 the choice is yours either try to out draw me or turn around and ride out of here while you're still alive have gone will travel starring mr john daner as paladin san francisco 1875 the carlton hotel headquarters of the man called paladin warning me so paladin oh hello hey boy i didn't expect you to be at the desk this morning oh yes sir uh desk clerk asked me to stay here while you have breakfast uh why are you up so early couldn't sleep thought i'd pick up the newspaper and have breakfast in the dining room oh i was coming up to your room when uh desk clerk returned the telegram for you all right a few minutes ago here thank you i have newspapers all sorted i get them no just the san francisco paper for now hey boy okay let's see oh here's the altar california not much interesting news and paper today mr paladin is uh telegram interesting yeah very do you remember lola blackwood lola blackwood oh yes sir very famous actress who stays at carlton when she comes to play at california very nice lady friend of mr paladin hey boy not see her for a long time uh uh is she coming back no no she retired from the theater about a year ago oh that's too bad i didn't know lovely lady as miss blackwood should always be seen by many people um why she sent telegram says she needs help wants me to come at once oh you go yeah as soon as i packed hey boy send answer to telegram no just get me a seat on the next stage to sacramento hi partners i'm going to explain the difference between ordinary stereo phonographs and columbia stereo one listen to an oil well on ordinary stereo now listen to it on columbia stereo one and there's a real thousand barrel a day sound the difference is columbia stupendous stereo projection not just a couple of speakers shooting in different directions columbia gives you the real thing fills every inch of the room with all the sound and feeling of a live performance and i mean a texas size room man ain't that the prettiest money making sound i mean uh get down to your columbia phonograph dealer and ask demand to hear stereo one by columbia why they start as low as 3995 for portables 129 95 for consoles somebody kept that well we're losing a fortune in sacramento i rented a horse and started on my journey to the town of grass valley it had been over a year since i'd last heard from lola blackwood she had written a letter that time telling me that she was tired of touring the country as an actress and had decided to buy a ranch and settle down in grass valley so my ride along the american river to the foothills of the sierra nevadas was filled with thoughts of this beautiful woman when i tied my horse to the hitch rail outside the grass valley hotel i noticed a carriage standing alongside the boardwalk a few yards down the street sitting in the carriage with a young girl was the lovely lola blackwood paladin lola oh paladin how delightful to see you lola it's so good to see you oh this is wonderful it's been such a long time almost two years giving two centuries i was in san francisco and i was playing a failure i remember and there wasn't a dry handkerchief in the california theater i just can't believe it's really you oh paladin i want you to meet lori gallagher hello lori how do you do mr paladin i'm sure lori feels that she already knows you aunt lola's told me so many wonderful things about you well lori your aunt lola is a very gracious lady but i'm afraid she's forgotten to tell me that she had such a beautiful niece oh well i'm not really her niece lori has been living with me for several months paladin ever since her mother passed away oh she and her mother traveled with our company and before she died they came to live with me i promised her i take care of lori i see and i suppose you're going to be an actress too lori oh yes sir i'm working very hard at it a natural born actress i'm very proud of her she's almost 13 now in another two years you may have the good fortune to see a perfect juliet at your california theater certainly she'll be just the right age for the park yes i just can't get over this delightful surprise what brings you into grass valley well your telegram my wife you sent me a wire asking me to come well there must be some mistakes i'm afraid i don't understand lola here here's the wire i received need your help desperately most urgent you come to grass valley so lola blackwood why didn't send this then who did i have no idea well there's one way to find out who sent it how mr paladin you'll go to the wireless office and get a verification from their files uh lola why don't you ask mr paladin to stay with us while he's here now lori maybe mr paladin would rather stay in town i'm sure it'd be much too dull for him at the ranch oh here comes boon oh oh who is this man lola why boon i this is mr paladin an old friend of mine from san francisco paladin this is boon caldwell how you do you're a long way from san francisco it brings you here business trip not much business in grass valley for a man who wears his gun like that boon it's a peaceful town and i'm a peaceful man lola you're ready to go back to the ranch yes boon lola i'll write out to see you tonight after i check on this telegram oh was that you said mr i said i would be paying my respects to miss blackwood this evening you may as well know miss blackwood and i are going to