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Come on, get your head around. Come on, Rad. I got the horses out here. Let's get moving.
I'll be along, Bones.
Oh, even that right gut they call whiskey is gonna... Whatcha doing?
Changing my shirt.
Changing your shirt.
You ever think you're doing that, Bone?
Not for going into Dodge City, I can tell you. You're a waste of time.
Gals might think different.
Eh, not them gals, Rad. All they're interested in is your money, they. They don't care if you smell pretty or not.
You sure don't have to worry about that, Bone.
Besides, if they want a slicked-up dude, they can make eyes at that Easterner blew in a few days ago. What's his name?
Scott.
Yeah, yeah, Scott. He's kinda interested in your little gal out at the Long Branch, ain't he?
He better not be.
Well, I seen him with her last night when I was in town. He'd be a tough man to beat, Rad. I bet he changes his shirt every other day or so.
I'll change it for him if he ain't careful.
And I hear his daddy's rich. Now, there's a tough hand to beat. Money, good looks.
He's gonna lose them both if he don't stay away from Miss Laurie.
Miss Laurie?
Yeah.
Ain't we getting polite now?
Shut up, Bone.
Now, you sure you got yourself fixed up pretty enough for her?
Bone, you start writing...
Now, don't you worry, now. Cause you have any trouble with that dude, you just come to old Bone.
I won't need no help.
I thought you was in a hurry.
Well, I am. I'm dry.
Then stop talking and let's get going.
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Ah. Well, this may not be the best beer in the world, Kitty, but it's a lot better than that stuff they serve up at Hayes City.
Well, thanks a lot.
Yeah, Kitty, this saloon, bad as it is, looks mighty good after some of the places I've been in on this trip.
Now, look here, Matt. You get as good a run for your money here as any place in Kansas.
Well, I was just saying, Kitty, that I'm glad to be back.
You better be.
Excuse me, Miss Kitty.
Oh, hello, Andy. You know Marshall Dillon?
Marshall?
This is Andy Scott, Matt.
Glad to know you, Andy.
Andy's on a visit from back east.
Oh, a business trip?
No, no, it's a graduation present from my father, Marshall. This trip out here, I mean.
Ah.
When I get back home this fall, I'll be going to work.
That sounds like you better enjoy yourself while you can.
Yes, I guess that's right.
Miss Kitty.
Yeah?
I was looking for Laurie.
She ought to be here any time.
Oh, well, I'll...
Andy, if you have a minute, why don't you sit down? I'd like to talk to you about something.
All right.
You want a beer?
No, thank you.
Kitty, I'll be over at the bar.
You can stay if you want. It's not private.
Oh, I know that, but Mr. Hightower just came in. He has some papers for me. So, I'll see you later.
What did you want to talk about?
Laurie.
Oh? What about her?
She's very young, you know, Andy. She's just 18.
Yes, I know.
And I wouldn't want to see her hurt.
Neither would I.
If her parents were alive, she wouldn't be working here at all.
Miss Kitty, Laurie and I have become good friends, very good friends. And she's told me a lot about herself.
I'm sure she has.
She was stranded. She needed money and a place to stay and people to be around.
I don't think it's been hurting her, working here, I mean.
I don't either.
Then what you're saying is that you don't want to see her hurt by me.
That's right.
Neither do I.
You're seeing an awful lot of each other. She's pretty fond of you.
I hope she is.
But with you, this whole thing's just part of your trip west, your big adventure on the plains.
It's after you leave that I'm worried about.
When the time comes for me to leave, I hope Laurie will leave with me, come back to Philadelphia to stay.
You're talking about marriage?
Yes, I am.
I see.
Now, if you'll excuse me.
I'll see you later, Miss Kitty.
Sure.
I sure solved a lot that time, didn't I?
Just swing them doors open for me, Rat. I'm a thirsty man.
You swing them open for yourself, Bone.
Oh, Louis.
Come on, Rat. I'll buy a first round.
Hey, hey, hey.
What?
Look at there.
Lookie. Just like I told you.
That clean shirt ain't gonna do you no good. That dude's already beaten your time.
Yeah. You order up some beer. I'll be back.
All right.
Hey, Sam.
Yes.
Miss Laurie?
Hello, Rat.
I want you to come sit with me.
Rat, I'm sorry, but I'm engaged for the evening.
You are, huh?
A young, wet-eared dude comes town, moves in on all the gals.
I'm only interested in one of the ladies, Dawson, and she accepted my invitation first.
Well, don't that sound pretty now?
Rat, please don't make any trouble.
