Speaker 1: You hired me to keep a mob from mentioning man.
Now you want me to hand them over. Just which
side of that badger are you going to stand behind? Sheriff?
Have done? Will travel starrying Mister John Dayner as Paladin,
San Francisco, eighteen seventy five, The Carlton Hotel, headquarters of
a man called Paladin. This is excellent cherry. Hey boy,
my compliments to the management.
Speaker 2: Oh he thought i'd tell him about compliments later. And
we started, and they asked me to give you a bill.
Speaker 1: Ooh uh, it's a good idea.
Speaker 2: Not tell him a compliment, to remind them you were on.
Speaker 1: Take us back to them, tell him it will be
settled in a week's time.
Speaker 2: Oh, they say, happy.
Speaker 1: Then bring me some more sherry. After that, you better
run up and pack my clothes. You're going well again
to a place called Arcadia, and to a man named Grayson.
Oh what poor It depends on mister Grayson. He happens
to be a sheriff, and he happens to have a prisoner.
Everyone wants to lynch you know you coming, not yet,
but send him a wire. You have gone with travel correct.
Arcadia was an ugly town setting an ugly notch between
two ugly mountains. Not the kind of place a man
wants to come to after two days of pot riding.
Not the kind of people a man wants to meet
when he's too tired to understand anger, too weary to
care about the sea. The greeting committee was a weather
boned woman flanked by a pair of burly men. I
walked to where they stood blocking the boardwalk.
Speaker 3: You got business in town?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 3: Who with the sheriff about the Briggs murder?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 4: What's your name, mister Paladin?
Speaker 5: Get on your horse, Paladin and keep going. We don't
need outside help.
Speaker 6: Save him.
Speaker 5: Briggs with my son. I'm sorry, mister Briggs, not missus Briggs.
It's widow Briggs, no husband, no son, just widow Briggs.
Speaker 1: Good day, ma'am.
Speaker 7: Excuse me, Erry, You will both go back to the ranch.
Speaker 8: Get Tom here, Tell him the sheriff's tired. That's gone
to that.
Speaker 1: Great captain Jeff Grayson. My name is Paladine.
Speaker 4: Oh, come in, palad Sorry about that gun in the belly?
Speaker 1: Is just that.
Speaker 4: I gotta be a mic careful about who walks in here.
Speaker 1: I'm not bad, not yet, it can be.
Speaker 4: They wanna hang my prisoner without a trial. I'm glad
to see you, Palatine. I guess I don't have to
tell you that, but I suppose I ought to tell you.
Speaker 1: It'll be just the two of us.
Speaker 4: I can't get any more help.
Speaker 1: Have they tried anything yet? Just talk so far? Huh?
But they know the judge will be in from Plasi wednesday.
I gave you'll do more than just talk before he
gets here.
Speaker 4: Oh oh, excuse me, Papa, my daughter, Julia, Miss Paladin?
Speaker 1: How his imonstration?
Speaker 7: How how do you do?
Speaker 3: I can I take these cookies to in?
Speaker 7: Papa?
Speaker 4: Sure, come along, Miss Paladin. You can have a look
at our prison. Hello Andy, Well, mister Grayson, Hello Julia,
Hello Andy.
Speaker 3: I I I don't finished dating these cookies? Andy, Andy, Julia,
last night I heard and now did it keep you awake?
Speaker 4: I pretended it was you calling to me that it
was time for us to go and it picnic out.
Speaker 6: To the old barn and try.
Speaker 3: One of these cookies.
Speaker 4: I pretended it was you.
Speaker 3: Calling Andy, Andy.
Speaker 4: Andy, alright, Judie, tell them let's go out for him.
Speaker 1: How long has he been like that?
Speaker 4: Since he was a child. He follows Julia around like
a puppy as for years.
Speaker 1: Man like that can't be held responsible for us.
Speaker 4: I try to tell that to the wit of Briggs.
They found Andy and the old.
Speaker 1: Smith Barn near the body. Jim had been stab between
the shoulder blades with a steak or spike or something
like that.
Speaker 4: Nobody ever did find out what it was. They say,
a person like Andy probably didn't know he'd.
Speaker 1: Done it, just sat there.
Speaker 4: You know, judging isn't my job keeping a mob back?
Speaker 1: Is it that it be easier to do if we
could establish some reasonable doubt about its guilty. Is there
anything about Barn any murder weapon? Nothing? You know, there's
a murder weapon somewhere. Our job is to find it.
There's always something something to kill with, something to hate over,
something to be said, something to explained, something to be done.
Then again, there's always the exception, the one.
