Speaker 1: You don't have much choice left. Mister.
Speaker 2: You can throw your gun away and they'll hang you,
or you can keep it and try to use it
on me. Either way, you're going to die. Have Gun,
Will Travel, starring mister John Dayner as Paladin, San Francisco,
eighteen seventy five. The Carlton Hotel, headquarters of a man
called Paladin.
Speaker 1: M let's see m m.
Speaker 3: Ah, yeah, you're drinking, mister Paladin. Mm hmm, Hey boy,
bring you brandy.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm oh thanks, set it downsa.
Speaker 3: Mm hm hm m hm.
Speaker 1: Well do you want me to read it to you? Oh?
I beg you pardon. I should think so. Reading over
a guest shoulder is hardly the proper behavior for an
oriental gentleman. You'll go go where?
Speaker 3: Well, newspaper say blood you would rage in New Mexico
thirty eight men already die.
Speaker 4: Job for you, mister Paladin.
Speaker 1: Maybe so? Hey boy, you see.
Speaker 2: Violence flared again and one Seabrie feud when one Carlos
Marita killed James Sebrim a gunfight. Maurita a notorious killer
and hired his gun to the Wren Faction.
Speaker 3: Missa Paladin make money One side High Maurita's gone. Other
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It was late afternoon when I rode into the New
Mexico town, but the summer sun was still merciless, reflecting
off the adobe buildings.
Speaker 1: The dirt street seemed almost deserted.
Speaker 2: The town was motionless, except for something that swung slowly
from a jerry built scaffold in the middle of the street.
Speaker 1: It was a hangman's noose, and beneath it lay the
body of a dead man. Raise him, I said, get
him up. I never argue with the shotgun. That's better.
It's him, mister sea Brie.
Speaker 2: We're like it to look at him.
Speaker 1: No, he's not Marita. Let him put his hands down,
you John seabreey. That's right. How long has that body
been lying there? We hung him this morning?
Speaker 2: Who wizard Marita's brother and one Marita is supposed to
come for him?
Speaker 1: Is that him? That's it? Mister?
Speaker 2: Now, who are you?
Speaker 1: Paladin? You're late. Let's go inside. I don't want the job.
You heard him. Marita's reputation, mister, it's scary. It doesn't
scare me. I just don't want this job.
Speaker 2: I've paid you five hundred dollars in advance. You'll give
the money back, mister Gladly. Yeah, you're mighty squeamish from
man with a gun for hire. Marita has killed nine
human beings to hunt an animal or killer.
Speaker 1: You do whatever you have to, so you.
Speaker 2: Leave the brother's body unburied until Marita comes. No thanks,
mister Seabree. I understand that Marita is a cold blooded killer.
I know he killed your son in a gunfight. There
was no contest. I came here to take him for you,
but I bury the dead, mister Seabree.
Speaker 1: Good day, gentlemen. Yes, sir, I like a room. My
horse is outside, all right, I'll take him to the livery.
Speaker 5: You staying long, mister, just the night, going to get
a bath. Well, water's real scarce here, mister.
Speaker 1: You get a picture full and you can do anything
you want with it. He's real warm. I know you
the gun fighter. I'm the man Seabury brought in. Well,
Marita killed nine men, saying more he needs dan. Who
are you? Well? My name's Haskell, John Haskell. You know Marita.
He was born here. Beyond that did you know him?
Speaker 5: Well, he was a friend of mine, he used to be.
Speaker 1: Now you want him dead? I told you, mister, he
needs Dyan. The town was still quiet the next morning.
Speaker 2: As I walked across the street to get my horse,
one of Seabury's hands was dozing in a chair near
the stable door, the shotgun.
Speaker 1: In his lap. As I came out of the.
Speaker 2: Sunlight walked toward the stall, I had a feeling that
someone was behind me in the shadows, and I was right, mister,
is this your fight?
Speaker 1: No, it isn't my fight? Are you Marita?
Speaker 5: And Juan Morita, and I will advise you to stay inside.
Speaker 1: He moved out of the door like a panther. The
man in the chair was dead before he could raise
a shotgun. Marita caught Sebree's other man as he came
lurching out of the street. Then came mister Seber himself,
only this time it was different, Marita, shot only wounded.
Then I'll get you. Next time I get you.
Speaker 5: It will be no next time for you, John Seabray.
Speaker 1: Marita, I thought you said this was not your fight.
You don't kill a man that way. Stay out of this.
Speaker 2: You don't kill him when he's lying on the ground
when he can't reach his gun. I'd tried to get
to them, but I was too late, and I was
too slow.
Speaker 1: Before I could draw, Marita swung his gun butt down
on my head.
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Speaker 2: The trail I followed doctor Juan Murta was long, hot
and dry. The desert knows how to keep it secrets.
And I have been riding for three weeks when I
finally came to another small Adobe town and went in
to see the sheriff.
Speaker 1: How'm I going to do for you, mister?
