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Hopalong Cassidy - "The Voice of the Dead" (Old Time Radio, 1950) · Hopalong Cassidy | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: California Carlson receives notice that his cousin Thomas Baxter has
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: died and that he is due at the Boxo Ranch
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: for the reading of the will. Hopalong Cassidy rides with
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: California through stormy weather to the ranch, where an unknown
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: gunman fires on them at the gate. Inside the ranch house, heirs,
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: an executor, and household figures assemble for the inheritance arrangement.
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  Speaker 1: From Mutual's Sunday afternoon Hop Along Cassidy series, this is
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  Speaker 1: The Voice of the Dead, broadcast February 26th, 1950, episode
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: 9 of the 1950 run. William Boyd stars as Hop
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  Speaker 1: Along Cassidy, with Andy Clyde as California Carlson. The characters
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  Speaker 1: were created by Clarence Mulford. We now take you back
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  Speaker 1: to the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: This time we present Hop Along Cassidy. Hop Along Cassidy
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  Speaker 2: and his old sidekick California Carlson traveled the west ©
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  Speaker 2: BF-WATCH TV 2021.
• 1:22
  Speaker 3: California Carlson doesn't often get letters, particularly since he withdrew
• 1:27
  Speaker 3: his application from the Matrimonial Bureau. So the legal-looking envelope
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  Speaker 3: that came to the Bar 20 addressed to him was
• 1:34
  Speaker 3: something to get excited about, even before he looked at
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  Speaker 3: its exciting contents.
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  Speaker 4: Dear Mr. Carlson, I regret to inform you that your cousin, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Thomas Baxter, has passed on. Your presence is required at
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  Speaker 4: the Boxo Ranch in the above county, two weeks from
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  Speaker 4: date for the reading of the will. The other beneficiaries
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  Speaker 4: have been notified. I'm looking forward to serving you in
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  Speaker 4: any way possible. Very truly yours, David J. Potter, Attorney
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  Speaker 4: at Law, Executor.
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  Speaker 3: But the two weeks seemed more like two years to California.
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  Speaker 4: until.
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  Speaker 3: The night finally arrived when he and Hoppy rode up
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  Speaker 3: to the gate of the box hole.
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  Speaker 5: Hoppy wasn't quite as enthusiastic....
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  Speaker 6: I just made a weighty decision, California.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, what's that?
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  Speaker 6: I must love you like a brother. I don't believe
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  Speaker 6: there's another man in the county I'd be out with...
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  Speaker 6: riding around in the middle of the night in this
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  Speaker 6: kind of weather. Well, here's the gate.
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  Speaker 5: What's that sign read?
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  Speaker 6: Hmm. Boxo Ranch.
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  Speaker 4: Visitors welcome.
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  Speaker 6: Tom Baxter, owner.
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  Speaker 4: Good old Tom.
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  Speaker 5: Real hospitable fella right here. Liked to folks dropped in
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  Speaker 5: and friendly like. Hold it.
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  Speaker 6: Someone's shooting at us from the ridge up there. Get down.
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  Speaker 5: I'm down already. Flat in my face. There he is.
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  Speaker 5: He's going back over the ridge.
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  Speaker 6: He's out of range for a six-gun.
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  Speaker 5: Let me get my wincher, sir.
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  Speaker 6: No use now.
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  Speaker 5: He's gone. Well, I'll be.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, so will I.
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  Speaker 5: Visitors welcome, huh? Good old Cousin Tom. Yeah, you know, Hoppy,
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  Speaker 5: maybe you're right about that will. The old bar 20
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  Speaker 5: looks better all the time. Why don't we... What use
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  Speaker 5: I got for money? Oh, come on. Let's mosey back
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  Speaker 5: home and forget it, huh?
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  Speaker 6: Five minutes ago, I'd take me up on it, California.
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  Speaker 6: But right now, you couldn't keep me away from the fox, though,
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  Speaker 6: with a team of wild horses.
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  Speaker 5: Listen to that thunder. Conch, charnet, hoppy, we got no
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  Speaker 5: business here. Good evening, ma'am.
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  Speaker 7: What do you want?
