WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.480 --> 00:00:06.080 Tired of the everyday grind, ever dream of a life 2 00:00:06.120 --> 00:00:11.480 of romantic adventure, want to get away from it all. 3 00:00:12.679 --> 00:00:13.720 We offer you. 4 00:00:15.080 --> 00:00:23.079 Escape, Escape designed to free you from the four walls 5 00:00:23.079 --> 00:00:26.440 of today for a half hour of high adventure. 6 00:00:39.359 --> 00:00:42.439 You are one of four people trapped in an isolated 7 00:00:42.520 --> 00:00:47.600 trading post somewhere in the Yukon Territory, the blizzard outside 8 00:00:47.679 --> 00:00:52.479 making escape impossible, and you know that before the spring 9 00:00:52.679 --> 00:00:57.119 thaws release you, before you can leave this cabin behind you, 10 00:00:58.200 --> 00:01:01.000 one of your companions, by consent. 11 00:01:00.679 --> 00:01:03.119 Of the others, will be killed. 12 00:01:03.320 --> 00:01:07.200 Listen now, as escape brings you less Crutchfield Story Judgment 13 00:01:07.280 --> 00:01:08.640 Day at Crippled Deer. 14 00:01:32.680 --> 00:01:34.879 I think it most unlikely that you ever heard of 15 00:01:34.879 --> 00:01:38.439 Crippled Deer crossing. You would have great difficulty locating it 16 00:01:38.480 --> 00:01:41.359 on a map, even though that you can, for the 17 00:01:41.400 --> 00:01:44.920 most part, is vast and empty. Crippled Deer is a 18 00:01:44.959 --> 00:01:49.959 trading post, one sprawling pine log building, nothing more. But 19 00:01:50.079 --> 00:01:52.680 it's been my home and my business for twenty years now, 20 00:01:53.400 --> 00:01:55.519 and in the course of time I have grown fond 21 00:01:55.560 --> 00:01:59.000 of it, even grown fund of the bitter cruelty of 22 00:01:59.040 --> 00:02:03.400 the Great North. Yes, fan, two of the long winters, 23 00:02:03.439 --> 00:02:07.159 snow bound dark, when the trappers and miners have all 24 00:02:07.200 --> 00:02:11.680 gone outside, and we waved along for the coming of spring. 25 00:02:14.000 --> 00:02:16.759 But of one such winter I am not fund I 26 00:02:16.840 --> 00:02:19.800 still wake at times from dreaming of it, lie shuddering 27 00:02:19.879 --> 00:02:23.319 and fearful in the darkness that was the winter of 28 00:02:23.360 --> 00:02:26.599 the black snow, when the horror came moaning on the wind, 29 00:02:26.639 --> 00:02:30.560 and no man could look in another's eyes without shame 30 00:02:31.199 --> 00:02:35.280 and loathing and hate. 31 00:02:36.560 --> 00:02:40.280 Listen, Leclair, listen to it. I know that sound, and 32 00:02:40.360 --> 00:02:42.919 the gray skies and the black on the west. It's 33 00:02:42.960 --> 00:02:44.319 gonna hit it before tomorrow morning. 34 00:02:44.360 --> 00:02:46.960 Oh it's close, all right. What do you think, Joe, 35 00:02:47.520 --> 00:02:51.800 many will track in snow last night much, Honey, they're 36 00:02:51.840 --> 00:02:56.479 now asleep. I think maybe one day, maybe too then big. 37 00:02:56.280 --> 00:02:59.400 Blizzard come all right, two days then that's still cutting 38 00:02:59.439 --> 00:03:00.879 too close to be here by. 39 00:03:00.759 --> 00:03:07.719 Now, real anxious age. You just cared wed. 40 00:03:08.360 --> 00:03:12.199 Honey wants smart good God that we ain't got You 41 00:03:12.240 --> 00:03:16.000 wouldn't know you would, though, wouldn't, just sweetheart. 42 00:03:16.199 --> 00:03:18.039 At least he's got a civil tongue in his head, 43 00:03:18.759 --> 00:03:20.680 and he's also got a lot of things you'd give 44 00:03:20.719 --> 00:03:23.680 your right arm for, Higgins. He knows how to laugh 45 00:03:23.759 --> 00:03:25.960 and live and how to make other people laugh and live. 46 00:03:26.120 --> 00:03:27.479 Oh, that he does. 47 00:03:27.639 --> 00:03:28.919 And he knows how to trade a woman. 