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The Lone Ranger - "Ranger Jailed for Murder" (Old Time Radio, 1939) · The Lone Ranger | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: A murder charge places the Lone Ranger's freedom and the
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  Speaker 1: cause of justice in jeopardy. Tonto stands beside his trusted
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  Speaker 1: partner as the masked rider faces that accusation in this
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  Speaker 1: 1939 Western adventure. From March 31st, 1939, it is The
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  Speaker 1: Lone Ranger, Ranger Jailed for Murder, Episode 964. Earl Gracer
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  Speaker 1: stars as the Lone Ranger, with John Todd as Tonto.
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  Speaker 1: Fran Stryker wrote the script, and George W. Trendle produced.
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  Speaker 1: The series was heard on the Mutual Broadcasting System during
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  Speaker 1: this period. Here is the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Hiyo Silver, Hawaii!
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  Speaker 3: A fiery horse with a speed of light, a cloud
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  Speaker 3: of dust, and a hearty Hiyo Silver, the Lone Ranger.
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  Speaker 4: Hiyo Silver, Hawaii! THE END.
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  Speaker 1: THE END.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you. THE END.
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  Speaker 3: In the early days of the western United States, the
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  Speaker 3: local sheriffs were unable to control the crime in their districts.
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  Speaker 3: And when emergencies arose, many communities took the law into
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  Speaker 3: their own hands. The Lone Ranger fought this mob rule
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  Speaker 3: and saved the lives of many innocent men. In time,
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  Speaker 3: he proved to the pioneers that there could be no
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  Speaker 3: justice where violence reigned. It was the famous masked rider
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  Speaker 3: who finally brought law and order to a lawless frontier.
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  Speaker 3: Return with us now those thrilling days when the West
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  Speaker 3: was young. From out of the past come the thundering
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  Speaker 3: hoofbeats of the great horse Silver.
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  Speaker 4: The Lone Ranger rides again. Come on, silver! There's been
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  Speaker 4: more trouble in Pecos! Silver's waiting on the trail ahead!
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  Speaker 2: Come on, silver!
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  Speaker 3: As our story opens, we find the Lone Ranger without
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  Speaker 3: his mask, but with his face well disguised. He and Tonto,
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  Speaker 3: his faithful Indian friend, are riding along a familiar trail.
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  Speaker 3: There's something mighty wrong with the law on Pecos, Tonto.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not going to leave this part of the country
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  Speaker 3: till we see things in order. There's always plenty of trouble, man.
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  Speaker 3: I wonder how Jack is getting along. Celia Wellington was
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  Speaker 3: going to give him a lot of book learning. Him?
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  Speaker 3: Him maybe not like that. That boy certainly deserved a
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  Speaker 3: good home. He saved my life, Tonto, and I'll never
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  Speaker 3: forget that. Won't you help him? Not very much, Tonto.
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  Speaker 3: Him got good home now.
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  Speaker 4: While we're in Pecos, I'm going to see how he's
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  Speaker 4: getting along. Wait. What is it, Tonto? You look there.
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  Speaker 4: Horse come. Horse come plenty fast. There, you see? Yes.
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  Speaker 3: That rider is certainly getting all that Mustang can give.
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  Speaker 3: Look at him travel coming this way.
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  Speaker 4: That Jack. That friend. It is, Tonto.
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  Speaker 3: Where's he going? He looks as if he was trying
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  Speaker 3: to outrun Six-Gun Lad. Someone chase him. Him look back
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  Speaker 3: all time.
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  Speaker 4: Come on, Silver. Hi, Jack! This way!
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  Speaker 2: What's the trouble?
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  Speaker 4: Come on, Silver!
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  Speaker 3: The lone ranger dashed ahead as Jack, seeing the rider,
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  Speaker 3: swerved to the right to evade him.
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  Speaker 4: The big white stallion quickly cut down the Mustang's lead. Jack,
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  Speaker 4: rein up! I want to speak to you! Let me alone!
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  Speaker 4: Leave me be! Rein up there! Let go of that horse!
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  Speaker 4: Hold it! Hold on! Hold it!
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  Speaker 2: Let me alone!
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  Speaker 4: Why are you running away from me? Don't you remember me?
