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The Lone Ranger - "Murder of Pony Express Rider" (Old Time Radio, 1938) · The Lone Ranger | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: On April 22nd, 1938, the Lone Ranger brought listeners episode 817,
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: Murder of Pony Express Rider. In the frontier town of Greenville,
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  Speaker 1: outlaws are terrorizing the community while nearby cavalry troops await
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  Speaker 1: orders from Washington. Those orders are on their way by
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  Speaker 1: pony express until the rider carrying them is attacked, drawing
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  Speaker 1: the Lone Ranger and Tonto into a crisis involving Colonel
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  Speaker 1: Dawson and the cavalry command. Earl Grazer is the Lone Ranger,
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  Speaker 1: John Todd is Tonto, and the script is by Fran
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  Speaker 1: Stryker from producer George W.
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  Speaker 2: Trendle.
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  Speaker 1: The Lone Ranger rides Silver, while Tonto rides Whitefeller. And now,
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  Speaker 1: we return to the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 3: High O' Silver!
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  Speaker 2: Away!
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  Speaker 4: A fiery horse with a speed of light, a cloud
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  Speaker 4: of dust, and a hearty High O'.
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  Speaker 2: Silver, the Lone Ranger.
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  Speaker 5: THE END Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 2: THE END.
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  Speaker 4: The thrilling stories of the masked rider of justice cannot
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  Speaker 4: be found in the written pages of history. But his
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  Speaker 4: deeds will live forever in the memories of the people
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  Speaker 4: of seven western states who still tell the story of
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  Speaker 4: the famous mystery rider. The thundering hoofs of silver bring
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  Speaker 4: us adventure on the trail ahead. The Lone Ranger rides again.
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  Speaker 2: Hurry, Silver, old fellow! Outlaws are riding down from the hills!
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  Speaker 2: Stretch out those great legs of yours! Hail Silver! Away!
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  Speaker 4: As the masked man rode by on Silver, we heard
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  Speaker 4: him say that the outlaws in the hills were threatening
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  Speaker 4: to ride again. The hills bordering the town of Greenville
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  Speaker 4: made a perfect hiding place for the outlaws that operated
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  Speaker 4: in that territory. Cavalry troops were garrisoned nearby, but their
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  Speaker 4: presence failed to frighten the bandits. Colonel Dawson in command
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  Speaker 4: frequently rode to town to visit his daughter Sally. And
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  Speaker 4: as our story opens, we hear the angry townspeople commenting
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  Speaker 4: on the last attack.
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  Speaker 2: Of the outlaws.
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  Speaker 6: Why in thunder don't the troops do something? What are
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  Speaker 6: we paying taxes for? Damn troops. We'd clean the outlaws
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  Speaker 6: out of the hills if they'd only get to it.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, look at who's here. It's Dawson. Hey there, Colonel Dawson.
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  Speaker 6: Who there?
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  Speaker 2: Who there?
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  Speaker 5: Who?
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  Speaker 2: Who? Where's the sheriff?
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  Speaker 6: Here I am, Colonel. And you're just the man I
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  Speaker 6: want to see.
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  Speaker 7: Sheriff, where's my daughter?
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  Speaker 2: Is she safe?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, Colonel, your daughter's safe enough. But there's other folks
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  Speaker 6: that ain't.
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  Speaker 2: Thank goodness.
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  Speaker 5: As soon as I heard about the attack, I came here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we see that.
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  Speaker 6: I don't suppose you're much concerned about Abe Whitcomb's wife.
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  Speaker 2: She was killed by them brigands.
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  Speaker 5: She was?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and so was Lodge Foster and Lem Bixby and
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  Speaker 3: about five other men.
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  Speaker 5: Was the attack as bad as that?
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  Speaker 6: That don't include no mention of 20-odd men that was wounded.
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  Speaker 7: Those confounded outlaws.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, never mind acting indignant, Colonel. You go see your daughter.
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  Speaker 6: Make sure she's safe. Then get back to your camp.
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  Speaker 6: Don't order your men to charge them hills and clean
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  Speaker 6: out the killers, though.
