 horse for the speed of light, a cloud of dust and a hearty high old silver, the lone ranger. Lashed water in the plains was the greatest champion of justice the early western United States ever knew, daring and courageous he brought law and order to a lawless frontier and it was he more than any other man who drove the organized bands of outlaws from the new territory and finally made possible the winning of the west. He returned with us not of those thrilling days of yesteryear from out of the past come the thundering whoop beats the great horse silver the lone ranger rides again and Dan Riley stood before Judge Loomis half sullen half defiant Sally Bates sat beside him behind the two the courtroom was crowded with ranchers and townspeople to a man they were hostile to Riley and as a judge leaned forward to pronounce sentence the low hum of conversation gave way to a threatening silence then yes sir you've been tried on the charge of assault and battery upon the presence of Nate Jenks and hang billings formally your employees don't you told you don't interrupt no sir you beat both of them severely so they were in urgent need of medical care perhaps a charge wouldn't have been so serious of this had been the first affair of the soft unfortunately it wasn't but don't call the judge I tell you that I'm sorry as I was saying unfortunately it wasn't I've been hearing about you ever since you were a boy Dan you seem to suffer from a confirmed addiction to brawls ordinarily I suppose you're a decent enough person but you've got a temper and you can't control it but your honor it was proven in this instance you were not to blame you were lucky if the man they call a lone ranger hadn't taken an interest in the case and proved you were attacked first and fought back on himself defense I'm afraid it would have gone badly with you catch are you gonna let the whole cat off I want to inform the guests of this court that I'm on the bench and I'll pronounce sentence if there are any further attempts to influence my decision I'll have this room clear now then Dan it's impossible for me to punish you on the charge that hasn't been sustained on the other hand on the other hand I don't intend to set you free to get in more brawls whenever you see fear but I'm not sure I shall place you under a bond of a thousand dollars to keep the peace moreover I promise you this the next time you're brought before this court and the charge can be in any manner sustained you will not only sacrifice your bond but you'll receive the most severe sentence permitted under the law in view of that fact I'd suggest you go back to your ranch and expend any surplus energy you may have upon its management keep in mind the fact that there are better ways of settling arguments and by use of this try to win back the respect of your fellow citizens that you forfeit it and let's not see you here again now that's all you can go now and return tomorrow to arrange for your bond gorgeous miss come on Sally let's get out of here he should have got sixty days hadn't been for the mass man he wouldn't get out of this all right but next time you'd better watch your step well these days you'll be starting something you can't finish I will rely well if there's anybody here they'd like to try to stop me I'm never sick to you again as long as I leave what am I supposed to do stand for anything them yellow skunks want to say here's my horse oh no Dan that's your big fault the judge was right you don't know how to stay out of fight I could count a dozen in just the past year how's the fella to help getting mad other people seem to manage a dog on its own and cause them cowards either then can't you get it through your head that you can disagree with a man without becoming angry about it huh gosh I never started anything of purpose no well sharks it's just that one word leads to another and then then you go crazy I think you go out of your head just like your father before he died he lost every friend he'd had in the county and you're doing the same Dan sitting there in court I was ashamed of you those people don't want to dislike you it's just that they won't stand to be bullied I don't think there was a man in that courtroom you hadn't fought with it one time or another well the fellas got to stand up for yourself you mean this hasn't taught you your lesson you're still convinced you're never at fault but gosh the mask man prove that I'll hang started a fight this time but but if you hadn't thrown them off your place when you discharged them they never would have been a fight I caught them stealing I'm not going to argue but you've got a listen I'm going to tell you something and I want you to believe me you're going to have to change either you learn to control your temper or simply have to stop seeing each other Sally that ain't fair I think it is but you can I meant every word of it on the look we won't even discuss it we'll forget about everything that's happened in the past but if you're ever in another fight well that'll be the finish come on you can ride home with me Sally get up boy hey wait get up there get up hey wait hey Max here what's his weighty come here you want Max how much cash you got on you cash don't talk foolish you know I'm clean broke huh huh so am I what are you talking about you like to get some cash how see that fellow just wrote away sure a Dan Riley one yeah what about him he's a fellow who's just up for trial I know it I say he's got quite a spread over the north Paul left it to him got cash in a bank to me doing us no good no well is it it might say what are you getting there oh I just thought of something I was forgetting our horses and riding out to his place and asking for work punching cows yeah you local we've been doing all right riding the grub