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The Lone Ranger - "The Phantom Killer" (Old Time Radio, 1942) · The Lone Ranger | Old Time Radio

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Along the new stage route between Dobie and Prairie City,
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: a series of robberies has left drivers and guards dead
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: without visible wounds, while gold shipments vanish. It brings the
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: Lone Ranger and Tonto to a troubled stretch of prairie
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: where suspicion soon falls upon the masked rider himself. From
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: November 6, 1942, this is The Lone Ranger, Episode 1528,
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: The Phantom Killer. Brace Beamer stars as the Lone Ranger
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: with John Todd as Tonto. Fran Stryker wrote the script
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: and Charles D. Livingston directed. We now take you back
• 0:40
  Speaker 1: to the original broadcast.
• 0:48
  Speaker 2: Oh, Sylvia!
• 1:01
  Speaker 3: Fiery horse with a speed of light, the cloud of dust,
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  Speaker 3: and a hearty hi-yo, Silver, the Lone Ranger.
• 1:08
  Speaker 4: © BF-WATCH TV 2021.
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  Speaker 2: THE END THE END.
• 2:42
  Speaker 3: With his faithful Indian companion, Tonto, the masked rider of
• 2:45
  Speaker 3: the plains led the fight for law and order in
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  Speaker 3: the early western United States. The stories of his strength
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  Speaker 3: and courage, his daring and resourcefulness have come down to
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  Speaker 3: us through the generations. and nowhere in the pages of
• 2:56
  Speaker 3: history can one find a greater champion of justice. Return
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  Speaker 3: with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear. From
• 3:02
  Speaker 3: out of the past come the thundering hoofbeats of the
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  Speaker 3: great horse Silver. The Lone Ranger rides again.
• 3:07
  Speaker 5: Come on, Silver! There's danger on the trail ahead! Go, Silver!
• 3:13
  Speaker 2: Go away! Go!
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  Speaker 3: Outside the home of the driver of the Overland Express
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  Speaker 3: stage in Prairie City, two boys stood admiring the faded
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  Speaker 3: yellow coach and the team of four horses which were
• 3:29
  Speaker 3: waiting to make the regular run to Dolby. One of
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  Speaker 3: the youths, Danny Kern, was the stage driver's son. The
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  Speaker 3: other was his friend.
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  Speaker 2: Someday I'm going to be a stage driver, just like
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  Speaker 2: my dad.
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  Speaker 6: It takes muscle to drive a four in hand.
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  Speaker 2: You bet, and I got it. Huh? Oh, look at
• 3:44
  Speaker 2: this if you don't believe me. That ain't so much.
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  Speaker 2: It's better than you can do. Well, I'll bet you
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  Speaker 2: can't drive a stage now. I bet you I can.
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  Speaker 2: I've already done it. When? Lots of times. Whenever Dad
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  Speaker 2: takes me on one of his trips. You're just fooling...
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  Speaker 2: I am not. If Dad wasn't going to drive that
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  Speaker 2: stage soon, I'd show you. Go on.
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  Speaker 6: I dare you to drive it.
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  Speaker 2: I tell you, Dad's taking it out on his run.
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  Speaker 2: It's easy to talk. Will you go with me if
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  Speaker 2: I do?
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  Speaker 6: You mean you'll drive it?
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  Speaker 2: If you go with me. Well, I... You afraid? Of
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  Speaker 2: course not. Well, come on, then. All right, come on.
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  Speaker 3: Quickly, the two boys scurried to the driver's seat of
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  Speaker 3: the stage, and Danny scooped up the reins. With an
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  Speaker 3: air of authority, he spoke to the horses, then released
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  Speaker 3: the brake.
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  Speaker 6: Get out there.
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  Speaker 5: Get out, horse.
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  Speaker 6: We're moving.
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  Speaker 2: Of course we are. I told you I could drive.
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  Speaker 5: Where do we go?
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  Speaker 2: Out on the trail.
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  Speaker 4: Then I'll show you some real driving.
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  Speaker 2: Are you sure you know how? Oh, I'm afraid he
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  Speaker 2: can't look at him turning green. I am not.