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  Speaker 5: How do you do, ma'am?
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  Speaker 8: We're... I'm sorry we don't take in strangers. You got
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  Speaker 8: caught out in a storm. It's no fault of mine.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, now, wait a minute. I'm California Carson. I'm supposed
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  Speaker 5: to be here.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, what about your friend here?
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  Speaker 6: I'm Hopalong Cassidy, ma'am. We'd appreciate it if you could.
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  Speaker 8: That will be up to Mr. Potter to decide. This
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  Speaker 8: is a ranch house, not a hotel. Well, don't stand there.
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  Speaker 7: Come in.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 7: It's a sin, that's what it is.
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  Speaker 5: Poor Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Tom, hardly cold in his grave, and everybody flocking around
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  Speaker 8: to see what they can get.
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  Speaker 6: Where do you want us to put our things, Mrs., uh.
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  Speaker 5: Hackett.
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  Speaker 7: Miss Matilda Hackett. Your room's at the head of the stairway.
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  Speaker 7: You can take your horses out there to the barn.
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  Speaker 5: Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Potter's in the study. You better see him first. I
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  Speaker 7: wash my hands.
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  Speaker 6: Boxhole Ranch. Visitors welcome. Nice friendly reception we got, California.
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  Speaker 5: First time I've been called a coyote by an old
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  Speaker 5: buzzard like that.
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  Speaker 6: Come on, we better talk to Mr.
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  Speaker 9: Potter.
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  Speaker 6: And keep your hand close to your hip. He might
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  Speaker 6: be even more hospitable than Miss Hackett.
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  Speaker 5: Wait a minute, what's that? Must be Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Potter.
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  Speaker 5: Sounds like it.
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  Speaker 6: I want it now.
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  Speaker 4: I'm simply trying to be reasonable, Ralph.
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  Speaker 5: I'm through.
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  Speaker 4: I'm through being reasonable. I need that money, and there's
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  Speaker 4: no reason why I can't get an advance.
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  Speaker 5: My father left me a share of his estate, and
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  Speaker 5: I want it now.
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  Speaker 4: Why can't you wait until the will is read? That's
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  Speaker 4: none of your business, Porter. I think I.
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  Speaker 5: Know why, Ralph.
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  Speaker 4: You've been gambling in town.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 6: So I have.
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  Speaker 4: And I've got to pay Ogden off tonight. Well, you
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  Speaker 4: can't pay him off. That's all there is to it.
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  Speaker 5: All right, Potter.
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  Speaker 10: Call me when Cousin Phineas gets here. I don't want
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  Speaker 10: to be late for that reading.
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  Speaker 4: I'm afraid I must apologize for Ralph, gentlemen. He's not
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  Speaker 4: like his father. I'm David Potter. How do you do?
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  Speaker 6: We just got in, Mr. Potter. I wonder if you've
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  Speaker 6: got an extra place for me. Of course.
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  Speaker 4: There's a double bed in the room upstairs. You're perfectly
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  Speaker 4: welcome to it.
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  Speaker 6: Thanks.
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  Speaker 4: According to Mr. Baxter's instructions, the Wilsons are denied. We'll
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  Speaker 4: proceed with the reading when all the beneficiaries are here.
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  Speaker 5: When do you reckon that'll be, Mr. Potter?
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  Speaker 4: Well, they've all arrived except Cousin Phineas Phipps. He ought
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  Speaker 4: to be here any minute. Then we'll get together in
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  Speaker 4: the library.
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  Speaker 6: Good. Shall we take our stuff upstairs, California?
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  Speaker 5: You go ahead, Hoppy. I reckon I'll go out to
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  Speaker 5: the barn and look after the horses.
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  Speaker 6: California, President Finneas has arrived. We're meeting in the library
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  Speaker 6: for the reading of the will in five minutes.
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  Speaker 5: All right, everyone. All right.
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  Speaker 4: Now that we're here, I'll read the will.
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  Speaker 5: All right, I'm good.