48 00:03:29.240 --> 00:03:32.039 Yeah, any woman the way I hear it. 49 00:03:32.599 --> 00:03:34.639 You shut that mouth of yours right now. I'll make 50 00:03:34.680 --> 00:03:35.479 you wish I had. 51 00:03:35.680 --> 00:03:38.879 You will have Higgins in a day or two, not 52 00:03:38.960 --> 00:03:41.479 a blizzard comes close the trails and we hear. Then 53 00:03:41.479 --> 00:03:43.439 all of us together the rest of the winter here 54 00:03:43.560 --> 00:03:47.120 this one building. No way to get out. I'll tell 55 00:03:47.120 --> 00:03:48.719 you once and for all, I will not have this 56 00:03:48.840 --> 00:03:49.439 kind of feeling. 57 00:03:49.520 --> 00:03:50.479 Then let him shut up. 58 00:03:50.680 --> 00:03:54.919 Yeah, tiggts Yoe, that's enough, Higgins. He's got a right 59 00:03:55.000 --> 00:03:58.800 to be worried. I worried myself. Marcom Blake, you don't 60 00:03:58.800 --> 00:04:01.120 have enough grub up there. It snowed into that mind 61 00:04:01.120 --> 00:04:04.360 that can possibly last out the winter, and that blizzard 62 00:04:04.400 --> 00:04:07.919 is close. Should have come down by now. It was 63 00:04:08.039 --> 00:04:08.639 just funny. 64 00:04:08.719 --> 00:04:13.159 Had a clad Sorry Belle, and watch what you're saying. 65 00:04:14.280 --> 00:04:16.399 Don't worry. They'll make it all right. 66 00:04:17.040 --> 00:04:19.680 Why mark O Moore knows more about this country in 67 00:04:19.680 --> 00:04:20.959 the weather than most people. 68 00:04:21.120 --> 00:04:27.160 No talk you sound, what is it? Joe? Don't keep 69 00:04:27.480 --> 00:04:28.120 sled coming? 70 00:04:28.360 --> 00:04:31.079 Marca must be mark On Blake were binoculars. 71 00:04:31.120 --> 00:04:32.639 Maybe we can side them when they come through the gap. 72 00:04:32.720 --> 00:04:34.439 Huh Higgins, help me open the window. 73 00:04:34.800 --> 00:04:38.199 Might not be them, Bell could be Robertson, not him. 74 00:04:38.360 --> 00:04:40.519 He's too smart of money to get snowed in. And 75 00:04:40.560 --> 00:04:45.519 this far from Dawson. Come on, push all right. 76 00:04:45.399 --> 00:04:49.959 Here, let me see now it's nearly too dark to Hey, 77 00:04:49.959 --> 00:04:51.720 there's a sled all right coming out of the gap. 78 00:04:51.839 --> 00:04:53.319 It's them. It is them, isn't it. 79 00:04:53.319 --> 00:04:59.120 You can't quite make No, no, it's only one man 80 00:04:59.319 --> 00:05:05.560 a money. No, no, not Robertson. It it's Blakey, but Marco 81 00:05:05.680 --> 00:05:10.000 is not with him. Blakey coming in alone, alone to 82 00:05:10.360 --> 00:05:14.720 partner goal one come back, very bad. No, no, no, shut up, Joe, 83 00:05:14.720 --> 00:05:17.800 don't pay an attention to him. Bell. Marco is all right. 84 00:05:18.560 --> 00:05:21.959 He better be, for Blakey's sake, he'd better be. 85 00:05:39.759 --> 00:05:42.560 I know they've been partners three seasons now. Bell, there's 86 00:05:42.560 --> 00:05:45.199 no reason to think anything is wrong. You look, dog, 87 00:05:45.399 --> 00:05:47.480 keep lead dog, Marco's dog. 88 00:05:48.399 --> 00:05:51.399 He's right, he's that big husky with a white star. 89 00:05:52.279 --> 00:05:53.800 Marco got him two years ago. 90 00:05:56.399 --> 00:05:57.199 Bring up the d. 91 00:06:01.279 --> 00:06:04.759 I just don't know political sun Chane started for a 92 00:06:04.839 --> 00:06:08.079 betted care and maybe a glass of two A rye whiskey, Blakey, 93 00:06:09.279 --> 00:06:11.920 well leclear uglier never Indy and Joe. 94 00:06:11.959 --> 00:06:16.759 What are you having the tribe? Huh oh, Higgins, look 95 00:06:16.800 --> 00:06:21.160 at that paunch and bell. H sweet eyed you make 96 00:06:21.240 --> 00:06:23.240 up for all gorgeous Blakey. 97 00:06:23.680 --> 00:06:24.480 Where's Marco? 