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The Lone Ranger - "Murder at the Schoolhouse" (Old Time Radio, 1941) · The Lone Ranger | Old Time Radio

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Speaker 1: Brace Beamer, in his first year as radio's Lone Ranger,
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Speaker 1: is joined by John Todd as Tonto in a Mutual
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Speaker 1: Broadcasting System presentation written by Fran Stryker. Charles D. Livingston directed,
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Speaker 1: with George W. Trendle producing. On July 9th, 1941, we
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Speaker 1: bring you The Lone Ranger, episode 1320, Murder at the Schoolhouse.
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Speaker 1: General Mills had begun its national sponsorship in May, promoting
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Speaker 1: Kix cereal. In a frontier community centered on a one-room schoolhouse,
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Speaker 1: Tex has been arrested for the alleged murder of Jim Ashland.
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Speaker 1: As doubts arise around the reported death, the Lone Ranger
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Speaker 1: and Tonto investigate before suspicion against Tex hardens into judgment.
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Speaker 1: And now, we return to the original broadcast.
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Speaker 2: The End.
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Speaker 3: A fiery horse with a speed of light, a cloud
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Speaker 3: of dust, and a hearty high old silver, the Lone Ranger.
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Speaker 2: THE END THE END.
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Speaker 3: With the rise of the cattle industry in the western
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Speaker 3: United States, the bands of outlaws that roamed the frontier
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Speaker 3: turned to cattle rustling. The lives and property of the
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Speaker 3: ranchers were in constant danger until the masked rider of
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Speaker 3: the plains started his great fight for justice. It was
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Speaker 3: his strength and courage, his daring and resourcefulness that brought
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Speaker 3: law and order to the lawless new territory and finally
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Speaker 3: made possible the winning of the West. Return with us
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Speaker 3: now to those thrilling days of yesteryear. From out of
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Speaker 3: the past come the thundering hoofbeats of the great horse Silver.
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Speaker 3: The Lone Ranger rides again.
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Speaker 2: Come on, Silver.
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Speaker 5: We're heading for Amherstville. There's going to be trouble.
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Speaker 6: Go, Silver.
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Speaker 5: Hooray.
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Speaker 7: The cowboy had left his horse at the corral.
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Speaker 3: But instead of heading for the front door, he circled
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Speaker 3: the ranch house until he reached an open window at
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Speaker 3: the side. He looked around furtively. Only the crickets broke
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Speaker 3: the stillness of the night. Then he turned once more
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Speaker 3: to the window and called softly.
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Speaker 2: Mary.
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Speaker 6: Mary. Wake up.
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Speaker 5: What?
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Speaker 8: It's Jim.
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Speaker 6: Come here.
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Speaker 2: I have to talk to you.
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Speaker 4: Jim, don't you realize it's Paul's issue?
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Speaker 6: I need help, sis.
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Speaker 4: What have you done now?
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Speaker 6: I was over at Abbotsville. I had to shoot. In self-defense.
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Speaker 4: You've killed a man.
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Speaker 6: I don't know. Sis, believe me. It wasn't my fault.
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Speaker 6: No matter what happened. They'll be after me, though. I've
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Speaker 6: got to find some place to hide.
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Speaker 4: And you're asking me to help you?
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Speaker 6: You're my sister, aren't you?
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Speaker 4: I'm ashamed to admit it after the way you treated Paul.
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Speaker 6: He never could prove I stole his cattle.
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Speaker 4: You aren't trying to deny it, are you?
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Speaker 6: That was almost a year ago. I needed money. I
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Speaker 6: needed it bad.
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Speaker 4: And you couldn't go to Paul and ask for it
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Speaker 4: like a man.
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Speaker 6: It was a gambling debt. You know what he would
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Speaker 6: have said to that.
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Speaker 4: I'm not going to argue about it. I've only been
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Speaker 4: hoping that you'd... You're right.
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Speaker 6: There's no time to argue. Will you help me or
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Speaker 6: won't you?
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Speaker 5: No.
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Speaker 6: Going back on your promise to Ma, huh? Her deathbed promise.
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Speaker 4: Even she wouldn't help you now.
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Speaker 6: It was the last thing she asked you. I heard her.
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Speaker 6: You promised you'd always look after me.
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Speaker 4: Jim, why can't you be a man?
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Speaker 6: I want your answer, that's all.
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Speaker 4: There's no place I can hide you. Paul would find
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Speaker 4: you sooner or later around here. And if you're wanted
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Speaker 4: for murder, he'd turn you over to the sheriff. You
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Speaker 4: can't expect another chance from him.
