Speaker 1: You're not being fair to your father if you don't
give me an explanation to take back to him.
Speaker 2: He went to some expense to have me make this trip.
Speaker 1: Have gone, We'll travel, starring mister John Dayner as Paladin,
San Francisco, eighteen seventy five, The Carlton Hotel, headquarters of.
Speaker 2: A man called Paladin.
Speaker 1: Whoa Emily, So.
Speaker 3: You all, mister Pelladen?
Speaker 1: Thank you, Alex, you'd be wanting me again to dace. No,
I'm spending the rest of day up my room. I
have a long hard trip ahead of me tomorrow for
your trouble, Alex, dummy boy, pleasure, good dicess.
Speaker 2: Good day, Alex. H oh he soon allright? Hey boy,
I was meeting with me. Saw what's these names?
Speaker 1: Mister countryman betha Well, hey boy, he has his troubles.
He's hired me to go up to Vala to escort
his daughter back to San Francisco.
Speaker 2: Oh, why do you need a court?
Speaker 1: You got a letter from the sheriff saying that somebody
is setting her life. The sheriff says he won't be responsible,
thinks does to come home. But she's a schoolteacher up
there and she doesn't want to come home, so mister
countryman wants to go get her.
Speaker 2: You will leave tonight, no tomorrow.
Speaker 1: First thing, would you make sure there's a horse ready
for me at the liberty stable in the morning, hepa,
I'll be up in my room. I'm going to finish
that book I was reading and get to bed early.
Speaker 4: Had no visitors. Hey boy, assagies. The colonel is still
leave your room.
Speaker 2: So what he have many.
Speaker 4: Drinks of brandy and your sister staring at checkboard.
Speaker 1: We finished that game before I went out.
Speaker 4: Oh, he say, he find way how our checkmate? He
wait till you come back. He's twenty fifty by now.
Speaker 1: No, hey boy, go tell him, tell him that I
was detained. I won't be back tonight. Let me know
when he's gone. I'll be over in the bar.
Speaker 2: Why so, assapologies?
Speaker 4: Also why you are very pretty young lady asked for you?
Speaker 2: She says, he wait in bar till you return. The
lady from room four or one tobaka dog a dog
or oh oh that lady.
Speaker 1: Well, it doesn't look like I'll finish reading that book tonight,
does it?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 4: No, ta, but light in Cotton hotel much more fun
than life being book.
Speaker 1: Maybe, hey boy, you could be right. Early the next morning,
I faced the sun and started my journey under the
hire of mister Countryman. Afternoon, when I rode into the
peaceful town of Valale, perched on a narrowhead of lamb
piercing an Appa River where it flows into San Pablo Bay.
When I signed the register at the only hotel, the
clerk told me I could find miss Lena Countryman at
the schoolhouse three miles away, just off the north road
on the banks of the river. By the time I arrived,
she was waving goodbye to her pupils.
Speaker 5: Oo, why Johnny, go straight.
Speaker 2: Home, miss Countryman. Yes, my name is Paladin.
Speaker 6: If you're one of the sheriff's men, my answer is
still the same.
Speaker 3: I won't leave the layo.
Speaker 2: No, no, your father sent me.
Speaker 3: My father.
Speaker 1: He wants me to see that you get back to
San Francisco safely.
Speaker 3: Oh no, how in heavens mean that he find out.
Speaker 2: The sheriff of him? Is it up? Said yes, very
much so.
Speaker 1: But he doesn't know why your life has been threatened.
Speaker 3: I suppose I should have written him. Would have been
better coming from me.
Speaker 2: Who is threatening you, miss Countryman?
Speaker 6: The people of the layo have it in their minds.
Some say they've heard it for sure. The Dutch talbot
is on his way to take my life. Dutch talbot, yes, law, yes,
a wanted man with a big price on his head.
Speaker 3: So I've heard.
Speaker 2: Why do they say this?
Speaker 6: It's a long story, mister Paladin, and I don't care
to discuss it. Besides, there's no need to take up
your time. I'm not be getting home.
Speaker 2: What about your father?
Speaker 6: Tell him I'm all right as you can see. Tell
him that I'll write and explain.
Speaker 1: Good afternoon, missus countryman. Yes, may I see you home?
Speaker 3: Thank you, But I have my buggy about that.
