Speaker 1: You've asked me to kill you. I'm not an executioner.
Speaker 2: Loarmer. I've been hired to take you back alive.
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Speaker 3: It you saw me?
Speaker 2: Ad?
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Speaker 2: Ah uh oh come in.
Speaker 3: Oh very sorry to wake you.
Speaker 1: So willing Messapaladin, But telegram come for you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they always come early after a late night. Let's
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can be very interesting. Oh bah, you needy sleep?
Speaker 1: It looks like I won't get any more in sleep today.
This telegram says the sheriff little Spring wants me there tonight.
Speaker 2: Sureff, you will do something wrong in Little Spring hardly.
I've never even been there. He wants to hire me
for three thousand dollars. Oh oh, three thousand.
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Speaker 1: As I'd got off the stage, the first thing I
noticed about Little Spring was the saloon, one of the
gambling casino. Than the saloon, it was the size of
the city block, and that blared and blazed in the twilight.
The town had the other things a California town was
supposed to have a general store, livery stable, a sheriff's office,
and the small church pushed off in the background. I'm
sure no one heard the church chimes sound the hour
against the din from the casino. The sheriff's office was empty,
so I pushed my way into the saloon.
Speaker 2: Sayre's the sheriff here? Or did you have no there's
the sheriff.
Speaker 1: Here over there, fat fellow, white mustache with the cable,
with our three men. Hope, I'm sorry, excuse me, my
lad here bakers. Yeah, my name is Palette part.
Speaker 3: Glad you could make it.
Speaker 4: That's go in the back room and we can hear
ourselves cough, all right, all right in here, I do.
Speaker 3: According to what I hear. You're the best man I
could have hired.
Speaker 1: What do you want me to do, sheriff? I want
you to find a Fred Warmer for me.
Speaker 3: He killed a man.
Speaker 2: Well, you're a law man. Why don't you go after him?
Speaker 1: By this time, he's over the state line. I wait
for extradition, it'll take too long. I want him back
here in a little spring in forty eight.
Speaker 2: For that's not much time.
Speaker 3: I want him here in four days, and I want
them alive.
Speaker 2: You're asking a lot, I'm paying a lot. But why
four days?
Speaker 1: That's my business. You want the job and just give
me time to think about him. Listen, Palatin, one man
who can bring Lamarine, and I want him back to
stand trial here.
Speaker 2: Who do you kill?
Speaker 1: I don't think that makes any difference to you, all
right now, makes a difference in whether or not I
go after him?
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: Little Spring has a reform group headed by a man
named Radford. Larmer killed Radford's son in this saloon Wednesday night.
Then he stole the fastest horse in town and headed east.
Everybody was either too drunk or too stupid to stop him.
Speaker 3: But they were all witnesses.
Speaker 1: I see, well, i'll let you know in a couple
hours if I take the job.
Speaker 3: You're a skeptical man, Paladin.
Speaker 2: You can be sure of that, Sheriff.
Speaker 1: I talked to a dozen witnesses, and the stories were
all the same.
Speaker 2: Bradford's twenty year old.
Speaker 1: Son had come into the saloon and in a loud
voice at Brandon's gambling as evil and the sinful Larmer
had been at one of the tables, and he shouted
at the young man to leave. Bradford refused. Laurimer walked
over to him. A slight scuffle, then Laurimer put a
bullet through him. Young Radford was unarmed. Satisfied the sheriff
Acres had told me the truth, I accepted the job.
Speaker 2: In the morning.
Speaker 1: I bought a ticket for the next stage going east.
Speaker 2: Ought to be here in another ten minutes.
Speaker 3: Just make yourself to home on that bench over there.
Speaker 2: Ah, wait outside, I have a good trip. Thank you.
Speaker 3: You, mister Paladin.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 1: And Jim Radford, mister Radford, Acres brought you down here
to find Lormer, didn't he yes, going to do it.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna try.
Speaker 1: You'd be doing this town a great injustice. Don't bring
him back, mister Paladin.
Speaker 2: Lorimer did kill your son, didn't.
Speaker 3: Yes, But if you catch him, it won't bring my
son back.
