 A fiery horse for the speed of light, a cloud of dust and a hearty high old silver, the lone ranger. In the great mountains of the western United States, there were many caves, ravines and hidden valleys where outlaws could hide after committing a crime. The masked rider of the planes knew the country better than anyone else. It was for this reason that he brought so many criminals to justice. Astride his great horse Silver, he rode through the length and breadth of seven states and no man did more to bring law and order to the frontier. And now return with us to those thrilling days when the west was young and adventure lay at the end of every trail. The lone ranger rides again. The mining town of Burnside lay at the foot of Eagle Pass. One afternoon, Dan Latham, who spent most of his time in the cafe, waited for Mary Frisbee to come out of the general store. When she finally appeared with her arms full of packages, he stepped forward and touched her shoulder. Mary, I want to speak to you. Uncle Dan, I didn't see you. You don't bother to see me, spite of the fact I'm your uncle. My arms were filled. An awful lot of shopping. Yeah, you dropped the package, sir. I'll get it as soon as I get these others in the buckboard. Must be nice to have so much money for spending. Now, don't sell half an hour in that again, Uncle Dan. You dropped the package. Oh, oh, thanks, Indian. Maybe this color is lazy. I don't do it from you. I don't take nothing from a red skin. There's a lot you could learn in the way of good manners from some of them. Good day. Wait. I ain't done talking. Maybe your pa's told you things about me. He's always saying things that don't do me no good. Let's go my arm, Uncle Dan. Pa's told me the whole story about you and him. In a pack of lies, I bet. You and he worked to claim the two of you staked out as partners, but you drank and gambled so much you spit out. He done me out in my share. No, he didn't. He divided the claim and you took first choice. Your half peed it out to nothing and he found a new load in his hand. He got rich. He's rich right now. And look at me. His wife's own brother. Down and out. Not a decent vest to my name. Not even the price of a drink. Please, let go, Mom. I know what pa's done for you. He's given you thousands of dollars that he didn't have to just because he felt sorry for you. Lies, I tell you, it's lies. All he's ever done for me is to give me enough cash so he could lord it over me, so he could always say I was in his debt. That's not true. Better appreciate what he's done for you. You've resented. If you'd saved your money instead of drinking and gambling, you'd have had plenty. Now, please let me go. I must get home. I got something for you to tell Ned. He ain't going till you hear it. Then please hurry. I ain't done with him. He swindled me. That's what he done. He swindled me and I won't stand for it. Is that all you want me to tell him? Just tell him that. I've been saying that for as long as I can remember. Well, I ain't fooling. I mean it, huh? You let girl go. You keep out on this. This is a family affair. I'll go here. Uncle Dan, I want you to take your hand off my arm at once. I won't. No ordinary red skinnies. Oh, seriously. Don't go on yet. No, you go. Oh, thank you, engine. Me, name Tonto. Thank you, Tonto. You tell your old man that. I'm sick of hearing that. Get up there. I'll get square. I'll fix things someday. I ain't going to be the underdog all the time. You wait, Mary Frisbee. You and your old man will get worse coming to you. You heap big fool. And you too. You'll get yours for slapping my arm away. You just wait. I was in town. I saw him again. Drinking? He had been. He was feeling sorry for himself. Yeah. Just the same as usual, eh, Mary? Uh-huh. Blame fool. It's too bad he didn't straighten himself around. Get a job of some sort. He was half crying at the way things have been going with him. Broke? I guess so, Paul. He was here a few days ago, and I give him $50. He's so stupid. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. He's probably below that, eh, and same as all the rest of his money. Well, I'm not going to worry about him anymore, Mary. For 15 years, he's been growling around about the way I swindled him. No one believes him. I know, but I'm getting sick and tired of it. All right. I think he is too. What do you mean by that? There is something about the way he acted today. It sort of worried me. Worried you? Mary, you ain't given to worryin'. I know it. That's the reason I sort of take it serious now. What did you say? It wasn't so much what he said as to as how he said it. I think he's got some sort of scheme in the back of his mind. He never stays sober long enough to think straight. He might think crooked. Mary, what are you driving at? I know, Pa. It was a funny look in his eyes when he said he'd get square. What else did he say? He said he wasn't going to