 A fiery horse with a speed of light, a clot of dust, and a hearty hyo silver, the Lone Ranger. With his faithful Indian companion, Toto, the daring and resourceful masked writer of the plains led the fight for law and order in the early western United States. Nowhere in the pages of history can one find a greater champion of justice. Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear. From out of the past come the thundering hoofbeats of the great horse silver. The Lone Ranger rides again. Gus Baxter and his friend Joe Dunn had recently completed terms in the state penitentiary and being short of funds were biding their time in the town of Clearwater while they made plans for the future. They were seated in front of the Antlers Hotel when the approach of a bearded prospector and his borough attracted the attention of Gus. Hey Joe. Yeah Gus. See that old prospector coming? Yeah, what about him? That's Sagebrush Kelly. Sagebrush Kelly? Yeah. Have you ever heard of him? Seems like I have. I just don't quite remember. What about him? He spent half his life looking for a lost mind. Oh yeah, I now remember. He calls it the Golconda or something like that, don't he? Yeah. The Spaniards are supposed to have found it a couple of hundred years ago. If they found it, then it's not lost. It's claimed that the Spaniards you found it were killed by the Indians who sealed it up. Yeah. Well, I don't believe those stories. There's no goal within 50 miles. Maybe more than that. The old miners bomb it. Yeah, I'm not so sure that Joe. He's going in the general store. Let's go and hear what he has to say. All right then. Don't let on that we know who he is. I won't. Yeah, here's your sugar. Now Sage Brush, what else do you need? Well, now let me think. Something else I had to get for the skip of mine. You've got sugar? Yeah. Sauce? Yeah. Coffee? Yeah. Bacon and beans? Yep. And here's dynamite and fuse, but there's something else I got to get. Why, do you think what it is I'll weigh down these two gents? What can I do for you, gents? Oh. Well, you got plenty of time. Oh, no. Remember what it was. Yep. Comes to me now. All right. What is it? Sardines. I've got two kinds. Cheap ones and good ones. What you want? Yeah, give me the cheap kind. It's for my cat Matilda. Your cat, huh? Yeah. Yeah, Matilda likes sardines. I try to keep my own hands. How many do you want? Oh, it doesn't change. It'd be enough to reckon. There you are. There you are. There you are. There you are. There you are. There you are. There you are. There you are. There you are. Now, is that all? Yep. Well, it'll be all right. Now, just give me the tally on the lot. Well, it comes to $16.50. Well, take it out of this and give me the change in money. Raw gold. Well, that's the first raw gold I've seen around here in 15 to 20 years. Get up and give me the change. Well, let's see what the scales say. Well, it comes now to $100. Providing it to save pure gold. It will. No pure gold when we see it. Well, take your word for it. Here's your change. 17, 20, 40, 60, 80, 100. What's the price? Now, if you'll pack up my stuff in these sacks I brought along, I'll get down to the claim office. I'll pick up the sacks when I get back. There hasn't been a claim office in Clearwater for 15 years. The nearest ones are the town of Sundown. That's 60 miles from here. If I know where it is, well, I guess I'll go get a haircut if there's a barber in town. There is. New shops on the other side of the street. About four doors south of the Longhorn Cafe. Well, I'll go there. You have my stuff packed when I get back. Pack of shoes I can carry it on my burrow. Now, gents, what can I do for you? I guess we've changed our minds. Now, you mean you don't want to buy anything at all? Yes, right. Come on, Joe, we got to go someplace. Now, hold on a minute. Haven't I seen you two gents somewhere? No. We're strangers in this part of the country. You sure of that? You heard what my pal said. Come on, Gus, let's jump on. Oh, God, I could swear I've seen those two faces somewhere. It's downright strange. I never forget a face. And on the other hand, men don't look familiar to me unless I've seen him somewhere before. Sagebrush finished his business in the town of Clearwater and started back toward the distant hills. Joe and Gus left town too. But the memory of their faces remained to haunt the storekeeper. He was sure he had seen the two on some previous occasion, and finally he remembered. By thunder. Now I remember where I've seen those two. I've got to go tell the sheriff right away. Not this one. Not this one. Not this one. What in tarnation's got into you, Jed? Why'd you want to look through all my handbills for wanted men? Here they are, Sheriff. Here's the two men I saw. I remember them from when this handbill was posted in your office. Gus Baxter and Joe Dunn, huh? Yeah, they were captured a long time ago. They went to jail. Well, they're out of jail now. They were here in town a little while ago, and, Sheriff, they acted downright suspicious. How do you mean? They acted like there were two dog-gown interested in some gold old sagebrush Kelly brought into my store. Maybe they escaped from jail. Maybe they did. That being the case, Sheriff, something ought to be done about