Speaker 2: Chance that there is nothing.
Speaker 4: Huh down the street.
Speaker 1: With Oh Briggs get in the near of the room, jeredy,
But you won't let him have him. She'd have brought
more money if you wanted to purse a showdown. Now,
mister Paladin, the one writing Caliko, who is he? Tom Chisholm?
He is a friend, Jim Briggs, he might be trouble.
I'll handle a chirp.
Speaker 4: It's my job.
Speaker 1: Just stay inside, Grayson, Along is it? Briggs? Who's that?
Speaker 3: Mister Briggs named Paladin?
Speaker 1: Get tall and loose, mister Paladin, and your guns just
tied load. No, he seemed to tell a cutting a
notch on you. You want to try him as a chisholm.
Speaker 4: Just might be I could beat you.
Speaker 3: Great.
Speaker 8: Tom thinks the time said that. We've got to even
think for my son, Jim, for your friends.
Speaker 1: This man figuring to stop it.
Speaker 3: Oh, he's got me tense.
Speaker 8: Tell me you, Grayson. He's turning Andy over to us.
Speaker 7: Paladin.
Speaker 1: He stays here until he gets a third trial.
Speaker 8: Grayson will give the boy a fair trial.
Speaker 1: You'll hang him.
Speaker 3: I ain't hit Ardue points with you.
Speaker 8: You're an outsider. The town don't like gunslingers moving in,
and we're taking matters into our own hands. The men
are coming back with me at three o' truck.
Speaker 9: We want Andy van.
Speaker 1: I hope you ain't got a good sense, missus Briggs
thinks you've got. I'd like to cut an not yournn
to count of you.
Speaker 7: Three o'clock shop.
Speaker 2: Come on tom.
Speaker 3: She just won't rest until she sees Andy hanging from
a tree Falladin.
Speaker 4: Maybe I got you into something bigger than we can
both handle.
Speaker 1: You've got two hours, mister Grayson.
Speaker 4: What can be done in two hours?
Speaker 1: I don't know, but there has to be some explanation.
A man in American explained he as a child's mind. Man,
even a man like Andy doesn't kill someone and then
hide the weapon and use without hiding the body or
trying to get away. There's no way of knowing how
Andy's mind would work. Besides, would have bragged and the
others wouldn't listen to words. No, No, it has to
be something they can see. I'm going out to that barn.
Speaker 3: I want to go too. I want to help Judi
and is my friends maybe the only friend he's ever had.
Speaker 1: The Grayson's way, I think it's a good idea. Julia, Yes, Julia.
Why would Jim Brigg just come up here?
Speaker 3: Why not?
Speaker 9: He might have come up here with somebody he's He
was quite the.
Speaker 1: Bold drummer woman. Yes, jealous woman might have killed him.
Speaker 3: Yes, Yes, he had a lot of friends, but he
was true to none of them.
Speaker 9: Why any of a of a dozen people could have
killed him, like oo ooh. There was Bessie Carrida in
the Baltimore House, and Bessy doesn't let many men run.
Speaker 3: Roughshot on her. And there's Jill Princess, she taught school
last year.
Speaker 2: And then there's a Marty dealer Jim had a.
Speaker 9: Terrible fight with a few months ago. She pulled a
knife on him. Then, and then there's Jim's own mother.
She used to get jealous of any women Jim had
got furious about.
Speaker 3: And then.
Speaker 6: And then, and then there was you, Hush.
Speaker 1: Were you a friend of his?
Speaker 3: Well, miss Paladin?
Speaker 1: Were you?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: Is that saddle spike over there on the world the
weapon that killed Jim.
Speaker 3: Briggs, Yes, Miss Caroladan.
Speaker 4: And they didn't do it. Oh, I am the one
who killed him.
Speaker 3: How I pushed him against it?
Speaker 7: I didn't mean to.
Speaker 9: It was an accident.
Speaker 1: Go on.
Speaker 3: I met Jim here. It was the first time it
used to have in his way. He took it for granted.
Speaker 9: He tried to kiss me and I pushed him and.
Speaker 1: You ran away. Yes, he died without knowing that Andy
was somewhere around.
Speaker 9: Yes, I couldn't tell Papa. He never believed that that
was the first time that I met Jim here, it
would have destroyed him.
Speaker 1: A man's life depends on you, Julia. Julia, you'll have
to tell your father. I know. We rode back to
Arcadia without speaking anymore. There wasn't any more to be said,
but there was a lot more to be done. A
man's life had to be saved, and another man's life
had to be ruined. Julia, what is it.
Speaker 4: Allan?
