal.
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  Speaker 4: Well.
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  Speaker 5: My!
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  Speaker 3: Just look at all that firewood!
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  Speaker 5: I'm right obliged to you, man.
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  Speaker 4: You're welcome, Maduro.
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  Speaker 5: I reckon I'll need every stick of it, too, with
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  Speaker 5: this wind.
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  Speaker 7: Driving the snow into the north wall of the cabin.
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  Speaker 5: God dang it, I clearly forgot.
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  Speaker 4: Forgot what?
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  Speaker 5: The chinkum.
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  Speaker 4: Chicken?
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  Speaker 5: No, the chinkin'. The chinkins all fell out of the
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  Speaker 5: north wall of the house. Oh, I was aiming to
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  Speaker 5: fix it today. I got a lot of bark slabs
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  Speaker 5: cut laying out back to the barn. Now, look, Dodie.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, it's mighty hard on a woman in Medora's condition
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  Speaker 10: with the snow and the sleet blowing.
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  Speaker 5: In on her.
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  Speaker 4: Dodie, would it be all right if we eat first?
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  Speaker 7: Well, I reckon that about does the job down at
• 11:27
  Speaker 7: this end.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, just about through here, too. You know, that ain't
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  Speaker 5: a bad piece of work if I do say so myself.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, sir, a carpenter couldn't.
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  Speaker 5: Have done one bit better.
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  Speaker 4: Well, that ought to keep the wind up.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, that looks fine, Marshal. Just fine. I'm mighty obliged
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  Speaker 5: to you, man.
• 11:58
  Speaker 6: Oh, that's all right.
• 11:59
  Speaker 5: Well, I know you got your duty to do.
• 12:01
  Speaker 10: You got to take me in, and I want you
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  Speaker 10: to know there's no hard feelings about it.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, sure, Tony.
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  Speaker 5: And I appreciate the way you've both been so decent.
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  Speaker 5: Help me get things.
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  Speaker 6: In shape so Maduro will be all right here alone. Well,
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  Speaker 6: it ain't many lawmen that take this trouble.
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  Speaker 8: Well, she's got enough problems without making a word for it.
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  Speaker 8: Let's put the tools away and get started. It's going
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  Speaker 8: to be dark before.
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  Speaker 4: We get to Dodge.
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  Speaker 6: Sir, you sure are right about her having plenty of problems, Marshal.
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  Speaker 5: In her condition and all. And now the cattle gone.
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  Speaker 4: The cattle gone?
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  Speaker 10: Oh, of course, we only had about 20 head, but
• 12:37
  Speaker 10: with me going to prison, maybe it's... There's been enough
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  Speaker 10: to see her through, her and the little one.
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  Speaker 4: What do you mean, the cattle's gone?
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  Speaker 10: I had them there in the meadow, back at the corral,
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  Speaker 10: letting them pick clean what pasture was left.
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  Speaker 5: I guess they drifted off. Well, of course they drifted off.
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  Speaker 8: When that storm hit, they turned tail and moved along
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  Speaker 8: with the wind. Cattle always do that.
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  Speaker 10: Well, I guess it don't matter much, though. Medora couldn't
• 13:01
  Speaker 10: take care of them no how, not in her condition. Well,
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  Speaker 10: she could if you'd hold them in the corral there
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  Speaker 10: next to the barn.
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  Speaker 4: All she'd have to do is push the hay out
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  Speaker 4: of the loft door.
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  Speaker 10: I reckon they drifted down south there about three miles
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  Speaker 10: and come up against the bluff. Oh, they'll probably mill
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  Speaker 10: around and freeze to death there if the storm keeps up.
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  Speaker 4: About three miles, huh?
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  Speaker 9: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 10: I was aiming to go after them, but, of course,
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  Speaker 10: one man alone wouldn't have had much chance.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Dodie, come on. Let's go find your cattle.
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  Speaker 6: Ah!
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  Speaker 4: Ah! Go on in there! Let's get in there!
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  Speaker 5: Well, that's the meanest, crankiest, ornate bunch of cattle I've
• 13:52
  Speaker 5: ever seen in all my born days.
