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Duration:: 33m
Broadcast on:: 14 Jul 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

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Mr. Dillon, I never saw a street like that. Huh? What do you mean, Justice? Dusty, sir. Plain dusting, it's only springing already, the plazas just vulgar with dust. Streets in Texas are all grass, just a-no, sir, but there better-ness, you'd think they'd be some way of fixing it. Oh, dodge is growing, just a-maybe some day it won't look so bad to you. I don't aim to live that long, sir. Well, I'm glad you got that much figured out anyway. I surely have-oh, now, wait, that's not what I meant either. Don't let it worry, it's just-how'd you get those posters down to Mr. Hightower? Yes, sir. He said they'll be ready about noon tomorrow. All right, pick him up, son, will you? Yes, sir. Oh, my goodness, Mr. Dillon, I nearly forgot. No? Well, after-forgot what? After I left Mr. Hightower's, I thought I'd just take a glass of beer, I had to get all that dust out of him and throw-you know how bad it is walking around, knee deep in that stuff. Yeah, yeah, all right, Chester. Well what is it you forgot? Well, sir, I dropped into the Texas Trail and Miss Kitty was there and she said she thinks there might be trouble over there before long and she said to tell you-oh? What kind of trouble? Oh, the usual thing, some man fighting over girl? Well, you don't seem to be very worried about it. I'm tired of people fighting. I wish they'd all just go away some words and kill each other off and have done with it. That'd be fine as long as they don't do it in dodge. Well, come on, Chester, let's go over and see what it's all about. To say to the new girl, Matt, she's shy as a clown. I don't know what she's doing here anyway. How do you know the name of the man? Morgan says, "I tried to get her away from him but I think she's too scared." Maybe she likes him. Did you ever think of that? I hope not. Anyway, you won't let anyone else dance with him, first two over at the bar near Chester there. They tried twice. I know one of those men, Mattall and his name is Horn. Who is he? Yeah, he's a gunman. Pretty fast too, so I've heard. Well, I was over there with to say the last time they came up and somehow from the way they talked, I got the feeling they're more interested in Dorgan than her. Oh, you mean they're trying to draw him into a fight? That's my guess, Matt. All right, Kenny, I'll see what I can do. Nice to say to him. Yes? I'm Matt Dillon. I'd be proud if you'd dance with me. Well, I don't think I'd better. Now, go ahead to say this, all right. You can dance with him. Mr. Dorgan, you told those others that I'd come to Marshall. Hello, Horn. This here is Watson. Howdy, Marshall. How are you? Oh, what's on your mind, Horn? We just wanted to let you know, Marshall, if there's any trouble here, we ain't responsible. Leave me alone and won't be any trouble. All we want, Marshall, is our turn with the girl here and Dorgan's had her hog the whole evening, and that ain't fair, and that's all. What's funny, Marshall? You sound like a man of the church social. I'm trying to be peaceable about it, it's all. I've seen you when you didn't try, Horn. What are you looking for, an excuse to work this man into a gunfight? Yeah, he sure is, Marshall. And I ain't got to take much more from him or Watson either. What's the real trouble between you? Well, there's no trouble, Marshall. We just want to dance with that girl, and that's all. Mm-hmm. You want to tell me, Dorgan? Nothing, Marshall. Nothing. All right. To say to go over there and sit with Kitty, would you? No, wait a minute, Marshall. To say to my girl, I've been buying her drinks. She's staying right here. Go ahead to say to go on over with Kitty. Well, I don't know which one it is. You just go to say to nobody, he'll stop you. All right, thank you for the drinks, Mr. Dorgan. Go on, Peter. Chester. You got a great way of handling things at all I can say. What is it, Mr. Dillon? Take their guns, Chester. Oh, no, you don't. Shut up, Watson. Well, you're going to let him do that? Well, you ain't looking for trouble. You're smarter than I figured, horn. Am I, Marshall? Get him, Chester. Yes, sir. Thank you very much. All right. All right. All right. All right. If your guns will be at the jail, you can pick them up in the morning. And you leave town. Leave