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  Speaker 2: Hold your horse!
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  Speaker 4: Hold your horse!
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  Speaker 2: It's you and Donald.
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  Speaker 4: What matters?
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know you. He ain't wearing your mask.
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  Speaker 4: Him got disguised.
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  Speaker 2: But I can't stop. I gotta travel fast. The law
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  Speaker 2: is after me.
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  Speaker 4: The law?
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  Speaker 2: Please don't make me stop and answer your questions now.
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  Speaker 2: I can't do it. The sheriff's posse will be along
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  Speaker 2: just a minute now.
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  Speaker 4: You not run from law? That bad. What you do?
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  Speaker 2: I didn't do nothing, but I can't prove it. If
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  Speaker 2: they catch me, they'll jail me. Maybe hang me. It'll
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  Speaker 2: most kill and seal you.
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  Speaker 4: You still live with Miss Wellington? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Let me go.
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  Speaker 3: What evidence has the law got against you?
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  Speaker 2: This Mustang, that's one thing. And what's in the saddlebag,
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  Speaker 2: there's another. I gotta get away. See? There they come.
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  Speaker 4: Did they see your face?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 4: Are you guilty of anything wrong? No.
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  Speaker 2: No. I swear it. Let me go now.
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  Speaker 4: Jack, you saved my life. Tyler, you and Jack hold
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  Speaker 4: guns on me. Quick, get on my horse, Jack. Silver
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  Speaker 4: will let you. I'll get on yours.
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  Speaker 2: What for?
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  Speaker 4: I'll be the one that's captured. That'll save you.
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  Speaker 2: You can't do that, mister. You can't. I couldn't let you.
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  Speaker 3: That's an order, Jack, and you're going to obey it. Here, Tonto,
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  Speaker 3: take these guns. You and Jack may be a prisoner.
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  Speaker 3: Good thing I put on this disguise.
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  Speaker 2: They'll lynch you.
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  Speaker 4: No, they won't. Tonto, I'll talk to you later. Uh-uh. Tonto,
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  Speaker 4: come see you.
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  Speaker 2: Please, I can't see you.
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  Speaker 4: They're coming fast. They've seen us. Get off that horse.
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  Speaker 4: It's too late to change back now. Hold the gun
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  Speaker 4: on me, Jack.
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  Speaker 2: I can't do that.
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  Speaker 4: Hold the gun on me, I tell you. You do
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  Speaker 4: what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to capture you after what you've done
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  Speaker 2: for me.
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  Speaker 4: There he is! Come on, boys! Somebody's already got him!
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  Speaker 3: Jack!
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  Speaker 4: It's all right, Jack. You'll get the reward money, sure enough.
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  Speaker 4: You're done fine.
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  Speaker 2: But maybe this fella ain't.
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  Speaker 4: No, no mistaking him. We followed that there Mustang all
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  Speaker 4: the way from Pecos. You've got me all right. You see,
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  Speaker 4: he admits it. Why, you want him. Hey, ain't I
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  Speaker 4: seen you a four-engine? Maybe. Why, you want him. I
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  Speaker 4: can't just place you. But anyhow, from what we've seen,
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  Speaker 4: you helped Jackie capture this here killer. Oh, him killer?
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  Speaker 4: That's what he is. Take a look at these saddlebags, fellas.
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  Speaker 4: I'll look. I'll give you a hand. Well, mister, I'm
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  Speaker 4: here and putting you under arrest for the murder of
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  Speaker 4: limb villains at the Paycourse Bank and for stealing some
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  Speaker 4: important papers. You either come with us peaceable or get
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  Speaker 4: drilled for resisting arrest. Oh, well, I'll go with you.
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  Speaker 4: You fellas find what you were looking for? I got
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  Speaker 4: them papers right here. Then we'll be getting back to town.
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  Speaker 4: Get along with this good boy. All right. Come on. Here,
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  Speaker 4: come on.
