Speaker 1: You own one of the largest branches in California, the
most cattle, the best lamb and the toughest riders. But
I'll tell you something, mister Crown, the little mission of
Sam Sebastian is going to defeat you.
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Speaker 3: H he's a poodin m M.
Speaker 1: Morning.
Speaker 3: Hey boy, hope, I don't spoil breakfast. Telegram came for
you just now.
Speaker 1: Thank you?
Speaker 3: Uh eating breakfast in dining room? Most unusual for you,
A rare occasion.
Speaker 1: Hey boy, who's that young lady over there sitting alone
at the table next to the window.
Speaker 3: Oh you saw that young lady check in two days ago?
Speaker 1: Sweet two one two alone alone? Charming?
Speaker 3: Show me where he saw you up on telegram?
Speaker 1: Oh yes, hey boy, why don't you ask the young
lady if I might join her for a cup of coffee?
She must be lonely.
Speaker 3: Oh so early in the morning. Oh yes, sir, Oh
rush telegram? What happens makes socially good?
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, hey boy, Oh no, what happened I've
changed my mind. This telegram from mister Ian Crown in
San Sebastian, California. He offers a rather large sum of money.
Would you send him a wire? Please?
Speaker 3: Have we gone?
Speaker 1: We'll troub Yes, I'll be leaving on the next stage.
Speaker 3: What about poor charming, loony young lady.
Speaker 1: That'll have to wait until I return? Unfortunately business comes first.
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Speaker 1: He will be honored to serve you. The stage ride
down the Kaminoria brought me at last to San Sebastian,
one of the mission towns, established one hundred years ago
by the followers of wuniter Rosera. I knew this country well,
its low green valleys and crisp ocean air. I did
not know Ian Crown, I inquired at the stage office. Yes, sir,
what can I do for you? How far is it
to the Crown Ranch eating crowns?
Speaker 3: Please?
Speaker 1: Yes, a little past of miles southeast of here.
Speaker 4: Head right on off the main road and take the
fork to the left just before you get to the mission.
Speaker 1: Any place I can rent a horse around here?
Speaker 5: Lively Stables across the street, mister, can't miss it, the
only building on that side.
Speaker 1: Thanks? Yes?
Speaker 3: Would you give something for the mission?
Speaker 1: Something for the mission?
Speaker 3: You give money a donation see art donation.
Speaker 1: Well, I think we can manage that. I should have
a dollar in my wallet. Senor very rich so much morning. Yeah,
here we are.
Speaker 3: Hey, come back here, you little teeth.
Speaker 1: But I haven't when a boy stole my wallet, tether
you know him?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was ped from the mission.
Speaker 1: He asked me for a donation. When I offered him
a dollar, he grabbed my wallet and ran off. That
doesn't seem like Peter.
Speaker 3: He's a good boy.
Speaker 1: He's got a good wallet. Did you say he's from
the mission. That's right, he lives there. I hadn't planned
on it, but I think I'll pay this mission a visit.
I figured that if Crown had waited for me to
travel all the way from San Francisco, a few more
hours delay wouldn't hurt. And I wanted my wallet back.
It wasn't bulging with money, but there were papers that I
couldn't replace. At the Mission of San Sebastian, a Franciscan
monk met me, introducing himself as Father Bartolomi. As he
walked through the cool, flower filled courtyard of the lovely
old Mission. I told the priest about Pedro and what
had happened. He invited me to his study.
Speaker 3: Once you'll be seated, San your paladin.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 3: I'm so very sorry about all this. How much money
did you have in your wallet?
Speaker 1: Twenty two dollars in cash. There was also a banknote
for fifty dollars.
Speaker 3: I have exactly twenty two dollars on my desk. They're
undoubtedly yours. Pedro brought it to me less than thirty
minutes ago. He were somewhat out of breadth and quite nervous.
Your story explains his actions. There you are sent your paladin.
Speaker 1: Thank you for me. I don't suppose he said anything
about the wallet. No, do you think he still hasn't?
Speaker 3: Or perhaps he can answer that question himself. Will you
excuse me? Send your paladin, Pedro re prod Would you
come in here? Please? Eh, Pedro, you don't know why
this man is here, see Padre? Is he not true
that you took his wallet and ran away? Seek? That
was very wrong, Pedal? Why would you do this?
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Padri, there was so much money I had
to take a for.
Speaker 3: Here.
Speaker 1: Was wrong, Padri?
Speaker 3: I know what was wrong. Hey, where is the wallet now?
Speaker 1: My son in a stable?
Speaker 3: Please get it and bring it back to this room.
Sea patry.
Speaker 1: Father, I'm sorry this has happened. I hope you won't
find it necessary to be too severe with the boy,
and he had learned his lessons already. Why does Pedro
beg for donations? For this mission is by far the
best preserved and the most beautiful of all emissions I've seen.
