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The Lone Ranger - "Send Akiller to Catch Akiller" (Old Time Radio, 1940) · The Lone Ranger | Old Time Radio

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Speaker 1: February 28th, 1940 brings us to episode 1107 of The
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Speaker 1: Lone Ranger. The episode is Send a Killer to Catch
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Speaker 1: a Killer. From radio's long-running western trail comes another visit
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Speaker 1: with the masked rider and his steadfast companion. And now
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Speaker 1: we return to the original broadcast.
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Speaker 2: Hiyo Silver, Hawaii!
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Speaker 3: A fiery horse with the speed of light, a cloud
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Speaker 3: of dust, and.
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Speaker 4: The hearty Hiyo Silver, the Lone Ranger. Hiyo Silver, Hawaii!
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Speaker 4: THE END.
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Speaker 2: THE END THE END.
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Speaker 5: THE END.
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Speaker 4: In the early days of the western United States, most
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Speaker 4: of the traveling was done by stagecoach. And even in
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Speaker 4: the more thickly populated districts, long trips were dangerous. The
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Speaker 4: trails were rough and narrow. Hostile Indians and hold-up men
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Speaker 4: found it easy to rob the coaches. And it was
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Speaker 4: not until the masked rider of the plane started his
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Speaker 4: great fight for law and order... that travel became safe.
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Speaker 4: Return with us now to those thrilling days when the
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Speaker 4: West was young. From out of the past, from the
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Speaker 4: thundering hoofbeats of the great horse Silver, the Lone Ranger
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Speaker 4: rides again.
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Speaker 5: Come on, Silver! Travel's waiting in the trail ahead! We've
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Speaker 5: got to hurry! Come on, Silver! Come on!
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Speaker 4: The stage from the east was arriving in the little
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Speaker 4: western town of Crown Butte, but not in the usual way.
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Speaker 4: The horses, wild-eyed and panic-stricken, thundered down the road while
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Speaker 4: the stage careened from side to side and the driver
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Speaker 4: clutched at a sleeve stained red. He had lost the
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Speaker 4: reins and the frantic animals paid no attention to his shouts.
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Speaker 2: Oh, boy!
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Speaker 5: Oh, boy!
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Speaker 4: Oh, boy!
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Speaker 2: Oh, boy!
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Speaker 4: The townspeople stared at the sight in astonishment, then added
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Speaker 4: their shouts to those of the driver.
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Speaker 5: The stage is running wild. Look, they've been wounded. Get clear.
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Speaker 5: Get out of the way.
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Speaker 6: Stay to the side or you'll get trampled.
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Speaker 5: Somebody's got to stop them horses.
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Speaker 2: Come on.
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Speaker 4: Suddenly an Indian leaped to the back of a powerful
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Speaker 4: paint and sent his mount toward the oncoming stage. Get
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Speaker 4: him up, Scout!
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Speaker 7: Get him up!
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Speaker 5: Get him up, fella! Get him up!
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Speaker 4: Straight for the lead horses he rode. Then as he
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Speaker 4: neared them, he wheeled his horse, thrust forward a muscular arm,
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Speaker 4: and grabbed the bridle.
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Speaker 5: Hold!
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Speaker 8: That's going into.
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Speaker 5: Hold!
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Speaker 4: Hold!
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Speaker 8: Hold back, Scout!
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Speaker 4: Hold!
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Speaker 5: Hold, Scout! Hold, fella! Hold, fella!
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Speaker 8: Hold!
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Speaker 4: Redskin, thanks a million.
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Speaker 8: I was looking for this year's days to topple over
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Speaker 8: most any time.
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Speaker 4: All right. Get him out, Scout.
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Speaker 5: Get him out. What happened, Lave? Hey, you're wounded. Was
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Speaker 5: it a holdup? What made the horses go wild? Where's
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Speaker 5: the sheriff?
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Speaker 8: I'll talk to the rest here after I've seen him.
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Speaker 5: Any around? Right here, Lave. Stand aside, folks. Let me through.
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Speaker 8: Sheriff, for a spell there, I didn't know whether I
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Speaker 8: was going to reach town alive or not.
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Speaker 5: How'd you get shot? Who done it?
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Speaker 8: That's something I'd admire to know myself. The fellow that
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Speaker 8: done it wore a hood. I got grilled for being
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Speaker 8: a plain local idiot. Reached for my shotgun while I
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Speaker 8: was covered. What'd he steal? Nothing.
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Speaker 5: Nothing? Then what was you held up for?
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Speaker 8: Just tell these folks to stand clear of the stage
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Speaker 8: and I'll show you, Sheriff.
