Speaker 1: You came to me with a torch and a gun.
Speaker 1: You call it righteousness. Call it by its right name, Murder,
Speaker 1: Have Gun, Will Travel, starring mister John Dayner as Paladin,
Speaker 1: San Francisco, eighteen seventy five, The Carlton Hotel, headquarters of
Speaker 1: the man called Paladin.
Speaker 2: Come in, wholl clean socks, mister Paladin, A keen socks
Speaker 2: for a trip, very importan Oh.
Speaker 1: Yes, snaker, hey boy, just put them in the bag.
Speaker 2: There, yesa oh bottle of Brandi and.
Speaker 1: Bag toos for the trip. Very important for snake bite. Correct,
Speaker 1: no snakes in Nevada Territory this time of year? Why not?
Speaker 1: Too cold?
Speaker 3: Ah?
Speaker 1: Maybe brandy for other purpose like a drinking maybe. Oh,
Speaker 1: maybe to give lady name Cleo to uh mick one.
Speaker 1: The lady named Cleo has hired me to do a job,
Speaker 1: that's all. She wants me to find her husband, and
Speaker 1: she's playing me very well. Hey boy, you know what
Speaker 1: you are?
Speaker 4: No what I are?
Speaker 1: Half th andnirdle. I think yes, Now carry this down
Speaker 1: to the lobby for me. I'm ready to leave the
Speaker 1: comforts of the Carton Hotel and head for the wiles
Speaker 1: of Nevada. I'll think Nedle. Do you see speed laws
Speaker 1: and other regulations as restrict or do you look upon
Speaker 1: them as protective? When a police officer writes a summons
Speaker 1: for traffic violations, do you see him as an enemy
Speaker 1: or a friend? Your life may depend on your attitudes.
Speaker 1: Statistics clearly indicate that where laws are obeyed, deaths go down.
Speaker 1: It's no secret that emotional immaturity is the major factor
Speaker 1: in our accident rate. How else but childish can you
Speaker 1: describe the notion that breaking a traffic regulation is a
Speaker 1: way of getting away with something. What could be more
Speaker 1: infantile than believing one can prove his superiority by ignoring
Speaker 1: a stoplight. Unfortunately, too many drivers on the road subscribe
Speaker 1: to that kind of emotional outlook. The result is tragic.
Speaker 1: Almost eighty five percent of all traffic accidents in America
Speaker 1: are caused by careless, childish driving. We hope you know
Speaker 1: our traffic laws and the people who enforce them are
Speaker 1: there to help save your life. The lady named Kleil,
Speaker 1: whom I had traveled over a thousand miles to help,
Speaker 1: turned out to be a fat shrew of fifty, and
Speaker 1: her desperate need of me was to find a husband
Speaker 1: who had understandably tried to blot out his memory of
Speaker 1: her with drink. By the time I found him, he
Speaker 1: done pretty well. I figured they deserved each other, so
Speaker 1: I brought him back memory and all. But I was
Speaker 1: left in the middle of the Nevada Desert, miles from
Speaker 1: the railroad. I had been riding for a full day
Speaker 1: when I heard a strange sound in the desert stillness,
Speaker 1: or at least a strange sound for that lonesome place.
Speaker 1: It was a baby's cry. And then I saw the wagon.
Speaker 1: It sat alone, without horses, forlorn in the sand, no
Speaker 1: sign of life except the sound. I dismounted and walked
Speaker 1: toward the wagon.
Speaker 4: Get away from that flagon.
Speaker 1: Oh, I thought I was deserted.
Speaker 3: Move away, mister, while you still trammed?
Speaker 1: Is this all right?
Speaker 3: Get on your horse and ride on?
Speaker 1: Are you alone here?
Speaker 3: That don't matter?
Speaker 1: A woman can't last out here by herself? Where is
Speaker 1: your man?
Speaker 3: Clear up? Mister?
Speaker 1: What's that you've been digging?
