 In a large city and in the territory on West, there's just one way to handle the killers of the spoilers, and that's with a U.S. Marshal and the smell of gun smoke. The violence that moved West and the story of a man who moved with it. Matt Dillon, United States Marshal. The first man they look for and the last they want to meet. It's a chancey job, and it makes a man watchful. And a little lonely. You weren't coming to work till this evening. It's hotter at the boarding house than it is here in the saloon. He got your hair fixed different. Yeah. How do you like it done up like this? Nice. Real nice. Maybe I'll have it this way then. See what some of the men think of it. Honey, it isn't the way you fix your hair that attracts men. Oh, I know that. Just thought some of them might notice that's all. They will. One in particular. You mean Roke? How is he, by the way? I haven't seen him in here the last few days. He's been doing some ranch work for old man Johnson. Sounds like he's settling down. You better watch out, Lori. He's liable to ask you to marry him. No. Not Roke. He likes me, but he won't ask me to marry him. Well, you can never tell. I'm a saloon girl, Kitty. Men don't ask saloon girls to marry him. It's happened. Not to me it hasn't. Well, look at that. That's my company. Hello, Roke. Well, I've got some work to do. I'll see you later. Bye, Kitty. You mind if I sit down? Well, you just help yourself. You finished your job? Oh, yeah. He just wanted some fence picks. It didn't amount to much. You make enough money to buy me some beer? Sure. Sam, bring us a couple of beers, will you? Right away. You know, I kind of missed you in the past few days, Lori. Why, you sound surprised. Well, there aren't many women I ever missed. Now, what makes me so special? I don't know. Just when I was out there fixing the fence, I just got thinking about you, about how you move and walk and all that. You know, I kind of missed you in the past few days, Lori. Move and walk and all that. Well, most people move and walk. Oh, yeah. But it's different with you. You know what I mean. Thank you, Sam. Now, come on, Ro. Tell me what you mean. What makes me so different from other people? You know what I mean, Lori. Thinking about you just made me want to come to town. That's all. Well, I sure didn't know you liked me because of the way I walked. Oh. It ain't only that, you know it. Well, that's what you said. No, no, no. I don't know such a thing. You just put words in my mouth. Now, maybe I should get up and walk for you now. Oh, come on, Lori. You just cut out teeth in me. I think you're getting mad. No, no, I ain't getting mad. Of course, I could go tea some other man. I was so riled. Like that, when they just came in. I bet he ain't took a bath in six months. Yeah. Or seen a woman. No, likely not. It's a buffalo hunter, I guess. You know, maybe after all that time he needs to see something besides buffalo and sagebrush. I think I'll go over. Lori, no, Lori, leave me be. I'd be fine. No, you be careful, Lori. You never tell about a fella like that. You're a jealous rogue. No, I ain't. No, it's just, I don't like to see you get all tangled up with something you can't handle, because like you said, he probably ain't seen a woman in six months. I think you really are jealous. All right, you go on ahead and see if I care. All right. I'll be back in a few minutes. Well, now a gentleman usually takes his hat off when he's talking to a lady. Well, yes, ma'am, I reckon I've forgotten my manners. What's your name? Wilson, ma'am. Chug Wilson. Oh, that's a handsome name. You a buffalo hunter? Yes, ma'am. Bet you're just about the best I am. I got my share of eyes right enough. Oh, why don't you, why don't you buy me a drink? Chug. Yes, ma'am. Give me another glass. Oh, my name is Lori. Lori? Here you are. How long you been in dodge, Chug? I just rode in. Thanks. Well, I'm sure glad you did ride in. You are? Of course I am. When I get to town, there ain't usually many women who'll bother talking to me. Well, you've got one talking to you now. Yes, ma'am, and it's downright pleasurable. You gonna stay in dodge a while? I was only aiming to be here long enough to sell my hides, Miss Lori, but I just might stay at peace. Well, that'd be real nice, Chug. You can buy me another drink sometime. I could buy you one tonight. I could buy you a whole table full of drinks tonight after I sell my hides. You'll be here, won't you? I mean, you ain't going nowhere. No, I'll be here. Well, that's fine, Miss Lori. That's just fine. Get my business took care of, but I'll be back later on. Sure. Bye, Miss Lori. What did I tell you? He really hasn't seen a woman