Speaker 2: That depends? I'm looking for one moreton. Oh that's so
you know him? Yes, I know him my sight. How
long you've been after him, mister? About three weeks?
Speaker 1: Do you know where he is? I know where he is.
When you do, mister, pay you to protect him? Or
you're just afraid.
Speaker 7: How long has it been since you read a paper?
Speaker 5: Mister?
Speaker 1: Go on, pick it up, might learn something. Amnesty what amnesty?
Read it for yourself.
Speaker 2: Three years of violence ended the day when a general
amnesty was declared in the Bloody wren Sea Breez feud
in New Mixed It's.
Speaker 1: True, Yeah, it's true. I'll read the rest of it.
Speaker 2: The amnesty was called by Major General Thomas Hardy. The
involved principles have laid down their arms and taken oaths
to keep the peace. General Hardy said anyone breaking the
amnesty would be summarily, court martialed, and executed.
Speaker 1: Among those taking the oath was one Carlos Murad.
Speaker 7: And you don't break the amnesty, it'd start the whole
thing up again.
Speaker 1: Where is he? He's on his way home to seabreeze. Tone.
That's right.
Speaker 7: You better listen, mister. They mean it about this amnesty.
You kill him, you hang it had to stop somewhere.
Speaker 1: Let it lie. It's done. Not quite almost, but not quite. Mister.
Speaker 2: I know Mariita. I respect him. He says he wants
to hang up his gun. I believe him.
Speaker 4: I give him his chance.
Speaker 1: He'll have a chance.
Speaker 2: The small campfire was nearly out, but there were still embers.
Speaker 1: The long hunt was coming to an end. One Marita
had been there. He couldn't be far away. In fact,
at the moment, he was closer than I wanted him
to be.
Speaker 2: Your gun belt, let it drop, be quick, not turne
around so I can see your face.
Speaker 3: Ah.
Speaker 1: The man who was there with John Sebrey. I was
there that day when you shot a wounded man in
cold blood.
Speaker 5: John Sibrey put a rope around my brother's neck. My
brother was eighteen years old. He did not even shave yet,
and John sibriy let him lie dead in the street.
Speaker 1: How many men your brother killed your eighteen year old brother?
What do you sell us life for? Marita?
Speaker 5: I do not want to kill you.
Speaker 1: How many men? Marita?
Speaker 5: I do not want to kill again. I do not
even know you. I have no hate for you. How
much are Sibri's people paying you? How much am I.
Speaker 1: Word no charge? How much you for myself?
Speaker 5: But why?
Speaker 3: I am nothing to you?
Speaker 2: You should have made the first shot count. If you
had killed Sebri with the first shot, I wouldn't have given
you a second thought.
Speaker 5: You had better stop thinking about me, mister. I am
going now. If you follow me, I will kill your horse.
Speaker 1: Do not make me do that.
Speaker 2: You'll have to kill me too. I could do that, mister, Yes,
I guess you couldn't. This gun was pointed out of
my belly.
Speaker 1: He could have killed me, but he didn't. He stood
there and he started to tremble.
Speaker 2: Then, very slowly, his gun hand dropped to his side.
Speaker 5: Well, no, I will not kill you.
Speaker 1: I will not kill again.
Speaker 5: I put my life in your hands.
Speaker 1: Here.
Speaker 5: I give you my gun. Mister, I give you two
hundred dollars all I got. You take me home a life.
Don't let anyone lay a gun on me until I
get there. A man should die among his people. I
will not wear a gun again.
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Speaker 1: There's a long ride home for Marita.
Speaker 2: We had time to get to know each other in
the silences and in the times when we talked.
Speaker 1: Let's rest the horses a minute, all right, who going, Paladin?
Speaker 5: Yeah, you think it is possible. I will let me
come back. You think they can let themselves forget? I
don't know moreto some won't, Some may try.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: But for me, i'd ride Wes. I wouldn't try to
go back.
Speaker 5: No. No, my people say man is like a three.
You tear out his roots, he dies. No man wants
to die. I have killed twelve men, Paladin. I remember
the faces of each of them. I do not forget.
You think I have a right to live. You have
a right to try. A man speaks of death, but
he is not sincere. I want to live. I want
to get married.
Speaker 2: I think I'm crazy, No, Marita, little optimistic maybe, but
not crazy.
Speaker 5: Marie. She's a woman with a tender spirit. I would
give my eyes to know that I could grow all
together with her. You will see her, Paladin, you will
tell me if she's not a woman to behold.
Speaker 1: I'm sure she is. I will not live a week.
Speaker 5: I will not wear a gun, and I will not
live a week. I was an altar boy, and now
I had killed twelve men. I cannot forget. And if
I cannot palad in candy.
Speaker 2: Others, then why go back to try?
Speaker 1: Let's go.
Speaker 2: Maurita was making a good try, and it wasn't easy.
