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Speaker 1: James Stewart as the six Shooter. The man in the

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saddle is angular and long legged. His skin is sundyed brown.

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The gun in his holster is gray steel and rainbow

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mother of pearl. Its handle unmarked. People call them both

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the six Shooter. Coleman, America's leader in modern automatic home

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heating equipment, and the National Broadcasting Company present James Stewart

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as the six Shooter, a transcribed series of dramas based

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on the life of Britt Ponsel, the Texas plainsman who

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wandered through the Western territories, leaving behind a trail of

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steel remembered legends. Now and just at the moment immediately

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following this important announcement, you will here act one.

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Speaker 2: Of the six Shooter.

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Speaker 1: Last year, thousands of Americans who tried to get away

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with carelessness on the highways were killed or permanently injured

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in traffic accidents. And remember, accidents don't always happen to

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the other fellow. Unless you are meticulous in your observance

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of the rules of highway safety, you and your loved

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ones are vulnerable to the menace of traffic accidents. Every

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motorists should take an active role in supporting the safety

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movement in his or her community. Encourage driver training in

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your high schools. Teach your children the rules of safety.

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Speaker 2: On the highway.

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Speaker 1: Remember the life you save may be your own. Now,

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Act one of the six Shooter starring James Stewart. I

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had a grand stand seat a rocking chair on.

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Speaker 2: The front porch of the Temple City Hotel. Not that

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there was much to watch. A couple of women looking

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at the bonnets in the windows of Bradley's Murcanteal, and

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some kids playing mumblety peg over in the alley next

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to the bank, and the checker game in the shadow

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of a big alm across the street. But it was

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a couple of days before I was due to pick

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up some cattle in Atterbury for Missus Pritchard, and well,

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Temple City seemed as good a play as then he

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to stop over. I was considering taking a little nap

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when I saw well, at least that's who I thought

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it was. He was coming out of the general store

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carrying a box of groceries. I couldn't be sure, though,

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because just as he started to climb into a wagon,

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another man wrote up alongside and shut off of you. Well,

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look who's in town.

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Speaker 3: You're doing the marketing. Will thought the women usually did that,

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But I guess in your case it ain't such a

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bad idea to switch things around.

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Speaker 4: I hope we're not run into your temple.

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Speaker 2: Two of my cows have been killed this week.

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Speaker 3: You mean your wife's cow, don't you will?

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Speaker 2: It wasn't two three.

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Speaker 3: The boys found another one raising on my side of

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the creek this morning. You're gonna have to do something

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about that fancy yours.

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Speaker 2: You won't have no stock, wept, Paul. That fence was

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all right yesterday.

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Speaker 3: Maybe this is today.

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Speaker 2: Now you listen to me, Temple.

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Speaker 3: I figured it's about time you done the listening. Will.

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I want your wife's rand, and made no bones about it.

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She was willing to sell until you came along.

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Speaker 4: She ain't willing enough.

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Speaker 3: I'll give you two dollars an acre. That's more in

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a fair price. Anybody will tell you that we're not gonna.

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Speaker 2: Be shoved off that land up for two dollars an

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acre or twenty and.

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Speaker 3: Maybe i'd better talk to Sarah, seen as how it's

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her proper.

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Speaker 5: No.

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Speaker 6: Oh, I'm warning you you stay away from our ranch

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in our cattle rough or.

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Speaker 3: Ell well, go on, tell me what you'll do, Will,

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I'd be real interested to find out.

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Speaker 4: Come on.

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Speaker 3: Dot was Sarah given him the warm I might take

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it seriously, seeing as how she wears the pansion the family.

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Speaker 2: The wagon moved in closer where I was sitting. I

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got a good look at him. Now. He changed a

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lot since the last time we met up. He was older,

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and there were a couple of those squint wrinkles between

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his eyes. Even so, he still could have been more

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in twenty three or four, seeing us how he was

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only about twenty when we worked on the West Star

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round up together. Hey well, well, hey, well, I thought

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he'd recognize me, but I well, I guess i'd changed

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some too. I wasn't getting aged or like that, but

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i' I ripened up a bit again. Anyway, Will kind

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of glanced my way and then drove on, And from

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the way he was holding those reins, I had a

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pretty good idea of what he was thinking. This temple folly.

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he was getting ready to do something about it, well,

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there was no point in trying to run him down.

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Now we'd probably meet up later. Oh, I went into

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the hotel and looked around for places to down. Clerk

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behind the desk was playing again the solitaire.

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Speaker 5: As it something I can do for you?

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, think so real? All right? Yes, fine,

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really fine.

