 Oh Fiery horse with a speed of light a cloud of dust and a hearty hi-oh silver the lone ranger During the years of unrest that followed the Civil War a powerful secret organization called the legion of the black arrow sprang up in the western United States. Its members were to be found everywhere defying the law or using the law for their own purposes Working toward the ultimate goal of revolt and the foundation of a despotic empire It was the masked rider of the planes who led the fight against this band of outlaws and traitors And for once his great strength and courage his daring and resourcefulness were taxed to the utmost in the cause of democracy Return with us now to those thrilling days when the West was young From out of the past come the thundering hoofbeats of the great horse Silver The lone ranger rides again Come on Silver, run the trail of the black arrow, go Silver! Torloch finally captured by the lone ranger stood heavily guarded on the train that was to take him to Washington While this cruel leader of the black arrow pleaded in fear which bordered on hysteria He clutched at his throat in a spasm of choking coughs and then fell lifeless to the floor The unknown leaders in the nation's capital those traitors who headed the black arrow The men whom Torloch feared had somehow managed to poison him through one of their accomplices And effectively seal his lips Later that night the lone ranger and taunta were talking in their camp Teller, I thought when we got Torloch we'd reach the end of our fight against the black arrow Now we gotta start all over Bill Cody said that Torloch was deathly afraid of being taken to Washington Not right He must have known of someone in Washington who gave orders to the black arrow Teller, plenty high in government I wonder what the president will say when he learns what happened How soon he'll know that The news was to be sent by telegraph He should hear it in Washington sometime this morning We'll get further details later Mr. President I thought you'd want to know this at once A little more can be told Torloch was captured and the lone ranger did his part I hoped even though I felt such hope was futile That Torloch would prove to be the leader of this This Southridge is plotting against our government By the way, I think a young lady is waiting in the outer room I'm already late for the appointment I made with her As you leave ask her to step in Very well The president will see you now Thank you Come over here and sit down, won't you? Thank you sir That's better You've been working in one of our offices for some time, haven't you? Yes sir I've been in the government service for eight years Tell me about yourself About myself? There's nothing to tell Mr. President You were born in Texas, weren't you? Yes Your parents were among the first to settle there There are quite a few facts here about you my dear Are they? Didn't you like the waste? Oh I love No No I despise the waste That's odd You've been invaluable to the United States on several occasions Some of the diplomatic work you've done was worthy of an ambassador You've shown great ingenuity in carrying out certain missions to which you were assigned Thank you sir I did have another assignment for you Whatever it is sir, I'll do my best It's a difficult one Possibly dangerous I'm not afraid of danger I have no family to worry about me No relatives of any sort? Not, not now Not even in Texas? No sir Tell me this my dear Have you ever heard of the Lone Ranger? Yes You have heard of his working connection with the Legion of the Black Owl? Against the Legion? Well yes I've heard of it Please read this message It came this morning by the electric telegraph Torlock captured Poisoned Yes sir, I read it Have you no reaction to it? No thoughts? You want to hear them? Please Yes I have thoughts I didn't think Torlock could live long enough to tell anything to involve the men above him Your position has made it possible for you to follow the events in the West Especially those in connection with the Black Arrow Now why did you think Torlock would be killed before he could talk? Because Torlock was not the leader of the Black Arrow He was just following orders And now what will happen? Someone else will undoubtedly take his place to follow orders Exactly And that is why I want you to go to Texas I am to go to Texas? Yes, and without letting the Lone Ranger or anyone else know who you are You're to learn all you can You're to mingle with the people, renew old acquaintances Pick up the threads of the life you left ten years ago Give what age you can to the Lone Ranger but above all Learn who takes Torlock's place and who here in Washington Sins that man instructions I'm sorry sir I would do anything else Anything else in all the world to help my country But I cannot go back to Texas You cannot? No, no I can't But I don't understand Not even to help the Lone Ranger Not even to save his life I can't go back to Texas I used to love the state The whole west The plains and the mountains The valleys and the endless stretch of land But now Now I hate it I despise it The west and the things that happen there