 It's the Roy Rogers show Oh sugarcress the cereal treat that's fun to eat brings you the Roy Rogers show transcribed on the double R bar ranch with Pat Brady and the Queen of the West day 11 In person the King of the Cowboys Roy Rogers Here's my good word for today It's about a honey of a new cereal post sugar crisp And it's my hunch you'll like it just as much as we do out here at the double R bar ranch You see post sugar crisp is just downright good eating and it's good so many different ways try it real soon Won't you and now here's our story It's a crisp clear morning on the double R bar ranch the bracing air tingles with action an action is what Roy Dale and Pat are getting as they test some of the two-year-old Porter horse Colts and Phillies These are three good colds We were just heads apart at the finish line, but my horse was in front wasn't it? Well, I thought I won. What do you mean? Well little snooks here was passing both of you just like you a zanker It was close all right if the youngsters are going to be this even we'll have to get someone with a camera out here at the finish line Let's cool them out and try a couple of the others Hey, who's this that horse trailer could certainly stand a coat of paint. Say, I've seen that fellow around I Show you three racing those horses want to sell any of them cheap I don't raise them to sell but they aren't cheap heck No, these are the best doggone bread colts in Paradise Valley In fact the one Roy's riding was sired by trigger and if you live around here, you certainly know about him I've heard of a horse named trigger. I'm Jeff Kaufman. You fellas are Rogers and Brady aren't you? Yes, we are and this is miss Evans. How do you do? How do you do, Mr. Kaufman? Aren't you the gentleman who bought the Rocky Falls spread for a dude ranch? Yes? Yes? That's me bought it for cash practically ready to open up I was just sort of riding around see if I could pick up some cheap horses with the dudes to get thrown off of Yeah, I guess getting tossed as part of the game for a tenderfoot, but you don't try to get them thrown Do you watch it to me if they break an arm or a leg? I'm insured How much would you want for that colt you're riding Rogers this one? Oh about $1,200 1,200 I just bought the horse in the trailer there for $25 for $25. Well, what's wrong with you, mr. Kaufman, he's blind in one eye, but he looks good This trailer here was quite a bargain too only cost me five bucks sure But if the thing would break down while you're carrying a good horse in it It wouldn't be such a bargain insurance Rogers insurance if anything happens Let me insurance company pay for it. You're a new in the dude ranch business. Aren't you mr. Kaufman? Yeah, first time ever tried this racket Well, if you don't mind a suggestion, I'd try to get the best horses and the slickest equipment I possibly could Otherwise you aren't going to get many customers. I could teach you a thing or two about business girl I'll sign up the rich dudes from the east collect plenty from them in advance if they don't like it when they get here Well, they can't go anyplace else somehow. I don't think you're gonna be too successful You know, that's no way to run a ranch. What do you mean? That's no way to run a ranch My first guest is arriving tomorrow for three weeks. He's one of the richest men in the country big banker by the name of Phil Botfeld I'm gonna sell that colt for $50 Rogers. I should say not Well, what either of you fellas be interested in a job is sort of guides around the place I suppose you'd pay about $35 a week 15 but you get your meals thrown in well You aren't going to be able to find any wranglers who will work for that kind of money Well, if I can't I'll just pick up a couple of bums and dress them as cowboys just a little color around the place Well, Rogers if we can't do any business. I'll be driving on. Good luck, mr. Kaufman The way you're operating. I think you're gonna need it Yeah, that was a fine lunch deal Well, I guess triggering bullet and I'd better be getting back to the ranch. Fine. I'll see you tonight Roy. Oh That'll be 75 cents. Here you are Hey, here comes that Kaufman guy. He's probably gonna try to buy the blue plate special for 8 cents He was in two days ago He said his millionaire had arrived and that everything was going great. He's an odd one. All right He may have bought that spread for cash, but he sure not spending much on equipment instead of the rocky foals ranch He ought to call it the second hand ranch Or maybe the cast-off agents Rogers I saw your horse outside. I'm glad I found you. I want to ask a favor Well, I sure mr. Kaufman, but I'm still not selling any colts for $50. Oh, no, I'm in serious trouble, Rogers Oh, I'm sorry. What's the matter? I told you about this millionaire that's at my place Well, he's missing Missing we better go down to tell the sheriff his office is right down the street I was just there there wasn't anyone around Of course, I don't want anyone to get wind of this. It might be bad publicity for my place Well, tell us what happened. We'll see what we can do the mr. Botfeld rode out yesterday for a look at the falls The horse came back last night, but he didn't what about the guy Well, I haven't hired any guide yet. I figured there'd be a needless expense Well that country around the falls is a mighty wild place for a tenderfoot to go all alone Don't tell me you send him out on that blind horse. Yes. Yes. I did I only bought