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Speaker 5: What the.
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Speaker 8: Go on, tell them to stand back.
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Speaker 5: Get back, folks. Get back, all of you.
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Speaker 8: Now, come here, and I'll show you what's inside the stage.
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Speaker 5: Yeah?
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Speaker 8: I thought them folks ought to get back so you
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Speaker 8: could see what happened before anybody else.
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Speaker 4: Here.
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Speaker 8: Now, look inside when I open the door.
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Speaker 5: There. The banker.
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Speaker 8: Done for.
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Speaker 5: But what?
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Speaker 4: How?
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Speaker 8: Don't ask me nothing. I'll tell you just what happened,
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Speaker 8: but you'll have to figure it out for yourself.
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Speaker 5: What did happen?
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Speaker 8: Well, you see, I was just on the other side
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Speaker 8: of the flats when this horseman rode out from behind some.
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Speaker 5: Cover, made me pull up. Waiting for you, huh?
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Speaker 8: Must have been. Well, I had to pull up, so
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Speaker 8: I did. I figured first off it was a holdup.
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Speaker 8: Then I thought that the polecat could see that I
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Speaker 8: wasn't carrying anything worth the stealing, why he'd let us
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Speaker 8: go on. But he didn't even try to find out
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Speaker 8: what was on the stage. All he'd done was ride
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Speaker 8: up beside the banker and shoot point blank. That was
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Speaker 8: when I reached for the shotgun. He snapped a shot
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Speaker 8: my way, then emptied the rest of his bullets into
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Speaker 8: a bank of whipple.
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Speaker 5: Well, I'll be switched. Just gunning for Whipple, then.
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Speaker 4: Right.
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Speaker 8: Don't know who the skunk was, but he sure must
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Speaker 8: have had it in for him.
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Speaker 5: Then what happened?
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Speaker 8: Well, then he reached for a second shooting iron and
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Speaker 8: fired past my horse's ears.
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Speaker 5: I'd lost the.
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Speaker 8: Reins when he winged me, and with them shots buzzing
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Speaker 8: by so close, them critters just naturally went loco.
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Speaker 5: Your arm bothering you much? It ain't nothing but a
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Speaker 5: flesh wound. Anything else you can tell me?
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Speaker 8: Nothing I can think of right off.
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Speaker 5: Then you'd better go get that wound tended to. Thanks.
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Speaker 8: Want me again, I'll be in the stage office in
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Speaker 8: a little spell.
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Speaker 5: All right. What was it, Sheriff? What was inside the
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Speaker 5: stage was poured back. Anybody in there? Blast it! Stand
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Speaker 5: back like I told you! Deputy! Hi, Deputy!
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Speaker 3: Uh-huh?
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Speaker 5: You stand right here and keep everybody from the stage. Savvy?
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Speaker 8: Sure.
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Speaker 5: Flintwinter's around? Right here, Sheriff.
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Speaker 8: Fine.
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Speaker 5: Where's Pinky Samuel? You want me? Uh-huh. You and Clint
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Speaker 5: and Bart Baker over there come along to my office.
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Speaker 5: What's up, Chief? You'll find out soon enough, Bart. Go
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Speaker 5: right ahead in, fellas. But, guys, I got business down
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Speaker 5: the street. Pinky, right now, you got more important business
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Speaker 5: here with me. Step inside. Now, what's this all about, Sheriff? Well,
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Speaker 5: seeing as you're so curious, Clint, where was you just
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Speaker 5: about an hour ago? Oh, I, uh... Well?
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Speaker 4: Just trying to think.
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Speaker 5: Oh, yeah, I was riding to town and over to
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Speaker 5: my south section looking around, and I came on in.
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Speaker 8: Why?
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Speaker 5: That'll wait. Where was you, Bart? Me?
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Speaker 4: Hey, I was still home.
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Speaker 5: Got anybody can swear to that?
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Speaker 4: No.
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Speaker 5: You see, everybody was cool. I thought that'd be the
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Speaker 5: way of it. Well, what about you, Pinky?
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Speaker 4: Gosh, I don't know where I was. Not exactly. That is,
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Speaker 4: I could.
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Speaker 5: You mean to say you can't even recollect where you
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Speaker 5: was just an hour ago?
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Speaker 6: Well, let me think a second. I was in the
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Speaker 6: cafe most of the morning, and then I.
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Speaker 5: Oh, yeah, I got it now.
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Speaker 6: I left the cafe to ride over to Wolf Larson's place.
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Speaker 6: But he wasn't there, so I came on back.
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Speaker 8: Okay, Sheriff.
