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The Lone Ranger - "The Letter Seals Amurder" (Old Time Radio, 1940) · The Lone Ranger | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: September 20th, 1940 marks another Frontier broadcast from the Lone Ranger.
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: This is episode 1195, The Letter Seals a Murder. Settle
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  Speaker 1: in for a visit with one of radio's enduring western series.
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  Speaker 1: We now take you back to the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: 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 hi-yo silver. The Lone Ranger.
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  Speaker 4: The Lone Ranger.
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  Speaker 5: THE END.
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  Speaker 6: THE END.
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  Speaker 3: The great natural resources of the western United States brought
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  Speaker 3: wealth to many of the early settlers. But it often
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  Speaker 3: happened that these pioneers did not realize the true value
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  Speaker 3: of their homesteads. The mast rider of the plains fought
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  Speaker 3: for their interests with the same strength and courage that
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  Speaker 3: he fought for law and order. It was he more
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  Speaker 3: than any other man who saved the homesteads for the
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  Speaker 3: men and women who had earned them. Return with us
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  Speaker 3: now to those thrilling days when the West was young.
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  Speaker 3: From out of the past come the thundering hoofbeats of
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  Speaker 3: the great horse Silver. The Lone Ranger rides again.
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  Speaker 7: Come on, Silver! There's been a stage holdup! We're heading
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  Speaker 7: for the hill!
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  Speaker 4: Farewell, Silver!
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  Speaker 3: Raw, gusty wind whipped around the sod-packed homesteader's cabin, set
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  Speaker 3: below a fold in the hills. The same wind whistled
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  Speaker 3: up the ridge and sang past the barrels of two
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  Speaker 3: rifles aimed toward the closed cabin door.
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  Speaker 8: Two men waited for the door to open and... He
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  Speaker 8: ought to be poking out soon, Dacey.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: This is as good a spot as any to pick
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  Speaker 8: him off.
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  Speaker 2: We can nail him on that stretch of the corral.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Blast that wind. There goes my step.
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  Speaker 2: Leave it. We ain't got time, Leif. He'll be coming
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  Speaker 2: out any minute.
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  Speaker 7: After we take care of him, all we got to
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  Speaker 7: deal with is wife and the kid.
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  Speaker 4: They're having breakfast.
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  Speaker 5: I can smell the coffee. We should come out. Laying
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  Speaker 5: flat along the ridge ain't none too easy.
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  Speaker 8: Hold your rifle.
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  Speaker 1: He'll be gulping down his coffee and heading out any second.
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  Speaker 4: Keep your finger on that trigger.
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  Speaker 5: I wonder what he's eating. It's one breakfast ain't gonna
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  Speaker 5: do him a lick of good, I'll leave.
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  Speaker 7: Finish up them flapjacks, son. We got work to do. Yeah, Pa.
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  Speaker 7: Ain't you never learned?
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  Speaker 6: You can't have your mouth full of food and words
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  Speaker 6: at the same time.
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  Speaker 9: My, that fire draws right good.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Josh.
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  Speaker 7: It'll be a heap better when we get us a chimney.
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  Speaker 10: What's wrong with this cabin? That's right, Bob.
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  Speaker 9: It's airtight.
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  Speaker 11: It's warming up in winter with all that sod packing. And, Josh,
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  Speaker 11: we're satisfied with things like they are.
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  Speaker 8: Well, I ain't, Sarah.
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  Speaker 7: Sure, we're homesteads.
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  Speaker 8: But I'm looking to the future.
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  Speaker 7: You wait and see.
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  Speaker 9: Josh, as long as we three are together, that's home
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  Speaker 9: enough for me.
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  Speaker 7: Me too, Ma.
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  Speaker 10: Got any more flapjacks?
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  Speaker 6: How many yet already, son?
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  Speaker 10: Oh, just one more never hurt nobody.
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  Speaker 9: Land's sakes, of course it didn't. I'll get one right now.
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  Speaker 8: I'll go out and saddle up, son.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, I'll be through, Pa. Let me take out the saddles.
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  Speaker 7: Sit still, Bob. I ain't so old I can't do
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  Speaker 7: my own toting. I'll have the saddle up when you
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  Speaker 7: come out, son.
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  Speaker 8: Gosh, he's blown hard enough to skin him out alive.
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  Speaker 9: Bob, now don't you go golfing down your food like
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  Speaker 9: a wolf.
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  Speaker 7: That's my weapon.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, your pa can wait just as well as.
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  Speaker 10: Ma.
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  Speaker 9: He can wait just as well as.
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  Speaker 6: Ma, them were shots. Pa.
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  Speaker 7: Josh, be careful.
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  Speaker 12: Josh, are you.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 8: Pa.
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  Speaker 7: Pa.