be the underdog all the time. We'll fix that. You just sit right there, Mary. I'll be right back. What are you going to do? I'll show you. Hey, Jim. You, Jim. Come in the house here a moment. Coming, boss. Jim Brandt will be right in. You think I better change my plans about going to visit Aunt Sally? Not by a darn sight. We won't let that honour and no-account brother-in-law mind interfere with your plans. You've counted a long time on going to visit your aunt. You're going. You want to see me, boss? Yeah, close the door, Jim. Sure. Anything wrong? Not yet, Jim. But I'm just going to make sure there ain't going to be nothing wrong. You know Dan, Latham? Who is there in these mountains? Don't. He's been making more threats. Well, that don't mean nothing, boss. He's always making threats. Well, maybe he's getting serious. Anyhow, that's the way Mary feels about it. Oh, I didn't mean to worry you so much, Pa. It's all right, Mary. But, Jim, you see, Mary's planning to ride through Eagle Pass to visit her aunt Sally. Sure, I know. I wouldn't put it past Dan to try and make a little trouble. She ain't nerve enough for that, boss. Oh, can't tell about a man like Dan. Anyhow, I'm changing the plans I had of letting her ride through the pass alone. I want you to go along with her. Well, that suits me fine. Good enough. I'll go see who that is, Pa. All right, Mary, I'll go over the plans with Jim. Me come tell you... Oh, it's Colno. Who's that? Pa, this is the engine sent Uncle Dan about his business when he was trying to stop me. Oh, come in. Mary was telling me that she met Dan Town today. Uh, Dan Himbad Pellar. You ain't telling me nothing. What'd you come here for, engine? Me come tell news. News? What sort of news? Is anything wrong? Maybe plenty wrong. Go on. Me hear Pellar in town. Dan? That's right. What'd you hear? What'd you have to say? Him talk to another Pellar. Maybe they make plenty trouble for you. Yeah? Him not take drink. Didn't take a drink? That's right. Why not? That's the first time I ever hear to him refusing one. Him say, Him keep sober. What's he want to keep sober for? He sure changed a lot. Him say, Him got plenty big plans. Look here, engine. Did he say anything about what his plan was? Oh, you can't go much about what Dan says. And I wouldn't take much talking with a red skin, says I, the boss. I want a reward, eh, engine? No, that's not right. Well, whatever happens. We got things in hand, savvy. Now you can mind your own business, engine. That's good. You shouldn't have talked to the engine that way. Shucks. It's all right to help you out like you done this afternoon. But he didn't think he has the right to interfere with all of our affairs. I don't think he felt that way. He just heard Dan saying things, and he thought we ought to know about it. Oh, that's funny. Did you hear that? There was two men out there. Yeah. Now, what do you make of that, Jim? Might make a plenty of it. I don't like the way you talk about Tondo. After all, he's been right now. Now, Mary, don't you worry about it. It ain't no business of yours. And the fact that he had another man waiting outside for him, that strikes me as being downright suspicious. Same here, Jim. You reckon the engine's up to something? Either there or he's hooked up with Dan. Well, I'll be just as well satisfied for Mary. To get out of here for a while. Maybe while she's visiting her aunt, I'll be able to have a final showdown with him. Jim, you figure on riding with her till she gets past Eagle Pass. I sure will, boss, and you don't have to worry. As Tonto and the Lone Ranger rode away from Ned Frisbee's home, they discussed what Tonto would overheard in what Jim Grant and Ned Frisbee had said. I heard most of the conversation through the window, Tonto. The girl's planning to ride through Eagle Pass. Ned, plenty of bad country. It's a good thing that fellow's going with her. Him, bad fellow. What do you mean, Tonto? Me, see him. He's one of Ned Frisbee's trusted men? Maybe so. Tonto not like him. You're usually right at judging a man, Tonto, but still... Tonto think him, bad fellow. When you heard Dan Latham talking, he said he had a partner. But we don't know who that partner is. That's right. Tonto, there's only one place that he can make a play to capture Mary Frisbee. That Eagle Pass. That's right. I'm going to watch Dan in town. If he leaves, I'll follow him. That'd be good. And in the meantime, you ride to Eagle Pass and be sure the girl gets through there safely. Tonto, do that. You might start right now. New head north, and I'll head for Burnside. Tonto, go now. Get him up, Scout. I'll see you! Late that night, while the Lone Ranger hunted through the town of Burnside for Dan Latham, the man he sought met Jim Grant in the dark shadows of a grove of trees close to Frisbee's home. Everything is set to him. Good enough. Remember, whenever I get you, get out. I'm counting on