 It's Hapalong Cassidy With action and suspense out of the Old West comes the most famous hero of them all Hapalong Cassidy starring William Boyd The ring of the silver spurs heralds the most amazing man ever to ride the prairies of the early West Hapalong Cassidy This famous hero thrills his 60 million friends with action and dangerous adventure In the role of Hapalong Cassidy is the popular star of the motion picture series William Boyd And now another exciting story of the early West the Whistlin Ghost Hoppy in California are on their way back from the state capital up north after taking care of some bar 20 business California who used to live in this territory has talked Hoppy into taking a shortcut to Elbow Crete where they plan to spend the night Before they finish the ride down to the bar 20 the next day They should have been in Elbow Creek hours ago, but California's shortcut has taken a lot longer than he expected Burn it Hoppy. No, I went and got us lost if I'd known I was taking us the long way around I'd have kept my mouth shut tighter than a sprung bear trap. Oh, we're not lost California We just don't know where we are. I ought to know I practically grow it up in Elbow Creek Hold on a minute. Yep, right up here is Patty Bowman's cabin a friend of yours friend Why Patty and me was like brothers once Say hoppy. Why don't we bunk there tonight? He'd be glad to put us up. That's a good idea I could sure use them sleep and by golly. I could sure use them supper. Oh boy bacon beans. Always hi I Didn't seem to be in his cabin. No light. No smoke in the chimney listen That's Patty That's the way he always used to whistle. That's his tuna. I'd know it anywhere. Oh, he's in the ravine down there Let's get out and meet him Patty Patty Bowman What kind of hospitality is that he's a shooting at us. Hey Patty, it's me California Carlson your old friend Hey, them last two shots was close. I'm glad that last one wasn't any closer. Come on. Let's get over behind the cabin I'm right with you hoppy. Oh Patty must be out of his head Shooting at us like this. Wait. Look up there. He's riding off over the hill. See him work. Oh, yeah Yeah, I see him. All right. Did you see that horse red and gold skew ball stallion? Yeah, big two Well, no chance catching him now. Come on. Let's get in that town Yep, this is it terrible creep He cheesed a bit. That's the palace bar over there. Let's go in. I'm thirsty. How about you, california? For a non-drinking man, you sure do have an awful hard time passing a bar How did what do you have strangers? I ain't no stranger. I practically grow it up around here Why california carlson as I live and breathe Glad to see you again mike. And this is my partner hop along cassidy. Glad to know you. Hi mike Make that a couple of sasperillas. Will you like oh now? What kind of celebration is that? Oh, well you boys look like you can hold your drinks two sasperillas Hey, you might answer a couple of questions for us mike. Well, sure glad to if I can You say what's come over my old friend patty bowman. Has he gone crazy or something? He just now shot at us as we was coming in what california You must be the one that's crazy Patty bowman was murdered two months ago Now back to hop along cassidy and the whistling ghost On their way to elbow creek hoppy in california stopped by the cabin of california's old friend patty bowman They thought they heard patty whistling from down in the ravine, but the bartender says patty has been dead for two months While they're talking to the bartender another man steps over to join them Evening sheriff well, it'll be uh, I heard you fellas talking about patty bowman Mind if I join you having a sheriff here down these names a sheriff You remember california carlson, don't you this is hop along cassidy Oh, howdy sheriff. Hi, sir. Is patty really dead like this fella says sheriff? Yeah, yeah, he is He's found up in his cabin about two months ago somebody tortured him then killed him I'd sure like to catch the farmer who did it too We all like patty around here. Well, if that wasn't patty bowman, we heard up there. Then who was it? And some folks around here think it's patty's ghost The whistling ghost they call them Shows up every two three nights been around for a couple of weeks now more or less Well for a ghost. He was doing some mighty real shooting. Oh, they was real bullets. All right Takes a few shots at anybody that pokes around up there I don't guess you got a good look at him. Did you none of us have we got a pretty good look at his horse, sheriff Oh, well now we're getting someplace. Uh, come on. I won't hear all about this Sure sheriff Since talking a crowded bar Now we're about this horse. He was the prettiest red and gold ski ball stallion I ever saw and he was big too I know which corral let's do ball stallion ought to be in right now You fellas think you'd know it if you saw it again. I'm sure we would all right. Let's get over there Whose place is this sheriff fellow with the name of slave slave He'd far remember him tall black hair dutchman with bright squinty eyes Runs the assay all that sleet. All right. Well, here's the corral Good thing the moon's out. Where's the red stallion? All I see is bay's chestnuts and mustangs There he is over there with a shed. That's the one. Let's go over and see if he's winded He's not only winded this horse has worked up a ladder Slade must have ridden him pretty fast to get