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Speaker 6: I don't want nothing to do with him.
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Speaker 4: Then why do you ask me to.
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Speaker 6: You're the schoolteacher, aren't you? What's the matter with the
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Speaker 6: schoolhouse in town?
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Speaker 5: Why?
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Speaker 6: It ain't being used this time of year, and you
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Speaker 6: got the keys.
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Speaker 4: I won't give them to you.
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Speaker 5: Why not?
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Speaker 4: How do I know this isn't another trick? I give
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Speaker 4: you the keys, and you steal everything inside the place.
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Speaker 5: You're loco.
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Speaker 6: There's nothing in there worth stealing.
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Speaker 4: There is, though.
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Speaker 6: It's the only place I'll be safe, Mary. I've been
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Speaker 6: thinking all the way from Abbotsville.
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Speaker 5: All right.
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Speaker 4: I'll open the door and then I'll lock you in.
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Speaker 6: Lock me in? Then I'd be a prisoner.
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Speaker 4: That's right. You'd be my prisoner until I find out
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Speaker 4: what you've done. Decide what I should do myself.
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Speaker 6: But listen.
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Speaker 4: You can take it or leave it. I won't give
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Speaker 4: you the keys.
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Speaker 5: All right. It's a deal.
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Speaker 6: Hurry up and get dressed.
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Speaker 5: I'll have a horse saddle for you.
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Speaker 4: The black with the white star.
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Speaker 2: I know. Hurry.
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Speaker 4: It won't take me a minute.
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Speaker 5: Oh. Lucky?
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Speaker 6: Not a soul-stirring.
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Speaker 4: You call it lucky. Lucky to be hiding from the law.
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Speaker 6: Never mind the lecture. Come on. You got the keys?
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Speaker 4: Right here.
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Speaker 5: I'll open the door.
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Speaker 2: No, you won't.
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Speaker 4: If you try to take them, I'll wake up the
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Speaker 4: whole town.
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Speaker 6: Fine sister.
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Speaker 4: A fine brother, Jim. That's all I have to say
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Speaker 4: to that.
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Speaker 5: All right. Hurry up.
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Speaker 4: There you are.
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Speaker 6: I'm going to need food, you know.
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Speaker 4: I thought of that. There's enough in this package to
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Speaker 4: last until tomorrow night.
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Speaker 5: And water.
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Speaker 4: Here's a full can to you.
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Speaker 6: Good. You think of everything.
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Speaker 4: This is for more, Jim. I'm going to find out
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Speaker 4: all about that shooting at Abbotsville. And if you were
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Speaker 4: in the room.
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Speaker 6: It was just like I told you.
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Speaker 4: We'll see. You can expect me tomorrow night.
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Speaker 5: Quick. What?
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Speaker 6: A couple of umbres galloping down the street. Get into
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Speaker 6: your saddle and get my horse out of here.
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Speaker 5: Straight up, Toto. Those horses were standing right here.
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Speaker 2: That's right. I want to see track and dust.
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Speaker 5: See if you can find out anything else from them.
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Speaker 2: Let me look.
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Speaker 5: I'm pretty sure that was a girl who rode away.
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Speaker 5: If we pick up a trail outside of town, I
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Speaker 5: think it will lead us to the Ashland Ranch. What?
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Speaker 2: Horse girl need carry somebody here.
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Speaker 5: The tracks are heavier coming up.
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Speaker 2: That's right.
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Speaker 5: And someone is hiding inside the schoolhouse. You look. No, Tonto.
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Speaker 5: We know who it is. We want him to think
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Speaker 5: he's safe for a while. We'll follow the girls' trail
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Speaker 5: and then make camp.
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Speaker 2: Get him up, Scal.
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Speaker 5: Come on, Silver.
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Speaker 7: The following morning, Mary Ashland served breakfast to her father
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Speaker 7: and Red Weatherby, the foreman.
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Speaker 5: You look tired, Mary. Did you sleep well?
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Speaker 4: Not very. Did anything wake you up last night?
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Speaker 9: No.
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Speaker 3: I was dead to the world from the time I
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Speaker 3: hit the pillow till the sun woke me.
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Speaker 5: Maybe you heard me coming in, Mary.
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Speaker 4: I heard you, Red, but I was already awake then.
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Speaker 5: What's the news of Abbotsville?
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Speaker 4: Abbotsville? Is that where you were?
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Is there any news?
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Speaker 5: I had a little trouble last night. A man was shot.