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  Speaker 2: Why not?
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  Speaker 6: Might be dangerous work for the soldiers.
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  Speaker 2: Some of your men might get hurt.
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  Speaker 8: Now look here, Sheriff. I've told you before what we've
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  Speaker 8: done about those outlaws. I'm simply stationed here to carry
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  Speaker 8: out orders from Washington.
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  Speaker 6: Sure, we serve you. Washington don't care nothing about what
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  Speaker 6: happens to the settlers in a place like this. It's
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  Speaker 6: a lot cheaper to let us folks get killed off
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  Speaker 6: than it'd be to have some of the soldiers get hurt.
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  Speaker 8: You feel that we should attack the hills and clean
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  Speaker 8: out the outlaws. Well, there's nothing I'd sooner do But
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  Speaker 8: I can't until I get instructions.
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  Speaker 2: I can give you instructions.
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  Speaker 6: Just ride up to them and blaze away with gunfire.
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  Speaker 7: Instructions from Washington.
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  Speaker 6: Never mind, Colonel Dawson. We ain't counting on nothing from
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  Speaker 6: the government. So we ain't disappointed none. Your daughter's in
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  Speaker 6: Ma Tindall's house there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: You better go talk to her. Maybe she'll have something
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  Speaker 6: to say about how we folks in Greenville feel.
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  Speaker 5: Watch my horse.
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  Speaker 2: Watch your own horse.
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  Speaker 5: Those men only understood.
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  Speaker 7: I'd lose my command if I.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it's you.
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  Speaker 5: How do you do, Mrs. Tyndall?
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  Speaker 2: If you're here to speak to your daughter, you'll find
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  Speaker 2: her in the next room.
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  Speaker 6: Mrs.
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  Speaker 5: Tyndall, one minute.
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  Speaker 7: Ain't the time to talk.
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  Speaker 6: You can let yourself out when you're.
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  Speaker 2: Ready to leave.
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  Speaker 5: She feels the same as everyone else.
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  Speaker 2: Oh. Oh, Dad.
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  Speaker 5: Sally, thank goodness you're safe.
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  Speaker 7: I wish they'd killed me.
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 9: Oh, you don't know how the folks here feel. The
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  Speaker 9: way I'm pointed at because you don't do anything about
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  Speaker 9: the murderers in the hills. Here is a town that
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  Speaker 9: suffered at the hands of the outlaws half a dozen times.
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  Speaker 9: Those killers stayed right in the hills almost a stone's
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  Speaker 9: throw from your camp.
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  Speaker 7: And you don't do a thing about it.
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 5: Sally, I've sent word to Washington.
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  Speaker 8: I'm just waiting for a reply.
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  Speaker 2: Waiting?
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  Speaker 7: That's what you said the last time. That's all you
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  Speaker 7: ever say.
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  Speaker 8: But, Sally, you know the position I'm in. I can't
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  Speaker 8: order my men to leave the fort and ride into
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  Speaker 8: the hills.
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  Speaker 9: You're stationed here to protect folks.
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  Speaker 5: I'm here to keep the Indians controlled.
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  Speaker 8: I can't take over the work of the state officials
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  Speaker 8: and fight outlaws without federal sanction.
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  Speaker 9: Suppose that sanction never comes.
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  Speaker 8: Then, dear, I'll have to continue to face the jibes
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  Speaker 8: and anger of the men in Greenville.
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  Speaker 9: Well, I won't continue to face them. I'll leave here.
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  Speaker 5: If those orders come from Washington... Come, found those.
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  Speaker 7: Orders, Father.
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  Speaker 9: Can't you risk your commission if it means saving everyone
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  Speaker 9: here from other attacks?
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  Speaker 5: You would have me face court-martial? I'd face court-martial.
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  Speaker 7: I'd be glad to.
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  Speaker 9: I'd face the firing squad if it meant the cleaning
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  Speaker 9: out of all those outlaws.
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  Speaker 8: Sally, you're not a soldier. You haven't spent your life
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  Speaker 8: obeying orders.
