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

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  Speaker 1: March 31st, 1939 brings us to The Lone Ranger, episode 964.
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  Speaker 1: This installment is titled Ranger Jailed for Murder. The Lone
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  Speaker 1: Ranger had already become a familiar fixture of radio's western
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  Speaker 1: schedules by this point, carrying its masked rider and faithful
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  Speaker 1: companion into homes across the country. Now, back to the
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  Speaker 1: golden age of radio.
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  Speaker 2: THE END.
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  Speaker 3: A fiery horse with a speed of light, a cloud
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  Speaker 3: of dust, and a hearty high-o'ed silver. The Lone Ranger.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, my God. Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: THE END In the early days of the western United States,
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  Speaker 3: the local sheriffs were unable to control the crime in
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  Speaker 3: their districts. And when emergencies arose, many communities took the
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  Speaker 3: law into their own hands. The Lone Ranger fought this
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  Speaker 3: mob rule and saved the lives of many innocent men.
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  Speaker 3: In time, he proved to the pioneers that there could
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  Speaker 3: be no justice where violence reigned. It was the famous
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  Speaker 3: masked rider who finally brought law and order to a
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  Speaker 3: lawless frontier. Return with us now those thrilling days when
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  Speaker 3: the West was young. From out of the past come
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  Speaker 3: the thundering hoofbeats of the great horse Silver.
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  Speaker 4: The Lone Ranger rides again. Come on, Silver! There's been
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  Speaker 4: more trouble in Pecos!
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  Speaker 3: Silver's waiting in the trail ahead! Come on, Silver! As
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  Speaker 3: our story opens, we find the Lone Ranger without his mask,
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  Speaker 3: but with his face well disguised. He and Tonto, his
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  Speaker 3: faithful Indian friend, are riding along a familiar trail. There's
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  Speaker 3: something mighty wrong with the law on Pecos, Tonto. I'm
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  Speaker 3: not going to leave this part of the country till
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  Speaker 3: we see things in order. There's always plenty of trouble, man.
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  Speaker 3: I wonder how Jack is getting along. Celia Wellington was
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  Speaker 3: going to give him a lot of book learning.
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  Speaker 4: Him? Him maybe not like that.
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  Speaker 3: That boy certainly deserved a good home. He saved my life, Tonto.
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  Speaker 3: And I'll never forget that. Won't you help him? Not
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  Speaker 3: very much, Tonto. Him got good home now. While we're
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  Speaker 3: in Pecos, I'm going to see how he's getting along.
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  Speaker 4: Wait. What is it, Tonto? You look there. Horse come.
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  Speaker 4: Horse come plenty fast. There. You see? Yes.
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  Speaker 3: That rider is certainly getting all that Mustang can give.
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  Speaker 3: Look at him travel coming this way.
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  Speaker 4: That Jack. That friend. It is, Tonto. Where's he going?
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  Speaker 3: He looks as if he was trying to outrun Six-Gun Lad.
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  Speaker 4: Someone chase him. Him look back all time. Come on, Silver. Hi, Jack.
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  Speaker 2: This way.
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  Speaker 4: What's the trouble? Come on, Silver.
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  Speaker 3: The Lone Ranger dashed ahead as Jack, seeing the rider,
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  Speaker 3: swerved to the right to evade him. The big white
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  Speaker 3: stallion quickly cut down the Mustang's lead.
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  Speaker 4: Jack, rein up! I want to speak to you! Let
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  Speaker 4: me alone! Leave me be! Rein up there! Let go
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  Speaker 4: of that bird! Hold it! Hold on! Hold it!
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  Speaker 2: Let me alone!
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  Speaker 4: Why are you running away from me? Don't you remember me?
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  Speaker 2: Hold your hook!
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  Speaker 4: Hold your hook!
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  Speaker 2: It's you and Donald.
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  Speaker 4: What matters?
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know you. He ain't wearing your mask.
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  Speaker 4: Him got disguised.
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  Speaker 2: But I can't stop. I gotta travel fast. The law
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  Speaker 2: is after me.
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  Speaker 4: The law?
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  Speaker 2: Please don't make me stop and answer your questions now.
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  Speaker 2: I can't do it. The sheriff's posse will be along
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  Speaker 2: just a minute now.