What? I ain't gonna make no trouble, Miss Laurie. Not tonight.
Rat.
I tell you how it's gonna be.
I'm coming to town every night from now on, and all them engagements are gonna be with me.
It seems to me that's up to Miss Laurie.
Sure enough. It's up to Miss Laurie.
And if she wants you to be able to get back where you come from in one piece, schoolboy, she'll see it my way.
You get out of here.
Sure I will. I'll go right now.
But you better not let me catch you near this gal again, schoolboy.
I'll teach you a new kind of lesson.
Sociable, up-to-date, debonair.
What's this, a new word game?
No, I'm just mentioning the qualities that people admire in other people.
Oh, I see. If you're sociable, up-to-date, and what was that other word, debonair?
Yes, debonair. But listen to it this way.
Be sociable or smart
Keep up-to-date with Pepsi
Drink light, refreshing Pepsi
Stay young and fair and debonair
Be sociable, have a Pepsi
Notice how many of your friends are serving Pepsi-Cola these days.
It's the up-to-date refreshment.
Be sociable, serve Pepsi
I hope that offer didn't look like it.
Mr. Dillon?
What's on your mind, Chester?
We gotta get cleaned up.
What's happened? Clean up for what?
Coming to see you, that's what's... Excuse me, Mr. Dillon, I gotta get things picked up.
Chester, will you leave those papers on my desk alone?
Well, all right, but it looks awful tacky.
Now just stand still and tell me what this is all about. Who's coming to see me?
Why, that pretty little Laurie Benson, Mr. Dillon.
I just seen her having dinner over at Delmonco's, and that's what she said.
She said she was coming right down here. That's what... Oh, my goodness, there she is.
Just take it easy, Chester. I think we can handle it.
I surely do hope so. How'd it do, Miss Laurie? Come right in.
Hello, Chester. Marshal Dillon.
Hello, Laurie.
Marshal, I don't know if I should have come here or not, but...
Well, I need help.
Oh? Well, why don't you sit down?
Let me dust off this chair for you.
Well, thank you, Chester.
Now, Laurie. We surely would be glad to help you, Miss Laurie.
That's very kind of you.
All you have to do is just say the word, and we'll be there fixing up anything that you need fixing up.
Ain't that so, Mr. Dillon?
Well, I think we ought to know what it was first, Chester, don't you?
Well, yes, sir, of course. We'd have to know what it was first.
Now, all you need to do is just speak right up, Miss Laurie.
Well, I want... That's right. Now, you just tell us.
Chester. Mr. Dillon?
Weren't you on your way over to the livery stable to see how that sore-legged horse was getting on?
Well, Chester, I was.
All right.
All right. Excuse me, Miss Laurie.
Certainly, Chester.
Now, Laurie, what's on your mind?
Marshal Dillon, can one man keep another man from seeing somebody?
Oh. Well, I'd say that would depend on the men, Laurie.
I have a friend named Andrew Scott.
Oh, yes, I met him.
Well, do you know Red Dawson?
Mm-hmm. I know Dawson.
Well, he seems to like me. He's always been, well, very nice until Andy came to dodge.
Now Rad says he'll hurt Andy if Andy and I see any more of each other.
That's not too surprising, Laurie.
Andy's stubborn, Marshal. I'm afraid he'll get hurt.
I don't want him to get hurt on account of me.
He seems to have a mind of his own.
But, Marshal, they mustn't fight.
I thought you might kind of talk to them.
I tell you, Laurie, stopping a couple of men from fighting over a pretty girl is something that I can't do much about.
You're laughing at me.
No, no, Laurie, I'm not laughing at you. I'm very serious.
It's just that, well, this kind of thing isn't exactly in my department.
Then you won't help me? You won't talk to them?
I'll do anything I can, Laurie, to help you, but there's just one thing.
What's that?
I can't promise that either one of them is going to pay any attention to what I say.
I'll say this right, it's mighty interesting coming to town every night, but I sure don't know how long money's going to hold out.
I ain't begging you to come with me every time, though.
But it just don't seem right for me to let you come here alone.
Look, looky there coming out of Delmonico's.
Don't seem like you scared that schoolboy so bad after all.
You shut up.
Little gal hanging on his arm so nice and pretty.
Thought you wasn't going to stand for that no more, right?
I ain't, bone, I ain't. Now come on.
You, schoolboy, turn around.
Andy, don't do it.
You calling me?
Hey, you're wearing a gun, right?
You better be.
I warned you, schoolboy. I told you to stay away from her.
Get back, Laurie. Get back in the doorway.