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  Speaker 2: Perhaps not, but I'm glad of it.
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  Speaker 5: Would you like to ride back.
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  Speaker 8: To the camp with me and see some of your friends?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 5: It might be a change.
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  Speaker 10: No.
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  Speaker 5: You could stay a couple of days and then come back.
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  Speaker 5: I don't want to see.
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  Speaker 9: Anything more of you or your men. I don't want
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  Speaker 9: any part of the army until this town is made safe.
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  Speaker 5: But, my dear.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 9: Now you'd better.
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  Speaker 2: Go.
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  Speaker 4: Following their raid on Greenville, the outlaws returned to their
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  Speaker 4: camp in the hills. Their leader was a man called Wolfe.
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  Speaker 4: a huge man with a cruel face and a surly
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  Speaker 4: overbearing manner. He divided the loot taken from the attack
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  Speaker 4: among his men, keeping half for himself. His followers noted
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  Speaker 4: his action and grumbled protestingly.
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  Speaker 3: You needn't think all of this cash is mine. I
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  Speaker 3: got a plenty of it to pay out. You pay
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  Speaker 3: out a plenty, Wolf, but there's a plenty left. You
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  Speaker 3: get as much as all the rest of us put together.
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  Speaker 3: And it ain't fair. Oh, so it ain't fair, huh? Well,
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  Speaker 3: let me tell you something. If it wasn't for the
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  Speaker 3: things I do with my share, there wouldn't none of
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  Speaker 3: you be living. What's that? You ain't been attacked by
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  Speaker 3: them soldiers, have you?
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  Speaker 2: Not yet. You ain't had.
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  Speaker 3: Much trouble getting out of Greenville, the other towns, after
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  Speaker 3: you made the attacks, have you?
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 3: You're getting away with all the raids as slick as
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  Speaker 3: wagon grease. And don't you figure there's a reason for it?
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  Speaker 3: We ain't gonna know that reason, Walt. It's the guys
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  Speaker 3: I got in the payroll. I pay them out in
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  Speaker 3: my share. I know just what's going on all the time.
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  Speaker 3: I find out when there's a big chain dig, where
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  Speaker 3: most of the men will be, when we raid the
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  Speaker 3: houses in a town. I knowed when Greenville's men was
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  Speaker 3: out posse riding, so as we could attack.
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  Speaker 2: You mean you got spies working? Sure I have. Look
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  Speaker 2: at here.
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  Speaker 3: This letter come to Lem Bixby by the last stage.
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  Speaker 3: He was killed in a raid. That was too bad,
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  Speaker 3: because Lem was working for me. Lem got mailed by Sage,
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  Speaker 3: and that same come from one of my pals in
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  Speaker 3: the East. This particular letter tells him that orders are
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  Speaker 3: going out from Washington the first of the month.
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  Speaker 2: What sort of? orders?
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  Speaker 5: From Washington?
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  Speaker 6: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: Orders to Colonel Dawson. He read to Washington about us?
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  Speaker 2: Sure he did.
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  Speaker 3: And he asked for permission to make an attack on
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  Speaker 3: us and clean us out. Did he get it? He will,
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  Speaker 3: unless something's done about it. When was them orders to
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  Speaker 3: go out?
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  Speaker 2: First of the month. Then they already went. Yep, a
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  Speaker 2: couple days ago. And he'll attack us.
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  Speaker 3: Now, Jake, you'll see where I spend my money for
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  Speaker 3: your protection. I know them orders left. And I know
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  Speaker 3: they're coming by the Pony Express. What's more, I know
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  Speaker 3: where we can waylay the pony rider, get him, and
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  Speaker 3: do away with them orders. Well, that puts things in
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  Speaker 3: a new light, don't it?
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  Speaker 2: It sure does. No wonder we've been so blame-lucky. It
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  Speaker 2: wasn't luck at all. It's our boy. Are you satisfied?
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  Speaker 2: All right, then.
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  Speaker 4: Well.
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  Speaker 3: Probably you'll have to ride east and meet that pony rider.
