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0:00Gun smoke, brought to you by L&M, the modern cigarette that let you get full, exciting flavor through the modern miracle of the pure white miracle tip. Live modern smoke, L&M. In Dodge City and in the territory on West, there's just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers, and that's with the U.S. Marshall and the smell of gun smoke. Gun smoke, starring William Conrad, the transcribed story of the violence that moved West with

1:03young America, and the story of a man who moved with it. I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshall, the first man they look for and the last they want to meet. It's a chance a job, and it makes a man watchful, and a little lonely. Oh, did you got the nail, Chester? I sure did, Mr. Dillon, and if that railroad gets any slower, yesterday's train is going to start getting into Dodge tomorrow. Well, that's happened a couple of times. Is anything important? I ain't had a chance to look.

2:04What? Well, it took Will Barger so long to get that mailbag, sort of. Oh, say, he's coming over here in a little while, Mr. Dillon. Well, is? What for? I don't know. But he's got something on his mind. He's about to bust his bridges over. He said it had to do with Jim Rankin. Jim Rankin? Well, I hated to bring it up. Mr. Dillon, you and Jim Rankin being close friends like you was. I can't figure out what Will Barger would know about Jim's murder. He never gets out of that depot except to eat. Well, maybe he's heard something from El Paso, something over the telegraph. There's nothing to hear, Chester, and that won't be. He was killed for that payroll he was carrying. They never did find the body. They buried him somewhere out there on the desert more likely than jump the border. They sure could get a long way south from $60,000, all in banknotes. Wouldn't be no way to it. Wouldn't even fill a saddlebag. It's funny I was always joshin' him about that. A full-grown man bein' a messenger boy for Wells Fargo.

3:06Goin' around carrying a little hand case with him. And bein' a target forever to hold up man Westo St. Louis. I don't know. I never had no call to be plaguing him. When I think of it now, I could just kick myself. Ah, Jim knew you didn't mean it, Chester. Yeah, you know, he was one of the best. I wrote a lot of country with Jim Rankin back when he was a Laman. Evening Marshall? Oh, come on in, Will. What's this news about Jim Rankin? Eh, just that you and everybody else is wrong, that's all. Oh, why so? Because all of you figured them killers must've headed south after they murdered Rankin. But they've come north, Marshall. Oh, what makes you think so? These. Couple of banknotes, $10 Silver Certificates, American Federal Bank of Boston. Chester, give me that Wells Fargo list of serial numbers, will you? Sure. Already checked to Marshall, they're on the list. But you got these, Will. They turned up in my cash box to depot somebody bought a ticket with them.

4:07Who? You know? It was Miss Lilly over to the long branch. Lilly? That pretty one with the yellow hair. She bought a ticket on the Santa Fe to Kansas City. Said she was aiming to go back there on a visit. Why then killers might be right here in Dodge, Mr. Dillon? I hope so, Chester. I sure do hope so. Why don't you live, modern? Live, modern. Why don't you live, modern? Live, modern. Live, live, modern. Change to L&M. Only with L&M can you enjoy the full exciting flavor of today's finest of echoes

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6:14Hello, Kitty. Well, good to see you, man. You've been a real stranger to the last month. Ever since I... Well... Since Jim Rankin was murdered, huh? I didn't mean to be upset. That's all right, Kitty. If I got the reason, I'm here now. Huh? Uh... Is Lily around somewhere? Well, she's upstairs, I suppose. I'm kind of surprised. Oh, what? You. A Marshall's pay won't get you far in that club, man. The dudes are pretty high, you know. This wouldn't be just a case of one pretty woman talking about another pretty woman with it. No, seriously, Matt. Didn't Jim ever tell you about it? Jim. Jim Rankin, you didn't know about it? About what?

7:16I thought you knew he was spending all his time with Lily. No, I didn't. Uh, I'll see you later, Kitty. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Love it. Marshall, Dylan. How are you, Lily? Well... This is quite a surprise. I understand you're leaving for Kansas City. I'm just going for a visit. Is there a law against it, Marshall? Or do you care, personally? You bought a railroad ticket this afternoon from Will Borgler. You paid for it with a couple of ten dollar notes of the American Federal Bank of Boston.