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Speaker 5: Good place to stay away from, Abbotsville. Well, I'm going
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Speaker 5: into town. You'll take care of that south fence, won't you, Red?
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Speaker 5: Sure thing.
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Speaker 2: Want anything, Mary?
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Speaker 5: No, Pa. Well, I do. Give me a kiss. I'll
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Speaker 5: be back about noon.
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Speaker 6: All right.
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Speaker 4: Red, the man who was shot, did he die?
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Speaker 5: He hadn't when I left.
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Speaker 4: But he was hurt bad?
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Speaker 5: I guess so. Why are you so interested? Oh, I.
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Speaker 4: Not exactly, but I hate all this shooting and killing.
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Speaker 4: When's there going to be an end of it around here?
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Speaker 5: You should be interested, Mary. Really?
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Speaker 4: Do I know the man who was hurt?
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Speaker 5: You know the man who shot him?
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Speaker 4: Not Jim.
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Speaker 5: You don't have to pretend with me.
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Speaker 4: Pretend?
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Speaker 5: I don't have to tell you it was Jim.
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Speaker 4: What makes you think that.
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Speaker 5: This, Mary. What?
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Speaker 4: Bandana?
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: There's nothing unusual about it.
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Speaker 10: It was the one Jim was wearing last night. I
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Speaker 10: found it outside your bedroom window. There were footprints there, too.
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Speaker 5: Yes, he.
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Speaker 4: he did come here.
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Speaker 5: Where is he now?
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Speaker 4: Why do you want to.
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Speaker 8: Know, Red?
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Speaker 5: Well, dog, Garnet, I.
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Speaker 10: I don't feel the same way toward Jim that you
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Speaker 10: and your ma do.
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Speaker 5: He was spoiled when he was young.
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Speaker 10: If he keeps on the way he's going, he won't
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Speaker 10: amount to much.
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Speaker 5: But that's no reason.
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Speaker 6: Why I should stop Len.
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Speaker 5: You.
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Speaker 4: mean that someone's trying to kill him?
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Speaker 5: That hombre he plugged last night is plenty tough. He'll
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Speaker 5: be up and around today.
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Speaker 6: Oh, thank goodness.
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Speaker 10: It's nothing to be thankful for, for Jim's point of view.
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Speaker 10: Scar's tough and he's got friends. He won't rest till
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Speaker 10: he gets even. Now, the only safe thing for Jim
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Speaker 10: is to get as far away from these parts as
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Speaker 10: he can.
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Speaker 4: You'll have to give me time to think, Red. I'll
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Speaker 4: admit that you can help him better than I can.
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Speaker 8: All right, engine, speak up.
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Speaker 5: What are you doing around here?
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Speaker 4: That's Paul.
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Speaker 5: He's caught an engine. Come on.
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Speaker 4: I hope this doesn't mean more trouble.
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Speaker 5: Why should it?
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Speaker 10: One engine can't make any trouble. You haven't said anything
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Speaker 10: to your Paul, have you? About last night?
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Speaker 4: Of course not. What is it, Paul? Anything wrong?
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Speaker 5: I just found him hanging around the side of the house.
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Speaker 5: He wants to buy some splice. Not right. Why don't
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Speaker 5: you buy him in town? He has a good.
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Speaker 4: Reason for that. The way they try to cheat Indians
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Speaker 4: is a shame.
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Speaker 5: Well, give him some bacon and beans. Make him pay, though.
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Speaker 2: He got money.
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Speaker 5: Look, somebody riding up. Never saw that horse before. I have. Well,
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Speaker 5: who is it? I'm recall Tex. He was over in
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Speaker 5: Abbotsville last night. He rides well. But I don't like
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Speaker 5: the way he carries his guns. Howdy, folks. Is this
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Speaker 5: the Ashland spread?
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Speaker 1: It is.
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Speaker 5: Is Jim a.
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Speaker 9: Well, why don't you finish? What about Jim? Just have
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Speaker 9: to notice this hombre with the red hair. You work
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Speaker 9: around here, mister?
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Speaker 5: That's my foreman, Red Weatherby. And you're Judd Ashland?
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: What do you want with Jim?
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Speaker 9: Is he here?
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Speaker 5: He hasn't been here for close to a year. He
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Speaker 5: isn't welcome, and neither is gun-toting pals.
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Speaker 9: Well, I wouldn't call myself a pal of Jim's, but
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Speaker 9: if he ain't around, I got no business here.
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Speaker 5: Get around there, boy.
