Speaker 1: You won't stop me from getting these logs through. My
gun is pointed at your man's head. Now put your
rifle down or he'll be a long time dead. Have gun,
Will Travel, Starring mister John Dayner as Paladin, San Francisco,
eighteen seventy five. The Carlton Hotel headquarter is of a
man called Paladin. Yes, who is it? He's half boy? Well,
come in, hey boy, can't hope I'll do MESA paladin
arm is full? Huh? All right? Wait a minute, Oh
see me's a paladin? Good heavens, what's all that you're carrying?
Visible things? You remember you said you teach hey boy
how to play baseball? He can bring stuff in sat down? Well, yes,
of course he's off. He Oh, great, heavy mess learning
to play baseball? What on earth are all those things
supposed to be? Hey boy? Bats? Bats? What do you
think me's a paladin? It looks like you brought every
kind stick a cound. Fine? Oh you saw wie one,
skinny ones, fat ones? Hey boy? Have many basketball players
to choose from? Oh I seea Shall we get started,
mister Polladin? Hey boy, want to tell all members of
Chinese Imperial Dragon Club about your baseball. Do you think
you back long? Oh? No, not now, hey boy, I've
got to finish packing. Oh you leave today? Well, yes,
I thought you knew. Oh to see Macy Mitchell in
Washington Territory, that's right. Oh, hey boy, think you leave tomorrow? Well,
you've been so busy buying up all that baseball equipment
you've lost track of the days. You want to help
me finish packing? Yes, sir, so sorry, Hey boy, forgot.
There'll be plenty of time for your baseball lessons when
I get back. You'll have all winner to practice. Oh
you think Imperial Dragon Club have good team by spending time?
If they're as interested as you are, it should be
one of the best teams in San Francisco. Oh, very good.
At least make hey boy very important man club. Elizabeth
Mitchell had been in San Francisco attending a finishing school
for young ladies when we met. We attended many parties
together for a period of months. Then, during one of
my absences, she left with no indication as to where
she was going. Now, six months later I had received
a telegram from her saying that she was the owner
of a logging camp near Palmer Junction in Washington Territory,
and that she needed me. I took a steamer to Seattle,
and there rented a horse with a ride into the
Green River section of the Cascade Mountains. There was snow
on the ground and the air was strangely still as
I rode through the tall timbered mountain country.
Speaker 2: You come far enough, let's stop where you are, mister
all right, get down off your horse. You're a stranger
in these mountains, ain't you.
Speaker 1: You always shoot at strangers. Nobody passes here. This is
mister Hoffman's camp. Well, look, I mean no harm than
mister Hoffman. I'm just looking for another logging camp. It
belongs to miss Mitchell. Mitchell, and you.
Speaker 2: Turn around and go back where you came.
Speaker 1: I've come too far for that akh.
Speaker 2: What's going on there, stranger, mister Hoffman, he says he's
going to that Mitchell.
Speaker 1: Give me that rifle right now? Shall we find out
what this is all about. I've got your covered. My
pistol is pointed at your man's head, but your rifle
downery is dead. The rifle for the down all right,
wiet makes no difference who I am. I told this
man I was going to miss camp and that's where
I'm going. I own to cross my land to get there,
and I'll go around. I own all the lands surrounding
our camp, all right. In that case, I'm going through.
An Axel here will guide me. I think you will
get up on your feet what he says, Axel? Yes, sir,
do you come to help her get those logs through?
Your waste your time. I'll stop you every way there is.
All I know is I've come because a lady called me.
Speaker 3: Now get out of my way.
Speaker 1: Under the circumstances, the man called Axel is only too
happy to direct me to Elizabeth's low camp and then
depart from my company. There was a typical camp with
a sturdy main cabin, a cook shack, several other buildings
for the work gang and the tool sheds. Something was wrong.
There were no men working, and felled logs lay scattered
about on the ground. They should have been in stacks
for the trip to the mills. I dismounted and walked
toward the cabin. Paladin, nay, Elizabeth, is it really you?
Speaker 4: Oh, I'm so glad.
Speaker 1: To see it is good to see you too. Now here,
let me just have a look at you.
Speaker 4: I've changed having them.