8:20You have been taking an interest. Why did you get those bank notes, Lily? Oh, come now, my. I want to know why you got those bills. Why? I don't know where I got them. You don't know, huh? Of course not. Well, the gentlemen who come into the long brand, you're usually quite good. And the gentlemen who come in usually carry gold or silver. Paper money is rare and dodge, and you know it. I don't remember who gave them to me. What difference does it make their good, aren't they? Yeah. And they were stolen from a man who disappeared from a blood-stained room in El Paso, Texas. How do you know? Because Wells Fargo records a serial number of ever banknotes ship. And these numbers match. And a man's name was Jim Rankin, in case you've forgotten him in the last 30 days. Marshall. Jim and I were going to be married. We're going to be married. Is it that unbelievable?

9:22It's just that Jim never mentioned it, that's all. He knew what you'd say. How did you see him last, Lily? Ten days before he got killed. He went from here to St. Louis and then straight to El Paso. Did you know his plans, where he was going to stay in El Paso? How much money he was carrying? What are you trying to say? I just asked you to. All right, I couldn't make it any sooner. Well, you get out of here, mister. You've got the wrong room. Yes, I have. Sorry, folks, I was looking for some money. Wait, just a minute. You're a gambler, aren't you? How's the man over at the other for Hanson? That's right, Marshall. Doos McCoy. Who are you looking for? Nobody. I'll not bother you, folks, any longer. McCoy. You wouldn't have any bank notes on you by any chance, would you? Bank notes. I'm strictly gold standard, Marshall. I got caught to some of that worthless paper trash during the rebellion.

10:22My apologies, ma'am, Marshall. Why are you looking at me that way? I never saw him before in my life. Lily, if you're in the clear that I'm sorry for misjudging you. You should be. But if you're not, if you did have anything to do with Jim's murder, I'll bring you in for it if it takes me the rest of my life. Three days went by and things stayed pretty much the same. I found out Jim Rankin had told a couple of people that he was going to marry Lily. And she could have been telling the truth about the two bank notes. Maybe she didn't remember where she'd got them. But she had lied about one thing. About not knowing Doos McCoy. Word had gotten her right. I didn't know. I didn't know. But she had lied about one thing. About not knowing Doos McCoy. Word had gotten her around town that she and Doos had been thicker than thieves for a long time.

11:22But that didn't help me. Neither one had been out of dodging six months. And then one evening about eight o'clock Kitty came in with the office with the news that started our landslide. Oh my goodness. Matt? Matt, there's something funny going on. What do you mean? Lily, she didn't show up for work this evening. So I went upstairs looking for her. All her clothes, the costumes, they're gone. She's cleaned everything out. You know where she lives? She's got a room at L.A. Grott's place down south of the Dodge House. A couple of stairs. Yeah, I know where it is. Chester, come on, let's go. Why don't you live modern? Live modern. Live, live, live modern.

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13:33Lily wasn't at the room in Haas and nobody there had seen her since mid-afternoon. So Chester and I went back and took a look at her room in the long branch. Kitty was right. She cleaned up. You didn't especially tellin' if this ain't the most upset room. That's kind of a mess, all right. Things thrown around everywhere, which way? Looks like a cyclone hit it. Somebody was hunting for something. Well, you'd think Lily had know her things was that? There was somebody else, Chester, after Lily had gone. Well, where do you think she's gone too? She's gone? She bought a railroad ticket at Kansas City. Right, train leaves and half are. And we better get over to the depot. Come on. You know, it's kind of hard to think ill of a woman as pretty as Lily. Man just can't hardly help believe in anything she wants him to. Yeah, I know.

14:38Marshall, hey, I'm glad you're here. I was just aiming to send a boy over to tell you. Tell me what, Will. Well, it's about them too. They're here. Miss Lily and that they're gambler-fellar, doce McCoy. Uh-huh. Yeah, he's the one that brought the trunks in, but the product was hers. He wasn't foolin' me now. Are they both leaving? Is he goin' with it? I reckon so. What a self-a-ticket Kansas City seems really. They didn't pay for it with no bank notes, though. They used gold. Uh-huh. Where are they now, Will? Well, they'd be in a hang-around down there at the end of the platform. Stayed clear of the light, I figured. Maybe you don't want to draw no attention to themselves. They didn't like Miss Lily, and either. More narrowly, she'd hear herself rigged down 50 kills. Be a struttin' around here and bowl to death. What? That was down the platform. Yeah, come on, Susper. Straight ahead, Marshall. There, but he didn't. Yeah, I see. Flip Mr. Dylan, somebody jumped on a horse. Out. Hold it there! He's gettin' away. I couldn't have been nothin' but plain luck in the dark like this, Mr. Dylan.