Speaker 3: It don't concern you?
Speaker 1: Is it a grave? Who's it for the baby?
Speaker 5: And me? O?
Speaker 1: Look, I don't know what this is all about, But
Speaker 1: won't you let me help you?
Speaker 5: You can't help us none, I can try.
Speaker 3: You ain't a doctor, are you?
Speaker 1: No? I'm not move on? Then, what's wrong with the baby?
Speaker 3: Hypoid? Hyphoid fever?
Speaker 1: Well? Maybe I couldn't.
Speaker 4: Asked, mister. I'd just as soon shoot you dead, as
Speaker 4: know you've got a killing fever from us.
Speaker 1: But you just can't stay out here, and.
Speaker 3: I ain't got the strength to dig another grave?
Speaker 1: Has a doctor senior? Baby here? No, but then you
Speaker 1: can't be sure it's typhoid.
Speaker 4: Mister mulrooney knows who Mulrooney, the wagon master, He knows
Speaker 4: the symptoms, and.
Speaker 1: He just cut you loose, left you out here to die.
Speaker 4: He said it was either the baby and me or
Speaker 4: the whole wagon train are descending?
Speaker 1: Help?
Speaker 3: What can they do?
Speaker 1: And there's a settlement less than a day's ride from here.
Speaker 1: We'll hitch my horse to the wagon.
Speaker 4: Now they won't let us in. The wagon train's thereby.
Speaker 4: Now they don't know about the typhoid. They'll never let
Speaker 4: us in.
Speaker 5: Not now.
Speaker 1: Uh. Look, there's fresh water and food in my saddle
Speaker 1: bag enough to hold it like that black. Where are
Speaker 1: you going to get help?
Speaker 5: Mister?
Speaker 4: You don't have to do this.
Speaker 1: Let's just say I want to pardon me, ma'am. Yes,
Speaker 1: they said at the store, i'd find a doctor at
Speaker 1: this house.
Speaker 3: Yes, that's right.
Speaker 1: My name is Paladin. I'd like to speak of the
Speaker 1: doctor if I may.
Speaker 6: You are, mister Paladin. You're the doctor, doctor Philipsachary. How
Speaker 6: do you do didn't they tell you down.
Speaker 3: At the store.
Speaker 1: Well, there were some looks.
Speaker 6: I guess people out here haven't got used to the
Speaker 6: idea of a woman doctor. Most of them won't even
Speaker 6: believe I am a doctor? Are you My diploma is
Speaker 6: inside if you care to look.
Speaker 1: Oh, well, no, no, I'm not the patient.
Speaker 3: Who is there?
Speaker 1: A woman and her baby that's wrong with them? The
Speaker 1: baby might have typhoid fever, might have well I'm not sure.
Speaker 3: Where are they.
Speaker 1: They're lying in a wagon and day's ride from here.
Speaker 1: I see it's a long ride.
Speaker 3: You'll find my horse in the stable. By the time
Speaker 3: you have him saddled, I'll be ready to go.
Speaker 1: You're quite a woman.
Speaker 3: I'm a doctor, mister Palladin.
Speaker 1: What a minute?
Speaker 3: Oh, it looks like a delegation. Doesn't it just matter
Speaker 3: you too? I got something to say, Yes, mister David.
Speaker 7: Mister you didn't tell us those people had tie forth fever.
Speaker 1: No I didn't. Who did? I did? My name is
Speaker 1: Jeremiah Malrooney. Well now I'm a rooney. You don't look
Speaker 1: like a murderer. Why you sentenced that woman and her
Speaker 1: baby to die when you left them out in the
Speaker 1: desert had disease. You've done nothing to help them.
Speaker 7: Love, mister tie Forwards a terrible thing. It's not the
Speaker 7: fool wrong with. We don't want it here.
Speaker 5: He that touches pitch shall be defiled forthwith.
