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Gunsmoke - "Impact" (Old Time Radio, 1957) · Gunsmoke | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: Les Crutchfield wrote this February 24th, 1957 broadcast of Gunsmoke,
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  Speaker 1: directed and produced by Norman MacDonald. In episode 255, Impact,
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  Speaker 1: William Conrad returns as Marshal Matt Dillon, with Howard McNair,
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  Speaker 1: Parley Bear, Ben Wright, and Virginia Gregg in the cast.
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  Speaker 1: Dylan investigates a series of accidents at the ranch of
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  Speaker 1: elderly Miss Larkin, where her new hired hand, Lonnie Welsh,
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  Speaker 1: has grown close to her and may benefit from her
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  Speaker 1: plans for the property. As the marshal weighs concern for
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  Speaker 1: Miss Larkin against the possibility that suspicion has gone too far,
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  Speaker 1: the case carries him beyond Dodge City to her ranch.
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  Speaker 1: And now, we return to the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Smoke.
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  Speaker 3: Around Dodge City and in the territory on west, there's
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  Speaker 3: just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers,
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  Speaker 3: and that's with a U.S. Marshal and the smell of
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  Speaker 3: gun smoke. Gunsmoke, starring William Conrad. The story of the
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  Speaker 3: violence that moved west with young America. And the story
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  Speaker 3: of a man who moved with it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm that man. Matt Dillon, United States Marshal. The first
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  Speaker 2: man they look for and the last they want to meet.
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  Speaker 2: It's a chancy job. And it makes a man watchful.
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  Speaker 2: And a little lonely.
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  Speaker 4: Doc, she'll hear you, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Dillon.
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  Speaker 6: That's his buggy. Yeah, he's here.
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  Speaker 2: It's a good thing, too.
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  Speaker 6: Sure do hope she ain't bad hurt.
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  Speaker 2: So do I, Chester.
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  Speaker 6: That you, Matt?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Doc.
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  Speaker 6: Screens unhooked.
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  Speaker 2: Come on into the bedroom. All right.
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  Speaker 6: In here, Matt.
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  Speaker 7: Ah, good.
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  Speaker 5: See if you can talk some sense into this cantankerous
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  Speaker 5: old lady.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I've known her for some years, and I've never
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  Speaker 2: been able to yet. How do you feel, Miss Larkin?
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  Speaker 8: Good enough to get up and get on with my chores,
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  Speaker 8: but this broken-winded old veterinary claims I gotta.
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  Speaker 5: Stay in bed for a week.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Doc's right sometimes. It's but a law of average.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, Mrs.
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  Speaker 2: Larkin, that's good. What have you been up to, Miss Larkin?
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  Speaker 2: Going in for a bulldog and steers at your age?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, just a piddling.
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  Speaker 6: Little old accident.
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  Speaker 8: And the way you and Doc and Chester come running
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  Speaker 8: out here, you'd think you was all in my will.
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  Speaker 6: You mean we ain't in it, ma'am? Chester, it wouldn't do.
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  Speaker 7: You no good if you was.
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  Speaker 6: I ain't going no place.
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  Speaker 7: I've got another good 20 years in me yet.
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  Speaker 2: Well, if you go around Roswell and steers, you haven't.
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  Speaker 2: How'd it happen?
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  Speaker 8: Oh, that confounded breeding bull I bought last fall.
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  Speaker 7: He's leaner than an acre of snakes. Charges anything that moves.
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  Speaker 7: Can't even turn him onto the range. I have to
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  Speaker 7: keep him in a special built corral.
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  Speaker 5: That was a darn fool thing to do, getting him
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  Speaker 5: there at all. I got about.
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  Speaker 8: Halfway across corral when that dad-blamed critter tossed.
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  Speaker 5: His head and jerked his nose ring out of the hook.
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  Speaker 7: He saw me moving, so he come for me. Lonnie'd
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  Speaker 7: been wearing his gun. He'd have shot him.
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  Speaker 5: And thank the Lord he wasn't.
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  Speaker 2: I got a lot of money tied up in that bull.
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  Speaker 2: Your life ought to be worth a little something, you know.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I still got it.
