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Speaker 1: I learned two things in Cheyenne. One that Huckey dummy

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is baking powderbread with raisins. The other that loves labor

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is not always lost, even if you don't know how

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to use a gun.

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Speaker 2: Frontier Gentleman here with an Englishman's account of life.

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Speaker 1: And death in the West.

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Speaker 2: As a reporter for the London Times, he writes his

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colorful and unusual stories. But as a man with a gun,

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he lives and becomes a part of the violent years

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in the New Territories. Now starring John Dayner, this is

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the story of J. B. Kendall. Frontier Gentleman.

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Speaker 1: I had spent a week in chud Water with Hyena

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Bob Saunders, who ran the Cheyenne and Black Hills stage station.

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Now I was on my way back to Cheyenne to

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send off to the London Times one or two of

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the more choice stories he had told me. There was

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only one other passenger in the stage with me, a

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man in his middle twenties. He introduced himself as Tom Hart.

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He was well dressed, and at first glance I took

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him to be an Easterner. No.

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Speaker 3: I was born in Kansas, reared in Montana Territory, now

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I call Wyoming my home.

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Speaker 4: How about you.

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Speaker 1: Born in England. I'm trying to make a living writing

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writing articles on the West for the London Times.

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Speaker 3: Oh you've been in Chia and yet Oh yes, hard things.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's hard to say. I haven't seen too much

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of it.

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Speaker 4: Three years since I was there.

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Speaker 3: I guess the town's changed some, but this road sure

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hasn't run well.

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Speaker 1: Cheyenne's thriving, I can tell you that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I heard big cattle interest.

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Speaker 1: I thot that you're coming back from the East.

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Speaker 4: He's fancy dude clothes.

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Speaker 3: And yeah, man in the East and other parts, he

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gets tired to drift.

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Speaker 4: You know, it's time to go home. That's where I'm headed.

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Speaker 1: Cheyenne.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I made me some good money. Now it's figure

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to get married. Raising the block of kids.

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Speaker 1: It's worthwhile project.

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Speaker 3: He's a girl in Cheyenne's candle. We been writing least

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ways up to year back.

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Speaker 4: I got a letter from her when I was in

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New York. I wish you luck, thanks your well.

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Speaker 3: They say ties a man down, but I triggered for

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Gal's got her mind made up for marriage. You might

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as well drop your rope on it, because if you

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don't somebody else is going through it.

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Speaker 1: I see you have the the philosopher's latitude toward marriage.

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Speaker 3: Well, I don't know about that, but I've been lone

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wolfing long enough. Carrie's and then Carrie Hudson used to

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be a cookie pusher up at the Blue Star cafrat

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cookie pusher a waitress. Oh, I'll tell you what. When

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we get in town, you come on up with me

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to the Blue Star. Used to have the best eats

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in town. I guess they still do. I'll be proud

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to have you meet carry.

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Speaker 1: You spent the rest of the journey discussing matters of

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both consequence and triviality. Heart had received no formal education,

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but his travelers had given him a certain sophistication, and

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the time passed pleasantly. When we arrived in Shia, and

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I tried to persuade him that his fiance would be

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much happier to greet him alone, but Heart would have

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none of it. He insisted that I accompanied him, and

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so together we walked to where he knew the Blue

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Star Cafe to be.

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Speaker 4: Charlie Banister runs the place.

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Speaker 3: Charlie looks like bad medicine, his son says, he used

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to be a short trigger man, but it ain't true.

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By the way he looked after Carrie, you'd think she

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was his own daughter. I sure had to play it

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straight before Charlie let me start riding her down.

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Speaker 4: Me Gal say, listen, you hungry a little? You wait?

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You take Charlie's houckey dummy.

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Speaker 3: He used to be a ranged cook and there's never

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been a man made hockey dummy the.

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Speaker 4: Way Charlie makes it. Hey, that's funny.

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Speaker 1: Huh looks as ells closed?

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Speaker 3: He does for a fact, the first time I ever

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knew the Blue Star closed.

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Speaker 4: Can you see anybody moving around there?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 4: Hmm, what she's open? Hello, Charlie, whoever you are?

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Speaker 1: Morning back?

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Speaker 3: Sure don't figure, Hey Charlie, Yo, Well you say, Tom

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what Charlie?

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Speaker 4: This is what I met on the stage coming in? JB. Kendall.

