 on west there's just one way to handle the killers of the spoilers and that's where the U.S. Marshall and the smell of God chance it job I was saying goodbye to my informant the stage driver information wasn't worth it here's your hat thank you just get off the stage yeah I came all the way from St. Louis I must say St. Louis is looking better to me all the time my name is Norton Reed Norton my name is Adams Dr. Adams anybody forcing you to come here in Norton I'm a correspondent I'm after a story on the stage hold up that happened near here several days ago heard about that all the way to St. Louis your western shooting matches get a lot of publicity if you know all about it why did you have to come to dodge well I want I want the real story that's some romanticized account hey maybe you can tell me what you know about it Mr. Norton since you're so interested in the real thing and all I suggest you get your story from Marshall Dylan now he'd be the man with the facts oh and a swagger to go with them I suppose I don't you find out for yourself I'll do that doc I'll just do that it's about time somebody wrote a story on the frontier of the way it really is and then not the way it's pictured in exaggerated accounts is in Harper's weekly now and you figure that you're the man to write that story a hard man to fool Dylan I've been worked on by experts I was a general crook at the Rosebud those cavalrymen are pretty good at telling tall tales to correspond I see you think you're going to get a tall tale from me is that it seems to be a habit here in the West a story isn't a story of it isn't three times life-size I tell you something Mr. Norton you're not going to get a tall tale from me in fact you're not going to get any story at all now Marshall you must have some explanation of how you let the men who held up you figure that's the way it was I can see you're not chasing even though it's known one of them was badly wounded and couldn't travel far you got some suggestions about that I'm Marshall the way the West is advertised I know about the Scouts the cavalry are you welcome to bring him down here that trail Mr. Norton was a day old before I even got word of a hold up they could bear off on a hundred miles in any direction a day old and swept clean by a wind coming all the way from Canada with nothing to stop it I see given it up you're letting them get away you're going to catch them sitting in your office Marshall don't you're gonna write your story before it's finished Mr. Norton understand you're a big disappointment is a Marshall Morton's been in here huh all afternoon he sure has a chip on his shoulder about the way we live out here yeah well I think some of the cavalry boys gave him a pretty good hazing he's not the kind to forget maybe not but he isn't doing you any good pay him any attention kitty he doesn't bother me Matt but he's doing a lot of talking to anybody else who listened he's bearable thanks not a fewer thing kitty yeah Snowden been saying that you're sitting there in an office full of guns not doing anything to bring the hold up man in he talks pretty good stories of it yeah but Matt I don't have it yeah I'm sure just at Mr. Dylan Joe Porter just got in from a trip down me way and he is pretty upset now why well because long back my Paul last night he was going by that old deserted Hutchinson cabin out there he figured he'd bet down for the night honey got scared off by the old man ghost huh if they was ghost Miss Kitty they was too well just what happened well two people was firing at Joe with rifles he took off and never stopped for breath when he got here to dodge the old Hutchinson place yes you're now why would anybody be out there I don't know Chester they get the horses we'll write up and take a look at that cabin ourselves I believe they somebody following that I'd say Mr. Dylan it's that newspaper fellow the vision of the west back in about it always doing the right right behind it ain't nothing to that what do you want Martin why I want to be in on the kill Marshall to watch you single-handedly bring in the Desperados that makes you think we're after anybody oh Marshall you're not writing out here just to exercise your horses how to send you straight back to dodge yeah but the night's coming on Marshall Dylan and you told me yourself how hard it is to follow the trail on the prayer I got half a mind to let you find out for yourself just how true it is but you get lost and I'd have to waste my time looking for you then I I can join the expedition don't have much choice you should know Marshall I I wouldn't interfere with the carrying out of frontier justice and keep your mouth shut and that's the best idea all Marshall I think right now way net bundling tells it Western peace officers never go on foot don't couldn't we just tie up this smart alec and leave him with a horse take it easy both of it just that I want to get things right Dylan I want to do you justice in my story if you don't start being a little quieter you may not be around to write a story to see how it was done what about me it'd be smart to go back where you were we're not writing the story I don't feel much like writing one either don't look check somebody's coming out I need some real I do what you can can I help I don't know Mr. Norton seems to me you got your story that that can wait I'll be a real good one too yes but a headline that reads Marshall shoots unarmed boy instead of bandit that ever give you a read is a real good idea of what the West is like go on write it you say with a boy just sure Marshall ain't nothing a matter of me you just ticked me and like to say that bullets a long way from my heart I don't get too gay why don't think you have to do anything like that now dock will do you a real nice job I got something showing in my shoulder and it's every bit as pretty as m kitchen Marshall Dylan you'd be interested in hearing some of my ideas about the West you ought to be the first to know my own mistakes what I was going to say was I've come to see the West is a place to live just like any other place man makes mistakes in the West trying to do his job just like they do everywhere else I think I have we get back to town turn whiskey though that is Matt Dylan US Marshall Marion Clark with editorial supervision by John Meston join us again next week for another story on guns most