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  Speaker 8: I made the fence before he hit me, and then
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  Speaker 8: he missed me with the horn.
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  Speaker 2: Just butted me some before I.
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  Speaker 7: Could reach the top rail and haul up out of
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  Speaker 7: the way. I'll be as good as new.
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  Speaker 5: This time tomorrow.
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  Speaker 7: Good as new?
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  Speaker 2: Good as new.
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  Speaker 6: Good as new.
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  Speaker 5: Any time an old wagon wheel hits a rock, Mrs. Larkin,
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  Speaker 5: it always leaves at least some of the spokes loose.
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  Speaker 7: You speak for yourself, you old billy goat. You're just
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  Speaker 7: itching to make.
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  Speaker 5: A profit off my infirmity.
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  Speaker 2: Well, then at least you admit that you're hurt, Mrs. Larkin.
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  Speaker 2: I'll lift.
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  Speaker 5: To bury this old weasel.
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  Speaker 4: Old?
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  Speaker 5: You're talking to a man in his prime.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, prime.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I'm going to fetch some liniment out of the buggy. Now,
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  Speaker 5: don't you wallow around and loosen those bandages. You've got
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  Speaker 5: a busted rib, young lady.
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  Speaker 8: It's cracked some, maybe, but it ain't busted.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, he's a good doctor. Couldn't have found him. But
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  Speaker 7: I sure enjoy plaguing him.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Doc does some of that himself, Miss Larkin. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: tell me, how have things been going around the place? Oh,
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  Speaker 2: they couldn't be.
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  Speaker 5: Better, Marshal.
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  Speaker 8: Except for this morning, of course, and that other little
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  Speaker 8: accident a couple weeks ago.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, what other accident?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, a saddle just broke on me and I got
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  Speaker 7: sold up in the North Meadow. Oh?
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  Speaker 5: Wasn't nothing really.
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  Speaker 7: Well, it turned out I let on the feet, as usual.
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  Speaker 8: I'm pretty spry for an old woman.
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  Speaker 2: You're pretty lucky, too.
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  Speaker 7: I am lucky, Marshal. Things seem to work out for
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  Speaker 7: me like Lonnie Wells riding in here and asking for
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  Speaker 7: a job. The day he come, I was just about
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  Speaker 7: at the.
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  Speaker 9: End of my rope.
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  Speaker 2: How long has Lonnie been with you now?
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  Speaker 9: Five and a half months.
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  Speaker 7: And he's made it seem like a different world. After
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  Speaker 7: Ed died, I could go on because I still had
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  Speaker 7: my son, but.
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  Speaker 7: Three years ago, you remember, he was took from me, too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember.
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  Speaker 7: That little Dan, I just didn't have no heart to
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  Speaker 7: go on living. Then Lonnie come. He straighter took his place.
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  Speaker 9: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 2: Miss Larkin, where'd Lonnie come from?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, Texas, somewhere.
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  Speaker 6: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, he's a fine boy, Marshal.
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  Speaker 7: Just aged little Dan has been. Oh, he's... Like another
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  Speaker 7: son to me. Just a hard hand.
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  Speaker 9: Ms.
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  Speaker 2: Larkin, you sure you're feeling all right?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: I reckon I'm shook up more than I knew.
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  Speaker 8: Marshal, there's hot water on the stove.
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  Speaker 7: A box of tea on the shelf.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I'll fix you some. No, you just lie back
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  Speaker 2: there and take it easy. I'll give you a hand.
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  Speaker 7: I'm much obliged to you both.
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  Speaker 2: You still have the same mind, Mr.
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  Speaker 9: Dillon?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Well, young Lonnie Welch is a shifty-eyed cuss if there
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  Speaker 5: ever was one.
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  Speaker 2: It's worse than just being shifty-eyed, Chester.
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  Speaker 9: Matt.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: I want something real bad.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, lots of time. What do you want?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That's the crazy part.
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  Speaker 9: I don't even know.
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 9: Just something. Something I don't have, I guess.
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  Speaker 2: Couldn't be a spring fever.
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  Speaker 5: Could it?
