Speaker 1: There are a lot of people who are right to
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Speaker 2: A man called Paladin. Hey boy, Oh he's a parody.
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Speaker 3: Think you up in room playing chess? Why are you
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Speaker 2: I'm waiting for my carriage.
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been there before. I'll let you know when I get back.
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Stokes had asked me to come to alder Ben. He
hadn't disclosed the nature of my assignment, but since he
had offered me one thousand dollars, I thought the least
I could do was make the trip.
Speaker 2: It was early in the morning.
Speaker 1: And the main street was empty as I rode through
to the Livery stable at the far end of town.
Just outside the stable door was a giant of a
man standing with his feet apart and his huge body
braced as he methodically lashed out with a whip at
a thoroughbred bay tied to the hitch rack. I dismounted
and hurried toward him. Stop that, what do you think
you're doing?
Speaker 2: Ice had you stopping? Lemme cluk you whoever you are.
I don't take to no one appeared in my business.
I don't take anyone beating a horse. This horse and
me are gonna get along. Geest fine as soon as
he learns who is you? Raised that which? Once more
and I'll use nobody talks to me like that, I'll
raise it.
Speaker 1: No, you don't just give me that to me?
Speaker 2: Now, I suppose you just move on. You're new here, mister.
What's that got to do with? This is my town.
Speaker 4: Nobody pushes me around.
Speaker 2: I wasn't planning to stay too long if I was you. Hey, mister,
you know who that is.
Speaker 4: I don't much care that there's Irish Stokes, Iris Stokes.
Speaker 2: Mh you wanna board your horse? Are you gonna be
here long? Well?
Speaker 1: Under the circumstances, I don't think so. Even before I
received my assignment, it appeared that my business and all
her ben was finished. However, I felt an obligation, or
maybe just a curiosity, to show up at the Stokes
ranch at the appointed time. Just inside the main gate
there was a very pretty woman working in a flower bed.
She glanced up at me as I rode by. I
told her I was looking for Iras Stokes, and without speaking,
she pointed towards the barn and quickly turned away. I
rode on through the grounds. Who, mister Stokes, how are
you doing here? You sent for me?
Speaker 4: What are you talking about? My name is Paladin, your palette?
You had a job for me. Well, you ain't the
man for the job.
Speaker 2: Yup, you may be right.
Speaker 4: I second thought, maybe you art that. I don't want
to hold a grudge if a man's useful to me.
And what's the job I got a man I want
you to kill. I'm not a hired killer worth a
thousand dollars to me if a certain man wasn't in
my way anymore?
Speaker 2: Sorry? Two thousand not interested? Three oh, govern man's got
his price? What's yours?
Speaker 4: Mister Stokes? Why is it worth three thousand dollars to
you to have a man killed? My method method in
one way to tame a horse, or a woman or
a town.
Speaker 2: Let him know whose boss? And this works. It never fails.
Speaker 4: And I've got my horses and my woman pretty well
in line, and excepting for one man, I could have
this town where it should be.
Speaker 2: But since this man won't get smart.
Speaker 4: I got to get rid of him.
Speaker 2: Now you take a job.
Speaker 4: Nope, I'm not a hired killer, mister Stokes.
Speaker 2: Ooh, good day man, Thank you for your directions.
Speaker 5: I are you, mister Paladin?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 5: Is he where he can see me?
Speaker 2: No? No, he's on the other side of the barn.
Speaker 5: I'm lea Stokes, mister Peladin, don't do it.
Speaker 2: Don't do one kill Carl Well. I have no intention
of killing anyone. But who is Karl Carl Nielsen is?
Speaker 1: See?
Speaker 5: I know that's why my husband sent for you.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, I didn't accept this proposition, Missus Stokes.
Speaker 2: Oh oh that's good, Carl decent.
Speaker 5: Oh you must excuse me, mister Peladin. I mustn't see
me talking to you.
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Speaker 4: Rat makes the very best.
Speaker 2: Have a real cigaret, have a camel.
Speaker 3: How you're looking for flavor.
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Speaker 2: The best tobacco makes the very best mol.
Speaker 4: Have a real cigarette, a real cigarettor a real cigaret.
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Speaker 2: The best tobacco makes the best smoke.
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Speaker 1: Apparently Leah Stokes had learned who was boss and could
more than likely learn it the hard way. I rode
back into all that Bend and I felt very sorry
for the town that, except for one man, was ready
to knuckle under to Irish Stokes.
