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The Lone Ranger - "Left Handed Killer" (Old Time Radio, 1955) · The Lone Ranger | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: June 17th, 1955, marks episode 3242 of The Lone Ranger.
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  Speaker 1: Tonight's installment is titled Left-Handed Killer. For generations, this radio
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  Speaker 1: series carried listeners across the western frontier with The Lone
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  Speaker 1: Ranger and Tonto. Settle in now for a broadcast from
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  Speaker 1: that long-running tradition, and now we return to the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: A fiery horse with a speed of light, a cloud
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  Speaker 2: of dust, and a hearty hi-yo silver. The Lone Ranger.
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  Speaker 3: The Lone Ranger.
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  Speaker 4: General Mills, makers of Cheerios, the ready-to-eat oat cereal that
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  Speaker 4: gives you goal power, and Wheaties, the breakfast of champions,
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  Speaker 4: present by special recording, the Lone Ranger.
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  Speaker 5: Cowboy Tom is a boy of six. He knows all
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  Speaker 5: kinds of cowboy tricks. He can rope a steer because
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  Speaker 5: he knows. He's got go-power from Cheerios. Yes, he's got go-power.
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  Speaker 2: There he goes. He's feeling his Cheerios. Cheerios. Cheerios.
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  Speaker 6: You bet.
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  Speaker 4: Cheerios, the oat cereal that needs no cooking. Every delicious
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  Speaker 4: spoonful of Cheerios and milk is real muscle-building food. Each
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  Speaker 4: spoonful contains vitamins, minerals, and proteins your body needs. Yes,
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  Speaker 4: the good things in a Cheerios breakfast do good things
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  Speaker 4: for your body, help you have healthy nerves, good red blood,
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  Speaker 4: strong bones, and muscles. And besides giving you go-power, Cheerios
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  Speaker 4: is downright wonderful tasting. That toasted oat flavor is really something.
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  Speaker 4: And when you add milk and your favorite fruit, say
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  Speaker 4: some sliced bananas, you're in for a delicious breakfast treat.
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  Speaker 4: Get the whole family off to a good start every.
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  Speaker 6: Morning with Cheerios.
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  Speaker 4: Then you'll hear people say.
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  Speaker 5: He's feeling his Cheerios.
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  Speaker 4: With his faithful Indian companion Tonto, the daring and resourceful
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  Speaker 4: mask rider of the plains led the fight for law
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  Speaker 4: and order in the early western United States. Nowhere in
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  Speaker 4: the pages of history can one find a greater champion
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  Speaker 4: of justice. Return with us now to those thrilling days
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  Speaker 4: of yesteryear. From out of the past come the thundering
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  Speaker 4: hoofbeats of.
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  Speaker 6: The great horse Silver.
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  Speaker 4: The Lone Ranger rides again.
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  Speaker 7: Come on, Silver.
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  Speaker 6: Let's go, big fella. I am Silver.
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  Speaker 2: Follow me.
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  Speaker 4: Early one morning, Buckeye Norton, the foreman at the Paradise Mine,
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  Speaker 4: entered the office of a lawyer named Hasp.
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  Speaker 6: Solon in the town of Gunstock. As Buckeye closed the door,
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  Speaker 6: he said.
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  Speaker 4: As I hear the boss died on the moon year
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  Speaker 4: last night.
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  Speaker 2: He did, Buckeye.
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  Speaker 6: Now I'll be the owner of the Paradise Mine.
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  Speaker 3: Pete Marvel thought a lot of you, but he thought.
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  Speaker 2: More of his own flesh and blood. Huh?
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  Speaker 3: You'll get the mine if Pete's nephew Johnny dies before
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  Speaker 3: he claims it and takes over.
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 3: Those are the terms of Pete's will that's on file
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  Speaker 3: with the town clerk.
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  Speaker 6: I thought all his relatives were dead.
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  Speaker 2: Johnny's the only one alive.
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  Speaker 3: Kill him before he gets legal possession of the mine
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  Speaker 3: and it's yours.
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  Speaker 6: You're talking murder.
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  Speaker 2: It wouldn't be your first. What?
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  Speaker 3: You and a man named Dobie Rapson killed and robbed
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  Speaker 3: a rancher in Pecos 21 years ago.
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  Speaker 6: How'd you know that?
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  Speaker 3: Dobie signed a confession before he died. I have the
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  Speaker 3: confession naming you as his partner.