back here Well, do we have a talk with mr. Slade now? Well, I don't know Maybe it wouldn't do as much good as that. What's the trouble, chef? Well, I Can't city. I don't like to admit. I'm a beaten man, but Slade's won every trick so far I guess he's just about got me buffalo. How come? Well, he's mr. Big around here practically old jelbo creek If I cue Slade to something I can't prove I'm out. He'll see to that Just what are you trying to prove? Well, I think Slade is the whistlin ghost and I think the whistlin ghost killed patty I've got plenty of reasons for thinking so, but I don't know how to make it stick. I got a little squirt of subtle with him myself, chef I've heard a lot about you Cassidy When I was standing there in the palace bar a while ago and heard california mention your name I said to myself that's providence. There's help when I need it most But now I don't know Pretty big thing to ask of you to help me out on this hoppy if anybody can catch him You can I sure wish you would hoppy patty was a friend of mine. All right california I guess any friend of yours a friend of mine looks like the bar 20 I'll have to get along without us for a few days more. Well, that's fine Why don't you fellas come on over to house for supper supper? Thank you. We will idea. Yes, sir About ready for dessert. We got three kinds of pie apple minced meat and custard Now there's three reasons why I wish I was a married man Apple minced meat and custard. Oh my goodness Well, I'll just have to give you one to eat you guess I'll fit you down in the kitchen Well, I guess we're about ready to get down to business here. I'd like to get all the facts on this That's why I asked Ben Clayton to come over. Yep between us. I think we can give you the whole picture Cassidy That'll be a great help. Well, Ben can tell you more about patty than almost anybody He was close friends ever since ben set up his law practice here Just wonder if you got on uh slayed sheriff enough to hang anyone but a man as big as he is Well, we've got three witnesses saw him go up to patty's ranch the afternoon. He was killed But when I asked slayed about that He said he hadn't been near there denied the whole thing. Mm-hmm And what about your whistling ghost? Well, you saw the horse. He was riding Yeah, sheriff and I rode up to patty's place about a week ago We both heard this whistling ghost, but he got away and where was slayed at that time He said he was in the back room of his office working late. Nobody saw him there Nobody even saw him leave three times when the whistling ghost was up there slayed was in his back room working He said you left out one big thing sheriff. What's that motive? Well for one thing slayed and patty were at out for years. What about gold? One man had it and another wanted it, huh? Well, not exactly Patty towed some diggins into the assay office Oh about 15 years ago slayed told him it was fool's gold. Yeah, iron pirates looks like gold You find it the same way, but it's not worth the trouble of carrying it to the assay office. That's right Patty said slayed was lying and he wouldn't have anything more to do with slayed. Well, that's why patty's wife left him, wasn't it? Yep Packed up went right back east and took their kid with her too. I remember I guess the boy was six or seven years old Yeah, she said patty was a fool and just like him to wind up with fool's gold Well, you talking about patty still Oh, he did take it off hard when his wife left him Figured she wouldn't have done it if it hadn't been for slayed in that fool's gold business Well, here's the pie Oh boy does that look good Uh, Clayton speaking as his lawyer, what happens to patty's ranch now that he's dead? Well, I wrote to his family, but they haven't even answered. I imagine they'll want to sell You know some folks say the whistling ghost is haunting the ranch so he can get the price down and buy it cheap Has anyone been trying to buy the ranch since patty is killed? Yes Slayed he came to my office and made me an offer a few days ago My theory is patty wouldn't sell so slayed killed him expecting to pick up the ranch cheap after patty was dead But why does he want it if there's no gold up there? That's just what I'd like to know I searched patty's cabin from top to bottom after he was killed and I didn't find a thing I think we'd better ask the whistling ghost what he's after. Oh, I can see it coming We're a going ghost hunting. Well, he's not always up there just when you want him Clayton wrote up with me several times, but we only heard him that once that's right Suppose I stopped by and have a little talk with slayed in the morning And while I'm at it, I'll give the whistling ghost a special invitation to our party Now back to hop along cassidy and the whistling ghost While riding through elbow creek california learns that his old friend patty bowman has been murdered So now hop along in california are digging their spurs into fresh trouble trying to run down the murderer The sheriff suspects that the whistling ghost who haunts patty's cabin is none other than mr. Slade owner of the assay office So now hop along in california are calling on the dutchman to see if they can't pick up a few interesting facts Yes, sir, what can I do for you? I'm looking for mr. Slade and he's busy in back right now. Couldn't I help him? I'm looking for some information. There's a piece of property around here that's for sale. I understand