Speaker 1: Keeping your wife in an ivory tower won't ensure you
heard devotion. Once she gets tired of it, neither your
money nor your guns will hold her.
Speaker 2: Have gun will travel.
Speaker 1: Starring mister John Dayner as Paladin, San Francisco, eighteen seventy five,
The Carlton Hotel, headquarters of a man called Paladin.
Speaker 2: Going back to Mara. You sure you won't have another drink?
Speaker 1: No? No thanks, Meet you downstairs in the morning.
Speaker 2: I'll be ready. Good night, Good night, Jeremiah.
Speaker 3: Hello, miss Wong. We all please turn down the bed.
Speaker 1: Ma, yes, come in, Miss Wan. Oh and if you
don't mind, you can help me pack.
Speaker 3: You leave, you go away again?
Speaker 1: So soon?
Speaker 2: Looks that way, miss Wong, first thing in the morning.
Speaker 3: Oh, you'd be gone long time.
Speaker 1: Hard to tell. It's such an unusual job. Do you
see that man who left my room? He's a very
famous man, for it was at one time Jeremiah Smooth
or Jeremiah the Avenger, they.
Speaker 2: Used to call him.
Speaker 3: Oh, why famous?
Speaker 1: He was the man with a lightning draw, the fastest
gun on this side of the Mississippi, feared by every
gunfighter in the West.
Speaker 2: And do you know what he wants me for?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: Why he want you so file little?
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Speaker 1: I must admit I was intrigued with the irony of
the situation. Jeremiah the Avenger, the man who could take
care of himself, and the other man in the west
hiring me to protect him from himself. As it worked out,
the reasons for his strange action were revealed as he
rode south through the Salinas Valley on our way to
his spread. We were the only two passengers left on
the stage after King City, and last he could speak freely.
Speaker 2: See Belladin.
Speaker 1: I hung up my guns when I got married. That's
what Polly wanted. Polly's what I wanted. So we up
and there came out here from West Texas, started this
spread down the Chubushcod and everything worked out fine.
Speaker 2: Nobody knew who I was, or who Polly was for
that matter. Wash you.
Speaker 1: Well, you must know she was an entertainer. It's the
bird cage and Abileen. Oh, I see, well, them kind
often make the best wives.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I've heard, well Polly did all right. You've
got no cause making any remarks about her.
Speaker 1: Look, Jerry, I wasn't making any remarks. I was agreeing
with you. No need for you to be so touchy. Yeah,
I guess maybe I am a mine. It's all a
fault of this here neighbor of mine, this Ezram Mason.
Speaker 2: What has he got to do with your being touchy? Oh?
Speaker 1: Seemed like he finds some excuse to drop in over
to my place almost every day.
Speaker 2: Say how toy to my wife?
Speaker 1: Now, then you can put your finger on really, but
I don't trust him. Now, That's what I'm paying you for, ballad,
and to straighten this thing out. If I try to,
I only know one way with a forty five. I
can't do that because I promised Polly I was through
with gunplay for the minute I slipped that ring on
her finger, and I mean to keep that promise.
Speaker 2: You sound like an mighty devoted husband, Jerry. They voted.
Speaker 1: I just told you I hung up my guns for
Polly and for me that was doing a lot.
Speaker 2: Yes, it was, Jeremiah, an awful lot.
Speaker 4: Oh, you never didn't kind and you're oh hot, Stephen Hissa,
send your palette and gonna stay with us a spell,
uh steben.
Speaker 2: And it happened whilst I was away. Nose in your orders,
been quiet, no visitors. Now, isn't your nun.
Speaker 1: God all right to take care of the horses, Stephen,
Come on, Patton, want you to meet the little woman.
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Speaker 1: Although Jeremiah had prepared me for a great deal, he
had not done his wife, Polly Justice. She was beautiful, frail, blonde,
her skin almost translucent to a white orchard. She received
me in the darkened living room of the hacienda, where
her paleness seemed to shine, for the windows were heavily
curtained from the midday sun, and only a glimmer of
daylight retreated before the steady glow of the candles, which
surrounded her chair.