line eat me what do we want to go to work for Max I reckon you got me wrong I thought I just said we had to ask for work I don't say that see you don't they'll come on we'll find our horses and I'll tell you what I mean several hours later Dan Riley returned to his ranch house and found two cowboys waiting for him whoa whoa whoa there howdy you want to see me you're the owner here I am well I'm whitey Mr. Riley this here's my partner Max we wrote out here looking for work Dr. Foreman but he said we'd have to see you how about it Mr. Riley I think you could take us on with my form and say tell you we needed anybody well no Mr. Riley didn't said your crew was full up we thought maybe you're sorry if he told you that then we don't need you better try some place else gosh we've looked most every place Mr. Riley don't seem like anybody can take us on we're flat broke you just gotta find something to do haven't I seen you men in town well maybe I think I have been hanging around the cafe ain't you well maybe just once in a while just once in a while seems to me I've seen you there most every time of road to town that's no place to look for work you know if you really wanted jobs you'd get out and rustle around we did what we're doing first time you've asked me for work you'd asked a week ago I could have put you on the fire a couple fellas and you won't take us on now yeah it's good news you but we told you a bus now look here Mr. you can't do this to us look at the duds we're wearing what's ready to fall off us we need cash and clothes ain't so good are they well I'll tell you what I wouldn't know what to do with you for hide your so that's out but we keep extra work clothes back in the store room I'll tell my form and it's all right for you to pick up what you need just to help yourself won't cost you this charity but I think we're beggars to take your old clothes now look here that stuff ain't been used we keep it on hand just in case if you want an outfit help yourself if you don't hit leather and ride we want job which I can't give you that's what you say what's that we don't care who you are you're gonna push us around any we came here willing and ready to work you got a big outfit here you could find places first if you wanted to say in your can is well it's just the same as saying you figure we're no good which is something we don't take from nobody why you better give us jobs and we'll make you wish you had you'll make me wish I had get off this place get off before I throw you and who else just me alone you feel your man enough mr. just come on and try you ask for it oh you're the one cause it's up max ain't you well max you want what I just gave you a partner step up and get it I'll show you wait what is it whitey what's the matter something's wrong I feel all funny I can't get up I can't seem to move can't move my legs come on get up come on take my hand get up here try they no use Max I just can't rotten pulled kid away to your responsible for this mr. but I didn't mean I didn't ever lay the hand on you never touched you never he lays can't get up can't hardly move roll we know maybe you'll never be able to walk again but listen to what mr. we know plenty of about you we know why he was up in court today and I can tell you right now what's going to happen when we tell a law about this no wait you can't stop us well if this gets out I'll go to jail and serve you right as talk again me in town right now with this on top of it you'll be lucky to let the sheriff jail you help me with a whitey inside but maybe if he rests he'll be all right how do you feel whitey that's a feel off with a hurt you've occurred inside I can't stay here and that's what we'll do and mr. yeah you'd better start praying whitey gets all right because if you don't you're gonna wish he was dead three weeks past and then one day miles distance the lone ranger rode into the small camp where tata was waiting for him well tata works finished here get him teller I found him and turned him over to the sheriff not good what do now hello I'd like to ride back to the patchy falls and look up Dan Riley again why do that now I'm worried about him chemo savvy oh there was a lot of feeling against him when he was arrested not right the fact that his arrest wasn't justified isn't likely to make them forget that Dan has been a troublemaker huh as a matter of fact I rather liked him he could once managed to bring his temper under control he'd be fine certainly there's nothing mean or underhanded about the fellow him all right but if he should get into another fight injure someone else then there he big trouble and that's why I'm worried I'd like to return that way and see how he's been behaving himself that good idea I see you saddle scout pat grubb to me know you're right fine and there's no need to wait we'll start it once ah here's scouts we should be able to make the trip in just a little more than a week that right ready ah then come get him up scouts the curtain falls on the first act of our lone ranger story before the next exciting scenes please permit us to pause for just a few moments now to continue our story on an afternoon nine days later Dan Riley max and whitey we're talking in a cabin about two miles outside of Apache Falls why do you set an easy chair a blanket over his knees his face grew hard as he listened to Dan whitey as I'm standing here I'm sorry for what I've done to hurt anybody like I hurt you is a terrible thing I give you my word if we if we could change places I would oh but we can't so there's no good talking about it I'm willing to do everything for you that's fair and proper I've already given you money for doctor and I gave you the cash to buy this cab and more cash to live on I'll give you whatever more is needed but but