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Speaker 5: You can't question us without saying why. Bart, you had
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Speaker 5: it in for Banker Whipple ever since he stopped you
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Speaker 5: from marrying his daughter, ain't you?
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Speaker 4: Oh, I wouldn't put it just like that.
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Speaker 5: I would.
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Speaker 4: Clint? Clint?
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Speaker 5: It was really the banker pulling again you that beat
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Speaker 5: you out when you ran again me for sheriff. Recollect?
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Speaker 4: You just bet I do.
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Speaker 5: Then maybe you recollect how you said someday you'd get even.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and I will.
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Speaker 5: Or maybe you have. Pinky, didn't Whipple foreclose on you once?
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Speaker 5: He did, the money-grabbing old miser. None of you fellas
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Speaker 5: liked him. But speaking by and large, Whipple was right
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Speaker 5: well liked. Was. Was. Right now he's dead.
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Speaker 4: Murdered.
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Speaker 5: And out of the whole district, you're the only three
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Speaker 5: I can think of might have done it.
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Speaker 4: When the sheriff had finished interviewing his three suspects, he
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Speaker 4: rode to the scene of the murder but found no
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Speaker 4: clue pointing to the killer. Early the following morning, however,
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Speaker 4: as he was unlocking his office for the day, he
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Speaker 4: heard someone call to him. Sheriff.
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Speaker 5: Keep going.
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Speaker 4: Inside. Don't slap leather. Inside, I said.
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Speaker 5: What blazes you want?
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Speaker 4: A talk. And don't mistake me for an outlaw because...
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Speaker 4: I'm wearing a mask. I'm here to help you.
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Speaker 5: Help me? I don't savvy this.
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Speaker 4: The banker was murdered yesterday.
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Speaker 5: You know something about that, did you?
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Speaker 4: Kill him? I didn't. I investigated the place where the
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Speaker 4: killing occurred, however.
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Speaker 5: So did I. And if you're trying to tell me
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Speaker 5: you found a clue to the killer there, then it's
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Speaker 5: cause you planted that clue. I combed that place and
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Speaker 5: never found nothing.
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Speaker 4: Nor did I.
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Speaker 5: Then what do you mean you can help me?
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Speaker 4: I found a trail near the stage road. The killer's trail? No.
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Speaker 4: Tonto and I examined it. You possibly remember Tonto. He's
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Speaker 4: the Indian who halted the stage yesterday.
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Speaker 5: He your friend?
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Speaker 4: Yes.
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Speaker 5: Well, go ahead.
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Speaker 4: I said we found a trail near the stage road.
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Speaker 4: It could have been left by the killer because it
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Speaker 4: didn't go all the way back to the road. It
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Speaker 4: halted about a quarter of a mile away, then turned back.
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Speaker 5: Wow, what good is that?
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Speaker 4: Just this. Every sign indicated the trail we found was
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Speaker 4: made near the time of the murder. It's just possible
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Speaker 4: the man who made that trail saw the killing. And
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Speaker 4: I think you can tell me who he is.
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Speaker 5: Yeah? How?
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Speaker 4: We saw tracks that at first I thought were made
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Speaker 4: by a wolf pack. Tonto told me they were made
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Speaker 4: by dogs, however. Hey, wait.
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Speaker 5: You telling me you seen the trail of a horse
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Speaker 5: and some dogs?
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Speaker 4: Exactly.
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Speaker 5: Wolf Larson.
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Speaker 4: Who is he?
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Speaker 5: Lives just outside of town. Makes his living hunting and
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Speaker 5: trapping wolves for the bounty. How many dogs would you
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Speaker 5: say was in that pack?
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Speaker 4: Perhaps a half dozen.
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Speaker 5: Then it was him and no doubt of it. He's
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Speaker 5: got six of the fiercest dogs trained to hunt wolves
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Speaker 5: you ever seen.
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Speaker 4: And do you see what that means? He may have
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Speaker 4: seen the killing. If he did, he had dogs with
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Speaker 4: him to trail the killer. And in that case, he
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Speaker 4: could tell you the killer's name.
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Speaker 5: If you could figure all that, why didn't you trail Larson?
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Speaker 4: Sutter and I tried, and we know that he circled
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Speaker 4: after turning back and cut over to the stage road.
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Speaker 4: After that, we lost his trail when he struck Lava Country.
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Speaker 5: If you couldn't follow his trail, then how could he
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Speaker 5: follow the killer's?
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Speaker 4: You're forgetting he had dogs with him that could follow
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Speaker 4: by scent alone.
