Speaker 1: You cause an innocent boy to spend six years in prison.
Other people have turned their backs on the wrong that
has been committed simply because you're a woman. But I'm
here to see that you stand trial.
Speaker 2: Have gone, Will Travel, starring mister John Dayner as Paladin,
San Francisco, eighteen seventy five. The Carlton Hotel, headquarters of
a man called Paladin.
Speaker 3: Come in. Oh he's no hello, hey boy? Oh you
playing game solid? Uh? See me pad?
Speaker 1: You put up black as huh? Oh, yes, thank you,
thank you, hey boy? Black here?
Speaker 3: I make a reens six on black someven. Oh oh yes,
why what what? What? What's the here?
Speaker 1: Like this?
Speaker 3: Uh? Make this one here? Yes, I see that you
put here here? Look then this one? Hey boy? Did
you want something? Mm hmm can well you knocked on
the door? Are you knocked on there?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yes, he's a letter come for you. Thank you?
Speaker 1: As A man named Todd Griffin Tucson, Arizonia wants to
see me. Well, guess I better get ready to leave.
Speaker 3: And you got to go right away? Not even finish.
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sort of lost interest in it anyway.
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Speaker 1: It was late afternoon and I had several miles still
ahead of me when a hush fell in the desert,
the sky deepened in color in a thin winter rain
started to fall. The dust settled in the new washed
air was clean and spicy with sage.
Speaker 3: When I reached.
Speaker 1: Tucson, I was soaked through, and I decided i'd better
have a warming drink before I checked into the hotel.
I stopped at the Cantino, a quiet saloon in the
old Section. I finished my drink in a hurry, paid
for it, and started to leave. Yeah, I see you later.
Speaker 3: What i'd drink for you?
Speaker 1: Oh no, thanks, no, no more, one, No, I've got
to find a hotel.
Speaker 4: But the man at the end of the bar want
to buy this drink for you?
Speaker 3: End of the bar? Who which man it is? The
tall man with the light hair. Well, all right, one,
well thank you.
Speaker 4: Don't mention it your health. You don't remember me, do you?
Speaker 3: Palad him?
Speaker 1: Well, I'm Abilene, curly McLean. Yeah, I'm sorry. It's been
such a long time.
Speaker 4: Sure, I'd never forget you, But then I've got something
to remember you buy That slug of yours is still
in my shoulder.
Speaker 3: You asked for it.
Speaker 4: No, I know, and I know it didn't have to
land in my shoulder. You could have put it where
it would have finish. It's the job, and you'd have
been within your rights.
Speaker 1: You were just a hot headed kid and what you
really needed was a good spanking.
Speaker 3: But you didn't leave me any choice.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, remember what you told me?
Speaker 3: No, what's that you said?
Speaker 4: If I didn't simmer down and get wise, I'd see
the inside.
Speaker 3: Of a prison. You were really going for trouble.
Speaker 4: I want you to know I took your advice.
Speaker 3: Oh, glad to hear it.
Speaker 4: I left Abilene, broke up with the old bunch, came
here to Arizona, took a job, worked hard.
Speaker 3: Well. Good. What are you doing now, Curly?
Speaker 4: I just spentished six years and you'm a territorial prison.
Oh I've been out just two weeks, five days and
ten hours.
Speaker 3: I won't ask you any questions, Curly, but just tell
me this. Can I give you a hand? Had you
any plans?
Speaker 4: Thanks? No, this little matter. I have to see too
before I settle on anything.
Speaker 1: And I have a business appointment tomorrow afternoon. Suppose I
look you up tomorrow night. We'll talk.
Speaker 4: Sure, I'll be around.
Speaker 1: That night and all the next morning. I couldn't seem
to get Curly McLean off my mind when we had
our little running back there in Abilene. He was a
wild and hell bent for trouble, but I felt he
was a good kid who just needed a little help
in the right direction.
Speaker 3: I had tried to give it to him. I thought
I'd succeeded. I wondered what had gone wrong along the way.
Speaker 1: I started early for Todd Griffin's ranch, which was some
distance out of town. I inquired for him at the
house and he was directed to the corrals. Mister Griffin, Yeah,
I'm taladed man, talented, oh yeah, breeding stuck Yeah.
Speaker 3: Brought him into strengthen my herd.
Speaker 5: It's a nice layout, ye here, I figured quite a
bit to show for the five years I been in business.
Tell her why I sent for you, Pad and make
it a point never to wear a gun, so I'll
have to hire one.
Speaker 3: What makes you think you'll be needing a gun? Man
is looking for me to kill me? How do you
know this?
Speaker 5: He made the threats six years ago that he'd killed
me the first chance he had. Why have you waited
six years to get concerned about it? This is the
first chance he's had he'd been behind bars until the
week before last. Oh name is McLean, a young fellow.
Speaker 3: I'll show you his picture. If he ain't in town already,
he will be soon. You'll be sure of that. You
want me to protect you from him? Do you have
any particular plan?
Speaker 5: He ain't very smart. We'll figure something, mister Griffin. Why
did he make this threat?
