Speaker 1: You made a contract with me under false pretense. Usually
when I get forced into a corner, I can shoot
my way out, but this time you've made that impossible.
Have Gun, Will Travel, starring mister John Dayner as Paladin,
San Francisco, eighteen seventy five, The Carlton Hotel, headquarters of
a man called Paladin. Apologies, don't like a coffee? Yes
I am, Hey boy? What are you doing waiting on
the table? I come warn you of one man over there?
Are He wants you all the time you eat? Maybe
so he enemy? I think I better tell you what
man man over by?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Too bad? He coming over here now? Huh. I've never
seen him before. I've been nearby. You need me, yes,
I'll let you know.
Speaker 2: Hey boy, are you mister Paladin?
Speaker 1: That's right. I've been watching you, mister Paladin, and I've
decided you'll do well. Thank you? What will I do?
Speaker 3: But you're just a man for the job. You're capable
enough from what I hear, and I dare say fearless?
Speaker 1: Oh are you flatter man?
Speaker 3: It's not flattening facts based upon keen observation.
Speaker 1: Me, I suit down by all means.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you, My name's Felber Fidd.
Speaker 1: What can I do for you? Mister Fidd?
Speaker 3: But I haven't sent here by the Respectable Element of Blackwater.
Speaker 1: Blackwater, it's a cowtown south.
Speaker 2: Of the hatchbeet.
Speaker 3: Oh. Yes, the respectable Element has triumph and Blackwater, mister Babson, triumph,
I tell you.
Speaker 1: But it was not an easy victory. Well, virtue's victory
never is. Well.
Speaker 3: There remains, however, one pocket of resistance, one holdout, one
sink of sin.
Speaker 1: And that's where you come in, where I come in
exactly a j Banion's the me of whom the.
Speaker 3: Holdout aj Banyon the priety of the Paradise Saloon, which
I tell you is indeed a cesspool of corruption. This
aj Banion refuses to listen to the sweet verice of reason.
So we are compelled to employ the force of your
persuasion at my.
Speaker 1: Usual fee, mister Fidd. Of course, Well that's a relief.
And so often I found that the Respectable Element believes
that virtue is its own reward. Not in this case
we will pay. Well, then you have just engaged a
pideon piper who guarantees to remove the rats of Brackwam.
Speaker 3: Wonderful I thank you, missapata to night.
Speaker 1: Thank you indeed, Oh.
Speaker 3: How the good folk of Brackwater will rejoice when they
hear these splendid tidies.
Speaker 4: Constipation is something people don't talk much about, but it
can be a problem for anyone, even doctors. And when
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important about a laxative they might use or recommend. Now
a majority of the doctors we heard from had.
Speaker 1: This to say.
Speaker 4: A laxative should be effective, gentle, as close to natural
acting as possible, and a medicine that can be used
with complete confidence, well pleasant tasting chocolate that xlax is
effective overnight, it helps you towards your normal regularity.
Speaker 1: X slax is gentle.
Speaker 4: Next morning, it gives you the closest thing to natural action.
And that's why many doctors and many of people use
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Speaker 1: Is x lax in your medicine cabinet. Blackwater wasn't much
of a town. The wide main street deep in dust,
a few scraggly cottonwoods, aparridly protesting against being asked to
grow where no tree had grown before. But it was
home to the respectable element whose roots went deep, many
of them being the first families who helped found this
mecca almost a decade ago. The other element came and
went came thirsty and went slaked, hungover, and otherwise depleted
it thanks to the hospitality of the paradise soldiery. You
hear that this strangers looking for mister vand God, I'm
losing patience, gentlemen, just a straight answer. Please, where can
I find mister Bangs.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to tell you a stranger.
Speaker 4: You see those four people leaning on the bar over there, there's.
Speaker 1: Four king going right right, four gun belts right right
when you look lower, only three of them we're wearing paints.
The one wearing a skirt.
Speaker 5: Is a lady.
Speaker 1: You ask her, I'm mister van No, thank you, I will.
Speaker 3: That's I beg your pardon.
Speaker 1: You know what can I do for you? Strangers? They
said that you could tell me where to find mister
Bean mister Benon, No, mister Vanyon. I never lost a
j be a J.