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Speaker 5: Why, Sunder, you're right. I've got a notion what you
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Speaker 5: just told me explains something.
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Speaker 4: Yes?
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Speaker 5: Now I'll bet Wolf knows who shot the banker.
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Speaker 4: What makes you so certain?
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Speaker 5: Why, everything fits. Wolf never made nothing but a bare
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Speaker 5: living in all his days. And yet last night he
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Speaker 5: was buying drinks for the boys in the cafe like
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Speaker 5: he had cash to burn.
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Speaker 4: Yes?
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Speaker 5: I'll bet he trailed the killer, then blackmailed him.
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Speaker 4: There's one sure way to find out. Where does Wolf live?
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Speaker 5: In a shack about a mile out of town. You
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Speaker 5: want to come along, I'll show you.
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Speaker 4: But?
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Speaker 5: I'll make Wolf talk all right. And when he does,
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Speaker 5: I'm jailing a murderer.
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Speaker 4: Accompanied by the masked man, the sheriff mounted and headed
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Speaker 4: his horse toward the tumble-down shack where Wolf Larson made
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Speaker 4: his home. They were still some distance away when they
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Speaker 4: heard the howling of the dog pack. Come on, old fellow.
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Speaker 4: A stranger?
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Speaker 2: Yes?
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Speaker 5: Now, don't get me wrong. I ain't trying into your
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Speaker 5: business or anything of the sort. But do you mind
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Speaker 5: me asking you something?
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Speaker 4: Certainly not. What is it?
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Speaker 5: You said that Injun party of yours is named Tonto.
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Speaker 5: And I've heard you call that horse there silver a
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Speaker 5: couple of times. Well, it wouldn't be that you got
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Speaker 5: silver bullets in them guns that you were loaded. I have.
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Speaker 5: Just what I suspicioned.
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Speaker 4: You think you know me?
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Speaker 5: I reckon I do. And here I've been trying to
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Speaker 5: figure what kind of a crook it is that would
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Speaker 5: go to all this trouble helping the law find the killer.
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Speaker 4: Those dogs always make that much noise.
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Speaker 5: All of us. Never told them to fail. You see,
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Speaker 5: wolves don't feed them so good. Figures they work better
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Speaker 5: on the trail for being a mite hungry.
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Speaker 4: I see. There's his place. You expect to find him in?
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Speaker 5: The way he's carrying on in the cafe last night,
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Speaker 5: it'd surprise me if he'd get up before noon.
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Speaker 4: If he'll talk, this should solve your case.
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Speaker 5: Oh, he'll talk all right. You just leave that to me.
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Speaker 5: Here's where we turn in. Come on, boy.
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Speaker 4: This way, Silver.
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Speaker 5: Now, pull up here.
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Speaker 4: Right.
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Speaker 5: Oh, boy. Whoa, there. Whoa. Coming? Be right with you.
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Speaker 5: Come on.
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Speaker 4: This doesn't look like the home of a man with
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Speaker 4: plenty of money to spend.
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Speaker 5: That's all. He just made a living, and that was all. Wolf! Hey, Wolf!
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Speaker 5: Open up! It's me, the sheriff!
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Speaker 4: You may have left the house after all.
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Speaker 5: I bet he ain't. Blast you, Wolf! You hear me
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Speaker 5: all right? Open up this door!
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Speaker 4: See if it's locked.
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Nope.
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Speaker 5: Can't. Come on. We'll rouse him out.
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Speaker 4: Is that his room?
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Speaker 8: Sure.
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Speaker 5: Go right ahead in.
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Speaker 4: Nothing here. The bed hasn't even been slept in.
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Speaker 5: Better have a look in the kitchen. Maybe he never
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Speaker 5: even got this far. Can I see anything?
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Speaker 4: Look there, beneath the table.
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Speaker 5: Huh? Well, don't go. Sound asleep.
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Speaker 4: Not asleep, Sheriff.
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Speaker 2: No?
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Speaker 4: Dead. The curtain falls on the first act of our
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Speaker 4: Lone Ranger drama. Before the next exciting scenes, please permit
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Speaker 4: us to pause for just a few moments.
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Speaker 5: THE END.
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Speaker 4: Now to continue our story. After they had discovered that
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Speaker 4: Wolf Larson had been murdered, the Lone Ranger left the
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Speaker 4: sheriff and returned to the camp he shared with Tonto.
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Speaker 4: There he told the faithful Indian what he and the
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Speaker 4: sheriff had discovered. I think I know what happened, Tonto.
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Speaker 5: What's that?
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Speaker 4: You remember we were certain Wolf had trailed the killer?
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Speaker 5: Uh-huh.