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Speaker 2: Get up.
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Speaker 5: He sure can't be a friend of Jim's, Red.
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Speaker 6: No, he couldn't be found here.
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Speaker 5: What do you make of it? If he ain't a friend,
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Speaker 5: he might be just the opposite.
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Speaker 4: Yes. You're right about everything, Red.
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Speaker 11: If he isn't a friend, he must be an enemy.
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Speaker 6: The End.
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Speaker 5: And you followed Tex?
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Speaker 2: That's right, P. Massabi. Him go to town, ask about Jim.
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Speaker 5: I see.
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Speaker 2: What you find in Abbottville?
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Speaker 5: Scars better. I saw him on the street. Jim's bullet
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Speaker 5: only caught him in the shoulder.
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Speaker 2: And that's what Tonto think last night?
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Speaker 5: It looks like trouble, but I can't see where Tex
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Speaker 5: fits into the picture.
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Speaker 2: We go to town when it get dark?
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Speaker 3: Yes, Tonto.
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Speaker 5: It won't be safe until after midnight. But that's when
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Speaker 5: things will start to happen.
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Speaker 6: Somebody outside.
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Speaker 7: Hmm.
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Speaker 6: It was 12 o'clock. It's too early for Mary.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I can hear footsteps.
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Speaker 6: Coming around this side to the window.
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Speaker 2: The moon.
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Speaker 6: I can see out pretty good.
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Speaker 4: Quiet! Quiet!
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Speaker 6: Sheriff!
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Speaker 4: Sheriff, wake up!
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Speaker 8: Who's making all the noise? What's it? Mary.
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Speaker 4: Sheriff, I locked Jim in the schoolhouse last night.
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Speaker 2: You what?
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Speaker 4: Come along, I'll tell you about it on the way.
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Speaker 5: You locked him in the schoolhouse?
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Speaker 4: Yes, he'd been in a fight over at Abbotsville. He'd
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Speaker 4: killed a man.
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Speaker 8: I heard about that. Him and Scar had a fight.
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Speaker 8: Scar wasn't hurt bad.
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Speaker 4: Jim didn't know that last night, and I didn't find
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Speaker 4: it out until this morning. I locked him in the schoolhouse,
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Speaker 4: and I didn't come to let him out until just
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Speaker 4: a few minutes ago. I was going to make him
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Speaker 4: get out of the country so he'd be safe from Scar.
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Speaker 6: And his friends.
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Speaker 8: Good idea.
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Speaker 4: Red and I had it all fixed. Red must be
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Speaker 4: waiting outside the town now with a horse and supplies.
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Speaker 4: But when I opened the door of the schoolhouse.
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Speaker 5: You.
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Speaker 12: Only.
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Speaker 4: Jim wasn't there.
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Speaker 5: You said only.
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Speaker 4: No. A glass in one of the windows was broken.
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Speaker 4: It had been forced open.
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Speaker 8: So that's how we got out.
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Speaker 4: I don't think so. There was a stain on the floor.
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Speaker 4: A red stain.
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Speaker 5: You mean.
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Speaker 4: Here we are. I'll show you. There's something more I've
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Speaker 4: got to tell you. Open the door. It isn't locked,
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Speaker 4: but I just can't do it.
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Speaker 5: Sure.
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Speaker 4: There. When the moonlight hits the floor, you can see
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Speaker 4: for yourself.
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Speaker 5: Did you go any closer than this?
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Speaker 4: Yes, when I was here before, but.
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Speaker 8: I understand, Mary.
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Speaker 5: You don't have to go in again.
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Speaker 4: Sheriff, there's a man in there.
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Speaker 8: I got you covered, mister. Reach for the ceiling.
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Speaker 5: Anything you say, Sheriff.
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Speaker 10: You!
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Speaker 4: This man came to our ranch this morning. He was
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Speaker 4: looking for Jim.
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Speaker 5: That's true enough.
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Speaker 4: God sent him over here to kill him.
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Speaker 8: Where is he? What have you done with him?
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Speaker 9: Here's my story, Sheriff. I was in bed over at
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Speaker 9: the hotel and I heard a shot. Nothing unusual about
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Speaker 9: that in this town, but it was sort of late
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Speaker 9: and it made me curious. Got dressed and walked along
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Speaker 9: the street till I saw that broken window.
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Speaker 4: You broke it yourself. You broke it when you killed
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Speaker 4: my brother.
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Speaker 8: Let him finish, Mary.
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Speaker 9: Well, I was around the side when Miss Ashland rode up.