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Speaker 4: Real pleasure having you staying with us.

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Speaker 2: Anything you'd like the Black Queen huh? The playure on

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the King of Diamonds.

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Speaker 4: Oh, oh, thank you. I like to look at gun

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for paper just came in on the stage.

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Speaker 2: No, no, thanks, the same. I I sort of figured

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on a little snooze a little too. It wasn't too

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much rocket outside.

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Speaker 4: I know what you mean.

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Speaker 5: Noah Temple's got a voice that carries out right. I

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could hear him and Will hard again clearing. Yeah, tell

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him out for nothing now said. They've been squaring.

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Speaker 2: Off like that ever since Will moved the town.

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Speaker 5: Married Sarah Blake. Oh, looks like I'm stuck everything. I'm

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not playing for gam and huh, i'd be out of

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fifty blacks.

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Speaker 4: You see.

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Speaker 5: Noah's got the idea of Bayings Harris Ranch, and he's

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gonna be no stopping him from to buy it.

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Speaker 2: Would he need her alone for any reason?

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Speaker 4: Sure thinks he does. If they can just get me.

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Speaker 5: The Ace of stage and forty years ago, Noah's grandfather

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started this time.

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Speaker 4: He owned all the acres between the foothills and the

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creek outside old Temple said he his.

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Speaker 5: Name for him as a matter of fact, that's all.

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But the old man's son, Fred, well.

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Speaker 4: He wasn't much good person, you know. He'd sold off

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nearly everything his dad had left him. Noah took over.

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Speaker 5: He swore he'd get all the temple property back again.

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Speaker 4: I guess it sort of stuck in his crawl.

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Speaker 5: The temples wasn't the biggest outfit in the valley. No

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more on that black seven How's nor temple than done?

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Speaker 2: Well?

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Speaker 5: First folks didn't take him serious. They thought he was

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just a talker like his father. But he's sure fooled

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him today he's got more acres than his granddaddy. Ever,

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here there's only one piece of the original temple set up.

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Speaker 4: He ain't been able to buy it back that land said.

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Speaker 2: Oh, sure was.

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Speaker 4: A surprise when Will wouldn't let her sell it.

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Speaker 5: Nobody ever figured he'd stand up to Noah a man

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like him.

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Speaker 2: Was something wrong with him?

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Speaker 5: It's seven an Oh, well, you see, mister Bonton, Will's

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a coward.

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Speaker 4: Let see as he's yellow clear through.

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Speaker 5: He won't ever wear a gun if there's a posse

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being formed, but he don't go wrong. And if there's

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a fight, he lays low. You can call him names,

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you can sell him the way, know what, Temple Then

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he just takes it.

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Speaker 2: She that sure doesn't sound like him to me, you know,

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will mister used to those two a couple of years ago.

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Speaker 5: All that must have before he moved to Temple City. Yeah,

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he's done Texas. Back there, Willie Techman wasn't afraid of

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nobody or nothing, and for a youngster, he's mighty fancy

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with a gun.

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Speaker 4: Technic.

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Speaker 2: That's right.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, but that ain't his name, mister pantet. Will's name

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is Fetter. Oh yeah, Will Fetter.

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Speaker 2: I wonder you were surprised about him being yellow.

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Speaker 4: You got the wrong man. Uh huh, Well they must

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look alike. It's a friend of yours and Will Fetter.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I guess I do.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I went upstairs to my room started to pull my

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boost off. You know, it's funny. I hadn't been doing

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anything but said all day, and my feet hurt worse

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than have been walking twenty mile oh, well, h looked

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out the window. Last sun is just about even as

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the church steeple. I'd be around three o'clock. I had

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a couple hours for supper, so let myself down in

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the bed. M hmm, yeah, yeah, wel come on in,

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come on in. Oh, oh, excuse me, ma'am. I I

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didn't know it was a lady. I'm sorry to bother you, mister. Well,

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not all, not all. I wasn't exactly what you'd call busy,

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won't you start? Yeah, wait, I'll get those boots.

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Speaker 4: Tell you what mister.

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Speaker 2: I'm Will's wife. Oh oh, I'm please make you ma'am. Well,

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Will tell me you were in town today.

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Speaker 8: He saw you, and you saw.

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Speaker 2: Him, didn't you, Yes, ma'am, at least I thought I did.

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Speaker 8: Well, you can't tell only one he's here, mister Potson.

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You didn't come to Temple City looking for Will, did you.

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Will thought maybe that was the reason we heard about

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what happened in Prescott last winter when he came across

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bar Clever.