it. Later the same day, the lone ranger, his nephew Dan Reed, and the Indian name Tonto, were camped in the hills a few miles from Clearwater. They had finished eating, when the masked man's horse, Silver, showed signs of nervousness. Most of them were whole. Well, what matter with you, Silver? He must hear something, Tonto. Say, big fella, look at these nostrils. He's centered something. Uh-huh. Maybe mountain lions. A mountain lion wouldn't come this close to camp. Hey, look. It's a cat. And that house cat. Not Bobcat. Hey, Silver, nothing to get excited about. Now, where did that cat come from? No ranches or houses in these hills? Hey, kitty. Kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty. Cat hungry. It smells food. And come here. No doubt of it, Tonto. A cat like raw meat. Here, Dan, you give it meat. Oh, sure. Let me give it to him. Here, kitty. That's a mother cat there. Hey, hey, come back, kitty. Can you beat that? She grabbed that meat and started off with it. She probably has kittens somewhere. She's taking the food to them. Kittens? Yes, they're near here somewhere. She smelled food and came to get it for them. Otherwise, she would have eaten it herself. I'm going to follow her and find out where they are. I'll take some meat for them. You better hurry, Dan, or she'll go out of sight. I can keep up with her. I'll be back when I find out where they are. At first, Dan had no difficulty in following the cat through underbrush. Then the land became more rugged and the brush grew thicker. His clothes were disheveled and his hands scratched. But he was determined to find the litter of kittens. Finally, he came into a small clearing high up on the side of a mountain. Oh, how much farther do we have to go, kitty? I'm all in. How about stopping for a rest? Just a minute, young fella. Who said that? I did. Oh, you startled me. I didn't see you. I know you didn't. Who are you? My name's Dan Reed. What are you doing up here? I followed that cat up here. She came to our camp looking for food. Your camp? Where is it? Over there, beyond the ridge. We camped with friends. Did they send you up here to snoop around? No. Of course not. I told you I came here. I don't believe you. But I'm telling the truth. See, this meat, I was bringing it to feed the kittens. How do you know Matilda's got kittens? Well, she came to our camp and we gave her some food. She grabbed it and brought it here. So we guessed she had kittens she wanted to feed. You made up that story mighty quick, didn't you, sonny? What makes you think I made it up? If you know Matilda's got kittens, it proves you've been snooping around here while I was in town today. I've got no reason to snoop around here. What have you got to hide? Don't you get sassy with me, Button? I'm asking the questions. I want to know more about these friends of yours. As Dan tried to explain to the suspicious old prospector that he had been prompted by purely humanitarian motives, two men on horseback came up through the draw at the base of the mountain. Can you still make out the footprints of that burrowed Gus? I've lost him myself. Yeah, pick up a huff mark now and then. Good enough to know we haven't lost a trail of the old croot. You've got better eyes than I have. Now, you keep your eyes peeled ahead of us. I'll follow the tracks. We don't want to run into Sagebrush Kelly unexpected. You'll open up on us with a rifle. Yeah, I reckon so. Gus. Huh? Think that storekeeper got suspicious of us when we were in there today? I mean, uh, he didn't pay us any heed. I cut out the gab and keep a watch for Sagebrush Kelly. I got a hunch we're getting close to him. If he sees us first, he may get the drop on us. Right. Get him. Come on. Now, I've told you all I can, mister. I didn't come up here snooping around. If you want me to, I'll go get my friends and they'll back up what I told you. Never you mind. You just clear out of here and stay out. Tell your friends that if they come snooping, they'll get a bullet room. I'll tell them. But I'm sure they're not interested. Hold on there, Sonny. What? I just heard Hoofbeats on the rocks down there. Hoofbeats? Yep. Take a look down there. See them two horsemen? Are they your friends? No. No, I never saw them before. One of my friends is an Indian. Those are both white men. They're stopping and looking up here. There's something familiar about them, too. You've seen them before? Yep, they have. Today in town, they were in the store at Clearwater. You stay here. I'm going to get my rifle. They're aiming rifles at us. Hey, get the cover, get the cover. Come here, you. Let go of me. They'll hit us. You are going with me, Sonny. Now come on. Hey, what's the idea? Shut up. Here they come. Let go of me. If they're your pals, they'll hold their fire as long as I've got you. Now come on. Did you hear those shots? Ah, me hear them. They came from over the ridge. That's the direction Dan took when he left camp. Not right. We'd better investigate. He may have run into trouble. Here's silver. Come, Scout. Me, Sonny, of course. I'll help you. Send the big fella easy. Easy, Scout. Easy, Scout. Easy, Scout. Easy, Scout. Easy, Scout. Easy, Scout. Easy, Scout. Easy, Scout. Easy, Scout. Easy, Scout. Easy, Scout. Easy, Scout. Blank it straight. Got your sense, big fella. Easy. Under. Not does it. Now your throat latch. Ready? Tear it into thin air. I tell you to keep your eyes on him. That's the thing we know that old coot will open up with a rifle. He must be hitting the bush around here. Let's take a look around. Hey, stay away. I'd like to know who that kid is. Me, too. He didn't act like he wanted to go with sagebrush when he took the cover. Keep your gun ready and shoot at the first thing that moves. Yeah, I will. Hey, do you see something moving down there just ahead of us? Yeah, I'll get him. Dang, you missed him. Come on, Joe. After him. 