Speaker 2: Like a shrine.
Speaker 3: You must forgive me for not meeting you outside, mister
paladin' that's all right, ma'am. I never go out of
doors in the daylight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she freckled too easy.
Speaker 3: Yes, dear Mama, I fear your Polly would always be
a nice.
Speaker 1: Eh, Miss paladins from San Francisco. Polly I asked him
to stop him visit.
Speaker 3: With us to spell how nice? How is San Francisco,
mister Paladin? Is it as gay as they say?
Speaker 2: Well, yes, I suppose it is. How long has it
been since you've been there?
Speaker 3: I've never been there, but I've always dreamed of going.
Jeremiah keeps promising to take me, but he never does.
Perhaps you would show me San Francisco someday, mister Paladin.
Speaker 1: Well, yes, of course, missus smooth before you, du Paladin,
I'd just like to direct your attention to that wall.
Speaker 2: Over there by the fireplace. Ah. Yes, the guns, that's right,
they're beauties.
Speaker 1: That's where I hung them when Polly made me promise
not to use them. Don't you be doing nothing to
make me want to break that.
Speaker 3: Promise, Jeremah, I was only joking. When I asked mister
Paladin to show me something.
Speaker 2: If I know you, I just wanted to make sure
he knows it. Well, we better get along. Let you
take your beauty in that Polly.
Speaker 3: Yes, Jeremy, we'll be looking.
Speaker 2: In on your lawn up sundown.
Speaker 3: Yes, about sundown. I come alive at nightfall, mister Paladin, Yes.
Speaker 2: Ma'am, see what I mean. Paladins regularly, Lady.
Speaker 1: Yes, indeed, there's nothing I wouldn't do for her except
break my promise to take down my gun. That's why
I keep him over in her police her place. Don't
you live there too? No, No, no, I sleep in
the main house. She asked for her own separate way,
and she got it, and it works out real nice,
you know, sort of exciting. You have to call on
your own wife. Yes, I suppose it would be, just
as long as I'm the only one that's calling.
Speaker 2: And that's where I come in. That's right.
Speaker 1: You got to break up her friendship with Mason before
I'm forced to kill him and lose Polly into the bargain.
Speaker 2: I'll get to work under this.
Speaker 1: Afternoon, after lunch, I sidled up and rode over alone
to pay a visit on Ezra Mason. I found him
out by his corral. Younger man and Jeremiah, I must admit,
a better looking man, and I soon discovered a man
who was none too friendly. Mind state in your business,
not at all. I'd fear to be lost. I thought
you might be able to give me some directions.
Speaker 2: Where you going? Well, I'm looking for Jeremiah the Avenger.
Jeremiah the Avenger? Who's he? I mean to say, you've
never heard of him? Huh? Not likely? I remember the
name like that.
Speaker 1: Oh, he was a famous gunfighter. He had a draw
like lightning. At a fact, nothing ever seemed like old Jeremiah.
But I hear he got himself married and promised his
wife he'd quit gunfighting. He heard he got himself a
spread out in these parts.
Speaker 2: I never heard of o Jeremiah the Avenger around here.
Speaker 1: Oh well, of course he did have a regular name.
Smoot was Smoot's a there's a Jerry Smoot on down
the valley a piece.
Speaker 2: Well, that must be him. Ah, but he doesn't look
like no gunfighter to me.
Speaker 1: He got himself a young wife. Yeah, name of Polly. Yeah, pretty,
I'd say so. Oh, friend, you'd better not say so.
Where Jeremiah can hear you? Why not when he put
up his guns like Polly asked him, he vowed there
was only one reason he'd ever take him down again.
Why is that to kill the man who tried to
take his wife away from him. They don't call him
Jeremiah the Avenger for nothing. He's mean, nasty, mean jealous.
Well on down the valley, you say, huh, thanks for
the directions.