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  Speaker 10: There's just the two of us now.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 8: Is that the cabin, Santa?
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  Speaker 5: Ah.
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  Speaker 8: Sound covered. I guess the Bailey family aren't any too
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  Speaker 8: well off. Them homesteader. I don't see any activity down there.
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  Speaker 8: No smoke from the chimney. I hope we haven't ridden
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  Speaker 8: this far out of our way with a letter only
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  Speaker 8: to find no one to receive it.
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  Speaker 4: We go down, Kemosabe?
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  Speaker 8: Yes, we... Wait, Santa. You hear that?
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  Speaker 4: Ah, here's something. Santa not know what.
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  Speaker 8: It's over that way. Watch silver, Tyler. I'm going to
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  Speaker 8: investigate this. You be careful. I think I know what
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  Speaker 8: that sound means. Wait here. I'll be back. Hello, son.
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  Speaker 7: Who are you coming around here snooping around? You must
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  Speaker 7: be Bob Custon.
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  Speaker 10: I don't want no masked man around here. You know
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  Speaker 10: my name.
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  Speaker 8: You don't need that gun, Bob. I see something has happened.
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  Speaker 10: I was just putting some flowers on Pa's grave. There
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  Speaker 10: ain't many flowers.
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  Speaker 7: Now, but.
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  Speaker 8: Your father's? Oh, I see. You were crying.
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  Speaker 10: I weren't crying. Anyway, the fella's got a right to.
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  Speaker 8: Sure you have, Bob.
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  Speaker 10: Get back your mask.
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  Speaker 6: For all I know, you might have been the one
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  Speaker 6: that dragged out your pa.
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  Speaker 8: Your father was shot?
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, shot in the back.
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  Speaker 6: How come you don't know my name if you don't
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  Speaker 6: know a lot more?
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  Speaker 8: Well, I'm sorry, Bob.
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  Speaker 10: I'm telling you to make tracks.
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  Speaker 8: Now listen, Bob.
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  Speaker 6: Go on before I squeeze this here trigger. Your mask
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  Speaker 6: and you know too much. Get it going before I
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  Speaker 6: let daylight through you.
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  Speaker 10: For what you done to... Pa's gone. Gone?
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  Speaker 8: You didn't trust me.
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  Speaker 13: There's just more of me now. I've got to take
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  Speaker 13: care of Ma.
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  Speaker 8: I came here because I brought a letter for your father, Bob.
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  Speaker 7: A letter?
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 8: How long ago did your father move out here?
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  Speaker 10: About six months ago. He was back east near St. Joe.
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  Speaker 13: Business weren't so good. Pa's brother went back east. He
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  Speaker 13: had this here homestead claim out here. He told Pa
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  Speaker 13: if at any time he wanted to, he could come
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  Speaker 13: out and settle.
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  Speaker 7: Up the homestead.
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  Speaker 8: Here's the letter, Bob.
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  Speaker 10: This is addressed upon St.
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  Speaker 7: Joe.
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  Speaker 8: That's right. It was forwarded out here. I got it
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  Speaker 8: from the stagecoach driver at Paiute Springs. I told him
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  Speaker 8: I was coming out this way.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, I guess maybe Ma better see this, huh?
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  Speaker 8: That's a good idea.
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  Speaker 10: Hey, this here letter looks like it's been opened before.
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  Speaker 8: The stagecoach was held up, Bob. It might have been.
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  Speaker 10: Held up by you. You done it.
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  Speaker 8: You don't know who I.
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  Speaker 2: Am, do you?
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  Speaker 10: Maybe I could have when you took off your mask.
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  Speaker 8: No, Bob, I can't do that. Here, take a look
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  Speaker 8: at these.
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  Speaker 7: Your gun.
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  Speaker 8: Don't worry. I merely wanted to show you the bullets
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  Speaker 8: I use.
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  Speaker 10: Gosh. Silver bullets.
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  Speaker 8: Does that mean anything to you?
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  Speaker 10: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: Wait.
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  Speaker 2: Tonto.
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  Speaker 4: You call me?
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  Speaker 8: This way, Tonto. Bring Scout and Silver.
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  Speaker 2: Me come.
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  Speaker 10: Silver bullets. Tonto. Is he an agent?
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  Speaker 8: Yes, Bob. He's my good friend.
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  Speaker 10: And you got a horse named Silver?
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  Speaker 4: What's wrong?
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  Speaker 8: This is Tonto, Bob. And there's Silver.
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  Speaker 7: Golly, then.
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  Speaker 10: then you must be the Lone Ranger.
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  Speaker 4: Not right. Him, Lone Ranger.
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  Speaker 10: Gosh.
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  Speaker 8: Do you trust me now, Bob?