that. Things worked out even better than we figured. How's that, Jim? I didn't even have to ask the boss to get time off to visit friends. If you didn't ask him, then how in places are you going to get the Eagle Pass? You'll laugh when I tell you. I'm going to ride there with a girl. Where's that? That's right. The old man's sending me alone to protect her in case you try any stunts. That sounds good. It'll work out perfect. Once we get in the pass, there's plenty of hiding places alongside the trail. I'll just tie her up. Savvy? Good enough. And I'll be free to handle the deal with Frisbee. Before I'm done, I'll have what's rightfully mine. The Lone Ranger felt sure that whatever attempt was made to harm Mary Frisbee, Taunta would be there to help her. The mask man himself kept an eye on Dan Latham in town watching every move he made. Toward sundown the next day, Mary and Jim Brant were riding through Eagle Pass. I'd hate to come through here after dark. I bet there's a penny of wild animals in the hills here. Yeah, right patterns. We'll be through the pass and into the open before it's dark. Won't we, Jim? Well, that's hard to say, Mary. What's going to happen before we get out of here? What do you mean? Well, let me see. Where's that rock? What are you looking for? Oh, there's a rock near here, right along here somewhere. It's most a hiding place. And a dog, one good one, Mary. A person lost in here can never be found. There's a rock up ahead there. Well, what about it? That rock marks a place where no trail leads into a cave. Ain't many men know about that cave. What do you mean? A man could stay here for years and never be found. A man could starve to death there if he was tied up. Well, what about it? Whatever happens to a man could happen to a woman. I sure hope your pa feels generous. Here's where we leave the trail, Mary, and break through that underbrush. Wait, what are you doing? I'll tell you. Jim, put that down. Get moving. I ain't fooling you. Double cut. Come on. You may as well have it now. Me and your uncle are working together on this, and your old man's going to turn over half of everything he's got if he wants you out of here alive. Get him out. Come on. Plain dungeon again. I figured someone was following me. Well, you won't stop me. Oh! You killed him. Everything's worked out just perfect. When I come back, I'll tell the story about how the engine tried to capture you. And if you have to starve here, it's the engine who'll take the blame. Now get to that cave. Tonto, the faithful companion of the Lone Ranger, lay on the ground beside his horse. Jim Brant's bullets had found their mark. In just a moment, we'll continue with the second act of our Lone Ranger drama. Now to continue our story. The Lone Ranger, certain that Tonto was guarding Mary Frisbee as she rode through Eagle Pass, watched Dine Latham as he made the plans to kidnap the girl. The day after Mary left her father to visit relative, Dan called at Frisbee's home. Who's there? Open up. Open up, Ned. I gotta talk to you. Wait a minute. Dan, what do you want here? I choose you now to show your face around here again. Yeah, you told me a lot of things, Frisbee. But I reckon this is the time you're gonna begin taking things back. What do you mean? I'll just step in where we can talk privately, if you don't mind. All right. Say all you got to say now and get it over with. This is the last time you're going to set foot inside this cave. Yeah? That's what I said. Mary told me how you acted toward her in town. I'm sick and tired of the way you've been talking around town and treating Mary. Sick and tired, huh? You heard me. Now, what do you want here? I want cash. But all the cash you're going to get, I gave you $50 less than a week ago. $50? You're talking as if that was a heap of money. It is. Well, there's lots of ways of looking at it, Ned. $50 is a lot of money for small change, but it don't compare to $50 or $60,000. What are you talking about? $50 or $60,000. That's what I want this time. You've been drinking too much. I ain't had a drop for days. I kept a special sober for this deal, Ned. Talk. Your daughter's going on a trip, ain't she? What do you know about my daughter? Sort of a dangerous trip, too, going through Eagle Pass. Mighty dangerous. Lots of things can happen there. Bad places in the trail where a horse can slip and break a leg. And if the rider was through from his horse, he's going through and if the rider was through from his horse, he could lay there until he starved to death and never be found. I get it. Well, let me tell you something. Dan, that engine told me you might be scheming something. And he told me plenty about you. And because of what he told me, I sent Jim Brant to see that Mary got through the pass safe. Jim Brant ain't much protection. Ain't a hand to your man with a gun in the part of the country. What would you say if I told you Jim