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Speaker 2: Hey boy, I am going to a wedding.
Speaker 3: Wedding, Oh very pleasent.
Speaker 1: In Ashton, Kansas. Judge Aaron Lindsay's daughter Susan's getting married.
They're old friends of mine. Hard for me to believe,
but I can only think of Susie as a pixie
faced little kid with pigtails.
Speaker 3: See very nice man.
Speaker 1: I'm sure he must be nice, but it's someone I
don't know. I'll have to admit I was a little disappointed.
I always figured Susan would marry David Brinker. David Brinka. Boy,
there in Ashton, David and Susan grew up together. It
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Speaker 1: Ashton was a pleasant town, prosperous and respectable. Its citizens
were solid, hardworking, and law abiding. It hadn't always been
that way. It had its beginnings as a supply station
just off the old Chisholm Trail, and had grown without
restraint to a wild, reckless settlement controlled by.
Speaker 2: A gang of outlaws.
Speaker 1: Then Judge Aaron Lindsay moved in and Ashton learned about
law and order. The railroad station was about a mile
outside of town, and the judge had sent a horse
for me to use, and it left word that I
should go on out to the ranch.
Speaker 5: Paladin, huh, Paladin, I guess you don't recognize me, David Brinker.
Speaker 2: Stayvid, David. I'm sorry. It's been several years, you know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I guess you're in town for the wedding.
Speaker 2: Yes, will I see you there?
Speaker 7: No, I'm riding out on my way now. I'm leaving Ashton.
You know how it was with Susan and me.
Speaker 2: But running away isn't always the right answer, David.
Speaker 7: I know, but it's better this way. I've been waiting
here by the ranch gate, trying.
Speaker 5: To get up the courage to see Susie till a goodbye,
but I don't think I will.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 5: Would you do something for me, mister Palladin? What's that
I tell Susan? I wish her a lot of happiness?
Speaker 2: All right, David, why don't you change your mind come
to the wedding.
Speaker 5: Huh.
Speaker 7: I know you'll think I'm talking like a sorehead, but well,
it's not right for her to marry him. It's a
mighty big mistake. Well, so on, mister pardon, Yeah, I'm Franks.
Speaker 2: Goodbye, David, good luck, Come on boy. Yeah. Oh Susie.
Speaker 9: Oh Allen, Oh, I'm so glad you came.
Speaker 2: Nothing in the world would have kept me from your wedding.
Let me look at you.
Speaker 1: Well, my little pixie face has certainly become a beautiful
young lady.
Speaker 9: Thank you. Oh my, oh, Dad'll be so happy to
see you. How is your father, Susy, Well, I think
you'll be surprised when you see Daddy hasn't been well.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sorry, come on in the house, all right, Well,
I guess you're really excited, aren't you, Susan.
Speaker 9: Yes, Paladin, that gift you send, it's beautiful.
Speaker 2: I'm glad you like it. It seems it's a very
special kind of jade.
Speaker 1: Susan has a very special kind of a Chinese god.
He's supposed to bring you happiness.
Speaker 9: Is your magic? He may be, he'd better be.
Speaker 2: Ooh, now what kind of talk is that?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 9: Never mind, Well, dad's in his study. There go writing.
I have to get ready.
Speaker 1: Wait, Susan, I saw David Brinker out by the ranch gate.
Speaker 9: David.
Speaker 1: Yes, he said to tell you that he wishes you
a lot of happiness.
Speaker 2: He was leaving Ashton. David leaving.
Speaker 9: No, he can't live. Oh no, Susan.
Speaker 1: Well, Hello, Aaron's and it's good to see you.
Speaker 2: Aaron. What's the matter with Susan?
Speaker 1: Well, I I believe it's something called wedding day nerves.
Speaker 10: Oh, I wish that girl's mother were alive.
Speaker 11: This is too much for me, I tell you, Paladin,
this whole thing's got me torn up.
Speaker 2: Aaron, who is this boy? She's going to marry Tom Cameron?
And you coming here? Bought the old abbot spread I
mean the ranch that borders your place. Yes, that's the one.
Speaker 5: She and Tom will be living in the old Abbot house.
Speaker 1: That will be nice for you, Aaron, having Susan that
close after she's married.
Speaker 5: Yes, I suppose you could say that.
Speaker 12: But there's something mighty strange about this marriage, Paladin, mighty strange.
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Speaker 1: It was a lovely wedding. Bride was beautiful, becomingly shy.