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Speaker 9: I heard her open the door and go in. Then
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Speaker 9: I heard her scream and run out again. That's when
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Speaker 9: I decided to investigate.
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Speaker 4: What have you done with him? Where is he?
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Speaker 2: I've told you all I know.
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Speaker 8: It ain't enough.
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Speaker 4: He's a killer, Sheriff.
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Speaker 7: Right.
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Speaker 8: And tonight he's put his neck in the noose. You're
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Speaker 8: under arrest for the murder of Jim Ashland.
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Speaker 12: The curtain falls on the first act of our Lone
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Speaker 12: Ranger story. Before the next exciting scenes, please permit us
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Speaker 12: to pause for just a few moments.
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Speaker 3: Now to continue our story. On the morning after Tex
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Speaker 3: was arrested for the murder of Jim Ashland... The sheriff, Judd,
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Speaker 3: and Red met in the lawman's office.
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Speaker 8: Something must be done. I'm doing all I can, Judd.
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Speaker 8: Matter of fact, I'm exceeding my authority holding Tex in jail.
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Speaker 8: We can't even prove there's been a murder committed until
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Speaker 8: we find Jim.
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Speaker 5: We'll find him.
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Speaker 8: What do you think we're trying to do? I've had
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Speaker 8: 20 minutes since daybreak.
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Speaker 5: It's sure that you won't find Jim in town, Sheriff.
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Speaker 8: He's got to be in town. Tex didn't have time
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Speaker 8: enough to take him outside any place and then get
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Speaker 8: back to the schoolhouse.
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Speaker 5: You've covered every square inch. He ain't here. Don't you
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Speaker 5: see what that means? Sure.
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Speaker 8: He vanished into thin air.
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Speaker 5: Either that or Tex had somebody working with him. Say.
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Speaker 8: Why not?
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Speaker 5: I'm sure of it.
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Speaker 8: I'll get a posse together right away and go after him.
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Speaker 5: Now, wait a minute, Sheriff. You're forgetting this, hombre. Whoever
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Speaker 5: he is has a 12-hour start on you.
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Speaker 8: Not much chance, but we've got to try it anyway.
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Speaker 5: Why don't you let Tex lead you to him?
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Speaker 8: There you loco.
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Speaker 5: I'm talking sense.
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Speaker 8: He hasn't changed his story one little bit from last night.
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Speaker 5: Why should he? That's the reason he stayed behind. Because
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Speaker 5: he knew you couldn't do anything to him.
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Speaker 8: And if he's so sure of himself, how do you
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Speaker 8: expect me to get a lead out of him?
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Speaker 5: Let him escape.
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Speaker 2: What's that?
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Speaker 10: Listen, he must have fixed it up with his sidekick
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Speaker 10: to meet him someplace. All right, once he's free, he'll
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Speaker 10: go there. All you have to do is follow him.
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Speaker 5: With a posy?
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Speaker 10: Nine chances out of ten you'll find Jim.
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Speaker 5: It's only one thing. What? Well, if you were to
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Speaker 5: fix it up for him to escape, he'd know something
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Speaker 5: was wrong.
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Speaker 8: Just tell him I can't hold him any longer.
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Speaker 5: That might work.
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Speaker 10: But here's a better idea. All right, let's have it.
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Speaker 10: Let me go to him tonight. Tell him the town's
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Speaker 10: getting ready to lynch him. Tell him he did me
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Speaker 10: a big favor by getting Jim.
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Speaker 5: What's that? I thought more of the kid than you did, Judd.
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Speaker 5: You don't know what you're talking about. I was only
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Speaker 5: judging by the way you talked. Anyway, this is only
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Speaker 5: to make Tex think it's all on the level. Oh,
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Speaker 5: I see. Want me to try it, Sheriff?
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Speaker 8: Yeah. I'll let you in to see him tonight. You
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Speaker 8: can slip my key and leave a horse in back
17:44
Speaker 8: of the jail. When he hides it out of town,
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Speaker 8: we'll follow him.
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Speaker 7: Meanwhile, Mary Ashland was alone at the ranch house.
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Speaker 4: That must be either Joe or Red. I wonder if
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Speaker 4: they've found anything. A mask, men.
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Speaker 5: Miss Ashland.
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Speaker 4: I want to scars, men.
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Speaker 5: I'm your friend and I'm trying to help you.
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Speaker 4: Do you know where my brother is?
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Speaker 5: That's why I came here. I want to take you
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Speaker 5: to him. You?
