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But Zeb was lucky compared to the other members of the gang that robbed a bank in Pierre five years ago. They were all killed in the shootout, except for Zeb and one other. The other's name is Kurt Fanner. And as ringleader with the price on his head, Fanner was given ten years in jail to Zeb's five. Yep, Zeb was real lucky. Except for one thing Zeb doesn't realize. Within 24 hours, his former partner, Kurt Fanner, is going to escape from that same territorial prison. And he's going to go after Zeb. You see, Zeb knows where $4,000 an unrecovered loot from that robbery is buried. He thinks it's going to help him start a new life. It's going to be the end of the one he has. And that's only the beginning of our story. A new adventure in radio listing. Five nights of exceptional entertainment every week. Brought to you in Elliott Lewis production of The Sears Radio Theater. Our story, Ace in the Hole by John Bornholt. Our stars, John Daener, Joan McCall and Ron Stark. 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Looks like some trees at the bottom. Might mean to homestead. Maybe I can buy another horse. I'm sure she won't be half as good as you. You've been a real good horse and I'm sorry. Maybe if we're lucky we'll meet again in the next go-round. Bye, old horse. Let's see what's down that hill. Wake up. There's been an escape and the warden wants you to go right after him. Well, hang on a second. Now what is it, Brad? There's been an escape from the prison and the warden wants you to go right after him, and we'll see about that. Who has an escape? Kurt Fanner. And he's armed. Go saddle up the horses. This looks like a nice place. Chickens, barn? The only thing they don't seem to have is people. Wonder where everybody is. I know there's gotta be somebody in here. There's wood burning in the fireplace. That's far enough, mister. Whoa, whoa, hold it. Don't do anything rash. I can't even see you. Oh, you can see me all right. You just peer to the left of that grandfather clock. You see the water pitcher? Yeah. You see the knot hole? About six inches above it? I see it. Then do you see the rifle barrel sticking out at you? Oh, okay, mister. You made your point. What do you want me to do? Drop your saddle and your gun belt to the floor real slow. Drop your saddlebags too. If you don't mind, I'd sort of like to hold on to the saddlebags. Suit yourself. Now, young fella, you turn around and get the hell out of here. Mister, you got me all wrong. I didn't come here to hold you up or anything. My horse went lame. Out on the prairie. And all I want to do is buy another horse. That's a likely story. Now get moving. Look, I walked up here, didn't I? Would a man be traveling on foot in this part of the country? Especially a robber? Well, that ain't too likely. You say all you want to do is buy a horse? That's it. And I won't even be too particular. Well, I got me two decent mares, but neither one of them is ever going to win a beauty contest. 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To the kitchen to get some cloth for bandages. Whoever's out there has a clear shot at you through those kitchen windows. Mister, maybe I ain't so concerned about myself all the time like you. Marci, you listen to him like he says. He saved my life. Shaw, I was gonna do it myself. You mister, you go tell your friends to leave us alone. No friends of mine out there. I'll be back with the bandages. She's a mighty headstrong young woman. She's a mighty foolish young woman. You just rest, old man. I'll take care of her. About the horses. They're gone. Run off. It's real peculiar. It's like whoever's out there is more interested in keeping us boxed in here than killing us. They surely could have plugged me a dozen times. And you, why didn't they finish you off? It's almost like they've been shooting wide on purpose just to scare us. And now they're just waiting. Got any enemies, Wilbur? Narrow one. You ain't got no friends nor enemies. You? No, only, but he's in jail. What's going on here? His wounds aren't bad enough, but you gotta talk him to death. Give me some room. It's bad, but it's not that bad. Why don't you let me do that? Haven't you done enough? I knew the moment I saw you walk through that clearing that you were trouble. We've lived peaceful and quiet here for ten years until you come along. And now this. If you want to be some help, go back where you came from. Mercy. It's true. He's the one that got you all shot up. We never had any trouble with anyone before. I'll keep watch. Fine. Mercy, go easy on the boy. What for? How do we know what he's mixed up in? He don't seem the type. You're so shot up, you're delirious. Next, Jack. He had to do East. He don't seem to be trying to hide him. No, I'd say Fan is in a hurry. But, uh, why East? Do you remember the bank robbery that got Fan and put away? Yeah. There was some other fellow put away with him. What was his name? Oh, Zeb Hamilton. He was released day four yesterday. And they were the only two left from the gang that held up that bank and pier. But you know that not all the money is recovered. The judge ruled that the rest of it got lost in the getaway. But what if Hamilton and Fan had had time to bury the money before the posse caught up with him? Then it would still be there. And you would both make straight to it. That explains that older set of tracks. Gee, Marshal