make me remember that I'll tell you what happened Several years ago I was riding towards Grands Pass one afternoon It was one of those glorious days It seemed that one could see for miles in every direction I knew that my brother, a Texas Ranger And some of his friends would come through Grands Pass that day And I was riding hoping to meet them I hadn't seen Vogue for some time And then, suddenly, there were gunfires I rained up, listened to an increased feeling of something clutching at my heart and throat I couldn't be sure but the gunfire seemed to come from Grands Pass And then suddenly it began There was nothing but silence I strained my ears I thought I heard hoofbeats going away but I couldn't be sure I spurred my horse and started towards Grands Pass A little way into the pass With steep walls on both sides of the narrow cannon I saw Well, there were six of them All Texas Rangers My brother was among them Even the horses those men had been riding were shot down by the vicious killers From the protection of the rocks at the top of the cliff There was no sign of life in the past I realized that none of those men could be alive And yet I had to be sure I examined them They were dead All but one There was one man, terribly wounded, unconscious In whom there was still a spark of life I tried to dress as wounds I tried to force water from a canteen between his lips I even tried to get him on my horse But he was too heavy I couldn't lift him He too must have died soon after I left to try to send help to him Texas had suddenly become a place I couldn't stand The hills, the rocks, the valleys which I'd so loved I now saw only a hiding place for murderers The ranches had become a lure for cattle thieves The very streams and springs of good water had chained to things I hated Because they gave refreshment to men like those who Killed my brother and his friends I can never return to Texas To any part of the West The story you've told is a strange one Strange? There's nothing strange about it, Mr. President I'm only one of the countless people who've had an experience like that But the others have stayed to fight the things that aren't right Perhaps Perhaps because they didn't love the country as I did My hatred of it became as deep as my love had been You said you rode away to get help for the man who still lived Did you find that help? Not in time Then he did die? I don't know The men who shot him must have returned to finish their work It wasn't until the next day that men could get back to Grand's Pass They found that graves had been dug The dead men buried I see I told you a moment ago that your story was a strange one Let me tell you another story which will explain why I made that statement Oh A short time ago, I set up my railroad car outside of St. Louis It was long after dark With me was a man who had written secretly to talk to me The story he told was as strange as yours He, too, was a member of a small band of Texas Rangers who were ambushed He told me that The bullets didn't kill me, Mr. President I recovered consciousness and a cave with food and water beside me I wondered who had taken me there and who had brought the food Well, while I lay on the ground trying to remember what had happened An Indian came into the cave Me, Tonto Tonto, did you say? That's right I was a boy And you're an Indian boy named Tonto Me, Tonto You The same one, I You brought me here to this cave That's right Me find you hurt bad Wound plenty bad But you get well Get strong again Someone banded your wound Someone stopped bleeding Saved your life Tonto There were others Friends of mine Five of them Did they survive? All of the ranger Dead All of them That's right Then Then I You Only ranger left now You Alone Alone ranger Tonto I'm going to get those men Who ambushed us You get strong first You take long time You unconscious all night The others What did you do with them? Me make grave Make six grave Six graves? Let outlaw think you did too But you're not dead You wear a mask You not let outlaw know you're not dead And then You catch outlaw I'll do it Tonto I'll wear a mask No one will know who I am Let them think all six of those rangers have Have gone west There'll be one who's still riding I'll have no name My name is beneath the mound of earth You built beside the graves of My friends I'll just be The lone ranger That man recovered his health and strength He rode from out of nowhere His face covered by a mask He carried out the pledge he made And ran every last one of those outlaws to earth He kept Tonto as his side Riding to where he could serve justice Relentlessly pursuing criminals in all parts of the west People began to talk about his deeds of daring He called his white horse silver And his thrilling cry of Became known from border to border From the Mississippi to the ocean And the lone ranger Is still riding The lone ranger I never dreamed A friend of your brother You are the one who saved his life I didn't know that Nor did I I'm sorry you won't accept I do accept I want to go back to Texas I want to help the lone ranger The curtain falls on the first act of our lone ranger story Before