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  Speaker 4: You not run from law? That bad. What you do?
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  Speaker 2: I didn't do nothing, but I can't prove it. If
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  Speaker 2: they catch me, they'll jail me. Maybe hang me. It'll
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  Speaker 2: most kill and seal you.
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  Speaker 4: You still live with Miss Wellington? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Let me go.
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  Speaker 4: What evidence has the law got against you?
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  Speaker 2: This Mustang, that's one thing. And what's in the saddlebag,
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  Speaker 2: there's another. I gotta get away. See? There they come.
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  Speaker 4: Did they see your face? No. Are you guilty of
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  Speaker 4: anything wrong? No. No.
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  Speaker 2: I swear it. Let me go now.
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  Speaker 4: Jack, you saved my life. Tala, you and Jack hold
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  Speaker 4: guns on me. Quick, get on my horse, Jack. Silver
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  Speaker 4: will let you. I'll get on yours.
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  Speaker 2: What's this?
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  Speaker 4: I'll be the one that's captured. That'll save you.
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  Speaker 2: You can't do that, mister. You can't. I couldn't let you.
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  Speaker 3: That's an order, Jack, and you're going to obey it. Here, Tonto,
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  Speaker 3: take these guns. You and Jack may be a prisoner.
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  Speaker 3: Good thing I put on this disguise.
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  Speaker 2: They're lynching.
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  Speaker 4: No, they won't. Tonto, we'll talk to you later. Uh-uh. Tonto,
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  Speaker 4: come see you. Please.
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  Speaker 2: I can't see you.
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  Speaker 4: They're coming fast. They've seen us. Get off that horse.
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  Speaker 4: Too late to change back now. Hold a gun on me, Jack.
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  Speaker 2: I can't do that.
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  Speaker 4: Hold a gun on me, I tell you. Do what
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  Speaker 4: I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to capture you after what you've done
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  Speaker 2: for me.
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  Speaker 4: There he is. Come on, boys. Somebody's already got him.
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  Speaker 1: Jack, he's got him.
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  Speaker 4: Jack and Ray. It's all right, Jack. You'll get the
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  Speaker 4: reward money, sure enough. You're done fine.
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  Speaker 2: But maybe this fella ain't... No, no, no.
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  Speaker 4: Mistaken him. We followed that there Mustang all the way
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  Speaker 4: from Pecos. You've got me all right. You see? He
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  Speaker 4: admits it. Why do you want him? Hey, ain't I
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  Speaker 4: seen you before, Injun? Maybe.
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  Speaker 5: Why, you want him. I can't just place you. But anyhow,
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  Speaker 5: from what we've seen, you helped Jackie capture this here killer.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, him killer? That's what he is. Take a look
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  Speaker 4: at these saddlebags, fellas. I'll look. I'll give you a hand.
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  Speaker 5: Well, mister, I'm here and putting you under arrest for
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  Speaker 5: the murder of limb villains at the Paycourse Bank and
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  Speaker 5: for stealing some important papers. You either come with us, peaceable,
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  Speaker 5: or get drilled for resisting arrest.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, well, I'll go with him. You fellas find what
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  Speaker 4: you were looking for. I got them papers right here.
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  Speaker 4: Then we'll be getting back to town. Get along with this,
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  Speaker 4: good boy. All right. Come on. Here, cover that, boy.
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  Speaker 3: The Lone Ranger was taken to jail to await a
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  Speaker 3: trial which might never take place. The citizens, aroused over
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  Speaker 3: the killing of one of their foremost businessmen, talked openly
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  Speaker 3: of a lynching. It was early that evening that the
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  Speaker 3: sheriff called on Jack and the woman who had adopted him,
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  Speaker 3: Celia Wellington. When the sheriff was admitted to the house,
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  Speaker 3: he said... Can't stop for just a minute.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, but do have a chair, Sheriff. I don't often
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  Speaker 6: have company out here.
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  Speaker 5: Hangry, but I'd better not. There's things need attending to
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  Speaker 5: at the jail. What I come for was to see Jackie.
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  Speaker 5: Look here what I fetched you, young fella. The $ 500
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  Speaker 5: that was put up for the capture of Lem's killer.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want it.
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  Speaker 4: Now, come on. Take it, lad.