Speaker 3: What do you mean? Oh?
Speaker 1: Why did he say six years ago that he would
kill you the first chance he had.
Speaker 5: I don't see that's any of your business. No, no,
it ain't any of your concern. Why, how or what?
Speaker 3: Radn goodfee?
Speaker 5: I'm offering to hire your gun. If you don't want
the job, you say so, I'll get somebody else.
Speaker 1: No, now, I'll take the job, mister Griffin.
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Speaker 1: Curly, Hey, Curley, hold up, Oh Paladin, you're a hard
man to locate. I think I've missed you by one
hand at every poker game along the street.
Speaker 3: I like to keep moving. Oh what's on your mind?
What do you mean? Are you looking for someone? Curly?
Speaker 4: Is it any of your business?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Griffin has hired me to protect him, so that's it.
Speaker 3: Is he right, Curly? Does he need protection from you?
Speaker 4: I guess you could s he does because I'm aiming
to kill him first chance. I get why I've been
saving up a lot of hate.
Speaker 3: Why not buy a drink?
Speaker 4: Why don't you forget this crewing Paladin, I ain't going
to forget one dirty minute of those six years, and
you might. I can thank Todd Griffin for every one
of them, and I'm going to thank him personally with
a bullet in his belly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we don't forget I'm working for Griffin.
Speaker 4: Well, then, I guess you and you are gonna have
to tangle again. We'll have to see how it works
out this time. Curly, listen to me, Paladin, you listen
to me. I don't want any more of your advice.
I followed your advice once. Remember, I don't understand all
that fine talk you gave me after our little freak
us there in Abale. Straight now, settle down. It didn't
work out, Falada, all.
Speaker 3: Right, all right, now you want to tell me about
a creweing.
Speaker 4: Okay. I came to Arizona, took a job, worked hard.
I was driving a team for a freight line. It
was owned by Todd Griffin. We serviced them lines in Bisbee,
carried equipment supplies, and every once in a while he'd
send the payroll along with us, no guard or anything,
just tossed it in. Figured it would be safe that way.
Big payroll, real big, big enough for Griffin to set
himself up with that cattle spread he's got what do
you mean? One time when the payroll was going and
it never got there, the wagon was found abandoned halfway
up the grade. The money was gone. I didn't happen
to be driving that night, Griffin, in his report said,
I was.
Speaker 3: You're a word against his Yeah. Wasn't there anyone who
could prove if you weren't driving? Yeah?
Speaker 4: The woman I was with, only she was part of
the frame. She swore in court she hadn't seen me,
said I told her I had to work that day.
Speaker 3: Is that woman still in Bisbee?
Speaker 4: Last I heard she was in Phoenix?
Speaker 3: What's your name?
Speaker 4: Carrie Porter?
Speaker 3: Why? I like to see her. Maybe she'll tell the truth.
Maybe we can reopen the case.
Speaker 4: Well, that'd give me back the last six years. We'll
killing Griffin, but I'll be pretty sure he won't be
enjoying the next six.
Speaker 1: Curly, will you make a deal. Will you give me
a week? Promise me that you won't make a move
for a week?
Speaker 4: All right, Paladin, I've waited a long time. I'd wait
another week if that's what you want. But one week,
that's the deal.
Speaker 1: I was working for Cod Griffin. But he said of
himself he was hiring my gun.
Speaker 3: That was all. So I didn't question the ethics of
my plan.
Speaker 1: When I found Carrie Porter, I realized I had my
work cut out from me. If she owned the Four
Races Saloon near the outskirts of Phoenix, she had lots
of warm red gold hair and hird, cold blue eyes.
And while it wasn't obvious, I felt sure she had
hired like a buffalo. I gave up any notion I
might have had of appealing to her better nature. And
if you had one, it was well protected.
Speaker 6: All right, I can give you a few minutes.
Speaker 4: What is it you wanted?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 3: Could you sit down with me here? Let me order
you a drink.
Speaker 6: I got things to do, You got something to say?
Speaker 3: Say it?
Speaker 6: Do you want to sit around and drink? Come in
this evening when the crowd's here. Pete rolling that barrel
of beer that's been setting out there in the sun
getting hot.
Speaker 3: What'd you say? Your name was Paladin?
Speaker 6: Selling something?
Speaker 3: Nope?
Speaker 4: What's on your mind? Let's have it fast, Like I say,
I'm busy.
Speaker 3: This is a nice place. Yeah, I understand you bought
it about five years ago. That's right. But at the
same time, Todd Griffin went into the candle business. Exactly
what are you getting at?
Speaker 1: Oh, it takes quite an investment to open a saloon
or to start up a cattle spread.
Speaker 3: Where'd the money come from?
Speaker 4: How do you figure that's any.
Speaker 3: Of your business? M just curious. Seems to me very
strange to me that more people haven't been curious.