the next exciting scenes Please permit us to pause for just a few moments How to continue our story It was some time after the meeting at the White House That the lone ranger and Tonto were riding across The open country in the direction of Mustang Mag's rank Another minute and we'll be with Mustang Mag Tonto Plenty good to see her again I've been wondering how she in Missouri Have been getting on Look, there she is Standing in front of her house Get him up Skull, get him up She sees us now, she's waving You know her as a friend too Don't you silver old boy Steady boy, steady silver Singer, say for sore eyes Get yourselves off themselves And come here where my old eyes Can see something good to look at for a change Hello Mustang Mag Certainly good to see you I'll be going to think you clean forgot about me Missouri was one another day If you'd turn up soon Get off of that paint there Tonto Landscapes of two of yours Welcome as flowers and spring Come on inside, I've got some prime side meat You both look plum-tired out We've been traveling over a lot of territory Mag Oh you look it, those them horses look it Better stay here a few days Well look Silver's catch side of his turn Over in the Grayson corral He's looking at you All right silver, go ahead Horse knows as much as a human More than some humans I know Did you see the way he looked at you To get permission to run over yonder Yes, how's the cold doing man Oh first rake, finest horse ever seen Oh sucks, there's Missouri's coming He's seen you now That's what you're doing Missouri come on run man It's a long range you and Tonto I'll be a sort of horned illuminate Jim and me Christmas Evening my partners Oh Missouri Fine, fine How are you Tonto I'm glad to see you Missouri I want a word with you Before you start talking too much Those two have been traveling hard And they've got to stay here for a while and rest up They sure should It's dog going tough that they can't What do you mean they can't They're going tough and ain't a thing in the world to stop them I said there ain't a thing in the world to stop them Missouri and that's that Now blast your buttons don't argue the point Well I wasn't thinking to argue fine man Oh Tonto I figured the way that man had come here Spoke that it was mighty Listen to me you out of brain rooster Ain't nothing more important than keeping the low range Of fit and strong After he's talked with leeching he's come back No no ma'am And don't you hit me with that stove Oh well The old fools let the cat out of the bag now Who is leech I may as well tell you the whole of it But you've got to come inside the house to listen I'll get some food started And as for you with ma'am I didn't do nothing You've got no more brains than this hunk of firewood Here start the fire to go under for a bend Around your neck Let's hear about it How did leech know we'd come here I don't know much about it A stranger come through here a couple of weeks ago And he said that Mr. Leech was powerful anxious To see his own ranger And that there was all fired important things here to tell you You don't know him do you Leech? No I don't Contra not norm Maybe he's a newcomer to town Anyhow he's there in that house the Brewsters used to live in And that's all there is to it I figured you'd light out of here as soon as you heard about it And I wasn't going to tell you for a couple of days Thanks for your interest Meg but you're right We are going to light out I want to know why this man Leech is so anxious to talk to me And they figured that sooner or later You'd turn up here You already talked too much Meg is there anything else that I should know You've got it all now But Dratty do be careful I will I think we'll drift into town to skies And learn something about Leech before we call on him We have to go to town right now You'll wait long enough to set him to a hot meal Can't you? Yes Meg We'll go into town this evening Leech? He's just hanging on by willpower What do you mean by that bartender Hanging on by willpower? He's getting weaker all the time He ain't seem to eat nothing asleep or into the nails You know what his trouble is? He showed a mysterious like No one can tell what's ailing him He's been here very long I see He ain't been able to get up in his bed for the past week Half the time he can't even talk to us to make sense Does he live alone? Yep Well can't the doctor tell what's the matter with him? All the doctor can say is that Leech is burning hot with fever Goes there every morning Leech won't have him no other time Why not? I don't know just can't act I reckon Have a look at his stranger I've never heard of him before I came here And why are you interested in him now? Because I never heard of a case like this Would you say your name was stranger? I didn't say Well what is it then? Call me whatever comes handy Thanks for the information Going to odd the way that hombre acted I wonder just what there is about that fellow Leech I know it's just a little way to where Leech is living You'll be there shortly Ah, him hang on to life To talk to a lone ranger What him got to tell? Someone must have known that we come this way More