Jackie, you're smart. Yeah, and we haven't caught him yet. We have at least two days to make up. Come on. I'm through trying to guess. How's your uncle? He's fine to be asleep. Good. But we ought to get a doctor here as soon as possible. I was thinking the same thing. But you haven't moved from that window ledge in two hours. I'm almost sure our friends are holed up inside that barn. And if I leave this window, they can fan out and come in through the front. What are you going to do when it gets dark? I've been wondering that myself. Are you planning to spend the night? Not if I can help it. Believe me, I'd leave right now if I thought nobody was out there. I realize I'm just a silly female. But I don't see anybody at all out there. I don't see them. I hear them. Doing what? Laughing. Twice I've heard crazy-sounding laughter coming from that barn. Look, mister. Zeb. Zeb. I have no more reason to trust you than whoever's out there. All I'm worried about is my uncle. Now, there's a town five miles up the road, and one of us could walk there and be back with a doctor just after nightfall. That, to me, seems a sensible thing to do. And I suppose it seems sensible to send me? Well, yes, it does. You two will be all alone if I get killed. I hate to remind you, but we were all alone before you came along, and we're doing just fine. You really think you can hold out here? I think I can do as well as you've been doing. All right. Cover me. It's all right. I'm not hit. Who the hell are you? What do you want? A local station. All in the side pocket. 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Zeb and Marcy and Wilbur Jamison are trapped inside the Jamison farmhouse. None of them knows exactly who is out there. They only know that whoever it is doesn't want them to leave. Hey, young fella. Yeah? You just gonna sit there by that window all night? Until I find out who's out there. Well, you ain't gonna find out that way. Come on, have something to eat. I ain't hungry. Thanks anyway. You can't have eaten since early this morning. Marcy? Yeah, Uncle? Fetch this boy something to eat. Why? Why? Because he's probably hungry. That's all right. I don't want to take any of your food. Why not? We won't need it after you get us both killed. Fetch him some food, Marcy. Might as well. How do you feel, old man? How'd you feel with a hole in your shoulder? It makes you damn uncomfortable to do anything. At least you ate. You don't feel any weaker, do you? Wicker than what? I'm 61 years old. I felt weak for years. Like your niece keeps telling me, I shouldn't be talking you to death. Oh, don't mind her. She's been around me so long, she's gotten contankerous before her time. How old is Marcy? 17. Good marrying age. And how come she's not married? Well, after what you've been through with her, you got the gall to ask me that. Many lads in this part have taken a hankering to the way she looks. But as soon as she opens that mouth of hers... You mean she's not friendly to them? Absolutely. She'd make a porcupine look like a pillow cushion. Quit talking about me. You see what I mean? You better try to get some sleep, Uncle. Here's your food. Thank you. Go on, Marcy. Get him some cider, too. I don't see why we should have to be waiting hand and foot on any stranger who comes in here and starts shooting things up. He didn't come here out of malice. You'll blame out on the prairie. Sure. And I suppose it was his horse that shot you all up. Marcy, I'll get your cider. I don't think she likes me very much. Ooh, I wouldn't be too sure about that. At least she yells at you. That's the one she's ever done with any other man. That was very good. We aim to please. I'm thinking, what we ought to do is put out all the lamps in here, and that'll put you on an equal footing with the environments out there, and you could sneak out a window and have it out with them once and for all. I could only. Only he's not as stupid as he looks. What if there's four or five of them? They'll rarely be. No, I think if we just wait out the night, they'll probably get tired and leave. Didn't you say they ran off the horses? They, that's probably all they're after, our horses. Yeah, yeah, maybe you're right. Now you gotta get some sleep, Uncle. I'd take you into your bedroom, but I don't want to risk opening that wound again. Okay, Marcy. I'll sleep here. Pleasant dreams, old man. What are these things? Can I move them? No. All right, appreciate it if you'd leave the saddlebags alone. Here, I'll take them. What do you got in there, gold? It's my ace in the hole, a new start. Our friend here, he's got some money, Marcy. He was gonna pay me $200 cash for a horse. $200? Why, you old swindler. That's what I was gonna say. Well, I guess he can't be much of a confidence man if he was gonna pay you $200 for one of those beat up old mares. You're the one to look out for, Uncle. Here, old man. Just relax. We'll get you some help in the morning. I hope. You gonna sit by that window all night? Saw a shadow over by the wood pile about 20 minutes ago. It might have been a coyote. Yeah, it might have been. But we can't take that chance. You can go to bed if you want to. I'm not all that tired, either. Uh, I, I want you to know, Zeb, I don't think you're to blame for this anymore. That's good. I'd hate for you to plug me in the back in the middle of the night. I'd never plug a man in the back. Hey, it was only a