Speaker 1: Oh, you're just as beautiful as ever, but I never
expected to see you in these surroundings.
Speaker 5: Well, this camp belonged to my father. He left it
to me when he died six months ago.
Speaker 1: Is that why you left San Francisco so suddenly.
Speaker 5: Yes, come on, come on inside where it's warm.
Speaker 1: Oh, Paladin, I knew you'd come, you know, if your
neighbor had his way here.
Speaker 4: Oh, then you've met mister Hoffman.
Speaker 1: Oh, yes, and the giant what's his name, Axel, Axel Grundle,
Hoffman's woods boss.
Speaker 5: Sit down and sit down at the table, and I'll
pour you some coffee.
Speaker 1: I could use some, Elizabeth. Why did he try to
stop me?
Speaker 4: Mister Hoffman is a reason I sent for you. I
need a man like you who knows his way around
the gun.
Speaker 1: Here are thank you?
Speaker 5: You see, after father died, Hoffman brought up all the
land that surrounds mine, and he won't let me cross
his property to take.
Speaker 1: My logs to the mill. I see, well, how many
men do you have in your crew?
Speaker 5: My crew quit when they heard Hoffman had hired Axel.
That man is a devil himself, and he'll make killers
out of every one of Hoffman's men. My men were
simply afraid, that's all. Max, my woods boss is still
with me. And then as Jeff, he was a very
good friend of fathers.
Speaker 1: And now you well, we ought to hire some good
men to work for you.
Speaker 5: No, no, until I get paid for the logs on
the ground, I can't afford any man. There's money out
on this land as it is, and if I DeFord
on the payments, Hoffman gets it.
Speaker 4: Wow's that he bought the bank stock.
Speaker 1: Ooh, he's kept himself busy, hasn't he. That noon, Elizabeth
fixed lunch for us, and I met Jeff and Max
for the first time. It was apparent that these two
men had a deep respect for Elizabeth's father, and it
now transferred that devotion to his daughter. They had been
trying to do everything they could to stop Hoffman from
taking over the land, but they admitted that it was
almost impossible. After lunch, Max showed me around the camp. Well, Max,
what about Hoffman's word boss? What kind of a man
is he? Actually? Yeah? Shock, she ain't no woodsman. He's
a sailor work out of Seattle. He's a crack shot
with a rifle. Though I know that he started taking
pot shots to the boys while I were working, carried
him all off that way. Uh, then he's he's strictly
Hoffmann's strong arm man is Yeah, that's why I brung
you out to my shed. Here, come on in. You
got something to show you. It's she hid under my bunk. Uh, Max,
I'm more interested in seeing what equipment you've got for
stacking those logs. H First things first, balladin, Yeah, here
she is. Wa Do you look at that Lord Jennings rifle?
Ain't she beauty? Yeah? Still shoots too. I figured you'd
be all for going after Hoffman's gang with guns blazing,
so I've been loading Shelsburg. Max. I'm not here to
kill people. The job to be done is to get
those logs at the mills. Can't be done Palatin. We
got no man. Even if we could stack them logs.
There's no way to get him through. There's too much snow,
no roads out, no engine, no team, nothing, nothing but
my old Jenny's not gun of yours. Maybe maybe there
is a way to get the logs out. Huh. Ain't
a man here can top a spar tree. I can't
find him no more. And Jeff don't know how I'll
tell me Max, how much equipment do you have for
moving the logs? All of it? That ain't the problem.
We can move this whole mountain the trees, but not
to let out a high rigor maybe I can do it, Max. You, oh,
you ain't no woodsman. I think I can trim a
spar tree Sham. I doubt that. But even if you can,
how are we going to get them logs to the mill? Max?
How long has the air been still like this? The
kind of questions there? The air is standing stille? How long? Oh?
Ten twelve days? Why? I'm not sure. I was just
thinking about something an old Indian chief told me one time.
Where was that? Well, I'd rather not say right now.
Maybe he was wrong. Look out below, miss Leisabeth, I've
never seen nothing like it. You told me that man
was a gunman.
Speaker 4: Only if he has to Max. Mister Paladin's a good
man to have around.
