 This woman may spend a lot of money and time in your store Billy But is a good customer worth more than your life Have gone Will travel starring mr. John Daner as Paladin San Francisco 1875 the Carlton Hotel headquarters of the man called Paladin Hey, that ought to do it Thank you. Hey boy. Oh, yes, but there is one thing. Hey boy not understand. What's that? Why you take fancy shorts on easy trip, Mr. Paladin? I'm not sure. I know the answer myself I just have a feeling that Whitewater Falls has become a very fashionable town now that Billy Boggs has set up shop there and I want to be in style Oh, this is Billy Boggs the same man who have haberdasher shop in San Francisco for many years That's right same man. Why he move away to dinky town like whitewater falls well for his healthy said he couldn't stand the fog anymore He said oh fog not hurt health. Hey boy like fog like big city much better than dinky town Well to each his own. Hey boy. Why is some for you here much trouble? If a man threatened to kill you because he thought you were trying to steal his wife. Would that be trouble? Oh You saw that's what Billy said in his letter. You are Mike would be big sad mess We'll see a boy But it's hard to believe that Billy Boggs is mixed up with a woman especially a married woman never seemed to be the type Oh, I can't always tell a man by way. He looks mr. Paladin ordinarily I'd agree with you But not when it comes to Billy Boggs, but we'll see a boy. We'll see Constipation can be a problem for anyone even doctors And when constipation occurs, it's interesting to see just what doctors consider important about a laxative. They might use or recommend Well, a majority of the doctors we heard from had this to say a laxative should be effective Gentle close to natural acting a medicine that can be used with complete confidence Now X lax has been popular with many doctors and millions of people over the years Because chocolate at X lax is effective overnight. It helps you toward your normal regularity X lax is so gentle so close to natural acting. There's no upset That's why many doctors and millions of people use X lax with complete confidence X lax the laxative that helps you toward your normal regularity gently overnight From a haverdager shop in San Francisco to a general store in whitewater falls was quite a transition From the street it looked like any other general store anywhere, but inside it looked more like Billy Boggs except for one big difference He was now specializing in women's apparel instead of men's More than half the floor space was devoted to a ladies department where the latest para styles were proudly displayed The more mundane items found in a general store like cheese and coal oil were crowded to the corners Billy Boggs personally attended to fashion and I must admit he had a style all his own I declare Mr. Boggs. This was a dreary town before you brought high fashion to us Well, it's a privilege and a pleasure to adorn beauty such as yours Mrs. Thompson Oh, Mr. Boggs, how you do go Oh Well, I must say Billy, um Your merchandise is more attractive than your customers Yes, well, they don't have to be gorgeous paladin as long as I can make them believe they are it keeps me in business Oh, that could be a dangerous philosophy Billy. Perhaps that's causing your present troubles. Oh, no. No, no, they're not all like that old hen Oh Paladin wait until you meet a media I mean, uh, mrs. Arbuth not. What's the full story Billy? Well, it's like I told you her husband's got it in for me Just because she craves high style and spends a lot of time in my store He's fixing to gun me and when does he propose to do this? Well, how do I know? I haven't talked to him You haven't talked to him. Oh, how did he make his threat through her through Amelia? She's warned me He thinks she's attracted to me because she comes in here all the time. Why don't you keep her out? Well, I can't do that. She's my best customer was a good customer worth more than your life Uh, well, no, I hadn't thought about it exactly that way. Yeah, yeah, yeah I think there's more to this than you're telling me Billy Boggs Now paladin don't be jumping to any conclusions All I want you to do is to keep Henry Arbuth not from killing me and I'm willing to pay you This kind of protection usually one's pretty high. Whatever you say. I'll let you know Maybe I'd better get Arbuth not side of this before I decide to take the job Amelia can tell you all about it. Oh, when do I meet her right now? Look Oh, that's her Mrs. Arbuth not that's right. Oh my my my she is indeed a looker. Yeah Billy I came as soon as I heard you had a new shipment. Did you get the reversible silk petticoats with a lacy frill? Oh Excuse me. I I didn't know you were waiting on someone. Oh, that's all right. That's all right Amelia I want you to meet a friend of mine paladin. This is mrs. Arbuth not one of my most valued customers ma'am How do you do mr. Paladin? Hey, mr. Paladin is a uh, well business associate of mine. Amelia. Indeed Will your business keep you long in whitewater falls mr. Paladin? That depends On what you? Me uh, well, that's to say. I'm um, I'm here to make a survey of mr. Boggs female clientele Oh, well interesting. When do you begin? I already have But I I should think such a project would uh proceed more successfully under less formal circumstances It might Then suppose you take tea with me this afternoon. I should be honored ma'am Amelia I should like to direct your attention to these perfectly entrancing bonnets later billy later I seem to have lost my interest in clothes for the moment But Amelia billy can direct you to my house