Speaker 1: Julia has something to tell you, mister Grayson. What is
the jud.
Speaker 3: But I have to tell you. I killed Jim Briggs.
No I did, Pop I did.
Speaker 9: It's j o' clock. We come for him.
Speaker 4: You tell him, mister Palladin, Say where you are, Paladin,
and I'll kill you.
Speaker 1: Put the gun away, Grace, and he's a clod of vegetable.
What's he got to live for? And he didn't kill him?
Say back, I've got to protect my daughter. Nothing will
happen to Julia with an accident. No one will blame her.
It's the things together, Judiu. Sorry, mister Grayson, Please Paladin,
she's my daughter. Stay with him. Julian's Briggs, chiss him.
Listen to me. There's no need for this sort of thing.
We can talk, talk, don't try it. I've got fun.
Have more bullets for five more men. That's the way
it has to be.
Speaker 9: Is one of those bullets for me, mister Paladin, Missus Briggs,
it's time.
Speaker 3: You knew.
Speaker 1: I killed your son, Julia and and the almost ready
mister Grayson almost stages leaving pretty soon. So many years
thinking I was a man of principle, upholding the law,
and then I find myself acting like a criminal, or
a human being or just a father.
Speaker 4: No, no, not where my job is concerned.
Speaker 1: You're only a man, Grayson, not a monument. The best
man is only that way because he's a human being.
Speaker 4: Maybe I'm gonna give up. It's bad just the same.
Speaker 1: No, that would accomplish nothing.
Speaker 4: That must be a bad excuse for her father. She
couldn't even trust me to come to me tell me
what she'd done.
Speaker 1: Uh so that's what's bothering me. Perhaps it be best
if you knew the truth.
Speaker 2: Come on, what are we gonna do?
Speaker 4: No matter what I'm doing, you just watch, just stand
and watch.
Speaker 7: It was going away stay now, don't you?
Speaker 3: And yeah it yes, Andy, you'll like it.
Speaker 9: There'll be nice people to take care of him.
Speaker 7: Things to do.
Speaker 1: No, watch ready kill him?
Speaker 3: Oh yes, already, come on, you come on with.
Speaker 4: Me like her.
Speaker 6: You wasn't trying to hurt me. So my friend, friend, Yes, friend,
it's all right now.
Speaker 1: And yes, it's all right now. You knew, yeah, I knew, Julia,
take him outside, Come on, Andy.
Speaker 4: And they killed Jim Briggs after all?
Speaker 1: Of course, how did you know? Well, it didn't make
sense to me either. Julia hadn't confessed immediately. None of
it was really an accident caused by Briggs forcing his
attentions on her. And then Briggs was slammed against the
saddle hook higher than my shoulder, and Julia couldn't have
on that. It had to be someone with strength enough
to lift him. And he saw her struggling with Briggs
and moved into protector. Don't ask her about it. She
wants it this way, all right.
Speaker 4: I can't let Andy go free.
Speaker 1: That hospital can take better care of him than any jail,
and lynchmard, Yeah, I guess so, mister Grayson. You keep
right on wearing that bench. You've done a good job
for this time and for your daughter.
Speaker 2: Oh he's all I don't see you come in and
already you're going out?
Speaker 7: Where to?
Speaker 1: How come I got back from my kady an hour ago? Oh?
You have dinner at the wharf.
Speaker 2: But now it's after dark. Call where you go? Opera dancing?
Speaker 1: Driving in park for a walk?
Speaker 2: He's a walk, he's dark?
Speaker 1: Why not?
Speaker 2: Hello?
Speaker 1: Why not?
Speaker 2: Why are you pretty lonely out there?
Speaker 6: Foggy damp?
Speaker 2: Foggle around? Pretty fooky?
Speaker 1: I think, Hey boy, have you ever walked around San
Francisco out to dark? You can try it sometimes. San
Francisco is a wonderful city, filled with excitement, adventures, just
a sort of night to find him?
Speaker 2: Ah, do you feel good?
Speaker 1: I feel fine and so good night?
Speaker 2: Good night meets a palady? No to a bad nice
man like Me's a party?
Speaker 1: Hey, goodbye? Have gun will travel. Created by Herb Medal
and Sam row Is, produced stand directed by Norman McDonald
and stars John Dayner as Paladin with Ben Wright as
hey Boy. Tonight's story was written by John Huba and
adapted for radio by John Dawson. Featured in the cast
were Lynn Allen, Harry Bottel, Virginia Gregg, Barney Phillips, and
Richard Perkins. Hugh Douglas speaking join us again next week
for Have gun, Will Travel in the tale of to
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