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  Speaker 2: Get up, boy. Get up. Get up, boy. Get up.
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  Speaker 3: Get up, boy.
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  Speaker 2: Get up.
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  Speaker 4: The outlaw's activities had brought the Lone Ranger and his
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  Speaker 4: faithful Indian companion, Tonto, into the district. They were riding
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  Speaker 4: close to the trail when the pony rider was shot.
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  Speaker 4: The sharp crack of the rifle caught their attention and
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  Speaker 4: they pressed forward to investigate.
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  Speaker 2: The shots came from somewhere near here, Tonto. Me hear horse.
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  Speaker 2: Look ahead. Something on trail. Looks like a horse. Get
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  Speaker 2: him up, white fella. Someone has shot the poor beast.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. And there's a man. And smoke. Dado, do
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  Speaker 2: you see that smoke? We get there quick now. Come on, Silver. Where?
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  Speaker 2: Where killer? Maybe we can trail the killers. Go. Go there, Silver.
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  Speaker 3: Go, go, go.
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  Speaker 2: See if there's any hope for the man. Him. Him
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  Speaker 2: pony rider.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Help the man if it isn't too late. Horse.
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  Speaker 6: Dead.
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  Speaker 2: I see it is. How about the pony rider? Do
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  Speaker 2: what you can for him.
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  Speaker 3: I'll stamp out this fire and see if we can
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  Speaker 3: save some of the mail.
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  Speaker 2: Bullet, get him in back. Other bullet, in shoulder. Him, gone. Gone? Murdered.
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  Speaker 2: Not right. And shot from behind.
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  Speaker 3: Him, head west. Bullet, hit him here. Bullet, come from rock,
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  Speaker 3: over there. Then we'll start from there and try to
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  Speaker 3: trail the men who did this. But first we'll take
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  Speaker 3: the time to see if any of this mail is
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  Speaker 3: worth taking with us. Another couple of minutes and it
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  Speaker 3: would have all been burned.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 3: Here's part of a letter. It's addressed to the commander
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  Speaker 3: at Fort Greenville. That near where Outlaw hide.
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  Speaker 2: The hills beyond Greenville are infested with killers.
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  Speaker 5: Huh?
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  Speaker 2: Tonto, I'm going to see what this letter says. It's
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  Speaker 2: part burned. With some of it's left, I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: find out about it. Maybe Tonto go hunt for killer, huh?
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  Speaker 2: Wait a minute. Kimo Sabe. This is an order to
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  Speaker 2: Colonel Dawson. What did it say? It instructs him to
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  Speaker 2: attack the outlaws. That's what plenty of people want. You
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  Speaker 2: know the situation around Greenville.
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  Speaker 3: Folks there have been hoping and praying for weeks that
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  Speaker 3: the army would do something about the outlaws in the hills.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. This letter is Colonel Dawson's authority to attack.
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  Speaker 2: And come down, Hunter. There. Let's kill him. He's still
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  Speaker 2: behind those rocks, Donald. We get him to shelter. Behind
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  Speaker 2: this rock. Here, Silver.
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  Speaker 3: We've got to capture them alive. Get your horse. Ride
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  Speaker 3: to the west and go to the east. We'll move
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  Speaker 3: in from both sides of the rock. Get him up, Whitefeller.
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  Speaker 6: Come on, Silver.
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  Speaker 2: We want them alive, Tonto. Come on, Silver. Throw down
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  Speaker 2: your rifle and surrender. My rifle's dead. Throw down your rifle.
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  Speaker 10: Surrender.
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  Speaker 6: Don't shoot. Don't shoot.
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  Speaker 2: I give up. Pull this over. Oh, boy. Throw down
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  Speaker 2: your rifle. Put up your hands. You smashed my head
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  Speaker 2: with that bullet. Keep them covered, Tonto. We give up,
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  Speaker 2: we surrender. All right. You got us. What are you
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  Speaker 2: going to do about it? You killed the pony rider.