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Speaker 1: Oh, hello, Charlie.

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Speaker 4: What's happened? How'd you get like this?

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Speaker 5: I guess you ain't heard. There was a shoot up

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in here a year or so ago.

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Speaker 4: Carrie's Carrie all right?

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Speaker 5: When it was finished, the boys had done the shoot

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and robbed me, and how I tailed that? I I

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had moved from the.

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Speaker 4: Bed since Tom what about Carrie.

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Speaker 5: She ain't here no more.

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Speaker 4: We'll work you go.

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Speaker 5: A's Jack Feeney up to Hollomin saloon.

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Speaker 4: I'm asking you, Charlie.

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Speaker 5: And I ain't saying you and me was friends, Tom

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I was leave keep it that way.

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Speaker 4: Now, what's Jack Feeney got to do with it?

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Speaker 1: What?

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Speaker 4: Charlie?

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Speaker 5: All right, I'll tell you Carrie took a shine to

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him while he was gone.

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Speaker 4: That's a lie.

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Speaker 5: I told Feeney to leave her alone. There was words.

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I throw him out. Same night he comes back with

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one of his boys and they fill me full of lead.

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Speaker 1: Well wasn't this Feenie arrested then, Charlie?

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Speaker 5: Sure, but it was his word against mine, and Carrie

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took his side and swore at the trial with someone

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else that'd come in and shot me up.

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Speaker 4: Is she with Phoenie?

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Speaker 1: Now?

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Speaker 5: I ain't seen her since that day. Hey, Tom Boy,

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while you're here, pump me a jug of water, will you?

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Old Doc Thorne says, I got a drink plenty of water,

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and missus Carroll's been helping out, but she ain't showed

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up yet today.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, sure, I'll be right back, Charlie, thank you.

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Speaker 5: I ain't got the stomach to tell him all the

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truth of it. You'll have to find out sooner or

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later for yourself. She married Phoene, Oh, right before the trial? Yes,

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what was partly my fault. I should have seen it.

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Carry getting lonesome waiting for Tommy and Poenie coming in

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here his fancy spending ways. He runs a gambling and

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hollom and saloon. Well, next thing you know, Carrie's looking

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cows at him.

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Speaker 1: Well don't you think it'd be better to tell heart

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now about the marriage?

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Speaker 5: Hey, listen, you keep an eye on and with you.

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Tom's got a bad temper. He gets it in his

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head to start trouble. There's likely to be a killing.

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Speaker 1: Well, the more reason to tell him. Then. This way

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he'll go up to the saloon looking for him.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I guess you're right. It wouldn't be so good.

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Speaker 3: Here's your water, Charlie. Anything else I can.

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Speaker 4: Do for you?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, stay away from Holloman saloon. I lied to you

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before Tom she's there with Phoenie. They're married.

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Speaker 4: See anything else I can do for you, Charlie?

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Speaker 5: Oh, I reckon not come on back and see me

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if you have a mind too, I sure like to

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hear about your travel.

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Speaker 4: I'll do that so long.

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Speaker 5: You take it easy, Tom.

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Speaker 1: Good bye, Charlie.

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Speaker 5: You take it easy, Tom.

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Speaker 4: Well, I guess i'll be seeing you, Candle.

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Speaker 1: Where will you go? Tom?

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Speaker 3: Not that it's any of your business, but I guess

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you ask out of kindness. I'm going up to hollom

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at saloon and have me a few drinks.

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Speaker 1: Oh well, mind if I come along?

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Speaker 4: No, no, I don't mind.

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Speaker 1: We walked down the main streets. I knew it was

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pointless to tell him that trying to see his girl

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was the worst thing he could do to himself. I

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rather liked him, and I suppose that's the and I

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went with him. He didn't say a word until he

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reached the saloon. Then he said, you.

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Speaker 3: Go ahead, Candle. I'll meet you in there in a

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few minutes. I got an errand to do first time.

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Speaker 1: I'll come with you. I don't mind.

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Speaker 3: I do. Just order me a bottle of whiskey. I'll

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see you inside. All right.

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Speaker 6: Well, o stranger, you're a little early. But what's your pleasure?

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Cards dance?

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Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, i'm looking for Carrie. Oh

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for what are you carrying? Yes, Ken, we sit at

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the table.

