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The Lone Ranger - "Setup for Murder" (Old Time Radio, 1940) · The Lone Ranger | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: July 31st, 1940 brings us episode 1173 of The Lone Ranger.
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  Speaker 1: This installment is titled Set Up for Murder. The Lone
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  Speaker 1: Ranger remained a regular part of radio's western schedule in
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  Speaker 1: those early broadcast years, carrying its adventures to audiences across
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  Speaker 1: the country. And now we return to the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: The End.
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  Speaker 3: A fiery horse with a speed of light, a cloud
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  Speaker 3: of dust, and a hearty hi-yo silver.
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  Speaker 4: The Lone Ranger.
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  Speaker 2: The Lone Ranger. THE END The End THE END With
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  Speaker 2: his faithful Indian companion Tonto, the Masked Rider of the
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  Speaker 2: Plains fought crime and criminals throughout.
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  Speaker 4: The western United States.
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  Speaker 2: No one could match his strength and courage.
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  Speaker 3: It was his ability to judge character that made him
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  Speaker 3: the greatest champion of justice the West ever knew. No
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  Speaker 3: matter what the circumstances, the man who was honest and
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  Speaker 3: innocent could always depend upon the Masked Rider's help. Return
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  Speaker 3: with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear. From
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  Speaker 3: out of the past come the thundering hoofbeats of the
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  Speaker 3: great horse Silver.
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  Speaker 5: The Lone Ranger rides again. Come on, Silver! We're heading
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  Speaker 5: for the range country.
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  Speaker 6: It's going to be trouble.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, Silver, away!
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  Speaker 3: Helen Barker walked into the living room from the kitchen
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  Speaker 3: and stopped in surprise when she saw that her husband
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  Speaker 3: was getting ready to go out.
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  Speaker 4: Jack. Huh?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, hello there.
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  Speaker 4: Rub-butt ready?
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  Speaker 8: Everything's on the stove. Jack, where are you going?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, just out.
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  Speaker 8: Out where?
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  Speaker 4: Just down the trail a piece.
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  Speaker 8: Down the trail?
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  Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 9: I don't think it'll be going long, though. You can
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  Speaker 9: hold the vittles for a bit if I'm a minute
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  Speaker 9: or two late, can't you?
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  Speaker 10: I suppose, but why don't you want to tell me
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  Speaker 10: where you're going? Is there something you think you should hide?
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  Speaker 8: Oh, I'm... Is it, Jack?
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  Speaker 9: Helen, you have to get so curious... When a fellow
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  Speaker 9: has something to do and you can see he don't
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  Speaker 9: want to talk about it, can't you let him alone? Gosh,
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  Speaker 9: I think you're... Something's wrong.
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  Speaker 4: Listen, Helen, I.
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  Speaker 8: You've never acted like this before.
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  Speaker 4: But, Gully.
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  Speaker 8: And you're not leaving this house until I know where
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  Speaker 8: you're going. Jack, you've got to tell me.
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  Speaker 6: Oh.
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  Speaker 8: Please, Jack.
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  Speaker 4: All right, if you have to know. I got a
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  Speaker 4: message from your pa. I'm going down the trail to
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  Speaker 4: meet him.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, Jack, no.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I am.
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  Speaker 8: But you can't. It isn't true.
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  Speaker 4: Think I'm fibbing to you?
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  Speaker 7: But.
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  Speaker 8: I don't understand. You and father haven't spoken since the
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  Speaker 8: day we were married.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe he wants to make up.
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  Speaker 8: I don't believe it.
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  Speaker 4: Then maybe he don't. How do I know?
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  Speaker 9: All I know is he wants to see me about
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  Speaker 9: something or other, and I don't even let him think
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  Speaker 9: I'm scared of him by staying away.
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  Speaker 8: How do you know he wants to see you?
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  Speaker 4: He sent a note.
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  Speaker 8: From one of his men?
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  Speaker 4: No, a stranger brought it. Said your pa asked him
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  Speaker 4: to give it to me.
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  Speaker 8: Where is the note?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: Threw it away, I guess.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, what did it say?
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  Speaker 9: Oh, gosh, when it comes to asking questions... Jake, what
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  Speaker 9: did it say? Just what I told you. He wants
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  Speaker 9: to see me. He'll be at the grove over west.