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  Speaker 3: The Lone Ranger was taken to jail to await a
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  Speaker 3: trial which might never take place. The citizens, aroused over
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  Speaker 3: the killing of one of their foremost businessmen, talked openly
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  Speaker 3: of a lynching. It was early that evening that the
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  Speaker 3: sheriff called on Jack and the woman who had adopted him,
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  Speaker 3: Celia Wellington. When the sheriff was admitted to the house,
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  Speaker 3: he said... Can't stop for just a minute.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, but do have a chair, Sheriff. I don't often
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  Speaker 5: have company out here.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you, but I'd better not. There's things need
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  Speaker 4: attending to at the jail. What I come for was
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  Speaker 4: to see Jackie. Look here what I fetched you, young fella.
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  Speaker 4: The $ 500 that was put up for the capture of
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  Speaker 4: Lem's killer. I.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want it.
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  Speaker 4: Now, come on. Take it, lad. I couldn't find that
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  Speaker 4: Injun who was with you, but if you see him again,
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  Speaker 4: you can split with him.
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  Speaker 5: Take it, Jackie. You've earned it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want no money. I.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, don't let it bother you like that. I savvy
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  Speaker 4: how you feel, son. I felt the same way the
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  Speaker 4: first time I captured a man and seen him sent
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  Speaker 4: to jail when I knew he was going to be hung.
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  Speaker 4: But when you get to feeling like that, then just
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  Speaker 4: recollect what he'd done.
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  Speaker 2: But he ain't sure he'd done nothing.
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  Speaker 4: We're sure enough. Lem was killed and paper stole from him,
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  Speaker 4: and the Mustang seen heading from the bank. When we
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  Speaker 4: caught that fella, he was riding that same Mustang and
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  Speaker 4: had them papers in his saddlebags. That's proof enough.
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  Speaker 5: Why, I've never seen you behave the way you have
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  Speaker 5: since you come home today, Jackie. What's the matter with you?
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  Speaker 2: Nothing.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I'll leave the reward here. I got to get
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  Speaker 4: back to jail and try and guard the prisoner till
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  Speaker 4: he gets a trial. Well, thank you, Sheriff. Jackie's the
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  Speaker 4: one to be thanked. You can be right proud of
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  Speaker 4: that boy, Miss G. I am. Good evening to you.
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  Speaker 5: Good evening, Sheriff.
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  Speaker 4: Now, Jackie.
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  Speaker 5: Jackie, what's the matter? You act as though you were
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  Speaker 5: sorry that you caught a proved killer.
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  Speaker 4: I am.
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  Speaker 5: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 2: I didn't mean to say that. I can't tell you
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  Speaker 2: about it.
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  Speaker 5: Why can't you, Jack? I thought we were going to
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  Speaker 5: be real friends and never hide anything from each other.
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  Speaker 2: I won't say another word. Let go.
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  Speaker 4: I won't. Very well.
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  Speaker 5: If you feel that way, son, I'll know.
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  Speaker 3: That. In the meantime, a mob gathered and moved toward
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  Speaker 3: the jail where the Lone Ranger was being held.
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  Speaker 4: Flash Billings, brother of the murdered man, led the way.
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  Speaker 4: Come on, fellas. We'll make the sheriff turn over the prisoner.
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  Speaker 4: If he refuses, we'll take him anyhow. Are you with me?
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  Speaker 4: Get back to the jail. There's the sheriff now. He
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  Speaker 4: got his gun ready. He can't hold out against all
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  Speaker 4: of us. We'll get that killer anyhow. I told you
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  Speaker 4: fellas to stand back. Breaking up that mob and going
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  Speaker 4: back home. You can't make it, Sheriff. Now listen to me,
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  Speaker 4: you idiots. What's this mean, flash villains? Did you get
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  Speaker 4: these fellas to come here? What if I did? Then
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  Speaker 4: tell them they're wasting their time and to go on back.
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  Speaker 3: Like fun I will. We're after the skunk that killed
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  Speaker 3: my brother. Ken!
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  Speaker 4: It's all well and good to want to see a
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  Speaker 4: killer get hung. But there's ways of doing that same.
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  Speaker 4: It's the county should do the hanging, not you, fellas.
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  Speaker 4: Never mind the talk. Let us get at that fella.
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  Speaker 4: And what if I don't surrender him? Then you'll have
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  Speaker 4: to fight us, and you won't have a chance. Every
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  Speaker 4: man here is willing to help break into that jail.