Speaker 1: You've consorted with the disease. The fever is upon you too,
Speaker 1: so you'd better make tracks.
Speaker 3: Mister, mister Davis, he's not even sure it is typhoid.
Speaker 1: I'm sure I saw it. You're not qualified to say.
Speaker 1: And who says.
Speaker 5: She's Are you going out there with this man and missus?
Speaker 3: Of course, mister Davis, I'm a doctor, all right, that's
Speaker 3: up to you.
Speaker 1: But once you mix with a fever, you're not welcome
Speaker 1: back here. And don't try bringing those fever patients back
Speaker 1: here either. If we have to bring them back, we
Speaker 1: will look.
Speaker 7: We got folks to protect children of our own, and
Speaker 7: we'll shoot you down if we have to keep them safe.
Speaker 3: They mean what they say.
Speaker 8: You're ready to go, I'm ready.
Speaker 3: Can still turn best?
Speaker 1: It makes good sense when.
Speaker 3: You smoke, can can still turns best?
Speaker 8: All other friends of correct can't taste the best, can
Speaker 8: taste the best orange taste, Then all.
Speaker 3: The rest can't still her be.
Speaker 1: It makes good than when you smoke.
Speaker 3: Can a baldy bill by correct can still.
Speaker 1: Tur I guess perhaps I wasn't used to the idea
Speaker 1: of a woman doctor myself, especially when it's pretty as philosop.
Speaker 1: She rode beside me through the desert all night, without rest,
Speaker 1: without complaint. Now it was just after sunrise.
Speaker 3: Maybe I should have brought something to saddle, so you.
Speaker 1: Want to rest?
Speaker 3: I want to get to that baby.
Speaker 1: Shouldn't be long now good? You know you should be
Speaker 1: on a velvet settee, wearing a hoop skirt and fluttering
Speaker 1: your eyelash over a fan.
Speaker 3: I tried that it was too easy.
Speaker 1: Is that why you studied? Medicine? Was hard?
Speaker 3: Maybe something like that.
Speaker 1: Wasn't it tough enough practicing back east?
Speaker 6: I guess I'm as much missionary as physician. I was
Speaker 6: the second woman to graduate from my medical school. Others
Speaker 6: came after me.
Speaker 3: It was difficult for.
Speaker 4: All of us.
Speaker 6: But gradually we're becoming accepted as something better than freak.
Speaker 1: You're not accepted yet. You just got one out of town.
Speaker 3: Maybe I'm not the missionary I think I am, or
Speaker 3: the doctor.
Speaker 1: Well we'll see. Here's the wagon up ahead.
Speaker 3: I don't see anybody, neither do I money?
Speaker 1: Who knows? They're in there? All right? Both sleeping?
Speaker 3: I hope that's what it is.
Speaker 1: Is there anything I can do?
Speaker 3: Help me up there? And cross your fingers?
Speaker 1: Doctor? Coffee ready, it smells good. The food will be
Speaker 1: ready in a minute. Here.
Speaker 3: Thanks.
Speaker 1: How are they?
Speaker 3: The mother suffering from exhaustion, expose your nerves? No sleep?
Speaker 1: The baby typhoid?
Speaker 3: Well maybe I don't know yet.
Speaker 1: Marooney knows all the symptoms, so do I.
Speaker 3: High fever, red spots, delirium, and a coma that leads
Speaker 3: to the crisis. The baby has all of them.
Speaker 6: Still, it could be something else, But whatever it is,
Speaker 6: I can't do much for in this wilderness.
Speaker 1: You want to take them back to town?
Speaker 3: Yes you know what that means.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's necessary medically. Yes, I'll hitched the horses to
Speaker 1: the wagon.
Speaker 3: Mister Paladin, you don't have to come with me.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't miss it. There's something about that Maroney's face
Speaker 1: I didn't like. All right, stop that wagon right there,
Speaker 1: don't come no.
Speaker 3: Dah, they have guns.