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 3: I kept quiet about the crime because I knew what
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  Speaker 3: Pete Marvel thought of you. I figured someday you'd own
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  Speaker 3: the Paradise Mine.
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  Speaker 2: So that's it. I'll sell the.
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  Speaker 3: Confession to you for half the mine.
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  Speaker 6: I can't kill Johnny Marvel. I'd be the first one
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  Speaker 6: suspected of the murder.
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  Speaker 3: Make me half owner of the Paradise, and I'll see
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  Speaker 3: that Johnny doesn't live long enough to take possession.
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  Speaker 6: You've made a bargain.
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  Speaker 4: A couple of weeks later, Buckeye came into the town
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  Speaker 4: of Gunstock to buy supplies for the mine. After he
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  Speaker 4: bought what was needed, he drove the buckboard to Hasp
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  Speaker 4: Solon's office and hurried inside.
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  Speaker 1: Hasp.
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  Speaker 6: I came to town an hour ago.
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  Speaker 4: I heard from half a dozen people that Johnny Marvel's
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  Speaker 4: doing gun stock sometime this week.
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  Speaker 2: No one knows it, but he'll arrive today. You told
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  Speaker 2: me two days ago you planned to take care of
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  Speaker 2: him before he hit town. I do.
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  Speaker 6: Then why spread the news he's coming?
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  Speaker 3: The law will think the killer was on the lookout
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  Speaker 3: for Johnny, hoping to steal a.
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  Speaker 2: Lot of money.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that might fool the law, but it doesn't sound
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  Speaker 4: smart to me.
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  Speaker 3: I don't care how it sounds to you. I'm running
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  Speaker 3: the risk in this killing. I want to be sure
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  Speaker 3: no one suspects the real reason for it.
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  Speaker 2: Huh. Hand me my rifle, will you? It's in the
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  Speaker 2: corner near the door. Yeah, sure. This is a mighty
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  Speaker 2: odd-looking sharps.
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  Speaker 6: What's different about it?
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  Speaker 2: It's a left-handed rifle. What do you mean, left-handed?
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  Speaker 3: The knob that ejects the cartridges is in the left
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  Speaker 3: side instead of the right.
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  Speaker 2: You're left-handed? Yes.
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  Speaker 6: Where are you going with the rifle?
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  Speaker 3: Johnny Marvel will ride along the old covered wagon trail
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  Speaker 3: toward town sometime this afternoon.
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  Speaker 2: You sure?
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  Speaker 3: I had a letter from him last week telling me
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  Speaker 3: the time he planned to arrive. I'll find a hiding
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  Speaker 3: place above the trail and wait for him.
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  Speaker 6: Good luck.
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  Speaker 2: Don't worry. When I get back to town, he'll be dead.
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  Speaker 4: The Lone Ranger's Indian friend, Tonto, had also been in
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  Speaker 4: gunstock to buy supplies. When he returned to camp in
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  Speaker 4: the hills, a short distance from the old covered wagon trail,
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  Speaker 4: he had bad news for his masked friend.
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  Speaker 2: Me learn in town, Kimisabe. Old friend named Pete Marble dead.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.
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  Speaker 2: Him die of pneumonia two, three week ago.
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  Speaker 6: He was a fine man.
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  Speaker 2: Him do not help spilled west.
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  Speaker 6: Who take over the Paradise Mine?
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  Speaker 2: Fellow in store say Pete leave mine to nephew, Johnny Marble.
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  Speaker 6: I didn't know he had a nephew.
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  Speaker 2: Storekeeper say Johnny 20, 21. Him come from east this week.
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  Speaker 2: Take charge of mine.
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  Speaker 6: He has a big job ahead of him.
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  Speaker 2: He has plenty of big jobs to run mine like that.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, he'll need common help. Rifle fire, Tonto.
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  Speaker 2: It sounds like shots come from covered wagon trails.
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  Speaker 6: We'll find out what they mean.
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  Speaker 7: Easy, fella.
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  Speaker 4: The black man and his Indian friend raced downhill. Before
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  Speaker 4: they reached the bottom of the heavily wooded slope, they
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  Speaker 4: saw a rider hurrying away.
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  Speaker 2: Someone in big hurry. Get way.
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  Speaker 6: He must have seen us coming.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe a powerful fire shot.
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  Speaker 6: Look down there on the trail. Ah, down on the ground.
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  Speaker 7: You see how badly he's hurt.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, he's a bad big fellow, Peter.
