Speaker 1: You can fight the duel or chance having your throat
cut some dark knight. Either way you'll die before the
week is out. Have Gone, Will Travel, starring mister John
Damer as Paladin, San Francisco, eighteen seventy five. The Carlton Hotel,
headquarters of a man called Paladin.
Speaker 2: We start Paladin, You start Paladin over here, Hey boy,
I have message for you, you, miss a Paladine. Why
are you sitting in that chair facing door the dining room?
Speaker 3: Go away? Hey boy?
Speaker 2: What's the matter with you all chair? Mister a Palatis,
you get a much better view of hotel lobby.
Speaker 3: Hey boy, be gone?
Speaker 2: You saw whatever you say, mes a Paladin?
Speaker 3: Right the message? Oh you say? Be gone? Hey boy?
Be gone the message?
Speaker 2: Hey boy, Hey boy, just cannot think. Why are you
sitting hard chair facing closed door of dining room when
old chair give fine view of hotel lobby?
Speaker 1: Hey boy, there are some things that are my own business.
Now give me the message.
Speaker 2: He's gonna drive her boy crazy.
Speaker 3: John Sutherland was very interesting, very interesting.
Speaker 2: Indeed, you send answer to interesting message. Yes, same old stuff, Yes, yes,
half gone we'll travel.
Speaker 3: Just go and send it.
Speaker 2: Hey boy, Well, Missipaldi, this chair not good for you.
You all mixed up forget to tell hey boy where
to send a message from.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sorry to mister John Sutherland knob Hilla.
Speaker 3: Oh there there, there she is. There you are, hey.
Speaker 2: Boy, Oh hey boy, take it back well, reckless Staaldin.
Speaker 3: This is the best chair in the hotel.
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Speaker 1: John Sutherland, shipowner is a state high on knob Hill,
commanded the view of the bay. We're never less than
two of his sailing vessels lay at anchor. The Sutherland
family had brought a great deal of wealth to San
Francisco and to themselves. Yes, Paladin, to see mister Sutherland.
Speaker 6: Oh, yes, father's expecting you, mister Paladin. He's in the new.
Speaker 3: Building, a new building.
Speaker 6: I'm sorry you've never been here before. No, well, you're
a very privileged person, mister Paladin.
Speaker 7: I am yes.
Speaker 6: No one has been allowed in the new building since
it was built. We're not even allowed to go near it.
But you're to go there immediately.
Speaker 3: Fine, fine, that is on the grounds.
Speaker 6: You just followed the party behind you, mister Biden. You
can't possibly miss it. Thank you, mister Paladin. Yes, I
think you should know something. I'm very curious about you.
Speaker 3: I shall try not to disappoint you, Miss Elizabeth Sutherland,
Miss Sutherland.
Speaker 1: There had been many stories about John Sutherland, that he'd
sailed around the world, some fifty times, that he had
married a Chinese princess in his travels, that he had
written an elephant hunting tigers in India that had killed
ten men in a fight in the West Indies.
Speaker 3: But in truth, I actually knew.
Speaker 1: Nothing about the man except that he was very powerful,
very wealthy, and now that he had a very lovely daughter.
Then as I approached the new building, what mister Sutherland,
Mister Sutherland.
Speaker 3: Who's there? Paladin? Speaker, who's there? Paladin?
Speaker 7: Mister Paladin. I'm glad you came.
Speaker 3: Come in. Well I heard gunfire. Yes, come in.
Speaker 1: You you are, mister Sutherland?
Speaker 7: Yes?
Speaker 3: Or may I Is there anything I can do? Yes?
Speaker 7: Treat me as you would any man, mister Paladin. Of course,
I have constructed this room for a specific purpose. I
need your help.
Speaker 1: Burlap lair after layer of burlap on the walls.
Speaker 7: It was my intention that the shots not be heard
from the outside.
Speaker 3: I see and here the target. It's never been hit.
Speaker 7: That is why I sent for you, mister Paladin, to
teach me to shoot.
Speaker 3: Teach you.
Speaker 7: It's worth five thousand dollars to me. Why, mister Paladin,
let us understand each other. I'm willing to pay you
five thousand dollars to teach me to shoot, not to
ask me why.
