Speaker 1: Slutter's my name, Luke Slutter. Cattle's my business. It's a
Speaker 1: tough business, it's big business. I've got a big stake
Speaker 1: in it, and there's no man west of the Rio
Speaker 1: Grande big enough to take it from me.
Speaker 2: Luke Slutter of Tombstone. Luke Slutter of Tombstone. Civil War
Speaker 2: cavalryman turned Arizona cattleman. Across the territory from Yumah to
Speaker 2: Fort Defiance, from Flagstaff to the Wachukas, and below the
Speaker 2: border through Chihuahua and Sonora. His name was respected or feared,
Speaker 2: depending on which out of the law you were on.
Speaker 2: Man of vision, man of legend. Luke Slutter of Tombstone.
Speaker 1: You get used to gunfire and Tombstone. Usually you hear
Speaker 1: a single shot or at most two, and one gun
Speaker 1: slinger goes back to the bar and the other goes
Speaker 1: to boothill. But when you hear a whole fusilade of
Speaker 1: shots in the middle of the afternoon, you think of
Speaker 1: the ok Corral and head for cover.
Speaker 3: Why Mandy, you gunbat? It's just a look cow.
Speaker 1: Now, I just hope he keeps shooting in the air
Speaker 1: with's ther time, Ain't that young?
Speaker 3: Page web Shirt.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, it is.
Speaker 4: Hallo. What's done? You run?
Speaker 1: What are you up to? Page?
Speaker 3: I want you to be the first to shake my hands.
Speaker 1: What for Page trying out you'd billy the kid?
Speaker 3: Oh no, I'm just shooting up the barrel because I'm happy. Luke,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna get me married Mary. Yeah, Seri. I just
Speaker 3: popped the question of Selena Cardell and she said.
Speaker 1: Yes, Ah, that's great, Page, that's just great.
Speaker 3: Man's gotta make that mistake sometime. I get yes, and
Speaker 3: I want you to be my best man.
Speaker 1: Luke, Well, now that's an honor. I wouldn't want to miss.
Speaker 1: When's the wedding?
Speaker 3: When? Well, my gosh, man, you can't settle everything the
Speaker 3: first minute. I just found out she'd have me. No,
Speaker 3: we're going to discuss the details.
Speaker 2: Is he all right?
Speaker 1: Get your spurs back on the ground.
Speaker 4: Excuse me, Jence hearted stranger just come in on the afternoon.
Speaker 4: Steve thought maybe you could tell me a good place
Speaker 4: to put up for the nine where sure you wait
Speaker 4: a minute, see Paige, ain't you Paige Webster?
Speaker 1: Why sure you are?
Speaker 3: Hello?
Speaker 4: Burley, Well now that's hard left. Friendly greeting to a
Speaker 4: cousin who ain't seen you in a dog'sy.
Speaker 3: Be all right with me if I never see you again.
Speaker 4: I don't know why you're holding a grudge against me. Well,
Speaker 4: ain't you gonna introduce me to your friend's page.
Speaker 3: Luke slaughter Witchita. This here's my cousin from Texas, Burley.
Speaker 1: Webster, cousin. Welcome to tombstone, mister Webster.
Speaker 4: Thank you, mister slaughter Page. Don't seem to be on
Speaker 4: the welcome and committee though?
Speaker 3: What are you doing here, Brillie?
Speaker 1: Whe's in our boy?
Speaker 4: I'm just going through on my way back to Texas
Speaker 4: from San Francisco.
Speaker 1: You in the cattle business, mister Webster?
Speaker 4: H No, No, I'm not.
Speaker 3: He's a gambler, Lucas, no good nor account gambler.
Speaker 4: What's that mouth of yours? Cousin? The way I figured it,
Speaker 4: mister Slaughter. A man makes a living the best way
Speaker 4: knows how I happen to make mine with my hands.
Speaker 1: I see, Well, you're looking for a place to stay overnight.