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  Speaker 10: Lone Ranger? Gosh, I sure do.
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  Speaker 5: Good.
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  Speaker 8: Then let's head for your cabin. I'd like to talk
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  Speaker 8: to your mother. Teller, we'll wait out here. Bob, you
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  Speaker 8: get inside with that letter. Your mother may want to
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  Speaker 8: read it in private.
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  Speaker 10: I'll be right back.
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  Speaker 8: Teller. I haven't told the boy, but I'm going to
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  Speaker 8: tell his mother. I'm certain that letter had been opened.
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  Speaker 8: The stagecoach driver who handed it to me was sure
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  Speaker 8: of it, too. He said the two road agents went
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  Speaker 8: through the mail.
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  Speaker 4: What's that mean?
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  Speaker 8: That isn't the oddest part.
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  Speaker 2: Of it, Hunter.
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  Speaker 8: The road agent threw most of the letters away, but
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  Speaker 8: they gave this one back to the driver.
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  Speaker 4: Why did they do that?
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  Speaker 8: That's what I don't understand. Not completely. But I have
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  Speaker 8: a feeling that Josh Custon was killed because of that letter.
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  Speaker 7: She's in the cabin.
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  Speaker 10: Ma ain't there.
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  Speaker 7: She's gone.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it sure is too bad about Custon getting himself
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  Speaker 5: shot full of holes. But me, I was always telling
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  Speaker 5: Keston he was heading for trouble, living out there with
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  Speaker 5: nothing between him and engines but a sword cabin.
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  Speaker 14: Still and all, Dacey. Don't you reckon I ought to
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  Speaker 14: do something about it?
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  Speaker 2: Stop polishing that badge, Taylor.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 14: But still and all, Dacey. I'm the sheriff of Three Pines.
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  Speaker 14: Maybe I ought to get me a posse.
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  Speaker 2: What for? It was agents, didn't it?
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  Speaker 8: Sure.
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  Speaker 7: But still and all. Ah, look, Taylor.
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  Speaker 5: If it was white men were done cussing in, I'd
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  Speaker 5: be the first citizen of Three Pies at the man
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  Speaker 5: to be strung to cut wood.
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  Speaker 2: Ain't that correct?
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  Speaker 7: Correct.
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  Speaker 5: But it was some sneaking engine sure as shooting. There
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  Speaker 5: weren't no sign out there, no trail.
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  Speaker 7: Well, that don't mean.
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  Speaker 2: Sure it does.
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  Speaker 5: It takes an engine to cover up his tracks so
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  Speaker 5: nobody can find he's been there.
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  Speaker 2: What more proof do you want?
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  Speaker 5: My advice is to start keeping your eye peeled for
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  Speaker 5: red skin.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah. Thanks, Stacy.
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  Speaker 14: If all the rest was like you, we'd sure have
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  Speaker 14: roll and order in three pines.
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  Speaker 5: Stacy.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it's you, Lave.
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  Speaker 8: She's still waiting.
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  Speaker 2: Sure she is.
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  Speaker 8: You better get it while the getting's good, Stacy.
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  Speaker 4: That landing on the.
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  Speaker 7: Shut up.
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  Speaker 2: You're worse than a blue jay. Come on, Lave. We
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  Speaker 2: can get this.
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  Speaker 7: Did I do something I shouldn't order?
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  Speaker 2: I didn't invite your company, Taylor.
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  Speaker 5: Sure you didn't, Daisy. But still, I know... You better
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  Speaker 5: attend to your sheriff. Rafe and me has got private business.
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  Speaker 7: No offense meant, Daisy.
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  Speaker 2: None taken.
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  Speaker 7: Come on, Rafe.
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  Speaker 4: She's in here.
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  Speaker 2: Well, how do, Mrs. Keston? Mr.
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  Speaker 11: Dacey, I rode all the way into Three Pines so
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  Speaker 11: as I could talk to you about the homestead.
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  Speaker 5: Leif had a mite of trouble locating me. Is it
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  Speaker 5: about that offer I made at your husband's funeral?
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  Speaker 11: Well, I ain't talked it over with my son, Bob.
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  Speaker 11: I come into town without letting him know he... Well,
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  Speaker 11: he might not like me.
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  Speaker 9: To sell the homestead. You know how youngsters is apt
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  Speaker 9: to be a mite headstrong.
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  Speaker 8: You going to sell?
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  Speaker 2: I'm handling this, Leif. Mrs. Keston's being smart.
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  Speaker 9: Well, not many would give me my money back at St.
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  Speaker 12: Joe.
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  Speaker 9: After all, a homestead that ain't been proved on.
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  Speaker 2: You're a widow.
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  Speaker 5: The least I can give you is enough to get
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  Speaker 5: you and your son back to your folks.
