 to the speed of light, a cloud of dust and a hearty high old silver, the lone ranger. With his faithful Indian companion Tonto, the masked rider of the planes led the fight for law and order in the early days of the Western United States. His strength and courage were always on the side of right against might. No man could match his daring and resourcefulness, and nowhere in the pages of history can one find a greater champion of justice. Return with us now to those thrilling days when the West was young and the lone ranger was fighting the greatest battle of his entire career. Tiles to the south of Spanish flats and close to the treacherous Rio Grande, a small group of vicious outlaws met in a rocky glade. Each one was a leader in his own right, and when all had arrived and tethered their horses, close by a slim man with muscles of lip cord stepped into the center of the group. He paused the moment for attention, then spoke to the others in a voice as cold as chilled steel. Well, I see that Steph got in touch with all of us. All of us that are left alive anyhow. Then maybe he told you the big boss that I was to take charge of this, to give all the orders. Anybody got any objections? You buzzered? I reckon you're the man with his job, dirt. Nolan? All right with me? Yeah, don't nobody keep still now and kick later. If any of you don't like the notion of taking my orders, speak up now with his time. Well, then that's that. Now to get on with it. There's three fellas. Maybe a fourth if it's true we still live in. We've been raising pain with us. The three we know about for sure are Graham. That's the Omri that owns that big ranch. Arizona Lawson, the gent with a dog that hunts wolves, and Tauno the Redskins. Tauno with a Lone Ranger sidekick. I guess you've all heard of that, Omri. Well, the masked man's the fourth. Gunner was supposed to kill him. But lately I've heard there's a chance that he's still living. Just before the Hung Mendoza, he swarping down it was the Lone Ranger tricked him into attacking Laramie when Laramie and his gang had the sheriff corner. Yeah, I know. Two months ago at a meeting like this, boys, it would have been a dozen of us. But now, look, Gunner's gone. Turk Rigby. Red Camp. Laramie and Mendoza. Boys, that ain't the worst. Two months ago we had this part of the country in the hollow of our hand. There wasn't nobody. There wasn't nobody inside the lower out there to open his mouth again. Except in Graham, not even the sheriff. But now, because we've had some tough look, when they're feeling their oats and they're raring to go, boys were sittin' on blastin' powdery. With a short few. Yeah, but there's just one answer to that, fellas. Either we get things under control again or we're through. What's the big boss say? Man, to show folks around here just who is boss. Wow. By striking hard, fast and often. I mean that until things are back like they was, we're letting everything else go. Now each one of us has been after all the cash you can get. It'll come second. Some of us have had one kind of work to do. Some of us another. But now we all got just the same job. And after... Round up your men. See to your horses and guns. Startin' tomorrow we smash them. Raise. Burn. Let the coyotes the glory. We're fightin' our way back on top. They come doin' the night. They never give us no warnin'. Busted in the door. Shot down Sam when he weren't even armed. You ought to blame for that, Mr. Graham. Why couldn't you leave good enough alone? Why'd you have to call alone, the angel in Toronto and Arizona lost in here? If you hadn't done that, them outlaws would have left us alone. Mrs. Larson, please sit down. No, I won't. I won't. I won't. Mrs. Larson, please sit down. I won't sit down in your house. If I had an overall. Ain't I gonna write with my husband killin' my home burnt down? Isn't that all the more reason for me to continue the work I've started? Would you want me to stop while killers and thieves can still do such things around Spanish class? We were so happy. You still have your son? I had two boys once. There, you see? Wasn't it Gunner who murdered Ted? Yes. But that was before I even started this fight. Doesn't that prove you can't be short of life even if you do sit back and let these thieves have their own way? Men, good men, honest men lost their lives. Lost their lives when not a one of us had the courage to fight for decency and law. But the things those cooks have done these last two days, well, there's never been anything like it. Because they're desperate. They know they're being defeated. We wasn't the only ones burnt out. I could name you a dozen. I know, I've heard. No, Sam was the only one shot. You've seen the end of this. If anything, conditions will get worse before they're better again. But we must recognize that fact and face it. My friends and I have made a good start, Mrs. Larson. It'd be a shame to stop now. Won't nobody help you? You had almost no help anyhow. You almost had them fooled. You almost had folks thinking they could battle them outlaws and not make them suffer for it, but they won't be fooled like that again. You've talked to the people around? I have. Then I'm sorry. But it doesn't alter things. Ponto and Arizona and I hope to finally meet arouse all of you to the point where you'd have the courage to fight for yourself. But if you haven't, well, you'll just have to carry on alone. Mr. Graham. Yes? Ted's gone. And Sam's gone. All that's left to me now is my boyfriend. A good boy, too. But I warn you, it's only a few minutes on account of this war you've started. I'll see that you're punished if it's the last thing I do. If anything does happen to Frank, the blame will not be ours. But on the outlaws who made this war unnecessary. Well, that's