 Hello there. This is the family doctor. Mr. Hayes here has given me quite a big order. Oh, do you know Doc Adams, Mr. Hayes? How are you, Doctor? Yes, yes, Mr. Hayes and I met up at the new bridge last week. How's it getting along, Mr. Hayes? Fine, fine. Eh, well, it's mighty nice of you to patronize the merchants of Cedars and Sir. Last time, you remember that big job at the dam just, the contractors who did that bought all their material and tools in from the outside somewhere. Yep, made us all pretty mad too. That was the Russell Brothers. They did all this job too, but the supervisors decided to award the contract to Mr. Hayes' company. Have you seen the job lately, Doctor? No, I haven't. Why don't you write up what Mr. Rankin this afternoon? I think even a physician can see it taking shape by now. Oh, all right, sir. I think I can do that. I haven't any appointments that I know of. Sure, Doc. Drop around first thing you have to rely on. Well, Jess, you might as well take those tools down to the shed. We'll need them sooner or later. Okay. Would you like to step out, Doctor, and I'll show you around the job? Yeah, thanks. I'll be back in a while, Doc, and take you back to town. Now, Doctor, I promise not to get too technical. We had rather a nod problem here. We either had to put the bridge here at this end in the river, or else take out the old bridge before putting this one in. I see. You would have meant detouring all traffic conceded and to Dunlap through Eagle Pass, an extra 20 miles or so. Naturally, the county supervisors were anxious to avoid that. Yeah, naturally. I understand the Russell brothers did. It was based on the plan to replace the old bridge with the new one in the same spot. So, I... Well, I guess that's how I happened to be able to get the contract away from them. Yeah, but the structural problems were greater doing it this way. Is that what you mean? Decidedly. Yes. It took us quite a time to figure out this. Well, Mr. Hayes, what is that? I don't know. Hey, she's getting away! Look out! Oh, that way to the structure it's giving! Look out, man! There's a man stranded up there! He can't get down! Look out! He fell with the bridge. He's down there on the bank. Oh, come on, Doctor. The other men are getting him out. Oh, I hope he isn't badly hurt. I've never lost a man in one of my jobs yet. Yeah, we'll see. Look out, man. Here's the doctor. Who is it? The young Carlson, boss. I can't understand how this happened. I've inspected every girl that's gone into this job. I can't understand it. Who's who, boss? It's Ben Carson. How bad is he? I don't know yet. Dr. Adams is the example. Yeah, this boy's in bad shape, Mr. Hayes. We'll have to get him down into town right away. What in the name of good and bad happened down here? I never heard such a ruckity look. Let somebody hurt. Jess, bring your truck as close as you can to the bank up there and we'll bring the boy up to meet you. I've got to hurry. We've got a job on our hands here. Lay it away, Doc. I'll be there. Give me your coat, Mr. Hayes. You there, hand me those two poles. Yeah, here, Doc. I'll use my coat, too. All right, Doc. Mutten it up, Mr. Hayes. Right. Like this. Now lay those two poles on the ground and slip the two coats over them through the sleeve. That's right. Now that makes a stretcher. Now help me put him on it. Very gently now. Easy there. There. Now pick him up. Get him up to bank. How's the boy this morning, huh? How long have I been here, Doc? Oh, just 10 days. How much longer do you think I'll have to stay here? Oh, I don't know, Ben, but don't you worry. All the expenses are taken care of. Workman's compensation, you know. And I think Mr. Hayes would seem to it anyway. Doc. Yes, Ben? Am I ever going to see again? Ben, you're putting an old family doctor in quite a spot. We're going to do everything possible to get you back into circulation just as fast as we can. And Ben, you've got to have faith in the men and women who are taking care of you. I know. There's a specialist coming down from the city pretty soon. Just as soon as we feel you're strong enough for him to give you a going over. Oh, it's okay, Doc. I just get kind of fed up here with these bandages and splints all over me. But I guess I ask for it. What do you mean? I ain't a steel worker, Dr. Adams. You're not. What? It said on your insurance... I've been working on structural steel jobs for five years, yeah, but that ain't true, Doc. I ain't never worked on a job like this before in my life. What? Well, how I had to have a job, Doc? I had to get away from... Um... Huh? I got in with a pretty tough crowd about two years ago, Doc, and, well, we pulled a couple of jobs and then me and another kid was pinched. We started serving a term out in California. But, well, the other kid decided to take a powder. I mean, do an escape. I told him I was going to stick it out and go straight. I've been trying, Doc, but it's kind of tough sledding. Everybody wants references. I got out of that reform