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  Speaker 3: That calls for proof, mister. Maybe we figured you'd done
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  Speaker 3: the same. No mask, ain't you? You know very well
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  Speaker 3: we didn't commit that murder. You shoot pony rider from
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  Speaker 3: Hind Rock. And you're going to Greenville to face trial
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  Speaker 3: for murder. All right, mister. We'll go with you. Reckon
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  Speaker 3: it ain't nothing but your word against ours.
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  Speaker 7: But, Jake, he got that letter out in the fire.
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  Speaker 2: He got it and he dropped it. Oh, where? Where letter?
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  Speaker 8: Letter?
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  Speaker 3: I did drop it. I dropped it when I drew
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  Speaker 3: my guns. Yeah, and it's too late to pick it up.
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  Speaker 3: He didn't stamp out all that fire and the letter burned.
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  Speaker 3: Now go on, take us to town.
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  Speaker 2: We'll stand trial.
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  Speaker 3: You'll go to town, all right. And we'll give the
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  Speaker 3: commander the information that letter contains.
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  Speaker 2: Uh-huh. That's all right.
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  Speaker 3: Jake, maybe we might... You shut up and stop worrying.
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  Speaker 3: It's our war to get a masked man in an engine.
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  Speaker 3: Before they're done, they'll be the ones who'll be on
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  Speaker 3: trial for murder.
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  Speaker 4: The curtain falls on the first act of our thrilling
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  Speaker 4: Lone Ranger drama. Before the next exciting scenes, please permit
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  Speaker 4: us to pause for just a few moments.
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  Speaker 10: THE END.
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  Speaker 7: THE END.
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  Speaker 2: Now, on with our story.
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  Speaker 4: The outlaws near Greenville, knowing that Colonel Dawson could not
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  Speaker 4: attack them until he had received orders from Washington, killed
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  Speaker 4: the Pony Express rider bringing those orders. The Lone Ranger
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  Speaker 4: recovered the letter. But in the battle with the outlaws
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  Speaker 4: that followed, it was destroyed. Our next scene takes place
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  Speaker 4: in the fort where Colonel Dawson is stationed. He is
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  Speaker 4: speaking to his aide.
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  Speaker 5: Did you see my daughter when you were in town?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 5: What did she say?
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  Speaker 2: She wouldn't speak to me, sir. I saw her and
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  Speaker 2: she walked away from me.
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  Speaker 5: Then she meant what she said. I beg your pardon, sir.
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  Speaker 5: My daughter has been miserably treated by those fools in Greenville.
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  Speaker 2: Fools, sir?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, fools.
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  Speaker 8: If they had an ounce of brains, they'd realize that
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  Speaker 8: I can't attack the outlaws without orders from Washington. Even
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  Speaker 8: Sally feels that I should violate my instructions.
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  Speaker 2: You sent to Washington for permission to attack, sir? Yes.
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  Speaker 8: The reply should be here any day now. If I
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  Speaker 8: get permission, I'll attack at once. We'll clean out those
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  Speaker 8: outlaws in half a day's time. Without that permission, I
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  Speaker 8: cannot and will not attack.
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  Speaker 2: The people in town think we're afraid, Colonel. They won't
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  Speaker 2: give me a chance to explain. Did you explain to
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  Speaker 2: your daughter, sir?
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  Speaker 8: I tried to, but even Sally won't try to understand.
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  Speaker 8: When orders come from Washington, we can vindicate ourselves. What
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  Speaker 8: else happened in town? Anything of importance?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir. A pony rider was killed. Killed? Shot from ambush.
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  Speaker 5: A pony rider, you say?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 5: I wonder if.
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  Speaker 8: Good Lord. It can't be possible. It was the rider
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  Speaker 8: bringing our instruction from the capital.
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  Speaker 10: I sincerely hope not, sir. His mail was burned. Who
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  Speaker 10: killed him? No one seems to know. A masked man
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  Speaker 10: and an Indian came into town with two prisoners. Both
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  Speaker 10: were identified as outlaws.
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  Speaker 5: And they murdered the pony rider?
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  Speaker 10: The masked man claims they did. The others claim the
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  Speaker 10: masked man was the murderer.