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  Speaker 5: I couldn't find that Injun who was with you, but
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  Speaker 5: if you see him again, you can split with him.
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  Speaker 6: Take it, Jackie. You burned it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want no money.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, don't let it bother you like that. I savvy
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  Speaker 5: how you feel, son. I felt the same way the
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  Speaker 5: first time I captured a man and seen him sent
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  Speaker 5: to jail when I knew he was going to be hung.
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  Speaker 5: But when you get to feeling like that, then just recollect.
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  Speaker 4: What he'd done.
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  Speaker 2: But he ain't sure he'd done nothing.
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  Speaker 4: Well, sure enough.
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  Speaker 5: Lem was killed and paper stole from him, and the
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  Speaker 5: Mustang seen heading from the bank. When we caught that fella,
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  Speaker 5: he was riding that same Mustang and had them papers
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  Speaker 5: in his saddlebags.
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  Speaker 4: That's proof enough.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I've never seen you behave the way you have
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  Speaker 7: since you come home today, Jackie.
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  Speaker 6: What's the matter with you?
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  Speaker 4: Nothing. Well, I'll leave the reward here.
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  Speaker 5: I gotta get back to jail and try and guard
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  Speaker 5: the prisoner till he gets a trial.
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  Speaker 6: Well, thank you, Sheriff.
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  Speaker 5: Jackie's the one to be thanked. You can be right
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  Speaker 5: proud of that boy, Miss G.
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  Speaker 4: I am. Good evening to you.
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  Speaker 6: Good evening, Sheriff. Now, Jackie, what's the matter? You act
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  Speaker 6: as though you were sorry that you caught a proved killer.
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  Speaker 4: I am. What do you mean?
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  Speaker 2: I didn't mean to say that. I... I can't tell
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  Speaker 2: you about it.
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  Speaker 6: Why can't you, Jackie?
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  Speaker 7: I thought we were going to be real friends and
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  Speaker 7: never hide anything from each other.
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  Speaker 2: I won't say another word. That's all.
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  Speaker 4: I won't. Very well.
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  Speaker 6: If you feel that way, son, I'm not asking.
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  Speaker 3: In the meantime, a mob gathered and moved toward the
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  Speaker 3: jail where the Lone Ranger was being held.
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  Speaker 4: Flash Billings, brother of the murdered man, led the way.
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  Speaker 3: Come on, fellas. We'll make the sheriff turn over the prisoner.
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  Speaker 3: If he refuses, we'll take him anyhow. Are you with me?
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  Speaker 4: Get back to the jail. There's the sheriff now.
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  Speaker 2: He got his gun ready.
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  Speaker 4: He can't hold out against all of us. We'll get
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  Speaker 4: that killer anyhow.
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  Speaker 5: I told you fellas to stand back.
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  Speaker 4: Break up that mob and go on back home. I
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  Speaker 4: can't make it, Sheriff. Now listen to me, you idiots.
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  Speaker 5: What's this mean, flash villains? Did you get these fellas
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  Speaker 5: to come here?
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  Speaker 4: What if I did?
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  Speaker 5: Then tell them they're wasting their time and to go
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  Speaker 5: on back. Like fun I will. We're after this cunt
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  Speaker 5: that killed my brother. It's all well and good to
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  Speaker 5: want to see a killer get hung. But there's ways
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  Speaker 5: of doing that same. It's the county should do the hanging,
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  Speaker 5: not you, fellas.
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  Speaker 3: Never mind the talk. Let us get at that fella.
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  Speaker 3: And what if I don't surrender him? Then you'll have
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  Speaker 3: to fight us, and you won't have a chance. Every
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  Speaker 3: man here is willing to help break into that jail.
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  Speaker 3: Ain't that so, men?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I'm blamed if I'll send him out to you.
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  Speaker 5: Still figuring to fight us? Nope, that'd be foolish, again,
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  Speaker 5: the kind of odds there is. But if you want him,
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  Speaker 5: you'll have to go in and get him. I'm staying neutral.
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  Speaker 5: You hear that, fellas?
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  Speaker 4: Come on. Into the jailhouse. We'll get that killer.
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  Speaker 1: Behind the jail, the Lone Ranger.