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  Speaker 4: Ain't that so, men? Well, I'm blamed if I'll send
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  Speaker 4: him out to you. Still figuring to fight us? Nope,
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  Speaker 4: that'd be foolish, again, the kind of odds there is.
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  Speaker 4: But if you want him, you'll have to go in
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  Speaker 4: and get him. I'm staying neutral. You hear that, fellas?
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  Speaker 5: Come on.
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  Speaker 4: Into the jailhouse. We'll get that killer.
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  Speaker 3: Behind the jail, the Lone Ranger stood with Tonto. Stay
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  Speaker 3: back out of sight, Tuller. I wonder what those men
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  Speaker 3: will say when they see my cell empty. Them get
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  Speaker 3: plenty mad.
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  Speaker 4: They can't accuse the sheriff of letting me out. No.
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  Speaker 4: The bars you broke will prove I had help from
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  Speaker 4: the outside. Not right.
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  Speaker 3: Those men don't know it, but they were closer to
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  Speaker 3: me outside the jail than now when they're in it.
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  Speaker 4: That heap funny. They've learned the truth. Them come this way.
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  Speaker 4: We can't stay here, Tuller. And above all, they must
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  Speaker 4: not see me with you. Me get Silver. Him over there. Good.
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  Speaker 4: Come on. You... You know real killers? Yes, yes, but
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  Speaker 4: we'll speak to Jack. We've drawn suspicion from him. Now
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  Speaker 4: we can hear his story. Hurry, Tulloch. Tell you men,
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  Speaker 4: I didn't know he busted out. You were responsible for him, Sheriff.
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  Speaker 4: Anybody know which way he went? He's escaped cruisers, your name.
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  Speaker 4: Spread out and hunt him down. I was willing to
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  Speaker 4: see him tried fair and square. But after breaking loose,
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  Speaker 4: I don't care what happens to him. If you see him,
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  Speaker 4: shoot to kill.
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  Speaker 2: For long hours that night, Jack tossed and turned in
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  Speaker 2: his bed.
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  Speaker 3: Worry over his friend, the Lone Ranger, made it impossible
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  Speaker 3: for him to sleep. And Celia, hearing his restless movements,
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  Speaker 3: entered his room.
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  Speaker 4: Jackie.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, Celia?
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  Speaker 5: I've been listening to you for the past hour. Can't
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  Speaker 5: you go to sleep?
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  Speaker 2: What was that shouting I heard a while back?
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  Speaker 5: It was the lynch mobs. They were after the prisoner.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, did they get him?
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  Speaker 5: No, from what I heard, someone broke him free from
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  Speaker 5: jail and he escaped. I.
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad.
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  Speaker 5: Now try to sleep, Jack.
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  Speaker 4: It's awful late.
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  Speaker 2: I hope they never find him again.
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  Speaker 5: You wouldn't want a murderer to go free.
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  Speaker 2: But he ain't.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, you can't understand.
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  Speaker 2: You don't know about it.
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  Speaker 5: Now, don't try to keep all your troubles to yourself, son.
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  Speaker 5: You'll learn that troubles are easier to bear when you
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  Speaker 5: share them with someone who loves you.
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  Speaker 2: Please.
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  Speaker 5: No matter what it is, I can help you. You're
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  Speaker 5: only a young boy, you know. Is it Are you
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  Speaker 5: in some kind of trouble?
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, please let me help.
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  Speaker 2: Leave me be, Ancelia. Go away. Leave me be, please.
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  Speaker 5: All right. I'll do as you say. But you've got
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  Speaker 5: to get some rest. I'll open the window further. Perhaps
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  Speaker 5: the fresh air will help.
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  Speaker 4: You. Hey.
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  Speaker 2: Good night, dear.
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  Speaker 4: Good night.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what to do. I can't let the
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  Speaker 2: Lone Ranger get hurt. He's the best friend I ever had.
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  Speaker 2: I hear you, Jack.
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  Speaker 4: Don't call out. I'm coming in here and I mustn't
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  Speaker 4: be heard.
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  Speaker 2: You? The Lone Ranger?
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  Speaker 4: I'm safe, Jack.
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  Speaker 2: But you shouldn't have come here. You're just wasting time.
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  Speaker 2: You should be riding away, clearing out.