98 00:06:25.600 --> 00:06:30.759 Marcall? Oh? Ain't he here yet? Should he be? Well? 99 00:06:30.839 --> 00:06:33.439 He pulled out a few days before I did. I 100 00:06:33.680 --> 00:06:37.240 stayed until yesterday working the claim of course he uh, 101 00:06:37.920 --> 00:06:40.040 he might have stopped off someplace. 102 00:06:39.759 --> 00:06:41.399 Where stopped off where? 103 00:06:41.959 --> 00:06:46.920 Well? Maybe maybe at Jackson River, the factory, the post. 104 00:06:46.920 --> 00:06:49.199 Say's got a pair of mighty pretty daughter's bell. 105 00:06:51.600 --> 00:06:53.519 You better get your dogs out of heart as blaking, 106 00:06:53.600 --> 00:06:56.160 get your stuff inside. That may stop snowing. 107 00:06:56.560 --> 00:06:58.199 Yeah, it looks like it's building up a good one, 108 00:06:58.360 --> 00:07:02.560 say blake He that lead dog there, he's new? I 109 00:07:02.680 --> 00:07:06.399 need why I guess you could call it that. That's 110 00:07:06.439 --> 00:07:11.160 Marco's dog. Marco traded with me. He he figured I'd 111 00:07:11.160 --> 00:07:12.839 be running closer to the storm, so I need a 112 00:07:12.879 --> 00:07:13.480 better lead. 113 00:07:13.360 --> 00:07:14.079 Dog than he would. 114 00:07:14.120 --> 00:07:16.240 So he uh, he traded with me. 115 00:07:16.920 --> 00:07:20.519 I see you see what what's. 116 00:07:20.319 --> 00:07:22.000 This all about? You act like it's a matter of 117 00:07:22.000 --> 00:07:22.600 life and death. 118 00:07:34.040 --> 00:07:35.879 The four of us talk it over well, Blakey was 119 00:07:35.959 --> 00:07:39.079 unpacking his slip. He didn't add up. We agreed on that, 120 00:07:39.839 --> 00:07:42.040 at least it didn't add up the way Blakey was claiming. 121 00:07:43.360 --> 00:07:45.560 He was a born liar. We knew that, and Marco 122 00:07:45.600 --> 00:07:47.360 should have been at the trading post by now, even 123 00:07:47.360 --> 00:07:51.040 if he had stopped off at Jackson River. Oh, when 124 00:07:51.079 --> 00:07:54.120 blake came in, we ate, and then we waited some more. 125 00:07:54.199 --> 00:07:57.480 Still no sound of another dog, slip or Marco. 126 00:08:00.680 --> 00:08:04.959 Wind seems to be slacking off something, eh, Blauzard ain't 127 00:08:04.959 --> 00:08:07.519 far off. Wind always slacks off? 128 00:08:07.519 --> 00:08:07.839 First? 129 00:08:09.079 --> 00:08:14.160 Who's your game of pinnockle? What's the matter with all 130 00:08:14.199 --> 00:08:16.519 of you? You ain't spoke one decent word to me 131 00:08:16.519 --> 00:08:19.639 since I got here. Anybody think I was a wolf 132 00:08:19.639 --> 00:08:24.120 that sneaked in out of the woods or something? Well, 133 00:08:24.120 --> 00:08:25.560 why don't somebody say something? 134 00:08:27.920 --> 00:08:30.199 How did you get that bruise under your eye? Blaky? 135 00:08:31.319 --> 00:08:32.679 How'd you get that bruise? 136 00:08:33.720 --> 00:08:35.399 You sit around and stare at me for a couple 137 00:08:35.440 --> 00:08:36.840 of hours. Not the only thing you can think of 138 00:08:36.960 --> 00:08:38.360 to say is how'd you get that bruise? 139 00:08:38.440 --> 00:08:41.600 What happened? Did you get in a fight with somebody? 140 00:08:43.440 --> 00:08:47.559 I got the bruise from a rock, but how I 141 00:08:47.679 --> 00:08:49.919 was working in the tunnel. We drove some rock fell 142 00:08:49.960 --> 00:08:51.480 out of the roof and a piece of it hit me. 143 00:08:51.519 --> 00:08:52.320 That's how I got it. 144 00:08:52.399 --> 00:08:53.080 You're lion. 145 00:08:54.559 --> 00:08:55.480 What's the matter with you? 146 00:08:55.600 --> 00:08:59.120 Bell your lion? I said, you fought with Marco? That's 147 00:08:59.120 --> 00:08:59.840 how you got it. 148 00:09:00.200 --> 00:09:02.440 I ain't fought with no buddy. Why would I fight 149 00:09:02.480 --> 00:09:04.440 with him? We was partnering, was Blakey? 