joke. You're not too used to taking jokes, are you? I guess not. But trying to run this farm ain't no joke. Uncle Wilbur's getting pretty old and can't do as much as he used to do. How long have you two lived here? Long time. My folks and my little brother died of cholera when I was about six. Sorry. No need to be. I don't really remember much of those times. Uncle Wilbur's been awful good to me. And I'd say you've been pretty good to him. Yeah, he was lonely, too. His wife, my aunt, died in childbirth. I guess you haven't had much time for square dancing and socials and other things young girls do. No. And I wouldn't do them even if I had time. Why not? It's way past time for you to start courting. Courting. And how old must you be? Where's your wife and six kids? It's different for a man. Why is it different? I sort of thought men and women courted together. They do, but all right. I should have settled down a long time ago, too. Why didn't you? Because. Because you were in jail? How'd you know about that? It's on your saddle, your blanket, all your gear, stamped in little letters on the inside of all of it. It says territorial prison. You either robbed a prison or they gave it to you. Let me go three days ago. How long were you in for? Five years. Five years? You must have been awful young when you went in. Nineteen. You might say I've grown up in jail. That's terrible. Well, it was my own fault. I made a stupid mistake. I was like you, orphaned, and I was raised by my older brother. He got sort of wild and joined a gang. The Kurt Fanner Gang. They were all older and I wanted them to like me. So when they decided to rob a bank and pier and asked me to go along, I went. Even though I knew it was wrong, I didn't have a very hard part in the robbery. I just held the horses in the street and kept a lookout. Everything went fine until the tail end of the robbery when the sheriff just happened to walk out of his office. Within seconds, the street was full of armed men. My brother and one other got it as soon as they climbed onto their horses. Two more got it before we got out of town. Me and Kurt Fanner himself were the only ones who got away. Of course, we didn't get far. A posse was right after us. I think Fanner would have killed me right then and there, except he knew he had no chance to hold them off by himself. We only had one bag of money left and we ditched it along the way. It didn't do us much good, though. The posse chased us up into the hills and surrounded us. We had to give ourselves up. Where is Kurt Fanner now? Jail. The judge gave him ten years for being the ringleader. Me and I got five. What are you going to do when he gets out? By that time, I'll be far away from here and starting in a new life. Golly, you lost everything. Your brother, five years of your life? That's all in the past. What I'm counting on now is the future. That is, if we ever get out of this. You want to know something, Zeb? I'm glad you couldn't shoot that sheriff. In a way, so am I. Here we go again. Do you see anything? No, damn it. Mr. Guard Jack? No, Fanner won't double back on us. He's got more important things to do. When do you think we'll catch up with him? He spends when he stops. Never catch up with him if he don't stop first. He stopped to dig up the loop. Somebody stopped to dig up the loop, Brad. We've seen the hole to prove that. But we don't know whether it was Fanner or Zeb Hamilton. They might be together. They might be. Well, then it was a good thing you brought me along, huh, Marshal Jack? Like they say, Brad. The more, the merrier. Eisenstein, it's morning. You slept here all night? By the window? I had to stand and watch. You've been sleeping. I have? Only for a couple hours. Zeb, what's going to happen? I'm scared. You? You who were so brave and stood watch all last night? I'm not brave. I just wanted to be near you. I'm flattered. You're making fun. No, I'm not. I'm honestly flattered. Well, you should be. I've never taken any kind of hankering to a man before. If you don't believe me, you can ask my uncle. I know. I did. Well, then you know. Zeb, I've got to know something, too. Do you... Do you like me? Of course I like you. You know the way I mean. Yeah? That's hard to say. Hard to say? Why? Liking a girl like you would be a luxury to me. I've got to keep moving. That's where I can start a new life. What's the matter with this place? It's just too close to everything. Are you worried about the money? The money? Don't play dumb with me. I don't know how much you got in those saddlebags, but it's a damn sight more than they give convicts released from the territorial prison. It's left over from the bank robbery, ain't it? Marcy, that money is my ace in the hole. It's all I've got to start a new life. If I had friends or family... You've got friends. Us. You're awful sweet, Marcy. And don't believe for one instant that the thought hadn't crossed my mind about staying on here. But it just wouldn't work. I'd only bring you and your uncle grief someday. You deserve better than me. Seb Hamilton, I am quite capable of deciding what I deserve and don't deserve. You're not perfect, but then what man is? You're out of jail now. You paid your debt. I'm not proposing marriage. I don't know you all that well. But if you want to stay on here a little while, after we get out of this mess, you're welcome to. You're a very straight-spoken woman. I try to be. Thank