Speaker 1: I've already accepted the job, mister Rudford, mister Paladin, I
had a reform group in Little Spring. We've been fighting
Acres for years, and there's going to be an election
in five days.
Speaker 2: I'm running against Acres for sheriff.
Speaker 1: If you bring Larmer back and he hangs for the
murder of my son before election day, Acres can point
to the hanging and the people of this town will
forget what went on before, and Acres will be reelected there. Yes,
you can see what kind of town he's running, But
for the first time, the people have a chance to
drive him and his crowd out of control and turn
the little spring into a decent community. Well that may
be true, mister Radford, but I'm convinced that Lormer is
a murderer, and I intend to bring him back in
four days alive.
Speaker 3: If you do.
Speaker 1: If you do, I'll kill him before Acres can get
near him. That, mister Radford, that would be a foolish
thing to do. Then you could be hanged for murder. Nevertheless,
the people would understand, and you'd have a clean town again.
Speaker 3: I'll be waiting for you when you come back.
Speaker 2: I remember that, mister Redford.
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real Right on, I followed Lormer's trail to the Nevada line,
and there I rented a horse.
Speaker 2: The open desert stretched before me.
Speaker 1: And I knew now that it would be more difficult
to find him. The sun was at my back, and
my shadows started to creep ahead of me. When I
saw a small house on the thin line where fertile
land gave way to waste land. There were two horses
grazing on the tufts of grass between the rocks behind
the house.
Speaker 2: It was large and biting well in front. I rode
up to the watering trough.
Speaker 1: Ah, anyway, huh, get away from here?
Speaker 2: What now? Put your rifle away?
Speaker 3: A man eat off my land here.
Speaker 2: Say both those horses yours.
Speaker 1: I didn't move out here on the edge edition fair
nough to have a snooper. Come along and ask me questions.
I told you to get off my land.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm looking for a murderer.
Speaker 1: I ain't seen no murderer passed this way. I ain't
seen no murderer. Well, I'm going to search the desert.
Old man, I need water. You have a well, all right,
take your water, but my rifle a little be on
you till you leave. I watered my horse and continued
east into the desert for almost ten miles. And then
I saw him, silhouetted by the setting sun, the big man, stumbling,
weaving before his weight carried him to the ground. I
dug my heels into my horse and rode to where
he had fallen. You make a big trail, Armer. Running
is over. I'll we go back.
Speaker 2: I'll take an give me your hands. Oh god, he
won't be needing it now right. I need water. My
throat's on fire.
Speaker 8: Hih here, let me die here a nice cleaning day.
My job is to bring your back, Warmer.
Speaker 9: Share Fakers sent you, didn't they share Fakers will hang me.
When you bring me back to little Spring. You'll stand trial.
I'll stand trial in less than twenty minutes, they'll have
me swinging from the courthouse tree, and the whole town
will get drunk and celebrate, and they'll re elect Sheriff
Aakers because he brought long order the little spring.
Speaker 2: Why did you kill young Radford? He was a loud mouth,
preaching kid, always shooting his mouth half.
Speaker 9: In the saloon bed for business. Acres had a big
take from that saloon. He wanted him dead. He told
me to kill him, and then he turned on me.
But I fooled him. He won't use me anymore. Kill
me here and get it over with.
Speaker 2: I want to make that well before the sun burns
the skin off our backs. What well are you talking about?
That house about ten miles back? We both can ride
one horsh What happened to yours? Shot at a ratley
through me?
Speaker 1: You're a big man, Larmer. My horse will never carry
the both of us in the heat. You ride, and
I'll lead him.
Speaker 2: It's a hot walk. I'll manage until we get to
that house.
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to go in the house, Go ahead, laurman. When I
was here before, the two horses out back, now there
are three. You change horses here. And when the horse
threw you in the desert, he came home.
Speaker 2: Is that right? Leave me out here.
Speaker 1: I ain't got the strength runaway, and I don't want
to see that old man anyway. We need your horse back,
old man, I want to talk to you.
Speaker 2: Larmer. Oh no, you hey, Larmer, you right now, you fool?
Why did you do back?
Speaker 1: I was thirsty that well, it was so close I
drank to be idiot. I've got to get you out
of the sun. Now, come on, try to stand up.
Come on, all right, easy, does it.
