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Ah, just stay still so nobody could get at you.
I'm going to be buzzing around his head all day, getting out of the body's brain.
You know, a sting doesn't do him any good either, Chuck.
No, Mr. Gillan, I tell you, I'd as soon get stung as listening to all that buzzing.
Well, let him sting you then and get it over with.
Yeah, no, Mr. Gillan, I can't rightly do that.
Why don't you try opening the window?
No, no, no, I just closed it. That's how he got in in the first place.
All right.
Oh, my goodness. Flew right out that window.
He was trying to get out all the time, Chester.
Well, you can't be too sure of that, Mr. Horner. I have no bees to just absolutely ignore.
Well, well, Miss Church.
Hello, Chester.
Matt.
Hello, Samantha. Come on in and sit down.
Yes, here's your chair, ma'am.
Thank you.
Matt, I need your help.
Sure, Samantha. What can I do?
Where's George?
George? He in some kind of trouble?
That's what I don't know. He ain't come home since day before yesterday.
Home from where?
Home from right here in Dodge. He rode in from the ranch Monday morning and I ain't seen him since.
That doesn't sound like George.
Can't I wait two nights?
No, Matt, it don't. I didn't worry too much about the first night.
Man has a right to do some celebrating every now and then, but...
Samantha, was he celebrating something special?
What's mighty special to us, Matt? He just worked the place free and clear.
We sold our first big stand of cattle, Matt, and the money took care of all that we was own.
Uh-huh. Was George bringing the money to town?
He saddled up the minute he got it. Rightly couldn't wait to pay off that note, Matt.
Yeah. All right, Samantha, I'll tell you what we'll do. Let's go over to the bank.
They ought to know something about this.
I've been there. I've been every place else I could think of and Tom, nobody's seen him.
Seems like he never got here at all.
Yeah. Tell me this, who else knew that George was bringing in the money?
Nobody, except maybe Ben. He probably know about it all right.
Ben? Oh, he's the one who helps you run the place, right?
Yes, Matt. We took him in when he was just a little boy.
Ray got his ma on Polly. He's just like our own.
Nobody else knew?
Well, Hobie Price come riding up just as George come out of the barn. They rode off together.
Have you seen Hobie since then?
I asked around for him, Matt, but I ain't found him.
Matt?
Yeah?
I ain't never been one to give way.
I know you haven't.
I've got a bad feeling about this, Matt. I got a bad feeling about George. I ain't sent.
Samantha, there's no use for a bad feeling yet. You just let me start looking, huh?
Yeah. I guess I got to. I ain't getting nowhere.
You go on home now. You try to get some rest. It isn't going to do George any good for you to get worn down.
I guess you're right.
Sure, I'm right. Maybe you better go see a doctor.
I got no need for a doctor, Matt. Just you find George.
Yeah, I'll start looking, Samantha. Right now.
Hello, Matt.
Hello, Kitty.
What's the matter?
I haven't got time, Kitty. I'm looking for Hobie Price.
Hobie Price?
Yeah.
You want something?
I'm not sure. You seen him lately?
No, I haven't seen him. He hasn't been in today.
It's the last couple of days I'm interested in.
Last night? No, the night before. Hobie was in there all right, Matt.
Did you talk to him?
Nobody could have talked to him that night.
Why, what do you mean?
He was drinking whiskey like he was never going to get any more. Buying drinks for everybody in the place.
Ah, I see. You haven't seen him since?
No, ma'am, I haven't. I wouldn't be surprised, though, if he was still sleeping at all.
All right, Kitty. Thanks.
Are you off to look for Hobie Price?
He's one of the people I'm looking for. I'll see you later, Kitty.
Sure, Matt. See you later.
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Mr. John?
Yeah, Chester.
I'd appear I don't see why we're doing all this writing when all we gotta do is find Hobie Price.
Maybe.
Well, I mean, don't Miss Church seen him ride off with her husband, didn't she?