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Speaker 4: Well, he found him, let him know it, and demanded
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Speaker 4: money to keep silent. And take he big chance. More
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Speaker 4: of a chance than he could have realized. The man
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Speaker 4: must have paid. That explains why Wolf had so much
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Speaker 4: money to spend in the cafe last night. Ah. The
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Speaker 4: killer realized, however, that if Wolf lived, either one of
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Speaker 4: two things must happen. What then? Either he'd have to
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Speaker 4: go on paying for Wolf's silence indefinitely, or one day
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Speaker 4: Wolf would get careless and reveal what he knew. The
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Speaker 4: killer couldn't afford to let either happen. And that's why
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Speaker 4: he didn't kill him. Right. He paid Wolf, and last
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Speaker 4: night went to Wolf's place and made sure he could
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Speaker 4: never talk to the law. No killer safe. It seems so,
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Speaker 4: but we have to find some way to learn who
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Speaker 4: he is. What we do? The sheriff is certain he
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Speaker 4: must be one of three men. Who, them? Either Clint Winters,
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Speaker 4: Bart Baker, or Pinky Samuels. Pinky lives in town doing
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Speaker 4: odd jobs. Bart is a cow puncher and Clint is
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Speaker 4: a rancher. Each one of the three hated the banker.
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Speaker 4: To the sheriff's best knowledge, they're the only men in
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Speaker 4: the district who did. Hmm. They're a wolf. Hear them?
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Speaker 4: They overrun this district. That's why a wolf made his
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Speaker 4: headquarters here with those dogs of his.
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Speaker 8: Oh.
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Speaker 4: And these wolves are clever. Clever at bringing down calves.
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Speaker 4: The cattlemen are glad to pay a bounty for them.
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Speaker 4: They're a wolf now. See him?
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 4: You can make him out against that ridge. He's a
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Speaker 4: big fellow.
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Speaker 5: Tonto.
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Speaker 4: I've got an idea. What's that? We wanted to find
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Speaker 4: a way to learn the killer's identity.
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Speaker 2: Uh-huh.
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Speaker 4: Well, we shall. How do it? Wolves are murderers, Kimo Sabe.
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Speaker 4: Not right. Well, we'll set a killer to catch a killer.
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Speaker 4: The murder of Banker Whipple had stirred up more excitement
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Speaker 4: in the town of Crown Butte than anything that had
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Speaker 4: happened there during the past five years. The sheriff was
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Speaker 4: aware that if he failed to find the killer... He
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Speaker 4: would be severely criticized and therefore bet every effort toward
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Speaker 4: that end. As all other leads had failed, there was
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Speaker 4: nothing left for him to do but try and break
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Speaker 4: the alibi of one of his three suspects.
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Speaker 5: Blast it! One of you three fellas is lying. He
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Speaker 5: has to be. Now, which one is it? Sheriff, you
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Speaker 5: ain't got nothing on any of us. Maybe not yet, Clint,
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Speaker 5: but I will.
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Speaker 6: Then what's delaying you?
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Speaker 5: You're just bluffing, Sheriff, and you know it. Might as
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Speaker 5: well admit it. You ain't fooling anybody. Bluffing, huh? Well,
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Speaker 5: I'll tell you this part. I've been looking into that
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Speaker 5: story you told me. What story? About being the hum
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Speaker 5: when the banker was killed. I was. But you can't
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Speaker 5: prove it. Ain't a soul seen you there. Forgetting something,
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Speaker 5: Major Sheriff.
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Speaker 4: Huh?
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Speaker 7: All you gotta give me is that I didn't have
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Speaker 7: a speck of use for the banker. Well, that being
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Speaker 7: the case, it ain't up to me to prove I'm innocent.
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Speaker 7: It's up to you to prove I'm guilty.
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Speaker 4: That's so, Sheriff.
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Speaker 6: And the same goes for the rest of us. We
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Speaker 6: don't have to prove nothing.
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Speaker 5: You gents figure you're right smart, don't you?
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Speaker 4: We'll make it.
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Speaker 2: Uh-huh.
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Speaker 5: That reminds me of something. Pinky.
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Speaker 4: Yeah?
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Speaker 5: Didn't you tell me before you was over to Wolf's
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Speaker 5: place the same day?
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Speaker 6: What about it?
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Speaker 5: Wasn't you giving the cash he was spending so free
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Speaker 5: the night he was killed, was it?
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Speaker 6: What would I give Wolf cash?
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Speaker 5: No, no. Lesson was to keep him from telling.
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Speaker 4: Telling what?