Speaker 3: He said, you're Sanza Bactian. He's a diamond of all missions.
Thanks to saying, you have Crown? He sure, no, we
haven't met, But I was on my way to his
ranch when this happened. But what is his connection with
this mission? Where saure? Several years ago, before California became
a part of the United States, the Moerican government sold
the missions to raise defense funds for their treasury. It
was then that Senior Crown became the owner of San Sabatian.
I mean Crown bought the mission from the Mexican government
in see Sanuel. While most of the others wasted to ruins.
This mission prospered under the skilled management of Senior Crown.
But then when President Lincoln signed a bill giving the
missions back to the Church, Senior Crown was forced to
relinquish this mission on the land around it. He was
paid for the land, wasn't it Signor? But he was
not in sympathy with the price to compensate what the
additional payment he felt was due to him. He took
the statue of our patron, Saint Santa Batian from its
rightful place in this mission. He is now in his
home and a huge is to return it to us.
Speaker 1: Do you think he'll ever give the statue back to
the mission? No, not unless we pay him for it.
How much does he want? Two thousand dollars fund? Impossible?
So it would take many years to accumulate that much money.
And that's why Pedro begs for donations.
Speaker 3: Our people are most anxious to Hea. Is that your return?
Speaker 1: What shouldn't mean? How much money have you collected? Father?
Speaker 3: Say you're a paladin. This is not a rich parish.
In ten years we have secured only nine hundred and
eighty five dollars come in.
Speaker 1: I have prost the wallet partish.
Speaker 3: Get you to send your a paladin.
Speaker 1: Senor thank you Pedro.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, signor please forgive me send your paladin. Please
check your wallet for the banknote you mentioned.
Speaker 1: Let's your father. Everything here, Pedro at the stage office.
I was going to give you a donation, you remember,
would you accept this five dollar gold piece for the
statue of some Sebastian, gracious, gracious, be sociable.
Speaker 3: Day with drink, my.
Speaker 4: Day younger and.
Speaker 3: Be sociable.
Speaker 1: And when friends drop in, let your hospitality show you're
sociable in the modern manner that you know is the
favorite of this Marty and young and her.
Speaker 3: Be sociable with testy, drink, light, refresh us.
Speaker 1: And the sociable. Have you tried a petty lately? The
green rolling acres that surrounded the Crown ranch were covered
with giant oaks and thousands of black angus cattles, and
a mile beyond the main gate, on a tree stud
a knoll sat the house of Eaan Crown, imposing, rich,
almost futile. From my talk with Father Bartolonae, I had
pictured Crown as the typical elderly, austere rancher. Instead, I
found a cordial man who was having more than a
share of trouble with an outlaw show Fernandez.
Speaker 5: During the last three months, he's robbed two of my payrollshipments,
and he's run off near three hundred head of prime beef.
He's got to be stopped, Palette and and depending on
you to bring them in.
Speaker 1: I've never heard this Fernandez before. Does he confine his
activities to this part of the country, strictly to my rain,
to your rain. Eh. Hasn't he been plaguing the other ranchers? No,
just me? Why has he singled you up? Well? His
brother he used to work for me.
Speaker 5: He killed an accident doing a cattle drive. Fernandez. Things
sound responsible, but I'm not. Man was thrown from his saddle.
It was an accident.
Speaker 1: I see. Hey, let me feel you're glad. Oh, yes,
thank you very much. That's excellent wine. No, thank you.
Speaker 3: We make it ourselves. Grapes come from our own venue.
Speaker 1: You must be proud of this ranch, mister Crowns. One
of the finest spreads. I'm seeing here, taking a.
Speaker 5: Lot of years, a lot of hard work making one
of I'm not going to let it know renegade like
Fernandez starting nipping away at it.
Speaker 3: Oh what do you say, Paladin?
Speaker 1: And I say yes, mister Kron, I'll take the job
for the.
Speaker 5: One thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: Right. Well, that's good, that's good, all right, what are
your planning noon? It'll take me a few days to
learn what I need. This statue, mister Kron, I've been
admiring it. Ah signs Sebastian, mister Pellon Bautiful. Yeah, I
was talking to Father Bartolemey at the mission this afternoon.
Speaker 5: Oh I see, suppose he told you what a heat
and I am because I won't give back your statue.
Speaker 1: We didn't discuss your personal I can give that statue
back when I get the money man, mister Crown, Oh
what is it? Carl brand the state and took the payroll.
Anybody heard know he made us get out of the states,
took the money from me, and then stampeded the horses.
Speaker 3: And there's the third time.
