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They snuck aboard when the train stopped for water, cottonwood tanks. Made them cut the rest of the train loose and go on with just the engine and the baggage car. Had horses waiting down the track, some were. You ought to get over to the depot, Mr. Dillon. The baggage clerk shot pretty bad. Got. Now, why didn't you say something? Yeah, and another thing. They cut the wire so that the train crew couldn't tell it to grab a head. Same old story, Mr. Dillon. You'd think them bandits would figure out some new ways. Why? This one usually works. How did I have said to keep that mob out of this baggage car? They're off, Doc. Huh? Well, who are you? Oh, I didn't know it was you, Max. How is he? He caught one for the lung. I wouldn't give you a plug nickel for that. I want to find out where it happened. I can tell you exactly, Marshal. Oh. About 100 yards east of mile post 314. It's on the curb where the line swings in toward the river park. You one of the passengers? I'm a legal agent for the railroad and for the bank that owns that money. My name is Crocker, J. L. Crocker. And I want immediate action on this matter. I want that money back at once. And I want the guilty parties brought to justice. Are you getting all this, Chester? Yes, sir. I'm making mental notes. Well, Marshal, I don't believe you quite understand who I am. Sure, you're the legal something or other for somebody, and you're bothering me. Now, will you stand back? Is there any chance of talking to him? Well, you can try. All right. Yes, sir. Can you hear me? Yeah. Yeah. Did you recognize any of them? No. They wore masks. Only one said anything. He gave all the orders. He's the one who shot me. Man, about 50. Is that all you can tell me? I don't feel so good, Marshal. I think I am. That's it. Yeah. Chester, you go get our horses settled up. We'll write out the milepost 314. With luck, we can get there before dark. Maybe pick up their trails some way. All right, sir. Well, now, Marshal, in my opinion, you ought to form a posse to go after these criminals. Mr. Crocker, I don't care about your opinions. I think I'll have a little talk with your superiors when I get back to civilization. Good. Find out what's happened to my checks. I haven't been paid for two months. The following message is brought to you by the Savings and Loan Foundation. It does make a difference. Where do you say it? It does make a difference. Where do you say it? It does make a difference. Save more. Have more. Then more. That's savings and loans. Yes, your dollars get good earnings at insured savings and loan associations. People like you are receiving $700 million right now. It's money their money has earned. You can do it, too. Where do you say it? It does make a difference. Join the millions of 50 people who make a profit on their savings at insured savings and loan associations. Now's the time to start an account. Or add to the one you have at your nearby insured savings and loan. Remember. Where do you say it? It does make a difference. Where do you say it? It does make a difference. Where do you say it? It does make a difference. Save more. Have more. Then more. That's savings and loans. I think they've heard a share. They don't show it. Both of them are still working around the campfire, paying no attention. Picks on the supper, I guess. A man and a young boy. Must be homesteaders on the move. I never heard of bandits high-tailing it in the covered wagon. Besides, there's only two of them. Three men helped up the train. Yeah, I know. Now, let's ride on down to the fire. Climb down and set. You have some supper ready here in the spell, such as this. Keep your eye on that coffee, Jerry. I'm watching the call. Huh. You men pushing cattle? No, hunting killers. What? At a train robbery this morning. Now, I'm a U.S. Marshal out of Dodge. My name's Dublin. Proud to know you, Marshal Dylan. I'm Dan Everly. This is my board, Jerry. How are you, sir? Jerry, how are you? Well, we're heading for Dodge yourselves. How far we got to go yet? About nine miles. You, finally the homestead. That's right. Had a place back at Newton, but it didn't do so good. So, somebody robbed the train. Mm-hmm. Three of them. Got away with $50,000 in gold. Have you met anybody today? No. No, near your soul. Well, Marshal, you