 You've asked me to kill you. I'm not an executioner, Lorna. I've been hired to take you back alive Have gone will travel starring mr. John Dana as Paladin San Francisco 1875 the Carlton Hotel headquarters of the man called Paladin Yeah, who is it? It's me, Mr. Paladin. Hey, boy. Oh come in Very sorry to wake you so early, Mr. Paladin, but telegram come for you. Yeah They always come early after a late night. I See that Whoa, that was very late night. You had last night Yes, it was No good to stay up until they break Sometimes it can be very interesting You need to sleep Well, it looks like I won't get any more sleep today This telegram says the sheriff of Little Spring wants me there tonight sheriff You'll do something wrong in Little Spring hardly. I never even been there. He wants to hire me for $3,000. Oh 3000 hey, you can make it. 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So when you have a cold and suffer constipation to take x-laks a medicine you can use with complete confidence x-laks helps you toward your normal regularity gently overnight x-laks As I'd got off the stage the first thing I noticed about little spring was the saloon More of a gambling casino than a saloon. It was the size of a city block And it blared and blazed in the twilight The town had the other things a California town is supposed to have a general store a livery stable a sheriff's office and a small church Pushed off in the background. I'm sure no one heard the church chimes sound the hour against the din from the casino The sheriff's office was empty, so I pushed my way into the saloon Say as the sheriff here, what do you have? No It's the sheriff over there fat fellow white mistake at the table with those three men Oh, I'm sorry, excuse me I Thinkers My name is Paladin Magic could make it It's going to back room. We can hear ourselves talk. All right According to what I hear you're the best man. I could have hired What do you want me to do sheriff? I want you to find a Fred Lorimer for me. He killed a man Well, you're a law man. Why don't you go after him by this time? He's over the state line. I wait for extradition. It'll take too long I want him back here in little spring in four days for well. That's not much time I want him here in four days, and I want him alive. You're asking a lot. I'm paying a lot Why four days? That's my business. You want the job? And just give me time to think about it Listen paladin you're the one man who can bring Lorimer in and I want him back to stand trial here Who'd he kill? I don't think that makes any difference to you. All right now it makes a difference in whether or not I go after him All right Little spring has a reform group headed by a man named Radford Lorimer killed Radford's son in this saloon Wednesday night Then he stole the fastest horse in town headed east Everybody was either too drunk or too stupid to stop him, but they were all witnesses. I see Well, I'll let you know in a couple hours if I take the job You're a skeptical man paladin you can be sure of that sheriff I Talked to a dozen witnesses and the stories were all the same Radford's 20 year old son had come into the saloon And in a loud voice had branded gambling as evil and sinful Lorimer had been at one of the tables And he shouted at the young man to leave Radford refused Lorimer walked over to him Slight scuffle then Lorimer put a bullet through young Radford was unarmed Satisfied the sheriff acres that told me the truth. I accepted the job In the morning. I bought a ticket for the next stage going east I'll be here in another 10 minutes. You just make yourself to home on that bench over there. I'll wait outside Have a good trip. Thank you. You mr. Paladin That's right. I'm Jim Radford Mr. Radford Acres brought you down here to find Lorimer, didn't he? Yes You're going to do it I'm gonna try you'd be doing this town a great injustice Don't bring him back. Mr. Paladin Lorimer did kill your son didn't he? Yes But if you catch him it won't bring my son back I've already accepted the job mr. Radford mr. Paladin. I had a reform group in Little Spring We've been fighting acres for years Now there's going to be an election in five days. I'm running against acres for sheriff If you bring Lorimer back and he hangs for the murder of my son before election day Acres can point to the hanging and the people of this town will forget what went on before and acres will be reelected Yes You can see what kind of town he's running But for the first time the people have a chance to drive him and his crowd out of control and turn a little spring into a decent Community well that may be true mr. Radford But I'm convinced that Lorimer is a murderer and I intend to bring him back in four days alive if you do If you do I'll kill him before acres can get near him now mr. Radford That would be a foolish thing to do Then you could be hanged from murder nevertheless the people would understand and we'd have a clean town again I'll be waiting for you when you come back. I'll remember that mr. Radford Again for the 11th straight year camel outsold every other cigarette filter king size and regular the best tobacco makes the best smoke So if you're smoking more now, but enjoying it less change to camels get more real satisfaction every time start to really enjoy Smoking again I followed Lorimer's trail to the Nevada line there I rented a horse The open desert stretched before me and I knew now that it would be more difficult to find him The Sun was at my back and my shadow started to creep ahead of me when I saw a small house on the thin line Where fertile land