I know what's on top of the ground now. I want to find out what's under what property are you interested in patty bowman's place I see you know something about it Yes, I've heard mr. Slade speak of it I think maybe he'd want to handle this himself Lorraine go tell mr. Slade a man is here asking about patty bowman's ranch. All right, mr. Archer I'll go get him right now The gold business must be pretty good around here. This is quite an office staff. Oh somebody finds a little gold now and then Mr. Slade and Lorraine ran the office till lately I'm just learning the business. Archer get me that folder on the rainbow mine. Yes, sir. Where is it? It's in the top drawer where all the folders are How long is it going to take you to learn where things are? You are here three weeks now. You can't even sharpen a pencil without asking me how to do it I don't know why I hired you in the first place Yes, sir You stay out of this. What are you doing back here anyway? Well, I just came back to tell you There's two gentlemen up front asking about patty bowman's ranch. Why didn't you say so? Well California Carlson, howdy slade. This is my partner hop along catchity. Oh I what can I do for you fellas? I'm looking for some information about the patty bowman ranch Why ask me about it? You're running the essay office. You ought to know all about the property around here I want to know if there's gold on the ranch sure Fools gold plenty of it. Is there any other real stuff? I told patty bowman 15 years ago that all he had was fools gold What I said then still stands and how come you want to buy the place? Did you come in here to ask questions about your business or my business? Maybe your business is my business slade A man riding a skew ball stallion just like your shot at us last night. That makes it my business I'm talking The whistling ghost was out last night up at patty bowman's place He was riding a horse that looked mighty like your horse Just what are you getting at? That red stallion didn't work up a lullaby between this office and the corral at your house If you want to stay healthy because they keep your nose out of my business and stay off my property too Now get out of here I haven't finished sladen you're gonna get tough you'd better be able to back it up Maybe this will convince you I'll get you nowhere sladen Boy hoppy that was a mistake You haven't got anything on me somebody's after something up there sladen We're pulling that ghost tank to scare everybody else away. I don't scare that easy. You've got everything figured out, haven't you? Slade I've got a pretty good idea. What's hidden up there and I'm gonna find it tonight ghost or no ghost If you think I'm the whistling ghost you're crazy. I've got my own theory about who that is I'll bet you have come on california. We've had our say. Let's get out of here. Sure hoppy What are you gonna do hoppy? We're gonna ask the sheriff to go up the patty's ranch with us tonight We'll get Clayton to come along We fan out the ghost can't shoot at all of us at once one of us will catch him I want to find out what he's after. Well, I thought you knew you you just said that you even knew where it was That was date california date We want to be sure our whistling ghost is up there tonight. So I just gave him an invitation to our party And california. Yeah, this is going to be a surprise party for a lot of people I think we're near enough yet. Now, this is foolish. Are we just going to ride up together? Let him pick us off like clay pigeons. No, we'll fan out. Well, let's do it then That's him Down in the ravine there. Well head left from here and cut down to the ravine. Let's separate and get down there What do you want me to do hoppy? Let's go straight down to that cold. Keep your eyes open and don't miss a thing We've got to work faster. Somebody will get more than he bargained for tonight Hey, listen He's whistling again Hoppy somebody got him. Come on. Let's get down there. Here he is over here sheriff Uh, let's get this handkerchief off his face There son, how do you feel? Who is it? Who shot? Well, that's archer slade's no assistant. Let's get him up to the cabin and see what we can do for him All right, that'll stop the bleeding. You feel better? Yeah Thanks a lot. I'll lie back and rest. What's he doing up here? This is your whistling ghost sheriff Archer, what slade's the whistling ghost ain't you got one ghost too many hoppy? No, california archer is the only whistling ghost around here But Cassidy, he was up here trying to trap slade. You see archer is patty bowman's son Patty's boy. Well, I'll be on davie davie bowman Wait, he didn't kill patty. Did he of course he didn't sheriff He was trying to trap his father's killer. That's why he was playing whistling ghost You you mean we're looking for two people? That's right. We've got our whistling ghost But we still have to catch our killer slade must have followed me up here a while ago I guess he almost got me the way he got my father But hoppy we saw the whistling ghost on slade's horse. Remember davie borrowed slade's horse to come up here But what was the big idea? He was using himself as bait figure the man who killed his father would see through the ghost act and come after him That's right and I could trap him when he came after me and another reason He hung around up here was to keep people away from the cabin while he was searching it. Isn't that right davie? A lot