150 00:09:04.799 --> 00:09:07.159 I mean, are we still are? Why did you fight 151 00:09:07.200 --> 00:09:09.159 about Blakey? Nothing? 152 00:09:09.279 --> 00:09:10.720 We didn't fight about nothing. 153 00:09:10.759 --> 00:09:13.279 We've gotta have some reason, blake Your partners don't start 154 00:09:13.279 --> 00:09:14.080 fighting over nothing. 155 00:09:14.120 --> 00:09:19.080 I mean, we wasn't fighting. Look, I don't know why 156 00:09:19.159 --> 00:09:23.120 Marco in herein his mother. Maybe he changed his mind. 157 00:09:23.120 --> 00:09:24.960 He said he was gonna be here. That's all I 158 00:09:25.000 --> 00:09:25.440 know about. 159 00:09:25.559 --> 00:09:27.639 And why isn't he he left before you did? You 160 00:09:27.679 --> 00:09:29.960 said so yourself, Where is he? 161 00:09:30.039 --> 00:09:30.440 Blaky? 162 00:09:31.120 --> 00:09:31.840 I don't know. 163 00:09:33.000 --> 00:09:34.559 What's the matter with all of you? You think I 164 00:09:34.679 --> 00:09:35.440 kill him or something? 165 00:09:37.639 --> 00:09:47.440 Yeah? What that right? Blakey? We think maybe you killed him? 166 00:09:47.639 --> 00:09:51.240 Oh, come off of it. You're out of your mind. 167 00:09:51.879 --> 00:09:54.960 You're kidding, that's what it is. A joke, huh me 168 00:09:55.240 --> 00:10:01.519 killing old Marco? That's a laugh for you. 169 00:10:01.519 --> 00:10:05.440 You're gonna tell us about it? Huh about what? 170 00:10:06.919 --> 00:10:11.519 There ain't nothing to tell now. Look, if I had 171 00:10:11.600 --> 00:10:14.759 done something, why would I come straight here where you're 172 00:10:14.799 --> 00:10:16.919 all frenzy, is where you're expecting him. 173 00:10:17.240 --> 00:10:20.120 Where else would you go? Well? 174 00:10:20.799 --> 00:10:22.879 The Jackson River, They don't have room to put a 175 00:10:22.960 --> 00:10:25.240 man up, all right. I could add for Dawson, or 176 00:10:25.279 --> 00:10:26.240 south to white. 177 00:10:26.039 --> 00:10:30.639 Horse Storm too close. No time here, only place, all right? 178 00:10:30.720 --> 00:10:34.879 Answer me one thing? Why why do you think I'd 179 00:10:34.919 --> 00:10:35.279 kill him? 180 00:10:36.159 --> 00:10:37.120 Show him Leclair? 181 00:10:37.399 --> 00:10:41.879 Yeah, this might be the reason, Blakey, you've. 182 00:10:41.759 --> 00:10:42.759 Been going through my stuff? 183 00:10:42.759 --> 00:10:44.519 You got no right we did it anyway? No, what 184 00:10:44.639 --> 00:10:45.000 about this? 185 00:10:48.120 --> 00:10:51.840 I was gonna tell you about that. I figured i'd 186 00:10:51.879 --> 00:10:55.440 wait and make it a kind of surprise surprise. 187 00:10:56.639 --> 00:10:57.960 It's rich quartz. 188 00:10:58.039 --> 00:11:01.440 Blakey must opened up quite a pocket. 189 00:11:01.440 --> 00:11:03.840 It's the richest load between here and Mackenzie Bank, not 190 00:11:04.000 --> 00:11:07.039 rich enough for two. Marcot didn't even know about it. 191 00:11:07.639 --> 00:11:09.879 I stumbled on to it after he'd already left. That's 192 00:11:09.919 --> 00:11:11.519 why I was keeping it. 193 00:11:11.440 --> 00:11:12.279 For a surprise. 194 00:11:13.120 --> 00:11:15.759 These two, Blakie, are you keeping these for a surprise? 195 00:11:16.320 --> 00:11:18.799 I gave him those gloves and that right in Tabot, 196 00:11:19.200 --> 00:11:21.080 and I knitted that pair of socks last winter. 197 00:11:22.399 --> 00:11:25.879 Well, he told me to pack up anything he'd missed 198 00:11:25.879 --> 00:11:26.600 bring it along. 