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  Speaker 4: Stood with Tonto. Stay back out of sight, Tuller. I
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  Speaker 4: wonder what those men will say when they see my
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  Speaker 4: cell empty. Them get pretty mad. They can't accuse the
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  Speaker 4: sheriff of letting me out. No. The bars you broke.
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  Speaker 3: Will prove I had help from the outside.
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  Speaker 4: Not right.
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  Speaker 3: Those men don't know it, but they were closer to
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  Speaker 3: me outside the jail than now when.
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  Speaker 4: They're in it. That he funny. We've learned the truth.
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  Speaker 4: Them come this way. We can't stay here, Tuller. And
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  Speaker 4: above all, they must not see me with you. Me
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  Speaker 4: get Silver. Him over there. Good. Come on. You... You
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  Speaker 4: know real killers? Yes, yes, but we'll speak to Jack.
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  Speaker 4: We've drawn suspicion from him. Now we can hear his story.
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  Speaker 3: Hurry, Tulloch.
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  Speaker 4: Don't you admit I didn't know he busted out? You
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  Speaker 4: were responsible for him, Sheriff. Anybody know which way he went?
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  Speaker 4: He's escaped.
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  Speaker 3: Who's him, Jolene? Spread out and hunt him down. I
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  Speaker 3: was willing to see him tried fair and square. But
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  Speaker 3: after breaking loose, I don't care what happens to him.
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  Speaker 3: If you see him, shoot to kill.
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  Speaker 2: For long hours that night, Jack tossed and turned.
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  Speaker 4: In his bed....
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  Speaker 3: Worry over his friend, the Lone Ranger, made it impossible
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  Speaker 3: for him to sleep. And Celia, hearing his restless movements,
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  Speaker 3: entered his room.
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  Speaker 4: Jackie.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, Celia?
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  Speaker 6: I've been listening to you for the past hour. Can't
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  Speaker 6: you go to sleep?
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  Speaker 2: What was that shouting I heard a while back?
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  Speaker 6: It was the lynch mobs. They were after the prisoner.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, did they get him?
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  Speaker 6: No, from what I heard, someone broke him free from
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  Speaker 6: jail and he escaped. I... I'm glad. Now try to sleep, Jack.
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  Speaker 4: It's awful, Lee.
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  Speaker 2: I hope they never find him again.
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  Speaker 6: You wouldn't want a murderer to go free.
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  Speaker 2: But he ain't. Oh, you can't understand. You don't know
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  Speaker 2: about it.
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  Speaker 7: Now, don't try to keep all your troubles to yourself, son.
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  Speaker 7: You'll learn that troubles are easier to bear when you
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  Speaker 7: share them with someone who loves you.
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  Speaker 2: Please.
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  Speaker 6: No matter what it is, I can help you. You're
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  Speaker 6: only a young boy, you know. Is it Are you
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  Speaker 6: in some kind of trouble?
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, please let me help.
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  Speaker 2: Leave me be, Ancelia. Go away. Leave me be, please.
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  Speaker 6: All right. I'll do as you say. But you've got
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  Speaker 6: to get some rest. I'll open the window further.
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  Speaker 2: Perhaps the fresh air will help. Good night, dear.
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  Speaker 8: Good night.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what to do. I can't let the
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  Speaker 2: Lone Ranger get hurt. He's the best friend I ever had.
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  Speaker 4: Good night, Jack. Don't call out. I'm coming in here
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  Speaker 4: and I mustn't be heard.
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  Speaker 2: You? The Lone Ranger?
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  Speaker 4: I'm safe, Jack.
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  Speaker 2: But you shouldn't have come here. You're just wasting time.
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  Speaker 2: You should be riding away, clearing out.
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  Speaker 4: Not until I've learned the identity of the real killer.
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  Speaker 4: But I.
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  Speaker 3: And to do that, I had to speak to you.
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  Speaker 3: You know things about the killing that you didn't have
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  Speaker 3: a chance to tell me.
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  Speaker 2: There's nothing I can tell you, mister. I don't want
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  Speaker 2: to tell you.
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  Speaker 4: Why not, Jack?
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  Speaker 2: Right off and make your escape. Won't you do that?
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  Speaker 2: There's so many things I can't tell you about.
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  Speaker 4: You didn't kill that man, Jack.
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  Speaker 2: I would have been blamed for it if you hadn't
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  Speaker 2: saved me.
