 Lux presents Hollywood Lever Brothers Company the makers of Lux toilet soap bring you the Lux radio theater Starring Fertland Caster Charles Pickford and Nancy Gates in Brandon Ladies and gentlemen your producer Mr. William Keely Greetings from Hollywood ladies and gentlemen When we think of the days of the early West Branded is a term we usually associate with round-up time and the great cattle drives But in our play tonight Branded serves to mark one man as another Giving him a forged birthmark Which will allow him to step from a life of crime to one of wealth and position As our stars of this absorbing drama from the Paramount Studios Burt Haster in one of the rugged roles for which he's famous Also that excellent character actor Charles Bickford and graciously stepping in for Mona Freeman Nancy Gates And of course the word branded can also carry the public's stamp of approval Surely there can be no higher compliment than to be branded a Lux girl Because if you're a Lux girl you can be sure you have the very best in complexion care You're dependable daily Lux toilets old facials The curtain rises on branded starring Burt Lancaster as Choyer Charles Bickford as Mr. Lavery and Nancy Gates as Ruth Lavery Arizona 50 years ago the lonely desolate Canyon country a Refuge for anyone anxious to keep ahead of the law a man for instance like Choyer I'd figured to stay in the canyon for a week or so then turn east again New Mexico maybe to Kansas Arizona was getting too hot for me too many sheriffs in too many towns were looking for me Was kind of a shock to see a couple of men heading straight for my camp But we're friends sure yeah, why don't you put that gun away? We even left our guns blow with the horses. They don't approve just don't turn around Now what you come here for mr. We've been riding your trail all the way from Montana. Why we got a business proposition a Million-dollar deal get out even more maybe all I ask is a minute just one minute Distinguished foolproof you can take it easy to rest your life while we'll own the biggest ranch in the Southwest How about you tell it? Turn around slow My camps behind the rocks Start walking His name was letting well you call the old man tattoo they talked for hours It was a kind of a deal that you dream of All I had to do is let the old man tattoo a mark on my shoulder a Birthmark I'm a real artist with a tattoo needle When I'm sober and this year is gonna be my masterpiece. Yeah. Well, this whole job is a masterpiece You know, there's only been one problem Joey they're getting you to tie on with us Well, I the first time I lied eyes on you was in Dodge City and I knew right away. You was the man for the job I'll come you had the eyes the right age and the nerve I seen you when you made your plan to saloon that night. Take a look left. Oh Finished. Oh perfect like it was born on his skin. That is high art, mister Yeah, you can put your shirt on You live we didn't say anything yet about the split re-waith all even don't know Down the middle nothing well half for me Shut up. You mean as much for you as me and him together. That's right. Hmm. Well, I reckon that figure Do not to me it don't you must never be greedy tattoo. Don't pay. Oh, come on We're right into town for supplies. Just sing out when you come back I'd sure hate to shoot a partner You'll hear me. I only got one life joy. Yeah, I ain't no cat Nothing will came back the next afternoon He was alone Him I yeah, I bought him out. Oh, no trouble at all. Huh? No trouble at all When do you figure to buy me out? Oh setups no good without you to here right down the line Let's get moving. I've waited a long time for this 25 years a million dollars and Half of its mine It was a long push all the way through Texas down to the Rio Grande But the day finally came when we could stop traveling Just like I told you Troy one of the biggest ranches in the whole Southwest Well, what's the matter? You ain't spoke ten words in the last three days the sign on that fence read it Bar whole am ranch Richard Lavery owner keep out This means you that's right partner. It means you You only over in town today here for me. No reason why we can't ride in together. Oh I just walk up to the door. Take off my shirt. Say here. I am look at my birthmark Now let's get the straight left from here on. I'm doing the figuring. Yeah, yeah, maybe maybe it's better that way But just don't forget the details. I told you like Like that rockin horse story Let me hear from you real soon when there's something to tell you you'll hear from me. Yeah, sure Good luck partner. I had it all worked out in my mind just how to play it Way in the distance. I saw a bunch of cow hands men in offense. They look kind of surprised when I wrote up Who's the foreman here? Maybe he just don't read I'm a foreman. What do you want? I want