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Although the Lovely Polly claimed to be a night bird,
she did not last long that evening and retire to
her quarter shortly after supper. Jeremiah and I were too
tired to be very entertaining, so we turned in early
and I fell immediately into a deep sleep.
Speaker 2: Some time later, I was awakened by the sound of shots.
Speaker 1: I jumped out of bed, pulled on my trousers, and
rushed into the patio. There, in the moonlight lay the
still body of Ezra Mason, and crouching over it the
huge frame of Jeremiah. He made no effort to deny
that he had shot and killed Ezra Mason, and he
wanted to get himself up, so he saddled up and
rode into town to see the sheriff.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Finn, he up and did it.
Speaker 1: Jeremiah reckon, So sheriff tried to hold on him a promise,
even hired Balladin here to keep me from my guns.
Speaker 2: Torn looked good.
Speaker 1: And you see a dirty sneak heading in your wife's direction,
you shoot first and talk after. Well, he had it
coming to him, I reckon. Of course, I'm going to
have to hold you without bail.
Speaker 2: Jeremiah. Yeah, I understand. Bet you'd be out of here
mighty quick.
Speaker 1: You don't have to be no learned judge to know
a man's got.
Speaker 2: A right to protect his property. You know something, Sheriff.
Speaker 1: It don't really seem to matter, now what do man,
whether judge lets me go or or the boar strang
me up.
Speaker 2: I just don't care, Just don't seem care.
Speaker 1: Sure, sure way you get some sleep now, Jerry, And
don't you worry none.
Speaker 2: Come on, ballum, good night.
Speaker 1: Jeremiah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, poor fellow's upset. Can't blame him though, killing a
man in cool blood and.
Speaker 1: That never upset Jeremiah the Avenger before Sharon. Jeremiah the Avenger,
that's right. I keep forgetting the reputation he used to have.
I don't think he killed Mason. Oh, he admits to it.
He had plenty of motive. Why he even warned me,
told me weeks ago that if Mason didn't stop hanging
around his place, there'd be troubled.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: But he also was so afraid he'd break his word
and put on his guns again that he hired me
to keep him out of trouble. Still there he was
when you found him standing over the body, holding his
own gun in his hand.
Speaker 2: And that's true.
Speaker 1: That's all evidence, And he judge your jury in need, and.
Speaker 2: It's all circumstantial, isn't it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, then listen to some more evidence, inferential evidence.
Jeremiah was known to be the deadliest shot in the West,
wasn't her? He never took more than one round to
finish off his opponent. He was a great artist. Ezra
Mason was murdered by an amateur, a butcher of bullets.
Speaker 2: What do you mean?
Speaker 1: Three shots were fired into him, two completely missing the
vital areas, one in the leg, one on the shoulder.
Speaker 2: Now at the.
Speaker 1: Third bullet, a lucky blow hadn't gone through the brain,
Mason would be alive this minute. No, Sheriff, you can
never convince me that such inept marksmanship with the work
of Jeremiah.
Speaker 2: Well, if he didn't do it, who did? Maybe I
can find out for you, Sheriff.
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Speaker 1: Polly was still awake when I got back to the ranch.
I found her lying back on her chaise loam, surrounded
by flickering candles on the wall where the fireplace hung
Jeremiah's unbelt, and as I expected, one of the guns
was missing from its holster.
Speaker 3: The sheriff arrested him.
Speaker 2: Oh, yes, take his confession, locked him up.
Speaker 3: What will they do to him?
Speaker 2: Oh, not a great deal. He'll get out.
Speaker 1: He'll get out the unwritten law, the right of a
man to protect his home and family. Uh, aren't you relieved? No,
you hate your husband, don't you.
Speaker 3: Of course I hate him. He treated me like the
lives talk, like a special and rare specimen Polly his nightbird.
He called me, who leave me? Everything I asked for?
Only only I didn't.
Speaker 2: Love him, But you did love Ezra Mason.
Speaker 3: Yes, and he loved me for I thought he did
until the night.
Speaker 1: And when you found he didn't You killed him.
Speaker 3: I didn't kill him. Jeremarah killed him. He confessed to it.