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  Speaker 9: Didn't say nothing else. If I don't hurry and get started,
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  Speaker 9: I'll miss it.
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  Speaker 8: I won't try to stop you.
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  Speaker 4: I don't see no reason why you should.
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  Speaker 8: But if you're going, I am going to ask you
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  Speaker 8: to leave your gun at home.
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  Speaker 4: Huh?
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  Speaker 8: You heard me, Jack. Leave it here.
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  Speaker 4: What in thunder for?
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  Speaker 10: Because I know your temper. I know how one word
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  Speaker 10: can lead to another until they end in a quarrel.
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  Speaker 10: I want you to go unarmed because if you're quarreled
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  Speaker 10: and anything should happen to either of you, I.
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  Speaker 8: Well, I don't even want to think about it.
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  Speaker 4: I ain't going to fight.
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  Speaker 8: You don't know what you'll do.
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  Speaker 4: Shucks, honey.
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  Speaker 8: Are you going to leave that gun?
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  Speaker 4: Nope, I don't reckon I will. Oh, Jack.
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  Speaker 9: I'll be careful, honey. I'll find out what your pa wants.
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  Speaker 9: And you got my word, I'll be back home inside
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  Speaker 9: an hour.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, oh, boy.
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  Speaker 4: Well, here we are, boy. I wonder where Ellen's pa is. Mr. Sampson?
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  Speaker 1: Hi, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Sampson. I guess he ain't here yet. But I thought... Say,
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  Speaker 4: what in tongue it... It's him. It's him laying there.
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  Speaker 4: He's been drilled. Who's that? Look over here. Who is it?
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  Speaker 5: Then take it!
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  Speaker 4: Oh! Hey, fellas, you hear that shot?
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  Speaker 5: Where'd it come from?
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  Speaker 7: Over that way, Aunt Wanda.
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  Speaker 4: Sounds to me like it come from the grove. Then
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  Speaker 4: we'd better take a look. Come on.
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  Speaker 5: Get up, boys.
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  Speaker 4: I'll be.
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  Speaker 5: Look at here.
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  Speaker 4: Samson's done for. And who's this?
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  Speaker 7: It's Jack Barker.
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  Speaker 4: They had a gunfight.
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  Speaker 5: Jack's coming too.
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  Speaker 11: Oh, shut up a second, will you, fellas? Now, wait
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  Speaker 11: a second, Jack. Don't try to get up till I've
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  Speaker 11: had a look at this place where you were shot. Hmm,
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  Speaker 11: it ain't so bad. Just creased your scalp and parted
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  Speaker 11: your hair.
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  Speaker 4: You was lucky. Help me up.
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  Speaker 3: Here.
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  Speaker 4: Here you are.
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  Speaker 7: Jack, how did it happen? What did you and Sampson
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  Speaker 7: fight over?
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  Speaker 4: Huh? What was it, Jack? What started the argument? But
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  Speaker 4: there weren't none. Huh?
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  Speaker 9: I never drilled them. I found them just like that.
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  Speaker 9: Then somebody yelled, and when I turned to look, they
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  Speaker 9: took a shot at me. I didn't even see who
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  Speaker 9: it was. That's all I can recollect till right now.
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  Speaker 4: Jack, that's pretty thin. You don't believe me?
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  Speaker 7: You figure we should when we find you with a
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  Speaker 7: gun in your hand and one shot fired out of it?
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  Speaker 4: With Samson's gun in his hand the same way? But, hey,
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  Speaker 4: this gun ain't mine. No? It ain't, I tell you.
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  Speaker 4: It ain't. The fella that done the killing must have
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  Speaker 4: left it and took mine. He left it to put
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  Speaker 4: the blame on me.
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  Speaker 7: It's all right, Jack.
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  Speaker 4: But I tell you.
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  Speaker 7: Folks around here always knew something like this was bound
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  Speaker 7: to happen one of these days, ever since you got
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  Speaker 7: hitched to his daughter again as ordered.
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  Speaker 4: Wait, fellas, I'm telling you... Maybe you killed him in
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  Speaker 4: a fair fight. Listen, I... But that'll be for the
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  Speaker 4: law to decide. Pete, you'd better ride into town and
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  Speaker 4: bring the sheriff. We'll stay here.
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  Speaker 5: Right. Get up there.