two others and they didn't turn out to be very good saddle horses Well, I don't like to say I told you so but you really should equip that place properly And I think you can afford it. Yeah, maybe you're right. I Certainly wouldn't want anything to happen to mr. Botfeld. What's the matter? It doesn't your insurance cover that certainly the insurance covers it. I'm just worried about bad publicity Well standing here isn't finding your millionaire. We better get to your place fast Kauffman And we'll see if we can pick up his trail Roy walking along this confounded ledges are killing my feet Well Nellie ball couldn't get up here and I can't say that I blame you for not riding that horse Kauffman offered you Oh, I'm sorry easy now trigger. This is tricky going. Yeah, it sure is one slip and you'd fall 50 feet into that pool And then if you were lucky you could swim out before the current caught you and carried you over the falls Except the banks are too steep to climb. I hope that didn't happen to mr. Botfeld If it did I might as well look for a new line of business if I were you mr. Kauffman I'd get off that one-eyed spoot and come along on foot like Pat's doing I wouldn't trust that horse is footing on the lawn. No the way he keeps shining shadows Well trigger stick on him at Kauffman so we can get to you. Yeah, I'm coming to Roy. I'll try to grab his head I can't stay on Golly Roy that critter threw him right off into the pool. Well, I just hope he didn't hit any rocks on the way down Steady there you horse Kauffman. Are you all right? He can still talk I guess he ain't hurt We'll have to get a rope down to him Pat fast My larit won't be long enough I guess but we'll have to use this stuff Kauffman brought along from his place Yeah, he figured some rope might come in handy, but this is sure beat up roll. Well, it'll have to do Here comes a lion Kauffman grab it Lube it around your waist and hang on tight Pat now pull you grab hold your pants right Roy. I got it Kauffman work your way up the bank with your feet while we pull All right, hey, he's heavy. Why don't we just tie this in to trigger settle and let him pull I want to keep the rope as clear the rocks as we can it's pretty freight And if it's great the long here while triggers pull Serves him right he probably bought this confounded rope in a junkyard never mind that now Pat The current's got him. 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It's so handy or eat it like candy Post sugarcrisp mother when you shop this weekend buy genuine post sugarcrisp in the red white and blue package with the three bears on front Jeff Kaufman opens a dude ranch on the Rocky Falls spread in Paradise Valley His method of operation seems to be to spend as little money as possible and let the insurance companies do the worrying But when millionaire Phil Botfeld disappears while riding alone near Rocky Falls Kaufman is worried and Roy and Pat go with him to look for the missing man Above the falls Kaufman's horse shies and he's thrown into the rushing current No use trying this rope again. Roy. Hey, what are you doing getting rid of my guns and boots? Oh, but how will you get him out one Larry it isn't long enough and mines back in Nellie Bell the lead slopes down from here to the Falls, I'll try to hold Kaufman up until you and trigger can get to a place where my Larry It will reach but Roy that'll only be a few yards above those falls here goes. Roy. I've got you coffin. Just don't price around Don't swim downstream the falls Can't get up the banks here, but the current will sweep us over relax and give me a chance to swim I'm trying Pat You just get me out of this if we get out of this maybe you'll buy some decent quickness I've got a pass good work. Are we all right? I hope so Not a few seconds. We'd have gone over there. No, we didn't All right Pat give him the word trigger know what to do I Felt went over the falls if he had we'd have found his body in one of these pool And we've covered them pretty thoroughly. Hey, was Kaufman all right this morning Roy? Yeah, but he's a little shaky I'm sure glad we didn't bring him along this time. They have much better help on a deal like this Well, thank you, but it doesn't seem like we're getting anywhere I told Kaufman to go ahead and give the sheriff the whole story If we don't report some trace of bot fell by noon, he'll meet us with a posse It's a funny thing Roy the sheriff was in the cafe about four o'clock yesterday afternoon And he said he'd been in his office all the time up to then all the sheriff considers one or nothing down the street Anywhere in the block the same as being in his office Kaufman could have missed him and I guess he was too worried to wait Well, I think we'd better backtrack and see if bullet can pick up a trail closer to the dude range He isn't finding anything here. So let's go. Come on Maybe when we get back to Kaufman's spread we'll find that the millionaire showed up Well, I don't know Dale. He's been gone almost two days now Of course, it could be a long walk back from where he was thrown in the tenor foot like that wouldn't know exactly where he was Going either here comes a rider. Hey, he's in a hurry. Yeah, if you call him a rider That's Kaufman. I see he's got a different horse I guess he learned some sort of a lesson yesterday. Well, I lent him one He promised he'd buy some decent stock, but he hasn't had time yet. Oh, Roger sir. I'm glad I found you I figured maybe you'd be