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  Speaker 6: Hang on, then.
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  Speaker 5: Here we go.
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  Speaker 2: Get out.
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  Speaker 5: Get out there.
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  Speaker 3: Through the main street of town lumbered the stage, while
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  Speaker 3: town folk gaped at the two boys who sat on
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  Speaker 3: the driver's seat. Heedless of the warnings that were shouted
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  Speaker 3: after them, Danny headed the four in hand for the
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  Speaker 3: Dobie Trail.
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  Speaker 2: Boy, look at them horses. What? Say, this is fun.
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  Speaker 2: I bet I can drive it clear to Dobie.
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  Speaker 6: You ain't going to, though, are you?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, not this time, Dad. It's getting me alive. Well,
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  Speaker 2: how far are you going? Oh, just for a spell
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  Speaker 2: down the road. You sure can handle them horses, Dan. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: you want to try your hand? Hmm. You think I could? Oh, sure,
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  Speaker 2: as long as I'm here to help you.
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  Speaker 6: Maybe I better not.
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  Speaker 2: What are you scared of? Here, let me change places
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  Speaker 2: with you.
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  Speaker 3: As Dan Half stood in the driver's seat of the
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  Speaker 3: fast-moving stage, two riders quickly reined in their horses. One
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  Speaker 3: of them was a tall man who wore a white
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  Speaker 3: hat and a black mask. The other was an Indian.
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  Speaker 7: A boy is driving that stage, Tonto. Now he's changing
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  Speaker 7: places with the other.
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  Speaker 2: That can be dangerous. Yes, it's suicide. That stage is
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  Speaker 2: heading for a sharp curve.
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  Speaker 3: That's right.
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  Speaker 2: We must warn them.
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  Speaker 5: Come on, Silver.
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  Speaker 6: Come on.
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  Speaker 3: Urging the powerful white stallion and the sturdy paint forward,
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  Speaker 3: the masked man and his Indian friend rode to intercept
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  Speaker 3: the sage before it was too late.
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  Speaker 2: Faster, Silver!
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  Speaker 5: It'll be close, Toto! Stay firm and be fast! We've
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  Speaker 5: got to beat it! Go, Silver!
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  Speaker 3: Go away! From the fast-moving stage, the boys suddenly saw
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  Speaker 3: the dangerous curve ahead.
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  Speaker 6: Dan, look!
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  Speaker 2: Hey, give me those reins.
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  Speaker 6: Stop the horses, we'll overturn. Whoa, whoa there, whoa! They're
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  Speaker 6: running away.
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  Speaker 5: Whoa, whole horse, pull up there.
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  Speaker 3: Look, a mass man.
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  Speaker 5: And a ninja.
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  Speaker 2: Outlaws, they're overtaking us.
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  Speaker 3: As the thundering stage drew closer and closer to the
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  Speaker 3: sharp curve ahead, the great horse Silver drew even with
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  Speaker 3: the driver's seat and leaped alongside the lead horse of
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  Speaker 3: the team. Quickly, the lone ranger grasped the team's reins.
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  Speaker 5: Whoa, whoa, whoa there, whoa!
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  Speaker 3: Raining on the reins, he slowly but surely pulled the
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  Speaker 3: team to a halt. Virtually on the brink of the turn,
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  Speaker 3: the coach lumbered.
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  Speaker 2: To a halt.
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  Speaker 5: What are you boys doing with this tape?
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  Speaker 6: We were just taking it for a ride.
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  Speaker 2: A ride, huh? You might have killed yourselves. We won't
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  Speaker 2: do it again. No, I'd better take it back now.
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  Speaker 2: My dad's a regular driver. He'll need it for the
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  Speaker 2: run to Dobie. I'll see you on your way. Help
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  Speaker 2: me turn the horses, Toto. Ah!
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  Speaker 3: A few days later, across the arid wastes of a
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  Speaker 3: sun-bleached prairie, a puff of dust moved along a new
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  Speaker 3: wagon trail. Then a sudden breeze whisked the dust away,
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  Speaker 3: revealing a stagecoach bound for Prairie City. As the stage
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  Speaker 3: lurched wide around a bend, two horsemen watched its approach.