what you're asking now was too much too much to pay me for never being able to walk I ride a horse again maybe not but I just can't afford it Mr you'd better like can't unless the thanks we get for letting you off easy we told folks whitey been thrown by his horse what would happen to you if we told him the truth what do you think they'd say and do if they was to know why he can't walk because you hit him I won't you girls say the one you're figuring to marry their way edge Loomis what about that bond you put up to keep the peace I could afford that thousand he better than the ten thousand you're asking what can you afford to have the truth of this get out no one saw me strike whitey I did but that does you have the almighty goal to get up on the stand in court and swear you didn't hit whitey I tell the truth of course well then what more is needed you've taken every penny I had in the bank cash won't never make up for what you've done to me you seem to think it like fun or do I'm asking for cash and plenty of it because it's the only thing will come even close to paying me back but that don't mean I'd rather have the cash and be able to walk again I think I'll speak out I think this sounds a heap like blackmail we don't care what you call you told folks whitey was hurt by being thrown if you wanted to change your story now hard to explain not telling the truth in the first place would tell him you threatened to finish us off if we did and we wouldn't have to deny you gave us cash either just natural as you would don't whitey have to live even if you did fix it so as he won't never be able to work again I see oh if I was in your boots mister I just get that ten thousand and say nothing how soon must you have it just as soon as you can get it I told you must say that's plenty of cattle sell some of them this is a poor time don't matter does the markets down on my selling to be hard to explain that's your worry I could have a couple of months and got a week not a day longer but you can after that if you don't fetch us what we've asked we tell the truth and you take the consequences oh well I'll do what I can we'd advise it in the meantime we'll keep our mouth shut till you've made it plain you don't aim to pay off I can depend on that you can well then look for me in a week I think we won't good day Sally what are you doing here I was riding by on the train I saw your horse then why are you I just heard about that poor fellow inside and well I thought I'd see I was getting along come on get up fella get up boy why was you hitting Sally down riding with me oh no no I can't why not I'm pretty busy Sally I have to get back to the range but then here's the trail I reckon this is where I'll have to leave you oh boy oh then what is it it's something wrong you look ill huh me well I'm all right it is a fiddle show you you're just imagining things am I damn well well sure you're yes I think I was wrong huh you don't look ill that what I just told you you're worried say what then you are worried I don't know why and it's plain you don't want to tell me look salya but if you ever do oh wait you'll know where to find me come on boy get up get up well there you are horse I guess when it comes to fooling a woman I ain't even reached first grade I get caught out every time I can't think for me to do is get back what the come on over the mask man the little ranger oh so then just like Sally I saw your horse and waited for you but behind those rocks and heard what she said I saw your face you are worried worried random just about plum crazy you think you could tell me about it I've got to tell somebody I'll go clean out of my head then oh you helped me once a fool when you hear what's happened since I I guess maybe you'd be off of me for good yes I can't hold it in no longer out of everybody I know you're the only fellow I feel I can trust that night in camp the lone ranger and tanto discussed the problem Dan was facing tell us somehow this situation doesn't ring true why you think that Dan told me what happened when they applied for work oh he reported their words accurately it looks as if they went out of the way to make him angry that's right ask Dan if any of the other cattlemen had ever mentioned max and why are you asking them for employment what what him say no one had not got a good idea if we investigated we'd find they'd called on no one but then uh what that means it hints at something I couldn't suggest to Dan because I don't trust his judgment but why out of all the cattlemen in the district a good many of whom are closer to Apache Falls and then should they call on just him and why should they have deliberately picked a quarrel and picking a quarrel why should it have been with the one man who could not afford more trouble that keeps saying it's not even the beginning of proof that this is a swindle but it certainly makes it appear well worth looking into uh the latest demand has been for ten thousand dollars and then asked me what to do I told him not to sell his cattle but to get a loan of the amount demanded why do that because if he gets that cash and he's being tricked I'll prove it oh what doctors say mean when whitey was examined huh what could he say whitey claims to be paralyzed from the waist that's something difficult for even a trained medical man to disprove uh in other words Kimosabi what you think if Dan's being swindled by whitey and max we're the only ones who can save him you got planned they're given Dan a week in which to raise that money oh I think between now and then I'll spend some time making their acquaintance five of the seven days passed by then late on the afternoon of the sixth day the young rancher met the loan ranger in a grove of trees some distance from town the masked man gave him full