a job. Yeah, what can you do? Smart poke, huh? Get off this ranch. I didn't come here for trouble. So don't start any I want a job Morning, mr. Lavery I'm by a long shot, mr. Ruth. We had a little misunderstanding if your Lavery I am Well, I'm looking for a job right some does all our hiring You will not take him on and show him who's foreman around here that new colt ready ransom ready to lever B He's real wicked boss lead strong riding in court handling. Well, I'm his man. I'll take him on tomorrow All right, Ruth. Let him get back to work You What's your name? They call me Choya. You want that job or not? I said I did tonight. All right. You're hired Now get on them French boys So far so good that night I saw the girl walk out on the porch of the ranch house I knew I hadn't any right over there That's why I purposely walked. What are you doing here? Well, I I wanted to thank you man for getting me the job today. I had nothing to do with it Mr. Ransom does the hiring. I know Thanks anyway You kind of like yourself, don't you? Well, it's the only affection I can depend on You can't expect folks to like someone who behaves like a one-man stampede What's your name? Choya Isn't that Spanish for cactus? Why do they call you that ever try to pick one now? What's your real name? I wouldn't know I Let your father in there. Why well, I guess this meeting's over. Oh dad doesn't mind. He's just talking to mother Tell me is Is that all the family? That's all now now Well, I I had a brother, but I never saw him Kidnap by it. We never found a trace of him dad still offers the reward, but it doesn't mean anything really Dad and I realize he must be dead But not mother Her whole world centers on the hope that Richards alive that you are there coming dad Well, they'll be going up pretty soon. You'd better You're a waste from the bunkhouse mister. I didn't know there was a dividing line and keep it in mind Sure, mr. Labry. I'm a cowhand The labors don't mix with dirty cowhands. Oh dad didn't mean it that way at all It's as plain as those signs out there keep out. This means you Dad you you were wrong. You think so all right. I'll square it with him tomorrow But he's sure honoree it seems to me you could both do with some breaking Yes, everything was moving along just the way I wanted the next day. I had another trick to pull I'd heard leave retail ransom. He wanted to ride that wild I figured I'd beat him Get off that cool choice. I broke close before now Get off it. Well, man labry's age is level to get hurt Around here rides the mean ones. That's the boss. See that's his order Well, why don't you say so wouldn't matter much of my hand with it? I guess not Get off that coat. Yeah, sure, mr. Labry I'll get off this ranch. Oh wait a minute I'll go when I'm ready get my weeks pay ransom and throw them out of here It'll be a pleasure. Not until I pay you off. They read you just fight crazy. Aren't you come on boys? Let's get him Why don't you call the russium in Lavery? Hold it hold his arms Ratsom sure they're at the shoulder where it's torn boss. They go Where are you from? Why talk several I said where are you from? Places who is he'll get let him go boys. Mr. Lavery. I said let him go Maybe now you'll tell me I got no folks Nobody owns me that's birthmark on your shoulder. It's not your brand is it right some look again Say what's the matter you all crazy? It's the same birthmark boss. I never forgot it another sooner I clear out of here listen to me You don't understand. I've got to know something about you Why because you might be my son and you might be local my son was taken from this ranch when he was five years old We've never stopped looking. We had only one thing to go on a mark of birthmark like yours I don't know what this adds up to mr But I never been in Texas before in my life that cleaned up then come up to the house I want my wife to see you and if I don't you can come of your own free will or ransom and the boys will bring you I'll be there in a few minutes. Thank you My wife's inside there with Ruth. I want you to try to understand what she's been through I've told her this is probably a mistake, but she's excited naturally And you won't mind her asking you questions. Will you know, but well, I stick your stick your way wrong. All right. I'm wrong He's here Mary Would you mind showing that birthmark to my wife later Richard later? Just Just let me look at him I've been trying to tell your husband, man. He's He's made a big mistake. Do you Do you remember me at all? Oh, no, of course you couldn't it's been so very long Is there anything familiar about us to you Ruth? How could there be? Richard was so little Just a baby What about this house the ranch Richard was barely five. He couldn't remember. I can remember for that Heard your baby stories from mother and me so often you