Speaker 1: I'd like to ride with you, Miss countryman. We could
talk on the way. You're not being fair to your
father if you don't give me an explanation to take
back to him. He went to some expense to have
me make this trip.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, to give me, mister Peladin. Are the mood
to you?
Speaker 2: Not at all?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 3: Oh, but I have. You're a gentleman, and I didn't
perceive it at first. You're a host and.
Speaker 6: Gun at misleading, But you're right. I should give you
an explanation.
Speaker 2: I'll the buggy.
Speaker 3: Thank you. I'll be ready to leave in a few minutes.
Speaker 6: I don't usually take the north road, mister Paladin. There's
a wagon trail along the.
Speaker 2: River that's much shorter.
Speaker 3: You in turn right, just up ahead?
Speaker 2: All right? How long have you lived in Blo?
Speaker 5: This is my third year.
Speaker 6: I came here after I finish school in Champrancisco. It's
a lovely place. I hope I'll always be here. It
offers everything I want or ever will want.
Speaker 1: You speak so finally if someone so young, But I'm fortunate.
Speaker 6: Enough to know what I want and appreciate it when
I have it. There's an unending stimulation in guiding children
and watching the mature.
Speaker 3: I couldn't be.
Speaker 6: Anything more satisfying, whether you're young or old.
Speaker 2: You've been turned here, all right.
Speaker 1: Oh, you're a dedicated woman in this countryman, But why
would Dutch tell But or anyone else want to take
your life?
Speaker 6: Why if he does, because he probably thinks I'm responsible
for his son's death.
Speaker 3: The people in this town knew poor boy as I
heard it, Jerry Lee's mother died when he was born.
Speaker 6: Dutch how that brought him here to live were raised
by his brother Dog that always came back to see
Jerry Lee about once a month, so the law stamped
him as a wanted man.
Speaker 1: But why would he think that you were responsible for
some step?
Speaker 6: But I was taught that a teacher shouldn't love one
child more than another, that he should show them all
equal consideration. But we can't always live by the book.
Carry mister Telligan, No, I guess not. I loved Jerry Lee.
He's eight years old.
Speaker 3: I loved him more than any of the other children.
I wanted him to have every opportunity available. I wanted
him to be.
Speaker 6: The best pupil and most accomplished, as if he were
my very own.
Speaker 5: That was my.
Speaker 2: Why are you blocking this road?
Speaker 1: We've been waiting for you? Throw down the gun?
Speaker 2: Misters, go down, What do you want with it?
Speaker 1: Keep your rifle on him? Trump? Sure, I'll get down, mister,
and mount that horse you have tied in back. I'll
drive the buggy.
Speaker 3: Why are you stopping?
Speaker 2: You wouldn't be Dutch Talbot by any.
Speaker 1: Chance, no chance or body. I get down. So what
are you gonna do? Never mind what I'm gonna do.
You get on that horse whom.
Speaker 2: All right? Trump? Keep him covered?
Speaker 1: Here, take the back way.
Speaker 2: To doctors.
Speaker 1: We'll be right behind you. And Leana Countryman, Oh oh there,
all right, Ms Lena, get out of the buggies.
Speaker 3: Why did you bring it here?
Speaker 2: You mister?
Speaker 1: Get off that horse.
Speaker 2: Hang over here with her.
Speaker 1: Stand in front of me. Trump, hide the buggy in
the box. All right there, now you.
Speaker 2: Head for that door.
Speaker 7: I go on in.
Speaker 1: Dog, Hey up, I say, right up, hello, mss Leaning what's.
Speaker 3: To tell them? What's the meaning of this?
Speaker 2: Dutch has all the answers? Who's he?
Speaker 3: What is he? Mister pell sending my father's sentences?
Speaker 1: Go what's she doing here? Her father sent me to
take her home? He knows that she's been threatening so
to the law officers in this town. But that's why
I've been careful to stay out of their way. Everything
is worth just fine so far, except for the fact
you had to be along the same day we'd plan
to take her.
Speaker 2: What are you gonna do with him?
Speaker 1: Touch Uh, haven't made up my mind yet? And what
are you an't trying to do with miss Countryman? He
got the rope ready to do. It's in the room.
Like he told me, We'll bring some extra for him.
Is enough for both? I'll need your help come up
all right into that room. Sit in this chair.
Speaker 2: Mister. He tied up the good dog, and.
Speaker 1: It's a term. As Lena on the bunk bed. Your
turn is next.
