Speaker 1: Any one of you who tries to put a torch
to that building will die in his tracks. Now who
wants to be first? Have gone, Will Travel? Starring mister
John Dayner as Paladin, San Francisco, eighteen seventy five, The
Carlton Hotel, headquarters of a man called Paladin. Your money man. Oh,
here there's mister Paladin. Whiskey water ice. You want something else?
I want you to take this money over to the
bank and deposited for me. Oh he s a oh
great deal of money, missa Paladin, five thousand dollars. Here's
a deposit slim he saw? Well. Oh all the time,
I know you missed a Paladin. You have money, money
I earned.
Speaker 2: He's a what so much money? You buy clothes? You
live here, You pay for many things.
Speaker 3: You have A work and.
Speaker 1: Not earn money. I don't understand you. I work and
not earn money. Most people do the same thing. It
makes you feel any better. I've often worked not been
paid a dime. Oh, it makes me feel better, but
I try not to make a habit of it. Oh
I know, I know. Oh well I take this now?
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Today only fifty nine cents. The trip to Nevada was
for nothing. When I got there, my employer's problem had
been settled. He'd been killed and his killer had been hanged.
So I turned around and started back for San Francisco.
And that's how I happened to ride through Wormsville. Not
really a town, just a single line of ragged buildings
facing the open prairie, but trying to be a town.
One of the buildings was a log cabin with a
flagpole in front of it. Sitting by the side of
the tracing figures in the dust with a willow branch
was a young boy. I stopped beside him. Oh, mister, hello, son,
you're going to be late for school? Ain't going? Oh?
Why not?
Speaker 3: Not till they get rid of the school teacher?
Speaker 1: What'd she do?
Speaker 3: Nothing?
Speaker 1: If you don't like her? Is that it?
Speaker 3: Miss Stann? I like her fine, but Pa says I
can't go.
Speaker 1: Why does Pau say that? Boy?
Speaker 3: On account of mister Breck says it to him?
Speaker 1: Brec, who's mister Breck?
Speaker 3: He owns that big ranch over there. You don't like
what Miss Stanton was teaching about Quantrill?
Speaker 1: What was Miss Stanton teaching about Quantrill.
Speaker 3: She says Quantrill's men were thieves and murderers. Mister Breck
rode with Quantrill in the war, said he'd burn down
school and ride her out of town if she didn't
stop teaching that way.
Speaker 1: So I take it miss Stanton is still teaching that way.
Speaker 3: Uh, yep, she's stirring up a fuss. Hardly anybody's going
to school now.
Speaker 1: Well, it seems to me it's mister Brick was stirring
up the fuss. What's your name, Morse Kaufman, Sir, Morse,
my name is Paladin. Can I sit down? Sure? M
How do you feel about all this?
Speaker 3: I don't know rightly, mister Paladin. Seems Miss Danton ought
to teach things to cause trouble.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you something, Morse, Yes, sir, one and
one make two. You believe that?
Speaker 3: Sure?
Speaker 1: But supposing I didn't like the number two, supposing I
just as soon forget it and use one and three,
four and so on, but never two, then.
Speaker 3: What, oh, that'd be wrong, mister Paladin.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's wrong to think that Miss Stanton or any
teacher could do a very good job by ignoring the
facts of history, no matter how much they upset some people.
Speaker 3: Maybe, but uh, mister Brick don't see it that way.
He's too mean to think everybody he does.
Speaker 1: What he says.
Speaker 4: Accept, Miss Stanton, Accept, Miss Stanton, you wish to see me?
Speaker 1: Yes? May I speak to you alone? Miss Stanton?
Speaker 5: Ms.
Speaker 6: Grubb, will you kind of come up here and sit
at my desk?
Speaker 7: The rest of you go right on with your reading
after you finished page eighteen and mcguffy then you may
work on your slates this.