think it's your own memory But there wasn't anyone to tell stories to Richard, but surely he must remember something Well, the the only thing I can remember Well kid dreams, but they never made any sense. What were they? Please? Please nothing about here or or texas just crazy things like Well like uh Like a rocking horse. What about a rocking horse? Nothing. It doesn't make any sense A rocking horse with three legs one in front was always missing that was your toy your favorite toy I still have it Sit down son Please We want to talk to you It was that simple I let him drag out a couple of more details things laughing while I told you just enough to make it sound real good There's quite a performance the old lady never stopped crying even levee's eyes were full of tears and root But she she just stopped there staring at me The next day I went riding with her who wanted to show me the ranch There's the south section. That's our best grazing land. It runs as far as the mountains sure look like good stock Now if we go down this trail we can well All I I really want to tell you is I'm very happy Are you? As soon as we spoke that night I I felt something about you Oh, it's hard to explain but But afterwards I I kept thinking about you Of course, I couldn't have known then but I just felt close to you But you're still not sure of me. I am now You see another shock in mother's life. She's not they might have been more than she could take I should have known mother's instinct about her own son couldn't have been wrong It could be she's been wanting this to happen so bad. She She just bought me on site. Yes, that could be Oh, but there's no ifs about you You're rich at lavery my brother. I haven't cried till now. I'm I'm sorry I just can't help look if if we're going to get back before supper. We better ride The next time I get sentimental you you just tell me to shut up Dick, what was it like all those years what you did where you went you wouldn't like it And sounds exciting Like maybe you had to use those guns. I've used them Well, you can put them away now You'll never have to wear them around here And don't worry about what's past We're going to love you so much. You'll forget there ever was anything else but us and the ranch shut up I'm sorry, but Well, you asked me to say that if you ever got sentimental Come on. Let's give these horses a little exercise. Yeah, come on. Let's ride Went like that for three weeks Lavery is wife and root Standing on their heads trying to please me Trying to make me like Even when I was alone, I felt they were watching me smiling at me But being alone wasn't easy Lavery started rounding up this cattle Well, dick will be driving a hundred and eighty thousand dollars with a prime beef to El Paso Well, aren't you impressed? Yes, sir. I guess I am a man's viewpoint sure changes I used to want success right enough, but nothing like the way I do now It's a great feeling to know your own flesh and blood sun is around to take over what you sweat to build Lavery, let's get over to the chuck wagon. Look there's There's something I want to tell you When I came here Who's that? I'm not sure Oh, yeah, he's uh He's an old friend of mine A man named Leffingwood. Well, he's a friend of yours. He's welcome here You'll sure have something to tell him, won't you son? Yes, sir I love a lot to tell How long you've been working here. I uh, I just stopped by looking for a job Well, don't I even get a handshake you kind of took dick unexpected. Nice, sir dick Dick who Richard lavery jr. My son him chorea. Well, go on dick tell him He's right. Are you You mean all those years you said you had no folks you had this place to come to dick. I'll tell you all about it Go on son and take your friend up the house I'll join you later Yes, sir. Thank you So this is your room, huh? I told you'd be living like a king in a palace And I told you to wait in town. Sure wait. I got calluses from waiting And as soon as you're in the saddle, we'll dump this ranch on the open market We'll be up to our ears and cash. Why don't you stop dreaming you saw lavery He'll outlive the both of us. You getting soft in the head. He ain't going to outlive a 45 slug Is it get this straight? Nobody's gunning him. No Well, I ain't young enough just to set around and wait for him to have a natural You won't have to wait. We're getting out. No, no, you can't do it This thing is mine. You ain't got the right to go and get religion now If I ain't got this deal, I ain't got nothing. We'll get ours. Now listen I'm heading the cattle drive to opasso There's 180,000 money you ever see it's the cattle money or none at all Yeah, I guess that's that Can you sign me on for the drive? Yeah, I've starved and gone to prison. Yeah, and I've killed and all the while I was counting on the money I was going to make out of