Speaker 1: Five thousand dollars is it, Sutherland, I have to accept,
just to find out why it's worth that much to you.
Speaker 7: Oh good. Then you'll stay at my home as my guest.
You'll attend all the social functions of my household as
a friend. It shall not be unpleasant for you, sir,
Thank you, and we shall practice here daily till I
can hit a target merely by hearing its position.
Speaker 3: I'll do the best I can.
Speaker 7: I'm sure you will. You you had heard many things
about me, hadn't you, mister Pellan.
Speaker 3: Oh yes, I had, But.
Speaker 7: Better not that I've been blind for almost a year,
totally completely blind.
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me to teach him to shoot. It was slow, but
we worked steadily. Mister Sutherland's determination was such that by
the tenth day he was hitting the target three or
four times out of fifteen tries. My first preoccupation was
why why would a man in his condition go to
this trouble? But he would tell me nothing. I learned
quite by accident one evening a few weeks.
Speaker 2: Later, money, hoy, there you are.
Speaker 3: No Elizabeth? Tell me? Does she look beautiful tonight? Mister
Paladin as always good evening, Miss Sutherland.
Speaker 6: You're very formal, mister Paladin.
Speaker 3: Oh, I don't mean to be.
Speaker 6: It's just it's just that you're not a friend of
father Elizabeth.
Speaker 7: Father.
Speaker 6: There's something you should know about, mister Paladin. I've been
doing a little checking. In fact, I'll tell.
Speaker 7: Everybody, Elizabeth, you had too much champions.
Speaker 6: Don't be ridiculous, father, I'm not a child. Listen to me.
Everybody listen. I've learned something fascinating about our mister Paladin.
It's wonderful, it's most exciting. I won't tell till everybody's quiet. Oh,
mister Paladin is a gunman, Elizabeth, mister Paladin, won't you
give us a demonstration of what.
Speaker 3: Miss Sutherland good manners?
Speaker 6: I was thinking of a demonstration with your gun. Do
you see that tiny knob on the banister at the
head of the staircase?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 6: Could you hit it from here?
Speaker 3: Good gun handler? Could?
Speaker 6: I asked, if you could? I've heard you're very good
with a gun. Oh, please entertain us, mister Paladin. It's
not often we have a professional gunman in all this.
Speaker 7: Elizabeth stopped this.
Speaker 6: Oh no, father, do you know what I really think?
I think this man is here? Be good as.
Speaker 7: Jamie, Elizabeth. I have listened to all I'm going to
from you, isn't it? I'm right?
Speaker 3: Not another word?
Speaker 7: Oh father, father, mister Paladin, I apologized you now, if
you'll excuse me.
Speaker 6: Elizabeth put on quite.
Speaker 3: A shell, didn't she ah, miss Gibson, but we're getting
used to it. She's been upset for several weeks now,
ever since it happened, Ever since what happened?
Speaker 5: Ever since Jamie Douglas jildered her.
Speaker 3: Oh all right, missus Sutherland. You ready? Yes?
Speaker 1: Now, as I let go of each string, the bar
will tap the target. So you listen very carefully and
shoot as quickly as you can.
Speaker 7: Yes, yes, yes, go on do it?
Speaker 3: Hey, you got it? Good again again?
Speaker 7: I I didn't hear it very well?
Speaker 3: And try again. Ah, we'll stop now you're retiring.
Speaker 2: No, let me try more.
Speaker 3: We've been working all day.
Speaker 7: It's my last day, Paladin.
Speaker 3: What last night?
Speaker 7: I sent a note to Douglas Douglas. Oh, Jamie Douglas. Yes,
he's accepted. The duel is tomorrow, duel. You you saw
Elizabeth last night, Paladin, how she is? I won't have
a bearing of shame before our friends any longer. As
though she has known to defend.
Speaker 3: Her, you can't fight him in a duel.
Speaker 7: Elizabeth was sweet, loving, a wonderful person before she met Douglas.
I tried to tell her he was no good. He
was just a cheap gambler. He was only after money,
but she wouldn't listen. There no wealthy available. Young widow
came along.