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Speaker 5: Oh, something to get you into a heap of trouble.
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Speaker 5: Still guessing, ain't you?
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Speaker 4: Well, go right ahead. Have your fun.
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Speaker 6: You ain't hurting none of us any outside of wasting
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Speaker 6: our time.
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Speaker 5: Now, look, fellas, one of you is guilty. but by
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Speaker 5: the same token, two of you are innocent. Now, why
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Speaker 5: don't you two help me against the other instead of
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Speaker 5: all of you holding back? Oh, save that line of
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Speaker 5: gear for them that believes it, Sheriff. I ain't... What the.
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Speaker 8: Who threw that rock in here?
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Speaker 5: Come right through the window. What's that tied to it?
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Speaker 5: Looks like red. Huh? Hey, give me that.
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Speaker 4: Oh, I wasn't gonna read it.
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Speaker 5: I said give it here.
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Speaker 4: Sure, take it. What's he say?
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Speaker 5: Anything important?
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Speaker 6: Why don't you go out and look for the fellow
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Speaker 6: that tossed it?
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Speaker 5: Because I don't have to, I know. Now, I'm going outside.
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Speaker 5: If one of you tries to leave before I'm back,
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Speaker 5: you'll find yourself jailed. You heard me. Hi, stranger. Where
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Speaker 5: are you?
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Speaker 4: Here, Sheriff.
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Speaker 5: What's up?
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Speaker 4: I had to get that note to you without being seen.
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Speaker 4: I'm sorry about the window.
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Speaker 5: Oh, the blazes with the window. The county will pay
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Speaker 5: for that. If they don't, I'll pay out of my
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Speaker 5: own pocket. Now, what's your name?
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Speaker 4: One moment. Had any luck with those fellows inside?
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Speaker 5: Not none.
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Speaker 4: But you're still positive one of them must be the killer?
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Speaker 5: More so than ever.
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Speaker 4: Then we'll learn which one.
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Speaker 5: Yeah? How?
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Speaker 4: With the aid of Wolf Larson's dogs.
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Speaker 2: Huh?
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Speaker 4: Do you recall that when we found Wolf's body, the
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Speaker 4: kitchen door was standing wide open?
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Speaker 5: Uh-huh.
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Speaker 4: Whoever killed Wolf was in plain sight of his dogs
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Speaker 4: chained up outside.
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Speaker 5: What about it?
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Speaker 4: Are the dogs still around?
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Speaker 5: Still out in the shack. My deputy's been tended to.
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Speaker 2: Good.
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Speaker 5: But I don't see.
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Speaker 4: The dogs must have seen the killing and the killer. Sure.
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Speaker 4: And the Rugly Vicious fellows, one-man dogs, will always remain
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Speaker 4: faithful to the first master.
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Speaker 5: Hey, was that all right? Though Geist knows why, figuring
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Speaker 5: who the master was.
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Speaker 4: Sheriff, you and I are going to attempt something.
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Speaker 5: What?
21:18
Speaker 4: You're going to take Pinky, Clint, and Bart out of
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Speaker 4: Town a mile or two afoot. So when those dogs
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Speaker 4: are released, I wonder if they won't follow the scent
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Speaker 4: of the man they know killed their master.
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Speaker 5: You mean they'd recognize the skunk that done it and
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Speaker 5: go after him?
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Speaker 4: Other dogs have.
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Speaker 5: My gosh, it's a chance worth taking. We'll try it.
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Speaker 5: But why take them fellas out of town?
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Speaker 4: To make quite certain nothing will confuse the scent the
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Speaker 4: dogs follow.
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Speaker 5: I get it. And when do we start?
21:41
Speaker 4: As soon as possible. You might walk them towards that
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Speaker 4: ridge west of town.
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Speaker 5: I'll do that. And if they object, I'll drive them
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Speaker 5: out there with a gun if I have to.
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Speaker 4: Don't tell them your purpose until you've left town. Then
21:51
Speaker 4: explain just what you're doing. Right. Very well. Get started.
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Speaker 4: I'll allow you three quarters of an hour. Then Tonto
21:57
Speaker 4: will release the dogs. That'll be just about time enough. Adios, stranger.
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Speaker 5: And luck.
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Speaker 4: Three quarters of an hour. Well, what happened out there, Sheriff?
22:13
Speaker 4: Anything to keep us from leaving now?
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Speaker 6: I want to drop in at the cafe.
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Speaker 5: I got some chores to do out at the house.
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Speaker 5: You can put them off. You fellas are coming along
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Speaker 5: with me for a walk. What?
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Speaker 4: Where?