school and I've been trying to get a job ever since. I ain't had no luck until I decided to fake some stuff about jobs I've had. And then Mr. Hayes, he gave me this job. I guess I didn't know what I was doing up there in that scaffolding or I might have been able to... Are you still there, Doc? Oh, oh, yes, sure, Ben. I don't know why I told you all that, but I guess I had to tell somebody. If I ever get out of this jam, I guess I'll never fake nothing again. Ben, what's your idea about the way that accident happened? I don't know, Doc. I was just up there catching rivets when all of a sudden something started breaking and that's all I knew. And on your insurance application, I noticed you gave the Russell Brothers as a reference. Yep, that was a fake, too, Doc. How did you get that name, the Russell Brothers, from, well, from one of the other men on this job? Oh, I don't want to get nobody into trouble. Don't worry, my boy. You won't get anybody into any trouble they don't deserve. Who gave you that name? Well, that was Mike Petrelly. Well, I'll be back again this afternoon and you better take some of that soup the nurse is going to bring you pretty soon. If you don't, you'll be sorry when you get a good look at her. Okay, Doc, I'll do my best. Well, I'll see you later. So long, Dr. Adams. Thanks. Petrelly. Now, Doc, as Chief of Police of Cedarton, I demanded you deliver up that Carson fella. Oh, you do, huh? Yes, I do, and if necessary, I'll get a writ of habeas corpus from Judge Windsor. It's been two weeks since that wreck took place down to the bridge and I wanted to get to the bottom of it. What, the bridge? No, no. Now, you listen to me, Doc Adams. Here's Mr. Hayes here. He says he knows that there weren't nothing fault. He went into that bridge. It was bad workmanship that caused that accident. Is that right, Mr. Hayes? I'm afraid it is, Doctor. There were only two men working up there and Carson was one of them. Who was the other? Why, Petrelly here. Yeah, I was a working up there with a kid. But you see, Doc, this Carson fella used to work for them Russell brothers and that's what we wanted to talk to him about. You do, eh? Well, you're not going to. Now you listen to me, all of you. Then Carson is a very sick boy. I am his physician and it's up to me to say whether or not you may talk to him. Not you, Chief of Police Bill Benson or Mr. Hayes or Judge Windsor or anybody else. But don't. That's all I have to say. When I have decided that it's time to have a talk with him, I'll let you know. Goodbye. Well, gosh, you mighty. I never seen Doc Adams act like that before. But I recognize how he means what he says. Well, Doctor, you asked us to come up here. Yes, I did. Now let me see. Mr. Hayes, Bill Benson, just ranking in. Petrelly, yes. Well, are you going to better talk to the Carson fella now? No. I can't. What? You can't? He's dead. Dead? No, Doctor. Yes. No. Yes, he died this morning. What a shame to. No. Probably I should have let you talk to him before. So we could have cleared up the mystery of why that bridge fell. As it is, I guess we'll always believe that he did it. No. That he maliciously weakened some of those girders. And he was underpaid to the Russell brother. No. No. I can stand it no longer. The kid, he'll never do it. He was never worked for the Russell brother. I did it. I did it. I'm going crazy. I'm a killer of that Carson fella. See, what is this? What's your real name, Petrelly? That isn't it. What is it? My real name is Roselli. That's what I thought. Roselli. Gentlemen, meet the youngest of the Russell brothers. Russell brothers? Yeah. That's all right. My brother, they made me do this. I don't want to kill anybody. Well, just rank and I deputize you to take this Petrelly or Roselli or whatever his name is down to the jail. I'll be down later. You bet. Come on, Ron. Take him out of here. Get him out. I'm not a killer of this body. Now, Doc, let's get to the bottom of this. Well, Chief, Mr. Hayes, I'm sorry to have had to exaggerate the sudden demise of Ben Carson. What do you mean, Doctor? He isn't dead. Not dead? As a matter of fact, we're just about to take him in for an operation. An operation that's going to give him back his sight. Well, now, I want you two to go in there. Tell him that everything's all right, that he's been proven absolutely innocent and that you know he's going to get well. You win first, Mr. Hayes. Tell the boy he's going to have a job the minute he gets out. You bet I will. You bet I'll tell him. Well, Doc Adams, how would you find out about all this? Oh, I don't know, Bill. Just put two and two together, I guess. Pretty good detective work, wasn't it? Well, gosh almighty. I don't say it was. Maybe I'll have to put you on the Cedars and Police Force, Doc. Yes. That's an idea. Yeah, maybe I might even get to be cheaper police someday. Yeah. What? Oh, no, no. Now, Doc, you shouldn't always say things like that. This is the family doctor. I'll be in to see you again right soon. Goodbye.