 city and in the territory on west there's just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers and that's with a u.s. Marshall and the smell of guns smoke the story of a man from the United States Marshall the first man they look for and the last thing want to meet it's a chance a job and it makes a man watchful and a little lonely I'll tell you one thing dr. Sting doesn't write like a feather bed and if your skin is too thin for it you can always get out and walk it isn't my skin that bothers I can't remember inviting you to come along that's right doc you didn't and why'd you come curiosity you're curious about a sick Grover in a trail heard you must have a lot of time to waste thinking of things like that I'm curious anytime anybody threatens to kill you if you don't make a cure no sure Matt that fellow came after me was just all rolled up there was nothing to mount anything let's say I'm just going along for the ride then any objection not if you stay out of my way now there's the herd I see it I can't over there at the edge of the clearing I can see that for myself you're out she did they answered I guess you might as well pull up here I don't see any sick 10 you the doc I'm the doc where's the second ain't no tent doc he's yonder I'll drag you over there can a climb on climb aboard you're afraid the rest of you'll catch it moving him off this way well it ain't us the boss is afraid about it's the cattle the got to keep him pinned up keep him away right over there what else with him I'll go get him peculiar Matt might be peculiar yeah you might be glad I came along after all that maybe I will it there over here coming man down I'm coming I'm coming I'd be glad to see you doc I'm hard what they'll I'm dark Adam this is Marshall Dylan let's know him Marshall then I was patient you're looking at him doc you you sick not me right down there that steer he's awful sick doc don't pull him through ain't no man the outfit sure of his pay what do you mean he's the lead steer doc and we ride for such a terrible store by him says he's worth any 10 hands he's got on now look I'm not a veterinarian I know that doc but ain't there's something you can do well I'll take a look at him you fix them up doc there's no other way about it we don't get him back to Texas and good shit if you don't stop fussing I won't be able to do anything man yeah dog walk him away with you will you he's worse than a first time father yeah sure come on what I'll let's leave back alone you don't need me to help you don't I do not come on without well all right we'll be over at the cook wagon doc I must be quite an animal and tell you Marshall green another like old Bellar on any trail out of Texas old Bellar oh yeah I've heard of him be surprising if you hadn't well dark has a way with everything animals included he better have tell me what's the special about that bell steer yeah like he's got a human brain to which those long horns Marshall huh that's not always a short sign of being smart with old Bellar it is that steer gets a herd of going heads them up on the trail gets him to follow him across streams a man can hardly get a horse across heard beds down nice and nice and easy just as easy as you please when he stops old Bellar has some way of dealing with him I don't know what it is keep some spooking in the storm but that steer even leads them into pens ably he sounds like a good surgeon old Bellar don't take no more nonsense than the sergeant I'll tell you that he has the run of the camp by the boys even feed him off in the cook wagon well well doc I'll fix him up sure do Charlie yes sir give us a couple of mugs of coffee yes Mr. Ardell here you are Mr. Ardell thanks Charlie I don't mean to go on like an old woman Marshall but a steer like old Bellar can sure be a problem on what way well he's worth a lot of money to any drive keeping the herd together like he does he's always some other outfit trying to get me to sell them whether try to steal them ain't so sure right now that he ain't been poisoned oh who'd want to do that by anybody just with spite maybe tell you Marshall nothing's going right with this whole drive I lose that steer might as well keep right on going straight north Mr. Ardell what is it Charlie oh Bellar I wondered how is he Docs looking at him just don't seem right him not wondering brother cook wagon yeah better not find out he wanted by here once too often I don't rightly know what you mean I here comes dark you fix them up doc no I didn't you mean you ain't gonna cure them I don't have to mean he's dead I mean he's cured himself and it's all since Karen's on about a sick animal in my life old Bellar's alright whatever his name is he's on his feet he's taken on some feed yes he's alright what was the matter with him doc I don't know man he had something in him he had to get rid of him like a sensible animal he laid low until he did he might have eaten something that poisoned so he was poisoned no wait a minute no I didn't say that he didn't have the chokes or the he could have been broke to her or colic or it could have been poisoned you hear that Charlie yes mr. Ardell I hear always know the way he was handed out leftover food to that steer we'd wind up in trouble well I wouldn't do nothing to hurt old Bellar he likes my cooking ain't gonna get no more of it oh sure mr. Ardell if you say so I won't feed him no more you bet you won't know sir I won't we're gonna get a chance to well I watch it real close you're through Charlie oh now mr. Ardell pack up your gear and get off Charlie oh well I don't care where you go ain't gonna be hanging around this cook wagon no more sickening the lead steer are you be out of here by dinnertime and don't you come back now here's a let's keep up like this kitty you'll be able to retire sometimes I wonder if all this who are worth it well now the boys swallow a lot of dust on the cattle trail you wouldn't want to go thirsty with you know I wish they could be a little quieter about how they do their drinking you're not running a church socially and I'll say I'm not how's your steer well I tell you Marsha that kind of thing he's frisking around like he was newborn yes I'll be glad to hear that no doctor had done it no Bellar he knowed when he was sick when he was cured Charlie you're drunk I may be drunk but I gotta talk ain't done nothing though Bellar ain't no call to make me go I told you to get never fed no poison being that old ox his friends real good friends let me come back mr. what I don't want to see him no more I said let go of him all right Charlie you better go along ain't got no place to go hello you go on over to the livery stable morsel puts you up in the night oh Bellar I'll be missing me go on Charlie all right Marshall all right but they know right in it ain't no right in it he really feels it bad doesn't he don't deserve no better maybe not but he sure doesn't deserve any worse all right about it take me from old Bellar sleepman livery stable sorry mr. that's all right old timer well now if it