There was sullenness and suspicion through the town. The day
we got back, the hangman's rig still stood in the
middle of the street, and it was taught that I
was waiting for Marita.
Speaker 1: But he kept his word.
Speaker 2: He didn't put on a gun, and on the night
of the fiesta, it looked like he might make it.
Speaker 5: You say, param you say, my Maria, I told you
she is a woman to be who.
Speaker 1: You are right one.
Speaker 5: He's lovely, alreay kind, and we will marry and we
will have children, and we will live together until we
are all that nuts all Marrie wan, it is so.
Speaker 2: I'd drink too much. I talked too much.
Speaker 5: This is for your father, he does with my Marie.
Speaker 1: I will be back in a little bit. It will
be my pleasure, Maria.
Speaker 8: Would you forgive me mes paladem if I asked you
to come aside looking for a moment, I would like
a chance to.
Speaker 1: Talk with you.
Speaker 2: Always at the service of a pretty woman, Mariae.
Speaker 8: That fun tonight, he trow tonight, he remembers how much
we used to love each other. I think he will
remember tomorrow when.
Speaker 4: He's tired or angry or feels he must kill someone.
Speaker 1: I don't speak for Maria. You love him a man
like that.
Speaker 4: If you're a woman, he can store you.
Speaker 8: I do not know if I love him anymore, mister Paladin.
But I do not want to marry her and tell
him so. He has killed twelve.
Speaker 4: Men, Senter. Do you know how simply it would be
for him to kill another? Who another?
Speaker 1: No? No more, Maria, the killing is finished.
Speaker 8: I believe I'm going to marry someone else, mister Paladin.
Speaker 4: He is not a gunfighter. I'm afraid for him.
Speaker 1: Tell one he won't strap on a gun.
Speaker 4: He won't kill this man, and if he tries, if he.
Speaker 1: Tries, I won't let him. What is this?
Speaker 5: You will not let someone.
Speaker 1: Do, Paradin. I won't let you put on a gun. Maria.
I get my word? Why should I break it? I
don't think you will, But Marie, she thinks I ll
got it? Why am I? Why one?
Speaker 5: It is said Paladin, that only a fools does between lovers.
Speaker 8: Why Mary, I cannot marry you one, but I love you.
Speaker 4: It is too late, Too much has changed.
Speaker 5: You have changed another. There is another while I was
away who is a married I believe you told me
his name.
Speaker 1: Do not kill his name. You know my name?
Speaker 5: One, I know your name, John Haskell. I called you friend.
Do you have a gun? Friend? I own one in
the street tonight, Marida, do not make me come after you. Haskell,
my big friend. Maybe she will cry for you.
Speaker 1: Maria, you gave me your word.
Speaker 2: How she gave me her word too, mister Paladin.
Speaker 1: And so it was not over.
Speaker 2: After all, there was to be another shooting in another
dusty street, and.
Speaker 1: It could only come out one way.
Speaker 2: A man doesn't learn much about gun fighting working behind
a hotel desk.
Speaker 1: But Haskell wouldn't hide.
Speaker 2: He came outside the hotel wearing his gun belt awkwardly.
Speaker 1: Mariita shot caught him in the shoulder.
Speaker 2: Then it was up to me. After all, I had
also given my word.
Speaker 5: Follow do not sign in front of him.
Speaker 1: You're not going to shoot him again, Marita, Do not
make me kill you.
Speaker 5: You're not good enough to fight me.
Speaker 1: We'll see I said it. It seems a long time ago.
Speaker 5: I do not wish to kill you.
Speaker 1: You have a choice, Maria.
Speaker 2: You can throw away a gun and they'll hang you
for breaking the amnesty, or you can fight me.
Speaker 1: I will not hang. He lay there in the street.
Speaker 2: In the shadow of the hangman's rig one. Marita had tried,
but he couldn't live without his gun. At least he
didn't hang.
Speaker 3: H your drink, mister Paladin. Mmmm, hey boy, bring a brandy? Oh?
Oh thanks? You sit down, mister Paladin. You want hey
boy to read paper with you? Find job for you
like the last time?
Speaker 1: No, boy, not like last time?
Speaker 3: Oh, by mister Paladin. Big here, stop you kill big killer.
Speaker 1: No, you're not a hero if you're kill a man
who wanted you to do it? What mister Paladin mean?
Never mind? Just gave me another drink, Have gun, will travel.
Speaker 2: Created by Herb Meadow and Sam Rolf, is produced and
directed by Norman McDonald and stars John Dayner as Paladin
with Ben.
Speaker 1: Wright as hey Boy.
Speaker 2: Tonight's story was written by Julian Fink and adapted for
radio by Marion Clark. Featured in the cast were Harry Bartel,
Lillian Bayeth Clark, Gordon, Lawrence Dobkin, and Barney Phillips.
Speaker 1: Hugh Douglas speaking
Speaker 2: Join us again next week for Have Gun, Will Travel,