 a fiery horse with a speed of light, a cloud of dust and a hearty high of silver, the Lone Ranger. These are the western United States. They were honest men who did their best to maintain the law on the frontier. But the jails were primitive and even a capture and a conviction did not always mean a criminal would pay for his crime. It was not until the masked rider of the plane started his great fight for justice that the forces of law and order became strong enough to do their work. The Lone Ranger, more than any other man who made possible the winning of the West. 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. Come on! The crowded courtroom was silent. Judge Homer Ellis pronounced sentence upon the two prisoners at the bar. You have been fairly tried. You have been found guilty. Therefore, you, Red Vanning, and you, Slim Thatcher, I hereby sentenced to twenty years at hard labor these sentences to be served in the State Penitentiary to be considered as dating from this hour and day. That is all. Your peers take the prisoners into custody. Right, Your Honor. Come on, you two. There you go, we judge. Well? You think you got me and Slim where you want us, don't you? Well, there ain't a jail maid that can hold us. There ain't a judge a liar that can send us to the calibou to get away with it. Come on! Get moving! We'll be out some time and put her out your cave. Fire! Fire in this courtroom! Fire, I say! Failure! Clear the court! Well, I'd mention it before you lot, me and Slim up, Wharton. Watch us all you want, but we'll bust out. We owe the judge that sent us here something and he's gonna get it. So don't get rough. If you do, well, maybe when we make the break, you'll wish you hadn't. We ain't tough with gents that treats us friendly. Thanks. I'm glad you spoke. I know what to expect. Mike, these men go to the rock pile. If they won't work, put some blistered on the hides. How do you like that? Crack me again and you'll get worse. Rock pile in the morning, huh, Slim? Fool, that's just what I wanted. Want the guards to look this way? Keep working and listen. What's up? Look at this. A gun? Yeah. I told you Bart had come through, didn't I? Left it here last night for me to pick up this morning. Fred, when do we make the break? Just before sunup. At five. Twenty years. He just couldn't even keep us in one whole day. I've got to get back. I'll see you later. Down, Slim. A posse just rode by. Did they see us? Well, they kept going if they had. Slim went out dogs to help him. They could comb these breaks for a million years. Never come close to fighting us. How long you figure we better stay here? Just till morning. Then? Back to Rimrock Gap. Bart'll hide us out. We made that judge a promise, Slim. We'd better keep it. The following day, a long-range irration of the camp where Toddler was waiting for him. Oh, oh, hey, Silver. Oh, what? What's the matter? Plenty, Toddler. Get to the saddle. Here's Count. Red banning and Slim Clatcher broke jail. They killed one guard and wounded two others. They escaped the posse. And if I'm not mistaken, they're on their way back to Rimrock Gap. Huh? Why'd them go there? They're threatening to kill Judge Ellis for sending him to jail. Oh. I know those men, Kimosabi. They're killers, thieves, and worse. When they make a promise, they keep it. We go Rimrock Gap. Right. Judge Ellis has to be warned. Come on, Silver. Hit him up, Scott. Come on, fellow. Hello, Silver. Hello, Silver. Ten days later, Red and Slim had reached the wild, rough country to the north of Rimrock. And finally drew their tired horses to a stop in front of a small cabin. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Come on. Yeah. Yeah. Your home, Bart. Open up. He stole a couple of horses and made good time. We ain't gonna bother you long, Bart. Just long enough to pay off that judge. You in town? Not just now. Oh, where is he? I don't know. Ask around, but couldn't find out. I know when you'll be coming back. Yeah, when? Four days from now. On the Logan's port stage. I got that out of the postmaster. Four days. Where will we hide out for that time? We'll find out. We're not here. Don't talk, Loco. Can't be done. The law knows we're prides. It's the first place it'll look. Yeah. Well, I was slick enough to get that gun to you, wasn't I? What do you mean? Told you I'd look for you sometime rather, didn't I? Come here. What's up? See that bunch? Looks like it's built right onto the floor, don't it? Ain't it? Well, sometimes looks are deceiving. You