you, Uncle Wilbur. It was good, Marcy. You wouldn't be trying to sway me a little bit, would you? I'm just trying to keep you alive. I feel old, man. Getting any of your strength back? You keep asking me that like I'm supposed to jump up and down and do the jig for you any minute. To tell you the truth, I feel pretty good at the moment. But in five minutes, I might feel lousy. I know. I wish we could get a doctor for you. Don't worry about me, son. Just get my niece out of this in one piece. I intend to get us all out in one piece. It's been pretty quiet out there. I expect we won't have. What the hell was that? Sounds like somebody threw something against the window. It didn't come in because it stuck in the planks I put up there. What happened? Somebody threw a rock or something against the window. It just stuck there. Let me see if I can pry it out. Careful, Zeb. Hey, there's a note on it. It's not a note. It's an old newspaper clipping. Can you read it, Zeb? Well, what does it say? Here. You read it. Bank robbers apprehended two desperados, the lone survivors of a band of six, who held up the miners' bank and pier on Friday, were apprehended and brought into custody today by Sheriff Tillis. The names of the outlaws, members of a notorious gang, are Kurt Fanner and Zeb Hamilton. Oh, Zeb. It's him. Fanner! Fanner, are you out there? Fanner, leave him alone! 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After what you did to me? He's local, Seb. Five years in jail can do that to a man. Remember what I told you about us being your friends, Seb? Well, friends don't desert each other when one of them is in trouble. Marcy, you've got to listen to me. This man's a killer. He's out for more than money. He's out for vengeance. There's no reason you two should risk your lives because of me. I've known all along I'd have to face up to Fanner someday and this is it. But, Seb, I love you. And I love you too. That's exactly the reason you're going to stay out of this. Didn't you tell me there's a town about five miles down the road? Yes. Do you think you could find your way there in the dark? Yes, but... There's no moon, so it's plenty dark. Now that we know there's only one man out there, I can keep him occupied at the front of the house while you sneak out the back. Let me give you my pistol. It's fully loaded. What about you? I've got your uncle's gun. Seb, I don't want to leave you. It's the only way. What will you do? I'll do what your uncle suggested. I'll put out all the lamps in here and then Fanner and I will be on equal footing. He stands a chance, Marcy. Do what he says. Oh, Seb. I know, Marcy. Believe me. I want to see you again as much as you want to see me. Now get going. All right. Good luck. One more thing. I don't want you to turn back no matter what. No matter how much shooting you hear, just keep going till you get to that town. Do you understand? Yes, Seb. Seb. I'm going to draw fire from him and wait till you hear it. See you in a little while. Fanner? Fanner, you're a stinkin' coward. All you can do is sneak around in the dark. Come out and be a man. She's got herself out the back door. Okay, Wilbur. Douse that lamp. You got a lot of gold to call me a coward, little Seb. The only thing cowardly I ever did was not killin' you the day of the robbery. But I'm gonna kill you now! That's the last lamp, son. We're in the dark now. Now I can do it. You gonna go out there? Yep. Come out, you lousy scum! Marcy, the whole story, when you gave her your pistol, did you? You know how many bullets you got left in my gun? Yep. Only two. Good luck, young fella. Damn it! We're federal marshals. Fanner's dead, Jack. Just as well. You would've hanged for killin' that guard. This is my house. Won't you come in, Seb? Get that lamp behind you. Thank you. It was pretty hard to get here after we heard the shots. Thank us. Thank you. You saved our lives. This is the truth of it. Have a seat, fellas. You're much obliged. Then you've been trailing, Fanner, all this time? Lucky for us, he stopped to have it out with you. The way I figured, Fanner had an escape plan for a long time. He was just waitin' till you got released. That way, you could get both you and the money. You do have what's left of the money, don't you? Right there in those saddlebags. I suppose it'll have to go back. Well, it does belong to the bank. How much is in there? About $4,000. Does anybody know about this money, Seb, you too? Nobody. That's good. Brad, go bring around the horses. Yes, sir. You're right. Welcome to spend the night, Marshal. No, I'm afraid I've got a long way to travel yet tonight. What about Wilbur here? He needs a doctor and my leg. I'm afraid neither one of you will be needing a doctor. I'm gonna take the money. You're right. His $4,000 is more than I would have made in five years. Nobody knows it exists except you two. You're just gonna kill us. I'm not going to kill you. Hannah killed you. You also shot my partner. I just didn't get here in time. So you're the law. Shut up. You're nothing but a no-good jailbird, Hamilton. Nobody's going to miss you. You'll never get away with it. Will stop me. Not you. I tried, Seb, when I was going, but I just couldn't. I couldn't. Oh, Marcy, I've never been so glad to see anybody. Me neither, darling girl. Me neither. It's just great, Wilbur. Oh, it's wonderful to have you back. 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