Speaker 3: You don't have to tie me up to kill me.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm not gonna kill you with this rifle. I
got something prettier plan for you, a nice clean death.
It'slike the one you gave Jerry Lee. His death was
an accident, and you caused that accident. You caused my
son's death. You got no right to go on living
when he's laying out there under the ground. Why are
you torturing? It's got nothing to do with you. If
she says there was an accident, you know it was.
It does make any sense.
Speaker 2: You want to kill her?
Speaker 1: You get me riled, mister. Blow the top off your hair.
Speaker 3: Can't you see no use?
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's finished a good work, though now her not yet.
You know whose room this is, miss Lena. You know
whose bunk you're sitting on.
Speaker 3: Hmhm, Jilly Lee.
Speaker 1: He'll never see this room again. He'll never wear that
jacket hanging on the door never again. Those pants laying
on that trunk were the ones he wore when they
pulled him out of the river.
Speaker 5: I tried to save him, but it was too late.
Speaker 1: You should have learned them how to save itself when
he was learning them how to swim.
Speaker 3: He was a good swim at the best in school.
Speaker 1: And how come he had to drown if you had
such a good swim.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 6: He went out too far, he got cramped with somebody.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 1: You had no right teaching them kids how to swim.
Speaker 3: For their own detections. The town is surrounded by water.
It's important that they don't how to swim.
Speaker 1: They didn't have to be learned by no teacher before
you came along.
Speaker 6: There were many deaths from drowning, and there'll be more
unless they get proper training.
Speaker 1: You and your new fangled notions.
Speaker 6: I don't care what you think, Dutch Town, but I
love Jerry Lee.
Speaker 3: He's the last person in the world.
Speaker 6: I bring harm to.
Speaker 3: You have no right to love him.
Speaker 2: He wasn't yours.
Speaker 3: Somebody had to love him.
Speaker 2: Somebody did, your.
Speaker 1: Fool woman, He was my son and doss here. He
took good interest in him. He didn't need.
Speaker 3: Your help while you rode the country ruining his name.
Speaker 2: You leave her alone that you keep out of this mister.
I've warned you enough. Tire up.
Speaker 1: Doss will take her when it gets dark. The people
in this town will be mighty grateful to me when
they drag her out of the river. All On, North
Carolina is famous for its tobacco and texts. It is
well known for many other products too. In fact, one
of the most important producing areas is just adjacent to
Highway eighty seven, fifty five miles south of Raleigh and
fourteen miles northwest of Fayetteville. If you've ever traveled in
this vicinity, you should recognize the product immediately. Perhaps the
name Fort Bragg might help you. This is a training
camp for the Third Army's eighty second Airborne Division and
its product is combat readied men. This installation was named
for Braxton Bragg, who played a significant part in the
Civil War as a Confederate general. He was born in
Warren County, North Carolina in eighteen seventeen, and with a
graduate of West Point with a distinguished record from the
Seminole and Mexican Wars, Bragg was named brigadier general with
the Confederacy in eighteen sixty one. Unfortunately, Bragg's generalship began
with a stroke of bad luck. He had practically defeated
General Buell at Perryville when Union reinforcements compelled him to
abandon his wounded and a large part of the spoils.
This brought him into disfavor with his fellow officers and men.
In fact, it was only through the personal favor of
Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy, that Bragg was kept
at the head of the Central Army and subsequently able
to inflict a crushing defeat on Rosecrans at Chickamaugua in
September eighteen sixty three. Then two months later came the
famous Battle above the Clouds that Lookout Mount in Tennessee.
This was another defeat for General Bragg, since Union troops
under Grant, Sherman and Thomas drove Bragg's men from their
strong positions defending Chattanooga. This defeat caused Bragg to lose
his commands, but again Jefferson Davis gave Bragg his support
and kept him as a military adviser. Later, Davis appointed
Bragg to head the Army of North Carolina. Then, in
February of eighteen sixty five, when the Confederate army had
reached its breaking point. General Bragg joined Johnston in a
last effort to stop Sherman's march. As a result, Bragg
was included in the surrender to Sherman. Bragg's contemporary described
him as a strict disciplinarian who rarely got along with
his senior officers. It was this friction that handicapped the
conduct of his operations. Nevertheless, when looking over Bragg's military career,
one must admit that he was a brave.
Speaker 2: And skillful officer.