Speaker 1: I'm going to try to talk some sense into their heads. Here,
Speaker 1: hold the reins, stand right there, no closer. Doctor Thackeray
Speaker 1: has examined the woman and child. The woman has no
Speaker 1: signs of typho. The child is disease. The doctor isn't
Speaker 1: sure that baby has typhoon. I'm sure that baby needs treatment. Now,
Speaker 1: mister Davis, you're a sensible man. Are you going to
Speaker 1: let Marooney sentence a woman and child to death.
Speaker 5: We'll bring what you need out here, but you ain't
Speaker 5: bringing them into town.
Speaker 1: They'll be completely isolated in the doctor's office talent, and
Speaker 1: they're sick, and we can't take the chance. We're got
Speaker 1: it protective. They're not as sick as your people. Now,
Speaker 1: you may be able to keep them out of the settlement,
Speaker 1: but you'll carry your own sickness with you wherever you go.
Speaker 1: You'll die again. Every time you see a baby smile,
Speaker 1: God our own kids to think about. How do your
Speaker 1: children cry when they're sick any different from that baby?
Speaker 1: Suppose it was your child crying like that? Would you
Speaker 1: send it to the desert to die. Now, listen to me,
Speaker 1: all of you. I'm driving that right into the doctor's office.
Speaker 1: And don't you try to stop me. If you need
Speaker 1: a doctor, you know where she'll be.
Speaker 3: We won't let you do it, Paladin.
Speaker 1: We won't let you break disease and pestilence into our meds.
Speaker 3: I'm afraid they'll use those guns with Pallet.
Speaker 1: Get back there with missus Benson. Both of your life,
Speaker 1: flat child, go on, get back flat show.
Speaker 4: It's Paladin.
Speaker 3: Are you all right?
Speaker 1: Fine, We're true. I'll have you in your office in
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Speaker 1: Bowl games. All through that night, I sat on her
Speaker 1: porch and kept watch, seeing their torches, hearing the voice
Speaker 1: of Maroney haranguing the townspeople working them up, but they
Speaker 1: didn't come, and inside the doctor worked with her patients.
Speaker 1: It was after dawn when she came out to me.
Speaker 3: Still Qui.
Speaker 1: Moroney is still working on them like a witch.
Speaker 6: Doctor's breakfast inside, you'd better eat something.
Speaker 3: I'll stand guard for.
Speaker 1: What thanks o's missus Benson.
Speaker 3: She'll be all right after she got some rest and
Speaker 3: the baby. The fever broke last night.
Speaker 1: What does that mean?
Speaker 3: It isn't typhoid?
Speaker 1: Not typhoid?
Speaker 5: You sure?
Speaker 1: Yes? Well? How can you be certain? You've only been
Speaker 1: with her overnight?
Speaker 3: You still doubt me, don't you, mister Paladin?
Speaker 1: The symptoms are there.
Speaker 3: Symptoms can be ambiguous. Now get your breakfast. You need
Speaker 3: it all right, Why, mister.
Speaker 1: Paladin, Well, Missus Benson, it's nice to see you up
Speaker 1: and around.
Speaker 3: I wish I could tell you how much I appreciate.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no gratitude before breakfast. Baby's better? Huh, yes,
Speaker 1: much better, Missus Benson. Why does mulroney hate you so much?
Speaker 3: My husband died early on the trip.
Speaker 4: After a while, mulroney wanted me to marry him, said
Speaker 4: it was God's will to care for widows, and he
Speaker 4: was the chosen messenger. I wouldn't let him near me,
Speaker 4: and the baby got sick.
Speaker 1: Come on by, what is it? I'll handle them. Go
Speaker 1: inside with Missus Bensonut, you take care of your patience,
Speaker 1: and they have some new ones. I want to stay
Speaker 1: all right, but stand back. That's fired enough, Maroney. This
Speaker 1: torch is the fire of truth and justice. Paladin will
Speaker 1: burn away the seeds that Clara Benson has spread among us,
Speaker 1: will skirt the disease from our souls and bodies, and
Speaker 1: purify these homes again. The only disease is in you, mulroney.