mr. Paladin I'll expect you at three. I'll be there until then until then Well, well now look here paladin. I'm not hiring you to socialize with mrs. Arbuth not You're supposed to protect me from her husband. I am beginning to think I may have to protect you from yourself Now, what do you mean by that? You didn't look like shopkeeper and customer to me billy this and Amelia that Are you sure you aren't holding out some facts on me? My private life has nothing to do with this. Oh, it has everything to do with it Your private life and hers and her husband's The only way I can do a job for you is to find out all I can about the people involved If you don't want me to do that Then maybe we just as well forget about the whole thing and I'll go back to san francisco. Yes. Well, maybe that would be best Whatever you say Paladin look look out in the street. Why there there out there on the street. He's coming this way He's coming to get me. Oh that big fella in the buckskin coat. That's henry arbuth not her husband Yes. Yes. He doesn't look so big or so tough. Well, he is. He isn't coming in here. He's walking right past the door Oh dear Well, this time maybe But but they will come listen bogs. He wasn't even wearing a gun No, we probably left in the gun shop to have it put in a topknot shape to kill me And oh Look paladin forget what I said do it your way anything you say goes only only don't walk out on me Don't let that man kill me. Mr. Paladin How nice of you to come. I've been looking forward to it. You say the nicest things come in We can have tea in my private sitting room. Oh, how cozy come Lovely home We enjoy it In here Thank you Come now Sit here beside me on the love seat Is there room we'll make room There No, I um, I didn't know you were such a famous man. Mr. Paladin. Am I my husband told me all about you. He did. Yes How many men have you killed paladin? Well Quite frankly, I don't recall Have you ever killed over a woman over a woman? Oh, it must make a man feel like a god to kill for his woman To stand there gun smoking looking down on his dead rival knowing what a prize is waiting for him I wouldn't know Come now paladin. Don't be modest Then how must she feel The woman these two men have fought over for that moment She must oh she must feel indeed like a goddess at whose altar a human sacrifice has been laid She might she was romantic as you are Do you find me so mr. Paladin? well Maybe you've been reading too many novels I do read a great deal, but then why shouldn't I Nothing ever happened in whitewater falls like men being killed over a beautiful woman Oh, who would do that in this town? A bunch of farmers who never shot anything more dangerous than a jackrabbit Billy boggs tells me your husband was once pretty handy with a gun He was to hear him tell about it I suspect he could still out draw anyone in these parts Except you mr. Paladin. Oh I'm not looking for any trouble I'm trouble mr. Paladin. Are you for the right man? Are you the right man paladin right man for what for me? Well, I hadn't given it much thought But you will now that you know, I have Won't you paladin? It does seem to give it some immediacy You're him paladin You're what I've been waiting for And there's really nothing much I can do about it. Is there nothing but a seed gracefully And you won't find that too much trouble Will you paladin? Not when you're this close to me ma'am Amelia Yeah You uh, you must be paladin. Yes, that's right. Excuse the interruption sit down. Why um, uh, Amelia said you'd be coming to call Oh, she did. Yes Amelia has no secrets from me. Have you my dear none henry? Why should I? So if you'll get that nervous hand of yours away from your holster, I'd like to shake it Oh Yes, of course. I'm glad to meet you mr. Robert not and I to meet you paladin You're so famous. You're practically a legend But as you can see as a human as the next man and as susceptible to temptation He who is without sin let him throw the first stone You see what I mean paladin. You see the kind of heroes we grow in these parts now. Amelia. Are you going to start that all over again? No, henry. What good would it do? Amelia thinks things are too quiet around here. She's always trying to stir up some excitement Henry that isn't true. Who isn't it now? Mr. Paladin, I figure if you don't go looking for trouble trouble won't come looking for you But you saw plenty of it in your time, didn't you? Maybe I have But if the good lord lets you live long enough you learn that there aren't very many reasons for drawing a gun on a man About the only one that comes to mind right readily is to protect yourself And then two man gets to be my age is fingers get the rheumatism His eyes aren't so good He'd better keep his gun in his holster Right mr. Paladin If you say so mr. Arbisnot However adept Henry Arbisnot may once have been with a gun it was clear that he was no longer a threat to anyone He had a philosophy of non-violence and a body that was tending to go flabby Billy Boggs was safe and I told him so You're uh, you're sure positive whether you're selling her ribbons yard goods paris hats or your Special brand of sweet talk. You are safe. I told you paladin our relationship is strictly business Whatever it is your life is in no danger and never was Yeah Now, um, uh, you say Arbisnot's got a philosophy or whatever it is But he could change his mind couldn't he sure he could but he won't you sound mighty positive I am why he's not as young as he once was he's slowing down. He's got a touch of rheumatism in his gunhand Hmm is that a fact eyes aren't as sharp anymore. I never knew that What are you gonna do now? Billy play