be married her old friends won't be welcome at the ranch anymore but mr paladin isn't just an old friend he's someone very special still youngster and be quiet boom colin she makes me fidgety lola kid should be seen not her what lori said was true and mr paladin will be welcomed at my ranch anytime he's so desired lola those are my decisions to make now not yours you understand paladin i'm afraid i don't stay away from lola i can't make it any clearer than that all right get up come on you want to send a wire just write it out in one of these forms no thanks i came in to ask you if you might remember who sent me this telegram came to me in san francisco three days ago well it says right here lola blackwood or did she come into this office to send it and she'd have to the only telegraph office in town but do you actually remember her coming in well now that you mentioned it i i don't think she did seems i recall that little girl that lived with miss blackwood uh what's her name lori yeah that's the one lori i remember now she came in here with this message already printed on a piece of paper told me miss blackwood would pay the charge later no don't bother miss blackwood with the charges this should take care of it oh yes sir he sure does winston tastes good like a cigarette should because filter blend is a mighty good reason for you to smoke winston because it means tobacco specially processed for filter smoking a winston secret you get winston's own pure white modern filter plus the rich delightful flavor of fine tobacco there's filter blend up front up front ahead of the filter and the fun you get in a winston cigarette comes from filter blend and makes winston tastes good like a cigarette should winston tastes good like a cigarette should at the grass valley hotel i learned that boon called well was a professional gambler and controlled the gaming tables at the red dog saloon i wanted to talk to lola alone so before i rode out to visit her i stopped by the saloon to see if boon was there he was busy at the tables 20 minutes later i've pulled up at the ranch house paladin lori go find ching how he can help us take him in the house what lori please hurry can you hear me lola somebody somebody took a shot at me the bullet creased her forehead just above the eye yeah i can feel it can you stand up i think so let me help you no no no no no i'm all right we'd better go in the house wait a minute listen a man who shot me is probably on that horse i'm going after paladin wait don't go paladin i know who it is who come inside we can talk there lola told me that a man named judd had probably done the shooting he had been hired by boon to watch over the place at night while boon was working in town before i could learn more we were interrupted by lori and the chinese cook ching howe lori was pleased to see that i no longer needed assistance and she proceeded to apply a bandage to my foreign lola asked ching howe to make some coffee and then she took lori upstairs to get her ready for bed a few minutes later she returned carrying a tray from the kitchen coffee's ready oh good lori asleep not yet she's such an excitable child how does your head feel much better thanks to her nursing care well this coffee should help too thank you you're both very considerate but i'm not used to this kind of treatment away from san francisco things were different we could be much more hospitable lola what's between you and boon call well are you really going to marry him no at one time i was but not now i didn't think so he's a despicable man if i ever hated anyone god forgive me i hate him um lori despises him so strange strange yes boon came into town several months ago i met him then he was very attentive to lori and to me we loved him at the beginning i was having financial trouble at the time what money i had left was dwindling away so i decided to put the ranch up for sale but nobody wanted to buy boon said that since we were going to be married anyway that he would make the mortgage payments and take over the bookkeeping i was very thankful when he did and it was very good at bookkeeping how did it work out under his management the ranch worked out fine but lori and i didn't do so well i'm afraid he owns most of the ranch now and this is what made you dislike him so much it happened gradually he changed started treating lori like she didn't belong here wanted to send her away to a foundling home back east i begged him out of that it got so that he would tell me every move i should make after a while i knew i i could never be possessed by anyone like him then you should get away leave you could always go back with the touring company lori would love that i told boon i was going to but he's threatened to kill me if i ever try it we couldn't get 10 miles out of this valley without him knowing about it he's got his man jud watching us whenever he can't be here there's no use paladin we're prisoners until boon gets tired of us and leaves that's my only hope someone's riding up out front there's a must be jud and boon i could have guessed jud would go telling you were here i'll go outside and meet him no paladin they'll try to kill you stay in here and i'll see that you leave peaceably there's no use in your getting hurt because of my troubles they're my troubles too now lola i've you forgotten