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  Speaker 4: Very simple, right to the point. I, Thomas Baxter, being
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  Speaker 4: of sound mind and not acting under duress, do hereby
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  Speaker 4: declare this to be my last will and testament. My
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  Speaker 4: property and all my holdings shall be equally divided between
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  Speaker 4: my daughter, Ruth Baxter, my son, Ralph Baxter, California Carlson,
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  Speaker 4: Matilda Hackett, Joshua Coulter, and Phineas Fitz. With the proviso
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  Speaker 4: that should any of these people die, his or her
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  Speaker 4: share shall be divided among the remaining legatees. What?
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  Speaker 5: Why, why, that's utter insanity, Mr. Potter.
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  Speaker 4: What's wrong with it, Cousin Finneas?
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  Speaker 5: Why, why, it's not like Cousin Thomas at all. Why,
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  Speaker 5: it's an instrument of the devil. A temptation to work.
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  Speaker 6: I think I know what you mean, Cousin Finneas.
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  Speaker 4: Huh? I'm afraid I don't, Mr. Cassidy.
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  Speaker 6: Well, as it stands now, six people divide the estate equally.
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  Speaker 6: One dies, the rest get his share. It might be
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  Speaker 6: a temptation for someone to whittle down the number of beneficiaries. Oh,
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  Speaker 6: I know it sounds pretty brutal, but we might as
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  Speaker 6: well face the facts.
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  Speaker 5: Mr. Potter, seeing as we all live a spell longer,
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  Speaker 5: what do we get?
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  Speaker 4: Not much, I'm afraid. The land's practically worthless, and there's
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  Speaker 4: a big bank loan to be paid off. However, I
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  Speaker 4: could manage to raise something for the beneficiaries if they'd
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  Speaker 4: all agree to sell.
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  Speaker 6: All right, let's find out what they'll do.
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  Speaker 4: Good idea. Please answer as I call your name.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I for one feel that this is.
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  Speaker 4: Now, Matilda Hackett.
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  Speaker 7: Why, yes. If you think it's best, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Potty.
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  Speaker 4: Ralph Baxter. There's nothing else to do. I'll sell. Ruth Baxter.
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  Speaker 7: I won't sell.
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  Speaker 5: Any particular reason?
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  Speaker 4: All right, all right. It's up to you, my dear.
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  Speaker 4: Joshua Colby.
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  Speaker 7: Speak of died.
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  Speaker 4: I'll sell. California Carlson.
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  Speaker 5: Well, Mr. Potter, I give this a lot of thought,
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  Speaker 5: and I... Won't sell. I said, uh, uh, uh, that's right, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: No sense in selling, no, no sense at all.
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  Speaker 4: Well, that makes three for selling and two against. Well,
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  Speaker 4: looks like it's up to you, Cousin Phineas. Cousin Phineas.
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  Speaker 6: What's wrong, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Potter? Phineas, he's, he's dead.
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  Speaker 6: Then there was a shot.
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  Speaker 4: It, it came through the window. Let's go out and
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  Speaker 4: take a look. Come on, everyone.
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  Speaker 2: Ruth, look out.
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  Speaker 5: Stand back. I told you, Hoppy, we should have turned
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  Speaker 5: back at the gate there. Take it easy.
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  Speaker 6: You aren't dead yet.
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  Speaker 4: Nothing out here.
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  Speaker 5: Of course there isn't.
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  Speaker 6: You expect the killer to hang around and wait for us?
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  Speaker 4: It came through the window here. I'm sure of it.
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  Speaker 6: Well, right now, I'm not sure of anything.
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  Speaker 2: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 6: Now, let's see. It could have come through the window.
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  Speaker 6: Phineas was sitting right in that chair there. And.
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  Speaker 5: Wait a minute.
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  Speaker 2: What's wrong, Hoppy?
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  Speaker 6: Take a look through the window here, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Potter.
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  Speaker 2: Huh?
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  Speaker 4: What's the matter, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Cassidy?
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  Speaker 6: In there by the table... Good Lord.
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  Speaker 2: The body.
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  Speaker 4: Phineas, his body's gone.
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  Speaker 3: There is tension and fear in the Boxall Ranch house
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  Speaker 3: now as the five remaining heirs to the estate of
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  Speaker 3: Tom Baxter retire for the night. California is less willing
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  Speaker 3: than ever to claim his share of the estate now
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  Speaker 3: as he and Hoppy talk to Ruth Baxter in their room.