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Speaker 4: I don't sit with customers mischief.

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Speaker 6: That's for the girls. You want to talk business, you

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can talk to my husband.

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Speaker 1: A friend of yours is and shy Amne tom Hart.

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Tom he has just heard about you. He'll be coming

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in here in a minute. I it's what you ought

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to know.

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Speaker 6: Thanks, mister. How did he take the news?

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Speaker 1: He got it from Charlie? Well, you'll probably get very drunk.

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I imagine I do the same.

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Speaker 6: He won't make trouble.

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Speaker 1: I'll try to see that he doesn't.

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Speaker 6: Has he said anything about me, only that.

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Speaker 1: He was expecting to marry you?

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Speaker 6: Right? I thought it doesn't matter. Anybody got the price

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of a drink in his pockets. Welcome. That goes for

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tom Hart as well as the next man. You want

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a table, mister.

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Speaker 1: Yes, a table would be fine this way. What are

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you drinking?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 1: Beer? I think yes, and a bottle of whiskey.

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Speaker 6: My husband Jack doesn't like him. I wouldn't want to

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him to get hurt on account of me. Will you

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get him out of here if he's looking for someone

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to sharpen his horns on.

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Speaker 1: I'll do my best.

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Speaker 6: Thanks, Beer in a bottle of whiskey.

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Speaker 7: Listen, Well, where's the drinks on their wacome. What's the

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gun for Tom?

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Speaker 4: She's right clean and China, ain't. She sent me back

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twenty dollars put in a word.

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Speaker 3: I bought it and I aim to use it as

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soon as I get drunk enough. I'm gonna kill me

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a skunk called Feene.

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Speaker 2: In a moment, we returned to Frontier Gentleman, Fast with

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the quip, faster at making time with a beautiful girl, but.

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Speaker 4: Fastest of all with a clue.

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Speaker 2: Yours truly, Johnny Dollar will be along with his latest

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insurance investigation and later today on CBS Radio get next

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to yours truly, Johnny Dollar on most of these stations.

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Now we return you to the Anthony Ellis production of

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Frontier Gentleman.

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Speaker 1: Tom Hart and I sat at the table in Holloman's saloon,

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and between us lay a brand new forty four Revolver.

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After a moment, Tom picked it up and slowly rotated

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the cylinder. He didn't turn as carry came toward us,

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didn't look up as she put down my beer and

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Tom's bottle of whiskey.

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Speaker 4: Sir, it's mighty pretty talking. I how are you? Tom?

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Oh Carrie? Yeah, I heard you was here. Well, you're

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looking good. You know. Back East they drink a toast

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to new married folks, So I drink to you. Carrie.

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Where where's your husband? Missus Phoene, Jack's out.

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Speaker 6: Don't make trouble, Tom. What's done is done.

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Speaker 4: That's the way you see it, don't Carrie.

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Speaker 5: You never run.

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Speaker 4: I didn't have to. You were my girl. I told

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you i'd be back, but you couldn't wait. I waited

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two years. You was in such a hurry you had

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to get Phoene to put Charlie out of the way too.

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Speaker 3: That's not so, Tom, Charlie. He's lying in bed. He

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don't move anything but his arms anymore. Your husband did

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a right fine job. You ain't even been to see

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him since that doesn't do much good. You know she's

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not the same anymore. At first I thought she was,

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but he's not. She was a girl, a nice girl.

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When I left. She got too much paint. Now looks

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like a honky tonk woman.

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Speaker 1: You should drink, will go.

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Speaker 3: There's time, There's plenty of time. I want to have

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a talk with Jack Feoene. He shot up a.

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Speaker 4: Friend of mine. You remember, he won't leave. It's all right, Kenny,

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you go ahead, I'll stay. You want to whiskey? It

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a chase down at your ear? No?

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Speaker 1: Thank you.

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Speaker 4: Do you know why I'm going to get drunk.

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Speaker 1: I've got a rough idea.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, how rough?

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Speaker 1: Well? Tom, you know you really haven't got any right

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to start trouble with Phoeni.

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Speaker 4: What about Charlie? What about him?

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Speaker 1: The court said Phoeni was in.

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Speaker 4: Charlie says he did it, And.

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Speaker 1: If you shoot Phoene they'll find you guilty. What will

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you approve?

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Speaker 4: She said she was going to wait. She said he

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loved me. No, ain't that a laugh? Love?

