Speaker 1: It's always good to meet up with an old friend.
But I didn't know when we renewed this friendship that
it would lead to your destruction. Have gone, We'll travel,
starring mister John Dayner as Paladin, San Francisco, eighteen seventy five,
The Carlton Hotel, headquarters.
Speaker 2: Of a man called Paladin. Come in, Hey boy, Oh.
Speaker 3: It is not hayful, I thought.
Speaker 1: Oh, miss Wong, we'll come on in. I thought it was,
hey boy. He was going to pick up my laundry
in Londed. Oh thank you, hey boy.
Speaker 3: Very busy making reservation on stage coat for you, He say,
tell you stay cleaned in one hour, and that carriage
we'll be waiting in front court in a few minutes.
Speaker 2: And I better hurry. But would you mind un wrapping
those bundles for me this one? Yeah? Thank you?
Speaker 3: Huh?
Speaker 2: I no sooner get back to San Francisco and I
have to turn around and go out again.
Speaker 4: Where you got it?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 1: Well, miss Wong, I am going to a place called
Diamond Springs at east of Sacramento.
Speaker 3: One never hear of it before, Big eastre for you
to serve there.
Speaker 1: Far as I know, only the mystery of a bank robbery.
One man got away with twenty thousand dollars and the
bank president has hired me to find.
Speaker 3: Him twenty thousand dollars awful lot of big money.
Speaker 2: Yes it is miss Wong.
Speaker 3: He's a valid. Yes one nice hearing your God most
of time?
Speaker 2: What's that?
Speaker 3: Not much work from me? Long to do a new
room when you're not here to.
Speaker 1: MASSI itize, well, I'm glad that you're happy I'm leaving.
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Speaker 2: Well. A majority of the doctors we heard from had
this to say.
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acting as possible, and the medicine that can be used
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in your medicine cabinet. Traveling on a stage coach can
be a lonely, tiring experience unless you're fortunate enough to
have someone interesting to talk to. And at the beginning
of this trip, I thought I was fortunate. Accompanying me
was a man I had known in the army during
the war. He had been a supply sergeant in my
company in Illinois. I hadn't seen him for ten years.
His name was wake Lockton. After many miles filled with
chatter of old times, I remember that I had not
been particularly fond of this man. If I'd known you'd
lived in San Francisco, I had to let you have Paladin.
Speaker 2: I get in there about three times a year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what kind of work you do with I'm a
whiskey drummer. I cover all the Sacramento Amador in Eldorada County. Huh,
And I can tell you it ain't much fun being
on the road all the time. No, no, no, it isn't.
How far are you going Diamond Springs. Well I'll be
dog gone, so am I. That's my home. Oh yeah,
how long you be.
Speaker 2: There, Bud? It all depends.
Speaker 1: You're welcome to bunk down at my house. No need
to stay at that lousy hotel in town. Lydia can
fix up a cot for you in the front room.
Speaker 2: Lydia my wife. Oh is that the girl who used
to write to all the time. Yeah, yeah, that's right. Yeah.
We've been married a little over year now, that's yeah. Congratulations.
Oh you thought I'd never make it. Uh. It was
a struggle, all right.
Speaker 1: I beg her for five years to come out and
marry me, but her family wouldn't let her come.
Speaker 2: But you know something, Paladin, she loved me so.
Speaker 1: Much she just up and left them and came out here.
Speaker 2: All by herself.
Speaker 1: Well it must be quite a girl. Oh she is
the prettiest little thing you'll ever see.
Speaker 2: Huh.
Speaker 1: You hire out your gun to somebody in Diamond Springs,
that's right? Who mister Baul, the man who owns a bank. Yes,
that's right, Hey, I bety HRW you'd look into that
robbery he had a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 2: By that band of fellow what's his name? Hallick? Hey, yeah,
Grant Hallick. Well, I'll be Doug gone.
Speaker 1: You know who can tell you more about that hold
up than anybody else in town?
Speaker 2: No? Who? My Lydia? Well, how's that?
Speaker 1: Oh? She was an eyewitness to the whole thing. She
was in the bank when it happened.
Speaker 2: At Halleck. Fella grabbed her.
Speaker 1: And used her as a shield to get away, horsd
her on his horse with him holding the gun to
her back.
Speaker 2: I was on the trip at the time what happened.
Rode out of town.