Speaker 1: I'd recommend the San Jose Has. It's good enough for me.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm sure he'll suit me if you'll kindly direct.
Speaker 1: Me help mister Webster with his bags, which your tongue.
Speaker 4: Why sure you come.
Speaker 3: With me, mister Webster. Right down the street here there
Speaker 3: goes a snake bigger than the Texas rattler.
Speaker 1: Luke, it's a strange thing to call a blood relative.
Speaker 3: Page, Oh, that don't make no difference. You don't know
Speaker 3: what he's done to me? What Well, I never told
Speaker 3: you this, Luke, I never told nobody. But my family
Speaker 3: died back in Texas when I was just a little schaeffer,
Speaker 3: and his folks took me in. Well, a few years
Speaker 3: ago there was a killing. Nobody ever proved who did it,
Speaker 3: but he threw suspicion on me, and after that, folks
Speaker 3: just didn't want me around. That's why I came out here.
Speaker 1: If you didn't do it, why did you run away? Page?
Speaker 3: Well, what would you do? He was top dog, slick
Speaker 3: with cards and smart with the gals. I was just
Speaker 3: the poor kid, cousin. You can't draw to an inside
Speaker 3: straight like.
Speaker 1: You've drawn some real right cards since you've been in Tombstone, Page,
Speaker 1: you got yourself a small outfit, and you've got the
Speaker 1: makings for a good cattleman. Now you're going to be married,
Speaker 1: you're supposed to be happy.
Speaker 3: Well, I am happy, Luke, Of course I am, but
Speaker 3: I sure wish she hadn't shown up right now.
Speaker 1: He'll be on the El Pazo stage tomorrow morning. I
Speaker 1: forget about it.
Speaker 3: All right, Luke, I will dog on. I'm going down
Speaker 3: the Crystal Palace and start celebrating.
Speaker 1: Don't overdo it?
Speaker 3: Page, Well, you know me, Luke, I never drink too much.
Speaker 1: You better not. You're going to be a married man
Speaker 1: before you know it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, imagine that, Luke, me a married man?
Speaker 1: Hardy loop Hi, what's your dome?
Speaker 3: They wrung the supper gong.
Speaker 1: Not yet enjoy the sunset?
Speaker 3: Seems like every night they ring it later and later.
Speaker 1: Now he seems like it.
Speaker 3: Maybe lots of things seem like what they ain't If.
Speaker 1: You ask me, well, I didn't. But what are you
Speaker 1: trying to tell me?
Speaker 4: Well, since you're asking me, I'm a little discombobulated by
Speaker 4: them too, Webster curtains.
Speaker 1: Why well, this afternoon.
Speaker 4: I kind of got the id they didn't get along
Speaker 4: none too well, they don't.
Speaker 3: That's why I'm discombobulated.
Speaker 1: What do you mean, Well, I come from the Crystal.
Speaker 4: Palace just now and them two was sticker and fleased.
Speaker 3: Page looked like he'd been using his roping arm to
Speaker 3: heist the glass.
Speaker 4: Too many times. He was drunken, and he warn't sober
Speaker 4: when the two of them was playing poker, Luke, just
Speaker 4: the two of them high stakes too.
Speaker 1: Seem like maybe I'd better take a walk down that way.
Speaker 1: Good evening, missus Cordell.
Speaker 5: Good evening. You know where I could find Paige?
Speaker 1: Mister Slaughter, Well, I haven't seen him since he told
Speaker 1: us the good news this afternoon, Miss Cordell. I'd like
Speaker 1: to congratulate you both of you.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 5: I wonder where he could be. We were going to
Speaker 5: discuss the wedding plans.
Speaker 1: This evening, yes, he he told me. Look, miss Cardell,
Speaker 1: why don't you let me find him for you?
Speaker 5: Well, I don't want to bum you.
Speaker 1: Just sit down here and enjoy the cool of the
Speaker 1: evening with Witchitar. I'll go look for him.