often than any other Someone know we plan to mag Missouri Yes, Leech couldn't have known that He must have been getting information From someone here in town I wonder who that would be I mean not know I couldn't find anyone who knew Leech very well That right You stop in the shadows over there And I'll take the disguise off and get my mask on And we'll see what Leech has to tell the lone ranger That's a house alright Someone said he kept a little oil lamp burning all night Will you go in there? Hunter I think we can walk right in Next to me is if the door is partly open Ah, that right Come on then Do you hear that moon? Come on in Leech, Leech where are you? Who's here? Leech I was told by Mustang mag in Missouri That you were anxious to see me Hanging on Long time waiting here What's the matter? Lone ranger I'm waiting for the lone ranger Right beside your bed here I'll turn up the lamp No, no Leech Hunter will examine you Sometimes he can cure sick people as well as a doctor can No, not now Morning Doctor always comes in the morning Well, why did you want to see me? Want to see the lone ranger I'm right here Wait, can't talk now Wait, talk in morning Alright then It's mighty important Morning I'll be back in the morning then Wait, don't leave me Don't go away from here You stay in the other room Maybe I won't live to Morning No, wait Let me speak If I feel that I'm going out I'll call Then I'll tell you what's on my mind Otherwise we'll talk in the morning I'm stronger in the morning Very well then Tell him I'll spend the night in the other room Good Don't touch me You only put hand on poran That all taught how to do We'll leave him alone, Taddo This is a strange situation Plenty strange You put hand on poran Poran not huh Then you don't think he had a fever? No, me not think so We'll lose nothing by humoring him for a few hours What if the horses were there to be alright until morning? We might as well get some rest while we're here I'll spend the night here in this chair Me here on the floor Me here on floor. It's good to relax. I can't figure Leigh John at all. Plenty of big posies. What was that? That door and house. How did it happen to clothes like that? Me not know. Might have been the wind. No, no, no. No wind tonight. Well, doesn't matter. Maybe we make light in this room, huh? No need to, Tondo. Tondo, hear that? Ah, tap on the window. Let me go look. See anything out there? No. I'll have a look outside. Do you not see anyone? No, I hear. What's this? What you find there? Look here, Tondo. I found this note just inside the door. Kimmer's hubby. Right or not the side of house. Wherever it is, they wanted to be sure we got this note. Look up the fire there. Got enough light for me to read it. Seems to be a night of strange happenings. Not a loot, Tondo. I can make it out now. What note say? If you value your life, don't let Leigh leave the house tonight. Oh, right note. I don't know. It looks like a girl's handwriting. Might be fine writing. Well, educated. I'm going to have a quiet look into Leigh's room. I'd like to know what this note means. Watch the floor, not make squeak. I'll be careful. Leigh. You, what? What are you doing there? Air. Gotta have air. Be all right out of doors. Yeah, let me help you. Oh, thanks. I'll lean on you a little. What were you doing in the corner of the room? I was confused. Couldn't find the door. Dizzy. I'll be all right out doors. Just leave me alone. You turn up late. No, no, my eyes. Just let me out of doors. The house tonight. Leigh, you're too weak to go out of the house. We'll put you back in that bed. No, no. Let me go. Air, you're stronger than you acted a minute ago. Oh, so you're not staying back. I've got a gun. I'm bloody strong now. Better change than you, Leigh. Turn that light up, Tutto. Ah, me fix it. No, you don't. You stand still. Keep it to me. Hear Blaston Potter in this corner. So you're planning to blow us up. That's what I planned. At the last resort, I suppose you'll shoot us. I didn't figure to risk being tried for murder, but if that's the only way to get rid of you, I'll do it. Maybe the explosion will destroy the evidence. Who hired you to do this, Leigh? That's none of your business. Well, if you're going to shoot us, you might at least satisfy our curiosity. I'll tell you just this. You thought the Black Arrow Legion was licked, didn't you? Well, it ain't. It's going to be stronger than ever before. That's what I wanted to be sure of. Now, Leech, I'm slapping leather. All right, Tutto. Step on that fuse now. All right, you pull that lightning drawer. You shot my gun away. All right, and now I'm going to. I tell you never shot to kill. Well, this time, Mr. You'll shoot to kill. You won't get me. I'm going out that window. You told us what we wanted to know. I'm going, Mr. And you'll follow with your own peril. Here, Rex can take this. That's all right, Tutto. I want to see where he leads us. Come on, after him outside. Get up there. This way. We risk death before this. After him, Tutto. Get him up, scoundrel. Come on, sir. Hooray! What you have just heard is a copyrighted feature of the Lone Ranger Incorporated.