Speaker 1: Way, young man, Well, I got right to the point,
Miss Stanton. I don't like what you've been teaching about
the Jayhawkers, the Jayhawkers, Kansas Missouri patriots that organized the
fight for the Union on the border. I hear you've
been teaching that they committed a good many vicious and
unprincipled acts. Is that true?
Speaker 7: Mister Breck doesn't want me to teach about Pondtrell and
his atrocities, And now you, whoever you are, don't want
me to teach of the Jayhawker's atrocities merely because they
were on the Union side. Young men, I will teach
the truth as it is and.
Speaker 6: Not as you are.
Speaker 1: Mister Breck would like it to be good for you,
Miss Stanton. What I just wanted to see if you
were telling both sides of the story.
Speaker 6: Who are you?
Speaker 1: Mister? My name is Paladin. Here's my card.
Speaker 6: Well, I don't understand who hired you.
Speaker 1: No one has hired me.
Speaker 6: I still don't understand, mister Paladin.
Speaker 1: Miss Statton, is anyone in this town on your side?
Speaker 6: No, I'm afraid not. I used to have eighteen pupils.
You saw the handful in there. Tomorrow they'll be even less.
Mister Paladin. I can't pay you for anything.
Speaker 1: Oh, No, I want pain is to say that this
is something I want to do.
Speaker 6: You don't know what you're getting into.
Speaker 7: Breck all these gunmen I've heard about him, There isn't
anyone who'll face up to him.
Speaker 1: If this is going to be settled by guns, you
have at least one on your side.
Speaker 6: Guns. Oh, mister Paladin, there must be no fighting, not
over me.
Speaker 1: You're a teacher. That makes you very special. Without teachers,
every generation would have to start all over again, learning
from the beginning. Now, Miss Stanton, you're very much worth
fighting over. You're a teacher.
Speaker 6: Thank you, mister Paladin. I needed someone to say that.
I really did.
Speaker 1: Molly Stanton gave me a list of all of her
students and where they lived. She did it with little
hope that it would do any good, but with the
same kind of determination with which she stood up and
spoke the truth in her teaching. I could do no
less than make use of the list.
Speaker 8: Told you, my Susan ain't going back to school until
that teacher clears out.
Speaker 1: Now we've been all over it, and then we'll go
over it again. Where's your pride, mister Colwell. If Breck
threatened Susan's life with a gun, you'd be out there
with your gun, making a fight of it. But when
he takes over a piece of her mind, you crawl
into a hole. You get out of here. I'd be
glad to leave. If you'll do something about Breck, I'll
do as I see fit. Now, get out of my house,
mister Caldwell. Adults sometimes forget that children are learning all
the time. Your Susan learns not only by what you
tell her, but by the way you live. What do
you suppose he's learning right now?
Speaker 3: Get out?
Speaker 1: Yes, sir, leaving Morse is your father home?
Speaker 3: Or man who is at the school today? Paup, mister paladin.
Speaker 1: May I come in, mister Kaufman, I'd like to talk
to you.
Speaker 5: Come on in.
Speaker 1: Oh what do you want to talk about the school?
I've heard around town of tomorrow Breck's riding in to
burn it down. You want help? Is that it? Yes?
I'm asking the people that involves for that help. Ah.
How have they been doing poorly? I've been riding six
hours tonight talking arguing. Everyone's afraid of Breck? How about you?
Will you help? AH?
Speaker 5: If I said no? With your figure, it's because I'm
scared of Breck.
Speaker 1: What else would you say no? Might be? I figure
he's right, he isn't. This fight is over Quantry? What
he was? What he dumbed? Kaufman, you're wrong when you
say this is a fight over Kuantrill. It isn't. There's
a fight over whether a man named Breck will burn
down a school and drive a woman out of the
county for teaching. Like, mister Kaufman, you hire a teacher,
you see that she has the proper training and the
right moral character for the job, then you have to
let her do that. John, You hold her back, You
tell her what to teach and what not to teach.
