Speaker 1: In all my life, I've only seen a dozen real killers,
Speaker 1: but I've seen ten thousand people who will sit back
Speaker 1: and let murder happen.
Speaker 2: Which is the greater evil?
Speaker 3: Have Gone, Will Travel, starring mister John Dayner as Paladin,
Speaker 3: San Francisco, eighteen seventy five, The Carlton Hotel, headquarters of
Speaker 3: the man called Paladin.
Speaker 4: Oh, good afternoon, mister Paladin.
Speaker 1: Good afternoon, mister Stanford. Pardon me, yes, you drop these
Speaker 1: by the desk.
Speaker 5: Oh, thank you very much.
Speaker 1: The glove that holds a lady's hand holds a world
Speaker 1: of prettiness. Really, Yes, my name is.
Speaker 5: I am not interested in your name. I don't wish
Speaker 5: to know it. I don't wish to know you, and
Speaker 5: if I did, this would not be the day, the hour,
Speaker 5: nor the place.
Speaker 2: I quite understand.
Speaker 1: Then, if you will kindly release my hand.
Speaker 2: M oh, of course.
Speaker 5: Again, thank you very much.
Speaker 1: M oh, pretty lady not too impressed with missel Paladin.
Speaker 1: We are all entitled to mistakes, hey boy, Oh, yes,
Speaker 1: but how often seldom the time, the place, and the
Speaker 1: loved one altogether?
Speaker 4: And upon may please telling God I've come for you.
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: Also, yes, why are back?
Speaker 2: Have gone? We'll travel.
Speaker 3: Crime, delinquency, threats of war. These are the subjects that
Speaker 3: dominate our use headlines these days. Not very pleasant subjects,
Speaker 3: are they. You may say that somebody ought to do
Speaker 3: something about cutting down on crime and delinquency and in
Speaker 3: promoting peace among nations, but that there's nothing you personally
Speaker 3: can do about it. That's where you're wrong. You can
Speaker 3: wait your own fight against crime and delinquency in your
Speaker 3: own family by taking the family to the church or
Speaker 3: synagogue of your faith this week. The inspiration and guidance
Speaker 3: you and they will receive from spiritual contact will strengthen
Speaker 3: moral background and faith. Regular attendance at religious services will
Speaker 3: help your family to work out its own problems and
Speaker 3: give them comfort in facing the tensions of our present
Speaker 3: day life. Worshiping together brings your family closer together too,
Speaker 3: and supporting your own religious institution provides funds to help
Speaker 3: those individuals and families who no one like you are
Speaker 3: unable to help themselves find the strength for your life.
Speaker 2: Worship together this week.
Speaker 1: In a way, I was sorry to leave San Francisco
Speaker 1: just as Christmas was coming on. The shop windows already frosted,
Speaker 1: were filled with all those wonderful surprises which seemed to
Speaker 1: appear only at the Christmas season, and there was an
Speaker 1: excitement in the eyes of passers by, young and old alike.
Speaker 1: In the air, there was a smell of cookies and
Speaker 1: cakes and candies. It was a good time to be
Speaker 1: in San Francisco, and yet the telegram from Colorado Territory
Speaker 1: left me little choice.
Speaker 2: It was a long trip and a cold one.
Speaker 1: As I got closer to my destination, I heard more
Speaker 1: about the man named Beecher, the man who had hired me,
Speaker 1: and I didn't like what I heard. Matt Beecher was
Speaker 1: a hard man, and he ran his cattle empire with
Speaker 1: an iron fist. It was the day before Christmas when
Speaker 1: I arrived.
Speaker 2: At the Beacher Wrench.
Speaker 1: You got business here, cowboy.
Speaker 2: I was told i'd find Matthew Beecher. Here. You found him.
Speaker 1: I pay you twenty five dollars a month.
Speaker 2: If I like your work.
Speaker 4: This is my foreman, Tater, he'll sign young Cadie.
Speaker 2: No, I didn't come here to hire on as a hand,
Speaker 2: mister Beecher. Oh what did you come for? Then? My
Speaker 2: name is Paladin.
Speaker 1: You may remember this have gun. We'll travel so well.
Speaker 1: You sent me a wire asking my help something about
Speaker 1: your boy. So I understand that he was carried off
Speaker 1: during the Sioux War six years ago.
Speaker 4: Well you're too late, mister.