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  Speaker 6: Wait.
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  Speaker 4: Won't you believe me, fellas? Won't you listen to what
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  Speaker 4: I say? I'm not guilty, I tell you. Huh?
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  Speaker 11: Well, we ain't got nothing to give you personally, so
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  Speaker 11: don't get us wrong. But a killing's a killing has
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  Speaker 11: to be dealt with according. So it's just a waste
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  Speaker 11: of breath trying to argue with us.
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  Speaker 4: But, fellas... A mash man. A red skin. A crook.
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  Speaker 6: Don't stop, brother.
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  Speaker 4: You can't.
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  Speaker 6: Hunter, watch them.
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  Speaker 4: Me watch them. What do you want? Is this a
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  Speaker 4: hold up?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 4: Then what do you want? Quiet.
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  Speaker 6: All right, Tonto. I'll handle them. You examine Sampson. Hunter,
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  Speaker 6: do it.
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  Speaker 4: Say, what are you up to?
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  Speaker 6: Tonto and I heard the shots just as you did.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: You were closer and got here first. But we've seen
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  Speaker 6: what's going on.
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  Speaker 4: Huh?
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  Speaker 6: And I have an idea you've made one very serious mistake. Tonto,
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  Speaker 6: was I right or wasn't I?
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  Speaker 7: Him still live all right.
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  Speaker 4: You mean Mr. Sampson ain't dead?
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  Speaker 6: Wait. Will he live, Tonto? You think he can be
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  Speaker 6: brought to? Me not know. Him hurt pretty bad. Can
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  Speaker 6: you help him? I'll try.
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  Speaker 4: Good.
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  Speaker 6: Then pick him up and put him across your saddle.
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  Speaker 6: I'm giving the orders here. And remember this.
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  Speaker 4: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 6: You can hold Jack for the sheriff. The sheriff can
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  Speaker 6: jail him. But in case you're tempted to take justice
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  Speaker 6: into your own hands, Jack isn't a murderer until Samson dies.
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  Speaker 7: Here, Silver.
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  Speaker 4: The first man to.
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  Speaker 6: Try for his gun stops lead.
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  Speaker 5: Ready, Tonto?
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  Speaker 7: Let's go.
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  Speaker 5: Come on, Silver.
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  Speaker 4: Shoot him down. You fools, hold your fire.
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  Speaker 5: Don't shoot.
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  Speaker 4: If Samson's still living, he might get hit.
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  Speaker 5: Hold your fire. This'll do, Tonto. Rain up.
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  Speaker 6: It's a good place to make camp. It's isolated and
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  Speaker 6: there's plenty of cover. You can make things ready while
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  Speaker 6: I'm gone. You'll ride? Yes, Kimusabe, to town.
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  Speaker 4: What do there? I'll call on the sheriff. Oh.
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  Speaker 6: And I'll be back by sundown. Come on, Silver.
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  Speaker 2: Hail Silver, Hawaii!
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  Speaker 3: At that moment, Samson's foreman was talking with the sheriff
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  Speaker 3: in the lawman's office.
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  Speaker 4: I got a question to ask you, Sheriff. What's that, Carp?
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  Speaker 4: How do you feel about duels? Duels? What are you
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  Speaker 4: talking about?
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  Speaker 12: Well, suppose there's hard feelings between a couple of hombres.
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  Speaker 12: They get to hate each other so much that they
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  Speaker 12: finally decide to shoot it out. That used to happen
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  Speaker 12: a lot in the old days.
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  Speaker 4: Times have changed. Duels are against the law. They always was.
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  Speaker 4: But somehow or other, the guy who won never got hanged.
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  Speaker 4: You mean the jury to quit him? Yeah.
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  Speaker 13: Well, I can't answer for any jury. I've seen them
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  Speaker 13: do a lot of fool things. But I know what
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  Speaker 13: the law says, and as long as I'm sheriff, I'll
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  Speaker 13: do my best to enforce it. Unless it's an accident
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  Speaker 13: or in self-defense, a man who kills is a murderer.
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  Speaker 4: You'd arrest boss that. You had some reason for worrying
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  Speaker 4: about Dool's carp.
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  Speaker 13: A man don't ask a question like that for no
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  Speaker 13: reason at all.