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  Speaker 2: There's something wrong with that stage, Tulloch. Ah, horses run way.
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  Speaker 2: Look at the garden driver. Ah, me see. Something's happened
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  Speaker 2: to them. Let's go.
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  Speaker 6: Get him up. Come on, Tulloch.
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  Speaker 3: A half hour later, a strange procession filed down the
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  Speaker 3: main street of Prairie City toward the express office. The
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  Speaker 3: town folk gaped as it slowly lumbered past, then buzzed
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  Speaker 3: with excitement. Sheriff!
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  Speaker 6: Hey, Sheriff!
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  Speaker 5: Don't bother me. Stage is here, Sheriff. It's been way
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  Speaker 5: late again.
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  Speaker 6: What's that?
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  Speaker 5: There it is. You can see for yourself. Look who's
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  Speaker 5: driving it. A masked man.
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  Speaker 2: And a ninja. What is it, Sheriff?
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  Speaker 6: No yet, Rand, but I'm aiming to find out.
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  Speaker 2: I'll go with you.
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  Speaker 5: Me too.
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  Speaker 6: Come down off that stage, you two. I've got you covered.
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  Speaker 5: Put those guns back in leather, Sheriff. Follow their friends.
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  Speaker 6: I'll decide for myself who you are, mister. Meanwhile, if
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  Speaker 6: either one of you make a wrong move, you'll get
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  Speaker 6: a slug from those six guns. Hey, Sheriff.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah? The driver and the guard, they're dead. They need
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  Speaker 5: a mark on them.
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  Speaker 6: This is the third time that's happened inside a month.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe they died of bad hearts or something, Sheriff.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, you slow-witted maverick. If it had been just one,
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  Speaker 6: she might be right. But six corps have been brought
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  Speaker 6: in by stage, and all without a mark on them.
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  Speaker 6: Much more, the stage has been looted every time.
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  Speaker 2: That's right, Sheriff.
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  Speaker 6: There's no two ways about it. Those men were murdered,
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  Speaker 6: and this masked army, the engine of the ones.
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  Speaker 2: Who did it.
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  Speaker 7: These two men were dead when we found them.
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  Speaker 2: A likely story, eh, Sheriff? Who are you?
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  Speaker 8: I'm district superintendent of the stage company, mister. And I'm
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  Speaker 8: charging you with murder and theft against the Oberlin Express.
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  Speaker 5: Come on, Danny. Bring him up. It's Danny Kernan, the
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  Speaker 5: stage driver's boy. Let me through. All right, get back there.
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  Speaker 6: Let the kids through.
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  Speaker 2: Dad.
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  Speaker 1: Dad.
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  Speaker 3: Dad.
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  Speaker 2: Your father is dead, Dan.
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  Speaker 5: Dead? You're the man.
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  Speaker 2: That's the man who killed him.
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  Speaker 5: That's Lynch and two murderers. Come on, Tonto.
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  Speaker 2: Steady, Silver. Come on.
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  Speaker 5: Out of my way.
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  Speaker 6: Now, hold on there.
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  Speaker 2: I'll get him.
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  Speaker 5: Not so fast. Oh, my hand.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, Tonto. Get him up.
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  Speaker 5: They're getting away. Come on, send them.
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  Speaker 2: Come on.
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  Speaker 3: Sometime later, the Lone Ranger and Tonto rode along the
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  Speaker 3: new stage trail seeking a clue to the mysterious murders.
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  Speaker 7: Somewhere along this trail, six men were murdered, Tonto. No
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  Speaker 7: sign of injury.
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  Speaker 5: What is it, Toto?
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  Speaker 2: You look, there. Easy, big fella. The stage was driven
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  Speaker 2: off the trail and alongside that boulder.
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  Speaker 5: They follow tracks.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe find something. There are three sets of wagon tracks
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  Speaker 2: leading from the trail.
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  Speaker 1: Not right.
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  Speaker 2: Kimisabe, let me find something. You look here on rock.
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  Speaker 2: Gold dust. At least it looks like it. And gold
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  Speaker 2: was stolen from the stage. Is that right? What's that mean?