Broom was handsome and proudly possessive. During the ceremony, the
ladies of the town wept, and after the ceremony the
men of the town gathered around the punch bowl.
Speaker 2: There were games for the.
Speaker 1: Children, dancing for the young folk, and the barbecue for
hundreds on the oak shaded grounds of the ranch. Judge
Lindsay shook hands with everyone there, then retired to his room.
He looked very tired. Finally, the bride and groom together
cut the huge decorated cake and accepted the toasts of
their friends, and then they left in the bribbon carriage
for their new home on the next ranch.
Speaker 2: It was a wedding to remember, but.
Speaker 1: Still the punch flowed and the guests stayed on. We
shortly after dark that someone suggested a chivalrie Somehow, the
old world custom that had been brought to the West
seemed a fitting way to end the day.
Speaker 2: I went along. We gathered on the lawn in front
of the old Abbot ranch.
Speaker 1: House, and a few minutes later Susan and Tom came
out on the porch to accept their congratulations. Tom Tom, Oh, no, oh,
pardon me, Please excuse me, Susie, go back inside the house.
Speaker 2: I'll be there in a minute.
Speaker 1: Please go inside, Susan, Tom, Tom.
Speaker 13: Here, Well, I'm sure, Wills. How's out there with the crowd?
Speaker 2: What happened? He's dead? There?
Speaker 1: Somebody out there wasn't shooting into the air. What do
you mean Cameron was hit by a rifle? Bullet rifle?
Those men in the crowd out there were shooting forty five? Well,
there must have been somebody lurking back there in the dark,
just waiting to kill him.
Speaker 13: Yeah, using the noise of chivalry to cover up. And
I can think of only one person who do that?
Speaker 8: Who?
Speaker 13: David Brinker?
Speaker 2: What are you talking about it?
Speaker 13: He lost his woman, didn't he. That's pretty hard for
a man.
Speaker 2: To take some David, but never do anything to hurt Susan.
Speaker 3: You tell me who?
Speaker 13: Then I don't know that we'll find out. Well, I'm
betting on breaker. I got nothing against the kid personally,
but he's the only one who's got any reason, and
I aim to get some of my men together and
find him. See what he's got to say for him.
Speaker 2: So luck Sheriff. David left town early this morning.
Speaker 13: All right, If he ain't here, he's innocent. But if
we find him around, he'd better have a good story.
Speaker 3: Hey, foll I have far come here.
Speaker 2: We get busy, Susie.
Speaker 9: I heard what he said. David didn't do it.
Speaker 2: I'm going to take you back to your father's places.
Speaker 9: Didn't do it?
Speaker 2: Of course he didn't. Anyway, David's probably miles away from
here by this story. No, he isn't.
Speaker 9: What do you mean, that's just the trouble. He is here.
I saw him. He was on his horse in that
stand of willows by the road. I saw him when
we were coming here after the wedding. You sure he
is Kalad And David didn't do it. Not David, not Dave.
Speaker 1: Susan, why are you talking this way? Your husband? Your
husband is dead out there.
Speaker 9: I know it's a terrible thing that's happened to Tom
I'd give anything if I could change it.
Speaker 2: But Susan, what are you trying to say?
Speaker 9: Paladin? You have to know this. I didn't love Tom
Cameron and he didn't love me.
Speaker 2: Susan, Then why the marriage?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 9: He liked me well enough, But what he really wanted
was the land I'll have someday, the Lindsay ranch, the
water rights, the power it would give him in the community.
Speaker 1: You still haven't told me why you married him. Well,
now listen, Susan, you have to tell me.
Speaker 9: I guess you call it blackmail.
Speaker 2: Blackmail.
Speaker 9: He knew something about Dad, something about destroying evidence, a
very serious thing. He had proof and I saw it.
He threatened to expose Dad, disgrace him.
Speaker 2: Did the judge know this? No one did, Susan.
Speaker 1: Do you think your father would want you to sacrifice
yourself for him for any reason?
Speaker 9: It wasn't only dead, it was the whole town. You
know what Judge Aaron Lindsay means to Ashton. He's become
a sort of symbol to the people. What would happen
if they found out he wasn't quite the man they
think he is.
Speaker 1: Well, I can't answer that, Nah, I only know one thing.
Some of those half drunk citizens may decide to give
the sheriff a hand and find David Brinker before we do.