just rest yourself there now, and we'll have some side-meeting harmony in a few minutes. Oh, fine. Thanks. This is it, Chester. We found them. These two? How do you think? Their horses saddle-started and never meant to haul a wagon. And the third one's over to the right, and that thicket covering us. So, I'd climb on it or done barrel. What were you? Move fast. You roll to the left draw, and cover the tube of the fire, and I'll take the one in the brush. You got it? Yes, sir. All right then. No. Don't move, you two. You're covered. You lure in the brush. Come out with your hands up. Now wait, Marshal. Don't shoot. All right then. Tell him to get out here with his hands up. They got us. There's no use fighting. Come out, like he says. He said, let me fight. I gotta shot him both. Oh, fellow, he's a girl. Oh, it is. My daughter Janet, I told her to hide out there till we found out what she wanted. I wanted to keep her out of this. So, you and your two kids were the bandits, son. You're quite a father, Mr. Everly. He'll leave him alone. Pa knew what he was doing. He had a right to that money. I see. How old are you, Janet? Eighteen. Any of your business? The young ones ain't to blame, Marshal. I brought him up to do like I told them. They didn't know. Somebody ought to have known. Now, where's the money? Don't tell him. Be quiet, Janet. Marshal, we buried that money, and I reckon I'm not going to tell you where it is. It's ours, and we got a right to it. Yeah, you said that before. I had a homestead outside of Newton. My wife died there. The young ones and me fought the prairie for four years. Crop failures, hard times. Then last fall, I finally got a good stand of wheat ripe for the harvest. You know what happened? Now, what happened? Sparks from a train set fire to the grain field, burned us out, lost everything. I wrote letters to the railroad office in St. Louis. They said I'd have to come back there and prove my claim. Now they knew I couldn't do that. Well, does anybody ever tell you things were easy out here in the West, Mr. Irvine? It's just that you and the boy hitch up that wagon and start loading it. All right, you. Come on, son. What are you aiming to do with it? Taking it to Dodge City. To jail. So there could be only one, just one that passed the killing grind of sun and wind and sand. The test that proved this new car waxed the finest in the land. Readers' Digest ad tells the story of the amazing turtle wax protective power that kept cars' colors shining bright even in fiery Death Valley sun. Just one waxing of turtle wax with new sun stop gives your car a beautiful hard shell finish guaranteed to last up to one full year. It's quick and easy to turtle wax your car yourself. Remember, just one waxing of turtle wax with sun stop lasts up to one full year. Turtle wax gives a hard shell finish. Turtle wax gives a hard shell finish. Turtle wax. Oh, boy. My reason for robbing that train don't count for much, do they, Marshal? Judge is not part of my job, Everly. But not the young ones. It wasn't their fault. You killed a man, Everly. What do you expect? Marshal, I didn't aim to kill him. He went for his gun as we was leaving, but I didn't aim to kill him. Oh, Marshal, I see you brought in the culprits. Yeah, it looks that way, Mr. Crocker. Oh, where's the money? I want to get it locked up in the bank right away. They say they buried it. What? All right. I heard of the balloon that you bought in the bandits. That's right. Is she one of them? That girl? Yeah. She's just a kid, Matt. You're not going to lock up a girl. Kitty, I don't like the idea any better than you do. That jail wasn't built for women. I know that. Let me take her. What? She won't try to get away with the others in jail. She can stay in my room while I'm working. I'll take care of her, Matt. Janet, you go with Kitty here. Yes, sir. Stay with her and do whatever she says. Thanks, Matt. Thanks a lot. Come on, honey. Just so you take these other two inside and lock them up. Yes, sir. Come on. Let's go. Oh, Marshal, pretty or not, that girl is a criminal. Why aren't you locking her up? Well, we've got a different attitude toward women out here, Mr. Crocker. We never got around to building jails for them. Well, what about the money? $50,000 missing. That's right, it is. It's a long ride into town, wasn't it, Marshal? Moonlight, pretty girl in a wagon. Chance to talk. Maybe do. Hey, you. You there. Yes, sir. 