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  Speaker 8: It might.
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  Speaker 9: Except I felt the same way in the fall. Uh,
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  Speaker 9: sometimes I think it's this country out here, Matt.
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  Speaker 5: The prairie.
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  Speaker 2: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 9: It's just a darn big fancy. You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so.
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  Speaker 9: You feel so alone. Like something's lacking in you. So
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  Speaker 9: you try to fit things in. Things of people or something.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I know.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, I know an old woman who's doing that
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  Speaker 2: right now. She's trying to find a substitute for her
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  Speaker 2: dead son.
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  Speaker 6: Who's that?
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  Speaker 2: Liz Larkin, out west of town.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, with Lonnie Welch, you mean. He's sitting over there
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  Speaker 9: in that poker game right now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've been watching him. He throws money around pretty
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  Speaker 2: free for a hired ranch hand, doesn't he?
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  Speaker 9: The way I hear it, she gives him all the
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  Speaker 9: money he wants.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but maybe not as fast as he wants.
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  Speaker 9: What do you mean, Matt?
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  Speaker 2: Well, early last month, Mr. Bodkin over at the bank
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  Speaker 2: came and told me that Ms. Larkin had been in
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  Speaker 2: and made a will. She's leaving everything she's got to Lonnie.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I felt the same way. Even more so after
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  Speaker 2: she'd had a couple of close calls. Accidents, supposedly.
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  Speaker 9: Well, Matt, something ought to be done.
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  Speaker 2: You can't hang a man on a hunch, especially when
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  Speaker 2: he hasn't done it yet.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, but there's got to be something.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I've been figuring on talking to him. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: I think I'll do it right now.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I'll see you a little later, Kitty.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, sure, Matt.
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  Speaker 10: A man's luck can't run bad forever.
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  Speaker 2: I reckon I'll stay in and raise another five. You
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  Speaker 2: mind holding up this hand for a couple of minutes, boys?
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  Speaker 6: What's up, Marcus?
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  Speaker 10: What's the trouble, Marcus? Poker against the law now in Dodge?
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  Speaker 2: No. I just wanted to talk to you for a minute, honey.
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  Speaker 2: You asking? Or ordering? Come on, let's take a walk, huh? Sure,
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  Speaker 2: why not?
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  Speaker 10: A man's a mind for talk, I'll oblige him. Just
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  Speaker 10: leave everything laid, gents, right there on the table. Getting
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  Speaker 10: this kind of personal attention is liable to flatter a
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  Speaker 10: man some, Marshal.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, sure.
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  Speaker 10: We're right handy.
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  Speaker 2: To the bar.
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  Speaker 10: I'll be glad to buy you a drink.
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  Speaker 2: Lonnie, where did you come from before? you hit Dutch? Oh,
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  Speaker 2: here and there.
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  Speaker 7: Why?
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  Speaker 2: Ever been to Virginia City? Not as far as I recollect.
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  Speaker 2: I think you better think again. I put out some
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  Speaker 2: bulletins a while back, and the only answer I got's
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  Speaker 2: from Virginia City.
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  Speaker 6: Is that so?
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  Speaker 2: Seems you were working a silver claim with a partner
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  Speaker 2: named Pete Ryder. Until he turned up murdered one day.
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  Speaker 10: They must have mentioned something about the jury acquitting me
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  Speaker 10: on that, didn't they?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Lack of evidence.
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  Speaker 10: Well, in that case, I reckon I'll... Just a minute.
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  Speaker 10: You got something else in mind?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I have. I want you to know that I'd
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  Speaker 2: figure it was real suspicious if... Mrs. Larkin was to
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  Speaker 2: die suddenly by accident. Like yesterday with that bull.
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  Speaker 10: Now, look, that bull's a born killer, Marshal. You don't
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  Speaker 10: think I trained him, do you?
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  Speaker 2: No, I think you let Mrs. Larkin go out in
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  Speaker 2: the middle of the corral and then turned him loose.
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  Speaker 10: And you told Mrs.
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  Speaker 2: Larkin that, too, didn't you? I did.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, she told me. And she also told me she
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  Speaker 6: ordered you off the place.