Speaker 5: That's very kind of you, mister.
Speaker 1: I'll be right back.
Speaker 3: I'll just tell you what I'm gonna do. Cousin Burley,
Speaker 3: your little old king, don't scare me none at all.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna call you and raise your fifty dollars age.
Speaker 1: What are you doing? Are you crazy?
Speaker 3: What? Well? Now, look here. I ain't my old friend, lukeslaughter.
Speaker 1: You've had enough page, both poker and liquor. How much
Speaker 1: have you lost?
Speaker 3: Ain't lost nothing? All'm already cash is there in the pot.
Speaker 1: Leave it, Let's get out of here, noop.
Speaker 3: Let me ask you how much is my little outfit worth?
Speaker 1: You know better than I do?
Speaker 3: Well, sure I do, But I just want my cousin
Speaker 3: from Texas to hear it.
Speaker 4: Little Page is powerful. Proud of that little outfit, as
Speaker 4: he calls it, Slauder.
Speaker 1: He should be. In two years. He's built it from
Speaker 1: nothing to around nineteen hundred dollars and stuck and equipment.
Speaker 3: There you hear that, burly. I may not be the
Speaker 3: biggest pee in the pot, but I'm.
Speaker 4: In it pretty small part seems to me. All right now,
Speaker 4: I call it your fifty and raise it three hundred.
Speaker 4: What does your little outfit say about.
Speaker 1: That page for the nine just.
Speaker 3: Three hundred? Well, now that requires a little study.
Speaker 1: Drop out page. Let him have it?
Speaker 3: No, not so far as Luke. You hold on. Now
Speaker 3: he's got two aces, a king and a douce showing,
Speaker 3: and I got me two kings and ace and eight spot.
Speaker 3: Now that makes the whole card. Tell a difference.
Speaker 4: No, yes, sure, come on, put up a shut up cousin.
Speaker 4: This ain't no kid game. We left that back in test.
Speaker 1: Turn your cards over, page.
Speaker 3: Now you heard what my little outfits work, Burly, Page,
Speaker 3: listen to me. I bet it. I'll bet it all.
Speaker 1: Two years of your life. You'll bet that and your future.
Speaker 3: I bet it, and you got a witness, Burly.
Speaker 4: I'll pay to see that whole card. Your call.
Speaker 3: That's daddy, that's just dandy. I got me the case king,
Speaker 3: and that makes three of them.
Speaker 4: Oh that's good, page, but not good enough. Three aces, paid.
Speaker 3: Three aces.
Speaker 4: But I was sure you come on page.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I guess I better.
Speaker 1: Luke.
Speaker 4: Oh uh, you can give me the bill of sale
Speaker 4: for your outfit in the morning. Page. That'll be soon enough.
Speaker 4: I'll trust you till later.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, I'll have it for you at the hotel
Speaker 3: in the morning. Come on, look.
Speaker 1: Why did you do it? Page?
Speaker 3: Why he knitted me, He's always knitted me. He did
Speaker 3: it again, just like when we was kids, backed in Texas.
Speaker 1: Two years of your life.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, just so we need paperback four.
Speaker 1: No, you're not. Something's eating at your insides when you
Speaker 1: learn what it is. You'll be a man.
Speaker 3: Luke. What am I gonna tell Selena?
Speaker 1: You're gonna face up to what you're done and tell
Speaker 1: her the truth. Just waiting at the hotel for you.
Speaker 3: No, no, I I can't face her like this after
Speaker 3: I l I lost everything. You tell her, Luke, will please? Luke,
Speaker 3: tell her anything?
Speaker 1: Page Are you gonna keep running away all your life?
Speaker 3: I don't know. I guess so I think I'm gonna
Speaker 3: be sick.
Speaker 1: Luke here, get yourself a room and straighten out. I'll
Speaker 1: tell her something. We can talk to this at tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Luke, Thank you.