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Speaker 5: Out of town a spell. Well, what in blazes do you...
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Speaker 5: We won't have no arguing. I said we're going for
22:30
Speaker 5: a walk and we are. Either a piece of bullet
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Speaker 5: or a pint of a gun. Take your choice. To me,
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Speaker 5: it don't matter.
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Speaker 6: Well, if you say we have to, I suppose we must.
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Speaker 5: You'll learn that soon enough. There's the door. Now start marching.
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Speaker 4: Bewildered by the sheriff's command, but obeying because they had
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Speaker 4: no choice, Clint, Pinky, and Bart walked the length of
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Speaker 4: the town's main streets. and cut west toward a ridge
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Speaker 4: that rose against the sky two miles distant. In the meantime,
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Speaker 4: the Lone Ranger and Tonto had gone to the shack,
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Speaker 4: formerly occupied by Wolf Larson. The dogs, surly and suspicious,
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Speaker 4: growled uneasily at them. Almost time, Kimo Sabe. Our plan
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Speaker 4: has to succeed. It works. Yes, I believe it will.
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Speaker 4: These dogs certainly look fierce enough to do the trick.
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Speaker 4: Them fighters. Fine dogs, just the same.
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Speaker 8: Ah.
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Speaker 4: That big black fellow there must be half-wolf himself. All
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Speaker 4: of them look as though they have at least part
23:36
Speaker 4: of the wolf strain in them. Not right. Well, we
23:39
Speaker 4: waited long enough. You understand your part? Me savvy. Give
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Speaker 4: me a 50-yard head start. Then release the dogs. How
23:47
Speaker 4: to do it? I'll head directly for the ridge. You
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Speaker 4: follow these fellows. Then I'm on my way. Come on, Silver.
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Speaker 5: Come on.
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Speaker 4: You lead.
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Speaker 7: Wait.
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Speaker 5: You go now.
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Speaker 4: Go. Here, Scouts. Unaccustomed to walking, the sheriff's three companions
24:21
Speaker 4: grumbled a great deal. The sheriff paid no attention to
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Speaker 4: their complaints, nor did he permit them to stop until
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Speaker 4: they had reached the ridge. There, however, he called a halt.
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Speaker 4: All right, champs, this will do fine.
24:34
Speaker 5: You said you'd tell us why you brought us here.
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Speaker 6: It better be a plenty good reason or you're going
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Speaker 6: to hear about this and we'll get back, Sheriff. You've
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Speaker 6: gone beyond your rightful authority.
24:42
Speaker 5: Shucks, don't you fellas want to know who killed Wolf
24:44
Speaker 5: Larson and the banker? Thinking a wolf ain't going to
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Speaker 5: kill us, is it? Why, shucks, Bart, it'll tell us everything.
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Speaker 4: Yeah?
24:51
Speaker 5: How do you figure that? Well, you see, the same
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Speaker 5: fella killed the banker killed Wolf.
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Speaker 4: How come?
24:55
Speaker 5: I ain't got reasons for saying that. Ain't going into
24:59
Speaker 5: them now, though.
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Speaker 7: All right, even if it was, what then?
25:02
Speaker 5: Well, the killer made a mistake. If he'd have been
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Speaker 5: satisfied just to kill the banker, maybe he'd have got
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Speaker 5: away with it. All the supposing wolf didn't talk.
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Speaker 3: Wolf?
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Speaker 5: I said there weren't no use explaining that part of
25:14
Speaker 5: it now. But you can bet the polecat that done
25:16
Speaker 5: the killing savvy is what I mean. And if you
25:19
Speaker 5: other two don't, it don't matter. Well, get on with
25:21
Speaker 5: it if you've got more explaining to do. Well, like
25:24
Speaker 5: I said, maybe he could have killed the banker and
25:27
Speaker 5: got away with it. But when he killed Wolf, that
25:29
Speaker 5: was different.
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Speaker 4: How?
25:31
Speaker 5: Why, the crazy idiot forgot all about Wolf's dogs. Huh? Sure.
25:36
Speaker 5: And where the law can't catch the polecat, them dogs
25:39
Speaker 5: sure can. I've been a manhunter for a good many years, fellas,
25:44
Speaker 5: but I ain't yet reached the point where I can
25:46
Speaker 5: follow a trail as neat and certain as a hunting
25:48
Speaker 5: dog can. I don't serve you this. Shucks, it ain't hard.
25:51
Speaker 5: It's just like this. When Wolf was killed, it was
25:55
Speaker 5: where the dogs seemed to dunn. Now, maybe to you
25:58
Speaker 5: and me, Wolf didn't amount to much. But to them dogs,
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Speaker 5: he was quite some fella. And what they'll do to
26:04
Speaker 5: the gent that finished him is likely to be a caution.