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  Speaker 6: So you think there was something strange about your father's death,
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  Speaker 6: Miss Ruth?
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  Speaker 7: I know there was, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Cassidy.
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  Speaker 7: I think my father was murdered.
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  Speaker 5: Murdered? But he died right there in that bed.
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  Speaker 7: Because someone poisoned him.
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  Speaker 4: Him.
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  Speaker 7: Slowly, over a long period of time. I think he
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  Speaker 7: knew it, too, toward the end.
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  Speaker 6: But why would anyone kill him?
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  Speaker 7: They wanted the ranch.
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  Speaker 6: Yet, according to Mr. Potter, it's practically worthless.
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  Speaker 7: Well, that's what Mr. Potter says.
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  Speaker 11: I don't believe it. I've tried to get an accounting
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  Speaker 11: of income and expenses, but Mr. Potter says there isn't
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  Speaker 11: any such thing. My father was a businessman, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Cassidy.
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  Speaker 7: He can't even run his ranch without a set of books.
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  Speaker 6: Hmm. But your father never said anything?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 7: He couldn't talk near the end.
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  Speaker 11: Just lay in his bed here reading that book of
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  Speaker 11: Channing's essays on the table there. You see, he was
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  Speaker 11: partly paralyzed. It affected his speech.
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  Speaker 9: Why isn't that?
• 10:43
  Speaker 6: You say this is the book your father always read,
• 10:45
  Speaker 6: Miss Ruth?
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 7: Channing was a favorite of his.
• 10:48
  Speaker 6: Ah, it looks pretty well thumbed over, especially this section here. Hmm.
• 10:54
  Speaker 6: Look at that.
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  Speaker 4: What is it, Hoppy?
• 10:56
  Speaker 6: It's like Mr. Baxter underlined a passage here. All wavery
• 11:00
  Speaker 6: as if you can hardly hold a pencil.
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  Speaker 7: Well, that's strange. What does it say?
• 11:03
  Speaker 6: Thank heaven for books. They are the voices of the
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  Speaker 6: distant and the dead.
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  Speaker 5: Books.
• 11:10
  Speaker 7: The voices of the dead?
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 7: I wonder if he was trying to tell us something.
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  Speaker 5: Someone was listening at that door, that door.
• 11:21
  Speaker 6: There's no one there now.
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  Speaker 2: Let's pause right here. We'll return to Hop Along Cassidy
• 11:36
  Speaker 2: after these messages.
• 11:41
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• 11:46
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  Speaker 9: California, wake up.
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  Speaker 5: Hoppy, what in their nation are you?
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  Speaker 6: Shh, listen.
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  Speaker 5: What's that?
• 12:09
  Speaker 6: Something moving behind the wall. Light the lamp.
• 12:12
  Speaker 5: Yeah, coming up. Come on, Sharnick, wind out. Sharks wind
• 12:19
  Speaker 5: out again.
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  Speaker 6: What's the matter?
• 12:21
  Speaker 5: I keep scratching matches and they keep blowing out. There's
• 12:24
  Speaker 5: a powerful draft coming from somewhere.
• 12:26
  Speaker 6: Well, that's funny. The window shut, so is the door.
• 12:28
  Speaker 5: Try another one. You see what I mean?
• 12:32
  Speaker 6: Yeah, the draft's coming right straight out of the wall.
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  Speaker 6: From under this picture of old Tom Baxter here.
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  Speaker 5: Now what you up to? It is hollow.
• 12:41
  Speaker 6: There's a passageway behind this wall here. And I'll bet
• 12:44
  Speaker 6: this panel under the picture is the door.
• 12:47
  Speaker 5: Well, doggone. What did old Tom Baxter be doing with
• 12:51
  Speaker 5: a contraption like that? The foxhole was built during the
• 12:54
  Speaker 5: Indian trouble. Probably protection for the womenfolk. There ought to
• 12:57
  Speaker 5: be a catch here somewhere.
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  Speaker 4: Wait.