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  Speaker 3: Not until I've learned the identity of the real killer.
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  Speaker 4: And to do that, I had to speak to you.
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  Speaker 4: You know things about the killing that you didn't have
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  Speaker 4: a chance to tell me.
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  Speaker 2: There's nothing I can tell you, mister. I don't want
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  Speaker 2: to tell you.
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  Speaker 4: Why not, Jack?
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  Speaker 2: Won't you please go away? Just ride off and make
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  Speaker 2: your escape. Won't you do that? There's so many things
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  Speaker 2: I can't tell you about.
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  Speaker 4: You didn't kill that man, Jack.
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  Speaker 2: I would have been blamed for it if you hadn't
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  Speaker 2: saved me.
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  Speaker 3: If I leave now, a murderer will go unpunished. That's
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  Speaker 3: why I came here to see you. I want you
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  Speaker 3: to tell me everything that happened.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you'd never believe me. Nobody would.
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  Speaker 4: You must tell me.
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  Speaker 2: Then I'll creep out of the window and talk outside. Why,
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  Speaker 2: and still you won't hear.
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  Speaker 3: The curtain falls on the first act of our Lone
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  Speaker 3: Ranger story. Before the next exciting scenes, please permit us
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  Speaker 3: to pause for just a few moments. I ought to
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  Speaker 3: continue our story. The Lone Ranger, having overtaken Osage, who
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  Speaker 3: had tried to kill him from ambush, waited for the
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  Speaker 3: killer's explanation.
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  Speaker 4: You thought when you tried to shoot me that I
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  Speaker 4: was the Texas Kid. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Gosh, I heard that he was heading for Pecos and
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  Speaker 3: there was a big reward for him, dead or alive.
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  Speaker 4: I needed that money. Who told you the Texas Kid
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  Speaker 4: was coming to Pecos? No one. That is, I can't
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  Speaker 4: tell who. Not Jasper Wellington? Of course not. Now, look
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  Speaker 4: at here, Strange.
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  Speaker 3: If you ain't a Texas kid, then I'm doggone glad
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  Speaker 3: I didn't get to drop you. Now, thank that youngster
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  Speaker 3: for jumping on my rifle barrel. I've already thanked him.
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  Speaker 3: Has he gone on to Pecos?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 4: He won't be in Pecos for some time.
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  Speaker 3: I sure thank him when I see him. You can
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  Speaker 3: bet money on that. Are you taking me to the law?
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  Speaker 3: What do you think I ought to do with him? Well,
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  Speaker 3: if I was in your boots and a man tried
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  Speaker 3: to drill me like that, Strange, I'd sure as blazes
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  Speaker 3: take him to the law, but... And they're dreaded wearing
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  Speaker 3: a mask like that. What else could I think but
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  Speaker 3: that you was a Texas kid?
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  Speaker 4: You haven't heard of anyone else that might wear a mask? Well, I.
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  Speaker 3: You know, let me see. Leaping Jehoshaphat, you ain't... You
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  Speaker 3: don't mean to say you're the Lone Ranger. Oh, Sage,
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  Speaker 3: it looks to me as if you've been double-crossed by
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  Speaker 3: the man who sent you gunning for me. If I
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  Speaker 3: thought that is the case, I'd... What would you do?
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  Speaker 3: I'd go back and give him a working number that
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  Speaker 3: he would never forget. Wellington deserves it. He sure as
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  Speaker 3: thunder does. By the scheming Polkette sending me to fight
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  Speaker 3: his battles for... Say, I never said it was Wellington
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  Speaker 3: that sent me.
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  Speaker 4: No, but you admitted it just now. Anyhow, I'll settle
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  Speaker 4: with him. Just you give me the chance to get him.
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  Speaker 4: That's all I ask. Let me show you that I
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: was took incomplete. Well, well, suppose you go and show me.
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: You're letting me go?
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: You'd better start traveling before I change my mind. I'll
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: have to walk my horse. It'll take most of the
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: afternoon to get to Pecos. Well, then, the sooner you start,
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: the better.
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: Come on, Silver. You're gone. That ain't good. I took
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: him incomplete.
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: Just the way to Wellington, here's how I fooled him.