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Speaker 1: That's why you're getting drunk. Then you'll be able to

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get angry without thinking.

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Speaker 4: You talk too much.

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Speaker 1: You asked me where she goes up the stairs?

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Speaker 4: Hey? You figure she was lying? Maybe Jack Phoenie's here,

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She's going up to tell him.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 4: Well I'm gonna find out.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 7: I wouldn't not sit down, Tom, give me that gun, kindle, Now.

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Speaker 1: You sit down. You're not that drunk yet, and you're

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not going up there to start shooting.

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Speaker 3: Give me the gun. No, you're bigger than me, but

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I ain't afraid to tangle with you. I didn't say

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you were all right, I'm going up there without a gun. Oh,

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don't be a fool, Tom, don't rile me.

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Speaker 1: Tom, she's married to him. You'll find another girl.

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Speaker 5: Hey, where are you going?

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Speaker 4: I'll come. You're going up to me and my wife's rooms.

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Speaker 3: I figured to find you there, Phoene. Well, Tom, har

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that's right. I stepped out for a while. If I

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had known you was going to pay a visit at

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a come back sooner. Have you seen my wife.

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Speaker 4: Tom, Yeah, yeah, I've seen her. Well, we'll have to

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get her down and have a friendly drink together. I

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haven't had the pleasure of meeting your friend JB.

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Speaker 1: Kendall.

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Speaker 4: Put her there, Kendall, carry come on down. Hey, let's

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to bring a bottle of champagne. I didn't come to

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drink with you, Phoene. I came to kill you. Well,

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sure you can do that anytime, but you'll have a

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drink first. Huh here, sit down, boys. When did you

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get back in downtown today? And I seen Charlie? Yeah,

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I heard about Charlie.

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Speaker 3: That was too bad him getting shot like that, the

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way Charlie tells it, you did the shooting.

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Speaker 4: Poor fella, They said made him a mighty loco.

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Speaker 5: Here's your champagne, and here comes the prettiest little woman

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and shining carry.

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Speaker 4: I hear you met mister Kendall here and Tom. Yes,

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well it's like old time, except the thing to his change.

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I got me a new wife. What you get back

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East time?

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Speaker 3: I'm telling you something, Feeni. I had a gun with

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your friend of mine. Didn't figure I was drunk enough

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or maybe sober enough to use.

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Speaker 4: Well I'm going out and get another one, and the

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next time I see you, I'm gonna be using it.

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He sure is excitable anyway. You figure he's still galling

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over you, Carrie.

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Speaker 6: What does it matter?

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Speaker 4: What do you think, Kendall?

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Speaker 1: I think that Tom Hart's in the mood for murder.

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Whether it's because of your wife, Charlie, I don't know.

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Speaker 6: Didn't shoot Charlie, mister Kendall. I know he didn't because

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we were together that night.

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Speaker 4: That's true. Must have been a couple of cowboys dropped

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at Charlie's place and robbed him, gave him lead poison.

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Speaker 1: But it wasn't me. Why does Charlie said it was?

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Speaker 4: That was at the trial.

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Speaker 1: He said it then too.

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Speaker 4: Of course my lawyer he showed where. It was dark

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in Charlie's cafe, and Charlie couldn't rightly tell who was

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in there that night. Charlie figured it was me because

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we'd had words the same day.

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Speaker 1: I think I better find Tom. No, don't you.

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Speaker 4: Go worrying, Kendall, you cool down sides. Tommy ain't no

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kind of a hand with a gun, and he knows it.

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If he comes looking for me, we'll take care of.

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Speaker 1: Him, which was exactly, but I was afraid of him.

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I spent the next hour going from one saloon to

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the next looking for Tom. I couldn't find him anything,

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and so I went back to see the one person

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who I thought might be able to help.

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Speaker 5: No, he ain't come back here. Took it bad? Huh? Yes,

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I anto trouble with that boy. Everything nice and easy

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with him. Never could figure what he was really thinking.

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But when he busted loose.

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Speaker 1: Charlie, are you still positive it was Phoene who shot you? Sure?

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I am well? Carry says he was with her that night.

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Speaker 5: She's lying.

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Speaker 1: Why would she lie?

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Speaker 5: Or don't ask me how come a woman does what

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she does?