Andy.
You'll have to do more than warn me, Dawson.
I'm a-going to.
Andy!
Get him, bone. Get him!
All right, that's enough. Now drop your guns, all of you.
He shot me, Marshal. I got a right to protect myself.
I saw it, Rad. You drew on him first.
Now go on, drop your guns right now.
All right, Andy, get Laurie away from here.
I'm not afraid of him, Marshal.
Do what I said.
Yes, sir.
Come on, L'Oreal.
Well, it seems to me you're letting the wrong man go, Marshal.
That kid shot right in the shoulder.
Might be a pretty bad wound.
Shall I lock that boy up?
You listen to me, bone. If you want to help Rad, you get him up to docks,
and then you get him out of Dodge, and you keep him out.
Boy, ain't no law says he can't come back here.
There is now.
How you making it, Rad? Shoulder hanging together all right?
It ain't my shoulder that's eating at me.
Yeah. No count Marshal short talks mighty bad.
That ain't the Marshal needed.
I got to get me that Andy Scott.
I got to get him good, bone.
You ain't got no chance to do nothing that Marshal see you in Dodge again.
He ain't going to see me.
What you figuring off?
I'll lay low until it's dark, and hide out near the Dodge house.
That's where he lives.
Going to ambush the kid?
When he comes back from seeing Laurie, I can jump him real easy.
Figure on killing him?
I don't much care what happens to him.
I'll tell you true, I'm going to give that kid the beating of his life.
Hey, Rad. Why don't we bring him out to our place?
Why bother carrying him way out there?
Well, now, that kid, he's got a rich daddy, ain't he?
Yeah, I guess so.
Well, make us a pile of money and you could teach that kid a lesson same time.
How?
Well, his daddy paid good money to have us turn him loose.
How would he know?
He could get the kid to write him a letter telling him to.
Well, I don't know.
Main thing I want is for him to leave Laurie alone.
Well, you do whatever you want after we get the money.
You know, you might just be right at that, Bone.
After all, a little money never hurt nobody.
Here comes Elmer Blurt, world's lowest-pressure salesman.
Nobody home, I hope, I hope, I hope.
It says here, J.P. Pullham, dentist.
You wouldn't want to buy a new 1959 Rambler, would you, Doc?
You are a lucky man. I just happened to have a vacancy.
Sit down.
Yeah, but, Doc...
Open wide.
Ah, that's right.
You know, you don't have to sell me on the 59 Rambler.
It's first in economy, first in sales gains, and no wonder.
Rambler has the best of both.
Big car room, small car economy.
Yeah, but, Doc...
Oh, relax. Can't you salesmen ever stop selling?
Ooh, ooh, ooh.
You know, Rambler's got quite an idea with that personalized comfort.
Independently adjustable front seats, adjustable headrests,
easiest parking and handling in America.
Ooh, ooh, ooh.
That 59 Rambler is so terrific, it makes you want to put your foot right down on the accelerator.
Ooh, ooh, ooh.
Now, that didn't hurt, did it?
Oh, gosh, Willikers, no, that's my lower plate you've been drilling.
Rambler outsells all six of the best-selling foreign-makes combined.
59 Rambler sales are nearly two and a half times greater than a year ago.
See the success car at Rambler Dealers.
I'm going downstairs, Laurie.
I'll look in on you again a little later.
Oh, I'm all right, really, I am, Kitty.
I'm ashamed I gave way so, but...
Well, I just couldn't believe Andy'd go away like that.
That he'd run.
I'm sorry, I...
Honey, this wasn't his world.
You mustn't blame him too much.
I know, Kitty, I know.
I shouldn't have expected anything, but...
Well, I did think he'd at least say goodbye.
And that wouldn't have hurt him, I'll say that.
But you might as well learn this lesson while you're still young enough to get over it.
Learn what lesson?
That the less you expect from a man, any man, better off you are.
I'll see you later, Laurie.
Sure.
Well, you better answer me, boy.
You better speak up.
You're wasting your time, Bone.
Not my time, schoolboy, yours.
Get up off the floor.
Come on, get up.
Now, I'm telling you true, I'm your friend.
Oh, right, he'd shot you right off.
He had his chance.
Well, he'd have shot you last night if I hadn't argued him out of it.
Now, look, all you have to do is just tell me how to write to your daddy.
That ain't so much, is it?
I'm not going to tell you.
You're going to tell me?
It won't take a little time, but you'll tell me.
All right, you just lay there while I figure on it.
I'll be back.
Won't do you any good to kill me?
