 This is John Steele reporting on adventure. I was going to title this yarn Girl of the Golden West, but somebody else got there first with that label a long time ago Anyway, the story takes place in the desert of Australia. It involves a redhead named Rosie a guy who tried to double-cross her a Million dollars in gold and a dingo pack. I call this transcribed yarn three minus two The middle of Australia represents one of the biggest and about the worst deserts on the face of this earth in Texture it's something like the big salt flats of Utah. It was once a big inland sea Right after gold was found in California back in 1848 It was also discovered in Australia, and they had their big bonanza just like ours There's still a lot of gold there and in parts of Western Australia You'll still find wooden sidewalks swinging doors and miners and red shirts packing guns I remember you had to duck real fast on the Saturday night when you heard six guns blazing After World War two a lot of our guys went back there to settle a few more went back there to look for gold But the gold is up there in that desert You'd say it was no place for a girl nor is it but one gal went up there She'd been raised in the state of Oregon and the rugged desert of Australia didn't scare her She went there with her husband a guy named panting Leo panting They had a partner a big fellow called snowy and when they found gold snowy had ideas Just like home. Yeah, those dingos. They sound like coyotes. Yeah Funny, huh? We're rich, baby. That's just what I was thinking you me and Leo. Maybe a million dollars, huh? Yeah, it could be Leo says it's a rich vein over there sleeping. How can he sleep? He's tired He does most of the work. I do my share Rose. Well, you ought to do more more. You're a big guy Leo small Just hard luck. Well, he's got a right to be tired. Let him sleep. Okay by me Throw me a cigarette. Yeah Thanks, I Keep thinking But how to spend your share don't make sense What don't three-way split made sense when we agreed. Yeah, I know the agreement stands you and Leo two-thirds me one That's right. That ain't fair. That's the way it is snowy. We got to figure a better way the agreement stands I put up the money to pay expenses Leo and you did the rest that makes it a three-way partnership You and Leo hog two-thirds between you. You're his wife. Look be happy with what you'll get. You know. Yes I know Me and you I know what you've had in your mind for a long time. Why not? You're not my type snowy and he is that's why I married him that Lousy little shrimp. I wouldn't say that if I were you why might get mad. No, I might You heard me sure baby. I heard you Leo's not a big guy, but he's a man going to sleep leaving you with me Why don't you go to sleep too? Maybe I could then I'm not tired a day's work Don't knock me out try doing a day's work tomorrow, and then we'll find out You're beautiful Rosie what I said you're beautiful. I will be when I get back home start living it up Like you are now and a man's shirt and slacks your red hair shining in the moonlight Your real beauty Rosie, you know what I mean? Yeah, I know what you mean snowy. How about it, baby? Listen get your filthy hands off of me. I'll kiss just a little kiss. What's wrong with that? Maybe understand that Baby, well, that's fine, but you shouldn't have done that rose. I'll do more than that if you ever touch me again What do you know why I wear this gun snakes wild dog? No you Now keep that in mind I feel safer when I'm awake What always being with you? Gets monotonous. I'd say seeing you with him Oh, look, why don't you sleep it off all these weeks me getting ideas thinking you had the same idea I never gave you any ideas Sometimes the way you looked at me you must have imagined it. Yeah, I just forget about it No dice Rosie no dice not any time never Just you and him just me and Leo and two-thirds of all this gold only it can't work out that way What Give me that Rosie Now we'll see What are you gonna do first take her a Leo? Don't you kill them no three-way split Rosie just me I'll teach you Get away from them I kept saying if Rosie gets to like me, okay, she can give Leo the brush, but you didn't like me It's the way it's gotta be Rosie nobody else can have you just me nobody else Get here me just me Just me now Say you get used to anything After a while it looked like Rosie had gotten accustomed to the idea her husband was dead She stopped crying and after Leo had been buried in the sand. She smoked a cigarette Snowy watched her very cautiously. He made sure she didn't have her hands on a gun He wasn't sure what to do about She had loved her Leo and she hated him There's a law against murder down in Australia and Rosie could accuse him of that crime and bring the police to the grave where Leo was buried Snowy didn't like the picture of that situation So he watched Rosie very carefully wondered what was going on in her mind Lousy dingos one of these shut up. What this desert it's time. We got out of it. I've been thinking yeah Now he's crying over spill milk That's right, baby Leo's a nice guy sweet guy. Yeah sure, but maybe you wouldn't have fitted in with You know things Now you're talking Rosie. You know what I mean like New York and Paris and London and all them places Yeah, Leo wanted a ranch me. I've seen all the ranchers. I want to see Baby, I like what you're saying we can say you just died in the desert sure we can and that's what we'll