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  Speaker 7: Working alone, the outlaw found the loot too heavy to
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  Speaker 7: handle without dropping and breaking the boxes. He drove the
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  Speaker 7: stage off the trail and slid them onto this boulder
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  Speaker 7: and probably onto pack horses.
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  Speaker 2: This dust trickled from the boxes. Oh, tons of savvy now.
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  Speaker 7: That means he knew the guard and driver would be
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  Speaker 7: dead when the stage got here.
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  Speaker 2: What kill him? Easy, big fella. The answer lies on
• 10:47
  Speaker 2: the trail ahead, fellow.
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  Speaker 5: Come on, Silver.
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  Speaker 3: Hit him up. The next day, the sheriff was in
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  Speaker 3: the district office of the stage company, conferring with the manager.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Rand, his eyesight's things up. Oh, just a minute, Sheriff.
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  Speaker 5: Who's there? It's me, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Rand.
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  Speaker 5: Danny Kern.
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  Speaker 6: Danny Kern?
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  Speaker 2: That's the son of the stage driver who was killed yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: I wonder what he wants. Ask him in and find out.
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  Speaker 2: Come on in. Uh, sorry about your poor death, son. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: me too.
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  Speaker 6: We mean to make it up to you by catching
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  Speaker 6: the yellow-livered coyote who killed him.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that mask man, his Indian friend. Well, that's what
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  Speaker 2: I've come to see about, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Rand.
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  Speaker 2: What? I want you to give me the chance to
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  Speaker 2: catch the killer that murdered my dad. What's that? How
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  Speaker 2: can I give you the chance, boy? By giving me
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  Speaker 2: the job driving the stage my dad drove before he died. What?
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  Speaker 5: Well, don't laugh.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, sorry, son. But I thought I heard you say
• 11:44
  Speaker 2: you wanted to drive the stage. I did. The horse effect.
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  Speaker 2: The kid's plumb serious. How old are you, boy? Fourteen.
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  Speaker 2: But I can handle a four-in-hand. Fourteen? You've got size
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  Speaker 2: and weight enough to pass for eighteen. Where'd you learn
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  Speaker 2: to handle a four-in-hand? My dad taught me. He used
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  Speaker 2: to take me with him on some of his trips.
• 12:01
  Speaker 6: And you think by taking your dad's place, you might
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  Speaker 6: meet up with a murderer?
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  Speaker 2: Hmm, son? That's what I'm hoping.
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  Speaker 6: A new stage trail runs through some pretty dangerous and
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  Speaker 6: deserted country, Danny.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, driving that coach is a man's job. Only one
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  Speaker 2: waterhole in the whole stretch.
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  Speaker 6: And when you come to it, you're so doggone thirsty
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  Speaker 6: you like to drown yourself getting enough to drink.
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  Speaker 2: I want that job, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Rand.
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  Speaker 2: You got the spunk for a stage driver, I'll say that, son.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I heard you needed drivers for the new stage trail
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  Speaker 4: since some killings commenced, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Rand. That's so. I heard you couldn't get no experienced
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  Speaker 2: driver to take the job. The boys got you there, Rand.
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  Speaker 2: Six men have been murdered riding the stage on that trail. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And you want the job in spite of it? Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 8: What makes you think you'd bring the stage through when
• 12:41
  Speaker 8: six grown men haven't been able to?
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  Speaker 2: I'll bring them horses through, all right, Mr. Rand. When
• 12:45
  Speaker 2: I get to Prairie City, I'll be driving them. They
• 12:47
  Speaker 2: won't be pulling my corpse. Doggone it, Rand. Let the
• 12:50
  Speaker 2: boy try it. I like his nerve. Just give me
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  Speaker 2: one chance, Mr. Rand. You haven't got anything to lose. No, no.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing but four good horses and a stage and cargo.
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  Speaker 2: Give the lad his chance. I've got an idea. All right, boy.
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  Speaker 2: The job's yours. Oh, thanks, Mr. Rand.