199 00:11:27.480 --> 00:11:29.559 That proves he was figuring to come here. 200 00:11:29.720 --> 00:11:34.039 Why, well, look, I know you're worried about Marco and all. Oh, yes, 201 00:11:34.120 --> 00:11:36.320 but you think in the wrong way. All of you, 202 00:11:36.320 --> 00:11:38.720 you're whole, you're all wrong. You're mixed up. 203 00:11:39.080 --> 00:11:43.159 You're saying you didn't kill Marco, but you ain't saying it. 204 00:11:43.360 --> 00:11:45.720 Very good, Joe, show him what you'll follow the slip. 205 00:11:45.840 --> 00:11:49.600 You've got no right to boto my things. 206 00:11:51.840 --> 00:11:55.639 This that's your knife, Blakie. 207 00:11:58.120 --> 00:12:01.480 It was a fox. I shot it on the trail, 208 00:12:02.240 --> 00:12:05.279 skinned it for the dogs. That's how the blood got 209 00:12:05.320 --> 00:12:05.559 on it. 210 00:12:05.639 --> 00:12:07.720 You skinned fox? What you do with skin? 211 00:12:07.919 --> 00:12:10.480 I left it. I'm a miner, not a trapper. I 212 00:12:10.480 --> 00:12:12.600 don't know anything about skins. Now, look the whole bunch 213 00:12:12.639 --> 00:12:16.480 of you. I'm getting fed up with this questions accusing me. 214 00:12:16.480 --> 00:12:17.120 What do you think you are? 215 00:12:17.159 --> 00:12:18.080 A quart of some kind? 216 00:12:18.879 --> 00:12:20.000 I don't have to answer anything. 217 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:20.840 I ain't on trial. 218 00:12:22.559 --> 00:12:23.399 I'm gonna turn it. 219 00:12:32.960 --> 00:12:35.639 Next morning, the barometer dropped again, and we knew that 220 00:12:35.679 --> 00:12:38.799 blizzard would hit any minute. All that day we sat 221 00:12:38.879 --> 00:12:43.360 huddled around at wood stove, not talking, just thinking about 222 00:12:43.480 --> 00:12:47.759 Marco and Blakey, and just after dog Blakey went outside 223 00:12:47.759 --> 00:12:50.480 to settle his dog team. By the time he came 224 00:12:50.559 --> 00:13:01.519 back in, we decided, what are you all staring at, Blaking. 225 00:13:02.799 --> 00:13:09.000 We're going to give you a trial, a trial for 226 00:13:09.240 --> 00:13:12.399 what jury of your peers. That's the only law we got. 227 00:13:12.399 --> 00:13:15.639 That's all we likely to have till spring. Robertson bypassed 228 00:13:15.679 --> 00:13:17.679 as he got on through the Dawson to be the Blizzard. 229 00:13:18.960 --> 00:13:22.519 It's just you and us, Blaking. You're crazy. You ain't 230 00:13:22.519 --> 00:13:24.799 a law. If you got anything to say in your 231 00:13:24.840 --> 00:13:26.879 own defense, any explanation, I ain't. 232 00:13:26.720 --> 00:13:28.639 Doing no more talking. You can't do nothing to. 233 00:13:28.679 --> 00:13:33.879 Me whatever you say, Blaking, let's vote. 234 00:13:34.039 --> 00:13:34.679 Get it over with. 235 00:13:35.120 --> 00:13:37.679 If they won't talk, there ain't no use asking them 236 00:13:37.679 --> 00:13:40.639 anything else. I say, he killed Marco? 237 00:13:40.960 --> 00:13:41.919 One vote guilty. 238 00:13:42.000 --> 00:13:43.480 Two, of course he did it. 239 00:13:44.200 --> 00:13:49.799 Joe, he killed that's three guilty and mine makes four. 240 00:13:51.919 --> 00:13:55.480 That's unanimous, Blaking, And just what are you aim to 241 00:13:55.519 --> 00:13:58.879 do about it? Well, we got to decide. 242 00:13:58.919 --> 00:14:02.360 Well, I'll decide for you. You ain't gonna do nothing. 243 00:14:02.639 --> 00:14:06.200 And you know why, because of this grab him should 244 00:14:07.600 --> 00:14:08.120 do none. 245 00:14:07.960 --> 00:14:12.600 Of you move. Looks a little different now, d it 246 00:14:12.639 --> 00:14:13.120 down Blake. 247 00:14:13.279 --> 00:14:14.559 That rifle won't get you out of this. 248 00:14:14.679 --> 00:14:17.840 It won't. Huh, Well, I'd say it's made some changes already. 249 00:14:18.799 --> 00:14:19.440 Four to one. 250 00:14:19.480 --> 00:14:20.840 You felt bity big, didn't you? 251 00:14:21.480 --> 00:14:22.559 Well? How do you feel now? 252 00:14:23.279 --> 00:14:25.360 Things is kind of even up a little lengthy. You 253 00:14:25.519 --> 00:14:27.440 can't hold us at gun point all winter. 