Speaker 1: In fact, soldiers like Braxton Bragg serve as a reminder
that America has always produced great military men and will
continue to do so as long as the American way
of life is preserved.
Speaker 2: They left us in the room, and.
Speaker 1: For the next few hours Lena Countryman sat there, tied
hands and foot, without saying a word. Her eyes were
filled with tears as he glanced at all the reminders
of Jerry Lee. She seemed to suffer more from the
memory of the boy than from the thoughts of going
to her own death. When Dutch and Trump came to
carry her out, she only said, be gentle to my father.
A few minutes later, I heard them right away. Now
you're trying to free yourself, mister pality. Those knots will
hold it till I cut you loose.
Speaker 2: And when will that be? That's up to Dutch. And
what do you say, mister Talbot?
Speaker 1: What makes you think I'd go against my own brother
because you.
Speaker 2: Don't agree with what your brother thinks. Why do you
say that?
Speaker 1: I saw your face this afternoon when he was racking
her with his remarks.
Speaker 2: You felt sorry for Lena countryman. He could be.
Speaker 1: Right, but what can I do about it?
Speaker 2: Cut me loose? That she'd kill me?
Speaker 1: I suppose he would, wouldn't me? You couldn't help her now?
I could try?
Speaker 2: All right? Thanks? Where would it be? It's catching the
river by the school.
Speaker 1: Use the same place at the Jared Lee. All right,
I'll need a gun.
Speaker 2: It's one in the front room. Let's do it all
the Dutch. But how did you get loose? Put the
girl down from you? Stay back, I'll kill you.
Speaker 1: Might care played Dutch.
Speaker 2: I'm coming in. Don't do it, comp Lena Leah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, hold on, I got you.
Speaker 4: I got your.
Speaker 1: All right now? Yeah, let me get this gag untied
h here we are all right?
Speaker 3: I don't already.
Speaker 5: Mah my mind.
Speaker 3: I was gonna die my breath on the border after
I knew you were here.
Speaker 1: I'll have to get a nice they got the ropes?
I think Dutch has one of them.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, yeah, uh all right, old still now.
Speaker 3: I think both did.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what a terrible things.
Speaker 1: Oh the law. I would have caught up with him
sooner or later anyway. Yeah, hey, let me help you
up now?
Speaker 2: Are you all right?
Speaker 3: And I have you to thank for it?
Speaker 6: But i'd possibly tell you how greatful I am.
Speaker 2: Don't try.
Speaker 3: Why do there have to be men like Dutch talbots?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm afraid there'll always be a lot of Dutch talbots
and not enough Lena. Countryman's so, Lena, you just keep
right on teaching those kids to grow up to be
better men and women.
Speaker 8: I'll try, mister Palladin, I'll try this minute.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, I'm coming.
Speaker 5: Oh I'm so sorry, serves you.
Speaker 2: All right, miss wrong? I was just getting ready to share.
Speaker 5: Hey boy, say that in misso countryman downstairs, yere you upset?
Wants to see.
Speaker 2: You already already. I just got back last night. How
did he know you.
Speaker 1: Travel fast from Carlton Hotel, especially with hey Boy helping it.
Speaker 5: Alonge say, boy, very happy when you come home, you tell.
Speaker 2: Everyone, Yeah, so I've noticed.
Speaker 5: Maybe you can see God and not see this missle country.
Speaker 1: Oh it isn't that, Miss wrong. I want to see him.
I plan to anyway this morning, but not until after breakfast.
Speaker 5: You have traveled with his man.
Speaker 1: No, I'm afraid he isn't going to pay me because
I didn't bring his daughter back from Faleo. Well, at
least he'll be happy to learn that she's all right.
Speaker 5: If she's all right, maybe he pays you. Aver.
Speaker 1: It doesn't really matter, Miss Wong. Finding a wonderful new
friend like Lena Countryman was worth more than any fee.
I might get go back and tell him I'll be
down in about five minutes.
Speaker 2: Have Gun Will Travel.
Speaker 1: Created by Herb Meadow and Sam Rowl he Is produced
them directed in Hollywood by Frank Parrin, and stars John
Dayner as Paladin, with Ben Wright as hey Boy and
Virginia Gregg as ms Wong. Tonight's story was specially written
for Half Gun Will Travel by mister Parris. Featured in
the cast for Russell Arms, Harry Bartel, Charles Lung.
Speaker 2: And Gen Bates.
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