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  Speaker 8: Report to me here tomorrow. We'll take the stage to
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  Speaker 8: Dobie in the morning and drive it back to Prairie
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  Speaker 8: City in the afternoon.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir. Goodbye.
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  Speaker 6: Goodbye, Danny.
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  Speaker 2: Good luck to you. I got the job, Rex. Now
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  Speaker 2: I'll get the critter that killed my dad.
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  Speaker 5: Get up, boy.
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  Speaker 2: Get up there.
• 13:31
  Speaker 3: As the youth rode away, the Lone Ranger and Tonto
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  Speaker 3: watched from a nearby concealment where they had listened to
• 13:36
  Speaker 3: the conversation.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going in now, Tonto. I'll wait here. Them not
• 13:40
  Speaker 2: chase you?
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  Speaker 7: I don't think so. I have a hundred zero map
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  Speaker 7: out of plan after I get what I came for.
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  Speaker 7: I want you to overhear that plan.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, how does that be? I'll wait for you at
• 13:50
  Speaker 2: the fork outside of town. Adios. Adios.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, what the.
• 13:59
  Speaker 2: Don't ask me. Keep your guns and leather. You're covered.
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  Speaker 2: Put them shooting irons down, stranger. And surrender in the name.
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  Speaker 5: Of the law.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't come to surrender, Sheriff. So you admit you're
• 14:07
  Speaker 2: the killer. You'll think that whether I deny it or not, Rand.
• 14:11
  Speaker 2: And you are the murdering coyote. No, I'm not, Sheriff.
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  Speaker 2: I came here for information. Information? What kind?
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  Speaker 7: I want to know when the stage leaves here for
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  Speaker 7: Dobie tomorrow morning. When it's scheduled to leave Dobie in
• 14:21
  Speaker 7: the afternoon.
• 14:22
  Speaker 2: So you can murder more of our men and loot
• 14:24
  Speaker 2: the coach again, huh? You're becoming insistent on that point, Rand.
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: I don't like it. Pretty brave when you're standing behind
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: them six guns, aren't you? You think you'd be a
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: match for me if I weren't? I'd be twice the
• 14:38
  Speaker 2: match of the likes of you, mister. Sheriff, here are
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: my guns. What? Now, Rand... Prove your point.
• 14:44
  Speaker 5: I'll prove it.
• 14:45
  Speaker 2: You missed that swing, Rand.
• 14:46
  Speaker 5: Well, I won't miss this.
• 14:47
  Speaker 7: That'll do for you, Rand.
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: What a wallop you've got, stranger. Flush on the jaw. Now, Rand,
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: I'll take that information. It's against the rules to give
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: to anybody except them who buys a fair. Very well,
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: I'll buy one. I, uh... Never mind, Rand. That chart
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: on the wall seems to be the schedule. I'll just
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: help myself. No, no, stop him, Sheriff. My gun, Sheriff,
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: if you please.
• 15:11
  Speaker 5: He's getting away. Stop him.
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: Garnet, I've never seen anything like that masked man.
• 15:16
  Speaker 5: Never.
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: The curtain falls on the first act of our Lone
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: Ranger story. Before the next exciting scenes, please permit us
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: to pause for just a few moments. THE END.
• 16:03
  Speaker 6: THE END.
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: Now to continue our story. After Lone Ranger escaped in
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: a hail of bullets, Tonto crept closer outside the window
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: and listened.
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: That's the second time you've let that mascot break it
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: away from you, Sheriff. Well, you're going to hang on
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: to Grease Lighter. You better do something to catch him
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: pretty quick. Well, I name him to. Oh.
• 16:54
  Speaker 6: What's the stage freight in the Dobie tomorrow?
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: Oh, nothing valuable. What's it carrying on the return trip?
• 16:59
  Speaker 5: Gold.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: Gold, eh? You think we'd better move the shipment back
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: a couple of days? No. That gold's going to stick
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: to schedule. But I can't afford... We'll use it as
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: bait to lure the masked man into a trap. Oh.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: What's your plan, Sheriff? I'll ride this stage on the
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: return trip myself. I'll take the job as guard of
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: the gold. You mean.