• 13:54
  Speaker 4: Storm's really got a boot.
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  Speaker 10: You know, that hat turned out to be more of
• 13:58
  Speaker 10: a trot than I thought, Marshal.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it sure did, Dodie.
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  Speaker 6: I just don't know how I'd have managed without you
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  Speaker 6: fellas helping. We're mighty grateful to you, me and Medora both.
• 14:10
  Speaker 4: Well, we couldn't let the cattle freeze.
• 14:13
  Speaker 10: Well, if you wait now till I put these lanterns
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  Speaker 10: in the barn, we can leave any time you say.
• 14:18
  Speaker 5: Unless, of course, you'd like some hot coffee first.
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  Speaker 4: Dodie, it's dark now.
• 14:21
  Speaker 8: You know, as well as I do, we're not going
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  Speaker 8: to ride back to Dodge tonight.
• 14:25
  Speaker 10: Well, say, in that case, maybe you wouldn't mind helping
• 14:27
  Speaker 10: me kill and dress a couple.
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  Speaker 5: Of dozen hens. A couple of dozen hens? And hang
• 14:31
  Speaker 5: them up under the eaves to freeze. Oh, my gracious!
• 14:34
  Speaker 5: Chicken broth, mighty good for a woman in the door.
• 14:38
  Speaker 8: Look, Dodie, we've already chopped your wood, fixed your house,
• 14:41
  Speaker 8: and rounded up your cattle.
• 14:43
  Speaker 5: Oh, you've been mighty decent.
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 14:46
  Speaker 4: All right, we'll help you dress your chickens.
• 14:48
  Speaker 8: We'll make soap for you, salt down the pork, preserve eggs,
• 14:53
  Speaker 8: anything you say, up until midnight.
• 14:55
  Speaker 4: Then I'm going to get some sleep.
• 14:57
  Speaker 8: And at sunup, we're going to ride into Dodge, and
• 15:00
  Speaker 8: you're going to jail.
• 15:01
  Speaker 4: Judge, I'm sorry. Hey, Chester, come on, wake up.
• 15:25
  Speaker 5: What's the matter, Mr. Jones?
• 15:29
  Speaker 4: You tell me. You're the one who's supposed to be
• 15:31
  Speaker 4: on guard. Huh?
• 15:33
  Speaker 5: Well, it's after daylight. I must have dozed off for
• 15:37
  Speaker 5: a second.
• 15:37
  Speaker 4: You made a couple of hours, don't you?
• 15:40
  Speaker 5: Queen Doty didn't get away?
• 15:41
  Speaker 8: No, he's in there. I just woke him up.
• 15:44
  Speaker 5: Oh, well. I kind of figured he wasn't going nowhere
• 15:48
  Speaker 5: in that storm.
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: What storm?
• 15:50
  Speaker 10: Hmm.
• 15:52
  Speaker 5: Why, it's over.
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it died out during the night. You better get
• 15:55
  Speaker 4: yourself collected, Chester. We're heading for Dodge.
• 15:58
  Speaker 5: My, just look at that sun on the snow, will you?
• 16:01
  Speaker 5: Turned out for them boots that I just wore. Oh!
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: What's the matter?
• 16:05
  Speaker 9: Oh, Mr.
• 16:05
  Speaker 5: Dillon, I'm so lame.
• 16:06
  Speaker 6: I don't even know if I can stand up straight.
• 16:09
  Speaker 4: Well, keep trying.
• 16:10
  Speaker 5: That's right. I'm going to have to be spoon fed
• 16:13
  Speaker 5: for a month. I never worked so hard in all
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: my life. Hello? Is anybody home? Somebody outside.
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah. By golly, it's Doc.
• 16:27
  Speaker 5: Doc?
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: Well, come on in, you old reprobate.
• 16:30
  Speaker 6: I'm coming to sign up my horse and buggy.
• 16:32
  Speaker 5: I wonder what he's doing out this way.
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: He's being a patient, I guess. He must have left
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: town awful early.
