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Well, I feel good enough, Doc. You could be wrong, couldn't you? Well, I wish I was. I don't know if I'm right in telling you about it, but I treated the same kind of case at Shiloh, and the bullet kept moving, just like yours, and there was no way to stop it. How long did it last? Not as long as you have. You've been going two months since the fight. And how much longer I got, Doc? Well, there's no way to know. Another month, maybe longer, maybe less. I just thought you'd want to know, Nielsen. Better to know now than when it's too late to do anything about it. What are you going to tell Alice? What's there to say? Well, with her planning the wedding, there ought to be some explanation. You, uh, want me to tell her? Just say I changed my mind, and I'm heading west. Where are you going? Back to Dodge. To look up the Mailer Brothers? If they've killed me, I don't see any reason to let them go on living. Chester, can you force it up a little more? Well, no, not much, Mr. Donner. Come on. Yeah, that's better. Hold it there. Hold it there. Can it turn loose now? Now, let's just try one more nail. The only thing that's going to fix this door is the whole noose. We'll hold it for a while. Cuss it wood so rotten dry it won't hold a nail no more. Well, haven't you two given up on that door yet? Oh, hello, Kitty. I give up a long time ago, Miss Kitty. Matt, Jim Nielsen's back in town. Jim Nielsen? Nielsen's dead, Kitty. No, he's not. He's at the long branch right now. Spreading the word that he's come back to kill the Mailer brothers. Are you sure? I've seen him. I've heard him. The Mailer boys heard about it? It won't take long, the way it's getting talked about. Tom, Mailer rode up to Clay City, Mr. Donner, the day before yesterday. Charlie's the only one in town. I guess I better go see him. What about Nielsen? Well, if he's spreading the word, he'll be where I can find him any time I want. Hello, Charlie. What's trouble? I don't even let me pick it up. You want me to hold her for you? Well, Jim Nielsen was in town. Nielsen? Nielsen's dead, Marshal. Tom did for him. He's not dead. He's back in Dodge looking for you and Tom. All right. He's welcome. Look, Charlie, I know a lot of people are on your side, but there are a lot of others on Nielsen's. I'd like to stop this trouble before it goes any further. It was a fair fight, Marshal. I know it was. Any time Nielsen wants to stand up again against either of us, we'll be ready. That'd be better if you'd stay out of sight until he leaves. I can't do that, Marshal, and you know it. People would say I was a coward. What people say isn't important, Charlie. I don't hide from nobody. Now, the only thing behind that fight was some temper and some strong words. Aren't you man enough to forget it? What are you going to do about it, Marshal? There's nothing I can do if you're set on facing Nielsen. Except try and get him out of Tom. Self of old-fashioned ideas. 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But that's sure no reason for you to come back and stir it all up again. They thought they'd kill me, Marshal, and they were proud of it. I don't think they were. Look, Jim, I'd like it if you'd go back to Abilene. I'm not gonna do it, Marshal. I got nothing to go back to nowhere. What does that mean? I'm gonna die from that gunfight we had. The bullet's still in me. There's nothing to be done about it, huh? No. Nothing but trying to settle the score. I don't see how you're gonna be any better off trying to kill two good men, Jim. Marshal, it's a funny thing knowing you're gonna die. I had too much to live for when I faced up to him the first time. I was gonna get married. I owned some land. Those were the things I was thinking about. I got scared and tightened up. Man shouldn't have anything to think about in a gunfight. It was kind of hard not to. But I don't have now, Marshal. I don't have a thing to lose. You're a bad man to have in town. Don't be here long. You can count on that. Drink with me, Marshal? No. No. Not tonight, thank you. Nielsen, you're looking for me and my brother. You'll forget it, Charlie, and get out of here. Where should I get out to, Marshal? You want me to run away, Nielsen? Hold it, Charlie! Is he dead, Marshal? Yeah, he's dead. You satisfied now, Nielsen? It was a fair fight just like the first one. And just as needless. Not to my way of thinking. Tell me, Marshal. When's Charlie's brother gonna get back to town? Mr. Dill want me to stop you before you got up to the plaza. Yeah, what for? Well, Jim Nielsen's waiting for you. Nielsen? Wait. What about my brother? Charlie's dead, Tom. Did Nielsen do it? Charlie, come after him. I thank you, Chester. I