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. Gus Baxter and Joe Dunn were searching for sagebrush Kelly and Dan Reed. When they saw something move in the underbrush, Joe Dunn fired point blank with his six gun, but the object moved quickly and they started in pursuit. There you couldn't hit a barn, Joe. I fired point blank at it, whatever it was. I didn't hit it, though. Hey, hey, hold up. What's the matter? You know what you were shooting at? Well, I didn't see anything. Only saw something move in the brush. You see that candy under? That's what you were shooting at. Oh, the honorary critter. And lay off. We didn't come up here to shoot cats. Save you that we may need it. I'd like... I heard something right over there in that thicket. Yeah, I heard it, too. Ah, it's the old man's bull. The old man hasn't had time to take off the pack saddle. Now, let's find sagebrush and the kid. They've got to be around here somewhere. Yeah, and they'll probably lay in force with the rifle. You know, Joe, I got a hunch. A hunch? Yeah. If that old critter did find the lost gold condomine, he's got a secret entrance. If that's a case, they're inside of it right now. And let's find the secret entrance. Yeah, that's easy said. A lot of folks have tried to find it for more than 200 years. But come on, we'll look around. That's what we're here for. Hey, Gus. Yeah? Do you hear horses? Yeah, I do. They're coming this way, too. I see them now. Look, way down there in the valley. Two hombres riding this way. You see them? Yeah, a white horse and a paint. Hey, ain't that big fellow wearing a mask? Yeah, he is. And the others an Indian. Joe, them's a pair that put us in a state's prison two years ago. That's a lone ranger and his Indian friend. I'll be... Hey, Gus, this is our chance to square the deal. We'll pick them off as they'll ride up here. Yeah, wait, Joe. First, let's get our horses to cover. We have plenty of chance to wing them off. But I want to find out what they're up to. Now, come on, but don't let them see you. Meanwhile, just as Gus and Joe had suspected, Sage Brush had led Dan through a crevice in the towering cliff, which was actually the entrance to a hidden mine tunnel. Now, in its safety, Dan and Sage Brush had quickly come to know each other better. Why, in Sunday, didn't you tell me your friend was a lone ranger? Because I didn't know who you were. You acted so strangely, you might have been abandoned. Oh, Dan, I'm just a harmless old prospect here. And why did those two men try to kill us? I've got to figure it out. See, everybody knows I've been looking for the last gold con to mine for 20 years. They figured I'd found it, and they were going to kill me and jump McClain. Is this the last gold con to? I thought it was when I run into it a week ago. But it's not. All there is here is this old tunnel. It's not worth the effort to work it. I was just waiting until Matilda's kitten's got a little bigger before I moved on. I reckoned it was about time I got some sense in my head and quit looking for the last gold con to. Hey, I heard something. Oh, that's just Matilda coming into her kitten's. I see her now. I guess I'm jumpy. Here kitty, here kitty, come here. She's scared about something. Look how big her tail is. Those men must have scared it. See, Dan, I hear somebody coming. Yeah, so do I. They found the entrance. Hand me my rifle. Here it is. Yeah, be ready for them. Hey, listen. See, he called you a name. Here I am back in the tunnel. What are you up to? That's the Lone Ranger. He's found us. But how did you find us, sir? Dan and I saw the cat outside. She seemed frightened and when she ran we followed her. You led us to the entrance of the tunnel. Didn't you see them two critters outside? What do you mean? Dan and Sagebrush Kelly quickly told what had happened and the old prospector explained why he thought he and Dan had been shot at. No, we didn't see them. They must have hidden when Todd and I rode up. Not bad. Then wait for us to come out of mine and shoot it from ambush. Sagebrush, is there another way out of this mine? Nope, I have examined every inch of it. It's just one way in and out. They've got it covered. They've done the mud at the entrance. They've sealed this up. The entrance may not be completely closed. Sagebrush, where did they get dynamite? I bought it in town today. It was on my burrow. They must have found it. Dust I can hardly breathe. Slow down. I can't see any light coming through. Neither can I. We're sealed up just like in a coffin. Sagebrush, you must have a pick and shovel in here. We can try to dig our way out. You're wrong about