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  Speaker 5: Masked man? Who was he?
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  Speaker 10: No one seems to know, sir. The sheriff tried to
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  Speaker 10: put him in jail with the others, but he got away.
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  Speaker 2: Escaped? Yes, sir. The lawmen seem to think his escape
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  Speaker 2: is proof of his guilt. But I.
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  Speaker 5: You what?
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: My opinion is of no value, Colonel Dawson.
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: What were you going to say?
• 18:39
  Speaker 10: I thought he might have fled simply to prevent being unmasked.
• 18:42
  Speaker 10: There was something about the man that I.
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: Well, go on.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: You what?
• 18:46
  Speaker 10: There was something about him that I admired and respected.
• 18:49
  Speaker 10: I wondered at the time if he was the Lone Ranger.
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: Lone Ranger?
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: You've heard of him, sir?
• 18:54
  Speaker 8: Of course.
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: Where did he go when he left Greenville?
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Some men tried to follow him, but
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: they were quickly outdistanced by his horse.
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: That's all you know about it?
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: Yes, sir. After making arrangements for supplies, I left and
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: came back here. What in the world? Stand where you are.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: A masked man. The same one.
• 19:11
  Speaker 7: How did you get in here? How did you get
• 19:12
  Speaker 7: by the guards?
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: I came here to speak to you, Colonel. You'll find
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: your guards unharmed.
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: It's incredible.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: It's impossible.
• 19:18
  Speaker 7: How could any man get by those guards?
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: It isn't hard if a man knows this part of
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: the country.
• 19:22
  Speaker 10: You're the man who brought in those two killers, the
• 19:24
  Speaker 10: ones who shot down the pony rider.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: Colonel Dawson, before the two opened fire on Tonto and me,
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: I read a letter addressed to you. It was partly burned.
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: I wanted to see if there was enough left of
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: it to be of any importance to you. The letter
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: was later destroyed when it fell into the fire while
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: I charged the killers.
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: What was it? What did it say?
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: It was an order from Washington.
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: You were instructed to attack the hills and rout the outlaws,
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: taking as many prisoners as possible, but shooting to kill
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: if necessary.
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: How do I know you're telling the truth?
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: You have to take my word for it.
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: But I can't attack on merely the word of a
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: masked man.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: Colonel, if you'll permit me, sir, I'll vouch for this man.
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: Even that won't do.
• 19:57
  Speaker 8: Lieutenant, send another message to Washington at once. Ask for
• 20:01
  Speaker 8: a copy of the instructions sent by Pony Express, explaining
• 20:04
  Speaker 8: the original was destroyed.
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: But it'll take weeks for that message to get back here.
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: And that time, the outlaws will kill another score of
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: people in Greenville.
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: Without orders, no attack can be made.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: There were orders.
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: I must see them. I must have them on fire.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: Colonel Dawson, sometimes a man can carry his military tactics
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: too far. There are times when a good soldier will
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: throw aside regulations if he knows he's right.
• 20:22
  Speaker 7: I act only on written orders.
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: You'll have to act before another three weeks or Greenville
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: will rise against you.
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: They've already said all they're going to say.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: But they haven't started to act. If those outlaws raid
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: that town again, there's no telling what the people will do.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: Written order. Very well.
• 20:35
  Speaker 8: And now consider yourself under arrest. Obviously, you attacked the guards.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: Arrest? People have tried to arrest me before, Colonel Dawson.
• 20:42
  Speaker 6: Get him!
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: Stop him! I'll try! I'll get him over!
• 20:46
  Speaker 9: Away!
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: Away!
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: The masked man had failed to persuade the colonel to act.
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: The situation was desperate. The outlaws were still free to
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: raid as they pleased, and the lone ranger felt that
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: it was his responsibility to aid in their capture. We
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: see the masked man as he reigns over to a
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: halt at his small, well-concealed camp.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: Oh, silver! Oh, my boy!
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: Oh!