26:07
Speaker 5: Who are them dogs now? You don't mean... There comes
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Speaker 5: a fella that'll tell you just what I mean. Come on,
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Speaker 5: little fella. Come on, Silver.
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Speaker 6: Ain't that a mask man?
26:15
Speaker 5: Who is he? Who dealt him in on this? You'll see,
26:18
Speaker 5: mighty soon. What's that he just dropped?
26:20
Speaker 4: Huh?
26:20
Speaker 6: I thought I seen... Well, I guess it wasn't nothing.
26:23
Speaker 5: Hi there, friend.
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Speaker 2: Oh, hold this, Silver.
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Speaker 3: Hold on.
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Speaker 4: Hold that. They're heading this way, Sheriff.
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Speaker 5: Sure enough.
26:30
Speaker 4: They picked up the trail at once. I saw them
26:32
Speaker 4: start out. We should be able to see and hear
26:34
Speaker 4: them in a moment.
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Speaker 5: Fine.
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Speaker 8: Now look here.
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Speaker 5: What are you fellas aiming to do? Are them dogs
26:38
Speaker 5: coming this way?
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Speaker 4: Sure enough.
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Speaker 3: When they get here, the man who killed their master
26:41
Speaker 3: is going to be made to regret it.
26:43
Speaker 4: There are three of you here besides the sheriff and myself.
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Speaker 3: One of you, you Bart, or you Clint, or you Pinky,
26:48
Speaker 3: is a killer. Those dogs know which one of you
26:50
Speaker 3: is guilty, even if we don't. And they'll avenge their master.
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Speaker 4: Oh, golly. Them critters are regular man-eaters.
26:55
Speaker 5: Well, they could easily do to a man what they're
26:57
Speaker 5: trained to do to wolves. Quiet.
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Speaker 4: They're getting here fast. There isn't much time.
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Speaker 5: Listen to him how? Just listen. One of you is guilty.
27:04
Speaker 4: The sheriff and I are giving that man his choice.
27:06
Speaker 5: His choice?
27:06
Speaker 4: If he confesses, he'll hang.
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Speaker 8: And if we don't?
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Speaker 3: Then the dogs will have to deal out justice in
27:10
Speaker 3: their own way.
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Speaker 5: But I never killed anybody. I did not tell you.
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Speaker 4: Then you've nothing to fear.
27:15
Speaker 6: You can't let them dogs get after a man.
27:16
Speaker 5: You just can't. I reckon we can, all right. When
27:19
Speaker 5: the story's told in town, I don't think anybody's going
27:21
Speaker 5: to waste much sympathy on the fella.
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Speaker 4: Quick, before it's too late. Which one of you is
27:25
Speaker 4: the killer?
27:25
Speaker 5: Confess. Time's got me short. We'll give him cum. Keep
27:28
Speaker 5: him back.
27:28
Speaker 1: Make him turn back.
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Speaker 4: Hurry.
27:29
Speaker 5: They won't get me. I'll shoot him. I'll kill him. No,
27:32
Speaker 5: you don't, Piggy. Let me shoot. Let go.
27:34
Speaker 2: Confess.
27:34
Speaker 5: Here they come.
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Speaker 3: Hurry.
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Speaker 5: I've done it. I'll confess.
27:36
Speaker 8: Just don't let them bombers get a hold of me.
27:38
Speaker 5: I'll confess to anything.
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Speaker 7: Save me.
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Speaker 5: Save me.
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Speaker 4: You killed the banker?
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Speaker 5: Yes, yes.
27:42
Speaker 4: And Wolf Larson?
27:43
Speaker 5: I did. I did. But stop him. I didn't shoot him.
27:45
Speaker 5: Hold it, Sheriff. It isn't necessary. Don't you see?
27:48
Speaker 4: They've stopped. They'll bother no one.
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Speaker 8: But they was after me.
27:52
Speaker 5: I don't savvy.
27:52
Speaker 4: They weren't after you, Pinky.
27:54
Speaker 5: What's that?
27:55
Speaker 4: They followed me. I dragged a wolf pelt all the
27:58
Speaker 4: way from town as I rode. They were on the
28:00
Speaker 4: set of the wolf. If you doubted, look where the
28:03
Speaker 4: dogs have stopped. The pelt's there now.
28:05
Speaker 5: Well, I'll be tricked.
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Speaker 4: By your own conscience. Come on, Silver.
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Speaker 5: Hail Silver! Away! Away!
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