Speaker 3: I got him back just a few days ago, mister Palladin.
Speaker 1: Oh, well, I'm glad everything worked out. It has Tater
Speaker 1: ride him out to the stage trail. He's going to
Speaker 1: start back now, mister Beacher, a long trip from San Francisco.
Speaker 1: I'll take travel expenses for my trouble.
Speaker 2: You'll get nothing.
Speaker 4: Put him off the rants theater.
Speaker 2: Mister Beecher, what.
Speaker 1: Does the boy speak any English? No, you don't. Why
Speaker 1: you speaking the Indian dialect? Now, well don't you want
Speaker 1: to talk to your your son? You speak the pony dialect?
Speaker 2: So all right, Tater take.
Speaker 1: Him up the main house. We'll talk about them.
Speaker 4: Expenses later, Yes, sir, come on, mister Paladin, maybe i'd
Speaker 4: better sit you straight about something.
Speaker 2: What's that?
Speaker 4: Well, we ain't too sure the boy is Matt Beecher's son.
Speaker 4: Well he seems sure enough. Yeah, well Matt sure of everything.
Speaker 4: He found a boy riding off from a small band
Speaker 4: of ponee three four days ago. Matt just says that's
Speaker 4: my boy and takes him.
Speaker 2: What do you think Teter.
Speaker 4: Well, he looks Indian to me. Of course, Robbie was
Speaker 4: only two when the Indians took him. That was when
Speaker 4: they killed Missus Beecher too, and Nette nearly finished matt
Speaker 4: off when they killed his wife. Teter, is that you, yep,
Speaker 4: mister Peldon. This here's my wife, Mordy Marty, mister Paladin.
Speaker 2: How's the boy to day?
Speaker 4: Mordy seems yes today in the day before as.
Speaker 2: He's sick, not hardly.
Speaker 4: It's just we got to keep an eye on him
Speaker 4: every minute or he'll squirt away. Boy, hey, boy, there
Speaker 4: he is, mister Palladin, about as wild as any animal.
Speaker 4: And I've ever seen poor little thing. Well, what do
Speaker 4: you think.
Speaker 1: About eight years old? I should think he could be white.
Speaker 1: Some of that grime were scraped off. It's hard to say.
Speaker 4: Hard to scrape it off too.
Speaker 2: Well, what's he say?
Speaker 1: I haven't talked to him yet, mister Bitcher, Well talk
Speaker 1: to him. I'm paying you going all out there. She
Speaker 1: she shown me.
Speaker 4: Come on, she was colt.
Speaker 2: Take a take. His name is Chia. His father is Kalat,
Speaker 2: chief of the ponies.
Speaker 1: You listen to me, boy, I'm your daddy. I'd sell
Speaker 1: my own soul. I'd give it away before I'd lose
Speaker 1: you again. He don't understand you, mister Beecher. He's gotta
Speaker 1: feel something. This strong lingo or no lingo? Now, boy,
Speaker 1: you listen to me.
Speaker 2: It's a matter with him.
Speaker 4: He's afraid of you, this peacher, mister Beacher, what do
Speaker 4: you want? It's jingles, mister Beecher, Indians pony?
Speaker 2: What about him? Earlier?
Speaker 4: Setting up camp where the will old Ronnie's merange?
Speaker 1: So they finally come for the boy. All right, Tayter,
Speaker 1: turn the man out. Make sure they all have rifles, Yester,
Speaker 1: I'll wait a minute. What before you start shooting? Why
Speaker 1: don't you find out for sure if this really is
Speaker 1: your boy?
Speaker 2: I told you before I know he's my boy.
Speaker 1: You want to believe that, but you aren't sure? All right, Paladin,
Speaker 1: say it out? What are you asking for? Time to
Speaker 1: talk with those pawnies. Well you go talk then, But
Speaker 1: I'll tell you one thing for sure, No matter what
Speaker 1: lies they give you, that boy's mind and if they
Speaker 1: try to come after him, they'll be the bloodiest massacre
Speaker 1: you ever seen.
Speaker 5: Mm hm.
Speaker 6: About lady bills turn correct, can't tell turn bet can't
Speaker 6: still turns bet. It makes good sense when you smoke,
Speaker 6: can't can't Bill turns best of all other brands. Love correct,
Speaker 6: can't taste the best, can't taste the best rats taste
Speaker 6: them all the rest.
Speaker 7: Can't tell best.