what I come to say and you needn't think I don't mean it. Very well. What's the idea? What's this, Arizona? Graham, we found this Omri hiding a straw stack at the place where he'd work had been burned down. But you heard the crooks had done it with all our plans. We wouldn't tell us nothing until we'd seen you. Mr., you're here. Now you'd better open up before I go to work on you. I ain't telling nothing until I know I ain't gonna be harmed by it. You can't make me tell. What is it, man? Out with us. You promise they won't get me, Mr. Graham? You'll give me your word? No one will touch you. If you know anything, tell us. Tonight? Just about sundown. I'm gonna read Mr. Mander's place. Oh, poor man. You know that for a fact. Here's the truth, Mr. Graham. I swear it is. I heard them crooks talking. They didn't know I was anywhere's round. And you couldn't tell Arizona or Ponto. You had to wait to come here before you let us know. I never heard of them till just lately. How'd I know they wouldn't get me in trouble for it? You waited so long we've hardly got time to get there. But I just... Ponto, run out to the bunkhouse and get all my men. Tell them to saddle and bring their arms. And tell the sheriff. Tell him if he wants to help, fine. But if he won't, he can go to Thunder. I'll kill him pretty. You'd better come too. No, sir. I've done too much already. He ain't gonna make me stir. Stay here then. It doesn't matter. We need men. Get to the saddle. We're riding. That man is placed below us. He's not got here yet. No need to go down there, though. We wouldn't get any better reception than anywhere else. Spread out and take the cover. Those coyotes show up, wait for my signal. Then let them have it. Come on, get out of sight. Ponto, you stay with me. We'll get behind that ridge. Come on. Get him up there. Get him up there. Ponto, you stay with me. We'll get behind that ridge. Get him up there. Wake long time. Then not come. I can't understand it. I think they could have seen us ride up, Ponto. Not now. Almost two hours past sundown now. I don't like to think we're just wasting our time. That's right. On the other hand, if we left and they showed up afterwards, we'd never get through blaming ourselves. Ah. Wait. What matter? Listen, that might be them now. Well, that's just one horse. Oh. Ride fast, doll. Wonder who the dickens it is. It's Arizona. You hear dolls? That wolf. Right. Arizona. Hi. This way. Over here. Where's the sheriff? What's up? Just a second. Get up. Get up. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh, there. Well, that's been it. There's trouble. Never saw the fellow before. He belonged to one of them gangs. What do you mean? They made sure we wouldn't be nowhere near Spanish flat. And then the whole bunch hit that town and half tore to pieces. That's bad. Without the lone ranger to do our thinking, I reckon we ain't worth the powder to blow us out of our sand. Marlon Ranger story. Before the next exciting scene, please permit us to pause for just a few moments. Ben Graham, his crew, Tato and Arizona return to Graham's ranch house at same night. And it seems a number half the residents are Spanish flats. Only the threat of gunplay finally persuades the crowd to disperse. Get out and keep out. You're not off my place inside the next minute. I'll order my men to fire. Where are you going? I told you to forget what we told you. Oh, this is you fellas' fault. Come on inside, Arizona. You too, Tato. Why can't they see what we're doing is for their own good. You men are accepting all the danger and you haven't even a stake in the district. That's all the way, Graham. Tato and me didn't get into this fight looking for gratitude. That's right. Frankly, I'm discouraged. You and me both. It's hard to know whether to go on or not. The three of us can do only so much. Four of us, you mean? You think the lone ranger is alive? Don't you have that mix-up down with the real? Well, I did think so then. What's changed your mind? I can't understand why he's living in contact with us. Certainly, what if he could? I've been wondering about the same thing. Even you ain't seen him, have you, Tato? I mean, I'll see him. There you are. And they've been closer than if they were brothers. I'm beginning to suspect the masked man who caused Laramie and Mendoza to fight wasn't the lone ranger at all. They fought over money, didn't they? Something about Laramie is supposed to send cash to Mendoza for one of their deals. And Mendoza not getting it. In other words, the whole thing could have been brought about if he had it to appropriate that money for himself. Yeah. So, you see, we have no reason for hope after all. And without the lone ranger, how can we go on when we have to fight not only those outlaws and the man behind them who does this scheming, but public opinion as well? Yes, Mendoza. A shout-out, though, but I'm going to be honest with you. I think... What was that? It's window. Graham, what you gonna do? He moves out there. Trying to find out. What? Hey. What was that thrown in, huh? Who's that? Who's that just running away, Graham? Can you see him? Hey! Hello there! Hello! Graham Moose. Well, whoever he was, looks as if he came here just to throw that stone for the window. Pick it up, Mendoza. It's not stone. It's bullet. What do you mean? It's bullet of silver. And here's his message. It wrapped round bullet. Bullet of silver? Why, that must mean... It's low-ranger. That must have been the mask man. I wrote away just now. I wouldn't answer when we called. Well, I'll be... What's that message say? Who called her name? Frank Larson. Frank Larson? His mother was here this afternoon. What did he do? He's the operator and agent at Roseville. And he's flat. It's not a town, really. Just a sighting where