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  Speaker 11: Well, if you have the money now, I left food
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  Speaker 11: for my son, and he don't mind spending the night
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  Speaker 11: alone in the cabin, but, well, I'd like to get
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  Speaker 11: back to.
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  Speaker 9: Him before dark.
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  Speaker 2: I'll get the money out of the bank, Mrs. Keston.
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  Speaker 2: You wait here.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: It won't take more than 15, 20 minutes. That homestead's
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  Speaker 5: as good as mine right now.
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  Speaker 8: This must be the town, Tudor. Ah, right up.
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  Speaker 4: You see a horse?
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  Speaker 8: Over there. It's to that rail.
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  Speaker 6: Oh.
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  Speaker 8: It's the paint young Bob Custon described. The one his
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  Speaker 8: mother took from that corral. She's inside there, Tudor.
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  Speaker 4: We go? Yes, we go.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, wait. We're not known in Three Pines, Tata. If
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  Speaker 8: I walk in masked, there may be shooting.
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  Speaker 2: Mrs.
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  Speaker 8: Custon might be hurt.
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  Speaker 4: You wear a disguise, maybe.
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  Speaker 8: There isn't time. She rode to town in a hurry
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  Speaker 8: for some reason. We've got to find out what she's done.
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  Speaker 6: Ah.
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  Speaker 4: Miko?
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  Speaker 2: Fine.
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  Speaker 8: You go in there and find Mrs.
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  Speaker 2: Custon.
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  Speaker 8: Tell her her son has a letter for her at
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  Speaker 8: her home. Tell her it's important.
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  Speaker 7: Ah.
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  Speaker 8: And I'll be outside. I want to hear what goes on.
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  Speaker 8: But remember, whatever happens, don't start any fighting. Bob's already
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  Speaker 8: lost his father. Let's make sure nothing happens to his mother.
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  Speaker 7: Siri.
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  Speaker 4: Hamilton.
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  Speaker 7: Custon.
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  Speaker 9: There you are, Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Daly.
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  Speaker 2: And here's your traveling money, Mrs. Custon.
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  Speaker 7: And we got that homestead now, huh, Daisy? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You plan on leaving soon, Mrs. Custon?
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  Speaker 11: As soon as me and Bob can gather up what
• 14:14
  Speaker 11: stuff we have. It frets me something awful to leave
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  Speaker 11: Paul's grave, but I got to think of Bob.
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  Speaker 2: You're heading back for the cabin now?
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  Speaker 9: How to make it before sundown.
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  Speaker 4: You Mrs.
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  Speaker 2: Custon?
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  Speaker 7: An Injun.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, that's my name, but.
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  Speaker 4: You come. He want you to.
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  Speaker 7: You're strange in these parts, eh? Leif, call the sheriff.
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  Speaker 6: Huh?
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  Speaker 2: I said call the sheriff.
• 14:36
  Speaker 7: You don't need to bother, Leif. I seen this redskin come.
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  Speaker 2: In my own cell.
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  Speaker 4: You... you got guns?
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Injun.
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  Speaker 14: I maybe ain't no shakes at brain work, but still
• 14:46
  Speaker 14: and all, I can put two and two together.
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  Speaker 7: Like you said, Daisy, it must have been Injun what
• 14:51
  Speaker 7: killed Josh Custer.
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  Speaker 9: The savage killer.
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  Speaker 7: Look out, kill him. Don't you go for no gunplay, Injun.
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  Speaker 4: No, me not use gun. Me got order from white friend.
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  Speaker 4: Me not fight.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, you wouldn't stand no chance, Injun. Better lock him
• 15:06
  Speaker 5: in the calaboo, Sheriff. Tomorrow we can string him up
• 15:09
  Speaker 5: for a buzzard bait.
• 15:10
  Speaker 7: I'll kill my horse.
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: The curtain falls on the first act of our Lone
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  Speaker 3: Ranger story. Before the next exciting scenes, please permit us
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: to pause for just a few moments.
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  Speaker 4: Lone Ranger THE END.
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  Speaker 12: Now to continue our story.
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  Speaker 4: Rather than start a gunfight in which Mrs. Custon might
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  Speaker 4: have been hurt.
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  Speaker 8: Tonto allowed himself to be led to the local jail and.
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  Speaker 14: Now then, Injun, you walk right in front of me
• 16:48
  Speaker 14: and don't try nothing. You'll get a bullet where it
• 16:50
  Speaker 14: don't feel so good. I'm slapping you behind bars.
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  Speaker 7: Go right ahead, Sheriff. Me and Leif will wait for
• 16:56
  Speaker 7: you here in your office. Come on, Redskin. Lift them moccasins.
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  Speaker 4: Me come.