254 00:14:27.879 --> 00:14:31.159 I ain't figuring too. I'm getting out of here, and 255 00:14:31.200 --> 00:14:32.200 none of you better try. 256 00:14:32.080 --> 00:14:33.559 To stop me. Where are you planning to go? 257 00:14:33.759 --> 00:14:36.200 That's my business? But I sure ain't gonna stay around 258 00:14:36.200 --> 00:14:36.879 here no longer. 259 00:14:37.879 --> 00:14:41.360 All of you stay right where you are. He's crazy. 260 00:14:41.840 --> 00:14:43.960 Where could he get to? No worse? Maybe, but he 261 00:14:44.000 --> 00:14:45.919 ain't thought that far. All he knows right now is 262 00:14:45.919 --> 00:14:46.720 you're gonna get away. 263 00:14:47.039 --> 00:14:49.279 Well, what are you gonna do about it? 264 00:14:50.600 --> 00:15:03.759 Get your rifles? We go after him. 265 00:15:03.799 --> 00:15:06.960 You are listening to Judgment Day at Crippled Deer Tonight's 266 00:15:06.960 --> 00:15:12.440 presentation of Escape Saturday night on CBS Radio's thrilling Western 267 00:15:12.480 --> 00:15:16.159 series called gun Smoke. Meet United States Marshal Matt Dillon. 268 00:15:16.799 --> 00:15:20.200 Marshall Dillon faces another problem this Saturday, a problem as 269 00:15:20.279 --> 00:15:23.360 real and vital as the Old West itself, and justice 270 00:15:23.360 --> 00:15:26.600 full of action as well. Don't miss the exciting unusual 271 00:15:26.679 --> 00:15:30.120 drama on CBS Radio's gun Smoke Saturday Night on most 272 00:15:30.120 --> 00:15:34.080 of these stations. And now Escape and the second act 273 00:15:34.120 --> 00:15:35.879 of Judgment Day at Triple Deer. 274 00:15:49.000 --> 00:15:51.759 Tracking down a fellow man is not a pleasant theme, 275 00:15:52.600 --> 00:15:56.480 even though he's crazed with fear. But there was no choice. 276 00:15:57.080 --> 00:15:59.039 The four over stood a moment longer, looking at the 277 00:15:59.080 --> 00:16:05.759 door that had slammed up behind Blakey, and then ready, yeah, yeah, 278 00:16:05.840 --> 00:16:06.639 let's get it over with. 279 00:16:06.759 --> 00:16:11.000 Come on, don't let him get away. 280 00:16:13.360 --> 00:16:16.519 Joel, you're sick. Can you pick up his trail? He 281 00:16:16.600 --> 00:16:24.399 couldn't have got far. He ain't had enough time. Here 282 00:16:25.039 --> 00:16:30.200 we tracked start here. Come. It's pitch dark to me. 283 00:16:30.600 --> 00:16:34.960 How can you see any tracks? B see? Come? He 284 00:16:35.080 --> 00:16:37.840 seemed to be heading back on the trail on foot 285 00:16:37.919 --> 00:16:41.320 without even snow shoes. He's hot of his mind, guilt 286 00:16:41.399 --> 00:16:43.279 and fear. They do funny things to him. 287 00:16:43.320 --> 00:16:48.200 Man, leave trail, now, turn this way into the woods. 288 00:16:48.399 --> 00:16:52.279 Come roun get away from them. 289 00:16:52.360 --> 00:16:55.279 That's all he could thing about there in the cabin, crazy, 290 00:16:55.679 --> 00:16:57.240 clean out of his senses. 291 00:16:59.399 --> 00:17:03.960 God, stay away from it. He's hold up in that 292 00:17:04.119 --> 00:17:07.000 storage shed up on the creek bank. I saw the flash. 293 00:17:07.039 --> 00:17:09.440 Why don't We leave him there, Let him get snowed in, 294 00:17:09.559 --> 00:17:12.079 let him stile. No, no, When a man begins to start, 295 00:17:12.119 --> 00:17:14.039 it gets dangerous. He has that rifle and there's a 296 00:17:14.039 --> 00:17:17.160 whole case ammunition in the shed. You could hang around 297 00:17:17.160 --> 00:17:19.240 the cabin and pick us off one of the time. 298 00:17:19.519 --> 00:17:22.839 Meg me bring him the thing you can slip up 299 00:17:22.839 --> 00:17:25.759 on him. Joe, you talk, shoot guns, make noise, I 300 00:17:25.839 --> 00:17:30.279 go blaky. 