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Speaker 2: Well, you heard wrong, ma'am. I didn't come across clear.

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He came across me. Manna's for a while.

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Speaker 8: He's made a new life here, a good life if

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he has to go back to prison.

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Speaker 2: Prison.

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Speaker 8: Oh you knew about the bank robbery and Austin and

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about him breaking up before you knew, didn't you?

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Speaker 2: No, man, Oh I haven't been back that way.

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Speaker 8: You wouldn't have told the marshall, but we thought, who

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was sure?

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Speaker 2: Oh, I just take it easy.

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Speaker 8: If I hadn't come to see you, nobody would have

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known it was Will Tichman.

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Speaker 2: You know, thanks have a way of coming on sooner

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or later. How much longer was Will supposed to serve

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two years? Huh? Well that's not so long when you're young.

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Speaker 8: We're gonna have a baby, mister possit. But I almost

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wouldn't want to have him if he was going to

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grow up known as father had been in prison. Why

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should Will have to go back?

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Speaker 2: Why? Well, I guess maybe you had better ask the

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judge who sentenced him.

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Speaker 8: Then what I mean is they say it's so a

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man will live a decent, respectable life when he comes out.

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And Will's already living a decent, respectable life. He works hard,

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he never makes trouble for anybody. He doesn't even wear

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a gun, and he promised me he never will.

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Speaker 2: Was that your idea not wearing a gun.

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Speaker 8: Before we were married, he told me about the trouble

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in Austin and how it broke out of prison.

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Speaker 2: I suppose I.

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Speaker 8: Should have made him go back, but.

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Speaker 2: I was so much in love I couldn't.

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Speaker 8: So I asked him to give me his word he'd

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never use a gun again, even carry one.

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Speaker 2: It must have been kind of hard on a fella

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like Well to keep holding himself back that way.

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Speaker 8: I've heard with men like Noah Temple caller, what will

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take this?

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Speaker 2: He's kept his word, this fall of Temple. You know

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the way he and Will were going out of today,

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it sounded like they were heading for trouble. It won't

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be anything serious.

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Speaker 8: Will just doesn't want us to be pushed off of

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the ranch.

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Speaker 2: You can't hold that against him, No, no, no, there's not.

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Speaker 8: Then you you won't tell the Marshall over in Addabury

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or anybody.

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Speaker 2: Well. I don't imagine Marshall Sanders like me mixing into

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his business. This is his district. I guess he can

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take care of it anyway he has so far, But

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now I don't care.

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Speaker 8: Thank you, mister pun.

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Speaker 9: Thanks for Wilson.

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Speaker 2: Wait wait, just wait, Well, after all, you know most

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of what she said was true. Sending Will back to

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prison might do more harm and good. But and it

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wasn't enough to me to sit judgment on him. I

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was going to be leaving town up there so anyway,

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and if anything happened after that wouldn't be my concern.

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So of course a man does have certain duties, even

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if he's not wearing a bad man whose sponsor wanted criminal,

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he's supposed to report it, and I always had before.

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I scraped some of the mud off my boots and

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washed my face, put on a clean shirt and went

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downstairs in the lobby. Clerk was still playing solitaire.

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Speaker 5: Just beat myself again, mister Pondon, I was playing in

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the game. And now the ahead of a one hundred

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and forty dollars.

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Speaker 4: Pretty good for one afternoon there.

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Speaker 2: Ah yeah, real good by time supper.

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Speaker 4: A red On and Malo Hicks. You got big hand man?

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Speaker 2: Fine?

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Speaker 4: Oh say miss concert Yeah, remember us.

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Speaker 5: Talking about Will Fetter and him being afraid to carry again.

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One of the darnest things this happened, or it wasn't

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any more than fifteen minutes ago, I guess everybody's talking about.

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He went into Bradley's Murcan team, and he brought himself

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a car being. Oh, of course he's just trying to bluff,

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know a temple folks are.

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Speaker 4: Giving ten to one. Will don't even know how to

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load the rifle. Where you got the dining rooms over there?

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Speaker 7: Uh?

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Speaker 2: I guess maybe I'm not hungry. I'd say whereabouts as

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well as ranch. I think maybe I'll take a little ride,

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maybe work up on appetize.

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Speaker 1: We'll return to James Stewart as the six shooter in

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a moment. First, a word from Coleman, America's leader in

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Speaker 2: When winter comes, does your house shrink like this?

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Speaker 10: Well, I guess it's time to close off that back room.

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Speaker 2: There's just no way to heat it. Don't deprive yourself

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of valuable living space.

