Speaker 1: Mister, you killed nine men. I never heard anyone say
Speaker 1: you made allowances for your opponent's ability with a gun.
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: a man called Paladin. Good morning, mister Paladin, Good morning,
Speaker 1: Good morning, mister Paladin. Good morning, mister Davis. I'm going
Speaker 1: to be at the Pacific Union Club. I was wondering
Speaker 1: if there's any mail form the clerk a room? Please?
Speaker 2: Do you have a reservation? No reservation? This trip came
Speaker 2: up suddenly you have references.
Speaker 3: I'm Ned Alcorn, president of the City Bank in Placerville.
Speaker 2: Here are my credentials?
Speaker 4: Well, yes, oh, yes, of course, mister Alcorn. If you
Speaker 4: will sign here, excuse me, mister, wait a minute, clerk, Yes, sir,
Speaker 4: I want you to take a good look at this picture.
Speaker 4: Andfred Holt wanted dead or alive two thousand dollars reward.
Speaker 3: This man might show up here a desperado here in
Speaker 3: San Francisco.
Speaker 1: May I see that? Cool? Oh?
Speaker 5: I beg your pardon.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, my name is Paladin, mister Alcorn. I couldn't
Speaker 1: help overhearing. Oh, this Manfred Holt, wasn't he to be
Speaker 1: hanged last week in Placerville. Why yes, he broke out
Speaker 1: of jail three days ago, killed two deputies. You think
Speaker 1: he's coming here?
Speaker 3: I think so. Yes, He's killed nine men, and he'll
Speaker 3: come after me sooner or later. Why well, I was
Speaker 3: the chief witness against him at the trial. Oh, I
Speaker 3: see his wife's living in a cabin up in Grass Valley.
Speaker 3: She had a son born while the trial was on.
Speaker 3: Holt's war in court. That he'd see the infant and
Speaker 3: then come after me.
Speaker 1: And me'll probably be better for you if Holt was
Speaker 1: stopped in Grass Valley would of course.
Speaker 3: As it is, there's a sheriff in a couple of
Speaker 3: deputies chasing him up there.
Speaker 5: For all the good it'll do.
Speaker 3: This makes the fourth time Hosts got away from Sheriff Ludlow.
Speaker 3: Oh that's Sheriff's not too smart.
Speaker 1: I'm no body hunter, mister Alcorne. However, I am available
Speaker 1: for a fee to do what here. My card.
Speaker 2: Have gone, we'll travel.
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Speaker 5: It was a long.
Speaker 1: Ride from San Francisco to Grass Valley, and I had
Speaker 1: a lot of time to think about this outlaw, this
Speaker 1: Manfred Holt, who had killed nine men, nine men lying
Speaker 1: dead somewhere because of him, and his wife had just
Speaker 1: born him a child. It's a strange sort of cycling.
Speaker 1: Near noon of the second day, I rode out into
Speaker 1: a wide meadow and suddenly pulled up short. Three men
Speaker 1: were spread out along the side of a knoll. The
Speaker 1: rifle was ready. They were working towards a thicket in
Speaker 1: the middle of the clearing. I dismounted and walked forward.
Speaker 6: Even a hope. You don't have a chance, yeah, named
Speaker 6: Henri Fool.
Speaker 7: Huh what are you doing here, mister?
Speaker 1: I want to talk to you, Sheriff. I'm coming in.
Speaker 8: Where'd you come from?
Speaker 1: San Francisco? You Jake Ludlow?
Speaker 7: Maybe I am.
Speaker 1: That's Manfred Holt. You've got boxed up over there.
Speaker 5: What do you know about all?
Speaker 1: This man named Alcorn wants me to see that Holt
Speaker 1: has returned to Plascerville. I was on my way to
Speaker 1: his wife's cabin when we caught up to him. His
Speaker 1: hold alone. Yeah, just him, got a saddle horse and
Speaker 1: pack horse. And you don't need any help, not unless
Speaker 1: you want to save us some time and start digging
Speaker 1: his grave might surrender. You think I'd chanced two days
Speaker 1: on the trail back to Placerville with hold.