• 17:16
  Speaker 6: And I'll swear in a lot of new deputies today
• 17:18
  Speaker 6: to post along the trail.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: All along the trail? Yeah, but regular intervals. Ain't no
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: sense in stationing them in dry gull, Sheriff. That part
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: of the trail's clean deserted. Ain't even a shrub for
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: the murderer to hide behind. I'm not taking any chances. Well,
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: I guess you're wrong. We'll have that killer bottled up
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: no matter where he strikes. Yeah. Well, I'll be getting along.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: I've got a lot of deputies to swear in before tomorrow.
• 17:38
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 17:45
  Speaker 8: You think you'll have the killer bottled up, eh, Sheriff?
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: Very much so.
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: Urging his sturdy paint ahead, Tonto rode to the fork
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: outside of town where the lone ranger waited. He quickly
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: reported what he had heard.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: Well, the Sheriff is posting men all along the trail, eh, Tonto?
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: That right.
• 18:08
  Speaker 7: That's the surest way to scare the killer off. To
• 18:10
  Speaker 7: capture the murderer, we'll have to get those deputies away
• 18:13
  Speaker 7: from the trail.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: What do we do? I have a plan, Toto. It'll
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: require a third person to carry it out. Someone we
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: can trust. You know a person? Yes, I think I do,
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: Kimo Sabe. Come on, Silver.
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: Oh, good color. Get a look.
• 18:27
  Speaker 7: Come on.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: It was dusk when on the trail not far from town,
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: Danny Kern heard the thunder of distant hoofs. Looking back
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: saw White Stallion with a masked rider rapidly approaching. For
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: a moment he sat transfixed as the great horse Silver
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: raced toward him through the gathering shadows of night. Then
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: recognizing the rider as the stranger he and Tad had
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: met on the trail, the mysterious masked man whom he
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: believed had murdered his father, Dan spurred his horse ahead.
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: The masked man? Get up, Rex.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: We ain't got a chance against him without a gun.
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: Get up, boy.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: Wait, Dan.
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: I want to talk to you.
• 19:02
  Speaker 6: Come on, Rex.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: But try as he would to stretch the distance between
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: him and the masked man, Dan soon found his efforts
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: were of little avail. The onrushing stallion rapidly bridged the
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: gap with powerful sinewy strides, and the lone ranger reached
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: for Dan's bridle.
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: Take your hands off that range!
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: I suppose you're going to kill me just like you
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: did my dad. I didn't kill your father, Dan. You've
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: got to believe that. I suppose this engine's innocent, too.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: Todd and I would like to be your friends, Dan.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: You can't trick me like that. Dan, do you want
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: to capture the man who killed your father? You bet
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: I do, and you're him.
• 19:38
  Speaker 7: Todd and I have a plan to trap the killer,
• 19:39
  Speaker 7: but we need your help.
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: Oh, you don't fool me, none, mister. If you really
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: wanted to catch the killer, you'd just walk into the
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: sheriff's office and give yourself up. Perhaps this will change
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: your mind about me.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: What? That's a silver bullet. A silver bullet. A masked
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: man and a white horse. What? You're the Lone Ranger.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: Shall we talk about that plan now, Dan?
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: You bet we will.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: Late the following afternoon, there was a bustle of activity
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: before the express office in Dobie. It was almost time
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: for the departure of the stage for Prairie City, and
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: an exceptionally large and curious crowd of town folk had
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: gathered to watch how the 14-year-old son of a slain
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: stage driver handled the four-in-hand on his return run. But Dan,
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: made confident by the success of his trip from Prairie City,
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: ignored their interest and whispered comments with the aplomb of
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: a veteran.
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: Whoa! Hold up there, horse! Whoa! Whoa there!
• 20:42
  Speaker 6: Whoa!
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: All right, Hank.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: Hit them horses to the stage.
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: Just as you say, Danny.
• 20:48
  Speaker 6: You handle that.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: Foreign hand like a veteran already, son. Thanks, Sheriff. Hey,
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: gold all stored aboard? Everything's in order. Good. Time to
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: be moving, ain't it, Danny? Almost, Sheriff. We got a passenger. Passenger?