Speaker 1: Weather kept her in the mountains overnight, and then let
her lose sheriff and his men found her the next
morning walking back towards You know, there wasn't a scratch
on her.
Speaker 2: She said.
Speaker 1: He was real kind to her, just just using her
to cover up while he got away.
Speaker 2: Can you imagine that happening to my Lydia.
Speaker 1: I'll be anxious to talk to your wife. Any information
she has will help you track him down.
Speaker 2: It's a blessing.
Speaker 1: I was out of town when it happened. It was
all over when I learned about it, saved me all
that agony. Here we are going in Pelladin meet he's
the prettiest little girl you ever saw.
Speaker 2: All right, way, let him must be in the kitchen.
Speaker 4: Come on, that is I wasn't expecting you today.
Speaker 1: Well, I didn't have time to let you know, honey.
Speaker 2: How's my little princess?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 4: Put me down?
Speaker 1: Wait?
Speaker 2: Ain't she full of spark?
Speaker 1: Though?
Speaker 4: Power me down?
Speaker 2: Honey. I want you to meet an old friend of mine,
mister Paladin. My wife Lydia. How do you Dockton.
Speaker 1: He's going to be in town for a few days,
and I asked him to stay with us, but he
checked into the hotel instead.
Speaker 4: You don't have to put your arm round me in front.
Speaker 2: Of guests, wait, the proper one.
Speaker 4: It's a pleasure to have you in our home, mister Paladin.
Speaker 1: I've asked him to have supper with his Honey. You
can fix up some of those fancy vittals so as
I can show him what I wonderful little cook I've got.
Speaker 2: Oh no, no, don't go to any trouble for me.
Speaker 6: Missus Lockton, we delighted to have you. Wait, you'll have
to get some park out of the smokehouse. I wasn't
expecting you home today.
Speaker 1: Well, sure, honey, I'll only be a few minutes, Paladin,
you just make yourself coming. Oh he wants to talk
to you about the bank hold off, buddy, You tell
him all about it.
Speaker 4: Why are you you interested in missus bank robbery?
Speaker 1: Mister Baldwin has hired me to find Grant Halleck and
the money.
Speaker 4: Mister Baldwin hired.
Speaker 1: Yes, I have an appointment to see him tomorrow morning
for if he he's hoping that I may succeed where
the sheriff failed.
Speaker 3: Oh, I see.
Speaker 2: Well, Wake was telling me that you had a bad
experience in connection.
Speaker 4: With the hold of Wake talks an awful lot.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I was hoping that you might be able to give
me some details about Haleck's appearance or habits that would
be helpful to me.
Speaker 4: You don't mind, I'd rather not talk about it.
Speaker 2: Oh well, perhaps later.
Speaker 4: Mister Paladin. I don't wish to discuss it, not ever.
Speaker 1: I am smoking more now, but enjoying it left.
Speaker 2: I'm a real thinker at all. Make the very best pop.
Speaker 1: Have a real cigarette, have a camel.
Speaker 7: How are you looking for flavor and miness?
Speaker 2: Have a real cigarette, have a camel.
Speaker 7: The fact to make the very best have a real.
Speaker 1: Cigarette, a real cigarettor a real cincaret have.
Speaker 2: Came on again.
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Speaker 1: My short visit to the Lockton home was clouded by
Wake's usual generous warmth and the cold, formal behavior of
his wife, Lydia. On the way back to the hotel.
I couldn't help but wonder why she refused to discuss
the robbery. But then I realized it must have been
a painful experience.
Speaker 2: The next morning, I had breakfast.
Speaker 1: At the hotel and then walked toward the bank to
keep my appointment with mister Baldwin.
Speaker 2: Helen, Helen, hold up, Wake, Helen, I got to talk
to you right away. What's the matter. It's Lydia. She's
gone gone left me. When this morning I woke up
and she wasn't there. She left me a note saying
she was leaving. On the early state. Where was she
going back east to Boston? Why'd you do that? I
don't rightly know. What didn't she say? Well, there was.
Speaker 1: Something in the note about things not working out the
way she thought they would. But I don't understand that
she's been happy as a bird. You saw that for
yourself last night?
Speaker 2: Oh yes, yes, did you check the stage office?
Speaker 1: Well, no, I wouldn't do that.
Speaker 2: Why not.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't want anybody to think I didn't know she
was leaving. Made me look like a fool.
Speaker 2: Well, don't you know they'll find out sooner or later anyway.