in months. Maybe not talk to one in years. Yeah, he sure was stumbling all over himself. I thought I'd bust out laughing. Yeah. What didn't you think it was funny? He might have took you more serious than you figured. I'll let him buy me a drink sometime. He'll forget all about it. Yeah. I just hope you ain't piling up trouble for yourself. Oh, Rog, I'm just having fun. That's all. Just having fun. Before you, Kitty, I promised Roke I'd wait for him. Why don't you sit down for a minute? I think I will. There were a lot of people in here tonight. Yeah. I swear, I don't know where they all come from. Well, dodge is growing. Sometime, but I wish it had stopped. Oh, hello, Matt. Hello, Kitty. Lori. How are you, Marshal? I'm fine, thanks. Sam's gone, but I'll get you a beer if you want. Oh, no, thanks, Kitty. I was just on my way by. I thought I'd have to walk you home. I'd like it better if you'd carry me. My feet hurt. Maybe next time. You don't mind closing up, Lori? Of course not. I told Sam I'd put the glasses away anyhow. Good night. Good night, Marshal. Hi, Lori. I thought you were Roke waiting for somebody else. Maybe some other time. I'm tired now. But you promised. That was this afternoon. Now I'm tired and I just want to be left alone. So leave me alone, huh? Well, I don't hardly steam right. Oh, that's the way it is. I don't figure that way, Miss Lori. We're going to have a drink now. Now listen. I don't want a drink. And I sure don't want one with you. It was powerful. Nice to meet you this afternoon. How come you ain't that way now? I was having fun this afternoon. Now I'm not. So get out of here. You wouldn't talk to me the way you done. I told you to get out of here. I've made up my mind about you. What do you mean by that? Well, I reckon you and me, we're going to get along just fine. You and me. You get out of here. I'll break a bottle over your head. Did you hear what I said? What's wrong, Lori? You got some trouble? Everything's fine, mister. Wait. Ain't you at Buffalo Hunter was in here this afternoon? That's right. In Miss Lori, she said she'd have a drink with me. Oh, look, she's just funning you today. That didn't mean nothing. It didn't mean anything. I'll take you home. You ain't had your drink yet, Miss Lori. No, and I'm not going to. Let's go. Just hold it. Right where you're at. Just keep it shut, Mr. Roque. Take your drink, Miss Lori. Well, I told you she don't want it. That glass out of my hand. Yeah, and I'm going to do a lot more. You don't leave her alone. I'll squash you. I'll squash you. I'm going to leave. I'll have a drink with you. I'll have a drink. Right, Roque? You're that bad. You stay away from her. You don't own her. And you better know it. I'll tell you something. Miss Lori, she belongs to me. I've been thinking on it real hard. And I've made up my mind. Here, Delmonico's cooking. He's just getting better all the time. That was a good steak. Better. It tasted like shoe leather. What? You heard me, shoe leather. Was that a good steak or not? I don't know, Chester. I didn't have one. If you think it was so bad, dark wine tarnation to eat here. Where else am I going to eat? Well, do your own. Oh, yes. I do that, Chessie. I sure do that. Only I'm not blessed with as much leisure time as some people I know. Leisure time? Why, you ain't done a lick of work all morning. You've just been stepping over there in front of the Dodge House. Oh, Chester, why don't you... I got talked to you. Well, it's Chug Wilson. Who's Chug Wilson? He's a buffalo hunter coming to Dodge yesterday. Now, so... Last night, he most took me to death. Now, you look all right to me. Well, that's your... Just go, Lori, beg him out of it. Lori? Yeah. Now, he thinks he owns her just because she... Well, she shined up to him, but that ain't the half of it. Oh, what else? Well, this afternoon, just a little while back, I couldn't find her, so I went to her boarding house and knocked on the door. Now, who should open it but that Chug Wilson? Well, maybe Lori invited him. No, she didn't. She wouldn't do that. And besides, I seen her sitting right there in a chair. And she was all scared. Look, she hurt. Well, I don't know. But before I could do anything, when he picked me up, he threw me clean down the stairs like the broke-ever bone in my body. Now, Marshall... Do something, Marshall. Throw him in jail. I'm not going to throw a man in jail unless he breaks the law or hurts somebody, Roke, you don't look hurt to me. You're not going to do nothing? I'll find Chug Wilson and hear his side of it. Well, if you ain't some Marshall... I haven't got time to nurse-mate every drifter that comes to dodge and looks cow-eyed at