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Speaker 4: Oh, no. Just tell me where and I'll send Paul
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Speaker 4: or Red.
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Speaker 5: He's alive, Miss Ashland.
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Speaker 4: Alive?
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Speaker 5: Badly wounded, unconscious, but still breathing. You're the only one
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Speaker 5: I can take to him.
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Speaker 4: This isn't a trick.
18:24
Speaker 5: You'll have to take my word for that.
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Speaker 4: I will, Miss Men. If there's anything I can do,
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Speaker 4: I'm ready. He seems to be resting comfortably.
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Speaker 6: Yes.
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Speaker 5: Tonto did everything a doctor could. There's nothing more to
18:46
Speaker 5: do but wait.
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Speaker 4: Tonto, a mask, and a horse called Silver. I know
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Speaker 4: who you are, and I'm glad I came with you.
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Speaker 5: As soon as it gets dark, we'll have to leave
18:55
Speaker 5: you here alone.
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Speaker 4: It's almost dark now. Oh, where's Tonto gone? Must have
18:59
Speaker 4: left three or four hours ago.
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Speaker 5: We're expecting someone, Miss Ashland. The man your brother had
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Speaker 5: a fight with in Abbotsville.
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Speaker 4: You mean you're expecting him here, in this canyon?
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Speaker 5: No, in town.
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Speaker 4: But why should he go there? He must have heard
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Speaker 4: that Jim was shot last night.
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Speaker 5: You believe that Tech shot him?
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Speaker 6: Of course.
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Speaker 5: Well, I don't. Tonto and I weren't close enough to
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Speaker 5: be sure, but we had no reason to doubt it.
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Speaker 4: Scar paid him.
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Speaker 5: Scar doesn't pay anyone. He gets paid.
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Speaker 4: Oh, I don't understand it at all. You rode up
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Speaker 4: to the schoolhouse just a minute or two after the shot.
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Speaker 4: You thought you saw the man who fired it. But
19:29
Speaker 4: instead of going after him, you tried to save Jim's life.
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Speaker 4: Why did you carry him away? Why didn't you leave
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Speaker 4: him there?
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Speaker 5: We hope to have the answer for all your questions tonight.
19:37
Speaker 5: The information you've given me has helped a lot. Tex
19:39
Speaker 5: may have more.
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Speaker 4: You're going to see him?
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Speaker 5: If we can manage it.
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Speaker 4: He's in jail.
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Speaker 5: But the windows of his cell open on the outside.
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Speaker 4: There's more to all this than poor Jim's life, isn't there?
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Speaker 5: Yes, Miss Ashland. For instance, we had a good reason
19:51
Speaker 5: to pick this canyon for our camp. Do you realize
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Speaker 5: that if rustlers were to try and drive off part
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Speaker 5: of your herd, they'd have to come through here?
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Speaker 4: I suppose they would, but what rustlers are you talking about?
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Speaker 4: We haven't been in trouble with them for ages.
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Speaker 5: Listen, there must be Tonto now.
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Speaker 1: Hurry!
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Speaker 2: Hurry!
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Speaker 5: Did you see him, Toto? Uh-uh.
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Speaker 2: Them meat, like you say.
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Speaker 5: Did you get close enough to hear anything?
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Speaker 2: Uh-uh. Them set time when Posse go after Tex.
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Speaker 5: What do you mean?
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Speaker 2: Sheriff let Tex escape. Go after him with Posse. What for?
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Speaker 5: What does he hope to gain by that?
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Speaker 2: Him think Tex lead him to Jim.
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Speaker 5: So that's it.
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Speaker 2: What do you do now?
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Speaker 5: We're going to arrange it so Tex will lead them
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Speaker 5: to Jim. Here, Silver.
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Speaker 2: How do you do that?
20:33
Speaker 5: It will be dark by the time we reach town.
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Speaker 5: We're heading for the jail. When will you be back?
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Speaker 5: That depends on when they set Tex free.
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Speaker 4: You said that the men.
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Speaker 5: We'll follow him here. When they reach this canyon, they'll
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Speaker 5: find more than they expected to.
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Speaker 2: Come on, Silver.
20:45
Speaker 5: Come on. You did me a favor by getting rid
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Speaker 5: of Jim, Tex. Yeah, I can believe that.
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Speaker 9: I heard you're fixing up with Scar to start that
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Speaker 9: fight over in Abbotsville.
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Speaker 5: That so?
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 9: Jim was supposed to be killed then, wasn't he?
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Speaker 5: He would have been. Scar's gun hadn't stuck in the holster.