Speaker 2: Banyon.
Speaker 1: That's me.
Speaker 3: I was Jane Benyon.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 3: Any comments criticisms are objections.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, none at all. And what can
I do for you? Nothing? Nothing at all. Right, I
guess I got the wrong party. I'm sorry to trouble,
No trouble at.
Speaker 6: All, dropping anytime.
Speaker 1: You're perstie.
Speaker 2: We got the best drinking whiskey in town.
Speaker 3: Matter pray, mister Fiz, mister Penattin, mister Fidd, I must
ask you to release me from my contract at least
oh mine. No, no, that would be quite impossible. I'm afraid.
A contract's a contract.
Speaker 1: Of course it is, but it can be dissolved by
mutual consent of the contracting part.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true, only I don't consent.
Speaker 1: Now look here, mister fid, you made that contract under
false pretense.
Speaker 3: And it's a better. That's a very serious accusation, never
the less true.
Speaker 1: You engaged me to rid this time of a man
named Ben.
Speaker 3: Oh no, no, no, I never said anything about a man
named Banyon.
Speaker 1: I engage you to get rid.
Speaker 3: Of a J.
Speaker 1: Banyon. But you didn't tell me the AJ stood for
Alice Jane.
Speaker 3: Well, no, that's true in a way, mister Petetton. But
I didn't say a J stood for Albert James or
Arthur John either now did I no?
Speaker 1: But you led me to buy you.
Speaker 3: No, No, I did not understand it. The subject just never
came up.
Speaker 1: But I can't get rough with a woman.
Speaker 3: You can with his renee, and she'll get rough right
back here at Rougher. She is the roughest woman you
would ever want to meet. You don't suppose if she wasn't,
then we'd be wasting the town's good money hiring an
expert like you.
Speaker 1: No, Si, we had thrown her out our tails. We tried,
but she wouldn't co operate. Mister Finn, you placed me
in a most difficult position.
Speaker 3: But I reckon. You've been in worse ones before, But
I could shoot my way out of them, but you
might have to shoot your way out of this one
before you're through.
Speaker 1: I'd spoken more.
Speaker 7: Now, Enjoy.
Speaker 1: A real, a real saga, Ret a camel? Are you
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Speaker 8: The very best, have a reel saga, Read a real
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Speaker 8: Have a reel saga, red a real saga, red a.
Speaker 2: Real We're good evening, stranger evening by friending you to
visit us again?
Speaker 1: What can I do for you? Whiskey?
Speaker 2: You look like you're in the troubles on your jo
I am then have a drink on me?
Speaker 1: Thank you, Miss Bannt. Nobody called me miss and a J.
Speaker 2: I'm my friends and my intervision CUL three that one.
Speaker 5: I love it.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Hey, J, I'd like to be your friend.
Speaker 2: No reason we can't.
Speaker 1: I'd like to talk to you. Talk. Well, let me
go over to that table where it's more cli why not? Yeah,
even a packet you listenes?
Speaker 3: This Grant is the worst president of the United States ever.
Speaker 2: Hey, I wouldn't know that.
Speaker 1: I've been trying to tell us we leaded charity. Now
who's mules?
Speaker 8: Say my down?
Speaker 2: Boys, you know the house rules. Obey them, you'll live longer,
all right.
Speaker 3: It's table to your likings.
Speaker 1: Yes, fine, well, then sit down?
Speaker 7: Thank you?
Speaker 1: You have a house rules?
Speaker 2: Oh, in a way.
Speaker 6: Three subjects of taboo and the sloupolitics religion and women.
Too many good men have died depending one our daughter.
Speaker 1: Where would the world be without the better? But you're
a woman. Well, I never felt much lighter one. That's
a pity.
Speaker 2: Oh, I know, I'd rather be the way I am
to be.
Speaker 1: You've kept to one of these hair, are you? These
aren't the only men in the yours.
Speaker 2: I was born, and where where you would die? You
are a man, and excuse me a stranger. I can't well, joy, I.
Speaker 1: Want you.
Speaker 3: You shut my hurdle minds too.