this. I figured I'd go back to New Orleans in style I guess I'm just too old to argue. Just don't change your mind Come on. I'll show you around the ranch We started the cattle drive a week later lavery stayed on the ranch After all his own son would be in shock Yeah, lavery stayed But Ruth insisted on coming along I kept away from her as much as I could remember tonight dick We're making good time today. Not good enough ransom. We got to do better tomorrow No sense in running their weight off for their soul right out where you belong ransom. I'll handle this drive Yeah, I guess you will Anything wrong? No, no, I just thought I'd ride with you for a while dick There is something wrong It's you You've been jumpy and irritable ever since we started You've been avoiding me. I know I'm sorry Well, I'm just anxious about the drive Just like dad ready to buck and rear at the flick of a whip I guess you heard me blowing off at ransom just now, huh? He means well dick and there's nothing he wouldn't do for us I know I'll make it up to him later I can't wait till we get to pass up. There's so many people I want you to meet Oh, don't look so bored. Where do you see some of the girls? I'm gonna I never asked you Maybe you have a girl somewhere Oh, maybe I oh Oh, you you can be so aggravating at times. There isn't any girl. That's wonderful then We'll I introduce you to Judy Medgar. She's the prettiest girl in passing. Let's worry about my girl after we get there I'm sorry Oh, I I almost forgot your friend mr. Leppingwell. What about him? Nothing. He just said if I saw you and you weren't too busy, you wanted to talk to you Where is he? Up ahead riding point That's too important to you only uh, I just been doing some thinking At 90,000. I'm gonna get about it. Well someday it may all be gone and we can come back Hmm the family will always forgive a little thieving and then only we're never coming back I figured all depends on the finances That uh that girl joya Pretty hmm too bad. She's your sister. Why don't you find yourself a rat hole? I was only joking But uh, maybe you called me right. Maybe rat fits me proper So don't push me too far partner. Don't back me up against no wall You're the one who's pushing hard. You ain't the kind it'll draw first for shoot a man in the back Me then what I told you once this was my deal. I put my life in it So it's gonna pan out Just like I hoped it would In a few moments, we'll be back with act two of branded now. Mr. William Keely our producer act two of branded Starring Bert Lancaster as joya Charles Dickford as mr. Lavery and Nancy Gates as Ruth Lavery I timed the drive so we'd reach El Paso early in the morning By nightfall. I wanted to be as far away as a horse could take you As we were leaving the cattle yard. I told ransom. I wanted to see him Why isn't my sister ransom the office talking to the cattle people pick her up see that she gets to the hotel I thought you were going with her. I'll meet her there. They sent the tally over to the bank I'll go there first to make sure about the money Might as well keep walking in What are you doing riding hurt on me? I don't need anybody to hold my hand. I don't reckon you do All I aim to do is pick up my horse I got left him well and went over to the bank. I left him outside I told the cashier. I wanted to see the president young lavery sit down son. Thank you I just wondered if you had our money ready. Yeah, got it right here ransom brought the tally over about an hour ago Yo, come in dawson come in Here's somebody been waiting a long time to meet you This charlie dawson texas rangers looks like I finally caught up with your lavery. What? Yeah, I've been looking for you for more than 20 years You sure caused this plenty of trouble when you were stuck Why chased one lead all the way to new allons New allons, huh? Yeah, nothing come of it though Well, it's sure good to see you Anything you want you just come on over to the jail. Thanks Now about your money. It comes to 182 thousand dollars. Don't bother to count Just give me a receipt And deposit it to my father's account. Oh, I thought you wanted the cash. I changed my mind I want my money. I said we'd come back to the hotel and talk it over. All right We're here now. Give me my share and you can talk all you want I didn't take the money you're lying. Am I here's the bank receipt Deposit it to the account of richard lavery senior. You'll be sorry for this charlie right down your dying day So the rangers chased you clear down to new allons, huh? What are you talking about? We made a deal you're going to see it through lavery son. What did you do with him? Go ahead. Go ahead pull a gun on me. My time will come sure your time will come You'd kill me just like a kill tattoo Only that won't get you a dime will it Ah, it looks like there ain't nothing to talk