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  Speaker 4: A few minutes later, the Lone Ranger and Tonto drew
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  Speaker 4: the rein beside the still form of Johnny Marvel. As
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  Speaker 4: Tonto examined his wound, the young Easterner's eyes opened.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no. Take it easy.
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  Speaker 6: I'm an Indian.
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  Speaker 2: Let me try to help you.
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  Speaker 6: How bad is the wound, Tonto?
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  Speaker 2: Not bad. Me thinkin' be all right.
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  Speaker 6: Good.
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  Speaker 4: You.
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  Speaker 6: Your mask. The mask needn't alarm you. We're here with friends. Friends.
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  Speaker 6: Who are you?
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  Speaker 2: If you have my wallet, you know my name. Identification
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  Speaker 2: papers are in it. We not shoot you.
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  Speaker 6: You didn't. If we had, we wouldn't be trying to
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  Speaker 6: help you now.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I didn't think of that. When I saw your mask.
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  Speaker 6: I understand.
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  Speaker 2: My name's John Marvel.
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  Speaker 6: Are you Pete Marvel's nephew? Yes. Todd and I knew
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  Speaker 6: your uncle well. I didn't know he had any outlaw friends.
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  Speaker 6: He knew what my mask meant.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no. No offense, mister. I appreciate your effort to
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  Speaker 2: help me.
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  Speaker 6: Were you robbed? I.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I lost consciousness when a bullet knocked
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  Speaker 2: me from the saddle. I'll see if my wallet's missing.
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  Speaker 2: Take it easy. Take it easy, fella. I guess I'd
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  Speaker 2: better take it easy. My wallet's in the breast pocket
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  Speaker 2: of my coat. Let me see if it's gone.
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  Speaker 6: What about it, fella?
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  Speaker 2: Here, wallet. Is there any money left in it? Maybe
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  Speaker 2: paper money here. Well, then he... He didn't take any.
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  Speaker 6: Apparently, he didn't have time.
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  Speaker 2: What do you mean? We scare him off.
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  Speaker 6: While you're bandaging his wound, Tonto, I'll look for tracks.
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  Speaker 4: When the masked man rejoined Tonto and the wounded Easterner,
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  Speaker 4: Johnny was sitting up, grinning sheepishly.
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  Speaker 2: I owe you an apology. Oh? Tonto told me who
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  Speaker 2: you are. Years ago, my uncle mentioned you in one
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  Speaker 2: of his letters. I'd almost forgotten.
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  Speaker 3: Until Tonto explained how you met Uncle Pete.
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  Speaker 6: He was a good friend of ours.
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  Speaker 2: I'm grateful to you for helping me.
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  Speaker 6: I'm glad we were near when you needed us. Tonto,
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  Speaker 6: if you'll come with me, I'll show you where the
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  Speaker 6: ambusher waited for Johnny.
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  Speaker 4: A few minutes later, the Lone Ranger, Tonto, and Johnny
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  Speaker 4: Marble rode to the place above the trail where Hasp
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  Speaker 4: Solon had waited for his victim.
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  Speaker 6: Tonto pointed to the ground. Track show.
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  Speaker 2: Ambush her, lie flat. And make marks there with toe boot.
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  Speaker 6: He aimed his rifle from that position.
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  Speaker 2: Why do you say that?
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  Speaker 6: Here's the imprint of his elbow. He used that arm
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  Speaker 6: to support his rifle.
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  Speaker 4: Ah.
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  Speaker 6: You'll notice his right arm and elbow support the weapon.
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  Speaker 2: Ah. And that meaning full trigger with left hand. Yes.
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  Speaker 6: The man we want is left-handed.
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  Speaker 4: It's remarkable that you're able to learn so much from
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  Speaker 4: tracks on the ground.
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  Speaker 6: Once you've been trained to observe them, Johnny, tracks are
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  Speaker 6: easier to read than handwriting on a wall. Nevertheless, that.
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  Speaker 2: What now?
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  Speaker 6: He's going to fall, Tony.
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  Speaker 2: Steady, Johnny, steady. Sorry. I'm weaker than that. Now you
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  Speaker 2: lean on me. Yes, yes, yes.
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  Speaker 6: Over. Stay with him, Tonto, while I follow the tracks
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  Speaker 6: of the man who fired those shots.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be all right.
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  Speaker 6: You better take it easy for a while. I'll see
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  Speaker 6: you later. Come on, Slytherin.
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  Speaker 4: Johnny watched the Lone Ranger right away, then turned to Tonto.