Speaker 1: Oh, Patton, this is my foreman, Carl Stocker, How do
you do?
Speaker 3: Carl?
Speaker 5: He was bringing the payroll money from the bank in
cold Water.
Speaker 1: Where did it happen? About three miles before we got
into San Sabastian. We had a walk into town, and
he said, plenty of time to hide out. It's the Crown.
You'll be needing more money from the bank to meet
the payroll. That's right. I'll go up to cold Water
tomorrow and bring it back.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: You let everybody know I'll be returning alone on horseback.
I had concealed the payroll money under my shirt and
was on the trail back from cold Water, a mile
out of San Sebastian. There was still no sign of
Sancho Fernandez. But he didn't disappoint me, right, But it's.
Speaker 3: Appointed directly between your son.
Speaker 6: It would be a stay to turn around.
Speaker 3: I believe you. Now drop your gun back to the ground.
M Dismountain, stand with your back to me.
Speaker 1: M hm.
Speaker 3: You will have some money for Senor crown. What is it?
Speaker 1: You're well informed? Money?
Speaker 3: Where is it?
Speaker 1: My shirt with a gun?
Speaker 3: Now that do not move turn around.
Speaker 1: Nothing.
Speaker 3: You'll drop the money to the ground.
Speaker 5: Careful, Nah, you may turn around and take a few
steps away.
Speaker 3: That will be far enough. Now you will not be
knitting your horse.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 6: Just doan speedy Senor. It's not too long a walk
to the rancho. Give me regards to seeing.
Speaker 1: Your crown, Sancho. There's a damag you're putting at your back,
not your rifle. You won't get fired with a hole
in your back, Senor Fernandez.
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Speaker 1: Sancho left an easy trail to follow through the yellow
wheat fields. He had managed to stay on his horse,
but he had lost a lot of blood along the way.
His trail led to the mission at Send Sebastian.
Speaker 3: If you want him, he heard, joining his Greek Greek teleig,
his cheek Fanny senior Paladi, and.
Speaker 1: He Padres told me Fernandez was here. The dead.
Speaker 3: Let us go to my study.
Speaker 1: Why do you ask for Sancho Fernandes in Crown hired
me to bring him in.
Speaker 3: Are you responsible for these?
Speaker 1: We had a gun fight a mile or so out
of town. He robbed me of some money I was
delivering the Crown. I followed him here.
Speaker 3: He was almost dead when he arrived. He asked for it,
thank you.
Speaker 1: Did he have the money on him?
Speaker 3: See Sanor? He told me that he wanted to donate
it for the statue of Sancibasian, but.
Speaker 1: That money belongs to Crown.
Speaker 3: I suspect you that for we are aware of Sancho's
hatred for Sanya Crown. I sent Pedro to the rank
to bring Senuor Crown here.
Speaker 1: Father, I just wanted to know that it was unavoidable
under the circumstances, I had to shoot Sancho.
Speaker 3: Season you're here, bound to happen, Sancho being misguided since
the death of his brother, Senor Crown coming, Hello, father,
ah Elavin.
Speaker 1: I didn't know you was here.
Speaker 3: Pedro told me, Sancho is holded worriedly.
Speaker 1: He's dead. I'd happy, can't fight. He ambushed me on
the trail back away ran my horse off and took
the money, exchanged shots. His horse brought him here, your crown.
Speaker 3: I believe this belongs to you.
Speaker 1: That's the payroll money, Crown.
Speaker 5: Eh, thank you, father, or you had to get mixed
up in let rivate affairs. It's gone back to the ranch, Pella.
Speaker 1: Now I think i'll stay here, mister Kron. I want
to take the next stage back to Santa So.
Speaker 3: He's got a little business to finish up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know you owe me a check for one
thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 1: I want you to turn my fee over to the
mission and father by telling me. You told me you
had nine hundred eighty five dollars in the savings fun
for the statue LEAs and.
Speaker 3: You're there, nine hundred and ninety dollars. You gave Pyro
five dollars, remember I remember?
Speaker 1: Well here, I'd also like to donate this ten dollars.
You should bring your savings to an even thousand, give
it to mister Crown.
Speaker 3: What are you doing, Pella?
Speaker 1: One thousand dollars father has accumulated these past ten years,
along with my fee total two thwo thousand dollars inster Crown.
You should be able to return the Statue of San
Sebastian to the mission in time from Mass this Sunday,
our American youth safflabby out of condition physically and mentally.
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Travel created by Herb Metal and Sam Rolf is produced
stand directed by Norman McDonald and stars John Dayner as
Paladin with Ben Wright as hey Boy. Tonight's story was
written by Albert Ally and adapted for radio by Frank Michael.
Featured in the cast were Lawrence Dobkins, Don Diamond, James Nasser,
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