Speaker 1: I think you better get Maybe it's because people always
take the easy way out. Maybe rather than face the
truth that a terrible wrong has been committed by society,
it's easier to look the other way. See, even if
it's plain as day that you and Griffin set yourself
up with loot from a payroll robbery, it's better to
accept it than admit a mistake and face up to
the fact that an innocent boy spent six years in prison.
Speaker 6: All right, Paladin, your times, Pete, Yeah right, just put
your gun on the table. Patton Pete has your covered,
but he won't shoot you. We have another way. We
get nosy people like you in here every once.
Speaker 3: In a while. First we just warn it.
Speaker 6: So far that's always been enough.
Speaker 3: I see, Yeah, miscarried.
Speaker 6: Pete's a good bartender. But that ain't why I keep
him here. Now you can try to put up a fight.
You look like the kind of will, but believe me,
it's no use, all right.
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Speaker 3: Carrie was right on both counts.
Speaker 1: One I was the kind who would tried to put
up a fight and to it was no use. When
I came to I was stretched out on the edge.
Speaker 3: Of the desert. It was dark, it was raining.
Speaker 1: Strangely enough, I was quite content just to lie there,
which was lucky because I couldn't move. A long time
later I started to think, and then I got mad.
Speaker 3: Find me.
Speaker 1: I was mad enough to find my way back to
the Four Aces Saloon.
Speaker 3: On the way, I picked up a club. The place
was closed.
Speaker 1: Pete was locking the back doors. That never mind locking
that door, Pete. I'm going in. This is for you, now,
take care of no carry it's Paladin.
Speaker 9: What are you doing here?
Speaker 3: Pete's resting?
Speaker 4: What did you do with him?
Speaker 3: I hit him with a club?
Speaker 4: What do you want?
Speaker 3: The sign?
Speaker 1: Confession? Just how you and Griffin frame Curly McLain crazy?
How do you plan to get it?
Speaker 4: Hit me with a club?
Speaker 3: No, I guess I can't do that.
Speaker 6: Of course you can't.
Speaker 4: Here too much of a gentleman.
Speaker 3: Unfortunately, then how frankly, I don't know.
Speaker 4: Well, there's no way that you can reach me.
Speaker 3: Paladin, what are you after?
Speaker 6: It's knife you broke into my place, and.
Speaker 4: I have every right to kill it.
Speaker 7: Oh no, you don't just drop drap that knife, drop it,
drop it, you get out here.
Speaker 3: Hey, that's quite a knife.
Speaker 1: Carry razor sharp, probably split a hair. Let's see, what's
the matter.
Speaker 4: Don't you touch my hair?
Speaker 3: What do you know? You're vulnerable? Spot? Everyone has one?
Speaker 10: What are you talking about?
Speaker 3: You're very vain about your long red hair, aren't you carrying?
Speaker 1: I don't blame he's very beautiful. It's the only warm
thing about you which I have an idea based on
the old truth.
Speaker 3: There's more than one way to skin a cat. Carrie.
Speaker 1: I'm too much of a gentleman to hit you with
a club, but I wouldn't hesitate a minute to give.
Speaker 4: You a haircut.
Speaker 1: Yes I would. So let's get busy writing that confession.
Carrie Porter wrote the confession, and I marched her to
the Marshall's office with it to make sure it would stand.
Speaker 3: Up in court. Then I started back to Tucson.
Speaker 1: I reached there one day past the week Curly had
agreed to give me. He wasn't in town, so I
rode out to the Griffin Ranch. I dismounted the gate
and searched the grounds, and finally out by the tool shed,
I found the two men. Griffin was powering against the
corner of the building, and Curly stood over him with
a gun.
Speaker 4: Now I'm here. This seems too good for you.
Speaker 3: You I ain't armed, Curly. It's murdered, Curly.
Speaker 4: Stay out of this, Paladin. I gave you your week.
Speaker 3: Don't do it, Curly, Stay Curly. I'm working for Griffin.
Speaker 11: You'll have to face me first, all right, if you
want it that way, Curly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you you ain't learned to shoot any better in
all these years.
Speaker 1: Shoulder again, Yeah, that's the other shoulder this time, Cruy,
give you a little balance.
Speaker 4: You shouldn't have stopped me.
Speaker 1: Don't worry, Curly, Griffin isn't going to enjoy the next
six years, or maybe the sixth after that.
Speaker 5: This log this, this logs.
Speaker 10: Pilot, and you keep covers up.
Speaker 4: You get chilled.
Speaker 3: What are you trying to do to me? What do
you mean this? This thing? That mustard very good for
that this walk is going to burn the hide right off.
Speaker 6: That's tiny mustard, very hot.
Speaker 8: Very good.
Speaker 1: I can't stands, and you're very careless in Arizona.
Speaker 4: Get his back coat?
Speaker 3: Well, I was out of the raid, because the night,
because the height. Where do you learn that we need
to take your room from nineteen to that?
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Gregg as Miss wan Tonight's story was specially written for
Have Gun Will Travel by Am Dowd. Featured in the
cast were Lynn Allen, Harry Bartel, Laurence Dubkin and Sam Edwards.
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