• 17:01
  Speaker 7: Oh, my gosh. I almost forgot my keys. Taylor, you'd
• 17:06
  Speaker 7: forget your head if it wasn't under your hat.
• 17:08
  Speaker 14: I reckon I would, Dacey. But still and all, I
• 17:12
  Speaker 14: got to be sheriff, didn't I? Reckon the folks trust me.
• 17:18
  Speaker 14: Don't know what Dacey sees funny in what I say.
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  Speaker 7: All the time. Still and all.
• 17:25
  Speaker 14: Warn engine, open that cell. Now get inside. And here
• 17:31
  Speaker 14: you're going to stay till we get you a fair
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  Speaker 14: trial and string you up good and proper.
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: Oh, you're wrong. Me never.
• 17:37
  Speaker 8: Don't tell me you.
• 17:37
  Speaker 7: Didn't shoot, Josh. I know you're guilty, even if it's
• 17:40
  Speaker 7: going to take a fair trial to prove it. Oh,
• 17:43
  Speaker 7: what's your name?
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: Huh?
• 17:44
  Speaker 7: Your name!
• 17:46
  Speaker 14: Got to put your name down for the judge to
• 17:48
  Speaker 14: swear out a warrant for your arrest.
• 17:50
  Speaker 7: That's the legal way to do things.
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: My name Tonto.
• 17:53
  Speaker 7: Tonto, huh? All right, you're going to.
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: Wait a minute.
• 17:59
  Speaker 7: What was that again?
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: Tonto. Tonto.
• 18:04
  Speaker 7: Tonto. Sounds like it ought to be familiar. Tonto.
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: You no name?
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: No.
• 18:13
  Speaker 7: I thought maybe I did. But still and all, Injun
• 18:16
  Speaker 7: name is all right.
• 18:17
  Speaker 14: It won't do you no good to try to escape neither,
• 18:20
  Speaker 14: whatever your name is.
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: Him talk he much, like empty barrel.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: Tonto.
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: Huh? Who's that?
• 18:31
  Speaker 8: Tonto, over this way.
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: White friend.
• 18:34
  Speaker 8: Keep your voice down, Kimisabe.
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: Sheriff, him think me kill Custon.
• 18:38
  Speaker 8: I heard the whole thing from outside the cafe, Tonto.
• 18:41
  Speaker 8: I'm glad you remembered not to resist.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: Mrs.
• 18:43
  Speaker 8: Custon is on her way back to the cabin. I'm
• 18:45
  Speaker 8: going to leave you here, Tonto.
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: What you say?
• 18:47
  Speaker 8: You'll be all right, Kimisabe. There are a few things
• 18:49
  Speaker 8: I've got to do. I want to be around when Mrs.
• 18:52
  Speaker 8: Custon reads that letter. They won't do anything until tomorrow.
• 18:56
  Speaker 8: Sheriff may be a fool, but he's honest and he
• 18:58
  Speaker 8: has courage.
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: Sheriff, him good man.
• 19:00
  Speaker 8: Just the opposite of Dacey and Leif, eh?
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: Them bad. There's no doubt of that, Tutter.
• 19:06
  Speaker 8: They very cleverly arrange things so they get the homestead
• 19:08
  Speaker 8: without any trouble. More than that, I am certain they're
• 19:11
  Speaker 8: the ones who killed Custon.
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: That's right.
• 19:13
  Speaker 8: But I've got to see that letter before we can
• 19:15
  Speaker 8: be sure. It must be the key to this whole plot.
• 19:19
  Speaker 8: You can expect me before sunrise.
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: Me wait. Nothing else to do in jail.
• 19:25
  Speaker 8: Here, Silver.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: Come on, boy.
• 19:37
  Speaker 7: Why, Bob.
• 19:38
  Speaker 10: Ma, what's the matter?
• 19:39
  Speaker 9: This here letter. Land's sake, your Paul's brother wrote to
• 19:43
  Speaker 9: Paul to tell him... To tell him there's gold on
• 19:46
  Speaker 9: this land.
• 19:46
  Speaker 10: Gold?
• 19:47
  Speaker 9: Right on this here land. If Paul'd only knowed about that.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: Gold.
• 19:53
  Speaker 10: Yeah, if Paul'd have knowed.
• 19:54
  Speaker 9: It's too late for that now, Bob. Pa's gone to
• 19:57
  Speaker 9: a better reward than gold.
• 19:59
  Speaker 10: Ma, does that... That means rich, don't it?
• 20:01
  Speaker 7: No, son, it don't. But the gold.
• 20:04
  Speaker 9: Son, we don't own this homestead no more.
• 20:06
  Speaker 7: Huh?