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: As if I thought he was a Texas kid.
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: As if there ever was a Texas kid. Late that afternoon,
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: Celia found her brother sitting on the front porch of
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: their home. She noticed a satisfied smile on his face and.
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: You don't seem to be worried about what the Lone
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: Ranger's going to do when he gets here.
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: He isn't here yet, is he? No, but.
• 18:24
  Speaker 6: Maybe he won't get here at all, Celia. Why should
• 18:27
  Speaker 6: I worry until there's need to?
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: What do you mean?
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: The less you know about it, the better. You just
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: mind your own business and you'll avoid a lot of trouble.
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: You've planned trouble for him. What have you done, Jeff?
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: None of your business.
• 18:39
  Speaker 6: Now go on back in the house. I see a
• 18:41
  Speaker 6: friend of mine coming and I want to have a
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: talk with him.
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: Jasper Wellington, that's Osage.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: He's a killer.
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: That's never been proved.
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: Have you sent him to ambush that lone ranger?
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: You go into the house, do you hear me?
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: This is the end. If you've done what I think,
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: I'll go tell the sheriff.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: I've had all I can stand to this sort of thing.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: You'll either get out of here.
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: Or I will.
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: Hmm.
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: Time she got away anyway. Hey, Wellington, I looked for
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: you in the cafe. Come on up here and tell
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: me what's happened. Wellington, that blasted tramp kid from the
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: cafe spoiled it all. Spoiled it? Snuck up behind me
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: and jumped my rifle. I didn't get the Lone Ranger. Why,
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: you bungling fool. Then my horse went lame and I
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: was overtook by him. Where is he now?
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: I reckon he's gone back where he come from or
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: gone into camp or something. Give him a yarn that
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: he believed. What sort of yarn? Tell him I thought
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: he was a Texas kid with a price on his head,
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: dead or alive.
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: Can he believe that? Sure he did. Say, where's your sister?
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: Isn't she likely to be over here? After the door closed.
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: Go on, then what?
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: He found out that you was the one who told
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: me the Texas kid was coming along the trail.
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: You told him about me? Were you counting? Now, wait, Bunnington.
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: Hold on a second, won't you? Listen to what I
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: got to say. Well, go on. I told him I
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: was coming back here and running you out in town.
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: Told him I'd square things with you. Is he coming
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: into Pecos?
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: I don't know, but the chances are he will. He'll
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: come here to make sure you're gone, and if you ain't...
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: he'll get you himself. Now, Wellington, you gotta make yourself scarce.
• 19:53
  Speaker 6: You bungled everything for me, old sage. I ought to
• 19:56
  Speaker 6: see a jail for the way you handled this.
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: I've done the best I could. I wonder how much
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: that kid has told him. I don't know. Where is
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: the kid? With a lone ranger, I reckon. Now, look here, Wellington.
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: What you gotta do is get out in town first.
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: I'm not driven out by him.
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: But you gotta do it. He'll come snooping around town
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: to make sure you're gone. And if you're here, he's
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: likely to make no end of trouble. If you're gone,
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: he can't do nothing. I can tell him I sent you,
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: don't you, Savvy? You believe my story then.
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: And he'll go away. Then you can come back again.
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: Wait a minute, old Savvy.
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: Ain't nothing else to do. He's been at me to
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: clear out. Now, maybe.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: Maybe what, Wellington?
• 20:27
  Speaker 6: Maybe I got an idea. I might pack up and
• 20:29
  Speaker 6: let everyone know I'm clearing out.
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: That's what I said. That's the only way to play
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: it safe. Leave it to me. Maybe I can get
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: him when he's in turn. You listen to my plan.
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: Do what you're told and see you don't bungle it again.
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: What is it?
• 20:40
  Speaker 6: Then I'll skip out of town, just as I say.
• 20:42
  Speaker 6: Make everyone, including Celia, think I've gone for keeps.
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 20:45
  Speaker 6: I'll lay low, and then tonight I'll come back and
• 20:47
  Speaker 6: get this Lone Ranger and hustle out of town again. Then,
• 20:50
  Speaker 6: after a couple of weeks, I'll drift back into town
• 20:52
  Speaker 6: and claim I've changed my mind. That I'm not gonna
• 20:54
  Speaker 6: stay away.