Speaker 1: Not if I can stop her and bring her back.
Speaker 2: How do you figure I'm doing that?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 2: I thought you might be able to help me.
Speaker 1: How we could ride up to Placerville and meet the
stage there.
Speaker 2: I can talk her into coming back. Stage has been
gone two hours.
Speaker 1: I know that, but it always stops there for an hour.
So if we rode hard with mate, No, this is
something you can do alone. I can't see that I
would be any help just by riding up there with you.
This is a private matter between you and your wife.
If I didn't need you, I wouldn't ask you. I'm
not much for a barren down on a horse, especially
alone on a trail. We're old friends, Paladin, remember, and
I'm asking.
Speaker 2: You to help me.
Speaker 1: Well, all right, wake, I guess my business with mister Baldwin.
Speaker 2: Can wait, let's go. I told you we could make it.
Speaker 4: We're there.
Speaker 2: Stage. It's still here. They're behind the schedule. We didn't
make up that much time.
Speaker 1: Well, well, that i'm here, I don't know for sure
what I'm going to.
Speaker 2: Say to her. You'll think of something. Come on, I
don't see her.
Speaker 1: Maybe the clerk knows where she is.
Speaker 2: I'll ask him. I'll wait him at this man will no? Uh?
You the driver?
Speaker 1: That's right, But we're looking for the woman who was
on your stage or one to get on a Diamond Spring. Yes,
you from the Sheriff's office here in Placerville. No, why, Well,
I was just wondering. I knew it was out of
his territory. We wired the sheriff of Diamond Springs so
he can take care of it.
Speaker 2: Take care of what? Didn't you hear? Hear?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 2: Hey?
Speaker 7: No, wait a minute, why you fellas so interested?
Speaker 2: Anyway, she's my wife. We rode in the meter.
Speaker 7: Oh what happened on thisester? She was kidnapped. Kidnapped right
off the stage. We're about ten miles out of Diamond
Springs when it happened. This fellow rode out in front
of the stage carrying a shot and signaled me to stop.
I thought he was gonna rob us, but all he
did was yelled the lady inside to step out. She did,
and then he told me to go on. What did
he look like? I couldn't tell much. I had a
band dan over his face. Tall, lanky fellow though, deep voice.
That's about all I noticed.
Speaker 2: Who'd want to do that to my lady? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I could have been Grant Hallick Hallick, but why I
might find out. If we could pick up this trail,
I can tell you right where it happened.
Speaker 2: How about a wake? You ready to start back? Sure?
Speaker 1: All right, Go take our horses over to the livery
stable and rent some fresh ones.
Speaker 2: I'll meet you there in a few minutes.
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the spot where the kidnapping occurred. Lydia's heel prince in
the soft ground led to the side of the road
and disappeared in a maze of hoof tracks. It obviously
mounted the horse with Grant Halleck or whoever her abductor
was At this point, I couldn't be sure, nor could
I imagine the reason why Wake and I followed the
tracks into the mountains to the east.
Speaker 2: We rode for hours.
Speaker 1: Do you think we would run into the sheriff by now?
Speaker 2: Yeah? If he is out looking for her.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was like the time when how I robbed
the bank.
Speaker 2: It'll take him till themar to get some men together.
Speaker 1: Li, he hadn't left me this morning, we wouldn't be
in all this trouble. I don't understand why she had
to cause.
Speaker 2: Me all this agony? Aren't you worried about your wife? Wake?
Speaker 3: Sure?
Speaker 2: I am? What made you ask that? I don't know who? Boy? Who? See?
This is where the trail ends. Which way? Do you
think they went?
Speaker 1: Either straight ahead or to the right end of that thicket?
It isn't likely they'd go up into the rocks to
the left. Which way you want to look first?
Speaker 2: The thicket?
Speaker 1: Come on, who, you better get down scout for tracks.
You go down there and I'll look up this way.
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 1: Hey, hey, Wake, you find something? Yeah, right there, so
we better walk follow me? Well, look at that, Uh,
I'd ever guess there'd be a clearing back here with
a shack sitting.
Speaker 2: Right in the middle. This may be where they are.
Speaker 1: It looks empty to me. There's no smoke coming out
of the chimney. If anybody was there, didn't surely have
a fire. No, none of it was high like. He
wouldn't want to attract attention with smoke. And hear that
there was a whore came from the other side of
the shack. Somebody is in there?