301 00:17:30.400 --> 00:17:33.319 Get out of here, go back to the pole. 302 00:17:33.799 --> 00:17:39.960 Maybe this will shake him up a little. You're wasting 303 00:17:40.000 --> 00:17:47.559 your time. I got covered away. Turny murderer. I'll blast 304 00:17:47.640 --> 00:17:50.480 him out of there, and that's the last thing you 305 00:17:50.599 --> 00:17:51.480 might hit the Indian. 306 00:17:53.920 --> 00:17:58.200 Why don't you tell us about it? Blakey, about Marco? 307 00:17:59.400 --> 00:18:05.440 Get it off chat? Why did you bury him? I 308 00:18:05.559 --> 00:18:09.480 didn't bury nobody kill me. You're left him for the walls. 309 00:18:11.920 --> 00:18:14.319 You don't stop saying that I'll get every last one. 310 00:18:14.359 --> 00:18:15.079 Have you ever part? 311 00:18:18.559 --> 00:18:21.200 Hey, Joe must have got inside. 312 00:18:24.680 --> 00:18:30.119 You'll come now, everything all like, oh trouble, you'll come. 313 00:18:32.279 --> 00:18:43.559 All right, let's go get him. We dragged him back 314 00:18:43.599 --> 00:18:46.720 to the post. We tied his hands together behind his 315 00:18:46.799 --> 00:18:48.519 back and locked him in one of the bunk rooms. 316 00:18:50.440 --> 00:18:53.480 Then we said the four of us. We didn't say much, 317 00:18:54.359 --> 00:18:57.920 not looking at one another, knowing what we had to decide, 318 00:18:58.400 --> 00:19:01.720 putting it off as long as we could. And then 319 00:19:01.720 --> 00:19:03.559 it was Bell, who had been in love with Marco 320 00:19:03.599 --> 00:19:05.680 and was ready enough to go to pieces any minute, 321 00:19:06.519 --> 00:19:08.079 finally brought it out in the open. 322 00:19:09.720 --> 00:19:11.400 We can't sit here and put it off all winter. 323 00:19:11.880 --> 00:19:13.799 We gotta decide what we're gonna do. Get it over with. 324 00:19:14.000 --> 00:19:15.000 I suppose you're right. 325 00:19:15.119 --> 00:19:17.519 I know I'm right. What's the matter with all of you? 326 00:19:17.599 --> 00:19:18.279 What are you afraid of? 327 00:19:18.359 --> 00:19:20.519 It's a big responsibility Bell, not from me. 328 00:19:21.279 --> 00:19:23.559 Maybe you can feel sympathy for him, but I don't. 329 00:19:24.079 --> 00:19:26.599 He don't even count A hundred of him would make 330 00:19:26.680 --> 00:19:27.279 up from Marco. 331 00:19:27.519 --> 00:19:31.319 Perhaps you're right, Bell, but what I was thinking starm 332 00:19:31.319 --> 00:19:33.279 ain't hit yet. And as long as there's a chance 333 00:19:33.359 --> 00:19:36.400 Robertson will still come, well, maybe we ought to wait 334 00:19:36.400 --> 00:19:38.799 and leave it to him. After all, he's a lord, 335 00:19:39.119 --> 00:19:39.680 his job. 336 00:19:40.440 --> 00:19:43.359 No come now, Blizzard too close. You go very fast 337 00:19:43.359 --> 00:19:46.559 to Dawson, Go on spend winter here. Joe is right. 338 00:19:46.640 --> 00:19:48.920 We can't figure on turning Blackie over to the police. 339 00:19:49.200 --> 00:19:52.839 Robertson's already probably in Dawson, and we can't try to 340 00:19:52.880 --> 00:19:54.960 keep him prison and clear through the winter. I guess 341 00:19:55.039 --> 00:19:55.880 we all agree on that. 342 00:19:56.039 --> 00:19:57.160 You know what I agree on? 343 00:19:57.839 --> 00:20:01.359 Oh, I guess we better make up. Oh mine's made 344 00:20:01.440 --> 00:20:04.440 up now you know that? Yes, I know that battle love. 345 00:20:04.720 --> 00:20:08.960 My people say man who killed friend must die always. 346 00:20:09.160 --> 00:20:10.160 I don't know Lea Claire. 347 00:20:10.880 --> 00:20:12.880 Telling a man in a fight or a battle when 348 00:20:12.880 --> 00:20:15.480 you're a crazy man, that's one thing. But doing it 349 00:20:15.599 --> 00:20:18.400 in cold blood like this, well, they ain't easy to 350 00:20:18.440 --> 00:20:19.000 face it. 351 00:20:19.000 --> 00:20:21.039 It ain't the same. I guess we all feel that 352 00:20:21.079 --> 00:20:23.680 way about it. None of us want to do it. 353 00:20:23.720 --> 00:20:25.359 Looks to me like we don't have much choice. 