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fourteen dollars. It's free with your new Coleman heater. Get

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dealer tomorrow. Look for his name and your telephone directory.

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Speaker 2: Remember, comfort costs so little with a Coleman.

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Speaker 1: Now, Act two of the six Shooter, starring James Stewart

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as Britt Punson.

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Speaker 2: The Better Ranch was about two miles south of town,

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and from the outside, looking neat comfortable, we all kept

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up the ground, stretching out behind those good raising lands.

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Or it was worth at least five dollars an ac,

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or maybe more. My tired scar to a cottonwood in

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the yard, walked up the door.

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Speaker 9: That time he got home.

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Speaker 2: Man, come on here, well's not here.

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Speaker 8: No, he was gone when it came back.

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Speaker 2: What's wrong? You haven't changed your mind? Haven? Where's the

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Temple Ranch? Live? From here?

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Speaker 8: It's all around, all four sides of.

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Speaker 2: Eyes and Temple's ranch house. Where is that dewey.

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Speaker 9: But what's that going to do with it?

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Speaker 2: What's happened? Will was in town this evening. He bought

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a rifle.

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Speaker 8: I don't believe it. He promised me. You're wrong, mister ponsaid,

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Will isn't gunning for Noah Temple.

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Speaker 9: He's out tending stock.

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Speaker 2: Well, he'll be home any minute, he'll see Maybe where

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are you going?

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Speaker 12: Here?

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Speaker 2: Temple got quite an odd says worth time on it.

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Speaker 10: You won't find Will there. He gave me his word

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he'd never use a gun again. You won't find him.

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Speaker 2: I had a due east for about a quarter of

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a mile, and when I came to the edge of

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Will's property, I saw a sorrel tether to a fence post.

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Looked like Will had decided to go the rest of

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the way on foot. So I climbed out of the

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saddle and looked around. There was a big break in

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the fence, but the cattle hadn't made it, and barbed

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wire had been cut, and there were four heifers and

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a couple of steers lying just over the temple boundary.

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They just wasn't much questioned about it. They'd been shot.

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So I crawled through the opening and went right past

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a big sign that said Temple Ranch trespassers will be

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shot upound some footprints. I figured they were Wills. About

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thirty minutes later I caught sight of the ranch house.

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It built about halfway up the side of a pretty

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steep hill, big strawling building. There was a light inside

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and I could just barely make out noise sitting at

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the desk working on some papers and where it was well.

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He had plenty of time to get here. And I

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heard a step and swung around and one of Temple's

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hands pacing up and down near the stable alongside the house.

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The way he was holding the rifle, it looked like

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an army semper instead of a cow hand. All of

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a sudden he gave a little gaff. I saw a

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shadow tighten around his throat the SEMPERI went down and

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there was a struggle, not very noisy, though not noisy

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enough for Temple to hear it. And then everything was quiet.

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The shadow stood up. It was Will Techman. He was

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inching his way toward the house, toward the window where

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Temple was sitting. I came up behind him. I pull

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on my gun. He was starting to aim his rifle

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well drop it. Well, yeah, I might have known.

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Speaker 4: You turn up give me a rifle.

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Speaker 2: Will could get off a shot at me, even not

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a temple. Temple gets our arranched, and I go to

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Christmas Eddy, and we'll talk all about that as we

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get back to your place. Now, come on. I carried

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Will's rifle and led the way. About twenty minutes later

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we passed another one of Temple's guards. He was dozen,

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didn't notice him. I still had a couple of miles ago.

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Before we'd reached the fence where we left the horses.

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Will was sort of patting for breath. All right, let's

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rest my can. Thought, you promise your wife you'd never

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take up a gun. Yet.

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Speaker 9: Well, mister possaid, she didn't dead Helfer Silver by the

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fence had about wipes.

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Speaker 2: I heard out. I found that, my I have to

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do something.

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Speaker 12: As long as you knew who I was anyway, as

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long as I was going back to prison, I had

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to fix it.

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Speaker 2: So Sarah wouldn't have the ranch taken away from You

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wouldn't think a piece of land would be worth everybody

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getting too excited about it. I've been shoved around, but

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ever since I was a kid, I've been shoved around.

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Even when I held up the Austin Bank, I wasn't

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the one who the one who was nothing nothing.

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Speaker 6: Since I married Sarah, well, I've had to take a

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lot that other man wouldn't put up with. Because of her,

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and because her knowing what I was sting with, Temple

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got under my skin. I made up my mind to

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stay end up to him. A man's got to take

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a stand sometime somewhere.

