 In a large city and in the territory on west, there's just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers, and that's with a U.S. Marshal and the smell of gun smoke. States Marshal, the first man they look for and the last they want to meet, chants a job and it makes a man watchful and a little lonely. Make more time for fun at home, family style. This is the life for Pepsi Cola. Bracing clean tasting Pepsi, so think young, say Pepsi please. So go ahead and fix a drink. Let's you drink young as you drink. Yes, get the right one, the modern like one. Now it's Pepsi for those who think young. We've been friends a long time. I come here to your office expecting help, now you tell me you're going to throw me off my lane. You saw the court order, it's perfectly legal, I've got to serve it. Oh, I need a little more time, I'll make the payment just like I made all the others. You do have ten days. That ain't enough time and you know it. I've put too much sweat and too many years into that farm to lose it. What I owe on the whole note don't amount to much if I just have the time. Did you talk to Bert? Bert, Donald, my old friend, I can't even get to see him. Now Bert's moved up in the world sometimes that changes a man. Oh, he's flying high as a hawk, big cattle broker. Now he's proving it to me, it's just plain spite, Matt. Mr. Dillon, Mr. Dillon, I've got it. Oh, howdy, Ed. Chester, well, I'll get along, Matt, if you can't help me, I guess nobody can. I'll try to think of something, Matt. Sure, thanks anyway. All right, Chester, what's your problem? It's just terrible, Mr. Dillon, I'm in trouble, real bad trouble. You broke again? Yes, sir. I mean that ain't the main trouble, it's this. Not that letter? From Waco. So? It's from lawyers in Waco. Peanian Swift says so right on the envelope. All right, it's from lawyers in Waco. Well, don't you see, they're after me. They're going to have me arrested. Why? Well, I didn't ever tell you this, but one time I borrowed four dollars from a fella down there. I was going to pay him back, but I never quite got around to it and now they're after me. That's what it says on the letter? Yes, sir. Well, I mean, I reckon so. Well, I don't know what else it could be. Chester, have you read the letter? I've been too scared. Well, why don't you read the letter then, Chester? I just can't, don't hear it. You read it here. Mr. Chester, Wesley Proudfoot, dear sir. Chester, would you take your hands away from your ears? Well, dear sir, we regretfully inform you of the demise of your cousin Clarence Webly Proudfoot. Demise? That means he died, Chester. Oh. Poor Mr. Proudfoot. I mean, we do like him much. What? What was he doing? Please be advised that probate of the will of said Mr. Proudfoot has disclosed a bequest in your behalf in the sum of $368.63. What? A cashier's check in this amount will be forwarded to you shortly. Ah! Well, what's the matter, Chester? Well, now that's a mighty puny joke to play on a man spending that kind of letter. Well, it's no joke. You've inherited $368.63. Ah, it's got to be a joke. No, it doesn't, Chester. You think they really ain't junction? Well, of course not. Well, I don't know. Clarence always was pretty tricky. He might have changed there at the end, but the United States mail is going to have to approve it to me. Has Chester taken up permanent residence down at the stage depot? Well, from the looks of the office, you'd think so, Doc. If that check from Waco doesn't get here soon, you're going to have two more patients on your hands. Two? Well, I don't think Chester can last the week out, and I'm not sure I'm going to stand him for another day. Matt. Matt, you'd better get over the bar. Well, why, Kitty? What's the trouble? Ed Grimes. He's there with Bert Donald. Oh. Not now, not never. Bert, at least you can be decent enough to answer me. Ed, this isn't the best place in the world to talk business. Well, I think it is. I want to ask him in front of these people to give me time to make payment on that note. Marshall, I got nothing to say to him. Seems to me a man's got a right to have a drink without nobody annoying him. Look, Bert, Ed's kind of worried. Maybe you might reconcile. All right. I tried everything I know to make you listen to reason. I even begged in public, but I ain't going to get down on my knees and crawl. You ain't a man no more, Bert. You're something slimy. You ought to be stepped on. That's enough, Ed. A man like him don't deserve to live. Somebody's going to kill him if nobody else does, it just might be me. All right, get out of here, Ed. Go on home right now. Go on. Look at me like that, Marshall. I haven't broken any law until I do whatever I say or don't say is none of your business, Bert. When you find time, remember he was your friend. I just can't figure out what's happened to Bert. Ed, Matt, aren't there any legal steps