Speaker 8: He's already killed two of my deputies.
Speaker 1: He was tried and found guilty. They're going to hang him,
Speaker 1: aren't they hang later?
Speaker 6: Shop?
Speaker 1: Now, what's the difference, the difference between justice and murder?
Speaker 8: It's a pack horse stopping here bringing down. That's fine, shooting,
Speaker 8: just fine.
Speaker 1: You missed him, You were too late.
Speaker 8: He was flying a crazy eyed fool.
Speaker 6: What are we gonna do, sir?
Speaker 8: Start closing in. I'll come in from this side.
Speaker 1: Do you think he's still in there?
Speaker 8: Better put that fancy gun in your hand.
Speaker 7: You might need it.
Speaker 1: Perhaps he was under the canvas on that pack horse.
Speaker 6: Who are you?
Speaker 2: Mister?
Speaker 1: Name's Paladin?
Speaker 8: All right, paladin, keep your eyes open, Sheriff. He's gone.
Speaker 8: Ain't nobody in these trees? Looks like he got away
Speaker 8: from us again? And what did you do to stop him?
Speaker 1: There are his shells. He was firing from here, and
Speaker 1: he crossed over here where his horses were, and he
Speaker 1: climbed on one of the pack horse. He was under
Speaker 1: the canvas at slippery murdering devil. Gage you follow his trail,
Speaker 1: me and able hit straight for his cabin.
Speaker 7: One way or other.
Speaker 8: We'll find him. His saddle horse is over there. You
Speaker 8: want him, No, he just flows up.
Speaker 1: Leave them bee uh, Sheriff, I'll meet you at the cabin. Look, Paladin,
Speaker 1: you cross Holts trail. Just get out of the way.
Speaker 1: There's eleven men. I know.
Speaker 8: I've tried to beat him on the draw. They're all
Speaker 8: wearing marble slab hats.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 1: The sheriff and his partner Abe headed out for Holt's cabin,
Speaker 1: while the other deputy Gage followed the trail of the
Speaker 1: pack horse. When they were well on their way, I
Speaker 1: moved over towards the biggest cottonwood in the thicket. You
Speaker 1: can come down out of that tree. Now, hold, there's
Speaker 1: no point in trying to shoot. You make too good
Speaker 1: a target against the sky.
Speaker 6: All right, I'm coming down.
Speaker 1: Why do you throw your gun down?
Speaker 5: First?
Speaker 2: Here?
Speaker 1: It is all right, come on down.
Speaker 2: How do you know I was still here?
Speaker 1: You rode the pack horse under the tree and swung
Speaker 1: up a branch without touching the ground. How'd you get
Speaker 1: the horse to keep running and slip a burr under
Speaker 1: the pack saddle?
Speaker 6: Sharp rock?
Speaker 9: Hate to do it, old Jenny, but she'll keep going
Speaker 9: till she shakes that rock loose. You knew all the time. Huh,
Speaker 9: what's your name?
Speaker 1: Taladan? Why don't you tell little you would have killed you?
Speaker 9: And you what you're gonna do.
Speaker 1: I'm taking you back to Plastersville.
Speaker 9: To be I'm at a county farewell. I hawk buttons
Speaker 9: off of my shirt of souvenirs.
Speaker 1: Let's go, man ought to be.
Speaker 9: Let die like a man at the hands of a man.
Speaker 2: What are you messing in this for?
Speaker 9: Anyway?
Speaker 5: The reward?
Speaker 1: Al Corn hired me to see that you don't reach him.
Speaker 3: Al Corn hired your gun out of that quiver in
Speaker 3: tub of gully mud.
Speaker 9: Can't even fight his own fights against you? Well, any
Speaker 9: man can't handle a gun. Got no business west of
Speaker 9: the Mississippi, all right?
Speaker 1: Not up?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 9: Total, it is half days ride from Here's my cabin.
Speaker 9: My wife and my boy are there. I got a
Speaker 9: present to give the boy.
Speaker 1: I see you.