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  Speaker 4: Come on now, tell me the truth. Has old man
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  Speaker 4: Samson been threatening to shoot it out with his son-in-law?
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  Speaker 4: I didn't say that he... Well, you know how he talks.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: It might be a good idea if you had a
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  Speaker 4: word with him. You can tell him what I said yourself.
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  Speaker 4: And you can add this to it. What?
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  Speaker 13: If I was him, I wouldn't count on any jury
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  Speaker 13: setting me free. The folks in this county want law
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  Speaker 13: and order. I guess you're right.
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  Speaker 4: Sheriff! What's up?
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  Speaker 7: There's been a shooting in Miner's Grove. You better come quick.
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  Speaker 4: A shooting? Anybody hurt?
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  Speaker 7: Jack Barter wounded.
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  Speaker 4: Who done it?
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  Speaker 7: Old man Samson.
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  Speaker 4: I was afraid he might.
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  Speaker 7: But the old man got the worst of it.
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  Speaker 6: He's dead.
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  Speaker 4: No. Come on.
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  Speaker 13: You gonna arrest Jack? That's my duty and that's what
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  Speaker 13: I aim to do. Wounded or not, he'll be in
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  Speaker 13: jail within an hour.
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  Speaker 2: I reckon that'll hold you, young fella.
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  Speaker 4: You won't be breaking out of this jail. You dirty... Now,
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  Speaker 4: look here, Jack.
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  Speaker 13: Being the sheriff, I ain't doing nothing but my duty.
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  Speaker 13: The fella said it looked like a fair fight. You
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  Speaker 13: both had guns out. You got Samson, and his shot
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  Speaker 13: came close to getting you. Now, maybe you will be acquitted,
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  Speaker 13: but that's for the jury to decide, not me. You've
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  Speaker 13: got to stand trial. Doggone it, Sheriff.
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  Speaker 9: How many times do I have to tell you there
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  Speaker 9: weren't no gunfight?
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  Speaker 4: Mr. Sampson had been done for when I got there.
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  Speaker 13: That masked gent said he weren't dead yet.
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  Speaker 4: Well, maybe he wasn't. I don't know. I thought he was.
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  Speaker 4: And what's that got to do with anyway? I'm still
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  Speaker 4: saying he weren't shot by me. Bound and determined to
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  Speaker 4: stick to that story, huh? It's true. Won't get no
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  Speaker 4: jury to believe that. I tell you... And I don't.
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  Speaker 13: Mind saying I don't myself. You'd be better off if
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  Speaker 13: you'd just come clean.
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  Speaker 4: Ah, the dickens would try to argue with you. Here,
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  Speaker 4: do me a favor, Sheriff. Anything that ain't unreasonable. Send
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  Speaker 4: for my wife. Tell her where I am, and I
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  Speaker 4: want to see her. Oh, sure. That can be done.
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  Speaker 8: It won't be necessary.
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  Speaker 4: Helen.
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  Speaker 8: I already know what's happened. The cop has told me.
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  Speaker 4: Howdy, Sheriff. Hello, cop. Tough lines, Jack. Yeah.
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  Speaker 12: But I knew someday you and the boss would tangle.
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  Speaker 12: It was one of them things just had to happen.
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  Speaker 4: If it did, you ain't sorry. Eh? What do you mean?
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  Speaker 10: Jack.
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  Speaker 4: What do you think he is?
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  Speaker 9: Wasn't him your pa wanted you to marry? Wasn't it
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  Speaker 9: why your pa made carp foreman? Wasn't it because I
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  Speaker 9: cut him out that your pa and me fought?
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  Speaker 12: Jerks, fella, that's all ancient history. I never held it
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  Speaker 12: against you. Helen chose you, so I.
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  Speaker 8: There's no need to discuss it.
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  Speaker 4: Sorry, Helen.
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  Speaker 8: And, Jack, I came here for just one reason. I
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  Speaker 8: came to tell you that we're through.
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  Speaker 4: What's that?
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  Speaker 8: It can't be any other way. Maybe Father started the quarrel.
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  Speaker 8: Maybe he forced you to draw. But I can't forget
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  Speaker 8: that he was my father. But I begged you not
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  Speaker 8: to meet him armed.
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  Speaker 4: But, honey, you don't know the facts. It weren't that
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  Speaker 4: way at all. I never.