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  Speaker 3: If I leave now, a murderer will go unpunished. That's
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  Speaker 3: why I came here to see you. I want you
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  Speaker 3: to tell me everything that happened.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you'd never believe me.
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  Speaker 6: Nobody would.
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  Speaker 4: You must tell me.
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  Speaker 2: Then I'll creep out of the window and talk outside. Why,
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  Speaker 2: and still you won't hear.
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  Speaker 3: The curtain falls on the first act of our Lone
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  Speaker 3: Ranger story. Before the next exciting scenes, please permit us
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  Speaker 3: to pause for just a few moments.
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  Speaker 4: I ought to continue our story.
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  Speaker 3: The Lone Ranger, having overtaken Osage, who had tried to
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  Speaker 3: kill him from ambush, waited for the killer's explanation.
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  Speaker 4: You thought when you tried to shoot me that I
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  Speaker 4: was the Texas Kid. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Gosh, I heard that he was heading for Pecos and
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  Speaker 3: there was a big reward for him, dead or alive.
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  Speaker 4: I needed that money. Who told you the Texas Kid
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  Speaker 4: was coming to Pecos? No one. That is, I can't
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  Speaker 4: tell who. Not Jasper Wellington? Of course not. Look at here, Strange.
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  Speaker 3: If you ain't the Texas kid, then I'm doggone glad
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  Speaker 3: I didn't get to drop you. Now, thank that youngster
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  Speaker 3: for jumping on my rifle barrel. I've already thanked him.
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  Speaker 3: Has he gone on to Pecos?
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  Speaker 4: No. He won't be in Pecos for some time.
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  Speaker 3: Sure, thank him when I see him. You can bet
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  Speaker 3: money on that. Are you taking me to the law?
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  Speaker 3: What do you think I ought to do with him? Well,
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  Speaker 3: if I was in your boots and a man tried
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  Speaker 3: to drill me like that, Strange, I'd sure as blazes
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  Speaker 3: take him to the law, but... And they're dreaded wearing
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  Speaker 3: a mask like that. What else could I think but
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  Speaker 3: that you was a Texas kid?
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  Speaker 4: You haven't heard of anyone else that might wear a mask?
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  Speaker 3: Well, uh, you know, let me see. Leaping Jehoshaphat, you ain't...
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  Speaker 3: You don't mean to say you're the Lone Ranger. Oh, Sage,
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  Speaker 3: it looks to me as if you've been double-crossed by
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  Speaker 3: the man who sent you gunning for me. If I
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  Speaker 3: thought that is the case, I'd... What would you do?
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  Speaker 3: I'd go back and give him a working number that
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  Speaker 3: he would never forget.
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  Speaker 4: Wellington deserves it. He sure as thunder does.
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  Speaker 3: By the scheming Polkette sending me to fight his battles for... Say,
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  Speaker 3: I never said it was Wellington that sent me. No,
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  Speaker 3: but you admitted it just now. Anyhow, I'll settle with him.
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  Speaker 3: Just you give me the chance to get him. That's
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  Speaker 3: all I ask. Let me show you that I was
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  Speaker 3: took incomplete.
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  Speaker 4: Well, well, suppose you go and show me. You're letting
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  Speaker 4: me go?
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  Speaker 3: You'd better start traveling before I change my mind. I'll
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  Speaker 3: have to walk my horse. It'll take most of the
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  Speaker 3: afternoon to get to Pecos. Well, then, the sooner you start,
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  Speaker 3: the better.
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  Speaker 4: Come on, Silver. Doggone.
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: That ain't good. I took him incomplete. Just the way
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: to Wellington, here's how I fooled him.
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: As if I thought he was a Texas kid.
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: As if there ever was a Texas kid. Late that afternoon,
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: Celia found her brother sitting on the front porch of
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: their home. She noticed a satisfied smile on his face and.
• 18:01
  Speaker 6: You don't seem to be worried about what the Lone
• 18:03
  Speaker 6: Ranger's going to do when he gets here.
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: He isn't here yet, is he? No, but.
• 18:08
  Speaker 8: Maybe he won't get here at all, Celia. Why should
• 18:11
  Speaker 8: I worry until there's need to?
• 18:12
  Speaker 6: What do you mean?