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Speaker 1: I ripped the white ribbons from the carriage and Susie
and I started back to the limsy ranch. I didn't
know what to expect me, but I was uneasy. I
knew that the people shot by the sudden tragedy with
not reason, but would lash out.
Speaker 2: In anger, seeking any revenge for the cruel.
Speaker 1: Ending to their story about wedding, It was a clear
night now, the moon was high and it was possible
to see for some distance.
Speaker 2: I kept watch.
Speaker 9: Caladn what is it you're looking for?
Speaker 1: Well, I'm not sure, Susan, that is I wasn't sure,
but I think I've found it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, they see that crowd.
Speaker 9: What are they doing? Called? Let's David's David? They had
that up against the cliff.
Speaker 6: Yeah, they're stoning.
Speaker 14: You.
Speaker 6: Hear me start that loud, David, mister Bellad, come with me,
see you, mister, this is our bill.
Speaker 3: Stand back.
Speaker 2: You let us through, and you just hold it a minute.
You ain't taking him nowhere.
Speaker 1: You tell the sheriff if he wants to get out
a warrant for David Brinker's arrest, he'll find him a
judge Lindsay's ranch.
Speaker 2: I don't like your button in.
Speaker 4: I need to do something about it.
Speaker 8: My hand.
Speaker 1: You'll be able to use that hand again, But the
next man who draws on me won't be so lucky,
all right, let's go David.
Speaker 15: Ooh you.
Speaker 2: Feel all right?
Speaker 9: David?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, sir, I'm fine. Now good will you take
the carriage back to the barn. I want to go
in and see the judge. Susie, why don't you go
up to your room and trying to get some rest? Well
all right, Oh wait a minute, David, I thought you
were leaving Ashton.
Speaker 7: Well, I began to think of what you said about
running away, so I turned around and came back.
Speaker 5: But I wasn't sure if I'd done the right thing.
Speaker 14: When I was there in the ddow Susan and Cam,
I didn't by yeah, because you think you saw you?
Speaker 8: Then what did you do?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 7: I mows it on down the back road. I stayed
there until I saw all the people leaving the wedding.
I wanted to talk to the jud Did you talk
to him?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 7: No, by the time I got there, he was gone.
His horse wasn't then it's fall I guess it had gone somewhere.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Well, just.
Speaker 2: Unhit the horses and come back to the house.
Speaker 8: All right, Aaron, all right, kay, hello, Palimy.
Speaker 14: You know about Cameron. Yeah, but er will be there.
Sing the warrant for David Brinter's arrest.
Speaker 8: But David didn't kill him. I know them. I guess
you know who did?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 8: Why I couldn't let her sacrifice herself to me?
Speaker 14: Pal, you found out about the black man? Yes, when
after the wedding.
Speaker 12: Ceremony, when I came upstairs, I overheard them quarreling. I
he reces to destroy the evidence he had against me
as paid the agreement. He's threatened to continue the whole
girl with her head. Suddenly I understood the whole thing,
poor Jesus, and the information that he had was a crew. Yes,
I was guilty. I broke the law. I who held
the letter of the law when I pronounced gentlement on
of it?
Speaker 8: What do I do?
Speaker 12: Allan, You won't have to do anything, my friend. I've
already written a letter to sheriff with those confessions of
the murder. But I'm afraid I'll be denied my rightful
trial by jury in the courts of our land.
Speaker 8: What do you mean I'll have to answer to a
higher court.
Speaker 12: I'm going to die. Powered Aaron doctor forbat me to
ride my saddle horse. See he said my heart wouldn't
stand it. I rode hard tonight. Wow, the doctor could
be wrong, Eran, that's what I told him, but you
knew something. He was right, absolutely right.
Speaker 3: Oh mis apology.
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Oh not good to morn so long trying to think
of other things. You remember that jade figurine we got
from your uncle.
Speaker 3: Oh he saw Chinese god. He's running happiness.
Speaker 2: Well does he really?
Speaker 15: Oh?
Speaker 3: Well, Anita Paladin? That god?
Speaker 16: Oh pretty ticky follow but no need ever warry about him.
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Speaker 1: Have Gun Will Travel, Created by Herb Meadow and Sam
Raw is proteuced stand directed in Hollywood by Frank Parris
and stars John Dayner as Paladin with Then Wright as
hey Boy. Tonight's story was specially written for Have Gun
Will Travel by and Dowd. Featured in the cast were
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