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  Speaker 8: I know the story you've told him.
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  Speaker 10: And I can't believe it any more than the others do.
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  Speaker 4: But, honey.
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  Speaker 5: I won't talk about it.
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  Speaker 8: I can't.
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  Speaker 4: Come.
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  Speaker 8: Take me out of here.
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  Speaker 12: Well, sure, Helen. You come along. See you later, sir. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I... I'll be. Didn't expect anything else, did you, Jack?
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  Speaker 4: Even she wouldn't believe me. And if your own wife won't,
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  Speaker 4: that means... Huh?
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  Speaker 13: Won't nobody else, neither. Young fella, if it turns out
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  Speaker 13: Samson's really done for, I'm afraid things are going to
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  Speaker 13: go so good for you.
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  Speaker 4: Then, Sheriff, you've got to find him. That's what I
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  Speaker 4: aim to do. You've got to find that masked man
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  Speaker 4: and see where Mr. Samson was took. Uh-huh. Then what
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  Speaker 4: are you standing there for? Go on. Go on, dog,
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  Speaker 4: go on and find him.
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  Speaker 6: Looking for me?
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  Speaker 4: What... The Masked Man.
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  Speaker 6: The curtain falls on the first act of our Lone
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  Speaker 6: Ranger drama. Before the next exciting scenes, please permit us
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  Speaker 6: to pause for just a few moments.
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  Speaker 2: The Masked Man.
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  Speaker 3: Now to continue our story. Startled by the sudden appearance
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  Speaker 3: of the masked man, the sheriff instinctively slapped his hand
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  Speaker 3: to his holster, was stopped by the lone ranger's lightning draw.
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  Speaker 4: Careful, Sheriff. Sheriff, watch out.
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  Speaker 6: He's got the drop on you. I didn't come looking
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  Speaker 6: for trouble, Sheriff. But anything you start, I'll finish. Why
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  Speaker 6: did you come here? For the answer to certain questions,
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  Speaker 6: which you and Jack should be able to furnish.
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  Speaker 4: Stranger, where's Samson? What'd you do with him? He's still
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  Speaker 4: alive or anything?
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  Speaker 6: You'll answer my questions first, Sheriff. Yours will come later.
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  Speaker 4: Well, looks like you're boss. What do you want to know?
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  Speaker 6: Who were Samson's enemies? Who would benefit by his death?
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  Speaker 4: What are you getting at?
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  Speaker 6: I have reason to believe Jack has been telling you
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  Speaker 6: the truth. I believe he's innocent. In that case, you'll
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  Speaker 6: have to look elsewhere for your killer.
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  Speaker 4: You believe in me, Maskman?
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  Speaker 6: I do.
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  Speaker 4: Why?
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  Speaker 6: For one very excellent reason. I've seen both Jack and Samson.
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  Speaker 6: They were found under circumstances that made it appear they
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  Speaker 6: had shot it out. But there's one fact that won't
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  Speaker 6: agree with that story.
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  Speaker 4: What fact's that?
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  Speaker 6: If they had fought, their shots would have been fired
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  Speaker 6: at almost the same time. But they weren't. Samson's wound
• 16:36
  Speaker 6: was made almost an hour earlier than Jack's.
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: You're sure of that, Stranger? Yes. How do you know?
• 16:40
  Speaker 6: You might have seen the same thing if you'd had
• 16:41
  Speaker 6: the opportunity to make a comparison.
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: I would have if you hadn't took Samson away.
• 16:45
  Speaker 6: I had a reason for that. If I had left
• 16:47
  Speaker 6: him where he was, it might have been shown that
• 16:48
  Speaker 6: Jack was innocent.
• 16:49
  Speaker 7: Then why?
• 16:49
  Speaker 6: But by taking him away, I'll do more than that.
• 16:51
  Speaker 6: I'll also learn who was guilty. Mask man, you do
• 16:54
  Speaker 6: that and I'll be your part for life. Outlaw or not.
• 16:57
  Speaker 13: You make it sound good, stranger. But how do I
• 16:59
  Speaker 13: know you ain't talking through your hat?
• 17:01
  Speaker 6: Give me the information I've asked for and I'll prove
• 17:03
  Speaker 6: I'm not.
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: You mean tell you who might want Samson Dunn in?