one of the saloons. All right, and you just better start building a pine box big enough to hold Chug Wilson, Marshall, because I'm going to get him. Mr. Dorn, he's mad enough to shoot somebody. Yeah. Come on, Chester. We better find out what this is all about. Yes, sir. See you later, Doc. Yes, all right. Come on, Doc. Maybe Chug Wilson is still at the warden house, Mr. Dorn. Yeah, maybe. Marshall, you've got to help me. Oh, what is it, Lorraine? What's the matter? That buffalo hunter, Chug Wilson, he just walked into my room, grabbed me and told me I had to go with him, then Roke come to the door and Chug threw him down the stairs. Yeah, Roke told me. I was scared. I ran out when he was fighting with Roke. I went to your office, but you weren't there. So I hid in the alley. What started all this, Lorraine? Oh, a joke, Marshall. Just a crazy joke. What kind of a joke? Oh, yesterday when Chug came to town, Roke and I were talking, and I thought it'd be funny if I kind of made up to Chug, you know. Teased him a little. Oh. That kind of a joke isn't very funny, Lorraine. Well, how was I to know he was going to take it? You fool with a man's feelings, you're going to get in trouble. Marshall, please, you got to keep him away from me. He's going to do something crazy. I just know it. Lorraine! There he is. He's coming for me. Now you just take it easy. If you don't want to go with him, you don't have to. How come you run out on me, Lorraine? You shouldn't. Who are you? I'm the Marshall here, Chug. You trying to get Lorraine away from me, Marshall? I'm not trying to do anything, but Lorraine doesn't want you. That ain't so. Why don't you ask her? There's no need. Yesterday in the saloon, she told me she was mighty glad I come to town. Right? Then she told me. I was only having some fun yesterday. It's that rogue, Judson. He's trying to turn you against me. Chug, you just can't grab a woman and run off with her because she tells you she's glad you came to town. Why not? Because I'm telling you right now, you stay away from Lorraine. Don't you go near her anymore. It's mine, Marshall. She's been mine since I first seen her yesterday. And ain't nobody going to take her away from me. Not you. Not nobody. You're kind of sorry for him, don't you? I mean the way she was teasing him at all. Yes, sir, but so is Chug. He'll get over it. I don't know. What did you make this coffee with? Axel grease? Why? It seems to always make it. Only this time I'll have to put in a little more chicory. Well, next time try washing out the pot, huh? Washing out the pot? Well, now, if you ain't careful, you can wash the flavor clean out of the pot by doing that. Well, hello, ma. Master, where's the... Hello, Marshall. What's the matter, boss? Well, maybe it ain't nothing. But it just seemed kind of funny, that's all. Oh, what's wrong? About an hour ago, this big buffalo hunter come into my stable, Chug, something or other. I never did hear his last name. He wanted a horse and rig, so I rented him one. And then him and this girl live out. Girl? Yeah, you know that saloon girl, Lori. And I got that thinking afterwards. That Lori, she looked awful scared. Mr. Don, he's done it. He's kidnapped her. Come on, trust me. The buggy trails easy to farm, Mr. Don. Yeah, doesn't look like they're moving very fast. How come Chug got to do a thing like that? Well, he's a stubborn man, trust me. Crazy. I guess when Chug makes up his mind, nothing's gonna change it. Mr. Don, look. There's somebody hanging from that tree on it. Now, if Chug Wilson done this... Why'd he shoot at it? I've never done him, though, huh? He'd throw him down some stairs. He took his woman. She was my woman. A rogue doesn't think so. We just didn't know that's all. In jail, Marshal? After, Chug. Would you do me one thing first? Brung Lori out here so she could be on our rank barrier here. You know some you can save far, Marshal. Don't need to be much. Sometimes a little can be too much. What do you mean by that? Something I guess you don't understand, Chug. You asked Marshal. The story was specially written for Gunsmoke by Ray Kemper with editorial supervision by John Meston. Featured in the cast were Barney Phillips, Virginia Christine, Lawrence Dobkin, and James Nusser. Harley Bear is Chester, Howard McNeer is Doc, and Georgia Hawkins is Kitty. It's a real pleasure to welcome back Radio Station WK&E of King, New Hampshire as an affiliate of the CBS Radio Network and to greet station WKVT, Brattleboro, Vermont. Both stations became CBS Radio Network affiliates on November 29th. This is George Walsh inviting you to join us again next week when CBS Radio presents another story on Gunsmoke.