Speaker 6: Next time I shoot your head off. I told you
to simmer down. I don't mind if you kill each other,
but do it outside. Won't have none of you given
this place a bad name?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 1: Where were we? Stranger? Which about you?
Speaker 2: What were we saying?
Speaker 1: Well? I believe that I had observed that it was
a city that a lady of your obvious charm and
talent should be born to blush unseen and waste her
fragrance on this desert air.
Speaker 6: A stranger, you talk plum poetic.
Speaker 1: It is time, miss Benning, that you thought of yourself
as a woman, A woman still yon still attractive, A
woman for whom some man somewhere awaits where who knows?
Certainly not here. The world, my dearness, Benyon, is yours
for the taking. So why don't you abandon this provincial
backwater come into the wide, wonderful world of gallant men
and lovely ladies, of whom, believe me, Miss ben you
have no peer.
Speaker 2: Will you make that sound might attempting?
Speaker 1: Then you will leave Blackwater?
Speaker 6: Well, I might permit myself to be persuaded.
Speaker 1: By all means. Permit me to persuade you. Look at
these harry eared tin horns and ask yourself why you
spend another day in this jerk water time, I say,
you are right.
Speaker 2: You've convinced me that I was born for better thing.
Speaker 1: Than this good How soon can you leave?
Speaker 2: Just as soon as you're ready?
Speaker 1: Me?
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, just a minute.
Speaker 6: Daring got an announcement to make first hot tonight.
Speaker 1: The drinks are on the house.
Speaker 2: The drinks are on the house because.
Speaker 1: I am closing.
Speaker 8: Down the pad.
Speaker 1: I sound not anyways.
Speaker 6: Cross Time has been wanting to get rid of me
for some time.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: You all know that what they wasn't able to do,
this stranger has done.
Speaker 6: He has opened mines and he's gonna take me out.
Speaker 8: Of all this.
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Speaker 6: Well look here, you little dickens, never seen the day
you walk into the paradise. I Kim Movers's I heard
the news age. Yes, sir, I decided to see it's
your way thanks to.
Speaker 2: This sweet talk in stream.
Speaker 3: Good of it? It just happens.
Speaker 1: I have the papers right here. You want to sign them?
Speaker 6: Now you're making the same offer as the same all right,
he's your selvert.
Speaker 3: Now have the money for his first thing in the morning.
Soon as I open my sink, Oh, I trust you,
she'll make a fine meeting house.
Speaker 6: Where you got the stranger here to thank for bringing
me to my sensor.
Speaker 3: I know that.
Speaker 6: Yesie, he convinced me that I was wasting my time.
Speaker 1: My keen judgment.
Speaker 3: Assured me he was the right man to hire. Hire.
Speaker 1: What what do you mean hire?
Speaker 3: Have you got any idea who the stranger is?
Speaker 1: Ago?
Speaker 6: It all happens a fast didn't get around asking him
his name.
Speaker 1: Ask him, what's your name?
Speaker 3: Stranger?
Speaker 1: Paladin?
Speaker 3: Name Paladin?
Speaker 6: A hired gunslinger from San Francisco.
Speaker 1: At your service, Miss Benyon, not at my service.
Speaker 3: Elder who paid him? To come down here and make a.
Speaker 9: Food out of me.
Speaker 1: I meant every word I said, Miss Benyon, don't.
Speaker 6: Call me miss you just stand up, be ready to draw.
Nobody makes a fool out of a j Benyon Sah.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, Paladin, go for your gun anytime, although you
seem to doubt it, Miss Vanion, I have principles.
Speaker 1: Among which is consideration for and admiration of the weaker sex.
Weaker sex draw. I have never drawn on a woman,
and I shall not begin now braw. You won't draw
unless I go for my gun. And as you see,
my hands are in the air.
Speaker 6: Which makes it convenient for me to relieve you of
your gun. You may live to regret that you didn't
let me kid you in a fair fight, because I'm
gonna make you prove all the.
Speaker 1: Sweet word you told me.
Speaker 2: Why you're gonna wind me and dine me.
Speaker 1: Mister Paladin.
Speaker 6: You are going to romance me. You're going to show
me the world that gun point if necessary tavern, Yes,
you see deputy in this town.