Speaker 1: Missus Sutherland. I sympathize with you, but you can't fight
a duel.
Speaker 7: I should at least have tried it.
Speaker 3: I can't talk you out of this.
Speaker 7: No, even a blind man must have his self respect,
mister Pellanon, May I act as your second? I'd be honored, sir,
this man Douglas.
Speaker 3: You say he is a gambler.
Speaker 7: Yes, but Paladin, don't meddle in it.
Speaker 1: No, no, I merely want to meet the sort of
person who would shoot at a blind man.
Speaker 3: Cut Douglas.
Speaker 5: No, no more, Paladin. You've cleaned me fifteen hundred dollars.
Speaker 3: Well, gentlemen, I guess that's the game. Man. It was
a good game, Douglas. I enjoyed it.
Speaker 5: I'm sure you did.
Speaker 3: How about me, Douglas. You owe me a thas I'll
pay you. Be sure you do it, Douglas. Bad gambling
debts can be a bit unpleasant.
Speaker 5: I said, I'll get it. Be here tomorrow afternoon.
Speaker 1: Jessee, that you are here, I will be I say, Douglas. Douglas,
I don't want to talk to you.
Speaker 5: What do you want to talk to me about.
Speaker 1: I understand that you're going to meet with mister Sutherland
tomorrow morning.
Speaker 5: How do you know Sutherland?
Speaker 3: I'm his second.
Speaker 5: Look paladin. I don't want to kill the old man,
but what can I do? He's forcing it?
Speaker 3: What are the terms of your duel of honor? Jamie?
Speaker 5: Back to back, walk ten paces, turn, tuck the gun
and fire. They're his terms, not mine. I don't intend
to shoot.
Speaker 3: To kill you may not, but he does, Douglas, you're
a dead.
Speaker 5: Man against him, I don't think so.
Speaker 1: I taught him to shoot. The second he hears your
gun cock, he'll kill you.
Speaker 3: But but how can he He will? He'll know where
you are by the sound of your gun. Then it'll
be too late. Are you serious? Of course?
Speaker 1: There's a way of avoiding the chance of a lucky shot.
How I've taken fifteen hundred dollars in you gambling? You
owe another man a thousand. I'll pay you two thousand
to shout and fall when he shoots.
Speaker 5: If he's such a good shot, why are you doing this?
Speaker 1: Because I don't want him to scarre his family name
by killing you.
Speaker 3: Two thousand dollars?
Speaker 5: How can I be sure he won't hit me.
Speaker 3: He won't. I'll load his gun with powder.
Speaker 1: No bullet. You fire into the ground. He'll think he's
wounded you. He'll have his honor. I'll do it tomorrow morning.
Speaker 5: Then tomorrow morning mc laren park six o'clock and Paladin,
you make sure about the load in his gun.
Speaker 3: No bullet, no bullet.
Speaker 1: One hundred and thirty people killed by fire at sea,
the captain dead, perhaps poisoned, and the chief engineer sat helplessly.
Speaker 3: Moaning and wringing his hands. Was there a murderer on board?
Speaker 1: Now read in the latest issue of Look magazine the
mysterious and incredible story of the ill fated vessel the
Morrow Castle.
Speaker 3: You folks who enjoy the action.
Speaker 1: And suspense of Have Gun, Will Travel will be particularly
fascinated by Look Magazine's detailed report of the death of
the Morrow Castle. Did the chief radio operator deliberately touch
off the fire?
Speaker 3: Or was he really a hero?
Speaker 1: Were one hundred and thirty people murdered and the Morrow
Castle burned to hide evidence that the captain may have
been poisoned? Get the chilling answers in Look. Learn in
Look about the one man on the ship who was
acclaimed for superhuman devotion to duty, and how he was
later imprisoned for the bloodg and murder of two of
his neighbors. Find out in Look how it was discovered
that there was a pathological fire setter aboard the Morrow Castle.
Don't miss Fire at Sea in the new issue of
Look magazine. It's on your news stands Now, get luck today, gentlemen.
Speaker 3: You know the procedure. Yes, let's get on with it.