over then isn't there There are six bullets in this gun I'm taking five of them out Now I'll spin the cylinder. I'm giving you odds laughing. Well five to one Now what did you do with the lavery kid? You won't pull that trigger. You just need to murder in kind The boy where is he? Hey, he died on me before I could collect a reward I swear it on my mother's grave. He died across the border. You're lying No, charlie. Wait. He he was took from me. You never tried to get him back You just let it ride never tried to collect the reward. What are you giving me? There are three more chambers two of them are empty. He he he was took by Mateo rubies the old bandit Yeah, yeah rubies you picked that name because you know that rubies is dead No, no, no, he ain't he's in mexico. He's holed up in the mountains the other side airmosa He found gold. Yes honest charlie honest, but it's worth a man's life to go near there What about the lavery boy? Well, he's been told that he's that he's tolio rubies his son The old man's so crazy about him. He killed anybody that tells him any different So you're finally telling the truth 25 years Best hand a man ever held and it blows away like a book Let now get a thousand miles from texas if I ever hear that you're around the laverys. I'll kill you Did you take care of the money I took care of everything. Thank goodness Now hurry up and get dressed. We're going over to call in the med berries. Wait I'm not going with you. Rick. Here's the receipt from the bank. I'm leaving But first I have to tell you something I know something that's been bothering you all through the drive But there's nothing you can tell me that could matter. I'm not a child dick If I can help you. Well, what's the sister for? I wish I had some place to crawl in and hide Ruth I'm not your brother I'm a foreflushing thief No No, that isn't so that birthmark. It was tattooed on my shoulder that story about the rocking horse That was just one of those things I learned from the man who kidnapped your brother. No, no I was going to hit it big take it easy for the rest of my life But nobody told me that I'd meet somebody like you Wait, but don't go Please I got out of town I had three in my mexico Somewhere in the mountains near hermosa was a man that I'd have to find Mateo rubris And all the while I thought of Ruth And how she'd feel when she faced her folks again Now tell me what really happened in el paso dad. I I told you Dick had some business to take care of you'll be coming back later. He said he'd write. I don't believe that I've got to know Ruth What happened to your brother? He's not my brother He came here to rob us That birthmark was tattooed on his shoulder. You're talking crazy. It's true. He told me so himself Oh dad, what do we do? I should have used a gun on him that first day he came here Killing him's hardly enough now, but it's all I can do and how would that help mother? It's mother. We have to think about I'll find him. I'll find him and drag him back He's going through with his foreflushing all the way He'll be richard lavery jr. As long as your mother's alive I'm some get a couple of horses. We're leaving for el paso There was no way of my knowing then that that labored started on my trail Besides by now I'd reached the mountains back of her mosa And as I'd hoped rubies men found me and brought me to them americano, huh Do you lose your way in the mountains? Maybe I came here looking for you rubies. Well, there was a big mistake They used to come looking for me all the time Not so many went back senor I'm in trouble with the law back in texas. They ran out of hiding places. I thought maybe you material braces no innkeeper Get out. I didn't know that you were friends with the law Friends with the law Before the government forced me to retire. I used to Rio Grande like a ferry boat. That's why I thought you'd hide me out Or kill you I took a chance What did they call you Choya choya El choya It's a name. I have not heard Small thing with a gun, huh? Big enough the rangers want to do a little hanging me. They wish to hang a thousand times Yeah, you're young ones in the old days when I wrote with what is I All right, you work later the mind on you. Hey, come here This one is called choya My son. Oh, welcome senor. He has come to me because they have a piece of rope for him in texas Uh, Miguel, he's waiting to see you. I see. I know you stay here, tonio with his desperado this bad one from texas You uh You ever been in texas tonio? Oh many times. I've used the real grande like a ferry boat. Yes. I know. I've heard that already tonio I may not have much time I came here only to find you me Why I'm going to show you a brand maybe you know it Come here. Take a look Dead mark on your shoulder But that's on my shoulder too. Yes, but yours is real. This is tattoos Sit down Important Miguel is business of yours the americano ify someone is following me. Huh someone you know Lefting well lefting well Bring him in There long ago. I told you never to come to these mountains again. Yeah, I'm not crazy. Mateo. I got good reason for coming It's about tonio. Miguel leave us alone. I turned down a hundred thousand dollars to do this for you What about tonio? 