Speaker 1: I don't know why I bother Paige. I guess I
Speaker 1: must think you're worth it.
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Speaker 2: of William and Robson's production of Luke Slaughter of Tombstone.
Speaker 1: I was Miss.
Speaker 3: Cordell standing up to the bar minor moon business.
Speaker 1: Miss Cardele Slaughter. I found him.
Speaker 5: Well, where is he.
Speaker 1: Miss Cordell. When a man's getting married, he's sometimes well,
Speaker 1: in Page's case, he did he Well, what I mean
Speaker 1: to say is he Well, he's had too much to
Speaker 1: drink and he lost quite a bit at gambling.
Speaker 5: Isn't that just like a man?
Speaker 4: Well, most men?
Speaker 1: If you ask me, nobody did with I'm sure I'll
Speaker 1: explain it to you in the morning, Miss Cordell, I'm.
Speaker 5: Not so sure I want him to. He's going to
Speaker 5: go out and drink and gamble on the very days
Speaker 5: proposed to me. What will he be up to after
Speaker 5: he's married?
Speaker 4: Men, Slaughter, excuse me for interrupt him. But when there's
Speaker 4: a pretty gall around, I ain't going to make too
Speaker 4: many excuses.
Speaker 1: Well, you'll have to excuse us. Webster, web busy Webster.
Speaker 4: Well, now, miss I see you know the name. Could
Speaker 4: that be maybe because you're a friend of my young cousin,
Speaker 4: Paige Webster.
Speaker 5: Why yes, then.
Speaker 4: I'm right happy to make your acquaintance. Miss. I'm Burley Webster,
Speaker 4: Page's cousin from Texas.
Speaker 5: How do you do, mister Webster. I'm Selina Cardell.
Speaker 4: That's a right pretty name to go an even prettier gal.
Speaker 4: If you'll excuse me being so bold, miss Cordell.
Speaker 1: Maybe I ought to tell you right now, Webster, this
Speaker 1: Cordell is engaged to her cousin.
Speaker 4: I must say he picked himself to put his Philly
Speaker 4: in the corral.
Speaker 5: And I must say that sounds like Texas flattery to me.
Speaker 4: Ain't nothing of the kind. Only I show him. Sorry,
Speaker 4: I can't stay on here now that I've met up
Speaker 4: with you, missus Cardell. Thank you, but of course I
Speaker 4: could change my mind.
Speaker 1: You said you were leaving on the morning stage.
Speaker 4: Man can always change his mind, Slaughter. Now, miss Cordell,
Speaker 4: since we've been introduced proper like, you do me a
Speaker 4: great honor if you'd let me take you to the
Speaker 4: nicest dining room in town for some supper. You just
Speaker 4: pointed out, Well I I.
Speaker 5: Mister slaughter, will you be seeing Page again tonight?
Speaker 1: I don't expect to well.
Speaker 5: If you do see him, tell him I'm with his
Speaker 5: cousin getting the attention I should be getting from him.
Speaker 4: My arm, Miss Cardell, let me tell you about Paige
Speaker 4: when we was kissed back in text. See he sure
Speaker 4: he is a smooth talker, ain't he?
Speaker 3: Luke?
Speaker 4: Only that don't sound like cousin.
Speaker 3: Talk to me.
Speaker 1: He's got pages outfit now he's after his girl.
Speaker 3: What you can do about it? Or Luke?
Speaker 1: I don't know what you're doing. I don't know, and
Speaker 1: I'm sure gonna try. Web Sir, I want to talk
Speaker 1: to you, slaughter.
Speaker 4: I thought you'd be in bed by now.
Speaker 1: I've been waiting up for you. Where's miss Cordel?
Speaker 4: Don't see that's any your business, but she's safe home
Speaker 4: for the night. Meaning to Mars another day.
Speaker 1: You aren't going to be here tomorrow, Webster.
Speaker 4: What'd you say?