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  Speaker 5: What's that?
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  Speaker 6: Sounds like someone's down the library. Take a look out
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  Speaker 6: the window here.
• 13:09
  Speaker 5: There's a light down there.
• 13:10
  Speaker 6: Yeah, from the library. I wonder what it is.
• 13:13
  Speaker 5: I'm too curious.
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  Speaker 6: Come on, we can climb down the trellis here onto
• 13:16
  Speaker 6: the porch. I'd like to take a peek through that
• 13:19
  Speaker 6: library window.
• 13:29
  Speaker 5: Well, Mr. Potter.
• 13:31
  Speaker 4: Up rather late, aren't you, Ralph?
• 13:33
  Speaker 5: I might say the same of you.
• 13:35
  Speaker 12: And I hate to be overly curious, Potter, but I'd
• 13:38
  Speaker 12: like to know what you're doing in my room.
• 13:40
  Speaker 4: I want to talk to you.
• 13:43
  Speaker 6: Oh?
• 13:44
  Speaker 4: Yes, I have certain suspicions about what's going on here,
• 13:46
  Speaker 4: and I think it's fair that I face them out
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  Speaker 4: with you before I take them elsewhere.
• 13:50
  Speaker 5: Go on, Potter.
• 13:51
  Speaker 4: I'm interested. Where did you go just now?
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  Speaker 5: To the library.
• 13:55
  Speaker 4: Why?
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  Speaker 5: I couldn't sleep. I thought some reading would relax me.
• 14:00
  Speaker 5: Any more questions? You'd better ask them now, because when
• 14:04
  Speaker 5: you're finished, I've got a few myself.
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  Speaker 4: One more question. Why did you kill Cousin Phineas?
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  Speaker 12: Well, that's very strange. That's the first question I was
• 14:14
  Speaker 12: going to ask you. Drop it, Ralph.
• 14:16
  Speaker 4: I think I know why you went down to the library.
• 14:18
  Speaker 4: Go on. Phineas was shot from inside the room. I
• 14:22
  Speaker 4: found this on the floor. A revolver cartridge case. It
• 14:25
  Speaker 4: was under your chair.
• 14:27
  Speaker 5: Well, you're changing your tactics a little, aren't you? Now
• 14:30
  Speaker 5: it's a frame. You're trying to hang that killing on me.
• 14:34
  Speaker 12: Well, you won't get very far, I'm afraid.
• 14:36
  Speaker 4: I told you, I'm trying to be fair with you, Ralph.
• 14:39
  Speaker 5: There's an old saying, Potter. Thank heaven for books. They
• 14:43
  Speaker 5: are the voices of the distant and the dead.
• 14:47
  Speaker 6: Mean anything to you?
• 14:48
  Speaker 4: Where'd you hear that?
• 14:49
  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah. Just happened to overhear it tonight and it gave.
• 14:51
  Speaker 9: Me an idea.
• 14:53
  Speaker 10: I looked up my father's ranch accounts down in the library.
• 14:56
  Speaker 4: Accounts? How did.
• 14:57
  Speaker 5: Never mind how I found them.
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  Speaker 10: And they told me a lot. Number one, there are 1,500
• 15:03
  Speaker 10: head of cattle missing. Run off somewhere waiting for the
• 15:05
  Speaker 10: beneficiaries to sell out. Number two, there's oil on the property.
• 15:10
  Speaker 10: Five eastern outfits are angling to buy it right now.
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  Speaker 10: And number three, you're the crook who killed my father
• 15:17
  Speaker 10: and who's trying to hook us into selling.
• 15:20
  Speaker 4: That's a pretty serious charge, Ralph. I'm glad you're laying
• 15:23
  Speaker 4: it on the line, because the one thing I want
• 15:24
  Speaker 4: to do is get you up in court to repeat it.
• 15:26
  Speaker 4: Don't worry, I will. You know, there's another old saying, Ralph.
• 15:30
  Speaker 4: The best defense is a first-class attack. You've heard that one, too,
• 15:33
  Speaker 4: haven't you?
• 15:34
  Speaker 5: Get out of my room.