slim. Grab hold of the bunk there at the other end. Like this? Yeah. Now swing it out. Move it around towards you just like you would a gate. Oh, but it's... Go on. Pull. All right. Don't go. Oh, my gosh. It moved. And red. Hey, come here. Look what's under it. What is it? Well, just look. Well, I'll be... Bart, you fix that by yourself? Sure. Dig it out and dump the dirt in that gully outside. Fix that ladder so you can climb up or down anytime. We'll keep watch. See anybody coming? We'll just swing the bunk out. You fellas climb down that hole. I'll put the bunk back in place. And if you can be found, I'll walk to Frisco barefoot. Dog gone, please. Excuseing your head, Bart. Hey, hey, Nellie, no. No? Don't be sad as far as you fix a judge with you. You know that's the only reason we come back, sure. Look up there in that tough shelf. What? Blasting powder. Plenty of it. You're welcomed all you'll need. Need? You hombres don't care how many others you have to do for to get the judge, do you? Ha. Why should we? An ex-smart. Get him before he reaches town where the law will be handy. Get him with the stage when it's coming through the hills from Logan's Port. There's a place where it has to crawl along with a cliff on one side and nothing but a drop of 2,000 feet near there. You mean you're... Plain blasting powder there. Fix your fuse so you can light it from up above. Drop a tree across the trail so the stage will have to stop to clear the way. Ha, ha, ha. Then while it's standing there... She blows to glory. Just so. Bart, how far is that place in the trail from town? About 20 miles. 20 miles. A 20-mile start. Slim, with that kind of a start, they'd never catch us. They sure wouldn't, Red. Well, what do you think? Four days till the stage gets in there. That's what I said. Ha, ha, ha. Let's have a look at that blasting powder, Bart. I reckon we'll use it. We've searched every place for the hills where they could be hiding, powder. But there's no trace of them. What do you know? They're calling on Sheriff Pierce. Come on, Silver! Come on, old funnel! Let's go. Hold on, hold on. Stay here. Give her a hand from that gun, Sheriff. You and I are going to talk. Several hours later, the Lone Ranger and Tato were holding their powerful mouths to a slow pace as they drew near to Bart's cabin. Where's Bart's place, Kimosami? Ah, he's supposed to hunt and trap for a living. Sheriff suspects, however, that he has no scruples against stepping outside below every once in a while. Ah, he's known to have been a friend of Red and Slim. They're in the district. There's no doubt they'll get in touch with him. We make them talk? We'll see. First we'll have a look around. They've been here. We may be able to pick up their sign. Ah, wind-spoiled trail, though. Yes, it's beginning to blow the dust around. We won't leave as much to go by unless we pick up something inside the cabin itself. Ah. See that granite shelving tenter? Ah, you see it. Pull up there when we reach it. It'll give you cover. We may not be welcome if we aren't. They won't be able to pick you off and you can come to my aid if it's needed. Ah. Well, there shouldn't be trouble unless Red and Slim are there. And under the circumstances, that's hardly likely. All right, Tutter, this is it. Drop back. Ah, both of them. Well, sign of anyone but boy around, old fella. He's there, though. There's a saddle beside the door. It must be as horse-staked out in that pasture. Oh, boy. Oh. Come and reach, Mr. Put down that shotgun. Stop right there. Have you got one step closer? You listen to me? Don't try to draw. I can pull this trigger before you get started. Stay back. Stay back. I'll tell you. I'm going inside. Hey, take it. Oh. Good work, Tutter. Hey, hey. You're not hurt. Now inside with you. Out of my way. Hey. You got nothing? They're trying to rob me. That isn't what I came for. Hey, what did you do? Red and Slim escaped from the penitentiary. But you most likely know that already. They're after Judge Ellis. They headed back for this district. What do you know they're whereabouts? Why should I know anything? You happen to be their friend. Luckily, Ellis is out of the town where no one knows just where he is. Red and Slim will have to wait for his return. And while they wait, they'll need supplies in the place to hide. You're the man that expect to help them. You think I'm a crook? Yes. Keep still. Maybe I'll remember that you were going to fire that shotgun at me a moment ago. Hey. It was just bluffing. Were you? What? What's