cattle are loaded occasionally. Why? What's Frank Larson and Roseville to do with that note? Yeah. You won't read it. Hi there, Wolf. Glad to see you back. That's a lot to know. Down boy. Down. What do I do? I kind of hate to pack it. Leave this place. It's the right good place to camp. Me know what me do. If you say so. Make a roll. High saddle. Then we leave. Dirk, what we didn't do to Spanish last night weren't worth doing. Yeah, that's right. Town folks running around like chickens with their heads cut off. And when I think of Graham and Kato waiting at the manor's place half of the evening on my face, oh... Well, I'd have given them a meal and just to see their faces when they learned the truth. Honest, I'd have given two men. Well, you handled that all right. Didn't I, though? Yeah, so far everything we figured on the way it was playing. We got them turning yellow again, boys. Finish the job the way we started and they'll never make us trouble no more. You all right, Dirk? There comes the buzzard. Oh, hi. Let's see what he's got to say. Oh, hi. Good morning, Dirk. Good morning. Well, Dirk, I reckon our worries just about over. Yeah, what do you mean? Well, Graham's place, just like you said. Yeah, huh? First off, the folks in town were out there raising kings. Didn't leave, but Graham's crew showed their iron. Yeah. What else, then? Not as much as I stayed with the ranch house. Crews drifted along the bunk house after a while. Once I heard some fellow gallop off in the far side of the house, didn't get a good look at him. But that ain't what's important. Later on in town, oh, an Arizona came out. They cut over west and I followed. Yes, where they were going. Get on with it. They're camped. And guess what they done when they got there? Tell what you got to tell them, get it over with. They packed up and headed north. Don't just eat dirt. They're pulling steaks. They're clearing out. How do you know? Ain't that doing a heap of guessing? Yeah, it would be if that was all I had to go on. But it ain't. I heard them talking for the road over. And they said to even the folks that were trying to help would turn again and they were through. Said they'd had enough. They're gone and they ain't coming back. Yeah. What do you think of that? You sure they said that? Buzzard, you sure you didn't hear it because you wanted to hear it? Think I'm a fool? Well, I just am. What do you say, Dirk? You've all heard the news. And I reckon that job is done. All right! Do you think I could dispatch the colon use then? Right now he's talking to the operator on down the line. What trains that outside? Ma, you can ask more questions in a room full of school minds. That ain't no plane. Just a switch engine. Yeah, I've been here almost a week now. Lady J and Dick Barton's pair have been chipping cattle. Amar, you ain't told me yet if they've caught any of them skunks of greater town. No. What can the law do? What can any of us do again outlaws like them? Got half a dozen gangs. Got hundreds of square miles of hills don't care whether they kill or not. In fact, they'd rather and behind them making their plans and giving them their orders. That boss of theirs, nobody's ever been able to learn anything about. You know, son, the best thing to do is walk soft and try to keep them around in them. Oh, maybe. Oh, gosh. What time's that clock say? 11.30. Don't go near midnight. Come on, stand aside from that telegraph. We'll have to get a hold of the operator there so we fill the conductor to stop back by the side when they get here. Why, son? Because if the eastbound don't, it's going to go slap bagging at just about 50 dozen cattle cars. So I don't have to hurry that. Oh, what's that? I've got to send a message. I reckon not. But if I don't, there'll be a smash up. Yeah. I know. Eastbound now. I reckon that's what Dirk told you. That's the train. We're going to stand still until after it's hit. I think everything's all right, Nolan. Shouldn't Dirk have come around? He's keeping guard over young Larson at the station. How could he? Maybe he might bring the kid here. He's tearing that along. It won't be long now. The station's just the other side of that line of trees. We hear the crash plane. We wish we could see it. You'll stay under cover until we know nothing's gone wrong. He's passing. You can see her headlight. Get ready, fellas. Once she hits, we ride. It must be almost at the station now. What's wrong? Have you taken a long time? Wait. What we heard, a little flat-card, which engine got behind him and shoved him off the track into that draw. All right! Where'd they come from? We ain't got a chance. They're coming from everywhere. Oh, if you do, you pole-cap just try it and see what happens. No, shoot! No, shoot! Ah, darn you, buzzard! You said Arizona Tondo left the county. I heard him say that. Guess what we wanted to hear and say. I don't know you was trailing us. You said that just to fool you. Wait! You said it, fella. We ride. Hell-train crew. And they load up the eastbound with every tough army they had on the payroll. Well, that's your dirty double-crosser. I'll bet you worked with them. You picked this up. You told them just what we was playing. No, I didn't. Honest fellas, I never said a word. If I thought you did, buzzard, I'd cut you down even if they got me right afterwards. No, no, shut up! Shut up! No, gents. What this fella you called buzzard gave your game away. Well, then who was it? It was a man you ain't never laid eyes on. Even though he was spying on your camp on your scheme to do this. What? He sent us your scheme on a bullet. A bullet? A bullet of silver. Silver? And if you want to know what to call him, just say The Lone Ranger. You've just heard of the copyrighted feature of The Lone Ranger Incorporated.