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  Speaker 6: I'll be able to.
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  Speaker 2: Ride to town if I travel slowly. I'd like to
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  Speaker 2: get there before dark. We not reach town before dark.
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  Speaker 6: We could try.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Johnny.
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  Speaker 4: We'll continue our Lone Ranger adventure in just a moment.
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  Speaker 4: Because champions are made not born.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Get on your way.
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  Speaker 6: Get on your way.
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  Speaker 2: Get on your way with Wheaties.
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  Speaker 8: Champions are made, not born. There's an adage that's ever
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  Speaker 8: so true. For instance, Slammin' Sammy Sneed, a golfer as
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  Speaker 8: good as they come. Young Sam learned golf the only way.
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  Speaker 8: He practiced hours every day, chipping them short, driving them long.
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  Speaker 8: And soon he learned what keeps champs strong. Wheaties with milk,
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  Speaker 8: you can't go wrong. Today, Sam rates the gallery's cheers.
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  Speaker 8: A Wheaties eater, 17 years.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 8: Sammy Sneed is a Wheaties eater from way back. Plenty
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  Speaker 8: of nourishment in Wheaties. There's a whole kernel of wheat
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  Speaker 8: in every Wheaties flake. Okay, Sammy, drive that ball.
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 7: He's on his way.
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  Speaker 2: On his way. He's on his way. On his way.
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  Speaker 6: Get on your way with Wheaties.
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  Speaker 4: Cause champions are made not for.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Get on your way.
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  Speaker 6: Get on your way.
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  Speaker 7: Get on your way with Wheaties.
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  Speaker 2: Breakfast of champions.
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  Speaker 6: Now to continue.
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  Speaker 4: Dusk was falling when Hask Solon returned to Gunstock. After
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  Speaker 4: he lit a lamp in his office, he lowered the
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  Speaker 4: shades carefully and concealed the rifle. Then he headed for
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  Speaker 4: the cafe. As he went through the batwing doors, he
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  Speaker 4: saw Buckeye. He hurried toward the big foreman. Buckeye, what
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  Speaker 4: are you doing here?
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  Speaker 2: I thought you went back to the mine. I waited
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  Speaker 2: in town purposely to see you. Let's go over to
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  Speaker 2: a table. I want to sit down.
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  Speaker 6: Suits me.
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  Speaker 2: Bring me the usual, Hank. Right. You're white as a
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  Speaker 2: full moon, Hask. I need something to steady my nerves.
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  Speaker 2: It's on the way. Here you are, gents. I need
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  Speaker 2: the bottle.
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  Speaker 6: Thanks.
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  Speaker 2: Don't mention it.
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  Speaker 6: I don't have to ask.
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  Speaker 2: I can tell from the looks of you that you've
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  Speaker 2: got Johnny Marvel. Yeah, I got him. But things didn't
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  Speaker 2: go as I planned.
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  Speaker 6: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 3: I fired twice, the first shot missed, and his horse bucked.
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  Speaker 3: But the second hit him.
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  Speaker 2: Good. He fell from the saddle. He stretched out on
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  Speaker 2: the ground still as a rock. Then, just as I
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  Speaker 2: was about to go down there to get his money, I...
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  Speaker 2: I saw riders. Riders? A couple of them coming downhill fast.
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  Speaker 6: They must have heard the shots.
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  Speaker 2: For a minute, I.
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  Speaker 3: Wondered whether I had time enough to go down, steal
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  Speaker 3: his money, and clear out. But they kept coming fast.
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  Speaker 3: I couldn't risk being seen, so.
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  Speaker 2: I cleared out. Without making sure Johnny's dead? I did
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  Speaker 2: my best. I know your best was good enough. Where
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  Speaker 2: are you going?
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  Speaker 6: Back to the mine.
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  Speaker 2: As soon as his body's brought to town, let me know.
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  Speaker 2: If he's brought in alive, we'll be in real trouble.
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  Speaker 2: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 6: You agreed to kill him. Keep the bargain.
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  Speaker 4: Asp Solon sat alone for some time. Then deciding that
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  Speaker 4: someone would soon notify the sheriff of the shooting, he
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  Speaker 4: walked down the street to Sheriff Lemon's office. When he
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  Speaker 4: opened the door, he was shocked to see Johnny Marble
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  Speaker 4: talking to the lawman. An Indian was with the young Easterner.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, what is it, Asp? I didn't mean to intrude, Sheriff.