Speaker 9: Let me get the cabin first. I'll go quiet with
Speaker 9: you to Plasserville.
Speaker 1: No trouble.
Speaker 9: He got my word. I'm not begging, mister, I'm offering
Speaker 9: my word.
Speaker 1: The sheriff will be waiting at the cabin.
Speaker 9: I'm gonna give my son his present.
Speaker 1: You've never seen your son.
Speaker 9: No, he's only been around three weeks.
Speaker 1: Then you up to see before you go to Placuareville.
Speaker 1: Let's go.
Speaker 6: Mm about me tail say correct till turn steps, can't
Speaker 6: sail turns stap.
Speaker 7: It makes good sense when you smoke, can't can't sail
Speaker 7: turns best.
Speaker 6: All of the brands of correct.
Speaker 10: Can taste, can't taste stuff best oratur taste ben all direct, can't.
Speaker 1: Tell her best.
Speaker 2: It makes good than when you smoke, can't from.
Speaker 6: All tails correct.
Speaker 3: He ain't this the country, though, I tell you the
Speaker 3: Sierra's not have a place beat good country.
Speaker 9: There's a narrow trail up my head, going up over
Speaker 9: that cliff and.
Speaker 5: Save some time.
Speaker 1: Okay, we'll take it.
Speaker 9: Wish my stomach to quit barking it hungry chewing on
Speaker 9: this horse. He does still long enough.
Speaker 6: I have some of this jerky.
Speaker 5: Used to like jerky until.
Speaker 6: I'm married up with Sarah.
Speaker 9: Got you woman cooking.
Speaker 6: It's pretty good.
Speaker 3: Here's a trail I mentioned, all right, you lead the way. Yeah, yes, sir,
Speaker 3: A woman sure changing the man.
Speaker 1: It's too bad she didn't change your ways with a gun.
Speaker 1: You might have had more time together.
Speaker 6: Man has to be the way he is.
Speaker 3: I don't like somebody I reached for a gun, just
Speaker 3: natural a way you reach the scratching edge.
Speaker 1: Maybe you staf's here a tricky ground. You can't go
Speaker 1: around killing everybody you don't like.
Speaker 11: Does kind of sound like I got me some bad habits. Still,
Speaker 11: it don't seem right to hold a carnival and string
Speaker 11: me up. I got a son now. Can't you just
Speaker 11: see him going around saying my daddy got hung?
Speaker 1: Oh, man lives more important than how he dies.
Speaker 6: Well, it's my finish.
Speaker 9: They'll be remembering. Mold up ahead around that bend where gets.
Speaker 6: Seat narrow and steep you hug the wall.
Speaker 10: Okay, if my boy could say my daddy stood up
Speaker 10: like a man in a gunfight, got shot down like
Speaker 10: a man working a gun, that's something else again, then take.
Speaker 1: Hold out since you just lose the saddle, slipp it.
Speaker 6: N you hurt.
Speaker 1: I'm all right, I need to help getting up. Drop
Speaker 1: me a rope.
Speaker 6: How you're down there on that ledger and I'm up?
Speaker 1: Come on, come on, man, got a rope down here?
Speaker 1: How it is?
Speaker 7: You know what I got to do?
Speaker 6: You're taking me back to hand?
Speaker 1: Hurry up, hold this ledge won't hold me, brother, real, sorry, Pala,
Speaker 1: I thought you never killed a man except with the gun. Hold.
Speaker 6: Hold grab this rope, Palad. I got it all right, mister.
Speaker 5: Come thanks, oh, thanks, called for.
Speaker 9: You didn't turn me over, Jake Lutdloe when you could
Speaker 9: have see you saved my life. Man, you wouldn't have
Speaker 9: been down there if it wasn't you went off of
Speaker 9: your trails as I could see my son the way
Speaker 9: I see it.
Speaker 5: Now we're quitch, all right.
Speaker 1: Neither of us owes the other anything fair.
Speaker 5: Let you keep your eyes open. Now that's my cabin.