Speaker 1: Back to back on my count ten paces, turn cock
your pistols. Fire ready, yes, ready on my count one, two, three, four,
five six?
Speaker 3: What is it this pistol?
Speaker 5: If it doesn't balance right, Aladin?
Speaker 7: Is there a bullet in this gun?
Speaker 5: Paladin?
Speaker 3: You tricked me there's no bullet.
Speaker 2: In mine either.
Speaker 3: All right, then we'll load them, both of them.
Speaker 7: Do it, Paladin?
Speaker 3: Immediately?
Speaker 5: No, wait a minute, load the guns, paladon, mister Sutherland. Look,
can't Paladin, road, No, No, I can't go through with it.
Speaker 3: Now, stopping, Paladin, stopping, let him go, Let him go.
Speaker 7: Whether you are right is a bit. What's she doing here? Paladin?
Speaker 3: I told her it come.
Speaker 1: I wanted her to see the kind of man she
was wasting herself on.
Speaker 6: Oh, father, I saw him run. I saw Jamie run.
Why he's afraid of you?
Speaker 7: Next time I'll have bullets.
Speaker 6: No, father, there will be no next time. I don't
think Jamie will be back.
Speaker 1: Elizabeth's right, mister Sutherland, Douglas's run, and your daughter has
seen him for the coward he is. I ask you, sir,
what more satisfaction could you demand?
Speaker 7: Perhaps you're right, Helen, Perhaps you're right?
Speaker 3: All right, Hey boy? Where was I?
Speaker 2: Oh? Let me see y'a jaw was right about.
Speaker 3: Yes, that's that's fine. She is in the dining room.
Speaker 2: She all right.
Speaker 3: He almost finished with her dinner.
Speaker 2: He saw working on dessert last time.
Speaker 3: I look all right.
Speaker 1: Then I'll just sit here with the newspaper and I
won't seem to to con.
Speaker 7: Sclip yours conspicuous.
Speaker 2: Hey boy, he saw That's what I say.
Speaker 3: Are you going to get good of you?
Speaker 1: Or I?
Speaker 3: Mister Paladin?
Speaker 1: Good? And possibly if you're not standing around grinning like
an fee, possibly I can say hello to her as
she goes by.
Speaker 3: And then after that.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't say hello, Misa Paladin.
Speaker 3: Oh why not? Hey boy?
Speaker 2: Nay, my dad, we can find that is why, Misa Paladin. Yes,
of course she saw he sat here in your chair
while you got missa Paladin.
Speaker 3: I understand.
Speaker 2: Old chair still got the same fine view of lobby,
missa Paladin.
Speaker 3: No, not tonight, a boy, I feel I feel a
little tired.
Speaker 1: How many times when you're driving along the road do
you flick a lighted cigarette but out the window?
Speaker 3: Many people do.
Speaker 1: They figure that the butt will land on the pavement,
where it will either burn itself out or be run
over and extinguished by the next car that passes. This
is what usually happens, but a cigarette sometimes rolls off
the road. A gust of wind can carry it into
dry on the brush. Then there's trouble. More than one
devastating brush or forest fire has been caused by just
such carelessness. Don't take a chance on being a firebug.
Your car has an ashtray, please use it. In fact,
whenever you're in or near the woods. Be extra careful
how you use any fire. Remember these simple effective fire
prevention rules. Break all matches in two, then you'll be
certain they're not burning. Crush out your cigarette, cigar and
pipe ashes. Don't leave a single spark behind. Keep your
campfire under control. Never leave one that's still smoldering stir
it thoroughly, drown it completely, then repeat the process. Remember
you can prevent forest fires or set them. Have Gun
Will Travel. Created by her Metal and Sam Rawl is
produced and directed by Norman McDonald and stars John Dayner
as Paladin with Ben Wright as hey Boy. Tonight's story
was written by Tom Henley. Featured in the cast were
Jack Moyles as John Sutherland, Tracy Roberts as Elizabeth, Sam
Edwards as Douglas, and Barbara Eiler as Miss Gibson.
Speaker 3: This is Hugh Douglas speaking.
Speaker 1: Join us again next week for Have Gone, We'll Travel.