the the bandage on my forehead constipation can be a problem for anyone even doctors and when constipation occurs it's interesting to see just what doctors consider important about a laxative they might use or recommend well a majority of the doctors we heard from had this to say a laxative should be effective gentle as close to natural acting as possible and a medicine that can be used with complete confidence now x lax has been popular with many doctors and millions of people over the years because chocolate at x lax is effective overnight it helps you toward your normal regularity x lax is gentle next morning it gives you the closest thing to natural action and that's why many doctors and millions of people use x lax with complete confidence x lax the laxative that helps you toward your normal regularity gently overnight is x lax in your medicine cabinet i told you this afternoon to stay away from lola i heard you say something like that before you wrote away but you didn't wait long enough for me to give you my answer get on your horse and clear out of here i'm not going to waste any more words than you paladin your friend jud doesn't like to waste words either you ambush everybody who walks to this door after sundown jud i wasn't trying to shoot you mister that was only to scare you off you're lucky you did hit me otherwise you wouldn't have lived long enough to ride in after boon paladin get off this ranch no boon i won't be leaving you will get on your horses and move out both of you nobody talks to me like that all right jud take him don't you try at jud kill him didn't even give him a chance to draw he reached for his gun in just a cold blooded killer well i've taken care of men like you before i believe you professional gamblers usually know how to take care of themselves so my gun is back in its holster if you want to try to outdraw me there's no other way is there it's up to you make your choice my advice is to turn around and ride out of here while you're still alive paladin i don't need your advice it's all right lola both of them i was so afraid for you i'm sorry you had to get mixed up with my troubles i wouldn't have come here if i hadn't wanted to i'm grateful paladin you can thank lori lori she sent me the telegram but i'd forgotten about the wire lori poor lori why do you say that she must never know paladin boon was her father her father yes boon left her mother before lori was born her mother gave me a picture of him before she died told me to destroy it so that lori would never see it i kept the picture for a while it wasn't until after i'd fallen in love with boon that i remembered to get rid of it i hardly recognized him from the photograph at first the years had changed him so much i knew it was he did you ask him about it yes but he denied everything said he was never married never knew lori's mother after that he started showing his hatred for the child i realized then what kind of a man he really was but it was too late to do anything about it i better go in and tell her what's happened don't let her know about boon don't worry lola i won't good morning miss wong yes the stage didn't get into almost midnight oh you have nice trip very nice oh miss wong i will be back to finish making a few bad in a few minutes where are you going to get another girl to help miss wong when i bend over to make up at my head become very dizzy something wrong don't you feel all right i think so but miss wong's head is all filled with champagne champagne we have a big birthday party for honorable aunt last night miss wong doing too much champagne oh oh that's bad was hey boy at the party and how does he feel this morning i did not know he's not come to work yet oh you must have had a lot of champagne too much more than miss wong maybe he dizzy this morning too more than likely so likely knowing hey boy i wouldn't expect him to come to work at all today now here's a word from mgm star debbie reynolds hi this is debbie reynolds with just about the biggest entertainment news since well since the movie if look magazine special issue all about crowded incredible crazy mixed up california the new issue of look the one that's out right now is jam packed with all kinds of interesting things about california the people fashions apartments politics sports hollywood look has covered everything from champagne making to religion in california let's see there's a full color section on the latest styles an article about new adult movies in hollywood's production code there's a picture story about california's boom and apartment living take a tip from me debbie reynolds just for the fun of it pick up a copy of the big special california issue of look magazine you'll like look that was debbie reynolds who stars with glenn ford in the fun-filled mgm picture it started with a kiss now at your favorite theater don't miss it have gone we'll travel created by herb meadow and sam rolf is produced and directed in hollywood by frank paris and stars john daner as paladin with ben right as hayboy and virginia greg as miss wong tonight's story was specially written for have gone we'll travel by mr paris featured in the cast were norma g neilson lorenz dobkin tim graham and gene bates this is Hugh duckless inviting you to join us again next week when cbs radio presents have gun we'll travel