that. But you're a prospector. I was just fixing to pull out of these diggings, as I told Dan. I took my mining gear outside to put it on the pack saddle less than 30 minutes ago. What we do, Kim, is that it? Right now, let's get back out of this dust. We'll be able to think where the air is better. Come on, all of you. What I can say is that we don't seem to be thinking out any solution to our problem. I don't see how we're going to get out of here. Neither do I, Dan. But I was in hopes that your mass friend would come up with some idea. What are you looking at? Who, me? No. I've been watching Matilda's kitten. What intonation did the kittens got to do with it? Matilda had a number of kittens, didn't she? Well, sure she did. Seven of them. What about it? Here we set face and slowed death by starvation and something sealed up inside a mine and you're wondering how many kittens Matilda had. Where are they, Sagebrush? Well, they were right over there. There's one of them there. I'd rather there was seven of them. Where'd the other six go? There was too little wonder away by themselves. Oh, they're old cats. Matilda, where have you been? Where's the rest of your family? Now, wait a minute, Sagebrush. Just watch her. Animal instinct is a wonderful thing. Sometimes when a mother cat is greatly disturbed, she'll move her kittens to a safer place. She's picking up the last one right now. I wonder where she's going to take it. Come with me, Dan. Bring the candle. I'm right with you. Yeah, I'm going to. We all found a cat. Look, she's going into a crevice. Yeah, there's no bigger than your foot. Only a cat could get through it. Cat gone now and we not follow it. You're no better off now than we was before. Dan, let me have that candle. Here it is, sir. Thanks. Look here, Sagebrush. Yeah, what is she? This is a slab of granite. It's not like the other rock formation in this tunnel. Why, golly, you're right. Why, it looks like a door. The explosion and its impact on the air has loosened it. Here, Dan, take the candle. Right. What me do? Put your shoulder to the slab. Now together. Look out, jump! It is a door of all things, and but till the front. All right, everybody, follow me. Golly, a big room. It looks like the inside of a church. Well, if you look at it, it's streak but veins of gold, pure gold. Well, it's a lost gold condor I've been looking for for half my life. Yes, and now it's not worth a dog on Centennial. How do you think you can see in here, Sagebrush? See why the candle dance holdin'. No, there's more light than that. It's coming from up above us. See? See, a hole. It's big enough for a man to crawl through. And here, old ladder, the wind didn't make a long time go. But till then, their kittens have been our salvation. As the sheriff and his party drew their horses to a halt, they saw Scott and Silver standing with a lone ranger and Tonto had left them. The sheriff and Jed thought the horses belonged to the outlaw. They wasn't ridin' them horse and would they left clear water, Chef? I know they weren't, Jed. Wonder whose horses these are? That white one's about the finest daddy where I'd seen him before. Let's look him over. Don't get your hands up. Hey, it's them. We saw you trailed us with your bloodhounds. Come on, John, keepin' covered. Where's Sagebrush Kelly? If you kill that old prospect, you'll hang for it, both of you. We didn't exactly kill him, Sheriff, but I reckon he's as good as dead. And so's the masked man and the others who are with him. What do you mean? He's right inside the tunnel. And unless I miss my guess, he'll starve to death in there. Sheriff, look. Oh. I reckon everything is gonna be all right, Ed, Jed. Watch him, Gus. Lookin' over our shoulders, trying to make us think someone's comin' up behind us. That trick's so old it's got whiskers on it. Now, you two got anything to say before we open fire? Yeah. Yeah, I'd bet two to one. You get a chance to fire that gun, you skunk. Now, take that bet. Get your hands up. Come on, man. Oh, you don't? Good work, tell him. Well, Sheriff, I guess you have everything in hand now. Dan and Todd and I'll ride back to our camp. It's just over the ridge there. Yep, I can dig in from now on. Ed and me are mighty obliged for you for what you did. We sure are. We'd have been goners if you had showed up when you did. Them bloodhounds wouldn't have done you no good. As far as I'm concerned, they're not worth a keep. It takes a good cat like Matilda to help her fill out. Hey, stop that fight. Get that cat off them doors. You just try it, get past it. Matilda don't want no bloodhounds hanging around here. From now on, what Matilda won't she get? Adios, sagebrush. Adios, my friend. Adios, Dan, Todd. Bye, sagebrush. Adios. You ride with me, Dan. Up you go. Come on, sir. Get him up. You know, Jed, I told you that white stallion was familiar to me. I knew I'd seen him before. Then you must know that mask, man, if you know his horse. Sure I know him. He's the best friend the law in the West ever had. Hey, Jed Foster, he's a Lone Ranger. This is a feature of the Lone Ranger Incorporated, created and produced by George W. Trendle, directed by Charles D. Livingston, and edited by Fran Stryker. The part of the Lone Ranger is played by Brace Beemer.