Speaker 2: Easy? I'll get you into the house. Murder. Come on,
Oh oh I'm easy. All right, come went out here.
You can lie down here. Oh that's easy.
Speaker 3: You've got a sharp memory. One warning wasn't enough. You
have come back.
Speaker 1: Take your rifle out of my back. On, man, you
ain't felt the last of this rifle. I've got a
sick man. Here.
Speaker 3: Is this your murderer? Yes, the horse came back this morning.
I was expecting you, Fred Larmer.
Speaker 2: I didn't want to come back. Uncle. He forced me.
Your uncle. Well, you denied you've seen him before.
Speaker 3: I told you I hadn't seen the murderer. I didn't
know Fred was the murderer.
Speaker 1: Let me go, uncle, I'll get it far away from
here as I can, Old man, I've got to bring
Larmer back for trial.
Speaker 2: And little Spring he killed him, man.
Speaker 1: Brad, they ain't going nowhere. He's not gonna hang in
some public place. I'm gonna kill him and bury him
out the back of the house. And I'm gonna kill
you because you know him, you know his crime.
Speaker 3: And you know his my nephew.
Speaker 1: What makes you judge and jury? I watched a lot
of killing din the war. I watched brother kill brother.
What made them judge and jury?
Speaker 2: You're confusing peace with world? Man?
Speaker 3: Are the man in a little spring fitness sitting judgment
on Alarmer?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Only an Alarmer can judge Alarmer. I renounce civilization and
with it it's laws here. I'm the law. How you
turn around, mister? Now loosen your gun belt and drop
it to the floor.
Speaker 3: He's have no tricks. Now you get up, Fred Armer,
I can't cool my stuff. You will get up and walk.
I'm not kill you inside my house. Now get up now,
now walk, both of you.
Speaker 2: Give me the man, all right, O, man, shooting's over?
Speaker 3: Give me back my rife over? Can't you see?
Speaker 1: I only wingdam He ain't dead it's a good thing.
I've got to kill him. There's not gonna be any
killing here.
Speaker 3: No, take him back the chaff and let him hang.
You are civilization, mister, and I hate you for it.
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Speaker 2: The fight was out of the old man.
Speaker 1: He sat in the corner of the front room while
I've bandaged Lomer's arm. He looked neither left nor right
and said nothing. By his lack of movement, he seemed
to deny our existence. As we moved away from the house,
I saw him come out the door and stand on
the front porch, a lonely figure. Lorma gave me no
more trouble. I persuaded the stage driver to drop us
off on the outskirts of Little Spring. And it was
ten o'clock at night when we got into town by
way up a back street. Why are you bringing me here?
This is Radford's house, isn't it?
Speaker 2: Yeah? But I still don't her mind. You'll see.
Speaker 1: Mister Paladin. Lorm Her get inside. I told you I'd
kill him paladon't try it. Radford, Why are you here? Yes,
I'm rope, Yes, and get it for me so I
can tie Larmer up. And I want you to go
and get the sheriff. Sheriff, Radford, you had a reform
group in this town. I hope you're interested enough in
justice to do what I tell you. Bring the sheriff
and bring him alone, all right? And uh Radford tell
him to have three thousand dollars with him. I look it,
what's the meeting of this? Why don't you bring Lami
here to Radford's house. He's as good a place as
any to pick up a murderer. All right, I've kept
my part of the bargain.
Speaker 2: Sheriff.
Speaker 1: Former's back in the middle, spring, alive and on time.
Did you bring the money?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, here it is.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: We'll hold trial immediately. I'll call the judge, he'll open
the court. All right, Lama, let's go.
Speaker 2: It's a minute.
Speaker 1: Didn't I hear you invite the sheriff to stay for
the night, mister Radford, Of course you did.
Speaker 2: Sheriff, make yourself at home. We'll be here for the
night and all day tomorrow.
Speaker 1: There will be an honor spending election day with the
two leading candidates.
Speaker 2: Oh look here.
Speaker 1: Of course you'll have time to go out and vote
about five minutes before the polls close. You don't feel
spending election day with a murderer like Lorimer will hurt you.
Speaker 2: At the poles? Do you share a fakers? You pull
down the shades, mister Radford and lock the door.
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