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  Speaker 2: Come on in. Yeah, thanks. Sheriff called you Asp. Your
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  Speaker 2: last name's Solon. You're my Uncle Pete's attorney. Yes. Meet
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  Speaker 2: Johnny Marble, has. That is, if you haven't met him before.
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  Speaker 2: We've never met. But I've had letters from Mr. Solon
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  Speaker 2: since my uncle died. I'm glad to meet you, Johnny.
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  Speaker 2: Johnny is lucky to be here, has. Really? He stopped
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  Speaker 2: a dry gulch's bullet.
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  Speaker 3: If Tonto and his friend hadn't helped me, I might
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  Speaker 3: have died from loss of blood before I could reach town.
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  Speaker 2: They were just giving me a report of the shooting.
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  Speaker 2: We still, we think left-handed man shoot Johnny. How could
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  Speaker 2: you tell that? Well, there are plenty signs. Very easy
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  Speaker 2: to see.
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  Speaker 8: Mark on the ground showed that the man who shot
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  Speaker 8: me was lying flat on the ground when he pulled
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  Speaker 8: the trigger.
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  Speaker 2: He rested his rifle on his right arm and elbow. Gee,
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  Speaker 2: come to think of it, Hash, you're left-handed. Yes, but...
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  Speaker 2: What's more, you own the special left-handed sharps. The ejector
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  Speaker 2: knob's on the left side instead of the right. If
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  Speaker 2: you're suggesting that I shot Johnny, Sheriff... I'm not suggesting anything.
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  Speaker 3: The fact that I'm left-handed may be suspicious, but there
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  Speaker 3: are a lot of left-handed men in the world.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe, Mr. Solon. I just thought of something else. You
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  Speaker 2: were the only one who knew when I planned to
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  Speaker 2: arrive in... Everyone in town will get here sometime this week, Johnny.
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  Speaker 2: But I wrote to Mr. Solon telling him I'd arrive today...
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  Speaker 2: Then he knew you'd be on the covered wagon trail
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  Speaker 2: this afternoon. Of course he did. In my letter, I
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  Speaker 2: told him I planned to buy a horse and saddle.
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  Speaker 3: when I got off the train in Molan City, 20
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  Speaker 3: miles from here.
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  Speaker 2: Stand still, Sheriff. A gun. What's the idea, Hash? Keep
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  Speaker 2: your hands high, all of you. We'd better do what
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying. You have good sense, Redskin. Drawing that gun
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  Speaker 2: is an admission of guilt. That's the least of my
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  Speaker 2: worries right now. So you were the one who shot me.
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  Speaker 2: I meant to kill you. Why? That's my business. You
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  Speaker 2: low-coded jitter. You can't get away with holding us here...
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  Speaker 2: If you fire three shots, the whole town will come
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  Speaker 2: on the run to investigate. I know that. Put down
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  Speaker 2: the gun. Not on your life, Sheriff. We're leaving here.
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  Speaker 2: To go where?
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  Speaker 3: Across the street to my office where we'll not be interrupted. First, Johnny,
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  Speaker 3: disarm the Sheriff and your Indian friend.
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  Speaker 6: Now, wait a minute.
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  Speaker 7: Follow orders.
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  Speaker 2: And don't try a fast move.
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  Speaker 6: All right.
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  Speaker 4: When the three prisoners were disarmed, Hasp said.
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  Speaker 3: Now lead the way out the door and across the
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  Speaker 3: street to my office, Johnny. The Indian will be behind you,
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: and the sheriff will walk in front of me. My
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: gun will be at his back every step of the way.
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: If either of you try to get away or call
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: for help while we're in the open, I'll blow a
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: hole through the sheriff's back.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: You dirty scum. Remember, his life is in your hands.
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: Now start moving.
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: Concealing his gun as carefully as possible, Asp followed the
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: prisoners across the deserted street. He watched the three men
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: so closely that he didn't notice a moving shadow reveal
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: for a moment in his lighted office.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: But Tonto saw it and hoped that the drawn shades
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: on the office windows concealed his masked friend.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: Keep moving, Sheriff. We're almost to the door. If I
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: get out of this alive, I'll see that you spend
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: the rest of your life behind bars.
• 18:19
  Speaker 7: Is the door locked?
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: Yes. Am I supposed to walk through it?
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: I'll toss the key to the step.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: Pick it up and unlock the door. But don't try
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: a fast move. If I could think of a fast
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: move that wouldn't endanger the Sheriff's life, I'd try it.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: Step inside. You follow him, Indian. Then you, Sheriff.