say Poor Leo. Yeah He died out in the desert. I'm young can't spend my life moping and we got a million bucks to spend Rosie you and me Want to pour me some coffee? Anything you want, baby anything Me and a mink coat I can see in one Rosie. I'll spend $10,000 on one Yeah, drink your coffee. Thanks All the time Rosie all the time will be dolled up you and your mink coats me and my tailored suits living it up Rits Carlton and all them joints Doesn't seem possible. We got all that gold. What do we do with it? Yeah in the morning. I'll fill another couple of sacks. We'll take back all we can then register the claim after that I don't know maybe we work the mind. Maybe we sell it sell it. I want to start living Yeah, we sell you get out get more gold first thing in the morning then we get out of here sure What's the matter snowy it's okay, baby You're not fighting me anymore. Who wants to fight all the time It's crazy Rosie. You know what I mean stop talking about it. Yeah only I want that you understand I do it was crazy to bring you along gave me a chance to fall in love with you, baby I know I'll be good to you Rosie. I make you happy Nothing will be too good for you just so long as you don't get sickening I can't stand a guy who gets sickening. I mean I'll take good care of you see you do, huh? What'll it be baby? We get married, huh? I'd want to marry. I'm not kind of a guy and you work fast. Don't you they've met a guy who works so fast I'm not so about you Rosie. Wait a minute. You're hurting me. Don't hold me so tight. I want to go on breathing Yeah, I didn't mean to hurt you You're a rough guy snowy You're awful rough with a girl. Do you know that? Maybe Maybe it's a way you're like a guy to be Rosie baby What's the matter, baby? I was just wondering wondering what what we're gonna do with all this gold We're going back with it. What makes you think so. What do you mean? What makes you think we're going anywhere? Hey, wait a minute. We're staying you want to stay okay me. I'm going back, but you're not What is this? How you gonna drive that Jeep without any gas in it gas we got plenty of gas gone What it's gone. What are you talking about? I emptied the cans. I spread the gasoline across the ground. It's all gone evaporated You did what I just told you snowy finish on the gasoline. You threw it away. Yeah We're staying here with Leo you and me with Leo and all this gold No, it's too late pretending you'd forgotten Leo pretending you like me just so I let down my guard Leo was my guy and I was crazy about you do anything you like a brick and small You kill me do anything you like I don't care anymore, but you're gonna stay here alone Make some monkey out of me makes me trust her my back's turn. She throws away the gasoline You too, baby, I was just looking at the stream It's awful dry Leo said it would dry up all together in a few days and no more water till the spring rains You figure to stay here until the end of time for you and for me like it was for Leo I don't get one thing for instance while I was away You could have taken the Jeep and driven off you could have left me here to starve and die I thought of that. I bet you did only I knew I couldn't make it alone. You lose your way, huh? Yeah, you could have got back there and registered the claim. I thought of that too. Why'd you do this, baby? Impulse I thought of Leo when I had to do something anything at all so I got rid of the gasoline just like a crazy dame, huh? Okay, you want to stay here you stay me I go what it's not all deserts There's mountain country bushlands and there's fresh water 20 miles from here We filled up there on the way here remember you'll never make it not walking a million bucks and gold is waiting to be spent And you think I won't make 50 miles across this country. You think you can do I think I know without me solo just me I wouldn't trust a dame like you no more your spoiler for yourself Rosie. So you stay here with Leo Why don't I kill you? No, I wouldn't shoot a dame. I don't have to How long will you last out here all alone a few days a week then curtains you'll go nuts, baby You'll run out there in the desert get ideas about making it alone, and that'll be the end Too bad Rosie too bad Enough water to see me 20 miles. That's all I need. I'm on my way Rosie have fun here every little fun a Million dollars in gold can do that to a guy All timers who had crossed that desert had used mules and burrows same as they did in this country Nobody as far as I know had ever made 500 miles of desert on foot But snowy had that in mind when he set out on the other hand Maybe it made some sense if he stayed in that camp he had to die anyhow just like Rosie would die She watched him walk away into the desert into the blinding glare of the Sun Then she picked up a couple of sharp rocks and put one in each of her pockets When snowy glanced back he saw her following her hands in the pockets of her slacks a grin back at her Go back, baby Go on back Rosie, you can't keep up with me I'm on my way too bad it had to be this way Rosie Where I don't see anything I don't see anything Girl couldn't afford to miss and she didn't she found her target twice the rock struck snow He's face the staggered his face covered with blood in a split second the girl sprang They kicked him in the stomach and a man stalled on the ground It took Rosie just two more seconds to lug the man's gun from its hold Whenever you're ready you can get