50 thousands all i'm asking from you. Mateo old friends I'll tell tonio and take him back. Take him back Back where family in texas. He's their son Well, don't you have nothing to say? Stay here. I will be back Everything I told you was true. He's not your father Your real mother and father are waiting for you in texas. Not my father But how could he have done it? Yes, take him away quick He said that You're not my father. You can't deny it rubriz. You I will have flayed a little at the time and let the dogs eat Your hide are you are you my father? Tell him rubriz. You know, he's not your son tonio tonio I do not know what he has told you But there has been no one in the world more to me since the day you were abandoned in my village They knew all these years you have lied to me No, I do not lie Tonio what is blood When you were little and you cried in the night I put my hands on you And the love of god flowed into your body You would go to sleep Holding this hand When I tried to pull away you still held it even in your sleep Made me very happy That is how I made you my son The son of matthew rubriz But you you should have told me had I said oh mother of god make him understand Tonio listen to me It was a miracle from heaven that I gained you as a son You have lived in my heart ever since You You are my tonio Stay here. I have words now with alchoia. No, no, no. I ask you to let him go my mother To all these things are as they were he will talk tonio. There will be trouble and since who any of we Run away from trouble have a seat, oh Since Come we are both hungry. First we eat and then I will think on it some more Ruber's men had taken me to a barn. They tied me to a post late that night the door opened It's tonio I'm going to let you go. What about rubriz? He changed his mind about killing me. I don't think so Look senio. I love my father, but I'm disobeying his orders your father's in texas labor. Do not use that name to me. I'm rubriz All right, search yourself outside is a horse right past to the past We have two centuries there here Take my gun. Thanks. I hope you will not have to use You're not coming with me. No My father is matthew rubriz your father's richard. Lavery You've got a mother and a sister. You can't change it It's a crazy thing to be born twice in one lifetime senor Get on your horse Where are I not ahead of getter? I'm taking you back tonio senor. You're a man without honor and I'm a fool But you will have to shoot me before it They brought the butt of the gun down on his head. I have no choice I tied tonio to another horse and started for the past There were a few shots from the senators, but they lost us in the darkness It wasn't till I stopped to rest the horses that I saw that Tonio I've been You will never leave these hills senor By now my father will know what has happened. You're here Yeah, that's it What's the nearest place we can stop there is nowhere that you can stop That remenades mountains will be searching for you Tell me senor Is the money that you hope to collect for me enough to pay for your life We're moving I'm sorry that you got hurt tonio But don't try to stall me. Ah, you will do nothing to me There I'm not worth a peso to you. You want to be hogtied? I will come But it's a long way to the real grandest senor She'll never make it The daylight you were still in the mountains Then far off through the mists I saw spirals of smoke in every direction A signal senor Soon they cover every trail How's your arm? It pains me greatly But I am not the one who's going to die Yes, you're just about got me convinced All right, I'll try to make it out of here alone here. Take the gun when you hear them fire a couple of shots They'll find you senor I do not understand you at all It is not money that you want, is it? No What made you come into our mountains? Because I had all the angles figured all except one your sister Ruth you do not answer my questions. Well, maybe I came here because I was tired. Maybe my luck's running out. I don't know Maybe I came here because for just once in my life I wondered what it'd be like to do something decent And now you will try to go back and see them. Oh, no if I get out of this I'm going to skip the whole state of texas But listen You get yourself across the border sometime you'll meet those people meet them and Well, then you'll know why I came here. You will have to go back to the laborer's choice Not a chance. I cannot go by myself Now come