You got us all wrong, schoolboy.
We ain't going to kill you.
No, sir.
Of course, you ain't going to get no food or no water until you tell us how to write to your daddy.
You won't get anything from me.
Well, then, you might be running the chance of starving to death, but that'd be up to you.
Get out of here.
I think I'll do that for now.
But I'll be back, schoolboy.
And next time Rad may be with me, I tell you true, he just don't take kindly to you.
He don't take kindly to you at all.
Can I sit down with you, Mr. Dillon?
Sure, Chester.
Thank you.
I was beginning to worry about you. It's not like you to be late for a meal.
I sure do hope there's some of that pie left.
I declare I could have rung his neck.
Rung whose neck?
Old Dobie or the Dodge house.
I just couldn't get away from him, and I knowed it was dinnertime.
What was Dobie ragging you about this time?
Well, he's awful upset over that young fellow, Andy Scott.
Scott? Is he back in town?
It's just the trouble he ain't.
He left without paying his bill. He left his stuff strewn all over his room.
Mr. Dobie's fit to be tied.
He's acting like an old maid about it, if you ask me.
Wait a minute, Chester. Dobie didn't see Scott leave?
Well, he ain't saw him since that day you stopped the shooting out in the street.
And Scott hasn't been back to his room?
Well, if he has, Dobie ain't saw him. It don't seem nobody has.
I'm afraid somebody has, Chester. And we better find out.
The
You sure they drug that boy way out here, Mr. Dobie, and it don't make good sense to me?
I'm not sure, Chester, but I don't expect a thing like this to make sense.
I guess you're right. You're under your house.
Yeah.
Let's leave the horses here.
Just keep your eyes open.
Come on.
Dawson, Bone, open up.
Come on, come on. It's Marshall Dillon. Open up.
What do you want here, Marshall?
I got a few questions to ask you.
We ain't got no time, Dad.
Look, you ain't got no co...
Wait a minute, Rad. Don't want the Marshall to think we got something to hide.
That's right, Bone.
What do you want to know, Marshall?
Where's Andy Scott?
How should I know?
Yeah, how should we know, Marshall? You run us out of Dodge your own self.
And the boy hasn't been seen since you left.
Is that a fact?
Well, he probably skedaddled back home to his daddy.
Look in the other room, Chester.
Now listen here...
Just stand easy, Rad.
Ain't nobody in there, Mr. Dillon.
Of course there ain't. Now, it's like I told you...
Mr. Dillon, look out the window. They smoke coming out of that shed.
Come on.
Marshall, you ain't going nowhere.
Don't try it, Rad.
You killed him.
You want to argue anymore, Bone?
I don't.
Drop your gun on the floor and come outside and be careful how you move.
Sir.
Bus up on the door, Chester.
Come on.
Why, it's Scott, Mr. Dillon.
Are you all right, Andy?
Here, untie his arms and legs, Chester. I'll get this rag out of his mouth.
Thank you, Marshall.
It's a lot better.
Stop that fire, Rochester.
Yes, sir, it ain't got a very good scar.
Here, Andy, let me help you. We'll get you out of here. Come on.
Thanks.
Did you kick that lantern over?
When I heard somebody riot up, it was the only thing I could think of.
You took an awful chance of burning yourself up.
Well, my chances weren't too good. Anyway, I looked at it.
Yeah. In fact, I'm surprised I didn't find you alive at all.
Oh, they weren't going to kill me, Marshall.
They were just leaving me here to die by myself.
Is this true, Bone?
Marshall was his own fault.
All he had to do was tell how to write to his daddy.
What?
Well, sure, Marshall. I kept Rad from shooting him.
We were just trying to get us some money.
All that boy had to do was talk. We'd have let him go.
Sure you would. Just like I'm going to let you go.
Hmm? Well, you don't want me, Marshall.
You got Rad. He's the one started it.
Sure, Bone. But you didn't stop it.
Now, come on. Let's get going.
Coming up to ten gallons, Mr. Jones.
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How's that?
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What's it all about?
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$60,000 in cash?
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Gunsmoke, produced and directed by Norman McDonald, stars William Conrad as Matt Dillon, U.S. Marshal.
The story was specially written for Gunsmoke by Marion Clark, with editorial supervision by John Meskin.
Featured in the cast were Sam Edwards, Eleanor Berry, Vic Perrin, and Lawrence Dobkin.
Harley Bear is Chester, Howard McNear is Doc, and Georgia Ellis is Kitty.
This is George Walsh inviting you to join us again next week for another story on Gunsmoke.
Thank you.