Speaker 1: You're leaving Tombstone right now?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: Amma, yes you recognize this deck of cards?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: What about? This is the deck you used when you
Speaker 1: beat your cousin out of his outfit. It's a marked deck.
Speaker 1: Word you find in your room upstairs?
Speaker 4: What car you got going through my stuff?
Speaker 1: I never gone through Amend's belongings before without his permission,
Speaker 1: I made an exception in your case.
Speaker 4: Well, I've got a good notion.
Speaker 2: To what.
Speaker 1: Webster. I'm going to give you a choice. There's a
Speaker 1: saddled horse at the hitching bar out back with your
Speaker 1: bags strapped on. You get on it and head east
Speaker 1: out of Tombstone and don't look back, or you get
Speaker 1: set to draw.
Speaker 4: Sure you'd like that, wouldn't you, Slaughter? You'd be in
Speaker 4: the fastest gun in the territory.
Speaker 1: Will it be well?
Speaker 4: Now this is a one horse town anyway, No sense
Speaker 4: in getting ruffled up over it.
Speaker 1: Which will it be?
Speaker 4: H couldn't be that you want Selena for yourself?
Speaker 1: Could he get going? Sure?
Speaker 4: Slaughter? Sure? Anything you say?
Speaker 1: Who's that look? Sluttering? Luke? How you feeling boy? Better?
Speaker 1: I guess I don't know what are you figuring to
Speaker 1: do now?
Speaker 3: I don't know, Luke, I just don't know what to do.
Speaker 1: Seems to me there's nothing much left for you in Tombstone.
Speaker 1: You lost your outfit, and from the way she talked
Speaker 1: last night, you've lost your girl.
Speaker 3: It don't surprise me none.
Speaker 1: I'll be glad to take you to one hundred dollars
Speaker 1: to get started somewhere else.
Speaker 3: What Thanks, Luke, you're a real friend.
Speaker 1: Here. Let's see, it's nine o'clock. Now, suppose you come
Speaker 1: over to my hotel at ten. I'll have the money
Speaker 1: for you.
Speaker 3: And I'll pay you back someday, Luke, I don't know when,
Speaker 3: but I.
Speaker 1: Will sure you. Well, I'll see you in an hour.
Speaker 5: Wanting mister Slaughter, warning.
Speaker 1: Miss Cardell, I'm sorry to disturbed. All right, he's all right.
Speaker 1: Why do you care.
Speaker 5: I'm worried and worried about him.
Speaker 1: You weren't talking that way last night.
Speaker 5: I know, but that was last night, and I've often
Speaker 5: thought about it. I haven't slept a wink, mister Slaughter.
Speaker 5: I was wrong saying what I did. Page did me
Speaker 5: in the honor of asking me to be his wife,
Speaker 5: and I was proud to accept. Mister Slaughter, that's well,
Speaker 5: that's sacred. A man and a woman have got to
Speaker 5: forgive each other many things before their really husband and wife.
Speaker 5: I mean, well, I love him, mister Slaughter.
Speaker 1: What about his cousin?
Speaker 5: Oh him, he's nothing but a fast talking ladies man.
Speaker 5: Page is worth five of him.
Speaker 1: That's just what I wanted to hear, Miss Cardell. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna ask you to do something. What, mister Slaughter, I
Speaker 1: want you to be an actress.
Speaker 5: Mister Slaughter, it's.
Speaker 1: Just for a few minutes, for Page's.
Speaker 5: Sake, all right, I'll do anything for him.
Speaker 1: All right. Now, here's what I want you to do.
Speaker 1: Be down at the sand hills, as.
Speaker 4: You've thunk up some goods in your time.
Speaker 3: Rook. But I declare this hornswomble.
Speaker 1: Beat some ware, I hope so witch your tone?
Speaker 3: Oh here he comes, Well here I am ten o'clock
Speaker 3: on the dock.