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Speaker 5: You know I didn't shoot him, Red. You mean that?
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Speaker 5: You're innocent?
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Speaker 10: I can't make you out. Whoever it was that killed
21:23
Speaker 10: Jim did me a favor. Just remember that. Whether you
21:27
Speaker 10: want to admit it or not, it won't make any
21:29
Speaker 10: difference to me.
21:30
Speaker 9: All right, we'll forget it. What brings you here? If
21:34
Speaker 9: you stay here, they'll lynch you.
21:37
Speaker 5: So I got it fixed for you to escape. How?
21:39
Speaker 5: Here's a key. It unlocks your cell door, the door
21:43
Speaker 5: to the office. I got it off the sheriff's key ring.
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Speaker 5: I'll need a horse. There'll be one waiting in the
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Speaker 5: back of the jail. You got a watch? Yeah. Then
21:51
Speaker 5: wait for an hour. I'll have the sheriff out of
21:54
Speaker 5: the way by then. An hour?
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Speaker 9: 11 o'clock.
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Speaker 5: That's right. Make your break at 11 o'clock. You can
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Speaker 5: be over the border by morning. Good luck. All right,
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Speaker 5: masked man, he's gone.
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Speaker 9: Good thing the roof of this place is flat and low.
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Speaker 9: I don't have to tell you what he said, do I?
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Speaker 5: No, Tex. Shall I use the key? Of course. I
22:20
Speaker 5: don't know. I'll be waiting just outside of town.
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Speaker 9: And then we open the sheriff's eyes.
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Speaker 5: One hour, Tex. We'll see you then. Here he comes, Tonto.
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Speaker 2: You're right. Plenty past.
22:44
Speaker 5: You see that big cloud of dust beyond him? Ah,
22:47
Speaker 5: that's the posse. They're afraid to let him get too
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Speaker 5: far away. They're all material, Masked Man.
22:54
Speaker 6: They ought to keep farther back.
22:56
Speaker 5: Expect me to lead them to any hideout. We'll let
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Speaker 5: them keep us inside all the way. Come on, Silver.
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Speaker 8: There's three of them.
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Speaker 5: Right in the south. I say they're heading straight for
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Speaker 5: the border. We can stop them before they get there.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, but it ain't time to close in yet. There's
23:25
Speaker 8: still a chance they'll lead us to Jim.
23:27
Speaker 5: You're right.
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Speaker 3: And now they're breaking away from the trail and heading
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Speaker 3: to the west.
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Speaker 5: The west?
23:31
Speaker 8: You know the country over there better than me, Jed.
23:33
Speaker 5: What are we getting into? I'd say they'd end up
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Speaker 5: at the south entrance of the canyon.
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Speaker 8: Which canyon? The one that cuts down from my south pasture.
23:38
Speaker 5: What the.
23:39
Speaker 8: What's the matter with you, Eddie?
23:40
Speaker 5: They can lose us in that country. We've got to
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Speaker 5: catch them before they reach it.
23:43
Speaker 2: Get up there!
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Speaker 7: Get up there!
23:46
Speaker 2: Get up there! Get up there!
23:48
Speaker 9: Get up there!
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Speaker 1: This car use of mine won't hold up much longer
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Speaker 1: at this speed, Masked Man.
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Speaker 5: That's the entrance to the canyon just ahead of us.
24:05
Speaker 5: I see it now. We'll rain up there.
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Speaker 2: We'll rain from Posse, Kemosabe?
24:08
Speaker 9: Yes, Tonto.
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Speaker 5: Let's hope this car and his gang are already in
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Speaker 5: the canyon.
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Speaker 9: All right, Tex.
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Speaker 2: Listen.
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Speaker 12: Cattle, huh?
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Speaker 5: Sounds like a thousand head. They're still above the bend.
24:22
Speaker 5: But by the time the posse gets here, we'll be
24:24
Speaker 5: able to see them.
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Speaker 4: Posse, come now.
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Speaker 9: I got a hunch that one of them's going to
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Speaker 9: shoot first and talk afterwards.
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Speaker 5: He's drawing now. Shall I? I'll take care of him.
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Speaker 4: Oh, my head!
24:32
Speaker 8: Put up your gun, Mars fan. You have to get
24:35
Speaker 8: a chance.
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Speaker 5: I'll put it up on one condition, sir.
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Speaker 2: What's that?
24:38
Speaker 5: You and Judd and Red right up here alone. You'll
24:40
Speaker 5: give yourself up peaceable? If you still want to hold
24:42
Speaker 5: us after we finish talking to you. Come on, Judd.