Speaker 1: Missus Benson is well and the baby is out of danger.
Speaker 1: By in the very face of judgment. Maroney, I'm giving
Speaker 1: you fifteen seconds to drop that torch and call off
Speaker 1: those rifles. The flames of the just will banish the skirts.
Speaker 1: Let the fires rage in the Landorf. You have ten seconds.
Speaker 3: Wait. Listen, all of you. That baby never had typhoon. Tever,
Speaker 3: don't believe.
Speaker 5: I saw the child ranging with Feaver, living.
Speaker 3: With rush rush.
Speaker 4: What nebel three day measeels?
Speaker 1: You're lying three day measles, mister mulroney, and you left
Speaker 1: them to die because of it.
Speaker 3: Missus Benson, bring the baby out.
Speaker 1: No, it's not true. You're trying to humiliate me, to
Speaker 1: belittle me.
Speaker 3: You see, all of you, The fever is down, the rashes.
Speaker 4: Say that her eyes are bright there.
Speaker 1: Look look at her, Maulroney. You can kill people with hate,
Speaker 1: but not with three day measles.
Speaker 5: Rooney, three day measles.
Speaker 1: Stop stop. You can't laugh at me.
Speaker 3: Paladin, Ah Rudy, don't be a fool.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna kill you, Paladin. I'm gonna laugh at your grave.
Speaker 1: Let me see there's no need. He's dead now.
Speaker 5: You shoot very straight, mister Paladin. What do you want,
Speaker 5: mister Paladin? Well, I I guess we was wrong to
Speaker 5: listen to him.
Speaker 7: He seemed to have so much book learning, but he
Speaker 7: was just sentenced against each other.
Speaker 5: I'm glad we woke up in time.
Speaker 1: Next time you better wake up a little sooner, doctor Thackeray,
Speaker 1: this time hasn't been too good for you. Maybe you'd
Speaker 1: like to come along with me. They can always use
Speaker 1: a good doctor in San Francisco.
Speaker 7: Oh please, man, I guess we ain't been very friendly,
Speaker 7: but we'll make it up to you. You forgive us instead, well,
Speaker 7: doctor Thackery.
Speaker 6: Thanks mister Paladin for your offer, But there are too
Speaker 6: many of those velvet settees in San Francisco.
Speaker 3: I'll stay here where I'm needed.
Speaker 1: Oh, good afternoon, Miss Paladine. Good afternoon. Hey boy, you
Speaker 1: getting late last night? I sleep all day now up,
Speaker 1: I'm feeling fine, I do. Indeed, boy, you have good
Speaker 1: time with Lady Cleo. Lady Cleo, lady yourself for you,
Speaker 1: you know. Oh, as a matter of fact, i'd forgotten
Speaker 1: about her. Oh sure, I met a lady who was
Speaker 1: much more charming a lady doctor.
Speaker 2: Oh sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah. As a matter of fact, I've had a fine
Speaker 1: case of three day measles.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, the three Day measle Oh sure that's true.
Speaker 2: Oh you've got dodgy laundry you put out tonight.
Speaker 1: The coin of phrase hey boy, oh sure, have gone
Speaker 1: Will Travel? Created by Herb Meadow and Sam Raw. He
Speaker 1: is produced stand directed by Norman McDonald and stars John
Speaker 1: Dayner as Paladin with Ben Wright as hey Boy. Tonight.
Speaker 1: Story was written by Don Brinkley and adapted for radio
Speaker 1: by John Duncle. Featured in the cast were Virginia Gregg,
Speaker 1: Vic Perrin, Gene Bates, and Lou Krugman. Hugh Douglas speaking
Speaker 1: join us again next week for Have Gune, Will Travel