town. All three of you. Good night, gentlemen. Taking his gun from a man like Horn was the fastest way in the world to get him out of the saloons and off the streets and behind cover somewhere. There were too many men who might show up out of his past and suddenly make their claim on him. And Horn was the one that really mattered. Either dark on her or Watson looked like real gunmen. So I thought I'd been pretty smart till the next morning. I was just crossing the plaza when I ran into Kitty and Chester. Ah. Map. We've been trying to find you. No. What's the matter, Kitty? Mr. Seder. I don't know where she is. Fine. I looked in her room this morning and she'd gone. Nobody's seen her anywhere. Oh, maybe she went out to buy some clothes or something. Oh, she was afraid to go out alone. I always had to go with her. I just know something's happened to her. Oh, like what? Dorgan. He was real sweet on her, Matt, and I don't trust him at all. Oh? Dorgan come by the office real early, Mr. Dylan. I gave him his gun and he vam-oosed he was in a big hurry to go someplace. Oh, I told him to leave town this morning. Well, you didn't tell him to take the Seder with him. Uh, did they get back together last night? Sure. Just as soon as Horan and Watson left, I couldn't stop him. I see. Uh, tell me, Kitty, can she ride? Oh, no. I asked her to go out with me once. All right. There was a stage west this morning. Go see if they got on it. Will you trust her? All right. Kitty, if she did leave with Dorgan, maybe it's because she wanted to. Oh, maybe. She wouldn't say anything about him last night one way or the other. I told you, I think she's afraid of him, Matt, but even if she did want to go, well, she isn't as kind. That's all? That may be, Kitty, but it's not the law's job to shaper on every girl that hits Dutch. What if she didn't want to go, Matt? What if he forced it to? That would be different, a whole lot different. You bet it was. They was on it, Mr. Dylan. The agent described him exactly, left an hour ago, right on time. I knew it. I knew it. Will I get our horses? No. No. Wait a minute, Chester. Dorgan might put up a fight, and if he does, we can't shoot around that girl. Well, then how can you stop him, Matt? Well, somehow I don't figure Dorgan is a really brave man. I think we can bluff him. He might try to fight two of us, but if there were more, say, maybe a dozen, man, what? You mean we'll take a posse? Yeah, well, this time it might just work, Chester, but I'll pick him. The man I can trust not to do any hasty shooting. Chester, you go round up Arnold Winters and John Kemp, Marty Walter, and Bob Gast, and I'll get the rest of them, and tell them we'll all meet at the jail in 20 minutes. Do you hear, Mr. Dylan? All right, I'm coming, Chester. All right, man, all right, listen to me now. Now I've picked you, men, because I know that you're steady, ever one of you. Now, there's a girl on that stage, and whatever happens, we can't return fire. Is that clear? All right, I'll figure out how we're going to stop them when we get there. You? Marshal. Well, what are you doing here? Hold it. Marshal, me and Watson hurt you needed help. I thought I told you to get out of town, Horn. We just want to be sure you got Dorgen before we left, Marshal. I don't need your help, and don't you be here when I get back either one of you. I don't like that, Watson. All right, men, all right, let's go. [MUSIC] It's a common, Mr. Dylan. All right, Chester. Men, spread out in a half circle. And the stage comes out of those cottonwoods, Chester and I will right forward and stop her. And then you close in around us. You got it? All right, let's go. [MUSIC] [MUSIC] What's the matter, Marshal? It's all right, Jim. I just want to talk to a couple of your passengers. You, Dorgen. Come on out. You try anything to say to be right in front of me, Marshal. I figured that, Dorgen. Come on out anyway. All right, to say to get out. [MUSIC] You're standing right here to say to him, "Don't move." You're what's on your mind, Marshal. I want to know if to say this here because she wants to be. That's all. Tell him to say to him. All right, tell him. Just tell me the truth to say to him. If you want to go with him, you may. But if he's forcing you to go, then we're here to take you back to Dodge. You wouldn't want her death on your conscience, would you, Marshal? Well, please don't kill me, I'll tell you. All right. I