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Speaker 1: I think the one reason that Tom's going after Phoene

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now as a matter of pride. He doesn't matter. Back down,

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he'll use he was an excuse.

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Speaker 5: I don't need any man to fight my war.

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Speaker 1: Do you think there's had a chance, even a remote one,

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that it was dark that night you were shot, and

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perhaps you were mistaken about PHOENI.

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Speaker 5: Well, I guess there's a chance.

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Speaker 1: But Charlie, if I can find Tom, if he knows that,

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if you'll touch my time, Carrie, is he here?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 6: I had to come. I don't want him to get hurt.

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I wanted to talk with him.

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Speaker 5: He much for you say? Seems to me I made

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a mistake.

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Speaker 6: I'm not making another.

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Speaker 5: It was Jack shot.

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Speaker 6: I lied for him, he said. If I didn't either,

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hear his boys, it gets you for good.

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Speaker 4: He said he'd kill me too.

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Speaker 5: And why did you marry him?

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Speaker 4: I had to.

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Speaker 6: That doesn't matter. Now we've got to find Tom.

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Speaker 4: Jack sent two of his boys out looking for him.

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He wants to kill Tom.

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Speaker 1: Why.

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Speaker 4: I guess he knows.

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Speaker 6: He's always known how I feel.

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Speaker 1: And I'm going back to the saloon. You better stay here.

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Speaker 4: Carry couldn't find him, man, No, Well, he's probably sobered

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up by now. He'll be all right. And nice fellow Tom,

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I'm just a little too hot.

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Speaker 1: Headed for his own good and so all right, Imagine

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when a man comes home and finds his girl married

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to another man. He can be a little upset him, sure,

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and then seeing a good friend of his lying paralyzed

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shot by the man who married his girl, it's likely

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to make a chap unreasonably.

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Speaker 4: Even though he's wrong. Yeah, I see what you.

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Speaker 1: Then if he finds out that the girl's husband forced

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her to lie, and if he finds out that the

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girl still loves him, he'd be in quite a state.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that wouldn't be so good.

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Speaker 1: Word it m Now, if I were the husband, I'd

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want to get rid of that fellow. Say if I

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like Tom, because my life wouldn't be safe for one minute,

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I'd send some men out looking for him, with orders

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to shoot on sight.

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Speaker 4: You got any more ideas along that line.

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Speaker 1: Well, if a man like Tom had a friend, the

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friend wouldn't want to see Tom bushwhacked.

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Speaker 4: I think it's the word that friend is talking himself

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into mighter trouble.

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Speaker 1: You think so, Then the friend would make another suggestion. Yeah,

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the husband is quite obviously a most unpleasant person, and

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the best thing he could do would be to give

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his wife a divorce so that she can live a

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decent life with Tom Hart.

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Speaker 4: I'm back, phoene Yeah, I see Tom Candle get away

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from me.

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Speaker 3: I'm giving him a chance to draw, which is more

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than he did for Charlie.

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Speaker 4: You hurt him, Candle. It's a fair fight.

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Speaker 1: I heard Tom without behind you. M thank you not

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at all. Those are two of mister Phoeney's chums. They've

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been looking for you. Now. Feeney, you were saying something

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about a fair fight.

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Speaker 4: Listen times, Draw, I ain't fighting with you.

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Speaker 3: You ain't got the guts of a lizard, Draw, I

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told you I have.

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Speaker 4: I ain't fighting well. I a.

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Speaker 1: Oh mine sounded as though you broke jaw Tom, Yeah, yeah,

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didn't he. I think mister Feeney will be leaving Tom.

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I also think he'll want to give carry a divorce. Oh,

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I thought you might be interested. Incidentally, what would you

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have done if he had drawn on you?

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: You ever thought about it. He probably would have killed me,

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he is I think he wouldn't. Well, I'll take care

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of the arrangements here. You better go over to Charlie's now.

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Carrie is waiting waiting for me, Well, I don't imagine

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it's for me.

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Speaker 2: Frontier Gentlemen was written, produced, and directed by Anthony Ellis

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and stars John Danner as Jab Kendall featured in the

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cast where Vic Perrin, Virginia, Greg Jack Krushian, and Harry Bartel.

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Music was composed and conducted by Wilbur Hatch. Join us

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again next week for another report from the Frontier Gentleman,

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John Wall speaking. This is the CBS Radio Network.