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  Speaker 2: She wouldn't listen to such things. Lonnie... If anything happens
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  Speaker 2: to her, I'll get you for it. So help me
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  Speaker 2: if it takes me the rest of my life.
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  Speaker 10: I'll see you around, Marshal. I got a pat hand
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  Speaker 10: in this game.
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  Speaker 2: You better have, mister. Because you're betting your life on it.
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  Speaker 6: Doggone it, Matt.
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  Speaker 5: There's just no sense to the way you play checkers.
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  Speaker 2: Why do you say that, Doc?
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  Speaker 5: Well, you make some of the goddarnest moves I've ever... Well,
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  Speaker 5: you're worse than Chester.
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  Speaker 6: Huh?
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  Speaker 5: Only time you beat me is when I let you
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  Speaker 5: do it, Doc. Well, then you're mighty generous-natured. Look what
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  Speaker 5: you've done there. Look what you've done there. You left
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  Speaker 5: one of your men just sitting there.
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  Speaker 6: You see that?
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  Speaker 5: Waiting for me to take it. So, you see?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I see. Well, there. All right, take another one, Doc.
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  Speaker 6: Well, if you want to give me the game. Okay, Doc.
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  Speaker 5: That's three of you men, Doc.
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  Speaker 2: That puts you down one in the way I'm figuring.
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  Speaker 2: You're a beast.
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  Speaker 6: You're a gender changer, too, ain't you, Doc?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, sure, that's how you do it, yeah. You keep
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  Speaker 5: Chester talking like that so as to get my mind
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  Speaker 5: off the game.
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  Speaker 2: That's right, Doc.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, you've got a mighty sneaky way of playing, if
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  Speaker 5: you ask me. Me, too.
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  Speaker 6: Good evening, gentlemen.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, how are you, Miles?
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  Speaker 6: Am I breaking in on anything important?
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  Speaker 2: No, no, come on in.
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  Speaker 6: I can't stay. I just wanted some information, Matthew.
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 6: I thought you might be able to help me.
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  Speaker 2: Information about what?
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  Speaker 5: At Mrs.
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  Speaker 6: Larkin's place out west of town. What do you figure
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  Speaker 6: it's worth?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it's kind of hard to say. It's a good ranch,
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  Speaker 2: all right.
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  Speaker 6: Aye, that's what I was thinking. And, well, if a
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  Speaker 6: man could buy it cheap.
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  Speaker 2: What do you mean, if a man could buy it cheap?
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  Speaker 6: Well, I heard it might be on the market before
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  Speaker 6: the end of the week.
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  Speaker 2: Who told you that?
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  Speaker 6: Well, a young fellow that works for Mrs. Larkin. He
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  Speaker 6: let it slip this afternoon. Oh, he'd been drinking kind
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  Speaker 6: of heavy, I suppose. Otherwise, he wouldn't have.
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  Speaker 2: Do you know where he is now?
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  Speaker 6: Aye, well, somebody was saying he couldn't even make it
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  Speaker 6: back out to the ranch. He took a room at
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  Speaker 6: the Dodge House for the night.
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  Speaker 2: Chester, come on.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, sir. You think that I ought to make an
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  Speaker 6: offer for the place, Matthew? No, I wouldn't bother, Miles.
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  Speaker 2: Not just yet, anyway.
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  Speaker 5: My, he sure is dead to the world, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Dillon.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Blind drunk, the clerk said. Didn't want to be disturbed
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  Speaker 6: before noon tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: Well, he's gonna be disturbed. Give me that passkey, Chester.
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  Speaker 2: Here you are.
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  Speaker 6: Thanks. I bet he's gonna be mad in a wet
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  Speaker 6: hand being drug out of bed this way.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll bet he is. Uh, see if you can
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  Speaker 2: find the lamp and get the list, huh? Yeah, sure, sir.
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  Speaker 6: Might be over here on the bureau office. How's she doing?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, he ain't here. No, that bed hasn't even been
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  Speaker 2: slept in.
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  Speaker 6: And the window's standing wide open. He could have went
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  Speaker 6: out of it.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, he's got a good start on us, Chester. Come on,
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  Speaker 2: let's get moving.