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: Tonto was close on Johnny's heels as the young Easterner
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: entered the office. Out of the corner of his eye,
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: the Indian saw the masked man standing against the wall
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: behind the door. Seeing Tonto's upraised hands, the Lone Ranger
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: understood the situation.
• 18:54
  Speaker 6: He drew his gun.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: Go on, Sheriff. Inside. I'll close the door. All right,
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: all right. Keep your hands high.
• 19:02
  Speaker 6: Drop the gun!
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: As the Lone Ranger spoke, he brought the barrel of
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: his colt down.
• 19:05
  Speaker 6: Hard against Hasp's thin wrist.
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: The lawyer's gun flew from his hand and he screamed
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: in pain.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: My wrist! You broke my wrist!
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: Toto stooped quickly to retrieve the gun the lawyer had dropped.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: Got gun, keep us happy.
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: Good work, Toto.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: Mister, you saved our lives. Hey, what's going on here?
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: Who's the master? Him, friend, Sheriff. Yes, he proved he's
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: a friend by discerning that telephase lawyer. But that master... Sheriff,
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: he's the Lone Ranger. The... The little ranger? Yes. He
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: and Tonto found me on the trail after Hasp shot me. Well, mister,
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: I'm downright glad to meet you, especially here now. But
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: I don't savvy how you happen to be in this office.
• 19:43
  Speaker 6: I forced the lock on the back door to get in.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: Illegal entry, dog. Got it?
• 19:48
  Speaker 6: I found this rifle.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Solon's left-handed sharps rifle.
• 19:52
  Speaker 6: I was going to your office to tell you what
• 19:54
  Speaker 6: I learned when I heard you coming this way. You
• 19:57
  Speaker 6: know the rest.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: Well, Hasp, the tables are turned now. You have no
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: right to break into my office. You're in no position
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: to make any complaints. You're under arrest, you dirty, dry,
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: gulching crook. Now, wait a minute, Sheriff.
• 20:10
  Speaker 6: Jail is right.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: Across the street. Start walking. No, no, let me talk.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: You've got nothing to talk about. This wasn't my idea, Sheriff.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: No?
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: Buckeye planned it.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: He wanted me to kill Johnny.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: Foreman at the Paradise Mine? Yes, but I don't even
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: know him.
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: According to the terms of your uncle's will, Buckeye will
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: inherit the mine if you die before taking legal possession
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: of the property and without leaving any heirs. Buckeye offered
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: me half of the mine if I killed Johnny.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: It'll be your word against Buckeye. He's a criminal sheriff,
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: a killer. You were the one who tried to do
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: the killing. The proof of his killing is in my safe.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: Open it and see for yourself. All right. Call off
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: the combination. The mash man will open the safe. Yeah.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: Three times to the right, to six, to the left,
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: to 12, and around once to 21.
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: A short time later, the Lone Ranger found the paper
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: Hassett described. He glanced at it quickly, then handed it
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: to the sheriff. The lawman read it rapidly.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: This shall hang, Booker. I told you he was a killer.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: Thanks for the information. After you're behind bars, we'll get him.
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: Shortly after daybreak the next morning, Hasp Solon stared sleeplessly
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: from the barred window of a jail cell, while Buckeye
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: paced the floor of the cell next to him.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: You dirty double-crossing weasel-faced half-bite! If I could get my
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: hands on you... Oh, quiet down, Buckeye.
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: If there was some way to get through these bars
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: into that cell, I'd break every bone in your body.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: I wasn't going to take all the blame.
• 21:54
  Speaker 6: You should take all the blame.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: Killing Johnny was your idea. You're as guilty as I am.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: Only because I had to go along with you. I
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: agreed to pay you half of the mine to buy
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: that confession. Oh, shut up.
• 22:06
  Speaker 6: Instead of buying the confession, I bought a trip to
• 22:08
  Speaker 6: the gallows.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: Don't blame me.
• 22:10
  Speaker 6: I'll blame you as long as I live.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: You'll not live long, thanks to the Lone Ranger. Until
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: the fight!
• 22:21
  Speaker 6: The Lone Ranger.
• 22:41
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• 22:45
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• 22:49
  Speaker 4: The Lone Ranger is played by Brace Beamer. Your announcer,
• 22:53
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• 23:01
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• 23:07
  Speaker 1: You have been listening to The Lone Ranger in Left-Handed Killer.
• 23:10
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