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah? I'll have an alibi.
• 20:57
  Speaker 6: But I'll have a dispose of.
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: This Lone Ranger. Ginger, that's a good idea.
• 21:01
  Speaker 6: When he's killed, you'll be suspected if Jack says anything.
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: But you'll have an alibi for the time.
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: Of his death. That sounds real slick.
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: I'll go pack some things right now. I'll be out
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: of town before dark. You hang around, keep your eyes open.
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: If the Lone Ranger comes into town, be sure you
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: know where he's at so you can tell me when
• 21:17
  Speaker 6: I come back sometime tonight.
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: I sure enough will, Wellington. I sure will. Celia! Celia,
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: where are you?
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: What is it, Jasper?
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: Come here. Give me a hand. I need your help. Well,
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: what is it? I've got to leave town. I've got
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: to leave in a hurry. Help me pack my things.
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: You're really leaving?
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: You don't need to ask where I'm going because it
• 21:39
  Speaker 6: ain't none of your business.
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: Oh, I don't care where you go as long as
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: you go. It'll seem most too good to be true
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: to have you out of the house. I'll help you
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: pack all right. I'll be glad to do it.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: That night, the Lone Ranger, Jack and Tonto, made camp
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: not far from Pecos. The masked man was silent. He
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: sat apart from his companions for some time. And then
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: suddenly he rose to his feet and came closer to
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: the campfire.
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: Jack.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: Yes, sir?
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: Are you sure of everything you told me? Yes, sir.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: I didn't tell you nothing I wasn't sure of.
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: That fellow old sage had a different story. Him say
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: him want Texas kids. Yes, he didn't tell the truth.
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: Not right.
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: And it didn't mean a word he said when he
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: told me he'd deal with Wellington when he got back
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: to town.
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: Not right.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: I think it's about time we moved into Pecos and
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: investigated things there.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: Don't you do it, mister. Don't you do it. Old
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: Sage will shoot you from ambush. He won't give you
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: a chance.
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: Maybe he won't get the chance to shoot me, Jack.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: I tell you, he's got to get you. Wellington will
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: make him. If he don't, Wellington will likely see him
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: jailed or maybe hung.
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: We'll see about that, Jack.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: Why don't you let me go instead? Why don't you
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: let me go there and see what I can learn?
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: They wouldn't dare kill me.
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: Jack, I think I will send you to Pecos.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: In your place?
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: No, ahead of me. I want you to help me.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: Gosh, yes. Anything in the world I can do for you.
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: I want you to tell Osage where he can find me. Here? No. No, Jack.
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: I'm going to be in the hotel.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: But you can't go there wearing that mask.
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: I won't wear the mask, Jack.
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: I'm going to disguise my face, go into the hotel,
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: and get a room to spend.
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: The night in.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: And I'm to tell Osage that?
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: You got scheme? I do.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: Osage is a murderer. It's never been proved. Perhaps the
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: sheriff will be glad of the chance to get proof.
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: When.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: When he gets you?
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: We'll see about that, Jack. Here, Silver. Get your horse, Tonto. Here, Scouse.
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: Since you've now put out the fire and packed our things,
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: it's time for us to head for Pecos. When he
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: had disguised himself and ridden with Tonto into Pecos, the
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: Lone Ranger had no difficulty in renting a room at
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: the hotel. Later, he helped Tonto through the window. By
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: that time, Jack had found the sheriff on the porch
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: of the cafe. The lawman listened attentively to the boy's message. Aye,
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: Tunkin' Jack, that's sure enough news. I'm right glad to
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: hear it.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: You help?
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: Help? Sure I'll help. Old Sage is right inside the
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: cafe this very minute. Oh. He's seen you and me talking.
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: Likely he'll come nosing around as.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: Soon as you leave.
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: So you leave now.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: Looks like he ain't leaving. There he comes now.
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: Evening, sir. Evening. Reckon you already heard all the talk
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: around the town. What is that? How I sent Wellington
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: a chitin' on his way.
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: I heard something about it. I don't reckon he'll ever
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: show himself around here again. He double-crossed me. If it
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: hadn't been for the kid there, I'd have shot a
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: right upstanding man. Ain't that so, Jack?