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  Speaker 4: Come on.
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  Speaker 6: Look yonder, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Dillon.
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  Speaker 6: There's a fire at the corner of the house.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's against the wall of the bedroom, Chester. Come on.
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  Speaker 6: Somebody's there.
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  Speaker 5: Either help me or I'll put it out.
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  Speaker 2: Trying to put it out, Chester.
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  Speaker 8: That's Ms.
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  Speaker 9: Larkin.
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  Speaker 6: Well, then, Lonnie, he's been here yet, huh?
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't bet on that. There are a couple of
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  Speaker 2: buckets at the water trough there, Chester.
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  Speaker 3: Let's give her a hand.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 9: Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Larkin?
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  Speaker 2: Be right with you, Ms. Larkin. All right, you ready, Chester?
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  Speaker 2: Let's go.
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  Speaker 6: It don't look near as bad as I thought at first.
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  Speaker 2: She's about got it put out, I think.
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  Speaker 6: A little water here against the wall.
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  Speaker 7: Ought to do it.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 2: All right, throw the other bucket in the same place, Chester.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 8: Looks like that ditch about does it. Blue's touching gold
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  Speaker 8: there for a while.
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  Speaker 2: We'd better watch it for a few minutes. Those embers
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  Speaker 2: might flare up again.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 7: That didn't do too much harm, looks like. Burned the
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  Speaker 7: outside wall some.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it was mostly just trash burning. All piled up
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  Speaker 6: again in the house that way.
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  Speaker 2: What's the matter, Jesse?
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  Speaker 5: Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Dillon, do you smell coal oil? Yeah, I do.
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  Speaker 3: Ms.
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  Speaker 2: Larkin, did Lonnie start this?
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  Speaker 5: How'd you know?
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  Speaker 2: Well, he made a big show of spending the night
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  Speaker 2: in town. We went over to the Dodge house and
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  Speaker 2: he wasn't in his room.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know what it was woke me.
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  Speaker 6: But I looked out the.
• 16:42
  Speaker 7: Window and there he was. He'd piled brush against the
• 16:46
  Speaker 7: wall and was just sitting far to it. Aimed for
• 16:50
  Speaker 7: me to die right in my bed.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: Russell, I guess I.
• 16:55
  Speaker 7: Owe you an apology. You was right.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: I was wrong. Lonnie's a smooth talker, Ms. Larkin. Anybody
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: might have been taken in. But he won't get far.
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: We'll find him before sun up.
• 17:09
  Speaker 7: I don't reckon that'll be much of a chore, Marshal,
• 17:12
  Speaker 7: finding him.
• 17:13
  Speaker 6: Oh?
• 17:15
  Speaker 7: He seen me at the window and he picked up
• 17:18
  Speaker 7: a heavy chunk of wood and come into the house.
• 17:23
  Speaker 7: When Lonnie opened the bedroom door and come for me
• 17:26
  Speaker 7: to that club, I shot him. He landed there dead.
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: For Ann's sake. Well, you got nothing to worry about,
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: Miss Larkin. Any jury in the world would call it self-defense.
• 17:41
  Speaker 7: I ain't worrying, Marshal. Not about no jury. But it's
• 17:47
  Speaker 7: gonna be mighty lonesome around here again. Without Lonnie on
• 17:51
  Speaker 7: the place. No, I ain't gonna like that.
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: Maybe not, but... Being dead might be pretty lonesome too,
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: Miss Larkin. I just can't tell.
• 18:16
  Speaker 9: THE END.
• 18:52
  Speaker 6: Gunsmoke.
• 18:53
  Speaker 10: Produced and directed by Norman McDonald. Stars William Conrad as
• 18:58
  Speaker 10: Matt Dillon, U.S.
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: Marshal.
• 19:00
  Speaker 10: Featured in the cast were Harley Bear as Chapter, Howard
• 19:03
  Speaker 10: McNair as Doc, and.
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: Georgia Ellis as Kitty.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Our presentation of Gunsmoke, Impact, now comes to a close.
• 19:11
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