• 15:37
  Speaker 4: I advise you to be around in the morning when
• 15:38
  Speaker 4: the sheriff gets here. Good night, Ralph.
• 15:40
  Speaker 5: Good night.
• 15:44
  Speaker 6: Going someplace, Mr.
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: Potter? Oh, Cassidy.
• 15:47
  Speaker 5: Hey, put traffic around this house for seeing the morning.
• 15:50
  Speaker 4: I've been talking to Ralph. I'm very tired. Do you
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: mind if I.
• 15:54
  Speaker 6: I'll only be a minute.
• 15:55
  Speaker 5: What about Ralph?
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: I'd rather not say anymore until the sheriff gets here
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: in the morning, so if you don't mind... What was that?
• 16:02
  Speaker 6: Came from Ralph's room.
• 16:06
  Speaker 5: The door's locked. Stand back.
• 16:13
  Speaker 6: Well, Potter, do you still think Ralph's a murderer?
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: Good Lord, he's dead.
• 16:18
  Speaker 6: Yeah. Shot while he was sitting in this chair here.
• 16:21
  Speaker 5: But the room was locked. Doors and windows, both. How
• 16:24
  Speaker 5: could anyone get in there?
• 16:25
  Speaker 6: I've got a pretty good idea, Hal, California. Come on
• 16:28
  Speaker 6: out in the hall.
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: Stay right there, Potter. I'll do no such thing.
• 16:31
  Speaker 6: Did you hear what I said?
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: Well, all right, Cassidy, if you think so.
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: Where is it, Harvey?
• 16:39
  Speaker 6: That secret passageway runs right through the wall opposite the chair.
• 16:43
  Speaker 6: Stay flat against it and you'll be safe. Now listen.
• 16:46
  Speaker 6: I want you to put Potter in the other chair.
• 16:47
  Speaker 6: Keep him there, you understand? Then start asking him questions.
• 16:51
  Speaker 6: You know what to say.
• 16:52
  Speaker 5: Yeah, but what are you going to.
• 16:53
  Speaker 6: Wait a minute.
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: Oh, Miss Ruth.
• 16:56
  Speaker 9: Mr.
• 16:56
  Speaker 7: Cassidy, I heard the shot.
• 16:58
  Speaker 5: It's your brother.
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: Ralph?
• 17:00
  Speaker 7: What's happened?
• 17:00
  Speaker 6: I've no time to explain now. I need your help.
• 17:03
  Speaker 6: Do what I told you, California. And you better keep
• 17:05
  Speaker 6: your gun handy. I don't think Potter will like sitting
• 17:08
  Speaker 6: in that chair after you start asking those questions.
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: See here, Carlson, I refuse.
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: Easy now, Mr. Potter. Just lean back in your chair
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: there and relax.
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: Will you put down that gun?
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: Nope. Now let's get back to the story, Mr. Potter.
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: Hoppy and I seen in the books that someone struck
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: oil up in Boulder Canyon and ranch property, right?
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: Then if someone figures how handy it'd be if old
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: Tom Baxter was to up and die.
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: Right? Will you shut up?
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: Nope. So someone sees to it that old Tom dies
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: of a mysterious stomach ailment, runs off his stop, and
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: tries to bluff the heirs into selling out.
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: Please, Carlson, not here, I tell you.
• 17:56
  Speaker 10: Nope.
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: Not unless you want to tell me who your partner is, Mr. Potter.
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: I can't talk here. Where's Cassidy?
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: Pretty busy right now, checking on something else. Shall we
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: start back at the beginning again, Mr. Potter?
• 18:11
  Speaker 9: What?
• 18:21
  Speaker 6: I'm sure the door to the passageway is here under
• 18:24
  Speaker 6: the picture. You say you can't remember?
• 18:26
  Speaker 7: I don't know anything about it, Mr.
• 18:27
  Speaker 9: Cassidy.
• 18:28
  Speaker 6: Well, teach me how you could grow up in this
• 18:29
  Speaker 6: house and not know about it.
• 18:31
  Speaker 7: We weren't allowed in here as children. Why? Father had
• 18:34
  Speaker 7: a strange feeling about that picture. We were never allowed
• 18:36
  Speaker 7: to touch it.