up You live for a while anyway Not this one you can't My heart bleeds for you. You shouldn't have done this Rosie. I'm walking back to camp and I'm taking your water back with me You please yourself what you do my face you cut it We're in trouble You want to take a look at some real trouble Dingo pack. I didn't see him come this way. How's he dingos standing there looking at us They're gonna do more than look at us give me that gun you stay where you are these dogs will attack any minute maybe a wall This is like wolves I'm gonna try and shoot that one see what happens Look out kill one seem scared give me that around I'll take care of they won't go away As long as they don't attack come on we'll get back to camp you walk in front of me I said walk in front of me. I gotta watch you too We're in a jam. You better walk slowly Their Australian dingo is no former domestic pooch gone wild. He's a ferocious killer from way back He looks like a wolf and acts like one He usually runs with a pack a pack will operate near a big sheep station or in the bushlands It will seldom go into the desert when it does there's some good reason It's probably following an expedition hoping to attack the horses in lean country a dingo pack Will attack anything or any one the pack to threaten snowy and rosie numbered about 20 and the animal Rosie had killed Just wasn't enough to go around come on Want some water what night just keep your hands off of me and keep your distance get moving get moving go on Take a drink. I said I didn't want any water now. Will you get going? I want to make it back to camp Come on Rosie take one little drink on me listen. They're getting closer and closer. Well come on walk Closing in with your pick it up. Come on walk walk walk walk all right What'd you do with my gun and Leo's put them in a Jeep? I unloaded them where the bullets I got them get the guns And now you're making sense walk to the Jeep. I'll cover you. Okay. Watch them lousy dogs watch Okay, don't waste time But it makes you feel like a man again watch it later. I am but you just shoot like that You watch him now. That's something I can't be a look at. They're hungry. They'll go away They won't go far don't hang around we have to kill them all every time they look like they're gonna rush us We kill one maybe two that'll hold them for a while. We don't want to waste the bullets that big brown one. Yeah, I see He just stands there looking at us like he's trying to figure something out Maybe he's bigger than they are the rushers and I must read what's going on in his mind. What's he looking at now? I don't see a thing Look it's cloud somebody's riding a horse Just one guy one guy riding a horse gear in a dingo pack don't add up There's only one man coming the shooting. Yeah, that's it. Whatever it is. I'm all for glad to see him Wait a minute. All right, put those guns down now. I'll listen baby No, you listen they hang you for murder in this country and you murdered my Leo now drop those guns before I drop you Of course, I could use that horse. You heard what I said. You won't shoot me rose. Don't make me prove it Yeah, those lousy dogs if they hadn't come this way there'd have been no shooting That guy wouldn't have heard the shots lousy dingos a million bucks in gold and you think you're gonna see me turned over to the cops So you Like take care of you too. I'm okay. My name's steel John Steele. I'm rosie panning your American. Yeah, let's take a look at this guy Who is he? He murdered my husband Hey, he's alive. I'm glad Glad yeah How'd you get here an expedition we're camped in the hills. I heard shooting some dingos were here Yeah, I know we killed about 30 of them. They finally left us You'll be okay now He killed my Leo killed him We would have had a chance. He was asleep. That'll be taken care of You'll get one chum. My friends will be here in a few minutes I get a million dollars in gold pal What do you think of that? I told him not to bring a dame Australia's a big land It draws all kinds of people to it a land of big opportunity always does draw all kinds of people There's nothing American about it. And yet you feel a sort of kinship with the places and the people you feel at home Rosie never did come home again. She stayed out there where her Leo was buried She sold the claim and she's a rich gal in dollars or pounds. Maybe someday. She will drift back to Oregon Anyway, she's the only gal I ever ran across who struck a million dollar gold mine And I hope you like hearing about it. What was I doing in the Gibson desert when I met her? I've been investigating the scene of what could be the dusty remains of an ancient civilization, but that's another story I'll tell you about it sometime Be around next week up for a story that takes place in North Africa The gal in this story is a cross between Elizabeth Taylor and the Queen of Iran and Maryland Monroe. She's my candidate for the most beautiful dame in the world. We had a lot of fun together There were three of us. The gal, a guy named Cardu and yours truly. It's a real adventure. I like to call high-test Heard with me on today's transcribed John Steele adventure where Mary Ashworth and Charlie Holmes I'm Don Douglas. So until next week then and high test Remember adventure is where you find it, but don't look for it. It may find you John Steele adventurer was brought to you through the facilities of the United States armed forces radio and a television service you