that you can take? I'm not a lawyer, Doc. The one from Waco, it's here. Look at here, I got it. The left from Waco, it's right here. Yes, I see it, Chester. Sit down and open it. You better do it. I got a pure VK's of flutters. All right. All right. Let me. $368.63. May not the Chester Wesley Broadfoot. Congratulations, Chester. Yes. On the hot. $363. Looks like your money worries are over, Chester. $368.63. I'm going to build. It'll be white with a red barn. Oh, I see. It ain't easy deciding what color to paint your house. But now you're sure. Oh, yes, sir. And I decided to get me an all-black suit and all-black horse. I think I'd look good in all-black, don't you, Mr. Donkiley? Dignified life? Well, I think that's the right word. Yeah, dignified. And a man with a black suit ought to have black hat, too. Reckon I'll have to buy me a new hat. Chester, I'm happy about your money, and I want you to enjoy every penny of it. But you ought to slow down a little. This house you're talking about, the house alone is going to cost you more than you have. More than $368.63. I'm afraid so, Chester. Well, inviting I know what I'll do. I'll just go with the long branch. Well, I know I shouldn't ask this, but why are you going over to the long branch? Why? Now I've got enough money to play in a big poker game. Only reason I never won before was I didn't have enough states. Now I can run that Waco money into the thousands. Maybe more. That's what I thought. Get your hat. You coming with me at the long branch? No, you're coming with me, Chester, to the bank. You're going to leave your money with Mr. Botkin, and it's going to stay there. Not now, Mr. Botkin. Let's go. You know, I've been driving freight a lot of money, too, Chester. Through rain, sleet, snow, I drove them wagons, and never lost an area one. You owe good for you? Good. Now, Chester, don't you see, now you and me can open our own freight line. We can? Yeah. We wouldn't need more than one wagon to start. With all the money we made, we could buy more wagons and carry more freight. We're going to be millionaires. You don't have to do anything to put up the money. Millionaires? Sure. Now, what do you say? Well, I'll think about it that way. I'll think real hard. Sure. Now, you do that, Chester, and you think hard. If they're proud, put the freight. Slow down. Hello, Chester. Mr. Dillon. You know, Badly Teever is the fourth fella in two days with a good idea for investing my money. Well, I hope you haven't done it. Well, not yet. I've got to have time to think it over. Good. I have something here for you to think over. What's this? That, Chester, is a statement. An accounting. A bill. Balance due, $23. What for? What for? Well, I can't remember all of it, Chester, but just offhand, I can recall the time you came to me with back miseries, heaves, stomachache, shooting pains, and wheezes. Well, and then there was a time you broke your toe, kicking the can that had a rock in it. And the splitter that I had to remove when you sat on the rear chair. I know, Doc, but then there wasn't official calls. Not most of them, was it? Well, according to my calculations, that bill represents just about one-tenth of what you really owe me. Well, I never... I'm ready for another beer. How about you, man? I think that's fine. Me, too. Chester, now that you have money, I think you should consider your responsibilities. My what? I like buying around a drink for the house. Wait, you don't mean to fall in. Spongers near, buddy. Well, it's usual when a man has money like you have. That's right. Now, that could come to $5 or better. Well, you can afford it. Well, now, wait a minute, Kitty, I think you're leading Chester into bad habits. Well, when a man has wealth, he should use it wisely. He should contribute to his community. Now, for example, you take the U.S. Marshall's office. Now, there's an old stove there. Is that the word? Well, if you know the right combination, but it smokes up the whole place. Now, there's the Marshall's mattress. Well, yes. Now, the governor will take care of them things. Yeah, but they don't, Chester. So I thought that some wealthy public-spirited citizen would. How about those things? Yeah, how about my bed? Well, I sure didn't never believe my best friend was Dog-a-man just because all of a sudden he's got rich. Well, who's dog-ing you? You are all three of you, and I'm downright disappointed. You know what you are. What? You ain't nothing but fortune, hunters. Europe is the effective truth weapon of the free world. It is effective where other means of communication fail. Radio Free Europe gets its broadcast through the iron curtain and keeps captive peoples informed about events around the globe. Without these broadcasts, the captive peoples would become easy propaganda victims of the communists. 