• 18:38
  Speaker 6: Wait, that's it, the picture.
• 18:39
  Speaker 9: What do you mean?
• 18:41
  Speaker 6: Let's see now. The spring is obviously underneath. I can't
• 18:48
  Speaker 6: move it.
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: Look.
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: There she goes.
• 18:53
  Speaker 7: A sliding camel. Why, I never would have believed.
• 18:56
  Speaker 9: Shh.
• 18:58
  Speaker 7: Think he's in there?
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 18:59
  Speaker 6: Trying to decide whether or not to kill Potter before
• 19:01
  Speaker 6: California makes him talk. Maybe you'd better stay here.
• 19:04
  Speaker 7: Not in your life. I'm going with you.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: Now back to Hopalong Cassidy and The Voice of the Dead.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: The answer to the mysterious murders at the Boxhole Ranch
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: House isn't far off now as California holds David Potter
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: at gunpoint in the room where Ralph Baxter was killed.
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: Knowing that behind the wall at his back, the killer
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: is ready to fire if Potter starts to talk. Meanwhile,
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: Hoppy and Ruth work their way down the secret passageway
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: toward the murderer's hiding place.
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: Hold it.
• 19:54
  Speaker 9: Can you see anything?
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: Listen, I'm getting tired of waiting, Potter. When you reckon
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: you're gonna tell me.
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: Who your partner is, will you be reasonable, awesome? No.
• 20:03
  Speaker 6: It's right around this corner. Stay right here.
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 20:06
  Speaker 7: Good luck, Hoppy.
• 20:06
  Speaker 9: Thanks.
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: I need a reasonable move tonight.
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: You were conniving with someone to grab off this ranch.
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: You wasn't exactly reasonable about fool old Finney's picture Ralph
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: Baxter there, was you?
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: Please, Carlson, he'll kill me if I.
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: And maybe if he don't, I will. It's half past
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: noon in the morning, and sometimes I don't think straight
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: when I miss my sleep.
• 20:28
  Speaker 6: Now you're going to talk or no?
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: All right. All right, I'll talk, Carlson.
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: Put down that gun.
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: I said put it down.
• 20:40
  Speaker 6: Hoppy! It's all right, Miss Ruth.
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: Hoppy, you all right?
• 20:43
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 20:43
  Speaker 6: Take Potter back to our room. I'm telling his partner
• 20:46
  Speaker 6: just retired from business.
• 20:47
  Speaker 9: Hoppy.
• 20:56
  Speaker 6: There you are, mister.
• 20:59
  Speaker 7: Who is it?
• 21:00
  Speaker 6: Turn him over, California.
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: Right, Hoppy. There you go.
• 21:05
  Speaker 7: Cousin Cornelius.
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: Chaffer and snakes. Oh, I thought you.
• 21:10
  Speaker 6: Yeah, so did I. That was quite an act you
• 21:12
  Speaker 6: pulled down the library, Potter.
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: It was his idea. He wanted to play it safe.
• 21:17
  Speaker 6: So you fired into the floor and hustled us all
• 21:20
  Speaker 6: out on the porch while the body disappeared, huh?
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: That's right.
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: Oh, please, Cassidy, I can't talk now.
• 21:26
  Speaker 6: I don't blame you. Better save your breath with a
• 21:28
  Speaker 6: story you're going to tell the sheriff when he gets here. Ruth. Yes?
• 21:32
  Speaker 6: Better get everybody in here. Better get everybody in here.
• 21:35
  Speaker 6: I want to tell them they can rest easy now.
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: I think we've lost our last beneficiary.
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: Excuse me, Hoppy.
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: Huh?
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: He just lost one more.
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: Me.
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: Wait a minute, California. You know you're entitled to.
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: Nope, not me. I learned a good lesson here at
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: the box hole, Hoppy. It's better to be a live
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: cowpoke than a dead millionaire.
• 21:54
  Speaker 6: Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. That was Voice of
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: the Dead from Hopalong Cassidy.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: We conclude with Hopalong Cassidy and the Voice of the Dead.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Good night, and thank you for joining us.