on. Help me up on the horse again. You know, you'll make even trouble. I will make it I wish to see for myself this this wonderful family So we started out once more and behind us closing in with every mile For rubries in this min and lefting well Stop here. Why why for what we said here now making time for the real I asked men in these conions. They wouldn't know which trail they took Antonio knows these trails too. You know where to hide where to throw us off. Antonio will show him nothing You still don't believe it, huh? You just can't believe that. Tony would help him What more proof do you want all these years? They cannot be destroyed by a few words from a stranger stranger, huh? They're partners by now Shut up. You think I do not know But it's not easy to recognize the trader among your own No That is not the way I punish traders Tony was no differ from the others I used to think it was nothing. I wanted more than money stacks and stacks of money But now most of all, I want to watch chorea die I want to do the killer, but you're even a big once they get across the real kind of cross I will follow until I find them There's a rebranded starring Bert Lancaster as chorea Charles bickford as mr. Lavery and Nancy Gates as Ruth Lavery We pushed ahead all that day and night without the rest of food By now, Antonio was too weak to stay in the saddle. It begged me to tie him on to keep going In the morning we reached the Rio Grande Somehow we we got across I got Tony off his hearts But this was it We could go no further Far off I I thought I saw two men I tried to call to them, but The ground gave way and swallowed me up Friends by sundown mr. Lavery We figured out yet what we're gonna say to mrs. Lavery I don't know what to say to her right son My guess is chorea crossed the real three or four days ago Deep in mexico, but now how can I tell her that? How can I tell her the truth? And yet if I don't every time anybody rides up to the ranch she'd be waiting for her son to come through the door I don't know what to say or what to do Maybe you could tell her we saw him in Paso. They stand there on ranch business Or maybe he didn't cross the river We could push on toward arizona. Wait a minute There's a stray horse down there coming up from the river. Yeah Carry in a mexican saddle. He's fresh out of the rio Come on ranson. Let's ride down and have a look Lavery and ranson got us back to the ranch tonio was still unconscious I guess I should have told lavery all about him But I was too beat up to do much talking Yes Don't worry lavery. I played it just the way you told me I told her I'd I'd explain everything in a morning What about my friend? I've been with the doctor. He just left He says he'll be all right He gave him something to keep him quiet I could use a little rest myself If you can wait a morning too, I'll We'll take you to one of our rooms. You'd better get up there yourself If uh If ruth should just leave ruth out of this Yeah, sure I'll tell you the whole story tomorrow lavery. You've got nothing to tell me But as long as my wife's alive after I've said my piece you can do whatever you want with me Right now if it's all the same with you, I'll get some sleep But it wasn't easy to go to sleep I had too much to think about But just as I seemed to be dropping off I heard someone at a window There was no mistake in him in the moonlight Mateo rubries get up. Troyer The two of you came out of may go together and now it is right that you die together. He didn't come out with me I brought him out rubries at the end of a gun no longer is my heart bigger than my head Tonyo get up Take it easy rubries One of your men shot him the night we got away Then he will not be awake to see death But you are awake If you kill him rubries, you'll be sorry to rest of your life You're the top of his world once maybe but no more. That's the truth Troyer it's ruth Please let me talk to you. Please let me come in not now Is anything? Yes, he uh, he's awake send her away Ruth you uh, you better go downstairs now If that's what you want That's what I want What is the taste in your mouth, Troyer? Like salt And your neck is stiff I can still nod to a friend you I can't kill happily I can look straight into your eyes and pull the trigger and I will sleep at night even better than if Rubries meant every word I kicked over a chair as he came for me I knocked the gun out of his hand But for an old man this rubries was plenty tough. That's right rubries Get up now sit down sit down now. You're gonna listen to me This is the reason tonia went with me this the end of a gun And that's the reason you're gonna sit there and listen to me You will gain nothing. I did not come alone 10 of my men's are on the bunkhouse 20 more of my men are around this house What's going on in there? Open the door, Troyer. Hold