this mean? Eh? These dirty dishes. Quite a few for just one man, aren't they? Think it shows somebody's been here? Yeah, mind. Then you got another thing coming. They don't mean nothing. They just ain't bothered to wash them lately. I see. That's all that blasting potter for. There's a couple old mines up in the hills I work once in a while. Anything else bothering you? It doesn't look as though anyone but you has been here. There's there ain't been. Very well. That's all. I just wanted to look around. And by the way, Bard. No. If your friends are around here, if they're hiding out somewhere close by and coming here at night for food and shelter, tell them I promise they'll hang before they harm Judge Ellis. Adios. Send the old boy. Come on, Silver. Follow me. 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 to continue our story. The masked man in Tonto drew rain again less than a mile from Bart's cabin. Who? Who's there? Where are you going now? No farther than here. What do you mean? I'm not satisfied with my call on Bart, Kimosabe. Oh. Maybe I should have attempted force to make him talk. It didn't seem wise, however, with nothing to go on. That right. And everything seemed to be in order. There was nothing to indicate that Red and Slim might have been in the cabin recently. And yet... What do you think? Yet, Kimosabe, I have the feeling there was something right there before my eyes. Something I saw. Something important that I overlooked. What's that? It's just what I don't know. It's bothering me. I can do nothing about it. So we'll camp here. You can return to our old camp and get what we left there. Come to do it. Here, we'll be in a position to keep our eye on the cabin without being discovered ourselves. Those killers do try to get in touch with Bart. We get them out. Right. Hello. The wind's getting worse. Oh. That sky looks bad off to the west there. Oh, look, heat bad. Well, whether it means wind or rain, Kimosabe, we can't prevent it. At least we have shelter here. You'd better be on your way. Huh? Me go now. Maxim, good. Get him up, Scout. Get him up! There we were. Down below there underneath the floor where we could hear every word he said. It was so funny I thought Slim was going to bust out laughing so hard he'd give us away. Yeah, almost did. Where he was here never saw nothing. It means as long as we're careful you're safe. If he didn't see anything, neither would anybody hear us. He's probably close by. He's buying on us? Sure. But there's nothing for us to worry about. He can't see in. This means we can't go out. But we have to when the stage comes along. Yeah, Slim will manage that. You, uh, you said the stage crosses at one particular stretch of trail about eight in the morning, Bart? Yeah. And that's all right. We'll sneak out of Fort Sunup and we can't be seen. That'll give us just about the time we want to get there, fix the powder, lay the fuse, and get overhead out of sight. And it's us for the poor, Slim. And a lesson taught to them is things they can jail us. The windstorm continued without a letter and 48 hours later at the Lone Ranger's camp. Now that we've been here almost two days, we've kept constant watch on the cabin and we've discovered nothing. Think they're not round? They're in the district. They must be somewhere close by. Well, we'll wait another 24 hours. And then... Look somewhere else? We'll have to, Tata. The stage returns with Judge Ellis tomorrow. When he reaches town, they'll strike. But the following morning, long before dawn, Red Bart and Slim were awake. While the mounting wind roared and screamed outside, shaking the cabin as though it would lift it up and hurl it against the rocky hills, Red and Slim completed their preparation for departure. Well said, fellas. Yeah, mm-hmm. Get ready. I open the back door, slip out and make tricks. I told you how to find your horses where I hid them. You should be there in five minutes. You'll find your saddles easy. But after you're saddled, lead your horses for a bit. Not much danger, that man's comrade will hear you with all the racket the wind's making, but you'll never hurt to play safe. You've got plenty of time. Sure. Get the blast and powder, Slim. Right here. They were set. All right, Bart, open up. Right. Come, come, wind. Never seen it so fierce. All right, fellas. On your way. Come on, Slim. Let's go. The lone ranger, made uneasy both by the increasing power of the gale and the approaching arrival of Judge Ellis, was also awake and dressed before sunup. Donna