Yeah.
And Miss Kitty said she seen him throwing his money around that night, didn't she?
Yeah.
And he ain't no worse be found around Dodge, is he?
No.
Well, then, Miss Delaney, it just makes sense.
We ought to be riding off after Hobie Price instead of wasting time out here at the church place.
Chester, you know which direction Hobie Price rode off in, do you?
Well, no. No, Miss Delaney, I don't.
You think we should just sit and dodge and wait until he comes back, do you?
Well, no, sir.
All right, then, something else might have happened to Church.
He might have had an accident riding in.
I want to look the countryside over real good.
Yes, sir.
Now, there's a lot of land to cover on the church spread.
When we get to the fork, you ride off north, and I'll ride south.
We'll meet at the ranch house.
All right, Mr. John.
Don't just stick to the trail, Chester.
Take a good look around any trees and through the bushes.
Yes, sir, Mr. John, I'll look real good, even though there ain't hardly no likelihood of finding it.
You'll make up your mind about that later.
All right, Mr. John, but all the same...
Here's the fork. All right, you go that way.
You sure you won't need me with you?
I think I'll be able to handle it, Chester.
Won't you go along now?
All right, Mr. John, I guess you know what you're doing.
Well, I know what I want you to do anyway.
Go on.
Good.
Hello, Mr. Dillon.
Any luck, Chester?
Oh, sure. I didn't find nothing.
And I look real good, too.
Yeah. All right, come on in.
Chester didn't find anything either, some of them.
Oh, well, thanks for looking anyway, Chester.
Oh, yes, ma'am. I'm sorry I didn't find nothing. Oh, I mean...
This is Ben Stanley, Chester Proffitt.
I do. Oh, Chester.
We've given the ranch and the road to town a good looking over,
and we haven't found a thing. You got any ideas, Ben?
No, Marshall, I don't.
Mr. Church rode off just like he'd always done.
Oh, he set off a bit earlier than usual.
Oh, yeah, he done that all right.
He was mighty anxious to get that money to the banker.
Yeah. Did you see him before he left?
Well, yes, Marshall, sure I did. I helped him saddle up.
He didn't say anything to you special about anybody he was going to see or anything?
No, with the banker.
Seemed like that was the only thing on his mind, getting the money there, and that note paid off.
Never set well with George on any money. He wanted things free and clear.
Samantha, did you and George have any kind of, what, trouble, maybe?
You know, like an argument or something?
Oh, Matt, if you're thinking he might just rode off from me, that ain't so.
No argument, sir.
Well, I ain't saying George and I never had our differences, because we did, sure enough.
We got along, Matt. We was comfortable together.
He wouldn't have rode off, would he, Ben?
No, ma'am. No, there wasn't ever nothing like that, Marshall.
There's no cause for thinking it.
All right.
Matt, you think you'll find him?
Lots of people turn up, Samantha. We'll keep trying.
Well, I can't say I'm sorry to be back in the office, Mr. John.
You're getting to be a homebody.
I know, sir, now that ain't so. But I ain't one to want to waste a whole day just riding around in the hot sun.
I'll say that.
You'll live.
Oh, yes, sir, and I'll live all right. But we might just as well have stayed here.
That's the thing that bothers me.
Oh, never mind, Chester. Maybe something came in the mail that's worth you a while.
Sure does look so.
Chester, would you light someplace? You're starting to meet a fidget then.
Oh, well, sure, Mr. John. You ride on ahead and read the letters.
Well, thank you. That's very nice of you.
I'm going to get you some place in there.
What?
Oh, nothing, Mr. John. Nothing, Paul.
Chester, what's the matter with you? You got a beetle under your shirt or something?
Well, I don't know, Mr. John, but it does seem that there is always someplace that needs scratching.
Something bites you?
Oh, no, it's right. Ben Beard, they just, these little red patches here, see?
Let me look.
See?