Speaker 1: Sure, ma'am. There's only one thing. What's that I don't
agree with? Where he picked that spa tree? Why right
too close to that old dry river bed. If we're
going to stake logs, let him get closer to the
road where we can get a team up here comes
springtime and get him out.
Speaker 4: Springtime's too late, Max, It's now or never?
Speaker 6: All right, Box stop, send up that block and ropes.
Well stack the logs.
Speaker 1: What's use of it?
Speaker 4: Do what he says Max?
Speaker 1: Max. Oh. It wasn't easy to get Max to agree
to stack the logs where I wanted them. But finally
the job was done. Now it was just a question
of wait and hope. This went on for a week.
Max and Jeff were getting edgy. It was all Elizabeth
and I could do to keep Max from trotting down
to Hoffman's place with his old Jennings rifle. But finally
it came what I have been waiting for. A chinook wind.
It comes. Some people say out of an old Indian's dreams.
Others say it's the devil's breath on a particularly bad day.
All I know is it came in dry and hot,
and it lasted for two days. Dog got it, Paladin,
You was right. A shinook wind is working. That snow's
melting like it for summertime.
Speaker 4: Look at that water come down, an that's Jeff.
Speaker 1: We're debian anyway. I sent him down the river bed,
all right, Haladen hoflans Onto our plan and got axelent.
These men building a log jam down below, climbing the law.
He can claim every log it flows down there and
stops on his property. Con Shine, even Paladin, Let's go
down there and shoot them all dead. Max. If you
don't settle down.
Speaker 4: Paladin, you can't stop the logs from going.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 4: The water's rising so fast they'll be starting.
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, Max, how much black powder do you have?
You have to blow this mountain up. We use it
for blashing out tree stumps. Good, what are you going
to do? Jeff? Do you know how to use a pike? There?
Do all? Right? Then? Now you make a skid jam here,
and when you hear a shot fired from down below,
start the logs down. Will you do it? You bet?
I will? I come on, Max, let's get that black powder.
Oh there they are, Paladin, Sure enough, Yeah, Ellersles. Look
at Axles right in the middle where we got to
plant this powder. How are we gonna move him? I
know I'll shoot him from here. No, if they hear
the shot, they'd start the logs him up above. I'll
listen carefully, yes, Paladin, Max, I'll draw Axle off the
jam they've built. Now, well, I'm busy with him. You
plant the black powder out there? Can you do it?
Did I do it? Rats back in the center. All
them logs you got stacked up? That's right. Then get
off the log jam in a hurry. I'll throw a
shot at it and blow it up. All right, Paladin,
good luck to us? Right? Hey you you Axel? Go
on my name? I did you? What do you want?
I come to fight you. I hear you are the
toughest man ever to go to sea, you Scott.
Speaker 2: I'll fight you this time without a pistol at my head.
Speaker 6: Oh kidding you, I'll break.
Speaker 1: You in true. Oh no, you saw many friends away.
I saw you. I killed him. Yeah, you killed your
own man. I didn't. I Well, I never meant this
to go so far. It was a mistake. Well they
hold me for murder. I mean I suppose they will,
even Axel had a right to live. That shot started
the last. All right, get off the jam. Max.
Speaker 6: You see where with water? Yes, I can see it.
But get out of the way.
Speaker 1: He turns. Aloft choo choo, quick, all right, Max, let
it go. If you made it, you made it. Look
at them long to go through? Hey boy, sit down, oh,
why I see it all? Got to learn baseball? Sit down?
Oh he saw but uh, hey boy, figure to take
money bats ball bird's cage from around very much and
learn not why not sitting stuff you room, Hey boy.
If I'm gonna teach you, we're gonna start at the beginning. Now,
come in, he te you what. I'm so father of that?
Oh yes, bring it in. Just set it down this wong. Now,
hey boy, here's how the hold me? Boy? What you're
doing here? Uh? Learning to play baseball? Why mm hmm? Oh,
maybe get to be a president of Imperial Tragon Club,
Oh miss wang.
Speaker 4: Sie gnaw.
Speaker 1: Now, hey boy, listen to this. He's a baseball is
played by two teams.
Speaker 4: You we're not going to make it.
Speaker 1: I have gone, will trouble