footsie with that wife of his under his nose or face up to it like a man and run away with her Neither paladin neither But uh, in any case my plans no longer concern you that they don't and I'm mighty glad to be out of it Are you going back to san francisco might as well? No stage until tomorrow morning. I'll be on it But if you need me, I'll be around till then Evening mr. Boggs evening ben I'll have a whiskey I said whiskey Since when did you go off in the beer wagon? And since when is that any of your business? Oh, yes, sir. Mr. Boggs one whiskey Mr. Arbisnot been in this evening. Well, yes, sir. He's right over there in the corner sitting in on a hand of poker Yes, yes, I see him. Hey, did your friend mr. Paladin leave? No, ben. He leaves tomorrow Howdy there mr. Boggs evening red Hey, what's a big idea, huh? What idea red? Well, I never saw you wearing a gun before Uh, huh. Well you do now So nice and shiny and new like it was out of your stock. It is it is How come are you gunning for somebody? Maybe what? Oh, no now. What's so funny? You on the prom You now don't you upset me red. I'm not gunning for you and I don't want to you better not be You'll be quiet. Oh there. He's coming this way. What you gunning for him. You stick around and see Arbisnot Henry Arbisnot. Oh Good evening Boggs Arbisnot the time has come for a showdown Indeed. Yes. It's you or me Go home and sleep it off Boggs. Now. Don't you tell me what to do? Don't you tell me anything? That's fair enough. Good night Boggs. Now. Wait a minute. Wait a minute here now. You don't walk out on me I'm not finished yet. Hear me Arbisnot. I'm not finished with you. You better stop right where you are I'm not anxious to shoot you in the back, but I will if necessary. Why don't you go home Boggs? I've got no quarrel with you. Well, I've got a quarrel with you and we're settling it right now So go on go for your gun Yeah, what's the matter? You getting too old for gunfighting? It's a sure thing. You're too old for that young wife of yours. You leave her out of this I can't. She's right in the middle of it. She's sick to death of you Arbisnot. Didn't you know that? Everybody else in town does everybody else knows what's been going on between us Seems only fair to let you in on the secret Billy what happened paladin he he went for his gun his gun It's still in his holster. He couldn't have his hand was too crippled. You knew that I told you that Oh, I don't remember Billy this is murder You know it and I know it somebody got the word to Amelia Arbisnot and she came running up the moonlit street holding her skirts high She threw herself on her husband's body and she seemed to be sobbing But I could see her unbuckle her husband's gun belt She got it loose rose to her feet Strapping it around her waist. All right, mr. Boggs I'll see to firing my husband's gun. Amelia. I I'm giving you a chance to defend yourself Well, I can't go up against a woman Why not You went up against a man who was unable to defend himself. I'm able and I will but but I can't Amelia. I love you Oh, do you now love me enough to murder my husband? I gave him a fair chance Like I'm giving you. Oh, no. No now Amelia. I can't Oh, you're not scared a little old me. Are you Billy? This is Arbisnot. Look. Do you know what you're doing? You bet I do He didn't think there was room in whitewater falls for him and my husband Well, there isn't room in the whole wide world for him and me, but I love you, Amelia I won't shoot you. That's too bad, Billy Boggs because I love you and I will shoot you Amelia All right, make your play Any of you boys want to call the lawyer on this No, ma'am. That was a fair fight and the best man Well, that is very well, then Hi, mrs. Arbisnot I'd better escort you home Thank you, mr. Paladin. You knew he wouldn't draw on you, didn't you? Aren't you forgetting? No, I'm remembering I didn't realize you had such a strong feeling for your husband. I didn't But you just killed billy to avenge his murder Not to avenge my husband's murder paladin To remove billy I don't understand Well, billy boggs was such a dreadfully silly little man But he did do us a favor Us? You and me He did us the favor of removing henry. I'm grateful But we wouldn't want billy around bothering us now, would we? What a pity you didn't talk it over with me first What do you mean? Haven't you understood a word? I've said Every word mrs. Arbisnot Every word And all I've got to say to you is Good night Oh Yes, mrs. Wong or finished cleaning room Would you like mrs. Wong to bring you some nice hot coffee? No, thanks, mrs. Wong. I'll be going down for lunch soon You all right mrs. Paladin Boy, yes, if you'll find what do you ask? Well, ever since you come back you've been very quiet You look white like you've been scared. Oh, wow As a matter of fact, I was a little frightened mrs. Wong. What scare you? A femme fatale Miss Wong, you know understand, but it's hard to explain. There's nothing like it in china. I'm sure femme fatale A fatal woman that's to say a woman who tries to get her man. No matter what Now mr. Wong understand we have something in china Well, perhaps you do it that but not the kind who uses a gun. Oh, no, sir Chinese woman. I have to use gun can get her man much better without gun Oh many better ways I think I know what you mean And I believe I've witnessed our mrs. Wong as a femme fatale when it comes to Hey boy You very observant man mrs. Paladin Will travel Eddo and sam rolf is produced and directed in hollywood by frank paris and stars john daner as paladin With ben right as hey boy and virginia greg as mrs. 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