Speaker 1: There sheriff and Abe probably in the signed.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 9: Who I've got to get in there? You will, but
Speaker 9: you got in mind.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna wedge this oh now, oh, wedge this pebble
Speaker 1: between the shoe and hoof and horse in mine. I
Speaker 1: used stay on a sight until let alone his man
Speaker 1: right now, come on, boy.
Speaker 7: Come on, oh you finally got here.
Speaker 1: Sheriff here, your man Gage caught up the man for
Speaker 1: the holt back near where you had him corner this morning.
Speaker 5: He got him?
Speaker 1: No, no he didn't, uh Gage did? He was still
Speaker 1: able to talk when I left him back at the
Speaker 1: clearing wouldn't hurt to get him to a doctor.
Speaker 5: Bad.
Speaker 1: Huh, Well, there's nothing I could do for him even No, No,
Speaker 1: I'm not going nowhere, not alone, not with Holt out
Speaker 1: there someplace, all right, get her horses, we go together.
Speaker 8: Okay, what's your man with your horse?
Speaker 1: Palad Ay, he's gone lame. I can't ride this way.
Speaker 1: You sure can't le like I'm stuck here.
Speaker 8: Well, you'd better hide in the woods till we get back.
Speaker 5: Here.
Speaker 8: We are here, all right. If a hold get here
Speaker 8: before we get back, use that.
Speaker 7: Gun all right.
Speaker 1: Time was when the sedan chair was considered the height
Speaker 1: of luxury. When you think of all the places you
Speaker 1: go and all the things you now do by a radio,
Speaker 1: a sedan chair doesn't seem like much of a luxury
Speaker 1: at all. Tuned to a radio network like the CBS
Speaker 1: Radio network, you can in a matter of moments travel
Speaker 1: to foreign capitals to learn what's happening to individuals or
Speaker 1: whole nations at a time. The cause of network like
Speaker 1: CBS Radio is made up of many stations, stations like
Speaker 1: the one you're listening to now, The smartest supper clubs
Speaker 1: from New York to San Francisco invite you to dance
Speaker 1: to the music of the big name bands night after
Speaker 1: night they call CBS Radio's vast network facilities extend in
Speaker 1: every direction. You can laugh with the funniest comedians in
Speaker 1: Hollywood or on Broadway, then move on to a serious
Speaker 1: discussion of space age problems and all in the course
Speaker 1: of an evening. By all means, use that sedan chair
Speaker 1: if you have one, But if you want to go
Speaker 1: places fast, take CBS Radio along. The little cabin sat
Speaker 1: quiet and alone in the lush green valley. There was
Speaker 1: only a dust cloud over in the west to show
Speaker 1: where Ludlow and Abe were tracking the other deputy. I
Speaker 1: turned and motioned, hoped to come in. There was some
Speaker 1: whopper you told, But we won't have much time before
Speaker 1: they find Gage. You better give your son a presenter, Palladin.
Speaker 9: Yes, you and me now reached the point where we
Speaker 9: stop counting what we owe each other.
Speaker 5: Sarah, what's this I hear about you?
Speaker 1: Braten void you?
Speaker 3: Oh no, sir, No, don't don't be carrying on. So
Speaker 3: you knew I'd be alone. I knew I brought friends, Sir.
Speaker 3: Here's mister Palladin, this is old.
Speaker 12: Won't you come in?
Speaker 1: No, thank you. I'll stay out here. You two have
Speaker 1: a lot of talking to catch up.
Speaker 5: That's true, That's surely true.
Speaker 9: Come on now, Sarah, you show me what you've been up.
Speaker 6: Sorry, it was so long in there.
Speaker 9: Paladin takes a lot of talking for a woman to
Speaker 9: tell about bearing a child.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess it does.
Speaker 2: It's a good drinking water in it.
Speaker 1: That's a good pump.
Speaker 9: You got here too, And I got me a son, Paladin,
Speaker 9: fine strappings.
Speaker 1: Did you give him his present?
Speaker 5: I sure did?
Speaker 9: I give him my name man for Holt Junior.
Speaker 1: I see you've picked up a present for yourself.