• 17:06
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: I wouldn't do no harm to tell you that, I reckon.
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: If you don't, I will, Sheriff. Oh, don't get hasty,
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: young fella. Now, let's see. There's Buck Klein, and there's
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: Sam Jenks.
• 17:17
  Speaker 13: Him and Samson was always fighting.
• 17:24
  Speaker 6: Buck Klein, Sam Jenks, Nick Seeley. There were half a dozen, Tata.
• 17:29
  Speaker 6: Each was Samson's enemy, or had something to gain by
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: his death.
• 17:33
  Speaker 7: Ah.
• 17:33
  Speaker 6: So any one of those men might have shot Samson
• 17:35
  Speaker 6: and framed Jack for it.
• 17:37
  Speaker 7: Not right.
• 17:37
  Speaker 6: The sheriff wanted to investigate each one and learn what
• 17:40
  Speaker 6: kind of an alibi he had for the time of
• 17:41
  Speaker 6: the shooting. Ah. But I talked him out of that.
• 17:44
  Speaker 6: Our plan is not only easier, but more certain. And
• 17:48
  Speaker 6: I don't want any of them to think that he's
• 17:49
  Speaker 6: under suspicion. That's a good idea. The sheriff agreed to it.
• 17:53
  Speaker 6: Him help? He will, Kimisabe. What him do? I think
• 17:56
  Speaker 6: tomorrow he'll spend quite a bit of his time in
• 17:58
  Speaker 6: the cafes in town. Telling the townsmen just what he's
• 18:02
  Speaker 6: been instructed to say.
• 18:08
  Speaker 7: You seen the masked man, sir?
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: What's he saying? That's a still alive. What's that masked
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: dead's game? Hold on, fellas, now. Hold on.
• 18:16
  Speaker 13: I don't mind telling you about it, but how can
• 18:18
  Speaker 13: I with all you fellas talking to one?
• 18:20
  Speaker 7: Well, how'd the masked man happen to look you up, Sheriff?
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: Because I'm the law, that's why. Why wouldn't he?
• 18:24
  Speaker 7: But ain't he a crook?
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: Maybe. But I got my own notions about that.
• 18:28
  Speaker 13: But how about Samson? He's alive, all right. That ain't
• 18:31
  Speaker 13: to say that he's gonna live.
• 18:33
  Speaker 7: What do you mean by that?
• 18:34
  Speaker 13: Well, the masked fella says it's gonna be kind of
• 18:36
  Speaker 13: touch and go. He's still unconscious. Can't be moved or anything.
• 18:40
  Speaker 13: The masked fella's got a red-skinned poor attendant to him.
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: Where are they? Now, that's something I ain't saying.
• 18:45
  Speaker 7: The masked man going to let you know what happens
• 18:47
  Speaker 7: to Samson?
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: Uh-huh, that's all been fixed. And Jack? Stays right where
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: he is in jail.
• 18:52
  Speaker 13: Maybe he's telling the truth about that shooting, and maybe
• 18:54
  Speaker 13: he ain't. If Samson lives to tell his story, we'll
• 18:57
  Speaker 13: get the facts. Till then, Jack's staying behind bars.
• 19:00
  Speaker 7: But how long is that going to be?
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: Don't know for sure.
• 19:03
  Speaker 7: Then why don't it.
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: But it won't be too long.
• 19:05
  Speaker 13: The masked man said they ought to know whether Samson's
• 19:07
  Speaker 13: going to pull through or not inside of 48 hours.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: That won't happen!
• 19:10
  Speaker 10: 48 hours!
• 19:13
  Speaker 6: Hello, Sheriff.
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: Oh, it's you, stranger.
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: I've been waiting for you. You've been all around town.
• 19:25
  Speaker 6: You let everyone know what I told you to say?
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: Sure have, mister.
• 19:28
  Speaker 13: By this time, if there's a man, woman, or child
• 19:31
  Speaker 13: in these parts don't know about it, they must be deep.
• 19:34
  Speaker 6: Good.
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: Stranger, just a second.
• 19:37
  Speaker 8: Yes?
• 19:38
  Speaker 13: I've answered all your questions when you ask them. Mind
• 19:42
  Speaker 13: if I put a few to you?
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: Go on.