The Sheriff's arrested him for it.
Speaker 1: He confessed to protect you. Mason was killed with one
of Jeremiah's guns, the one that's missing from that holster
on the wall there.
Speaker 2: He couldn't have used it.
Speaker 1: He was asleep in the main house you shot Mason,
dropped the gun by his body, and ran back here.
Jeremiah was wakened by the noise, so was I. I
found him standing over the body holding the gun because
that's the way he wanted to be found. He knew
you had shot Mason, but he wanted it to look
like he did.
Speaker 3: I may have shot him, but Jeremiah killed him.
Speaker 2: Ah, that doesn't make much sense.
Speaker 3: Do you know why Ezra Mason came here tonight? No,
but I can guess he came here to say goodbye,
to call the whole thing off. He was walking out
on me. Why because he loved himself more than he
did me, just like Jeremiah, Just like every man when
the chips are down, they don't know what love he is.
They're the takers of the world. Well, this is one
little lady that's been taken for the last time. I'll
tell you why Isra wanted to walk out on me, Paladin,
because he was afraid.
Speaker 2: Afraid.
Speaker 3: He didn't know who Jeremiah really was until you had
to go and tell him.
Speaker 2: I was doing my job.
Speaker 3: Oh, you sure were. So when Ezra learned who Jeremiah
really was, he didn't waste any time making it clear
that I wasn't worth risking his neck for God, don't
you see, Paladin, he was afraid he was a coward,
and I thought he was a man. A woman'll do
anything for a man, but there's only one thing to
do for a coward, shoot him, so I did. And
see but it hasn't turned out badly. Really, Jeremiah will
be acquitted, and by the time he's free, I'll be gone,
out of his life.
Speaker 2: Gone. But he confessed to this murder to protect you, exactly.
Speaker 3: To buy me to put another bar on my cage.
And how he'll use this to make me throw the
mark now no longer, I won't be here.
Speaker 2: Where'd he go? I?
Speaker 3: I was thinking of San Francisco. You promised to show
it to me, Remember, I remember? And I believe you're
a man, Balad.
Speaker 2: You wouldn't be.
Speaker 3: Afraid of any man, would you, not, even Jeremiah the Avengies.
Speaker 1: Regardless of the question of my personal courage, they're a
matter of my personal integrity.
Speaker 2: I happen to be in the employee of Jeremiah at the.
Speaker 3: Moment, who then quit is of this moment and take
me to San Francisco with you?
Speaker 5: Right now?
Speaker 2: You amaze me.
Speaker 3: Don't you find me a tracked?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yes, very I don't usually have to ask, I'm sure
of that.
Speaker 2: But these are rather unusual circumstances.
Speaker 3: You won't regret it.
Speaker 1: You seem to have ignored a rather depressing fact. A
murder has been committed here, and you are the confessed murderer.
Speaker 3: Who knows, but you forget it, Paladin. Come on, let's
get started for San Francisco.
Speaker 2: No, let's get started for town.
Speaker 3: You really mean it, don't you.
Speaker 2: I'm afraid I do. No, No, I won't keep away
from there.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 3: He hung up his guns because I ask him to.
So who is a better rod to use them? I'll
use this one on you. One gun for Ezron, one
gun for Paladin.
Speaker 2: Drop it, drop it?
Speaker 3: You would shoot me, would you?
Speaker 2: If I had to?
Speaker 3: You are a man, really a man? Don't shoot me, Paladin,
Love me as I deserve to be loved. Take me
away from here, Take me with you.
Speaker 2: I'll take you away.
Speaker 3: From here pot San Francisco.
Speaker 2: That depends on where the judge wants to hold your trial.
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Speaker 2: Have Gun, We'll Travel by Herb Meadow and Sam Raw.
Speaker 1: He is proteoced stand directed in Hollywood by Frank Parris
and stars John Damer as Paladin, with Ben Wright as
hey Boy and Virginia greg as Miss Wan. Tonight's story
was specially written for Have Gun, Will Travel.
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