Speaker 5: Yeah, a gun. You know what's funny, fella, and the
Speaker 5: fellow like me has just got to have one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's get a moving sheriffo'l be back any minute.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to Plasierville with you, Yes you are,
Speaker 3: hold not for that crowd waiting earn Plasterville.
Speaker 9: Not until I find that Alcorn. Anyway, he hired me
Speaker 9: to see that.
Speaker 1: You don't kill him.
Speaker 3: Never would feel right now, and he's walking the same
Speaker 3: earth I am. I'd see he had a gun, now.
Speaker 1: You've talked about that, hope. He's not very good with
Speaker 1: a gun.
Speaker 6: Too bad.
Speaker 1: If you went on, there'd be other men, some of
Speaker 1: them pretty helpless that you wouldn't like. You'd have to
Speaker 1: kill them.
Speaker 9: A man just has to be what he is. I
Speaker 9: guess that holds for you too.
Speaker 1: That's right, and I was hoping it wouldn't turn out
Speaker 1: this way.
Speaker 9: Hold nothing you can do now to change.
Speaker 3: You won't ride back with me, you know. Let's move
Speaker 3: away from the cabin. She'd been told not to come
Speaker 3: out Deili. Every one's gone no matter what.
Speaker 1: She won't all right, there, don't try nothing.
Speaker 9: Fancy Palladan winging the shoulder of the lack man like me.
Speaker 9: You either kill or he kills you.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 9: First I'm figuring the beat you.
Speaker 1: I'm awful good.
Speaker 7: That pump.
Speaker 9: When the next drop of water falls, we both fire.
Speaker 1: Can you see it next dropping? Yeah? I can see
Speaker 1: it building uphold, Yeah, it's coming. I'm sorry, Manfred.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry for.
Speaker 9: Saving me from that that plastic real circus.
Speaker 5: Manfred Junior.
Speaker 2: He don't like for his paw to get me.
Speaker 6: Mary oh Man.
Speaker 1: First he wouldn't let me avoid it.
Speaker 12: He told me it would be like this, that you
Speaker 12: might do this for him, for him, It's bound to
Speaker 12: come We've always known that he shared his life only
Speaker 12: with many respected. So it was with his death.
Speaker 1: It was nearly dusk when I had finished the grave
Speaker 1: and fixed a simple marker to go on it. An
Speaker 1: evening breeze was coming afresh from the high mountains, and
Speaker 1: in a half light I could see Sarah, her son
Speaker 1: in her arms, standing by the cabin. Later, if tried
Speaker 1: said good bye and had written to the low hills
Speaker 1: that ringed the valley. I turned to look back again.
Speaker 1: Now there was no one in sight, but a trail
Speaker 1: of smoke came from the chimney, and I knew the
Speaker 1: woman was cooking the evening meal, and there was a
Speaker 1: wonderful piece in the meadowland.
Speaker 2: Welcome home, mister Paladin.
Speaker 1: Thank you, it's good to be back.
Speaker 4: While you were away, the San Francisco papers carried the
Speaker 4: full story of your killing, Manfred Holt.
Speaker 1: And your reward two thousand dollars.
Speaker 9: Oh and yes, mister Alcorn left this envelope for you.
Speaker 1: Here you are my fee. Yes, that's what I came
Speaker 1: back for. I'll be leaving in the morning.
Speaker 4: Mister Davis, leaving so soon, something important, very important.
Speaker 1: I have two envelopes to deliver to a young widow
Speaker 1: and her son in Grass Valley. Have Gun Will Travel,
Speaker 1: created by Herb Meadow and Sam Rath, is produced and
Speaker 1: directed by Norman McDonald and stars John Dayner as Paladin,
Speaker 1: with Ben Wright as hey Boy. Tonight's story was written
Speaker 1: by Sam Rafth and adapted for radio by Frank Michael.
Speaker 1: Featured in the cast were Lawrence Dopkins, Frank Katie, Ralph Moody,
Speaker 1: Joseph Kerns, Gene Landsworth and Sam Edwards H. Douglas speaking
Speaker 1: join us again next week or Have Gun Will Trouble
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