Speaker 1: Great. I have some bad news for you, Page. I
Speaker 1: can't give you the money, but you should. I know,
Speaker 1: maybe I should say I've changed my mind, but you
Speaker 1: to When are you gonna stop whimpering like a scrubby calf?
Speaker 1: But you promise, Why don't you just start walking? Maybe
Speaker 1: you'll find some sheep hurders will help you out.
Speaker 3: But look, all I'm asking is to borrow the money
Speaker 3: you promised to lend me.
Speaker 1: I don't think you're good for it, Paige.
Speaker 3: Well, if that's the way you feel, I just get
Speaker 3: along with Hello. Oh hello, Selena.
Speaker 5: Where have you been since asked me to marry you?
Speaker 5: Let's see? When was that? Why declare it was only yesterday.
Speaker 3: I I had a little trouble, Selina.
Speaker 5: Oh what kind of trouble?
Speaker 3: Well, I lost.
Speaker 5: Some money gambling, I suppose.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right, Selena.
Speaker 5: A man who'll go out and gamble on the very
Speaker 5: day he proposes mustn't want to be married.
Speaker 3: Very much, Oh Selena, that that's not so.
Speaker 5: Must be or you'd pay a little more attention to me,
Speaker 5: like like your cousin did Bertie. You know him, mister
Speaker 5: Slaughter introduced us. He's a very attractive man.
Speaker 3: He's a dirty, misbegotten SIDEWI page.
Speaker 5: What a thing to say about your.
Speaker 3: Own cousin, Oh, Selena, you don't like him.
Speaker 5: He took me to supper last night. After all, you
Speaker 5: weren't around.
Speaker 1: Selena, it appears like you're an extra spoke in the
Speaker 1: wheel page. Why don't you slope like you've been planning to.
Speaker 3: I'll go when I get good and ready.
Speaker 1: No, you'll go now.
Speaker 3: You get your hands on me, Luke, you want me to.
Speaker 1: Throw you out, you just try it. I'll be glad
Speaker 1: to you.
Speaker 3: May be able to do it. Look, but you're gonna
Speaker 3: know you've been in a fright. I ain't running anymore. Luke,
Speaker 3: and you ain't gonna beat me. How you get up?
Speaker 1: Luke?
Speaker 3: That felt good and I'm gonna do it again. Come on,
Speaker 3: get up.
Speaker 1: No, No, I've had enough. Page, I quit.
Speaker 3: That's fine, That's just fine. Now I'm gonna find me
Speaker 3: that no good medium mouthed cousin and do the same thing.
Speaker 1: Page.
Speaker 5: Wait a minute, he's gone, Page, he left town last night.
Speaker 3: Gone. Yeah, you mean he isn't taken over my outfit?
Speaker 3: Say what is this?
Speaker 1: Well, if you'll stop being a man long enough to
Speaker 1: let Selina get a word in, I think she can
Speaker 1: tell you.
Speaker 5: Thank you, Luke, thank you. Come on, Page, We've already
Speaker 5: lost a whole.
Speaker 3: Day of plan by doogisit wors the hornswogle.
Speaker 1: Worch switchita did? It's the first time I've ever let
Speaker 1: a man whip me. But it was worth it, Luke.
Speaker 2: Slaughter of Tombstone, starring Sam Buffington, was written by Alan Butzer,
Speaker 2: with editorial supervision by Tom Henley and directed by William N.
Speaker 1: Robeson.
Speaker 2: Supporting mister Buffington were Sidney Scott, Junius, Matthews, Chet Stratton
Speaker 2: and Joseph Kerns. Music composed by Wilbur Hatch and conducted
Speaker 2: by Amerigo Marino. Next week, at this time we return
Speaker 2: with Slaughter's.
Speaker 1: The name Luke Slutter. We meet up again. You can
Speaker 1: call me that, Lukeslutter.
Speaker 2: I'll stay tuned for Frontier Gentlemen, which follows immediately over
Speaker 2: most of these same stations.
Speaker 1: This is the CBS Radio network.