Speaker 4: It makes good thanks when you smoke, can't.
Speaker 6: All Lady Bill basy correct can't turn.
Speaker 1: I rode out to the pawny camp, knowing I had
Speaker 1: little time and less chance to stop a needless killing.
Speaker 1: There were squaws, braves sitting wandering. There were a hungry
Speaker 1: people and a lost people. At a tattered teepee, I
Speaker 1: found klate chief of the ponies. Callati was once man
Speaker 1: who greeted white man like brother. Now he wonders, hungry, forgotten,
Speaker 1: like the gray wolf. I'm sorry, I I wondered why
Speaker 1: Carlatte was on this trail white man, steel children. Carlatte
Speaker 1: will agree. A man may claim his own son.
Speaker 2: She my shan. Is he white? She wore my shan?
Speaker 2: I ask again? Is he white? Skin? Is leather bag?
Speaker 3: God made to hold the soul color of bag. No
Speaker 3: matter he was traded from the shoe. Our blood has mixed,
Speaker 3: but his is white.
Speaker 2: He is my son.
Speaker 1: I take him back, Klat if you take the boy.
Speaker 1: They'll be killing this white man has many rifles?
Speaker 3: Can rifles kill what has been killed already? Look at
Speaker 3: my camp when there is no game. My people starve.
Speaker 3: We are driven from land, and winter is here, but
Speaker 3: we move no more.
Speaker 2: We stay here. Soon we take my son.
Speaker 4: Hello, money, paladin.
Speaker 2: Oh what's going on inside?
Speaker 4: Oh? Everyone's shining up green. We're going to celebrate Christmas,
Speaker 4: mister Beecher too.
Speaker 2: Mister Beecher, well, I know you.
Speaker 4: Won't believe it, but Taylor did the trick, says to
Speaker 4: mister Beacher. Maybe the boy remember Christmas?
Speaker 3: And I ain't that a good one?
Speaker 4: Indian boy bringing us Christmas? First time has mister Beacher
Speaker 4: lost his wife? Oh gotta ex find some more messy
Speaker 4: for decorating. We're gonna have say it and.
Speaker 1: Eaton and everything sounds fine.
Speaker 2: Marien.
Speaker 4: Well, Paladina, you see the chief.
Speaker 2: I talked to him. What do you say he's your son?
Speaker 2: I told you he was.
Speaker 1: You tell them engines to get their squaws and their
Speaker 1: tents off my property?
Speaker 2: No, why not? You want them all killed? I want
Speaker 2: you to understand.
Speaker 1: The chief Kalada feels that the boy is his son too,
Speaker 1: and he feels it very strongly. If you talked to him,
Speaker 1: I'd be glad to act as interpreter.
Speaker 4: The only way I'll talk to him, him and his
Speaker 4: flea bitting.
Speaker 2: Braves is with rifle fire.
Speaker 1: Listen, Bitcher, Chief Kalatt is the only father the boy
Speaker 1: has ever known. You kill him? How are you gonna
Speaker 1: explain that to the boy?
Speaker 2: You speak funny, you can explain it.
Speaker 1: You're wrong, mister Beacher. Yeah, I couldn't explain that in
Speaker 1: any language.
Speaker 4: Teter, I said, ration, it's not all these fancy videos. Well,
Speaker 4: it's Christmas, mister Beecher Hallock. Listen to me, all of you. Listen.
Speaker 1: If one calf wanders off tonight, we work double tomorrow,
Speaker 1: even if it is Christmas Day.
Speaker 4: All right, boys, Sider's sitting over there, just a waiting.
Speaker 4: You can't get no starters. Get the boy's gone. They
Speaker 4: go and tell him.
Speaker 2: Why was it?
Speaker 4: The pawnees took him? Yes, there, you knew about this, Paladin.
Speaker 1: I thought they'd try, but nots as soon get your rifles.
Speaker 1: Not just wait a minute, you're always reaching for a rifle.
Speaker 2: There's no need for rifles. No hurry.
Speaker 1: The pawnees aren't going anywhere. They're tired of running preaching
Speaker 1: from a gunslinger. You've just been aking to speak a
Speaker 1: peace won't speak at paladin, pup, don't mean nothing, see.