• 19:44
  Speaker 13: Ain't anything you should mind answering. First off, this Indian
• 19:48
  Speaker 13: part of yours you've mentioned. you ain't told me his name.
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: It wouldn't be Tombo, would it? It would.
• 19:57
  Speaker 6: But how did you know?
• 19:59
  Speaker 13: Oh, I just had a hunch when I heard you
• 20:01
  Speaker 13: ride off last night calling that horse of yours Silver.
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: Oh? Would you mind my looking at your guns? Just
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: one of them will do. Yeah.
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: Take it. Satisfied?
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: Bullets of silver.
• 20:16
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 20:16
  Speaker 13: Mister, you may be wondering why I didn't put up
• 20:19
  Speaker 13: no bigger argument when you told me your scheme.
• 20:22
  Speaker 6: It was logical. And you certainly could see I had
• 20:24
  Speaker 6: nothing to gain by it.
• 20:26
  Speaker 13: But, mister, that wouldn't have been enough.
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: By a long sight.
• 20:29
  Speaker 8: No?
• 20:30
  Speaker 13: It was cause I had a blame good notion who
• 20:33
  Speaker 13: you was.
• 20:34
  Speaker 6: Then in that case, maybe you'll be ready to carry
• 20:36
  Speaker 6: out the rest of my plan.
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: What do you mean?
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: Recall the names of those men we discussed last night.
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: The men whom I gained by Samson's death.
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: Oh, sure.
• 20:44
  Speaker 6: Well, tomorrow send for them. Have them brought here to
• 20:46
  Speaker 6: your office.
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: But what for? What'll I say?
• 20:48
  Speaker 6: That you're forming a posse. That you've chosen them to
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: ride in it.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: Huh?
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: Listen, Sheriff.
• 20:52
  Speaker 6: And I'll tell you exactly what I have in mind.
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: Hey, Sam, you to home?
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: The sheriff wants you.
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: Sheriff wants you in town right now.
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: What's that you said?
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: Sheriff's forming a policy, cop.
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: You've got to be in it. Get in, fella.
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: Get in.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: Get in.
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: Feed the sheriff, won't you?
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: Sheriff, send fire. You get to town. Hurry, Jake.
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: The sheriff wants you.
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: Come on, Silver.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: Come on, old fellow. Get him up, Skunk. Get him up.
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: Where we go? See that cliff tunnel? Be seated. That's
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: where we're headed, Kimo Sabe.
• 21:58
  Speaker 11: Oh.
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: If we signal from there, the smoke will be seen
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: in town. Come on, old fellow. Hurry, boy. Get him up, scum.
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: Get him up. Hail Silver Hawaii!
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: Hail Silver Hawaii!
• 22:19
  Speaker 7: Doggone it, Sheriff. You sent for us and said we
• 22:22
  Speaker 7: was needed for a posse. Well, if we are, why
• 22:25
  Speaker 7: don't we do something? Why don't you get away from
• 22:27
  Speaker 7: that window and tell us who we're going after? We're
• 22:30
  Speaker 7: all set and ready.
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: Well, maybe I should have told you a little more.
• 22:35
  Speaker 13: But you see, fellas, I've been so busy watching for
• 22:37
  Speaker 13: the signal, it kind of slipped my mind.
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: What signal? The one that Masked Man's gonna send. Masked Man?
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: That's right, Buck.
• 22:44
  Speaker 7: Then this has got something to do with Samson?
• 22:46
  Speaker 13: Fellas, the Masked Man told me Samson would either come
• 22:50
  Speaker 13: to this morning and pull through, or he never would.
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: Now's the crisis.
• 22:56
  Speaker 13: If he dies, ain't nothing much we can do but
• 22:58
  Speaker 13: go on with the case again, Jack.
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: You got some kind of notion he didn't shoot Samson?
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: There's certain things kind of point that way. You better
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: let me finish. If Samson comes to, he'll be able
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: to tell us who shot him. If it was Jack, well,
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: all right. But if it weren't, then we want to
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: grab the skunk that did just as fast as we can.
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: That's right.
• 23:20
  Speaker 7: But how about this, your signal you mentioned?
• 23:21
  Speaker 13: The mask man will make it. It'll be a smoke signal.
• 23:25
  Speaker 13: One smoke will mean Samson's done first.
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah? And two will mean he's conscious. He can talk.