Well, pull up your shirt.
Yes, sir.
Sure breaking out in a rash. You better let Doc have a look at that.
Oh, no, that ain't easy, McDonough. It'll be all right. Just the itch.
It may be all right for you, but it's not all right for me. Seeing you scratch makes me itch, too.
Well, Mr. Donough.
Go on, Chester. Take your itch to Doc.
This stuff ought to make you feel better, Chester. Now hold still.
Ha ha ha ha ha.
Now don't tell me that hurts.
Oh, yeah? Well, it's cold, Doc.
Oh, cold. I bet you're the only person in Dodge today complaining about anything being cold.
There.
Thanks, Doc.
Oh, I'm glad to do it. I'd hate to see Matt bothered by your scratching the way you said he was.
Oh, he sure was. I could have stood it all right, but Mr. Donough, he was getting pretty edgy about it.
Are you telling me that he's lucky he only had you to contend with?
How's that, Doc?
Well, there's another case just like his yesterday. Ben Stanley.
Funny thing, too. The first time I've seen ivy poisoning this year, and then there's two of them in two days.
All right, Chester. You can put your shirt on now.
Okay, Doc.
Was Ben scratching real bad, too, Doc?
Oh, was he? Like three hound dogs with fleas. He had a pretty good taste of it.
You know, that's good.
What's good about it? It's just good to know that somebody else scratched himself when he itched, that's all.
And I bet Mr. Donough would scratch himself, too.
He would if he had what you've got.
Now here at Chester, you'd better take a bottle of this alone and dab some of the lotion on your itchy spots every once in a while and keep the itch down.
Oh, thank you, Doc.
That's all right, Chester. As the old saying goes, you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.
Oh, you want me to scratch your back, Doc?
Oh, no, Chester, never mind. Go scratch Matt's.
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Now, Kitty, I didn't find Hobie Price, and I didn't find anything at the church place.
You might as well have stayed right here.
You're thinking of all the beer I'd have bought.
We don't need your business today, Matt.
An awful lot of people are drinking an awful lot of beer.
That's a good day for it.
Oh, here comes Chester. Yeah.
Mr. Gillen, excuse me, Miss Gibbett, I got some news for him.
That's all right, Chester. What is it, Chester?
Well, sir, I passed Moss Grimmick on the street, and he said a fellow rode in this morning said he'd seen Hobie Price.
Where? Gullarnet.
Says he's staying at a hotel there big as you please.
Well, it fixes us a nice hot ride for tomorrow.
Yes, sir.
Well, I hope you have more luck than you had today.
Yeah, me too.
Now, you must have seen Doc, Chester. You're standing still.
Oh, yes, sir, I did. He gave me some white stuff in the bottle.
You're supposed to do your drinking in here, Chester.
Oh, no, no, Miss Kitty, it wasn't a drink. It was a splash on myself to cure me of the itch.
Thank goodness it's working. He was driving me crazy scratching.
Well, you better start worrying about yourself, Mr. Gillen.
What do you mean by that?
Well, this itch may be something that's going to spread around. You might get it for yourself.
Doc took care of Ben Stanley for it just yesterday.
Oh, don't be silly, Chester. I never heard of an epidemic of poison ivy.
Neither did I. Ben Stanley?
Yes, sir.
Doc gave him a bottle of the self-same lotion just yesterday.
Chester, did you get off your horse when you were riding on the church place this morning?
Yes, I did. I watered him at the creek that wandered all over the place there, down in them brambles.
Real, real place there.
I'm going to give you a chance to see it again.
Well, now, ain't that anxious to tell the truth, I'd rather not.
We'll be riding out there in the morning early.
I thought you were going to learn it.
Maybe I won't have to, Kitty.
Come on, Chester, let's go get some sleep.
All right now, Chester, there's the creek.
Yes, sir, I see it.
You'll find the exact place where you got off your horse, huh?
Yes, sir, but I don't see how it makes all that difference, so...