thank the Marshal. Tom, you gonna ride in anyway? I got no place else to go. Here! Free up! Press it up your taste. Smoke it, L&M! Enjoy full, exciting flavor through L&M's pure white miracle tip. L&M draws taste richer. Smokes cleaner. That's why today more people are changing to L&M than to any other cigarette. So free up! Press it up your taste. Live modern. Change to L&M. Make today your big red letter day and start to live the modern way. Live, live, live modern. It's America's fastest growing cigarette. You're in Clay City. I was. I signed up for Charlie and me. Take a pack train clear to Lincoln County. Charlie's dead. Can I get you a drink, Tom? Maybe, later. I thought Nielsen was here. He left about a half hour ago. Happened to know where he went. No. Can't you get your pack train together and go, Tom? Oh, you know I can't, Kitty. What goods are gonna do you looking for Nielsen or waiting for him? It's something I got to do. If he kills you, what are you gonna be proven? My brother's dead. Killing Nielsen won't bring him back. Some men ought to be killed, sure, but not you and Nielsen. You're fine, man. Both of you. My brother was a good man, too. Kitty, what would you have me do? I don't know, Tom. Be in the kind you are and after what's already happened, I guess I got no right trying to tell you what to do. Now, do you know if Nielsen figured on coming back here? I don't know, Tom. I'm going to my room. I was just about to order that drink. Then you'll have to have it without me. Thank you for sitting with me, Kitty. How long have you been here? There's not a thing I can do as a kitty. Not if you don't take the guns away. Yeah, they'd only find more. Then you watch them kill each other, Matt. I can't do it. It won't be but a few minutes. He was looking for Tom over there on Paganza. All right. You get out of sight some, please. All right, sir. Soon, Marshal. Hello, Tom. Look to Tom. I'm going to ask you to do a brave thing. Would you let me keep your gun for as long as you're in town? No, I won't, Marshal. You and I have been good friends, Tom. I'd like to keep it that way. But you won't do what I say. What would you do with you at my spot? What you're going to do, I guess. Tom, it's a different kind of a fight this time. Nielsen's going to die from the bullet you put in him two months ago and he knows it. He's got nothing to lose. I kind of wondered why he'd come back. That's why. Now, would you either take off your gun or get out of town? I'd like to leave, Marshal. I'd like to be rigging our string of mules with Charlie, but there won't be any more of that. All right. All right, Tom. I told Nielsen and I'll tell you, from the beginning this thing has been needless. My mistake was not throwing the three of you in jail right off. Marshal Dillon, have a drink with me. No, thanks, Tom. Going back to my office. Goodbye. Well, Nielsen, I guess there's no reason trying to talk any sense into you, either. It's gone past talking, Marshal. You aren't figuring on stopping me. There's nothing I can do. I'll see you later. There's nothing I can do for him, Matthew. You must seem like such a waste. He was a good man, both of them was. There's no reason for you to feel bad, Matthew. You tried your very best to stop it. Someday there's going to be a law about carrying guns and there's going to be fights like these. It'll bring it. A man got the right, Mr. Dillon. They're going to lose it, Chester. This sort of thing doesn't stop. Doc, I'll have the body taken away. All right, man. I'll be with you if you want me to. Yeah, sure, Chester. I think I'm ready for that drink everybody offered me. Me too. You reckon this kitty knows? By this time I'd think so. There he is, Mr. Dillon. Well, you made it, huh? You killed both the Mailer brothers. Yeah? And in fair fight, huh? Yeah. I want to ask you something. Make you feel anybody? Tell you the truth that don't. The moment our star, William Conrad. Americans today are earning more money than ever before. And smart Americans are planning ahead too, to preserve prosperity. They're investing part of their paycheck every payday in United States savings bonds. 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Produced and directed by Norman McDonald, stars William Conrad as Matt Dillon, U.S. Marshall. The script was specially written for Gunsmoke by Gil Dowd with editorial supervision by John Meston. The music was composed and conducted by Rex Corey. Sound patterns by Ray Kemper and Bill James. Featured in the cast were Harry Bartell, Vic Perron, Lawrence Dobkin, and Jessica Patrick. Harley Bear as Chester, Howard McNear as Doc, and Georgia Ellis as Kitty. Join us again next week for another specially transcribed story on Gunsmoke.