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No. No, the only thing that keeps me awake is worrying about Pa and Jerry. What are you going to do with it? Well, I got no say about that. There's no proper court here. I'll probably get orders to send you up to Hayes City for trial. Oh, they won't understand. Maybe Pa was wrong, I guess he was, but he thought he was doing right. Sure, we all think that. He was doing it for us, for Jerry and me. And he didn't mean to kill that man, Marshall. Really, he didn't. Well, I, uh, I better be going now. Goodbye, Jonathan. Doors around town say you're a little taken with her, ma'am. As Mr. Crocker's doing, he's been shooting his mouth off for a week now. He's offered a thousand-dollar reward for the return of that money, no questions asked. Yeah, I know. But how much do you mean? What do you mean? Well, people will know you don't pay any attention, Matt, but some of these hangers on around the saloon wonder if you did make a deal for that money. Yeah, who cares what they think? But it's bad, Matt. Crocker keeps prodding them. Some of them are beginning to say that everybody might remember where the money is if they had ropes around their neck. Now, Lynch, ma'am, they're going to have to move fast. I got orders about an hour ago to send the three up to Hayes City in the morning. Look at that. Is she any better? No. This doesn't have the heart to tell her. Mr. Dillon? Mr. Dillon? What's the matter, Chester? Miss Kitty sent me to get you. Oh? Here's that fellow Crocker's over at the long branch. He's got a bunch of the boys all liquored up. They're talking about crashing the jail. Well, he was the best way to stop that kind of trouble is to break it up before it starts. Well, that groove just upstairs right over the head, Mr. Dillon. Yeah, I know. They hadn't bothered her, have they, Chester? Well, they hadn't, by the way. All right, you let me handle it. You stay clear and cover my back. Yes, sir, I will. All right, come on. And you're just the boys to do it. It's about time somebody took the star off of that tin horn marshal and shoved it down his throat. And as far as I'm concerned, I... Mr. Crocker, you're doing real fine. There's quite a crew you picked up. All the bombs, barflies, swindlers, and bushwhackers and that city. Your friends don't seem to be as talkative as they were a couple of minutes ago, Mr. Crocker. Dillon, if I had you in St. Louis for one hour, you'd be in jail not running. All right, boys, the party's over, now move on. Now, you've got no right to order those men around, Dillon. I don't hear any of them objecting. Matt, Matt, she's gone. What? Janet's not in the room. She's gone. Well, where would she go? I can tell you, Matt. You have a chill, Frank. That girl got her dad and brother out and they just left town on their horses. You ever heard of K-Site Smooth Seal? Why, no. Why, no. Is it new? What's it do? Well, this is off the record. Just between us, boys, your automatic transmission, does it ever make a noise? You mean a little kind of grinding? Does that little chatter matter? I hear a very weird whir sometimes. It doesn't sound good, boys, but let's be sure. When you're sitting at the light and it goes to green, you put your foot down hard. Have you ever felt a sort of a jerk, a kind of a jar, or heaven helped you a real thud bump? Oh, I've felt it. Me too. I've had it, stranger. What do we do? Well, don't buy a horse and don't trade your car. Just get yourself some new K-Site Smooth Seal. New K-Site Smooth Seal? New K-Site Smooth Seal? New K-Site Smooth Seal? How will that help? Why, it's made to soften those shrunken seals, which are apt to leak when there's power on the wheels. It stops those thud bumps, jerks and jars that are apt to creep into these modern cars. What is K-Site Smooth Seal? One application can pack them all off on a long vacation and it's less than $2 at your service station. A little new K-Site Smooth Seal, boys? Come on. I'll go. And if it doesn't work, you get double your money back. We're getting pretty close to the place where they camped that night. Right ahead of us there, Chester. I'm sure to hope that cutted storm holds off. First, you know, they may not have came back here