instructions a friend wait a second before you leave yes tunnel told me to meet you here and I did you told me what I'm to do and I said I would but I'd like to know why I'm doing it you're learning good time there's no hurry but why'd you tell me to borrow that cash if I'm not to pay it over to him max has been keeping an eye on you he knows you've been raising the money he and whitey are convinced you'll pay it you didn't intend to pay you wouldn't borrow that don't seem to make sense later you'll see that it does hey you ain't got some notion they've tricked me somehow have you I'd rather not answer then I know you've been spending time with a cab and I thought maybe it was to find out of whitey was really alien I just pretended in that case they certainly wouldn't be careless enough to let me find it out no no I guess they wouldn't I've just bought supplies in them several times and past the time of day but what for to make their acquaintance all gone you're just talking in circles now why can't I seem to be talking in circles it's because I told you everything I think that you should know at this time further questions won't get you a thing now you'd better be on your way and you're to catch max before he reaches a cabin I have to talk to him alone yes and tell him exactly what you told me right well you're the boss where's he now I told you that he rode to pine city last night why do you expect him back around eight this evening you'd cut his trail somewhere this side of the pass and then I'm on my way adios I'll be seeing you get up boy get up well that's what I stopped you for max I'll have your 10,000 late tomorrow now if you want it you'll have to meet me outside town where I said and you better be there just when I said I won't have no time to wait and you leave in town and I have to and I won't have an over an hour between the time I get the cash and the time I stage leaves you either be there or do without you'd be gone a whole month I figure to be well I wouldn't care about waiting that long and neither's whitey you said seven of my evening and well then you can just bet your boots I'll be there Dan was not in town the following evening however instead he and tanto took cover in a grove of trees not far from max and whitey's cabin before long they heard the sound of hoof beat rapidly drawing closer getting dark tunnel is that your father uh and him wonder what happened to the cabin in town and I saw whitey well max was roping his horse that's all I've seen you and max together yesterday what'd he say nothing to show what he thought he just seemed anxious to get rid of me before max returned well what do you expect to happen now plenty then and we're going to be on hand to see if come max would be in the cabin now max just a second hey come here look why he ain't got much time six thirty let me down at seven I've got my horse saddle waiting to have to ride he's still got a couple of minutes but I tell you I want to know something you're real sure that's what you're leaving for to collect that cash of course it is you ain't already got it why do you want to turn to you talking about you met dan yesterday I told you that's when he said he'd have the cash ready tonight gosh why do you you don't think I do what are you talking about this fella was in here while you was outside fellow that's been here three four times to get supplies he's seen you when you and Dan was talking with gully what if he did what if he did max he's seen Dan hand you a package of folding money why just happened to mention it didn't know what for anything just figured maybe you had some kind of a deal with Dan but just the same he saw you get the money your local am I anything he lied to you what for what would he have to gain by it what's he know about us but why listen to me stage leaving tonight I've just been wondering if you weren't planning to take that stage and clear it up with a whole ten thousand dollars listen why do you got this all wrong something fishy to me about it I ain't got time not to argue with you Dan's waiting with the cash you tell you gotta get there Prano he won't be back for a month we'll get to the bottom of this one I'll come back now I gotta Max don't you take one more step tell a gun it's one more step on a come after you you can search that if you've got the cash it has since enough to hide it outside I know no don't get back there we are those who might come along see I want that cash you better give me that cash the mask man's gone we're too far from the trail for anyone to see in you ain't working that one on me to get away here we are my cash Max the cash a for a break in two and you're gonna spoil everything you gotta believe me the cash don't buy to get back please get back it's too late what the mask man and me too you'll all down rotten crooks I'm going to take the two of you know you don't give me a gun we've got the drop in your stranger one move in your stuff lead look out oh what a draw knock the guns clean out of their hands then you're going to take these fellas into town and turn them over the law town will go along if he's needed to back your word but you're not going to lay a hand on them yourself but ain't they got it coming to him and hasn't this experience finally taught you what can happen when you lose your temper was that very thing these fellas played on to swindle you well and you're fortunate it was a swindle if it hadn't been if whitey had really been hurt you'll get in heap big trouble oh sure sure would have and I guess you're right it's going to be a heap safer for me to let the law deal with him you can remember that in the future all right Dan take their guns they'll pay for that trick in jail before you have just heard of the copyrighted feature of the lone ranger incorporated