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It's just that when a man's got business problems like I got and they keep weighing on him, a man don't expect his best friends to keep picking and nagging at him. No, I suppose not. Still, it ain't easy to be rich. I don't want to go around being show offy and stuck up, but like Miss Kitty says, I got responsibility. Chester, Doc and Kitty and I are interested in just two things, that you use your money wisely and that somebody doesn't cheat you out of it. You talk like I got a little bit of old baby. No, but you must admit that you haven't had this kind of a money problem before. Usually it's the other way around. How to get it instead of what to do with it. I reckon maybe I have thirsted up some. Good. Come on. Just Ed Grimes. What? Why? He tried to kill me. I was driving home from town. He bushwhacked me. He put a bullet right through my hat. Another inch and I wouldn't be here and I want him arrested. Oh, it makes you so sure it was Ed Grimes. Did you see him? No, I'd just seen a man ride off, but Ed's the only one who'd want to kill me. You heard him say he would. Where'd all this happen? Turner's crossing. All right, I'll look into it. Look, it ain't enough. I want him in jail now. I said I'd look into it. I don't like the way you handle your job. I got a right to protection. Why don't you go find another Marshal somewhere? Maybe you'll like him better. You can't get away with this, Marshal. I'll tell everybody in Dodge. Fine, you go tell him. I will, right now. I reckon everybody's got problems. Yeah. Yeah, I guess they have. You've been standing there long enough. You gonna sit in? Me? Yeah. Well, no, no, no, thank God. I don't think so. Game too rich for your blood? Well, it ain't bad. There's a chair open if you think you can afford it. Oh, I can afford it. Even from what I hear, you're strictly a penny handyman. That ain't so. There's nothing to be ashamed of. When it comes to poker, there's boys and there's men. You can always play with the boys. Play with the boys. Just you don't let nobody take that chair. I'll be right back. Let me cut you my money out of that bank, and I'll show that tin horn. I'll open for ten dollars. Ten dollars? Yeah, ten dollars. So he'll raise. I call. I'm gonna three teams, so I draw two queens. Poor house. I got him. I bet twenty-five dollars. He raises. I just look at him kindly cold white. Hello, Chester. I raised fifty dollars. What? Oh. Ed, I was thinking about something. Where are you going? I don't know. I really don't know. Did you hear about Bert Donald? Story here about being bushwhacked in the hall? I heard. I heard he accused me, but I couldn't shoot a man from ambush, not even Bert Donald. Well, Ed, have you had any luck about borrowing the money? I tried the bank. Mr. Botkin won't loan money on a second mortgage. I'm just finished. Don't quit hoping. Maybe Mr. Don can figure something out. The notes do tomorrow. Oh, yeah. I forgot it. Well, come on, Ed, I'll buy you a beer. Thanks, Chester. I'd like one. No trading full, and I'll give it to Ed. Where do you get the money? Rob the bank? Never mind. You got paid, and I'll sign it and get out. No, but I ain't finished with him. It's still a matter of him trying to kill me. How do you take me for a fool, Bert? What do you mean? That hat of yours with a bullet hole. What about it? There were powder burns on the hat. I've seen them. It'd have been pretty hard for a man to miss you if he were close enough to cause powder burns. Well, he did. You did the shooting, Bert. You took your hat off and you shot a hole in it, and you were too stupid to back away. It was great. That kind of puzzled me. I've been wondering about something else, too. Yes, sir. Mr. Dune, you ain't got no right to go poking around in my bank balance. All right. I gave me in the amount that's not in your account. Maybe a small coincidence. A financial talk, and I under it the loan. You what? Under it. I told Mr. Botkin to take my $350 and keep it till Ed could pay off the balance he owed. Anyway, I don't have to worry about spending it. Well, what happens when Ed pays the bank and the money goes back in your account? Well, I got that all worked out. Mr. Botkin's gonna allow me to have $10 a month. I figure I can handle that much without all them tycoon worries. Mr. Dune, I... I reckon I just wasn't cut out to be real rich. I get squirmy and I don't trust people. You think cousin Clarence was banking on that? He was pretty mean. Forget cousin Clarence. Come on, I'll buy you a beer. And you ain't mad at me for what I've done? No, just... To make a point about reliable, effective Kellogg's All-Brand. Repeat after me, please. What do you want when you need brand? What do you want when you need brand? Reliability. Reliability. Now, what do you get in Kellogg's All-Brand? What do you get in Kellogg's All-Brand? Reliability. Right. 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