Speaker 3: Yes, want to do me a favorite shoe?
Speaker 6: Reje Lock this critter up in the jail house until
I come from in the morning.
Speaker 2: Will you shoe rege be.
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Speaker 1: Deacon Justin's tablet felber Fidd played his part to the hill,
poking his gun in my ribs. He pushed me out
of the saloon ahead of him and marched me down
the main street for all the town to see. Then
we turned a corner in the direction of which I
assumed was a jail. But once out of sight of
the town sook, he pushed me into a door across
which was the sign hid Land and Development Company. Inside
the office, he locked and bolted the door.
Speaker 3: Yeah, now this time you've gone too far.
Speaker 1: Hanay, Look here, mister fidd just leave me my money.
I'll be on my way with a j not if
I can help it, she said. I can't help what
she said. You wanted me to close her saloon, and
I did, And I said nothing about.
Speaker 3: Taking her away from Brackwater.
Speaker 1: That's her.
Speaker 3: You bewitched it.
Speaker 1: You've still on her from me, from you, yes, Paladin,
and you may as well know.
Speaker 3: I've admired miss Bannon from Afar for a long long time.
I've always felt that she could be deterred from her
evil ways.
Speaker 1: She would make a man like me.
Speaker 3: A fine wife. Oh, the fee I offered you was
not put up by the respectable element of Blackwater, but
by myself. And I must say in all Franks, I
don't feel compelled to pay you for this ultimate breach
of contract.
Speaker 1: Look, mister Finn, I don't want the lady, just the money,
but it appears you have her. She is leaving with you,
not if I can help it. Look, if you want
her take her. You didn't mean what you said to me. Yes,
I met every word of it, But I didn't mean
that I was a man to make her dreams come true.
Speaker 2: Oh who were.
Speaker 1: Well, mister Palladin. You know I think I am good.
Now you just hold that thought and in the meantime,
just give me back my gun. Let me get out of.
Speaker 3: Because I'm in trying to do that. Was faring on
this one thing I want to verify before I let
you go. What's Having watched your technique with aj, I've
come to the conclusion that one can't feel if one
simply treats her as a leap mister.
Speaker 1: F That's not only true with Alice Jane Banyon, It's
true of every woman who ever lives.
Speaker 7: Come in, Oh, good, good morning, this one morning paper.
Speaker 8: On may you got special fat letters from place called Blackwood.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, I've been wondering when it would come.
Speaker 7: Loss of green money and I earned every plenty of it.
Speaker 8: Lukie sounding Oh yeah, Miss Alice Jane Banning and mister
philiber Fidd request your presence.
Speaker 1: At their nuptials Friday the thirteenth at three o'clock at
the First Blackwater Church formerly the Paradise Saloon.
Speaker 8: Are you gonna make your present that move yourse?
Speaker 1: No? No, I think not. I make it a policy
never to get mixed up in marriages. Thirsty people everywhere.
Proper ice cold pepsicola and because it's light, it refreshes
without brilling. Johnnie, be sociable. I am okay. Pepsi is
a favorite of thirsty people from Maine to Hawaii, from
Alaska to Florida. It's perfect for parties or so serve
pepsi to your guests. This is the sociable part. Keep
plenty of pepsi, ice cold and ready. Remember it goes
fast because everybody likes pepsi. He still sounds more inviting me.
Speaker 8: I see sociable.
Speaker 9: Keep popple to name with the string, lightness, refreshing, Be sociable,
Have a.
Speaker 1: Pepsy but singing doesn't say pick up an extra carton
of pepsi today. Better yet, get a.
Speaker 3: Case you do.
Speaker 5: Have.
Speaker 1: Gun will travel Created by Herb Meadow and Sam rod
Is Proteo stand Direct did in Hollywood by Frank Parrot
and stars John Dayner as Paladin, with Ben Wright as
hey Boy and Virginia greg Aasmus Wong. Tonight's story was
specially written for Have Gun Will Travel by William N. Robson,
featured in the cast for Howard mcneher, Kerry Bartel, Vic
Paren and Jeannette Nolan. Our sincere congratulations and good wishes
go to the staff and management of radio station WAAX
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