of good it did too I guess dad was just kidding me in that last letter. Why what did your father write you davie? Well, he was gonna sell the place and come east to live with me. Is that all? He said he had been going over his records and He thought he could get a pretty good price for the ranch considering what he'd taken out of it so far Just as I thought the way he wrote it sounded like he had something pretty valuable. There was gold But then I got clayton's letter saying he's dead and the ranch wasn't worth much So you came out to see for yourself. Well, if there was any gold here, I didn't see it Well, I did a little talking around enough to make me suspicious and And I got a job at slade's office so I could keep an eye on him There's just one more thing davie What are the words to that song you were whistling? Well, I might as well tell you since there's nothing to it anyway Dad used to sing Here's a little lesson for the young and for the old A fellow is a fool to hanker after gold And just about the time you think you're getting pretty warm You find it's always further than you can stretch an arm Now we're getting somewhere. I thought the song might tell me where something was hidden but I looked everywhere and I didn't find anything I covered all the walls from floor to ceiling and they're all solid You say your father mentioned in his letter that he kept a record of all these transactions He must have he said he'd been going over his records But I didn't find anything like that. We've got to find that record book It'll show who patty was selling his gold to that's the one man who knew patty had gold hidden With that evidence your man's as good as hung sheriff Well, I searched the cabin from top to bottom after we found patty and I didn't come across anything like that Well, sheriff, I guess there's no time to worry about hunting business records We can come back in the morning and find them Right now this boy needs a doctor. Come on. Let's get him back into town Clayton, uh, why don't you run on ahead and have a doctor ready for us when we get there? That's a good idea See you later. Yeah. All right, man. We'll meet you in town Yeah, come on Well, let's get going Yeah, can you manage the ride Davey? Of course I can my shoulders. All right. It doesn't hurt much now Well, Cassidy, that's for sure. Good night's work Headman for you. I never would have thought of looking for two different people Thanks to you. We've got our wish on ghost and buddy soon. We'll have our killer Maybe soon of the new thankshire. What do you mean by that? Hoppy, I know you was up to something when you hustled us out of that cabin so all fired quick What are you gonna do in about five minutes? You and I are going back to the cabin, california After all, we gave our killer an invitation didn't we and the heck with this shoulder I'm staying with you He's in there all right. See him in there the moon on him Why is he standing on that bench? He's tearing out the wall above the fireplace, Davey Just what I thought he'd be doing. Wait here. I'm going in Okay, that's enough digging for tonight. Look out, hubby. He's got a pickaxe Now back to hop along Cassidy Look out hubby. He's got a pickaxe All right, come down over that bench. I got some things to say to you and keep your hand off that gun Don't come any nearer Cassidy Now let's try it without the artillery Oh Now the law can take care of you from now on Sheriff like that lantern will you boy Ben Clayton I never would have thought it Are you sure it's him Cassidy? Now the same thing fooled both of us sheriff as long as we thought the whistling ghost was the killer It never occurred to us to suspect Clayton. Yeah, that's right. But I see it all now Clayton was still searching for that record book He guessed part of the verses meaning right that line And just about the time you think you're getting warm Does point to the fireplace, but I looked all over up there There isn't anything hidden in those walls and that last line that both you and Clayton missed, Davey You'll find it's always further than you can stretch an arm That verse was sung to you when you were a little boy It's just a little further than a boy's a harm will reach what sure that's what dad meant Sheriff if you'll help me lift this stone slab mantle piece off. I think we'll find patty's cash and record book inside Of course, why didn't I think of that? It never occurred to me to look up there Look at that Well, there must be thousands of dollars worth of gold nuggets and dust in there I know you could find it hoppy This must be the record book you're talking about Cassidy. Let me have a look at that sheriff Uh-huh. I thought so June 4th Clayton sold two ounces August 10th Clayton sold 10 ounces Well, this is the proof No wonder Clayton was frantic to get this book Hoppy, I knowed when we started looking for the fella that killed patty. He didn't have a ghost of a chance Uh, you think so california? Look behind you Ha ha ha California. Don't you know we just caught the only ghost there was around here Goodbye from hop along Cassidy We hope you'll be back with us soon when hoppy will again bring you more adventure and excitement Hop along Cassidy star and william boyd is transcribed and produced in the west by walter white jr The whistle and ghost was written by bill bates All stories are based upon the characters created by clarence e mulford. This is a commodore production