Speaker 2: What do we do?
Speaker 1: I did better wait with dark and then ease up
and take a look in the side. If Lydia's in
there with how like? We gotta be careful she doesn't
get hurt. Let's see that must be how like fits
the descriptions driver gave us. Yeah, he's going out back
to see about the horse. You stay here?
Speaker 2: Where are you going to stay here? Oh?
Speaker 1: All right, hall stand with a war You are right,
missus Lockton. You shot him, yes, ma'am, he's dead, dead.
Speaker 2: Lydia, You are right, they're not.
Speaker 1: Don't fret, Lyddy, you're safe now. No need to cry
and saw your pretty little face.
Speaker 4: Will you get your hands away from me Ldia?
Speaker 2: What are you acting like this? Let her be wake
she's had a bad shock. Give her time to collect herself.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you'll be all right, Lydy, as soon as we
get back to our little home. Get some rest and
forget about this terrible experience.
Speaker 4: I'm not going back with you.
Speaker 6: Wake Why I left Diamond Springs this morning for good
and I'm never going back.
Speaker 2: Why are you saying that, Lydia?
Speaker 6: You wouldn't understand if I explained it to him. Oh,
there's no use talking about it.
Speaker 5: We're sure I would, Honey, I tried to tell you
many times, wait, but you never listened. Would you understand
if I told you I was tired of being put
on a pedestal carted around the streets of Diamond Spring
Will you pointing your finger up at me and saying, look,
there's my pretty little wife.
Speaker 4: Ain't I something to have her old of myself? Ain't
I the luckiest man you ever seen? No?
Speaker 5: Wait, no, you never stopped to think that I was
a human being, that I was a woman. But I
found out what it means to be a woman. And
I fell in love with Grant. Halleck ya what are
you saying?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 5: I sell in love with Grant. The first time he
carried me away, he told me. I had to go
back before the sheriff found him. Told me to wait
until we could plan something so we could leave this
country together.
Speaker 4: When you were away in.
Speaker 5: Your last trip, he came to the house late one
night told me his plans. He didn't kidnap me today.
That was what we'd planned to do. We were going
to hide here for a week and then go up
north to Oregon.
Speaker 2: And take the banks twenty thousand dollars with you.
Speaker 4: I didn't care about that, but you knew he had it.
It didn't matter. Where is the money in the cabin somewhere?
I guess I.
Speaker 2: Can't believe you do this to me, Lydia, Wake, Wake,
Why don't you get our horses?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 4: Sure, he'll never understand.
Speaker 2: I'm afraid you're right.
Speaker 4: What am I going to do now, mister Pelladin?
Speaker 1: Well, first you're going back the Diamond Springs the sheriff.
We want to know what's happened.
Speaker 2: After that.
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Speaker 8: Oh, Michael Padan, Hello, Hey boy, didn't know you're coming
home today?
Speaker 2: And what are you doing all dressed up in your
Sunday suit?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 8: Work all done for today, So change of clothes here
for a big party tonight in Chinatown. It's losing. When
I see you come in hotel.
Speaker 1: Well, I must say, you look like you just stepped
out of the pages of Harper's Weekly.
Speaker 8: Hi, he's a hey boy, flinny smart dresser.
Speaker 2: He ah, you have nice to it. It was all right.
You capture bank robber? Uh huh return.
Speaker 8: Money to bank? Yes, oh you get big feet. Then
bank president plenty happy he hired you. He seemed to be.
Then he was a little puzzle. Puzzle what I finished
the job before I had a chance to meet him.
Speaker 2: Oh you finished your for How you do that? There's
a long story. Hey, well, I'll explain it to you tomorrow.
You better go. You don't want to be late to
that party.
Speaker 8: Oh no, thought there'd be plenty champaign, a lot talk
pretty gold.
Speaker 2: Well, if I don't see you tomorrow, i'll know the
reason why. Oh you saw good night, Hey boy, good
night himself followed him.
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Speaker 2: Have Gun Will Travel?
Speaker 1: Created by Herb Meadow and Sam Row, is produced and
directed in Hollywood by Frank Parris and stars John Dayner
as Paladin, with Ben Right as hey Boy, and Virginia
greg Ms Wong. Tonight's story was specially written for Have
Gun Will Travel by mister Parris, featured in the cast
for Harry Bartel, Clayton Post and Betty Harper.
Speaker 2: This is Hugh Douglas inviting
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