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: Fellow! Colonel Dawson wouldn't even listen to me. Him stubborn.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: He's willing to attack the outlaws, but only on written
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: orders from Washington. You see order. Yes, but he wouldn't
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: take my word. Him foolish.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: Remember, Kimisabe, there's some belief that I'm the one who
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: shot the pony rider.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: What we do, huh? I have an idea, Kimisabe. It
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: might work. What? That?
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: Those two men who are in jail for shooting the
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: pony rider will never be convicted of the murder.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: There's no proof. No, there's no proof. If they do
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: come to trial, they'll go free.
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: Ah.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: So nothing would be lost if we set them free.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: Let them go? Yes. Yes. Tonto, we're going to let
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: them go so they'll be punished. Me not.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: They will be punished if my plan works. The first
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: step in the plan is to set those outlaws free.
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: We go there tonight? Yes, and we've just time to
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: get ready. First, I'll explain your part of the plan.
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: The Lone Ranger and Tonto rode to town where they
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: found the sheriff and explained their plan.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: The sheriff agreed to help them.
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: And later that same night, the masked man and his
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: faithful Indian friend raced to the jail, brought their mounts
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: to a halt, and dismounted.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: Don't waste any time. Smash the lock with bullets. Me do. Hey,
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: what's going on there? What the shambles?
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: We're here to get you out. There are horses back
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: at the jail. You the man that brought us here.
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: Don't waste time talking. Take advantage of this chance. Send
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: another bullet into that lock.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: Not right. That does it. Now open the door, Jake.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: We're free. Come on, Bodge.
• 22:54
  Speaker 7: We're free.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: This will save us from hanging. Get up all those
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: horses and head for the hills. I ain't a man
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: to ask questions when I see a chance like this.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: Come on. I'm right behind you. Come on, boys. There's
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: the sheriff, Otto. That's good. He's coming from the cafe
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: with half a dozen men. Cannot do him part. Get
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: aboard your horse, Otto.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: There go Jake and his friend. Then go to outlaw camp.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: Yes. Hail St. Peter!
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: Early the next morning, the sheriff and two deputies rode
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: swiftly to the fort. They demanded that the guards admit
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: them and were taken to the colonel at once. The
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: sheriff explained their errand.
• 23:47
  Speaker 6: Dawson... I tell you, you've got to do something.
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: What's the matter now?
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: You know who I am. I'm sheriff over at Greenville.
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: I know that.
• 23:54
  Speaker 7: What do you want here? I have already told you
• 23:57
  Speaker 7: my position.
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: I know, but this is different. Maybe you didn't know
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: about it, but them two men busted out of jail
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: last night.
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: That's your responsibility.
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: But they'll be heading for the hills, don't you, Savvy?
• 24:05
  Speaker 7: I've already told you that I can do nothing about it.
• 24:08
  Speaker 6: But, Dad, I'm telling you this because it's your own
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: daughter that's in danger.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: What's that, Sally? Sure.
• 24:13
  Speaker 6: They like as not take her with them. They'll use
• 24:16
  Speaker 6: her as a hostage.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: Colonel Dawson, your own daughter.
• 24:18
  Speaker 7: They wouldn't dare do that.
• 24:19
  Speaker 6: Them critters will dare do anything for their own protection.
• 24:22
  Speaker 6: If they get the girl into the hills, you won't
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: dare make no attack on them. If you do, it'll
• 24:27
  Speaker 6: mean that they'll kill her.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: If they capture the girl, they've got to be stopped
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: before they reach the hills. That's just it. That's why
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: I come here.
• 24:33
  Speaker 6: We ain't got men enough to chase them. I have
• 24:36
  Speaker 6: more than half a dozen men to ride with me.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: We wouldn't have no lack at all. My daughter.
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: I can't believe it.
• 24:41
  Speaker 7: No, no, they wouldn't do that. They're ruthless, sir.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: Colonel Dawson.
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: Colonel Dawson, what do you want?
• 24:45
  Speaker 8: The sentry reports a man riding south of the fort,
• 24:47
  Speaker 8: carrying your daughter and his horse with him.