at all. Then we'll backtrack the cottonwood tanks. They'll want that gold. It's got to be somewhere between here and the railroad. Yonder's where the wagon was standing. Yeah. Go up, Chester. Let's take a look around. Mr. Jones, look there. What? A whole dozen ground. Right where they had the campfire that night. Yeah. They buried the gold there, Chester, and built their fire right on top of it. Get out! It came from that thicket over there. I'm going to fire and roll away, maybe draw a shot. Now you keep your eyes open. I left with that big tree up there. Yeah, I saw it. There's only one move and you're finished. You're just in here, will you? I'm sorry I had to do it. It doesn't matter. We're the young'uns to have a chance. They rode on with the money, I suppose. Let them go, Marshal. Say, money? I had a right. Maybe, but you had no right to kill. I didn't mean to, Marshal. The law has to go by acts, every way not intentionally. Store? Coming up? Yeah, looks that way. I hope the young'uns find shelter. Jerry caught cold up there in jail. Used to worry his mother when he caught. She's dead now. Died back there. Back. Back. I guess he paid for it. Yeah, he paid. Well, let's try to pick up the tail of the other two before that's stolen. What is it? Horses. A couple of horses coming in fast. All right, hold it! He's all right, Marshal Wade, aren't you? Paul, where is he? We heard the chute and turned around and rode back. You better get off your horses, both of you. I'm sorry, Janet. I knew when he made us ride on a head that we'd never see him again. Alive. You kids carrying the money? It's there in my saddlebags. Get it, William Chester. He thought he was doing the right thing. He thought he was doing it for us. I know, but he was wrong. And now there's the two of you to decide about. Yes, I wonder what you're doing. Chester, count out a thousand dollars. Yes, sir. You know, technically, I guess all that take you back to Dutch. But I figure everybody's got certain rights. It's my job to try to keep all those rights sorted out and evened up. All I can do is call him the way I see him. Chester, give him a thousand dollars. There you are. But I... I don't understand. Clock her up at a thousand dollars and no questions asked for the return of his money. Well, you returned it. And there's the reward. Yes, but I... Now, if you ride north and keep barren west, you'll eventually hit Wyoming. I hear it's fine country. I'll change land. Homesteads. The two of you ought to do all right. And Jerry? Yes, sir? You take care of her. Yes, sir, I will, Mr. Dillon. I understand what you're doing for her. And I... Now go on, you two. Get out of here before I think it over and change my mind. Now go on. Ride. Thank you, Marshall. Thanks. Go on. Goodbye, Mr. Dillon. Go on, get out of here. Get a move on, Mr. Dillon. It's starting to rain. I hope they find a shelter somewhere. Mr. Dillon, it's starting to rain, Mr. Dillon. You better get a move on, Mr. Dillon. Tell you about guardian maintenance? Well, sure, I'll be glad to. Guardian maintenance is a kind of specialized service. Your General Motors car gets to the GM dealers like ours. Yeah. Now, it makes good sense, doesn't it, that our mechanics know your GM car best? You see, they specialize in one-maker car. And once more, they've got the right tools and factory-approved parts, too. Yes, sir. That whole is true for every Chevy, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Buick, Cadillac, and GMC truck. It's the best kind of service for the best kind of cars. And all GM dealers are offering performance service specials right now. Uh-huh. Includes engine tone-up, tire rotation, a front-end adjustment, a wheel check, and a complete, and I mean complete, lubrication. Makes for a worry-free vacation, I'll tell you. Huh? Good. Good. We'll be looking for you. Bye. Produced and directed by Norman McDonald, Clark William Conrad and Matt Dillon, U.S. Marshall. The story was specially written for Gunsmoke by Les Crutchfield, with editorial supervision by John Meston. Featured in the cast were Vic Perron, Barbara Eilers, Sam Edwards, and Barth Robinson. Harley Bear is Chester, Howard McNeer is Doc, and Georgia Ellis is Kitty. This is George Walsh inviting you to join us again next week for another story on Gunsmoke. This is the CBS Radio Network.