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right.
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: Yes, sirree, Jack. Just stop me in time.
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: And I seen that Wellington had sent me to do
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: his killing for him and lied about the man I
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: was to shoot, making me think I was killing an outlaw.
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: I swore to get Wellington. So he moved out in
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: town to get away from you? Just so, and good riddance.
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: I suppose that's why the Lone Ranger come into town, too.
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: He did? Sure, he's roaming at the hotel. I never
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: heard that. He's disguised, but that's where he's spending the night.
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: Well, if Wellington comes back, I reckon he'll sure enough
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: get a red-hot reception. If one of us don't get him,
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: the other one will. I've got to be going now, Sheriff.
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: I'll see you soon. Yeah, maybe soon when.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: You expect.
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: Meanwhile, the Lone Ranger had put on his mask. He
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: and Tonto crouched in the gloom of the hotel room, tense, alert,
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: and ready. Then a shadow fell across the open window
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: in a dark form. paused to study the room. Suddenly,
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: there was a rifle shot. Grab that rifle.
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: Me got him. Let me go. Let go of me.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: Hold him, Tonto.
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: I'll get a rope on him. Me got him. Let
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: me hold him. Let me go. Let me go. Not
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: this time, old sage. You're trapped at last. I'll haul
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: you into the room. You got the wrong man. Get
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: that lamp going, Tonto. Me got him. We thought you'd
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: come back to finish the job Jack prevented.
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: No, no.
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: You got the wrong man. No, no, we haven't. You
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: fired point blank at the dummy in that bed. You
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: planned to murder me. Jack let you know where you
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: could find me. They're right. You! I ain't no sage. Wellington!
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: There he is, mister. We got Osage. Osage, you devil.
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: There's Wellington, Osage. You said you was gunning for him. Sheriff,
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: I wanted to... Well, what are you going to do?
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: Stand there or shoot the critters? You said you would.
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: So you squealed on me. You put this man wise.
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: You told the sheriff. Now, wait, Wellington. I didn't do
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: no such thing. Didn't you say you wanted to get
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: Wellington for sending you to drill a lone ranger and
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: making you think it was the Texas kid? Sheriff, Wellington, I.
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: Osage is a killer.
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: He's a crook, and I'll prove it. He won't squeal
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: on me and get away with it. Looks to me
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: like you're both a couple of crooks. And it looks
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: like we at last got evidence to jail you. How
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: about it, mister? I thought Osage would come to the
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: window and try to get me. That is what I
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: thought would happen. But Osage met Wellington just outside the town.
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: And Wellington himself come back to step in the trap.
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: That's what you get for trying to do the thing yourself.
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: So now we got them both where we wanted them
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: for a long, long time. Where's Jack? Is he all right? Sure.
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: When I got all I wanted, I sent him to
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: see Miss Celia and tell her to get here and
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: see her no-count brother Ketch if she had any doubts
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: as to his guilt. I didn't want that poor girl
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: to think he was misjudged.
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: I wouldn't have thought that.
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: Celia, you hear? You've got to explain.
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: All I can say, Jasper, is that I'm glad you're
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: no more than a half-brother. I'm satisfied you let the
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: law take its course.
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: All right, boys. Take these killers to the Calaboos.
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: Now, Jack.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: I'm going to try and find a good place for
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: you to live. Some family who want a great fellow
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: like you. So you won't have to live in the
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: cafe woodshed.
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: Jack.
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: How would you like to have a nice home of
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: your own and the chance to learn reading and writing
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: and the other things a man ought to know?
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: Gosh, it would be pretty swell.
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: Then you shall have one.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: Huh?
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: You heard what the Lone Ranger.
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: Said, didn't you?
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: Just like you are now, all alone in the world
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: with a nice big home to live in. Wouldn't you
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: like to live there, Jack?
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: You mean just like you, like you was my ma?
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: Oh, gosh.
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: I'll sail over Hawaii! Come on there, silver old boy!
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: I'm not waiting on the trail ahead!
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: I'll sail over Hawaii! The End The End THE END.
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: THE END THE END.
• 30:12
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• 30:14
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• 30:16
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• 30:26
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• 30:30
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