• 20:07
  Speaker 11: Well, I figured it was best for me to take
• 20:09
  Speaker 11: you back east. Daisy, he give me traveling money in
• 20:12
  Speaker 11: exchange for the homestead.
• 20:13
  Speaker 10: What do you mean, Ma?
• 20:14
  Speaker 11: That's why I went into three pines without letting you know.
• 20:18
  Speaker 11: Daisy owns this here land now, not us.
• 20:20
  Speaker 10: Daisy, he's worse than a rattlesnake.
• 20:22
  Speaker 7: Hush, son.
• 20:23
  Speaker 9: You ain't got no call to talk that way. Daisy
• 20:26
  Speaker 9: was right obliging.
• 20:27
  Speaker 10: I'll bet he knew about that. They're gold all the time.
• 20:29
  Speaker 9: Now, son, you mustn't say such a thing. It ain't charitable.
• 20:32
  Speaker 10: I'll just bet he knew.
• 20:33
  Speaker 9: Well, son, how could he know? Ain't nobody seen this
• 20:37
  Speaker 9: letter but us.
• 20:38
  Speaker 11: And as for Pa's brother, why, he didn't know himself
• 20:41
  Speaker 11: until he got back east and had an assayer look
• 20:43
  Speaker 11: over the specimen that he took back there. How could
• 20:46
  Speaker 11: Daisy know?
• 20:47
  Speaker 10: I don't care how, but I'll bet he did. Bob.
• 20:49
  Speaker 10: I'm going to find out.
• 20:50
  Speaker 6: Bob, put down that rifle. Don't worry, Ma.
• 20:52
  Speaker 10: I'm going to ask Daisy some questions.
• 20:53
  Speaker 9: Bob, son, you mustn't now.
• 20:55
  Speaker 10: Ma, now with Pa gone, I'm the man of the house.
• 20:57
  Speaker 6: I'm 15 years old, and that's plenty to make Daisy talk.
• 21:00
  Speaker 7: I'm going to.
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: What's that?
• 21:02
  Speaker 7: Get back, Ma. Wait for the door.
• 21:03
  Speaker 10: It's a horse, traveling fast. I don't know who it is, but.
• 21:06
  Speaker 9: It's coming here.
• 21:07
  Speaker 10: Stay out of the way, Ma.
• 21:08
  Speaker 9: Oh, maybe it's nobody meaning harm.
• 21:10
  Speaker 10: Yeah, and maybe it's the ones that done for Pa. There,
• 21:13
  Speaker 10: I got my rifle set. Let him come.
• 21:16
  Speaker 7: Who is it?
• 21:18
  Speaker 8: Your friend.
• 21:19
  Speaker 10: Oh, it's all right, Ma.
• 21:22
  Speaker 7: Come on in.
• 21:22
  Speaker 8: Mrs. Keston, you got a letter.
• 21:26
  Speaker 9: Masked man.
• 21:27
  Speaker 13: Bob, shoot.
• 21:28
  Speaker 7: Shoot.
• 21:28
  Speaker 10: Ma, take it easy. This here's the lone reindeer.
• 21:30
  Speaker 11: I don't care if he's... Did you say you're the
• 21:35
  Speaker 11: Lone Ranger?
• 21:36
  Speaker 8: Yes, Mrs.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: Custon.
• 21:37
  Speaker 8: My Indian friend and I arrived while you were out.
• 21:40
  Speaker 8: I see Bob hasn't had a chance to explain.
• 21:42
  Speaker 9: Oh, well, that's different.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: Mrs.
• 21:45
  Speaker 8: Custon, what does that letter say?
• 21:47
  Speaker 9: Why, uh.
• 21:48
  Speaker 8: You must trust me. I have good reasons for asking.
• 21:51
  Speaker 8: Does that letter reveal any important information?
• 21:54
  Speaker 9: It says there's gold on this here land.
• 21:56
  Speaker 8: Gold, huh? I thought it might be that. Have you
• 21:59
  Speaker 8: sold this homestead?
• 22:00
  Speaker 9: Yes, I have. I sold it.
• 22:02
  Speaker 8: To two men named Daisy and Leif. Is that right?
• 22:04
  Speaker 9: How did you know?
• 22:05
  Speaker 8: I didn't.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: I suspected.
• 22:07
  Speaker 8: Mrs. Custon, I think those two men held up a
• 22:09
  Speaker 8: stagecoach and got a look at the contents of that letter.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 22:13
  Speaker 8: And what's more, I'm certain they killed your husband because
• 22:15
  Speaker 8: they knew they could deal with you. He would never
• 22:17
  Speaker 8: have sold. Daisy.
• 22:20
  Speaker 9: Daisy and Leif killed Josh?