Well, let me worry about that.
Yes, sir.
Let me see, it was all in here someplace there.
Yes, sir, I remember that dead log.
All right, we'll leave the horses here.
Had you smear Doc's lotion on this morning?
Well, I didn't hardly think it was necessary.
You may be sorry after you go through these bushes again.
That Mr. Dillon?
Yeah.
If George Church was here, I'd have seen him yesterday, wouldn't I?
I don't know, Chester, we'll just keep looking for a while, all through these bushes.
All right.
Chester.
Yes, sir.
I've got to shovel off one of the horses.
Yes, sir.
Very neat job.
Almost too neat.
Come on, hurry up, Chester.
I'm coming for us at camp, Mr. Dillon.
Look down there.
Hmm, gracious old lion.
Looks like a grave.
Yeah, fresh dug.
We'd better see what's in it.
Any great beef.
Let's start in a hurry.
Mr. Dillon?
Yeah, I was afraid of it.
You reckon Hobie Price drug him here?
Unless he has a case of poison ivy.
Oh, Mr. Dillon, you don't think so?
Yeah, Chester, I think Ben Stanley buried Church's body here and got the itch like you did.
That nice young foe, Mr. Dillon?
Well, I could be wrong.
I'd need a lot more than this to tell a judge anyway.
You can't hang a man just for scratching himself.
No, you can't, Chester.
Come on, let's find out if I'm wrong.
Marshal Dillon?
Yeah, Ben.
If I was you, I'd head south from here.
I don't think you're going to find much up ahead.
There's a creek up there, isn't it, Chester?
Oh, yes, sir, there's a creek there.
Our horses will be needing a drink.
We might as well ride that way.
They can get a drink down this way, too, Marshal.
Oh, not that it matters to me.
I just want to help you look around.
Yeah, thanks.
I think we'll just go ahead for a little while.
Marshal, down in that gully there, that'd be a good place to look.
Yeah, we'll take a look at it after we give the horses a drink.
Chester was down in those bushes yesterday.
He got himself a bad case of poison ivy.
Isn't that right, Chester?
Oh, yes, sir, that's right.
Did you ever get it, Ben?
No.
No, it doesn't bother me, none.
Ah, doesn't bother me either.
I guess we're lucky.
Yeah, lucky.
You know, that rash on your neck looks an awful lot like Chester's.
No, no, that ain't it.
Ah, that's good.
Now, here we are.
You can lead the horses from here.
Now, come on, Ben, get down and give your horse a chance to drink.
Sure, Marshal.
Sure.
We'll lead the horses down.
Right about here ought to be a good place.
No, I ain't going.
Miss Dilley's making a run for it.
Hold it, Stanley.
Stay back, don't let her shoot.
Come on.
You, you knew, you knew about it, didn't you, Marshal?
Yeah, Ben, I know.
When did you find him?
This morning.
I didn't mean to kill him, Marshal.
I didn't want to hurt him.
Uh-huh.
No, I only wanted the money, but he fought me for it.
He fought me so hard, Marshal, I had to kill him.
Yeah.
I thought I was all right.
Miss Church said you was after Hobie Price.
I know what he wrote off to the Willetts' place, but nobody else did.
And you weren't about to tell, were you?
I didn't mean no harm to Mr. Church, Marshal.
If he'd just give up the money easy, if he just wouldn't have fought.
You know, Ben, some men do funny things like that.
Like what, Marshal?
Fights for the things that belong to them.
And other men get poison ivy and end up getting hung.
All right, come on, Chester.
Let's help him on his horse.
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Gunsmoke
Produced and directed in Hollywood by Norman MacDonald, 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 Lynn Allen and Sam Edwards.
Harley Bair as Chester, Howard McNear as Doc, and Georgia Ellis as Kitty.
This is George Walsh inviting you to join us again next week when CBS Radio presents another story on Gunsmoke.
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