ain't old Charlie bat who are you why you remember me Charlie have sleep who's on the drive together last time you come up I'm slate sure Charlie you remember me all right I've seen you on the cook wagon yeah that's where I would have been all right you used to give scraps and such that lead steer old Bellar sure old Bellar I heard about the bad deal they give you Charlie hook a deal you know ain't nobody got no call to make you leave at ox ain't nobody can take care of him like you Charlie now that's the fact that's the sure and a certain fact he ain't gonna get along so good if you ain't there now is it Charlie nobody takes care like me for sure and for certain that's what I say yeah that's what I say seems like we ought to do something about it do something to help that leads there you want to do that oh want to help old Bellar sure you do that ox needs you old Bellar needs old Charlie gonna help him that's right Charlie let's go let's go let's go help old Bellar right now tell you don't if there's one thing that sure does seem like a waste of time it's washing windows wash a winter ain't no time at all let's dirty again just as dirty as it ever will seem to me use my father got me inventing things you do something about Windows don't see that way to you mr. Dillon well what was that Chester I say don't it seem like to you that a father could invent a winner that was nice and dark so it wouldn't show up that dirt well you tell me what's wrong with that idea would it wrong with it don't see a thing in the world wrong with it mr. Dillon you couldn't say through the window either maybe so but they sure are to be something that look at there what oh Charlie bat looks like he's coming in here my goodness he's gone and got himself drunk again he's just don't even all over this no he ain't no he hurt let me give you a hand Charlie got a charge of yes Marshall Dylan I got to talk to you what happened to you Charlie you got to go after him Marshall you got to get him quick tell me what happened I've been a fool Marshall I wouldn't have done it if I didn't know all right Charlie just settled down I'll start from the beginning well Marshall last night I got myself pretty licked it up yeah and when I come out of the long branch and started down the stable he was there just like he was awaiting who was there by abslate gone well he talked to me some seems like he was the only one in the country with a good word for old Charlie that I'll go on Charlie what happened that well I've said I ought to do something for old Bellar that nobody could take care of that steer but me so we we went out to the herd and got him you stole that steer oh I didn't mean it like a fever I just wanted to tend to him where's the steering arm he took him off and slate yeah which way well he was a head knees too long the river it was slate the beach yeah that's right yeah he must have had it all planned out Marshall I sure been a fool don't worry about that now you better go up and see doc well Marshall thank you taking out after that slate fellow yeah right away I ain't going to be sitting around no doctor's office you sure you'll feel well enough to ride with us how I feel ain't in it I got to get old Bellar back I can show you the way Marshall all right Charlie you show us the way get the horses Chester you remember the trails so far Charlie this is the way we come Marshall I was sobered up some of that time I remember good let's sing out when we got near the place where slate left you sure thing Marshall you'll be able to see it easy oh Bellar we're stomping down the bush or something fierce yeah that's done yeah Chester it just don't make sense to me that he'd be bringing that steer this way oh why not well it's the opposite direction in Texas or the cattle trails or anything else seems to me if slate wanted leads there he'd take him back that way you'll get back there well I don't see how it's probably heading for Wichita to sell it Wichita along this time for you I think you'll hold up some place Chester and then when he thinks it's safe he'll move him along he sure is going a lot of problem is doing Bellock's like that is with a lot of money right in your eyes up there Marshall right up there a ways you see all that cramble bunch grass yeah that's a place that's a place right there right there's where slate left me forget yeah it looks like there was a Rook it's all right yeah I ain't very young and ain't very strong but don't give him as good as it could I'll take a closer look we're gonna be able to follow the trail Mr. Dylan yeah Chester will follow it right to the end hold it up all right Charlie don't worry about me Marshall we'll say maybe we are to stop and rest on Mr. Dylan tell the truth I wouldn't mind stretching my legs a little bit myself the next time we reach some cover we'll stop for a bit you don't have to bother nothing but me under there Mr. Dylan right around their eyes they can freeze oh yeah and a couple of buildings too hey come on you think might be there you might be don't be no rocks there's no barn we can come up behind it you might be in there all right Marshall they're asleep coming out of the barn yeah you stay back here Charlie Chester and I'll go talk to him right if you stay back out of the way come on Chester I want that steer well now you ain't gonna get it I want that steer and I want you tell you how I feel about it fella I'll kill that steer before I give him up well that's up to you but I'll still take you back it ain't that easy fella hey he's going back in the barn with Dylan shot him right out of the saddle yeah you better find old Charlie and go get that steer okay Mr. Dylan what the barn smoke come on that's tears in there that's what Slade wanted oh maybe we can get to him along the side we've got to get to that steer somehow we can get in there now the whole place on top look Mr. Dylan isn't that steer all there as nice as you please easy now easy how did you get there Charlie he'd been eating me oh Bellard would so I didn't do what you said Marshall I didn't stay back it's a good thing you didn't are you all right sure I'm all right Marshall old Bellard all right too ain't you boy you're gonna got yourself burned up mighty easy Charlie no Marshall old Bellard led me out just like to leave them herds we'd better get him back where he belongs that's right I never should have took him but Marshall yeah Charlie when you speak the word for me will you tell Mr. Waddell that I took some care not to let no harm come to old Bellard sure Charlie I'll speak the word for you and I think your trail boss so listen directed in Hollywood by Norman McDonald stars William Conrad as Matt Dylan U.S. Marshall the story was specially written for Gunsmoke by Mary and Clark with editorial supervision by John Meston featured in the cast were Ralph Moody Ken Lynch and Harry Bartel Harley Bear is Chester Howard McNear is Doc and Georgia Ellis is kidding this is George Walsh inviting you to join us again next week when CBS radio presents another story on gun smoke