354 00:20:25.440 --> 00:20:26.920 We don't and the sooner the better. 355 00:20:27.559 --> 00:20:31.640 I don't know, the mount he might still come. 356 00:20:31.759 --> 00:20:34.440 Make up your mind, Higgins, if you're afraid say so, Well, 357 00:20:34.480 --> 00:20:36.359 I ain't that you agree with the rest of us, then, 358 00:20:36.440 --> 00:20:36.759 don't you? 359 00:20:38.839 --> 00:20:39.839 Yeah? 360 00:20:40.000 --> 00:20:45.240 I agree. Well it's settled. Then we might as well 361 00:20:45.279 --> 00:20:48.640 get it over with him. How were we here thinking 362 00:20:49.160 --> 00:20:54.279 to do it? Leclaire? Wha hanging? That's the usual way. 363 00:20:54.319 --> 00:20:58.119 I guess that roofbole outside the front of the cabin. 364 00:20:58.160 --> 00:20:59.839 We could take him up on the roof and tie 365 00:20:59.839 --> 00:21:03.279 the under the rope to that pole, and then and 366 00:21:03.319 --> 00:21:07.359 then make him step off. How much of a fall 367 00:21:07.440 --> 00:21:11.640 does it take? I only seen it done once down 368 00:21:11.680 --> 00:21:12.279 in the States. 369 00:21:12.880 --> 00:21:16.400 Wouldn't do there, hadn't go wrong, no call from the 370 00:21:16.480 --> 00:21:17.279 suffer anymore. 371 00:21:17.279 --> 00:21:20.200 And that's no. We're do careful. We plan it all. 372 00:21:20.079 --> 00:21:22.039 Out, not talking about it, and do it, do it 373 00:21:22.079 --> 00:21:22.680 and get it over with. 374 00:21:22.799 --> 00:21:25.599 We're gone to get on with it. Joe, get a 375 00:21:25.680 --> 00:21:28.240 ladder up against the eaves out there on Higgins and me. 376 00:21:28.319 --> 00:21:37.799 We cut a piece of rope. Good, No, I guess 377 00:21:39.279 --> 00:21:41.279 we better tell him. 378 00:21:41.400 --> 00:21:57.039 M hm, hang me. 379 00:21:59.079 --> 00:22:01.799 You've decided to hang me, Ray, You don't even know 380 00:22:01.839 --> 00:22:05.480 what you're saying. People don't sit down and decide they're 381 00:22:05.480 --> 00:22:07.519 gonna hang somebody and expect to get away with it. 382 00:22:08.599 --> 00:22:10.480 You can't take the law into your own hands. 383 00:22:10.880 --> 00:22:14.799 You're just making it harder for us, blakely harder for you. 384 00:22:14.960 --> 00:22:17.079 I'll make it harder for you when Robertson shows up. 385 00:22:17.160 --> 00:22:18.480 Robertson ain't gonna show up. 386 00:22:19.240 --> 00:22:20.400 You're out of your mind. 387 00:22:20.759 --> 00:22:25.720 We're gonna have to drag you, Blakey, You'll drag nobody. 388 00:22:26.720 --> 00:22:27.519 I'll walk. 389 00:22:29.480 --> 00:22:31.279 See just how far you're planning to go with this? 390 00:22:31.359 --> 00:22:33.079 All right, we go out through the main room. 391 00:22:33.559 --> 00:22:35.839 Bell bell, you know what they're figuring to do. 392 00:22:36.119 --> 00:22:38.559 Yeah, we'll do something. Stop them. 393 00:22:39.079 --> 00:22:41.079 You're a woman, bal you're different. 394 00:22:44.319 --> 00:22:47.359 I wish there were ten of you, Blakie, so they 395 00:22:47.359 --> 00:22:51.359 can hang you ten times instead of once. Get him 396 00:22:51.400 --> 00:22:53.319 out of here, take him out and get it over with. 397 00:22:53.720 --> 00:22:58.640 Come on, she's crazier than the rest of you. It's 398 00:22:58.680 --> 00:23:00.319 all crazy. It's like an right. 399 00:23:00.319 --> 00:23:09.480 Man, watch your step Leclaire. I crust his freezing. It's slicky, yeah. 400 00:23:08.759 --> 00:23:13.680 Like it ain't real. It really happened, not to me anyway. 401 00:23:13.799 --> 00:23:16.440