She ends up teaching nothing. All right, all right, but
it ain't my fight.
Speaker 5: Jason and them other folks in town don't like me
the way I talk, make fun of me. If everybody
was to make us stand, I'd go along. But I
don't see doing their fighting for them.
Speaker 1: But this is for yourself. She has spoke on your peace.
Mister paladin. You've had my answer, but not once have
you mentioned the real reason you won't stand up to Breck.
What do you mean you're afraid of them? Wait? No
one calls me a coward and walks away. You just
look me up at the school tomorrow if you want
to finish this, unless you'd rather shoot me in a
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our many fine dramatic shows. The next morning, Molly Stanton
appeared at the school fifteen minutes before class was scheduled
to begin. She tided her desk, made notes for the day,
then stepped out into the yard and rang the bell,
but there was no one to ring it for no students,
no parents.
Speaker 6: There's our support, mister Palladin.
Speaker 1: Then we'll meet breck by ourselves.
Speaker 6: Why what for? What am I fighting about? They're not
my children. Those people don't care. Why should I?
Speaker 1: Because you do care, You care for the children, your
own integrity.
Speaker 7: They just want their children here out from under foot
to say, I'm leadens down. Will you've certainly been a stranger, Susan,
Go on now, get your desk.
Speaker 6: You have two weeks work to catch up on.
Speaker 1: You see, miss Natan, you're wrong. Somebody does care, mister Paladin,
look I see them.
Speaker 6: I'll wait here with you.
Speaker 1: No, Now you go on in and run your school.
Speaker 6: Well, good luck.
Speaker 1: You, Jackson Brick.
Speaker 8: That's right, you're the one who's been siding with that
old Hannah in there. All right, boys, I got enough
men to do the job. It's got to be done.
You can see that stranger.
Speaker 1: I can. But you're gonna try to stop me. That's
the idea. You're a fool. You get there, Come here, now,
hold it COOLi been's easy without his gun. Mister Pellon,
you see all the trouble you went and cast you.
Speaker 6: You're an animal.
Speaker 1: You should have packed your things. Teacher.
Speaker 8: Now they'll just have to burn up with the school.
You can't give me that book alone. I ain't gonna
hurt the kids want the book. Make a good torch,
you see, burn pretty good, and don't do it.
Speaker 1: Bre Oh, I'm gonna do it all right. Burn's real nice,
don't it here? Cool? Toss it inside all to start
the whole place off. Give me my book, Get away kid,
Leave her alone, Breck what it's my daughter. Leave her alone. Jason,
put that rifle away. Don't nobody make a move. I'll
kill the first man who does. Cooley move around behind it.
Speaker 8: Don't you Clift, Coolie. I mean what I say. You're
gonna be sorry for this, Jason. Turn on your friends
like y'all. We'll remember and you'll be sorry. Hold it, fright,
Hold up there, Oh all the Kaufman come to join
the fun.
Speaker 1: It just went more for you to worry about Jason.
What's going on here? What does that come for Jason?
I changed my mind, Kaufman. I ain't with Breck no more.
That's so.
Speaker 8: And I'll tell you just like I told him. One
false move from anybody and I fire Jason.
Speaker 1: I got to score, et cetera. I told you he'd
be on our side, Jason.
Speaker 5: I didn't say I was on any side. Holy gif
Peladin back his gun?
Speaker 1: What give it to him? Coolly, give it to him
or Jason and I start shooting.
Speaker 5: Thank you, I've got your gun back, Paladin. You can't
speak to break for all of us.
Speaker 1: All right, Breck, no one's holding me. Now. You've got
two hands, gun in that holster. You're standing on your
own two feet? What else do you want? An edge? I?
Or maybe this will help you fight? Oh? You only
draw against women? Is that it? Maybe school teachers, especially
for children? All right? If not you, how about one
of your men? How about you? Anybody, and get on
your horses and get out of here, and Brett one
more thing, don't try sneaking back some dark night. You
wouldn't be very hard to find afterwards.