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: Get in there, Chase. Chief, fillies, look towards the hill. Smoke.
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: Where do you see it? There it is.
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: How many, Corb?
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: How many?
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: Just one. Then that means.
• 23:41
  Speaker 7: Samson's cashed in his chips.
• 23:43
  Speaker 12: Well, then I reckon that's that. He ain't gonna talk.
• 23:47
  Speaker 12: We wasted our time. Me, I'm gonna... Wasted our time,
• 23:51
  Speaker 12: did we? There's the second signal.
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: You take a look. He just got a go. Come on,
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: you hombres, get to the saddle.
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: We're riding for the hill.
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: Keep going, fellas. Ain't much further. Get along there, boys.
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: Get up there. Get up there.
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: Hi.
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: There's the last man now. He's waving. He's yelling something.
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: Pull up.
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: Pull up there.
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: Right in, fellas.
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: Whoa there.
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: Whoa there. Whoa there.
• 24:26
  Speaker 7: Oh, there's Silber.
• 24:28
  Speaker 8: Oh, boy.
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: Sheriff, it worked. I know doggone well it would. Which
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: way did the skunk go?
• 24:33
  Speaker 6: Tonto and I were watching from above. We saw him
• 24:35
  Speaker 6: drop back when he rolled through those trees there and raced.
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: To the south. You'll find out what we're talking about later, fellas.
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: Right now, there ain't time to explain.
• 24:42
  Speaker 6: Follow me. Tonto's already on his trail.
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: Come on, Silber.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: Come on.
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: There's the engine. Who's that?
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: It's Jason.
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: Hey, it's Carl.
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: But he started out with us.
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: And that's you at the first opportunity to make his escape.
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: He's the man who shot Samson. Ride that fellow down. Hurry, Silver.
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: Hurry.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: Go, go, go.
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: The polecat's shooting at us.
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: I'll take care of that. I'm riding ahead. Come on,
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: old fellow.
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: Look at that white horse stretch out.
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: Cover the ground like he was flying.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: Listen to car power.
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: The masked man's making a loop.
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: He's getting ready to throw a target rope. Get up, boy.
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: Get up. Get up, boy. Get up now. He got him.
• 25:42
  Speaker 8: Cops on the ground.
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: He's fighting like a wildcat. The masked man will handle him.
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: Hold on to the skunk masked man. Hold on.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: Stand still, Karp.
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: We're saving you for a hanging.
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: You can't hang me. Just what makes you think we can't?
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: Because Samson never died.
• 26:00
  Speaker 7: But he did.
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: What's that?
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: He died immediately when you shot him. You gave yourself away.
• 26:07
  Speaker 6: What I told him to say.
• 26:08
  Speaker 13: We let you think Samson had a chance to pull
• 26:11
  Speaker 13: through a purpose.
• 26:11
  Speaker 6: So when the guilty man was convinced Samson was going
• 26:14
  Speaker 6: to live to testify against him, he'd do exactly what
• 26:16
  Speaker 6: you did.
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: Attempt to escape.
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: God bless you. What was the idea, Karp?
• 26:21
  Speaker 13: Figure if you could put the blame on Jack, Jack
• 26:23
  Speaker 13: could hang and you'd get hitched to the widder?
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: What if I did? You'll find that out after your trial.
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: And you'll likely find out more. Yeah? If I'm not mistaken,
• 26:30
  Speaker 6: you've guessed close, Sheriff. But you've guessed at only part
• 26:32
  Speaker 6: of the truth. Carp would have liked to marry Samson's
• 26:35
  Speaker 6: daughter so he could get his hands on the ranch.
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: Uh-huh.
• 26:38
  Speaker 6: But it wouldn't surprise me if you learned that Carp
• 26:40
  Speaker 6: had been stealing from his employer, was facing exposure, and
• 26:43
  Speaker 6: had to resort to murder to escape conviction.
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: All the better. That'll just make his hangin' double sure.
• 26:49
  Speaker 6: And Jack will be released?
• 26:50
  Speaker 13: As quick as we can get to town. All right, boys,
• 26:53
  Speaker 13: back to the horses. We'll take this polecat to jail.
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: Come on, fellas.
• 26:57
  Speaker 7: Hello, Silver!
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: Hooray! THE END THE END THE END.
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• 28:36
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• 28:45
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