Speaker 4: Anything you want. I'll still have a last say.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm far from being a preacher, but I do
Speaker 1: know something about killing. Now, these Indians, rightly or wrongly,
Speaker 1: believe the boy is theirs. A few people love children,
Speaker 1: like the Pawnees. The chief kalat Him might have given
Speaker 1: up the boy. You know, as a wealthy rancher could
Speaker 1: give the boy more than a starving Indian could, and
Speaker 1: they're starving properly treated. He still might give up the boy.
Speaker 1: On the other hand, these Pawnees can't run anymore. They're tired,
Speaker 1: but they would rather die here tonight then give up
Speaker 1: the child to force. It won't be hard to massacre them.
Speaker 1: They have no guns. All you have to do is stay.
Speaker 2: Out of arrow range.
Speaker 1: Those the only wound, well, someone will have to press
Speaker 1: a muscle against their heads and pull a trigger. Now,
Speaker 1: this is no Christmas message. I haven't even suggested that
Speaker 1: to a starving man, food may carry more weight than rifles.
Speaker 1: As mister Beecher can tell you, sentiments like peace, my
Speaker 1: goodwill and love and brotherhood. They're just words unless you
Speaker 1: already know what they mean. And if you don't, even
Speaker 1: if this were a chapel and I were a preacher,
Speaker 1: such words would do no good.
Speaker 4: I ain't got much to say.
Speaker 1: We're going out to kill some engines, one engine in particular.
Speaker 4: Anybody that wants can stay here in Troy's.
Speaker 7: Time if you think you can find another job.
Speaker 1: Those who ain't gone with me speaker right now. Eh,
Speaker 1: that's the story since the beginning, mister.
Speaker 7: Fallandin the belly always wins out, my dear Watson.
Speaker 3: With all due respect to Sherlock Holmes, let us establish
Speaker 3: one fact clearly, there is nothing elementary about the shrewd
Speaker 3: deductions Eric Severide makes as he analyzes world affairs on
Speaker 3: CBS Radio. As Chief Washington correspondent for CBS News, Mister
Speaker 3: Severard has opened to him almost every possible source of information.
Speaker 3: Experience has sharpened his perspective and given him an extraordinary
Speaker 3: working knowledge of the forces that make history. It's taught
Speaker 3: him to view each new development in terms of cause
Speaker 3: and effect. Each Monday through Friday night, as you'll join
Speaker 3: Eric Severid on most of these same stations, you'll find
Speaker 3: his news analysis remarkably free of snap judgments and predetermined conclusions.
Speaker 3: You'll discover too, that he is carefully considered. Appraisals of
Speaker 3: the news not only contain real clues as to what
Speaker 3: is going on in the world, but also they make
Speaker 3: the news as exciting as any Arthur Conan Doyle story.
Speaker 1: As Beacher's men spilled out of the doorway of the
Speaker 1: main house to change clothes and get their rifles, I
Speaker 1: slipped out the backway and taking the first horse I saw,
Speaker 1: headed for the Indian camp. Somehow I had to keep
Speaker 1: Matt Beecher from starting a bloodbath. He might not be
Speaker 1: able to stop. Even as Klati and I talked, I
Speaker 1: knew there.
Speaker 2: Were horses moving.
Speaker 1: In the darkness beyond the Indian's fires, Beachers horses.
Speaker 3: You are wise, man, my son, but we stay. A
Speaker 3: man without a gun still might run no place to run.
Speaker 3: I have forgotten how to kill, but not how to die.
Speaker 2: But what good does it do the boy? Could he
Speaker 2: take another father? After this we got the cat surrounded.
Speaker 2: You want to explain that to the chief prom he
Speaker 2: knows it.
Speaker 4: You gotta stand with them and stay with your own people.
Speaker 4: I ask you a question I heard you.
Speaker 5: Here, Hold up, cater.
Speaker 2: Hold the power boys. That's Morty. Women.
Speaker 4: What are they doing here?
Speaker 2: Mister over here, Mordy, we.
Speaker 4: Got boos things for them Indians. But fifteen or twenty
Speaker 4: of us is all right to come in there.
Speaker 2: It's the most all right thing in the world. Mordy.
Speaker 4: Come on, all right, lady, it's get it.
Speaker 1: What is Call your squaws, chief, call your children, call
Speaker 1: the boy. They're bringing food and gifts.
Speaker 2: You have people pure all hold on.
Speaker 4: Well, they don't very friendly, mister Paladin.
Speaker 2: I guess you don't look very friendly to them.