watched him in silence. Although the masked man could not see it, he stared in the direction of the cabin as if trying to find the answer to a question. Suddenly and so swiftly that Donna instinctively drew back, he turned and shouted, Super, here's to me. Donna calls scouts. Here's to him. He must have me. Remember that I told you something that the cabin bothered me. It didn't seem to fit in. I remember. I think I've got it. To the cabin, Donna, don't forget the settles. We haven't a minute to waste. Come on, gentlemen. Come on, boys. Come on. When I was here the other day, Red and Slim had already been here before me. You don't know what you're talking about. I ain't seen them. Those dishes. You said you'd let them gather for several days. I saw nothing suspicious about it at the time, because you're not the only man living alone who does the same. And what in the... There were several dishes. All of them soiled with food. And all of them soiled at the same time. You're local. You told me the truth. The food on some of those plates would have had time to dry out. I don't know. None had. Don't try to tell me you use more than one plate at one meal, Bart. I won't believe it. Now, wait. You leave it... The blasting powder. The powder you had on that shelf is gone. Bart. Where are Red and Slim? You can go to places. Go! Go! There. Now, fix you up. Fix you up. All right. I'm not finished with you, Bart. Up on your feet now. Let go. Let go of me. Ready to talk? I won't. You can't make me up. Let go. A man's life depends on your talking, Bart. I've just started. I can keep this up as long as you keep still. Up with you. Up on your feet. Oh, please. Don't hit me again. I'll talk. I'll talk. That's better. That's better. That's better. That's better. That's better. That's better. That's better. That's better. That's better. Tato, come here. Tato, let's follow up. Tie him up so we can be here when we get back. Tando, do it. Then we ride. Bart securely lashed to a table. The Masked Man and Tato leap to the backs of their powerful stallions and raced madly through the terrific winds stormed toward the trail. As the sun rose higher above the horizon, the Masked Man erred silver to greater and greater speed. Hurry boy, hurry. Scratch out those great valet of yours, old fellow. We miles to go. Come on, old fellow. Come on. Get a work. Red and slim reaching their goal laid the powder and attached the fuse then dropped a tree across the trail to make Certainly stage would have to stop long enough for the blast to take effect Finally they concealed their horses and climbed to the edge of the cliff towering overhead They were panning from their exertion when they reached the top and The fuse stretch them here. Let me give you a hand Oh Almost didn't make it when just bolted to the fuse Right here. It was just enough Oh gosh, right. We should have wrote up See over there. The horses could have made it up that way and how'd we get the fuse here? Yeah, I guess that's right. Hold on Talk on winds most strong enough to blow your way. I've seen a wind like this bad ain't it? Wasn't this bad when we started out? It's been getting worse and we're right where it can get a clean sweep And it's look there away from the cliff here. It's flat as the top of a bar for miles Look ain't that sky something to see Ray and brown Looks sick like yeah, well keep your eyes on the trail The stretch below us to the south there. You can see I want to know when the stage is coming I got the time on you Turn around over there what slim it's that mask man and a red skin with it after us Well, we'll let him have it turn him back right Those fathers are standing and they weren't too busy firing as they'd see it on the tornado pass to be followed by a light rain The lone ranger and tanto mounted once more. They stopped at the place where red and slim had tried to kill them Done for Kimosami Because he was so anxious to kill it blinded them to their own danger Uh There's a stage where it's out of look down. Yes But we've been 30 minutes later getting here and then die But now they can go into town and safety and most likely never know how close they came to disaster Well, so go back to the cabin. We'll pick up Bart and take him into town. Huh into the sheriff's only prisoner Kimosami I'm sorry. We can't take the others in But maybe what you think maybe Tantor they were punished by a higher justice than the law Come on silver. Get them up scouts There's a copyrighted feature of the lone ranger incorporated