24:45
Speaker 5: Do you have any identification text? Sure. I'll get it out.
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Speaker 8: All right, get the palaver over. Where's Jim?
24:53
Speaker 5: We'll show you Jim in just a moment.
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Speaker 2: Don't argue, Sheriff.
24:55
Speaker 5: Hurry him back to town.
24:56
Speaker 2: You'll read this paper first.
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Speaker 8: Hey, don't read no paper by this lad.
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Speaker 5: A match will help. Yeah. What the.
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Speaker 8: Marshal Chalmers?
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Speaker 5: That's me.
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Speaker 8: You're Tex Chalmers?
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Speaker 5: Yes, Sheriff.
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Speaker 8: I don't believe it. Why did you let me arrest you?
25:13
Speaker 8: Why didn't you tell me who you were?
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Speaker 9: Because I was trying to catch a gang of crooks.
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Speaker 9: And if I was arrested for the crime, there was
25:18
Speaker 9: a chance the man who shot Jim Ashland would overplay
25:21
Speaker 9: his hand.
25:21
Speaker 8: Well, I'll be dog.
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Speaker 9: And in case you're interested, the masked man here is
25:26
Speaker 9: a lone ranger.
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Speaker 5: Cactus. Well, doggone.
25:29
Speaker 9: We've been chasing the United States Marshal and the Lone
25:32
Speaker 9: Ranger half across the county.
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Speaker 5: We had a reason for bringing you here, Judd. Look
25:35
Speaker 5: up the canyon. Get up there.
25:37
Speaker 2: You're not cold.
25:38
Speaker 5: Good tunnel.
25:38
Speaker 2: Hold his bridle.
25:39
Speaker 5: Get his gun stacks.
25:40
Speaker 2: Right.
25:40
Speaker 5: It's my cattle. Rustlers, Judd. Scar and his gang. Red
25:44
Speaker 5: tipped them off that you and all your men would
25:45
Speaker 5: be riding with the sheriff tonight. Red's a croak?
25:47
Speaker 4: I'll listen to them. Mary.
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Speaker 8: I'll wait for the rest of these two ladies. Me
25:51
Speaker 8: and this gang of rustlers up the canyon. Follow me
25:53
Speaker 8: and we'll round them up.
25:54
Speaker 4: Get up.
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Speaker 9: Get up.
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Speaker 2: Get up.
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Speaker 5: How'd you get here, Mary?
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Speaker 4: The masked man brought me to take care of Jim.
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Speaker 5: He isn't dead?
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Speaker 4: No. Let's forgive him, Paul. He'll be different from now on.
26:09
Speaker 4: He's learned his lesson.
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Speaker 5: Has he regained consciousness? He has.
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Speaker 4: All my questions are answered.
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Speaker 5: It was Red who shot him?
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Speaker 6: Yes.
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Speaker 5: That's a lie.
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Speaker 4: He saw you. You tricked me into telling you where
26:18
Speaker 4: he was and then you went there and shot at him.
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Speaker 5: I never had anything to.
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Speaker 2: Jim.
26:21
Speaker 4: Told me why you did it. He knew that you
26:23
Speaker 4: were rustling. He told you to leave Pa's herds alone
26:26
Speaker 4: or he'd go to the sheriff.
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Speaker 2: Jim did that?
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Speaker 6: Yes, Pa.
26:29
Speaker 5: Take me to him.
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Speaker 4: It's this way. Get up there, Midna.
26:32
Speaker 5: Get up. Get up. So you're not only a rustler, Red,
26:35
Speaker 5: you're guilty of attempted murder. You'll have to prove it.
26:38
Speaker 5: That won't be hard.
26:41
Speaker 2: You look outlaw, throw down gun, possibly round him up
26:45
Speaker 2: handy good.
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Speaker 5: You'll go to jail with the rest of the gang, Red,
26:48
Speaker 5: but you'll stay there a lot longer.
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Speaker 2: I'll say he will.
26:50
Speaker 5: The job's finished, Tex. Tonto and I'll be on our way.
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Speaker 9: Well, I know you don't want thanks, Masked Man. But
26:57
Speaker 9: if I run up against something tough like this again,
27:00
Speaker 9: I sure hope you'll be around to lend a helping hand.
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Speaker 5: We'll meet again, Tex.
27:04
Speaker 9: Adios. Adios.
27:05
Speaker 5: Adios. Adios.
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Speaker 7: THE END.
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