Speaker 3: What do we say? Oh?
Speaker 1: I'd suggest you try and merry Christmas?
Speaker 4: Merry Christmas, Chris Marty.
Speaker 2: This is Calatti. He is the chief of the pawonyer.
Speaker 2: How do you do? Oh?
Speaker 4: I am well, I only got one pair of hands.
Speaker 2: Here, you take this basket. Hold on, Mody, I'm with you.
Speaker 1: Hello, Tayter, Hello, mister Paladin.
Speaker 2: Coming to mister Paladine.
Speaker 4: Well, Pete, and what Beecher's doing is wrong, and I
Speaker 4: don't care if I do get fired.
Speaker 1: Well, look, mister Paladin, all the men are coming in.
Speaker 4: Why Morty, you ain't wort dressed for right timate?
Speaker 2: Change you sure, don't have.
Speaker 1: Well, Chief, there will be no blood letting tonight. Where's
Speaker 1: that's right? They call it Christmas. It's a it's a
Speaker 1: time of the year when people pretend there is no
Speaker 1: evil in the world. I like everybody likes. What about
Speaker 1: the boy chief. His name is Robbie Beacher, his skin
Speaker 1: is white, My boy, his boy Chief. You can return
Speaker 1: the seed to the plant that wore it. He can't
Speaker 1: take it, nor can I, nor can anyone.
Speaker 2: I talk to boy. I'll talk to his father.
Speaker 4: All it, Paladin?
Speaker 1: Right there, he'll give you the boy Beacher. Why you
Speaker 1: can take him home tonight.
Speaker 2: The Chief is.
Speaker 1: Talking to him now, telling him that you're his father.
Speaker 1: I'll kill you, Paladin.
Speaker 4: If this is some kind of way of getting back
Speaker 4: at me, when do I get my boy?
Speaker 1: I haven't been paid yet, thousand dollars cash.
Speaker 2: I haven't got it with me. When can you happen? Maura?
Speaker 1: Then give it to the chief so we can buy
Speaker 1: some land for himself and his people.
Speaker 4: But I'll do better than that. I'll give him some land.
Speaker 4: I feel like I should give something.
Speaker 2: It's a good feeling, isn't it. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 2: he did.
Speaker 1: Merry Christmas mister d che.
Speaker 4: Merry Christmas, mister quality, whoa he saw a holiday?
Speaker 1: Good afternoon, Hey boy, when you come back last night late?
Speaker 2: Oh excuse me? Wo? Wait, not her? You met her once?
Speaker 2: Remember I remember? He's always dropping her glove.
Speaker 4: Oh, too bad, the trouble.
Speaker 2: I bet your pardon. You dropped your glove?
Speaker 5: Oh still I did?
Speaker 2: May I pick it up?
Speaker 4: You may?
Speaker 2: Thank you?
Speaker 1: Allow me to introduce myself, well, please do. My name
Speaker 1: is Paladin. My name is Eugenie Meyer.
Speaker 2: Mister Paladin, there's a princess named Eugenie.
Speaker 1: I'd rather hear about that glove.
Speaker 5: Behold the lady's hand holds a world of prettiness. Yes,
Speaker 5: I like that beginning better?
Speaker 1: Is there more?
Speaker 2: Oh, there's a great deal more, I assure you. But
Speaker 2: one question?
Speaker 1: Why the change of heart? Well it's it's.
Speaker 5: More a change of mind.
Speaker 1: The change of heart can come later. But why you
Speaker 1: are very confident in your rejection the last time we met, Well.
Speaker 5: You were very confident of yourself, mister Paladin. Christmas seems
Speaker 5: to have humbled.
Speaker 4: You and me.
Speaker 2: Then we're both very fortunate. Now we can meet. Yes,
Speaker 2: have gone will travel?
Speaker 3: Created by Herb Meadow and Sam raw Is produced and
Speaker 3: directed by Norman McDonnell and stars John Dayner as Paladin
Speaker 3: with Ben Wright as hey Boy. Tonight's story was written
Speaker 3: by Jean Roddenberry and adapted for radio by John Dawson.
Speaker 3: Featured in the cast were Vick Perrin, Jess Kirk, Patrick,
Speaker 3: Roy Woods, Richard Bills and Morrison, and Virginia Christine Hugh
Speaker 3: Douglas speaking.
Speaker 2: Join us again next week for Have Gone We'll Travel.
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