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: He's coming out of the office now.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: A tall man in nondescript clothes stepped out of the
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: express office and into the stage. A secret preparation of
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: wild berries and herbs applied to his face by Tonto
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: had almost magically changed its appearance. where not long before
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: the Lone Ranger had stood, now walked an ordinary cowhand.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: Horses are all hitched, Danny.
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: Thanks, Hank.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: Ready, Sheriff? That passenger.
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: Better get moving if you want to make it to
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: Prairie City on time. We're moving right now.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: Come on, Sheriff. THE END.
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: Leaving the outskirts of Dobie, the stage gathered speed, then
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: settled into a steady run under Dan's expert hands. Unknown
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: to the sheriff, the quarry he so eagerly sought as
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: he fastened his eyes on the trail sat disguised as
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: a passenger inside the coach.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: How far are we from the waterhole, Sheriff? Quite a
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: ways to go, yes, stranger. Have your men seen anything
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: of the outlaw?
• 22:06
  Speaker 6: No. When that masked fellow and his Indian friend hold
• 22:10
  Speaker 6: up the stage this time.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: They'll find a mess of trouble. What's that?
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: It's coming from behind us. Why, it's your deputy, Sheriff.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: They're chasing someone. The engine.
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: Get him off this town.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: Oh, go on, that red skin.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: Get up there.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: Get up there.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Get up there.
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: Get up there.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: Get up there. Get up there. Get up there.
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: Get up there. Get up there.
• 22:35
  Speaker 6: Get up there.
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: Get up there.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: Get up there. Get up there.
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: Get up there.
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: Riding like the wind, Tonto dashed along the stage trail
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: toward Prairie City with the sheriff's deputies in hot pursuit.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: Attracted by the thundering hoops and the sound of gunfire,
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: each man in turn left his post and joined the chase.
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: You cover me! You come! Come on, horse! Get up there!
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: Get up there!
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: Past the express office in Prairie City sped the chase.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: Superintendent Rand went to the window to see what the
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: excitement was.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: Stupid fools. All of them leaving their posts to chase
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: one innocent engine. It's just what I needed to give
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: me a chance at that gold.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: It was some time later when Danny Kern brought the
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: stage to a stop at the waterhole. The afternoon sun
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: blazed down on the trail with an almost intolerable heat,
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: and dust clogged the hot air as the stage slowly
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: rumbled to a halt. Fidgeting beside Dan on the driver's seat,
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: the sheriff eyed the waterhole with keen anticipation of a
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: drink from it to cool his parched throat.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: Come up there!
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: Whoa!
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: Easy there! Easy there! Whoa! Whoa there!
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: Whoa!
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: Man, I don't know about you two, but I'm making
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: for that water pronto.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: I'm so dry I could drown myself. Just a minute, Sheriff.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: Come on there, horses. Hold on, Danny.
• 24:18
  Speaker 6: If you got no better sense than let them horses
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: drink first, they'll muddy up the water.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: Them horses are mighty thirsty, Sheriff. So am I. I
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: ain't hanging to drink water after horses have stirred it up. Well,
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: maybe you better wait till we get to Prairie City
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: for a drink, Sheriff.
• 24:30
  Speaker 6: Go on, loco, lad. Get them horses out of here.
• 24:33
  Speaker 6: Even muddy water's better than none.
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: Suddenly, from the direction of the stage, a tall man
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: who wore a white hat and a black mask and
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: silver-mounted six guns hung low at his hips strode toward
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: the sheriff.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: Don't drink that water, sheriff. The masked man. Also your passengers.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: You mean this... I removed my disguise and the coach.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: Jumping juniper. And all my deputies went chasing that engine.
• 24:55
  Speaker 7: That was necessary to give the killer a chance to
• 24:56
  Speaker 7: expose himself.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: You don't have to expose yourself to me, mister. I
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: know who you are. Dan, take this gun.
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: If he tries to drink that water, shoot him. What
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: in thunder?
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: Yes, Silver.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: So you two are in cahoots all the time. The
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: killer's as gritty for gold as I think he is, Sheriff.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: I'll bring him to you.
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: What?