Speaker 5: That's right, Craig hit man like you, you wouldn't be
hard to find at all.
Speaker 1: Hey, Jason, no, there be nothing to it. Let's get
out of here. Well it's finished. Not quiet, Telladin. Last
night you called me a comin. Yes I did. Why.
I wanted you mad enough sold you to think about
what I said. It made me think, that is for sure.
I never thought you were a coward, mister Comston. I
knew you were afraid. I knew what you were afraid of,
that you'd fight for Jason here and his friends, and
afterwards they just laugh at you for being a fool.
I might have too, Wally.
Speaker 8: I was proud about all the wrong things, like you
having an accent and me not. Then when I saw
Breke going after Susan, maybe that's what helped me get
things straight.
Speaker 1: I'm glad well now in the time to get the
children back to school. Oh, he's apology, you're back so soon? Welcome, welcome?
Oh you give me back? How you been? Hey boy?
Anything happened when I was gone?
Speaker 2: Ooh you saw many things happened? Trip up in harbor street,
car break, jailer, run down hill man, she's white through
the street with butcher knife, manything help before you?
Speaker 1: Well I suppose, I mean, did anything good happen? Oh?
You let me think we saw Paladin? Oh?
Speaker 6: No, I beg your pardon. My name is Francis. Has
anyone paged my name in the lobby in the last
few minutes?
Speaker 1: Not since we've been hearing missus Francis. It's miss Oh,
I beg your pardon, Miss Francis. Allow me to introduce myself.
My name is Paladin. How do you do you're staying
here at the hotel?
Speaker 6: Why?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 6: I registered yesterday?
Speaker 1: And are you staying long? That depends.
Speaker 4: I might stay indefinitely if I find San Francisco interesting.
Speaker 1: I'm certain that you will find a bad.
Speaker 6: Way, really, mister Paladin.
Speaker 1: With my help, of course? How nice can we say?
Eight o'clock.
Speaker 4: How very nice.
Speaker 1: Yes, until then, until eight o'clock.
Speaker 6: I'll be looking forward to it.
Speaker 1: Hey boy, you lied, huh? I lie? Oh nor mister Paladay,
I don't lie. Something very good did happen when I
was away? Here comes Elmer Blurt, world's lowest pressure salesman.
Go body home.
Speaker 9: I hope, I hope. Oh gosh, it says salesman. Keep out, Hey,
come back here. You wouldn't want to buy a new
Rambler American station wagon, would you?
Speaker 1: Mister? You poor fellow. Let me show you how to sell.
You gotta use high pressure.
Speaker 10: You gotta tell the customer you must buy America's lowest
price station wagon, the Rambler American, the small wagon with
automatic transmission, the reclaiming seats, beat coil springs, and handsome
American styling. Is that a fat then, you say, the
Rambler American is America's easiest parking station wagon and can
save one hundreds of dollars a year on gas and maintenance.
Speaker 9: But we'll at high pressure work.
Speaker 1: I'll movement works.
Speaker 3: Order me a Ramblo American station wagon.
Speaker 1: Now, how do you like my sales technique?
Speaker 9: Well, it's not as good as your neighbors. Oh now,
he just sold himself a Rambler station wagon and a
Rambler Sedan.
Speaker 1: Won a wheel of apply on a used car. See
your Rambler Dealer right now for a tremendous assortment of
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See your Rambler Dealer for a select used car. Have Gone,
Will Travel. Created by Herb Meadow and Sam Rawth, He
is produced and directed by Norman McDonald and stars John
Dayner as Paladin with Ben Wright as hey Boy. Tonight's
story was written by Sam Rowth and adapted for radio
by John Dawson. Featured in the cast were Helen Cleve,
Carry Bartel, Richard Perkins, Virginia greg and Joel Davis. Hugh
Douglas speaking join us again next week for Have Done,
We'll Travel The