• 22:22
  Speaker 8: I have a good friend, an Indian. The best friend
• 22:25
  Speaker 8: a man ever had. He's in jail for that crime
• 22:27
  Speaker 8: right now.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: What?
• 22:29
  Speaker 10: I don't understand.
• 22:30
  Speaker 8: The only way to get them out is to prove
• 22:31
  Speaker 8: that Dacey and Nate read that letter. And it's the
• 22:34
  Speaker 8: only way to get your property back.
• 22:35
  Speaker 9: Well, I sold it to them legal.
• 22:37
  Speaker 8: If they're murderers, that sale won't stand.
• 22:39
  Speaker 9: But you can't prove nothing, Masked Man.
• 22:41
  Speaker 8: Yeah, see, the envelope that letter came in.
• 22:43
  Speaker 9: It was sealed up.
• 22:44
  Speaker 8: There are ways of opening a sealed letter so it
• 22:46
  Speaker 8: doesn't show. You haven't thrown it in the fire.
• 22:49
  Speaker 14: Oh, no.
• 22:50
  Speaker 10: No, I have it right here.
• 22:51
  Speaker 6: Oh.
• 22:54
  Speaker 8: I thought so.
• 22:54
  Speaker 9: You found something?
• 22:55
  Speaker 8: Not much, but enough, Mrs. Custon. I think we can
• 22:58
  Speaker 8: get this land back for him.
• 23:00
  Speaker 9: You can?
• 23:00
  Speaker 8: I'm not promising anything, but we'll see.
• 23:02
  Speaker 9: You hear that, Bob? The masked man says that.
• 23:06
  Speaker 7: Bob.
• 23:07
  Speaker 8: You stepped outside a minute ago.
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: No.
• 23:09
  Speaker 8: Then what is it?
• 23:09
  Speaker 10: He took the rifle. Pa's rifle.
• 23:11
  Speaker 8: You mean he's going after Daisy?
• 23:12
  Speaker 7: That's what he was threatening to do before you come.
• 23:14
  Speaker 9: Daisy, kill him.
• 23:16
  Speaker 7: He's all I've got left.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: Here, Silver. Wait, Max.
• 23:19
  Speaker 7: What are you going to do?
• 23:20
  Speaker 8: Mrs. Custon, you get to Three Pines as fast as
• 23:22
  Speaker 8: you can.
• 23:22
  Speaker 9: But Bob must have taken the fastest horse.
• 23:24
  Speaker 7: Get there as soon as you can. I'm going on ahead.
• 23:27
  Speaker 7: Come on, Silver. They'll kill him.
• 23:29
  Speaker 10: They'll kill him.
• 23:29
  Speaker 8: How do I get to Three Pines ahead of time?
• 23:32
  Speaker 7: Get your horse. Come on, Silver.
• 23:34
  Speaker 8: We're heading for Three Pines.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: How?
• 23:53
  Speaker 7: Taylor. Sheriff Taylor. Sheriff.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: Sheriff, open up.
• 23:58
  Speaker 7: What in thunderations a racket? Horse galloping, pounding on my door. Sheriff,
• 24:04
  Speaker 7: I want to talk to you. A masked man. Now
• 24:06
  Speaker 7: lookie here. I haven't time to explain anything. Sheriff, get
• 24:08
  Speaker 7: your guns and hurry up. Get a move on.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: All right, Dacey. The sheriff ain't here. Close that door, Liv.
• 24:29
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: Just like I figured.
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: That addled Peter Taylor's home soaring away the night.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: All we got to do is find them keys and
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: grab the engine.
• 24:37
  Speaker 7: Here are the keys. Leave them hanging on the hook
• 24:42
  Speaker 7: of the wall.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: Come on.
• 24:44
  Speaker 8: Stacy.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: I still figured it might be smarter to round up
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: a lynching party for the Redskins instead of handling it.
• 24:49
  Speaker 7: Our own selves.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: It takes too long.
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: Besides, Taylor might get it into his fool head to
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: stop a lynching party. He couldn't help you in the noise.
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: He couldn't stop him? He's fool enough to swing a gun,
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: ain't he?
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: Maybe so. And don't forget this.
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: Folks in this town may not have much respect for Taylor,
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: but they like him a heap.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: They wouldn't want to shoot him.
• 25:09
  Speaker 7: You mean the lynching party would curl up and call
• 25:11
  Speaker 7: it off?
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: We got to do our own hanging.
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: We'll string this redskin to a cottonwood and Taylor won't
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: find out who done it on account of nobody will know, Savvy.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: Shake a leg. We got work to do.
• 25:26
  Speaker 7: Grab him, Leif.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: Grab that rifle, Leif.
• 25:31
  Speaker 8: Hey, I got it.
• 25:32
  Speaker 10: I should have shot you first.