• 18:13
  Speaker 8: The less you know about it, the better. You just
• 18:15
  Speaker 8: mind your own business and you'll avoid a lot of trouble.
• 18:18
  Speaker 6: You've planned trouble for him. What have you done, Jeff?
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: None of your business.
• 18:23
  Speaker 8: Now go on back in the house. I see a
• 18:25
  Speaker 8: friend of mine coming and I want to have a
• 18:26
  Speaker 8: talk with him.
• 18:27
  Speaker 6: Jasper Wellington, that's Osage.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: He's a killer.
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: That's never been proved.
• 18:30
  Speaker 6: Have you sent him to ambush that lone ranger?
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: You go into the house, do you hear me?
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: This is the end. If you've done what I think,
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: I'll go tell the sheriff. I've had all I can
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: stand to this sort of thing. You'll either get out
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: of here or I will.
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: Hmm. Time she got away anyway. Hey, Wellington, I looked
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: for you in the cafe. Come on up here and
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: tell me what's happened. Wellington, that blasted tramp kid from
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: the cafe spoiled it all. Spoiled it? Snuck up behind
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: me and jumped my rifle. I didn't get the Lone Ranger. Why,
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: you bungling fool. Then my horse went lame and I
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: was overtook by him. Where is he now?
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: Reckon he's gone back where he come from or gone
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: into camp or something. Give him a yarn that he believed.
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: What sort of yarn? Tell him I thought he was
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: a Texas kid with a price on his head, dead
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: or alive.
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: And he believed that? Sure he did. Say, where's your sister?
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: Isn't she likely to be over here? After the door closed.
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: Go on, then what?
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: He found out that you was the one told me
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: the Texas kid was coming along the trail.
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: You told him about me? Why, you coward. Now wait, Wellington.
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: Hold on a second, won't you? Listen to what I
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: got to say. Now, go on. I told him I
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: was coming back here and running you out in town.
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: Told him I'd square things with you. Is he coming
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: into Pecos?
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: I don't know, but the chances are he will. He'll
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: come here to make sure you're gone, and if you ain't,
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: he'll get you himself. Now, Wellington, you gotta make yourself scarce.
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: You bungled everything for me, old sage.
• 19:39
  Speaker 8: I ought to see a jail for the way you
• 19:40
  Speaker 8: handled this.
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: I've done the best I could. I wonder how much
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: that kid has told him. I don't know. Where is
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: the kid? With a lone ranger, I reckon. Now, look here, Wellington.
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: What you've got to do is get out in town
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: for a while. I've driven out by him.
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: But you've got to do it. He'll come snooping around
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: town to make sure you're gone. And if you're here,
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: he's likely to make no end of trouble. If you're gone,
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: he can't do nothing. I can tell him I sent you,
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: don't you, Savvy? He'll believe my story then, and he'll
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: go away. Then you can come back again.
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: Wait a minute, old man. There ain't nothing else to do.
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: He's been at me to clear out. Now, maybe... Maybe what, Wellington?
• 20:10
  Speaker 8: Maybe I got an idea. I might pack up and
• 20:13
  Speaker 8: let everyone know I'm clearing out.
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: That's what I said. That's the only way to play
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: it safe. Leave it to me. Maybe I can get
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: him when he's in turn. You listen to my plan.
• 20:21
  Speaker 8: Do what you're told and see you don't bungle it again.
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: What is it? Then I'll skip out of town, just
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: as I say.
• 20:26
  Speaker 8: Make everyone, including Celia, think I've gone for keeps.
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah? I'll lay low, and then tonight I'll come back.
• 20:31
  Speaker 8: And get this lone ranger and hustle out of town again. Then,
• 20:34
  Speaker 8: after a couple of weeks, I'll drift back into town
• 20:36
  Speaker 8: and claim I've changed my mind. that I'm not going
• 20:38
  Speaker 8: to stay away.
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 20:40
  Speaker 8: I'll have an alibi. But I'll have a dispose of
• 20:42
  Speaker 8: this Lone Ranger.
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: Ranger, that's a good idea.
• 20:45
  Speaker 8: When he's killed, you'll be suspected if Jack says anything.
• 20:48
  Speaker 8: But you'll have an alibi for the time of his death.
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: That sounds real slick.
• 20:52
  Speaker 8: I'll go pack some things right now. I'll be out
• 20:54
  Speaker 8: of town before dark. You hang around, keep your eyes open.