• 24:49
  Speaker 7: Good Lord. That's it.
• 24:50
  Speaker 6: Don't you see? They're already heading for the hills. You've
• 24:53
  Speaker 6: got to do something, Colonel.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: If you don't, sir.
• 24:55
  Speaker 7: How do you know it's my daughter? The dress and hat.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: The same outfit she wore when she was here the
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: last time. That settles it, sir. We've got to move.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: If you don't give the orders, Colonel Dawson.
• 25:03
  Speaker 7: But I.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: I'll give the orders to charge myself.
• 25:06
  Speaker 7: Have the bugler sound assembly.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: We're going into the hills. Oh, my God!
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: The troopers sprang into action. Orders were barked, weapons made ready,
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: horses saddled. The colonel himself leaped to the saddle and
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: placed himself at the head of his soldiers. A lifted hand,
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: a sharp command, and the troop was racing in pursuit
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: of the masked man whose great white horse was thundering
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: toward the.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: Timber at the foot of the hill.
• 25:49
  Speaker 8: Let us flash ahead.
• 25:50
  Speaker 6: Of the soldiers to the outlaw's camp.
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: Jake and his companion are standing before their leader, Wolf,
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: who questions them closely about their escape from jail.
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: But why did this masked man and his Indian friend
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: let you out? We didn't stop to ask no questions, Wolf.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: We were just doggone glad.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: To get free.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: It don't make sense. First he takes you to jail,
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: then he breaks you up. Where'd he do it first?
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: You wouldn't have been convicted, no? There wasn't no proof
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: against you if... What you say is true. Just the same.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: I'd sooner not take a chance on a jury.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: Who's that coming? That's the man who let us out.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: Coming here?
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: That's it, Wolf. Don't you see? He wants to join
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: up with the gang. He figured he'd get in good
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: with you by letting us out. That's what he's coming
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: here for.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: There he is, see him? Coming up the hill.
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: Well, I'll talk to him. Hey, what's he got with
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: him there? Who's that woman in the saddle? Gosh, I
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: don't know. What the Sam Hill is he bringing? There
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: are soldiers coming behind him. They're chasing him here.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: He led them right to us. I thought you said
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: you'd destroy that order for the soldiers to come here.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: We did. We've seen it burn. Get your guns, boys.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: Get your guns. We've got to fight for our lives.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: Come on.
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: Hey!
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: Hey!
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: Hey!
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: The fighting was sharp and deadly. The outlaws fighting for
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: their lives resisted desperately. They fought to the ferocity of
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: trapped wolves. But the soldiers charged down upon them with
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: the irresistible efficiency of trained troops. They surrounded the camp,
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: and their guns began to cut down the outlaws from
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: all sides. At last, the gang threw away their arms,
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: and Colonel Dawson assumed command.
• 27:50
  Speaker 8: Rope him, and take them back to the post. We'll
• 27:53
  Speaker 8: put them on trial there.
• 27:54
  Speaker 6: Doggone, Colonel Dawson. That's where they'll get a trial that'll
• 27:57
  Speaker 6: give them what they got coming.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: And there's the two who killed the pony rider. You
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: can't prove it.
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: You may not hang for that murder, Jake. But you'll
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: get your punishment for other crimes.
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: And you, sir.
• 28:07
  Speaker 7: You're the one who captured.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: Your daughter is quite safe, Colonel Dawson. Come, Tata. Me?
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: Give the colonel his daughter's clothes. You?
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: You're the one that was on the horse?
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: Me same, feller.
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: Sally would be glad to know that she loaned her
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: clothes to help our plan.
• 28:23
  Speaker 6: By thunder, Dawson, there's the time that one was put
• 28:26
  Speaker 6: over on you.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: You may take my word for it, sir. The orders
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: to attack were sent to you. Hail Silver! Come on!
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: I was waiting on the tram ahead.
• 28:57
  Speaker 9: I own silver!
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: I own silver!
• 29:21
  Speaker 7: THE END.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: THE END THE END.
• 30:30
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• 30:33
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• 30:42
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• 30:46
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