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Well, hey, what's that? Get down? Well he's dead,

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rites better best passion. I ain't a long Temple, brit

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pantes with me. That's right, Temple, I better come along

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like just four of us and take care of to you.

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Speaker 3: He won't be much the opponent fight, okay.

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Speaker 2: I could see one of his boys firing from behind

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a tree behind him, so I aimed at his arm,

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hit him on the shoulder, and he lurched forward. Not

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only three of them now, but they were closing. Will

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still didn't say anything. He was waiting for me to

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make the next move. I tossed him the rifle. Thanks Red.

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He got to his knees and started across a little clearing.

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He was still all right when he died behind a boulder.

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I knew where he was heading too. Noah Temple had

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been shooting from behind a clump of pines about fifty

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yards back for a couple of minutes. I didn't get

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a chance to watch him. Temple's two guards were on

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either side of me. Now one of them was more

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than eight ten feet away. I saw the barrel of

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his car being rise up and behind the bush. Not

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only one guard left at that time. Seemed like he'd

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had enough anyway. I moved across the clear and towards

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the pine trees where Will had disappeared, pulled up behind

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a rock. There was no Temple, crouched down low, his

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gun ready. Little bit of movement in the brush caught

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my eye. It was Will.

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Speaker 4: He was right behind a temple.

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Speaker 2: The temple did not he was looking my way. Will

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had a perfect shot. I saw Will's finger curl around

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the trigger.

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Speaker 1: But.

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Speaker 2: Will didn't fire. I couldn't figure out what gun nto him.

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He didn't fire, and then he threw his rifle to

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one side and let out a yell. Temple turned and

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got off a shot. Well. He was surprised. He couldn't

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do much aiming. And then Will was on top of

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up and twisting the gun out of his hands. And

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after that I saw a fight the like of which

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I've never seen before in my life. Lard Will hit

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the Temple across the face and he went over backwards,

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and then Temple kicked in his foot lifted Will right

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off the ground. But before Temple could pick himself up,

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Will Will was right on top of him again, and

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Temple tried to reach for his gun, and Will brought

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his boot right down on Temple's hand. Temple quit reaching,

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and then Will backed away and let Temple up again.

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And as soon as Temple was studying again, Will drove

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his dif flight in the Temple's stomach and Temple his

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hand full a party was wide open. Will hit him again,

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and hit him, hit him again again. Finally, finally Temple

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managed to send his fist and the Will's face him.

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Will looked like maybe he was going to go down,

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but he still had to fight left to land the

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right that snapped Temple right back, and it was Temple

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a tall blow over, and then I knew he wasn't

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going to get up again, not for quite a while.

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Feel better, well, yeah, yeah, lots better. You had your

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chance to kill him you had a perfect shot. You

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didn't have to fight him that way. It's the only

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way I could fight him. Brett.

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Speaker 12: Huh, I had him in my sight. Something kept me

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from pulling the trigger. Maybe you think I'm crazy. I

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can't remembering what I promised, Sarah, I wouldn't use the

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gun again. I couldn't pull that trigger, Britt, I just couldn't.

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Uh huh.

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Speaker 2: Well, let's let's see if we can get Temple here

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to a doctor. You know, it looks like he needs one.

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We left all with the doctor Temple, Sady and I

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started off Radburry, I've I made up my mind to

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tell the Marshal about well, all about him, Sarah and

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Well the agreed. They they like a show though.

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Speaker 12: But then again, and the way I see it right now,

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the state of Texas.

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Speaker 2: Is looking for a gun total bank lobber named Will Techman,

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and I just don't think Marshall Sandon would be very

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much understood in the law. Biden Rancher's called Will Feather.

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Speaker 1: I'd like to take a minute here to remind you

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Orchestra and Chorus under the direction of Howard Barlow on

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the Voice of Firestone. Another great Monday Night favorite is

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the Telephone Hour, with its wonderful program of music directed

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by Donald Bories. Yes, every Monday Night here these three

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fine musical programs on NBC Radio. Coleman, America's leader in

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modern automatic home heating equipment, and the National Broadcasting Company

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have presented James Stewart as the six Shooter. Mister Stewart

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may currently be seen in the Universal International picture Thunder Bay.

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Others in the cast were Michael Ann Barrett, herb Ellis

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Howard mcneer and Will Wright. The Six Shooter is an

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NBC Radio Network production in association with Review Productions, and

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it is based on a character created by Frank Burt

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and today's transcribed story was written by him. Special music

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was by Basilasmm and the entire production is under the

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direction of Jack Johnstone. All characters and incidents were fictitious,

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and any resemblance to actual characters or incidents is purely coincidental.

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