Brant and me was going to split the case that I'm going to get from you? What's that? What do you mean? I mean what I said. Jim Brant was planning to ask you for a few days off to visit relatives. He was going to use them days to lay and wait for Mary when she came through Eagle Pass. Instead of that, you played right into our hands and sent the girl along with it. Why, you dirty old coyote. Ain't no use getting excited. I ain't no use trying to find them. You could send a scouting party, you'd just scour the whole pass and you wouldn't find the hiding place, Sammy. I ought to put lead through you. That's the surest way I know of to kill your daughter. You give me the money I want or you won't get Mary back. Stand right where you are. What the... Mash, you're coming. Don't reach for guns. No, she is. Who's this? Another of your killer friends? No, I've never seen him before. Brisbane, I was here the other evening when the Indian came to see you. Indian? You call your horse Silver? That's right. Tato and I knew that your daughter was to go through Eagle Pass. Tato didn't think that Jim Brant was on the level. I always thought he was. The list can't come here. Tato followed the two. If Brant makes any attempt to abduct your daughter, Tato will prevent it. Yeah? Why are you... Are you sure of that? Tato has never failed before. Don't pay that man any money. Now, Dan, you've stuck your neck in the loose. Stranger, I don't know who you are or where you come from. That doesn't matter. But it's my guess that Providence sent you. This full cat had me where I'd have had to pay him all I owned to save Mary. I heard what he said before I came in. Hold on. All I know that Mary's safe. She'd be go right on to her aunt's place. Tato will come back with Jim Brant a prisoner. Your daughter will likely ride back with them to tell her story. Dan, I'm going to see you hang for this. At last, you made the break that'll put you where you belong. Stranger, I'm drawing my gun. Not to kill. Oh, don't worry. I won't kill the rat much as he deserves it. I'll let the law do that. You've done a heap for me. Now, if you would just do me one more favor and ride to town and send the sheriff here to get this coyote... I will. The horse is coming now. Maybe that's the red skin in my daughter. That isn't Tato's voice. All right, there, Ned. We're fetching bad news. The sheriff. Hey, what's this mean? A mass plan of Dan Latham. It means just this. Latham's schemed with Jim Brant to kidnap Mary when she went through Eagle Pass. I know. How do you know? You finish talking and I'll tell my story. Come on in, Stan. I'm coming. I just handed the horse. Go on, Ned. Dan Latham, like I said, schemed with Brant to capture Mary. He come here telling me it cost me $50,000 to save her life. Yep. But the mask man has an Indian friends, have he? So that's where the red skin come from. What do you mean? What about the red skin? He suspicious something and followed Mary and Jim. And the mask man tells me he'll rescue Mary. I can count on him. I see. So I want you to throw down in jail and hold it. Wait a minute, Ned. There's nothing I'd sooner do than throw the rat in the calaboose. There's nothing I hate more than the dicker with his breed. Yet there's one thing that's a sight more important than seeing him get what he should. Well, that's your daughter's life. But she... You wondered how I know she was kidnapped. How I know about the red skin. Well, Stan here can tell you the whole story. What story? Go on, Stan. Well, I was riding this way coming through Eagle Pass when I seen a horse blocking the road ahead. Where? This end. That don't show that the hideout is near here, though. The horse might have been led there and tethered till someone come through just like I did. There was a note fast into the saddle. Whose horse? Your daughter's. Go on. The note said the girl was captured in the red skin shot. Shot? That's the man you spoke of, eh? A ton of shots. That means he failed. For the first time... And if he failed, it means that Grant has married. There was all the instructions on the message, Ned. It looks like the only way to save the girl is to let Latham go free and pay what he asked. Ha, ha, ha, ha. You see, your steam fell through after all. Now put down them guns and get out of here. Can't you scour those mountains and find that hideout stranger? Take years to search them all. And even then, we'd be likely to miss where the girls hid. You... You think, Sheriff, the only way is to do what this conk wants? I hate the idea of it, Ned. There ain't no one hates more than me to pay that cash and pledge that the law won't punish him. But on the other hand, it's... There is life. The note said some more. Said that the cash had to be paid by sundown. Was there any proof that Tyler was shot? You see, a bundle was fastened to Miss Mary's horse. Let me see it. It's an ancient jacket. Tunnels. You can