gave way to the wasteland There were two horses grazing on the tufts of grass between the rocks behind the house It was a large inviting well in front I rode up to the watering from Huh, get away from here. Hey Put your rifle away old man. Get off my land. You hear say Both those horses yours. I didn't move out here on the edge of this inferno to have a snooper come along and ask me questions I told you to get off my land Well, I'm looking for a murderer. I ain't seen no murderer. He passed this way. I ain't seen no murderer Uh-huh Well, I'm I'm going to search the desert old man. I need water. You have a well All right, take your water, but my rifle will be on you till you leave. I Watered my horse and continued east into the desert for almost 10 miles and then I saw him Silhouetted by the setting sun a big man stumbling weaving before his weight carried into the ground I dug my heels into my horse and rode to where he had fallen Oh You make a big trail armor. I'll put a bullet in his over I'll take that gun to your hands. Oh, yeah, you won't be needing it now. I Need water My throat's on fire Here, let me die here a Nice clean death. My job is to bring you back armor sure fakers sent you didn't they? Sheriff acres will hang me when you bring me back to Little Spring. You'll stand trial I'll stand trial In less than 20 minutes, I'll have me swinging from the courthouse tree And the whole town will get drunk and celebrate They'll reelect sheriff acres cause he brought lawn order to Little Spring Why did you kill young Radford? He was a loudmouth preaching kid Always shooting his mouth off in the saloon It was bad for business Acres had a big take from that saloon. He wanted him dead He told me to kill him and then he turned on me, but I fooled him You won't use me anymore Kill me here and get it over with come on I want to make that well before the sun burns the skin off our backs What well are you talking about that house about 10 miles back? We both gonna ride one horse. What happened to yours? Shided a Radley through me. You're a big man. Lorimer my horse and never carry the both of us in the heat Now you ride now lead him. It's a hot walk. I'll manage until we get to that house Dandruff bothers most men most women too. 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I drank Idiot I've got to get you out of the sun now. Come on try to stand up Come on now. Yeah. All right easy guys it Easy I'll get you into the house Come on You can lie down here I just rest easy You've got a short memory one warning wasn't enough. What did you come back? Take your rifle out of my back old man. You ain't felt the last of this rifle. I've got a sick man here Is this your murderer? Yes The horse came back this morning. I was expecting you Fred Lorimer. I didn't want to come back uncle. He forced me Your uncle Were you tonight you'd seen him before I told you I hadn't seen a murderer. I didn't know Fred was a murderer Let me go uncle I'll get far away from here as I can old man. I've got to bring Lorimer back for trial in Little Spring He killed a man Fred ain't going nowhere He's not gonna hang in some public place. I'm gonna kill him and bury him out back at the house And I'm gonna kill you because you know him you know his crime and you know he's mine if you what makes you judge and jury Yeah, I watched a lot of killing during the war. I watched brother kill brother What made them judge and jury you're you're confusing peace with war old man Are the man in a little spring fit to sit in judgment on a larmer? No Only a larmer can judge a larmer. I Renounce civilization and with it its laws Here I'm the law Now you turn around mister Now Loosen your gun belt and drop it to the floor Easy now no tricks You get up Fred larmer I can't uncle my stuff you will get up and walk I'll not kill you inside my house. Now get up Now walk both of you Shootings over give me back my rifle. Can't you see I only winged him he ain't dead. That's a good thing I've got to kill him. 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You have some rope Yes, I'll get it for me so I can tie Lormer up then I want you to go and get the sheriff the sheriff Radford you had a reform group in this town. I hope you're interested enough injustice to do what I tell you and bring me sheriff and Bring him alone All right, and Radford Tell him to have three thousand dollars with him. What's the meaning of this? Why don't you bring Lormer here to Radford's house? This is as good a place as any to pick up a murderer All right, I've kept my part of the bargain sheriff Lormer's back in little spring alive and on time. Did you bring the money? Yeah Yeah, there it is Thank you. I'll hold trial immediately. I'll call the judge. He'll open the court. All right, Lormer. Let's go. Just a minute Didn't I hear you invite the sheriff to stay for the night mr. Radford? What of course you did chef Make yourself at home We'll be here for the night and all day tomorrow It'll be an honor spending election day with the two leading candidates Oh, look here, of course you'll have time to go out and vote about five minutes before the polls close You don't feel spending election day with a murderer like Lormer will Hurt you at the polls. Do you sheriff acres? Pull down the shades mr. Radford And lock the door. I hope supper's not spoiled Jim Sorry, I'm late, but we're taking inventory with a nagging backache. I've had in sleepless nights. It gives me I'm all dragged out You've been complaining of backache long enough. Don't you want to get relief? 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