15:41Had a swan ahead of him on my side, Susper. Marshall! Yeah. That's, uh, Miss Lily, and that gambler, fella. The shot looks up in here. He's dead. No. Hmm? Hmm. There wasn't, Lily. Who shot you? He... He came back. Who? Jim. Jim? I...I never thought he... I thought he...

16:42You gonna go after Mr. Dylan? No, we'll wait till son-of-chastin'. Son-of-ch? There's no hurry, not now. I got a pretty good idea where Jim will head for. Mr. Dylan, how can you be so dog-on certain he's out here some horse? Because I know how he thinks, Susper. I never see such a country. Rim, rot, gullies, miskept, plum, thickets. We couldn't find him this stuff in a month of Sundays. I think he'll find us. There, I'd believe you wouldn't talk that way. Mr. Dylan gives him any willies. No one all the time. They might be a gun sight-leveled on him. Not knowing just when to shoot. Oh, you're not now, Susper. Hold it.

17:42Right where you are. He's just by that point of rim, rock. Oh, forget it. He's got perfect cover. That you met? Yeah, it's made, Jim. Leave your gun. Come up here. Down the loans. Stay here with the horses, Susper. Don't do it, Mr. Dylan. You don't know what he's up to. Only one way to find out. Here, check my gun. I just don't know how to pass. Over this way, man. Man, you're a fool. I could have shot you dead. I was betting you wouldn't. Why did I have to be you? That's a difference, Jim. It had been somebody sooner or later.

18:42You knew it was me or he wouldn't have come here. How did you know, man? Lil' it's only. Before she died. I'm sorry about that. In a way. Last night I went to her room. And found she'd taken the money and run out on me. I've been living down along the river bottoms since I rode up from El Paso. I was, huh? It's a matter, Jim. He was pretty good shooting last night, Matt. Dark as it was. We'd better get you in the talk. Oh, no. Forget it, man. I know how I stand. Lily never did mean to marry me, man. She told me last night there on the station plant, warm.

19:46And then she laughed. Take it easy, Jim. She helped me plan that fake robbery in El Paso. She was all for it, I thought. But she was all for the money, not for me. Never known a woman like Lily, all fire, diamonds, and soft as a kitten. Yeah, you're funny. I know I do the same thing again. If she asked me to, what do you think of that? I'm not so judged, Jim. Matt, remember the time that we rode out of the San Antonio?

20:47And we rode from San Antonio? Yeah, I remember, Jim. We were planning to ride down El Arrato. Let's see if we could... Jim. Jim. Hey, Jim. Now, remember. In a moment, our star, William Conrad.

21:50When you're at home and use a match to light a cigarette or the stove, what do you do with that match when you're through with it? You make sure it's out, of course. After all, you don't want to have the house burned down. For the same reason, you wouldn't think of leaving the kitchen stove blazing away when you left home. But some of us forget these precautions when we're in the woods. Some folks will stroll through heavily wooded country, light a cigarette, and casually toss the match away without bothering to see if it's out. They'll also toss the cigarette butt away, still burning. And if they've been using a campfire, they may even leave that to smolder. From now on, make yourself a committee of one to help prevent forest fires, because forest fires are usually started by just such carelessness. Whenever you're in the woods or driving past a wooded area, break all matches in two before discarding them. Make sure all smokes are completely out and drown all campfires. Don't leave any sparks behind. They can cost our country millions of dollars in lost timberland. Remember, only you can prevent forest fires.

22:51And now, William Conrad. You know, there were rifles of all makes out on the frontiers, springfields, Henry's, Spencer's, Colts, Maynards and fields, sharps, even old flintlocks. A next week a man discovers it doesn't matter what it's fired from. A bullet kills a man awful fast. And that was the West. Gunsmoke, produced and directed by Norman McDonald, stars William Conrad as Matt Dillon, U.S. Marshall. The script was specially written for Gunsmoke by Les Crutchfield, with editorial supervision by John Meston. The music was composed and conducted by Rex Corey, sound patterns by Ray Kemper and Bill James. Featured in the cast were Lynn Allen, Tim Graham, Lawrence Dobkin and John Daener. Harley Bear is Chester, Howard McNear is Doc, and Georgia Ellis is Kitty. Join us again next week for another specially transcribed story on Gunsmoke.