came because I wanted to. There. That's a good answer to say to him. Then go on back to Dodge and leave us alone. I guess you didn't hear the same thing I did, Dorgen. I'm warning you, Marshal. You haven't got a chance. How long do you think you can use her for cover? Now, I got 12 men here at Dorgen, and we'll follow you from here to California if necessary. Is that right, men? All right. And if she should get killed, I'll just let you imagine what we'll do to you. Now, you'll drop your gun bill right where you are and step forward. And do it now. Sure. All right, get his gun, just. Yes, sir. All right, what do you men get rid of your guns and put Dorgen up behind you? Mr. Dylan, what are we going to do with this data? She can't ride anyway, especially in those clothes. Well, the blood so places a couple of miles from here. Go over there and borrow that buckboard, Chester, and for your trouble, we'll let you drive her back to town. Yes, sir. My. Well, you wait right here, Mr. Satan. I'll be back in no time at all. Good morning, Mr. Dylan. Oh, Chester. What time did you get back with to say to last night, Chester? Well, now, a buckboard ain't like a horse. You can't drive it a lope all the way. That's all right, Jesse. Well, what have you got there? Your Dorgen's breakfast. You'll probably have to wake him up. He hasn't made a sound so far. Oh, there are the keys on the desk. Mr. Dylan? Yeah. Come here quick. What? Open the cell, Chester. Hurry. You might still be alive. I got a knife. All right. Cutting free. I'll hold it. No. No. No. He's been dead a long time. Now, who'd have thought he'd go hang himself? He didn't, Chester. What? There's no rope in his cell. Somebody called him over here to the window, knocked him in the head and slipped the rope around his neck and tied him tight to the bars. This isn't so aside. It's murder. Horn. Horn and that fella Watson. They did it. Well, we're the only ones I know who've been wanting him dead. Will we go arrest him? Yeah, they just go free again. I got no evidence the court would accept. I bet those two don't think anymore are strangling a man and shooting a wolf and throwing his skin over a fan. Their killer is Chester, but right now they got nobody to kill. Except maybe me. [music] We will return for the second act of gun smoke in just a moment, but first, make sure you're by your radio this Monday evening. For CBS Radio's Monday evening dramatic shows, the Lux Radio Theater and Suspense are putting on two of their top shows of the season. Suspense has a new writer, William Shakespeare by name, and they're staging his wonderful tale of love, vengeance, and murder of fellow with Richard Widmark as the star. And our Lux Radio Theater is bringing you the charming nostalgic story, "Wait till the Sun shines nelly" with David Wayne and Gene Peters in their original movie roles. Here's a date Monday night, Suspense and the Lux Radio Theater on most of these same stations. Now the second act of gun smoke. [music] When I found out that Horne and Watson were still in dodge, I figured that they were probably waiting for me to run them out. Now they'd be glad for the excuse if I did, even Dorgan's murder behind them. Instead I did nothing and I said nothing, hoping to send their nerve some, maybe drive them to a bottle and some loose talk. That night, pretend there was nothing in the world on our minds, Chester, and I walked into the Texas train. There is crowding tonight, Mr. Dylan. Yeah. See? There's to Satan. See ya? You're like a fall hog after ripe acorns, Chester. Well, now my gracious, it wouldn't be polite for me not to say hello, would it? I'll see you later. Uh, that fellow who just left, is he coming back, kitty? He went broke. Sit down, man. You drinking? No. Not tonight. Well, expecting trouble. Yeah, maybe. [laughs] Look at Chester and just say to them, "I sure wish this place were quieter. I'd give anything to know what they're saying." It may get noisier. What? Look over there, Watson just came in. Say, he's drunk, knife. He's real drunk. Yeah. He's just going to start trouble again. Look, he spotted to say to him, "I don't see horn." Well, horn hasn't been in the night. I said I was going to dance with her. You're a local drunk, Watson, get out of here and leave the lady alone. Ha ha ha. What lady? You take that back. Matt. Are you from Texas, mister? Yeah. Yes, I am. Well, now, if I was from Texas, I'd certainly