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: I should have shot you when I seen you coming in.
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: Your trailer's from the Star Café, huh? Sew up your mouth.
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: What are we going to do with him, Daisy?
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: We'll take care of him.
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: We better shut his mouth for good. He knows too much, huh?
• 25:45
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right, Leif.
• 25:47
  Speaker 6: Yeah, pie and skunks dry gulch my paw.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, silly, that's right. Sure we done it.
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: You got a lucky break holding up that stagecoach and
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: reading your old man's mail.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: And now we got that land in gold.
• 25:59
  Speaker 10: The law get you for this?
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: The law won't get us for nothing, Savvy. Leif. Yeah?
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: The whole town knows what the engine's in jail for.
• 26:07
  Speaker 8: Sure, for killing Custer.
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: That means if Sonny Boy here was to be found
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: dead here in the jailhouse, the whole town might figure
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: he'd come to kill his pa's murder. Daisy, you mean...
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: I mean we let the engine out. We shoot the
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: engine with this here rifle the kid brung. Then we
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: shoot the kid. It looked like the kid let the
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: engine out to take him away, and then the engine
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: jumped the kid.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: You got it.
• 26:32
  Speaker 7: Both dead in a scrape. A shooting scrape.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: Why, you load.
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: When you're toot a gun, sonny boy, you like to
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: end up in Boothill with your toes turned up.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: I'll keep the young'un here, Leif. Fetch out that engine.
• 26:45
  Speaker 8: Yeah, it's right to this door.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: What the?
• 26:47
  Speaker 7: Rape from the sky. Mash, man. All right, you cold cats.
• 26:51
  Speaker 7: I'm taking you in for murder.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: Oh, wait a minute, Sheriff.
• 26:53
  Speaker 7: We ain't done nothing. This fool of a kid here
• 26:55
  Speaker 7: came in to try me. You ain't fooling me, Daisy. No,
• 26:58
  Speaker 7: not no more. Me and the masked man heard every
• 27:01
  Speaker 7: word you two spouted. We got you dead to right.
• 27:03
  Speaker 7: That's the only way you'll get me. Go past her.
• 27:04
  Speaker 7: Have your gun lit.
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: Go away, man.
• 27:07
  Speaker 10: Leaping mavericks, you beat him to the drum.
• 27:09
  Speaker 8: They're not hurt, Sheriff. The bullets knocked the gun from
• 27:11
  Speaker 8: their hands. I suggest you let Tallow out of jail
• 27:13
  Speaker 8: and put them in.
• 27:14
  Speaker 7: I sure will, Mask Man. I sure will.
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: You know so much, Mask Man. How come you was
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: here in the first place?
• 27:19
  Speaker 8: Because of a letter, Dacey. A letter that you opened.
• 27:22
  Speaker 7: How'd you know I opened it? I never told you.
• 27:24
  Speaker 8: It doesn't matter, Leif. Dacey practically admitted it. But I
• 27:27
  Speaker 8: think the sheriff can prove it anyhow.
• 27:29
  Speaker 7: I'd be obliged if you'd tell me how, stranger.
• 27:31
  Speaker 8: The driver of the stagecoach noticed the men using a
• 27:33
  Speaker 8: heated knife blade to melt the ceiling wax. And that's
• 27:36
  Speaker 8: how it could be replaced later. And these men carry knives.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: Look at them.
• 27:39
  Speaker 8: And I'll wager you'll find bits of wax sticking to one.
• 27:42
  Speaker 14: Masked man, that's all I want to know. I'll take
• 27:46
  Speaker 14: them keys, Leif. You and Daisy are going into that cell.
• 27:49
  Speaker 14: Mask Man, your engine pod's free.
• 27:52
  Speaker 12: Bob, Bob, I got here in time. I thought I'd
• 28:02
  Speaker 12: lost you.
• 28:02
  Speaker 10: Gosh, Ma, it's all fixed. The Mask Man fixed everything.
• 28:05
  Speaker 9: He beat you to town.
• 28:06
  Speaker 10: Thank heavens for that.
• 28:08
  Speaker 7: Yes, Mrs.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: Custon.
• 28:09
  Speaker 7: He sure solved things in a hurry. Him and that
• 28:12
  Speaker 7: Injun Tonto was... Gee, horse of fat.
• 28:16
  Speaker 14: Tonto, I knew I'd hear that name somewhere before. Why
• 28:21
  Speaker 14: didn't somebody tell me? That Masked Man was the Lone Ranger.
• 28:26
  Speaker 11: Hello, Silver!
• 28:28
  Speaker 13: Hello, Silver!
• 28:47
  Speaker 6: THE END.
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: THE END THE END.
• 30:06
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• 30:09
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• 30:18
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• 30:21
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