see the bullet holes and where it is. And this stain. Ain't no question what he's inside of when them holes was made. If only there was some way to track a man or horse in that pass. But there ain't it's all rock. Excuse me. Huh? They want the cash for sundown. Yeah. I'm heading for the pass. Don't pay a dime until the last minute. What's your idea? I'm still not convinced that Tyler was failed. I'm riding for that pass. You won't find them and if that cash ain't paid. You shut up. You're staying right here till that man gets back. I'll be back. There might be hope in it. He called his horse silver. He's mask. But I don't savvy. Go on. Mr. Ride that horse. Hit for Eagle Pass. You know him? Ride Lone Ranger Ride. The great horse silver raced toward the hills and then started the treacherous climb upwards. There was scant hope, however, that the Lone Ranger would be able to find the girl and tanto. And even if he were successful, it would be almost impossible to return his home before the sunset. Meanwhile, in a well-concealed camp far from the main trail, Jim Brant talked with Mary. Oh, you should worry about it, Mary. Your pile will pay the cash and everything will be all right. Don't talk to him. And even if he don't, there ain't no cause to worry, see? I ain't going to leave you here to starve like your uncle planned me to do. No, I wouldn't do that. And take you away and me and you will get married. You'll make a good wife. That's going to stay here and starve me. I feel about it. After all, I ain't a bad ombre. I'm just taking the chance of a lifetime to get plenty of cash. You owe me. A lot of spunk, huh? That's the kind of woman I like. You see, me, Mary, and you, it'll sort of keep the cash right in the family. At least, why is the half of the cash that I get? How's that engine? I ain't interested in him. You might at least do what you can for him. He's wounded in my debate. Now, let him die. If you don't want to help him, untie my hands and let me... I ain't untying your hands and I ain't wasting my time playing nurse to no red skin. Too bad he didn't die on the bat. Maybe I should sort of help him out. Please help him. All right. I'll help you, Mary. Wait. I didn't mean that. That's too bad. I didn't think of it before. He's already got one bullet in him. Another one will finish him. Please. Please don't. This will be interesting. Wait. Wait, Jim. Save your breath. You. You let him shoot. But, Tando... Tando, not mine. You see? Me. Me. Yeah? Well, I reckon that's all right. Go on and ask. You. You come close. Tando got secret. Can't you talk no louder? Come close. Tando got secret. All right. All right. Go on. Tell me what's on your mind to be fast. You. You got Tando hand tied. Tight. I don't take no chances. You think wounds make Tando plenty weak. Oh, right. I think the wound made you weak. You think Tando hand still tied. What? I'm not tied. How? You can even get free. Get him, Tando. Look out. I am. You take guns. Lock him down. Get him, Tando. You got him. Tando, you got him. No. Now, let me get you free. How did you do it, Tando? Tando find sharp rock. Cut through rope. You weren't hurt as bad as you thought. That's right. Bullet's not hurt bad. Never mind hurting my arms. Get these ropes off. We've got to get back to perfect. There. There, rope gone now. Tando fix them. Put rope on him. Here. Scout. Can you help make Tando go to me? We try. Now, Tando fix this, but I... I'm tight. Tight. There goes the sun. Now you better hand over that cash and assign the agreement fast. What about it, Sheriff? Well, Ned, I've been hoping. Hoping and praying that in spite of all the odds again it, the mask man would do the impossible. But it don't seem he's done it. If I don't get that agreement that me and Jim won't be jailed, then the whole deal is off. I've got to start now from to send the signal to Jim that the cash is delivered. Open that door. Let's see the sun. Going down, Ned. That settles it. Here's the cash, all of it. I'll sign the agreement now. You have to sign it too, Ned. Yes, you sign it, and then the deputy can sign as witness. You can't back out on your promise. One time, you know, let me have that cash. Hold on. Why, what's that? Look, there he comes. He's riding back. Look at that horse come. Look at the lone ranger ride. Hold that money till he gets here. Come on. What's the news? Don't give that man a dime. Get him to jail. But what about my girl? What about Mary? They're coming behind me. I met Mary and Tano on the trail. Ryan is tired in the cave waiting for you, Sheriff. There they come. Just break him from that row of timber. And the way that girl is riding, Ned, there ain't a thing that's wrong with her. Tano was wounded, but Tano didn't fail. Mister, if you'll take a reward, you can have this cash that I was about to give the polecat. The story you have just heard is a copyrighted feature of the Lone Ranger Incorporated.