• 20:57
  Speaker 8: If the Lone Ranger comes into town, be sure you
• 20:59
  Speaker 8: know where he's at so you can tell me when
• 21:00
  Speaker 8: I come back sometime tonight.
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: I sure enough will, Wellington. I sure will. Celia. Celia,
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: where are you?
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: What is it, Jasper?
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: Come here. Give me a hand. I need your help. Well,
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: what is it? I've got to leave town. I've got
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: to leave in a hurry. Help me pack my things.
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: You're really leaving? Yes. You don't need to ask where
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: I'm going because it ain't none of your business.
• 21:23
  Speaker 6: Oh, I don't care where you go as long as
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: you go. It'll seem most too good to be true
• 21:27
  Speaker 6: to have you out of the house.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: I'll help you pack all right.
• 21:30
  Speaker 6: I'll be glad to do it.
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: That night, the Lone Ranger, Jack and Tonto, made camp
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: not far from Pecos.
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: The masked man was silent.
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: He sat apart from his companions for some time, and
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: then suddenly he rose to his feet and came closer
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: to the campfire.
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: Jack.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: Yes, sir?
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: Are you sure of everything you told me? Yes, sir.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: I didn't tell you nothing I wasn't sure of.
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: That fellow Osage had a different story. Him say him
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: want Texas kids. Yes, he didn't tell the truth. Not right.
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: And it didn't mean a word he said when he
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: told me he'd deal with Wellington when he got back
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: to town.
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: Not right.
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: I think it's about time we moved into Pecos and
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: investigated things there.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: Don't you do it, mister. Don't you do it. Old
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: Sage will shoot you from ambush. He won't give you
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: a chance.
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: Maybe he won't get the chance to shoot me, Jack.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: I tell you, he's got to get you. Wellington will
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: make him. If he don't, Wellington will likely see him
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: jailed or maybe hung.
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: We'll see about that, Jack.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: Why don't you let me go instead? Why don't you
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: let me go there and see what I can learn?
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: They wouldn't dare kill me.
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: Jack, I think I will send you to Pecos.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: In your place?
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: No, ahead of me. I want you to help me.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: Gosh, yes. Anything in the world I can do for you.
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: I want you to tell old Sage where he can
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: find me.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: Here?
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: No.
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: No, Jack. I'm going to be in the hotel.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: But you can't go there wearing that mask.
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: I won't wear the mask, Jack.
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: I'm going to disguise my face, go into the hotel,
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: and get a room to spend the night in.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: And I'm to tell old Sage that?
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: Yes. You got scheme? I do.
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: Old Sage is a murderer. It's never been proved. Perhaps
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: the sheriff will be glad of the chance to get proof.
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: When.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: When he gets you?
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: We'll see about that, Jack. Here, Silver. Get your horse, Tonto. Yes, Colt.
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: Since you've now put out the fire and packed our things,
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: it's time for us to head for Pecos. When he
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: had disguised himself and ridden with Tonto into Pecos, the
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: Lone Ranger had no difficulty in renting a room at
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: the hotel. Later, he helped Tonto through the window. By
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: that time, Jack had found the sheriff on the porch
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: of the cafe. The lawman listened attentively to the boy's message.
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: Aye, Tunkett Jack, that's sure enough news. I'm right glad
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: to hear it.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: You help?
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: Help?
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: Sure I'll help. Old Sage is right inside the cafe
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: this very minute.
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: Oh. He's seen you and me talking. Likely he'll come
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: nosing around as soon as you leave. So you leave now.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: Looks like he ain't waiting. There he comes now.
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: Evening, sir. Evening. Reckon you already heard all the talk
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: around the town. What is that? How I sent Wellington
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: a chitin' on his way. I heard something about it.
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: I don't reckon he'll ever show himself around here again.
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: He double-crossed me.
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: If it hadn't been for the kid there, I'd have
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: shot a right upstanding man. Ain't that so, Jack?
• 24:21
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's right.
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: Yes, sirree, Jack. Just stop me in time.
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: When I seen that Wellington had sent me to do
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: his killing for him and lied about the man I
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: was to shoot, making me think I was killing an outlaw,
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: I swore to get Wellington.
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: So he moved out in town to get away from you?