Speaker 2: And I wish that.
Speaker 1: One man, wherever he was, a long and abundant life.
As I started into my hotel, I noticed an office
building directly across the street. The lettering on the window
read Carl Neilson, Attorney at law. I decided to pay
him a visit. Uh you, mister Nielsen, Yes, sir, what
can I do for you? My name is Paladin. Sit down,
thank you? Eh, my card have gun, will travel, Thank
you very much.
Speaker 2: I don't need any right now.
Speaker 1: No, no, I'm not soliciting in business. I have a job,
and that is there's a job I could have if
I wanted it. Oh, yes, I could make three thousand dollars.
It sounds like a good All I'd have to do
is kill you. I see, Iras Stokes. You don't seem
too surprised.
Speaker 4: No, I somehow felt this was his next move. What's
behind this, mister Nielsen?
Speaker 6: Yeah, Iirah had a pretty good thing going until I
set up shop here.
Speaker 2: Oh, Older Bend has gone through a real.
Speaker 6: Tough period since the bottom fell out of the cattle market.
Speaker 2: Most people have barely managed to hang on.
Speaker 6: But once that railroad gets through, it's going to be different.
Property around here is gonna be worth something.
Speaker 2: Yes, I have seen it happen.
Speaker 6: Stokes was grabbing up every piece of land he could
lay his dirty hands to, and most of it he
fleeced from the people with one crooked trick or another.
Speaker 2: How could he get away with them? These ranchers don't
have business heads. They don't know their rights. Never read
the fine print.
Speaker 6: Well, I've been reading it for them, giving free legal
advice to anybody.
Speaker 2: Who wants it. Well, what do you get out of it?
Just one thing, satisfaction. I was raised in Older Bend.
Speaker 6: The towns a better shake than it had gad If
Stokes had the control he's after.
Speaker 2: Well, Niels and.
Speaker 1: I am leaving in the morning. Maybe the next man
who comes along will need three thousand dollars more than
I do, so watch it, Thanks Paladin. After dinner, I
tried the one saloon open in town. There were two
old men at a table in the far corner playing
a game of cribbage.
Speaker 2: I was the only other customer.
Speaker 1: I had a beer, went back to my hotel, but
I couldn't sleep, so I read a copy of Pilgrim's
Progress somebody had left on the bedstand.
Speaker 2: Then I paced the room, looked out of the window.
Speaker 1: Tom was silent, dark except for the one light that
shone from Nielsen's office, and I decided to go see him.
As I started across the street, I heard a shot,
muffled and indistinct, and then I saw the crouched figure
of a man run into the blackness between the buildings.
Here you stop, stop, I say, ah.
Speaker 7: Nielsen, Nielsen, Carl, Oh.
Speaker 1: Hey, what's going on in there? Mister Nielsen? He's been shot? Hey,
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had awakened the town, but there was no time for explanations.
I felt sure that when i'd fired, i'd hit the man,
but he kept on going. I took note of his
direction and knew was time on my side I could
hit him off, So I ran to the livery. The
stable hand was asleep on a cot in the corner.
Speaker 2: Hey you, hey, come on, wake up? What's that? Come on?
Speaker 1: Come on, come on, I need my horse huh, my horse, hurry,
I have to get out of here.
Speaker 2: God wants somewhere. Come on, I'm here here he is
this stall? Now where do you hang my saddle? You
just move?
Speaker 1: There's been a shooting. I don't have any time to
waste shooting. Just get my bridle down, will you? But says, oh,
never mind, all right, now you get my sidle and hurry,
will you?
Speaker 2: My boy? Keep your head down? All right, you're covered,
so don't give us no trouble. Sheriff.
Speaker 6: This man come in here waking me up, talking about
a shooting, and like how he has to get out fast?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, Charlie, stand back.
Speaker 6: We got him now, all right, stranger, just get them
hands out and don't try anything.
Speaker 2: Say, what's the matter with you?
Speaker 1: Don't you realize that Nielsen's been shot here? We know,
but the man who shot him will get away.
Speaker 6: No, he won't. We got him and we got him
really good. Come on, let's have that gun you'd done
the dirty work with now, look sheriff, let's go. Here's
your breakfast, thank you, Uh, sheriff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to talk to you. What about you
got the wrong man locked up?