it. Lavery. Just stay where you are. You hear me open this door Or I'll everything will be all right if you do as I say Don't let anyone leave the house. Do you understand as for you rubries A 45 slug would untwist that mind of yours. I'd let you have it in a second But Tony would never forgive me that Not the way he feels about you your gun will not help me believe your lies No No, I suppose I'm gonna have to kill you kill you like a local horse And then your men can come in here and finish off the rest Kill the best part of your life took you from nothing made him my son And he loves you for it. He kept stalked plus. He favorite. Let me take all his rips The only reason he changed his mind was to help me square myself with his family All these years. I have been his family. He has been mine. There was nothing else and now you're gonna blow him out like a light You never stopped to figure that his father and mother That they have a right to some of what you've had for all these years that you talked about They've had nothing since lepping well stole him out of this room to meet Tonya was abandoned I did not know he was stolen. Well, you know it now 25 good years and you're gonna wipe them out with your own hand. No, he has destroyed those years All the happy days Tonya has forgotten He despises me betrays me leaves me if you don't believe he has nothing but love for you If you don't believe that when he's well, he'd be riding right over to see you If you don't know better than that then Oh, what's the use here Hey, go on take your gun. You are your man. What's the difference go ahead and shoot him while he's still asleep You give me back my gun You would have me leave him here to Forget Mexico to forget me forget you I tell you that when he's well He'll be making the real grand like a ferry boat Running between you and these people here these labor is If only it could be so it is so momentum You get get them in together right back to the trail. Wait for me there Tonyo, Tonyo It's me your father He can't hate but don't worry. It's the medicine the doctor gave him He'll get well Tonyo Life is not by the blood But by the heart Yes, Tonya, you can come in now lavery you and your wife and You We heard joya we heard it but lady real father Tonyo, he's too sick to ride along with me senor And in sickness it is better that he'd be with you and his mother his sister I Maybe someday I can come back and see him and he to see me anytime Thank you senor This joya he's more like me than myself He gives me the gun he invites me to do murder but First he removes the bullets And where does he go joya joya Senor Senora before I leave With my men is one named laughing well Your ranges with a big reputation You tell your ranges I give them a present They can pick up laughing well on your side of the river He's not fit for me to kill joya What do you think you're doing? It's a long walk into town We can ride double Come on get up. I could use a horse but Not with you on it. I'm going with you joya It might be fun to be out where things happen. You're not leaving the ranch. I am if you are now listen Don't argue with me joya. I'm pretty tough Yeah Awful tough Why'd you slap the horse for so he'd go back to the corral But still a long walk to town It's much shorter back to the house Maybe you're right Suppose we find out Our stars will return in just a minute Walking walking waiting waiting dancing dancing dating dating Everywhere a lady goes it's hard on stockings hard on holes Sitting sitting striding striding running running driving driving everywhere a lady goes It's hard on heels hard on toes One two one two stretch strain stretch strain Everywhere a lady goes it's hard on stockings hard on holes Scientific strain tests show that stockings wash the gentle lux way last twice as long That's why 90 of the manufacturers of nylons recommend lux care So start the lux flakes habit this very night. 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My greatest exercise comes from lifting a script But maybe Nancy'd like to see a few acrobatic You know, I think Nancy performed quite a trick when she stepped into tonight's play at the last moment Well, I'm very sorry that mona freeman was suddenly taken ill, but I did enjoy doing the show You don't suppose making a picture with those crazy comedians Dotton and jerry had to do with more ill that old flu bug Is she and martin and louis latest picture for paramount sailor beware? No sailor beware is already playing all over the country now. This will be their next one And I understand that on the set. It's uh, everyone beware They tell me the boys never stop clowny when they're making a picture You're so right berth then on weekends they make home movie I wish they'd cast me in one of their productions. 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