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: Just so, and good riddance. I suppose that's why the
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: Lone Ranger come into town, too. He did? Sure, he's
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: roaming at the hotel. I never heard that.
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: He's disguised, but that's where he's spending the night. Well,
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: if Wellington comes back, I reckon he'll sure enough get
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: a red-hot reception. If one of us don't get him,
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: the other one will. I gotta be going now, Sheriff.
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: I'll see you soon.
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe soon when you expect.
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: Meanwhile, the Lone Ranger had put on his mask. He
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: and Tonto crouched in the gloom of the hotel room, tense, alert,
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: and ready. Then a shadow fell across the open window
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: in a dark form. paused to study the room. Suddenly,
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: there was a rifle shot.
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: Grab that rifle. Me got him.
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: Let me go.
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: Let go of me. Hold him, Tonto. I'll get a
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: rope on him. Me got him. Let me hold him.
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: Let me go. Let me go. Not this time, old sage.
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: You're trapped at last. I'll haul you into the room.
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: I tell you, you got the wrong man. Get that
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: lamp going, Tonto. Let me get him. We thought you'd
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: come back to finish the job Jack prevented. No, no,
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: you got the wrong man.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: No, no, we haven't. You fired point blank at the
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: dummy in that bed. You planned to murder me. Jack
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: let you know where you could find me.
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: They're light. You! I ain't no sage. Well, ain't them.
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: There he is, mister. We got Osage. Osage, you devil.
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: There's Wellington, Osage. You said you was gunning for him.
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: Sheriff, I wanted to... Well, what are you going to do?
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: Stand there or shoot the critters? You said you would.
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: So you squealed on me. You put this man wise.
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: You told the sheriff. Now, wait, Wellington. I didn't do
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: no such thing.
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: Didn't you say you wanted to get Wellington for sending
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: you to drill a lone ranger and making you think
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: it was the Texas kid?
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: Sheriff, Wellington, I... Osage is a killer. He's a crook,
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: and I'll prove it.
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: He won't squeal on me and get away with it.
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: Looks to me like you're both a couple of crooks.
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: And it looks like we at last got evidence to
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: jail you. How about it, mister?
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: I thought Osage would come to the window and try
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: to get me.
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: That is what I thought would happen. But Osage met
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: Wellington just outside the town. And Wellington himself come back
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: to step in the trap.
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: That's what you get for trying to do the thing yourself.
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: So now we got them both where we wanted them
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: for a long, long time. Where's Jack? Is he all right? Sure.
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: When I got all I wanted, I sent him to
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: see Miss Celia and tell her to get here and
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: see her no-count brother Ketch if she had any doubts
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: as to his guilt. I didn't want that poor girl
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: to think he was misjudged.
• 26:50
  Speaker 6: I wouldn't have thought that.
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: Celia, you hear? You've got to explain.
• 26:54
  Speaker 6: All I can say, Jasper, is that I'm glad you
• 26:56
  Speaker 6: know more than a half-brother. I'm satisfied you let the
• 26:59
  Speaker 6: law take its course.
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: All right, boys. Take these killers to the Calaboose. Now, Jack.
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah? I'm going to try and find a good place
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: for you to live. Some family who want a great
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: fellow like you. So you won't have to live in
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: the cafe woodshed.
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: Jack.
• 27:17
  Speaker 7: How would you like to have a nice home of
• 27:18
  Speaker 7: your own and the chance to learn reading and writing
• 27:21
  Speaker 7: and the other things a.
• 27:22
  Speaker 6: Man ought to know?
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: Gosh, it would be pretty swell.
• 27:25
  Speaker 6: Then you shall have one.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: Huh?
• 27:27
  Speaker 6: You heard what the Lone Ranger said, didn't you? Just
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: like you are now, all alone in the world with
• 27:33
  Speaker 6: a nice big home to live in. Wouldn't you like
• 27:36
  Speaker 6: to live there, Jack?
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: You mean just like you, like you was my ma?
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: Oh, gosh.
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: I'll sail over Hawaii! Come on there, silver old boy!
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: Trouble's waiting on the trail ahead! I'll sail over Hawaii!
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: The Lone Ranger. THE END THE END.
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: THE END.
• 29:55
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• 29:58
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• 30:10
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• 30:13
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