Speaker 6: Look, stranger, I've been in this business thirty years. If
I had a nickel for every time somebody behind them
bars had told me that I'd be a rich man.
Speaker 2: But what are you charging me with? Well, it's liable
to be murdered. How's Nielsen? He ain't good? He must
have seen the man who shot him. He could clear me.
Speaker 6: Yes, and ain't talking to you right now. And it's
a chancy thing. Whoever he ever talks again.
Speaker 1: Sheriff, the man who shot Nielsen has my bullet in him.
I could have trailed him last night.
Speaker 6: We caught you, did the rights, you shot him, and
your getaway didn't work out. People like you Wallis crossed
themselves up sooner or later. So why don't you just
shut up and take what's coming to you done?
Speaker 2: Just what is that? Oh, we'll allow you all your
rights by law.
Speaker 6: Circuit judge due to show up here another month or two,
another month and we'll get up a jury. People here
in town. The one thing you might as well know,
Carl was born and raised here. An alder Bend is
mighty proud of him.
Speaker 2: Folks.
Speaker 6: Ain't going to show much mercy to anybody that did
him harm.
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that Nielsen would clear me. But three days past and
he still hadn't regained consciousness. My cell at a high
barred window, and by standing on my cut I could
observe what went on outside.
Speaker 2: What I saw was disturbing.
Speaker 1: News of the shooting had spread, all their ben had
come to life. The street was filled with men in groups, talking,
building up hate. I'd seen it before when I was
on the other side.
Speaker 2: Of the bars.
Speaker 6: Al yeah, regardless of how I feel about things personally,
I got my job to do here.
Speaker 2: I don't like what's going on out there. Well, I
don't care for it myself.
Speaker 6: When men start working themselves up into a lyncheon and
only takes one little thing to.
Speaker 2: Trigger him, I know that. Jeruff, oh, Leah in here, jariff,
I want to talk to you, Well, all right, we're
going to my office.
Speaker 5: You no, I want to talk to mister Paladin.
Speaker 1: Too, missus Stokes. I want you to know that I
did not shoot Carl Neilsen.
Speaker 5: I know you didn't shoo him, mister Paladin. Three days
I've been knowing this, knowing mister Paladin was in jail
for something he didn't do, knowing Carl Nielsen might die,
hating myself or keeping quiet but still afraid. Then this
morning I wrote, well, suddenly.
Speaker 2: I've just had enough.
Speaker 5: Suddenly I'm not afraid anymore.
Speaker 2: What an't you trying to say? Leah?
Speaker 5: Three nights ago, Ira came home with a bullet wound
on his shoulder. He told me what he'd done, and
I guess he was so sure of me, so sure
I was too afraid of him. Do you ever say anything, Sheriff,
my husband shot Carl Neilsen. Irah, Yes, And I've told
all those men out there, and now I'm telling you
Iras Tookes had bullied all of us long enough. I
guess you'd better go out to the ranch and arrest him.
Speaker 2: Well, Leah, get busy with those key, Sheriff.
Speaker 1: If you're going to arrest Stokes, I want to be there, Hey, Sheriff,
looked like the whole seventh Cavalry was following us.
Speaker 2: Out of town.
Speaker 6: Back there, all citizens of these parts.
Speaker 2: I had to discourage you, some trailing us all the way.
They felt like you. If I was going to arrest Stokes,
they wanted to see it. I guess the town has
had enough of Ira too.
Speaker 6: Yeah, eh, Well, might as well check the house first.
Speaker 2: He's either here in the barn. What's that? I don't know.
It sounds like Stokes over there by the corral.
Speaker 1: Come on, let's go, But that horse is stomping him.
Speaker 2: Sheriff, I'll get the horse away. You drag him out,
all right, don't tell easy boy who you boy?
Speaker 8: Easy boy, easy boy, sheriff.
Speaker 2: Stomped him to death.
Speaker 4: Looks like that they had enough of iral too.
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Will Travel.
Speaker 1: Created by Herb Metow and Sam Rod, is produced and
directed in Hollywood, by Frank Parris and stars John Dayner
as Kaladin, with Ben Wright as hey Boy and Virginia
greg as Miss Won. Tonight's story, especially written for Half
Gun Will Travel by and Dow featured in the cast
for Anne Morrison, Lawrence Stotkin, Tim Graham, Herb Bigrin, and Victaren.
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