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: Easy, big fella. Remember, Dan, don't let him drink that water. Yes, sir.
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: Come on, Silver. Come on.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: Down the trail thundered the powerful white stallion. His flying
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: hoof struck sparks from jutting stones, and his nostrils widened
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: as the masked man urged him to even greater speed. Then,
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: partly concealed by a boulder, they sighted their quarry.
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: Whoa, Silver, whoa, whoa. I want you, Rand. Keep your
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: hands away from those holsters.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: What do you want? I want you for murder. Murder?
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: You must be a love ghost.
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: No use stalling, Rand. I have proof. You'll never take me.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: The second time for you, Rand. No, you don't.
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: Well, I still... Oh! You brought me out of that saddle.
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: You're coming with me, Rand?
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: Come on, Sidley.
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: Where are you taking me? To the waterhole.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: You'll talk there.
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: At the waterhole, in the baking heat of the afternoon sun,
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: Dan Kern kept his vigil, watching the angry sheriff grow
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: angrier by the minute as his eyes thirsted on the
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: water Dan's guns wouldn't permit him to drink. Please, arguments,
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: offers of leniency to Dan in exchange for a mouthful
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: of the water availed him nothing. And he lapsed into bitterness.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: Do you think I encourage Rand to give you this job?
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: And you working for the killer? I tell you, Sheriff,
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: the masked man ain't the killer. I reckon your paw
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: would say different. The masked man will be back soon.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: Then you'll see. Well, I want a drink of that water.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: My throat is parched. Oh, no, you don't. You don't
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: touch that water.
• 26:46
  Speaker 6: My throat's parched.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: I can't help it, Sheriff. My orders are you aren't
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: to drink that water.
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: Oh, boy.
• 26:53
  Speaker 6: What's wrong with this water?
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: It's poison, Sheriff.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: Well, Rand, what are you doing here? Arrest this man, Sheriff.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: Rand is a mysterious killer, Sheriff. It's a lie.
• 27:01
  Speaker 7: When he saw Tonto chased by your deputies, he hurried
• 27:04
  Speaker 7: to murder you and Dan as he did the others.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: Don't listen to him, Sheriff.
• 27:06
  Speaker 7: I found him where I expected, at a boulder where
• 27:09
  Speaker 7: he planned to rob the stage of the gold.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: Is that right, Rand?
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: No, no.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: Ask him what he's doing on the trail with these
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: pack horses, Sheriff. How could he.
• 27:16
  Speaker 6: Kill six men and not leave a mark on them?
• 27:18
  Speaker 7: He put poison in this waterhole. Poison ordinarily used to
• 27:21
  Speaker 7: kill insects.
• 27:22
  Speaker 6: Oh, Dan's horses drank that water, and they're as healthy
• 27:25
  Speaker 6: now as before.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: Horses aren't affected by the poison, Sheriff.
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: Men are.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: So that's why you and Dan were so anxious not
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: to let me drink. That's it, Sheriff.
• 27:33
  Speaker 7: One hour after the six men drank here, they were dead.
• 27:37
  Speaker 7: Rand waited at the boulder where he could be certain
• 27:39
  Speaker 7: of it.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: He's lying, Sheriff.
• 27:40
  Speaker 7: After looting the stage, Rand sent the horses on again.
• 27:43
  Speaker 7: You'll find the stolen goods at his home.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: You yellow-livered murderer.
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: Don't touch me, Sheriff. I tell you, he's lying.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: If you want further proof, Sheriff, make him drink that water.
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: Go on, Rand. Drink it. No. No, don't make me
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: drink it. I'll confess. I killed him. I killed him.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: I ought to drown you in it, you murdering scum.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: I told you I'd help catch the murderer, didn't I, Sheriff? Yes,
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: you did that, Danny. If it wasn't for you and
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: the mask man, why, he's gone. Yep, he's gone.
• 28:11
  Speaker 6: Help me!
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: Help me! THE END.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: THE END.
• 29:28
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• 29:32
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• 29:35
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• 29:59
  Speaker 1: That was the Lone Ranger in The Phantom Killer. Good evening,
• 30:02
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