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: Hey, did somebody ride up?
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's Doc. You about ready to leave, Billy?
• 16:43
  Speaker 5: There's still a morning to take.
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: Nothing's changed.
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: There, Matt.
• 16:48
  Speaker 5: Yes, sir. Well, this is the way I've been hiding out.
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: How are you, Doc?
• 16:57
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 16:59
  Speaker 5: Oh, good morning, Clint. Morning, Doc. Got any coffee? Oh,
• 17:02
  Speaker 5: I have some in two shakes, Doc. Medora!
• 17:05
  Speaker 7: Yes, Clint?
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: Will you come out and fix some coffee?
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: Yes, sir. What are you doing out here this time
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: of morning, Doc?
• 17:10
  Speaker 6: Oh, the Murdoch baby was acting up. Touched the troops,
• 17:13
  Speaker 6: so I spent the night there. Thought I'd just drop
• 17:15
  Speaker 6: over and say hello to the doders, as long as
• 17:17
  Speaker 6: I was this close.
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: You could have done that in town. I'm taking him in.
• 17:21
  Speaker 6: You're taking him in?
• 17:23
  Speaker 5: For what?
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: Rob and Jonas sent those store a night before last.
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: Rob and the.
• 17:27
  Speaker 6: Now, where'd you get that idea?
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: Jonas claims he recognized it.
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: Wilbur Jonas hasn't got the sense the good Lord gave
• 17:35
  Speaker 6: a gopher.
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: Max, they caught the fella who'd done that.
• 17:40
  Speaker 7: What?
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: That's right.
• 17:41
  Speaker 6: There was some drifter riding through town. He threw a
• 17:44
  Speaker 6: lot of money into a poker game, and the boys
• 17:46
  Speaker 6: got kind of suspicious. And he finally admitted the whole thing.
• 17:50
  Speaker 6: So they borrowed the jail keys from Judge Bent and
• 17:53
  Speaker 6: locked him up until he'd get back. But Clint, didn't
• 17:56
  Speaker 6: you tell him?
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: Well, I.
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: Tell me what?
• 17:59
  Speaker 6: Clint here couldn't have done it, Matt. He was playing
• 18:02
  Speaker 6: poker at the time with me and Mark Grimmick in
• 18:04
  Speaker 6: the back room of the livery stable.
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: Doty.
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: Now, Marshal, I didn't lie to you. You asked me
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: if I could prove where I wasn't. I didn't know
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: Doc's word was actual proof. Come here, Doty.
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: He done that deliberate, Mr. Dillon, letting us think he
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: was Dilly just to get us to do all that
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: work for him.
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: And I suppose the story about your wife having a baby.
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: Oh, that's the gospel truth, Marshal. Well, it sure is, Matt.
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: I'll vouch for that. Let me see now. It's about
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: another six months. Let me... Around the 1st of July.
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: 1st of July?
• 18:34
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: I didn't say when, Marshal. And you didn't ask me.
• 18:38
  Speaker 7: Ain't you gonna.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: Wish it well?
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: The 1st of July... Oh, help me, Dodie, for two cents.
• 18:46
  Speaker 10: Oh, we might even name him after you, Marshal, if
• 18:49
  Speaker 10: we can't think of nothing else.
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: All right. All right, Dodie. How about some of that coffee, huh?
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: Oh.
• 19:19
  Speaker 9: Gunsmoke, produced and directed by Norman McDonald, stars William.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: Conrad as Matt Dillon, U.S.
• 19:24
  Speaker 6: Marshal.
• 19:25
  Speaker 9: The story was specially written for Gunsmoke by Les Clutchfield,
• 19:29
  Speaker 9: with editorial supervision by John Meston. Featured in the cast
• 19:32
  Speaker 9: were Joseph Kearns, Virginia Gregg, and Ralph Moody. Holly Bear
• 19:36
  Speaker 9: as Chester, Howard McNair as Doc, and Georgia Ellis as Kitty.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: You have been listening to Gunsmoke, Where'd They Go? A
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: CBS radio broadcast from December 29th, 1957.