keep it on myself. You're wrong, Watson. There's a lot of good, decent people in Texas. Maybe, since you left. I said, "One of you can even get a woman like this." Don't you be judging the people of Texas? Matt. Matt! [laughs] Hi. What's up? All right. Get out of here. All right. Get out of the way. Let me through. [chatter] He... he grew on the mister doing the... how's he only going to fight him? I didn't think he'd draw. Everybody saw a Chester he had his gun out first. I shot him. Twice. He didn't even fire. How come he didn't kill him? Don't take it easy, Chester. I just said it. Go get him a drink with you. Yes, sir. Do it away. [knocking] Uh, Watson. Uh, Watson. Uh, Watson. Uh, Watson. Uh, Watson. Uh, Watson. Uh, Watson. Uh, Watson. Uh, Watson. Uh, Watson. Uh, Watson. Uh, Watson. Uh, Watson. Uh, Watson. Uh, Watson. Uh, Watson. Uh, Watson, listen to me. Uh, the juice triangle of Dargan. Dargan. We killed him. Me and Horne. Right in jail. There it comes. If I take Horne alive, I'll call on some of you men as witnesses to Watson's confession here. Yeah. Well, uh, a couple of you take him out back. Yeah. Chester. You all right? You look peaky. I got him a whiskey, sir. Just like you said. Drink it down, Chester. Yeah. Mr. Dillon? Yeah. Mr. Dillon? If he hadn't have been drunk. I couldn't have shot him. Well, that may be, Chester. But don't forget one thing drunk as he was. He drew to kill you. If you'd given him another second he would have. You had to shoot him. It was self-defense, pure and simple. Yes, it is. That's sure. True, but I... Now, you stay here for a while. I'll be out in the plaza. To save him. Get me one more breeze. Word of the gunfight would spread fast and dodge. And the word of the dying man's confession even faster. Wherever horn was, I knew he'd hear about it. And since he was a gunman of an entirely different breed from men like Watson and Dorgan, it could be depended on it instead of running it and shoot it out with me. It was a simple matter of vanity and there was no way to stop it. The only thing I could do was wait. Expectantly, the plaza cleared. But before a horn showed up, Chester came out of the Texas trail and walked over to me. Mr. Dylan? You all right now, Chester? I'm fine. But say, I just heard the horns gone and got himself a shotgun. Now, is that so? You can't meet him like this. I'll go get you on out of the office. No! But Mr. Dylan, a shot gun! I know. But if horn's done that, he's lost his nerve. It means he can't face me any other way. Yeah, but you haven't got a chance against a shotgun. I will soon find out. There he comes. No. He does have a shotgun, Mr. Dylan. All right, get off the street, Chester. I don't like to leave. Go on. Yes, sir. Evening, Marshal. You're well armed, horn. Yeah, ain't I? This is the first time, isn't it? First time, what? You had to get behind a shotgun. I ain't taking no chances, Marshal. Sure. But from what I've heard, I've never bothered you before. Meaning? You're fast enough with a sick gun to have lived this long, horn. You must be pretty good. But you're thrown, huh? You've lost your nerve. You're not a gunman anymore. You're just ordinary dirt common. That's enough of that. I could find a dozen men like you on any saloon in town. It was different before horn. You kind of stood out a little. Nobody's going to worry about you after this. You think, now? You think I need this shotgun? Of course you need it. Everybody can see that. I ain't scared of you, Marshal. I ain't scared of no man alive. Talks cheap. I ain't taught her. Yeah, now. You got no shotgun. Now don't you tell me I'm scared. You don't have to draw, horn. You can still take your chances and court. It was right, Marshal. I was scared. I ain't no more. Look, I'm giving you a chance. Why don't you take it? Never mind. You all right, Mr. Dillon? Yeah. Yeah, Chester. It's been a long day. Let's go somewhere and try and forget it. ♪ Gunsmoke, under the direction of Norman McDonald, stars William Conrad as Matt Dillon, U.S. Marshals. Tonight's story was especially written for Gunsmoke by John Meston with music composed and conducted by Rex Corey. Featured in the cast were Tom Tully, Lawrence Dobgin, Paul Duboff, and Lillian Byeth. Harley Bear is Chester and Georgia Ellis is Kitty. Gunsmoke is heard by our troops overseas through the facilities of the Armed Forces radio service. 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