heading back about now any news. Did you go back to talk to the sheriff? I Didn't talk to the sheriff, but there's news and it's bad bad news You mean mr. Botfell's dead. No, no, but it's almost that bad. Well, tell us Kaufman Yeah, get hold of yourself and give us a story what fells been captured. He's being held for ransom Well, how do you know I had a phone call right after you left this morning The voice said if I'd leave $50,000 at the base of Dorsey's rocks, they wouldn't harm Botfell Otherwise, they said they'd kill him in two hours. Oh Who around here would do a thing like that? You mean to say you didn't let the sheriff know sheriff This is a case for the FBI. No, they warned me about calling him the law. I Oh, I hope I've done the right thing. Well, what did you do? I wrote into town as fast as I could I slapped a $50,000 mortgage on my spread at the bank and took the cash out to the rock Well, we can't take the word of a desperate gang that they won't harm Botfell We've got the finding did you see anything unusual at Dorsey's rock when you left the money were there any clues at all? Just this this scrap of paper. I don't know if it means anything or not. Let me see Pretty badly printed It says the shack it's an awful rumbled old scrap of paper probably doesn't mean a thing the shack Hey, wait a minute There's an old abandoned shack in the gully about five miles north of your place, Mr. Kaufman It'd be a perfect place to hold someone for ransom. Hey, we better write in for the sheriff right now That would take two hours and we can get to the gully in 15 minutes in a case like this every minute may count Come on. Let's go Yeah, easy Sort of an old log cabin don't seem to be anyone around no horses anyway Well if the gang isn't there they must have headed on down the gully They couldn't have avoided to say they come this way. They'll be tough to trail in these rocks We still we're in there now so we get it over with well Let's creep up and see what we see I better go alone first the rocks will be good cover Maybe I can see under the shack without being seen myself Well, how can you see in don't seem to be any windows? Well, there's one window in the back as I remember you all stay here I won't be long. I'll either come right back or call you if the coast is clear. Come along bullet Roy's coming back sure didn't take him long I guess he found out what he wanted to know it was mighty smart of you to remember the shack miss Evans I just hope the gang left that note to tell us where they left but felt all right We can go down there the cabin isn't exactly empty, but I don't think we're in any danger We'll lead the horses Roy what do you mean the cabin isn't exactly empty? There's a man in there? He's bound and gagged and lying on the floor man. Is it but I don't know I never seen but fell Well, how come you didn't go in the door's locked and I think we'll have to break it down How about the window? It was open an inch or two, but I didn't want to slide it up any further I might disturb some fingerprints and the dust on the sill Well, did bullet pick up any sort of a scent? He didn't seem to find anything at the rear of the shack He's a little more interested in the front, but he didn't get very excited Well, there are a few nicks in the rocks that could have been made by horseshoes Yeah, there aren't many of them though. If a kidnapping gang was operating out of here It can't be a very big gang. Did the man inside see you? I don't think so I didn't call to him because he couldn't have answered anyway Now let's see what we can do about the door. It's locked. All right. Don't worry in there We're going to break down the door. Let's go Pat Kaufman. Get your shoulders against it Till Roy returns let's listen to his friends the three sugarcrisp bears We're the sugarcrisp bears and we want you to meet the grandest treat you ever did eat Post sugarcrisp As a cereal, it's dandy or snacks. It's so handy or eat it like candy Post sugarcrisp How about it? Have you tried this marvelous new cereal? 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Botfeld I paid your ransom and thank heaven the gang didn't harm you Are you well enough to tell us just what happened mr. Botfeld the important thing now is to get the men who are responsible for this they roughed me up pretty badly But I was conscious of everything they did well here. Let me get these ropes off while you're talking. Thank you There were three men they waylaid me evening before last and brought me here. Hey, haven't you anything to eat? I don't see no food around the men went out one at a time occasionally and brought something back We're very careful to keep things cleaned up When we all left about an hour ago But the first time I'd been completely alone. We didn't pick up any trace of the gang coming down here Do you have any idea which way they went? Well, they locked the door from the inside and went through that back window take a look Maybe they left some prints or something there you are mr. Botfeld your arms aren't cut up from the ropes And they really didn't do a very good job of tying you. Oh, they felt like steel bands to me Oh Kaufman about that ransom money. How much was it and how did you get it? $50,000 mr. Botfeld I'm all good to my ranch to get the cash quickly. Well, I'll make arrangements to repay you Although I'll sue you for every penny, but for subjecting me to a thing like this I consider it gross negligence in your part. Oh, don't sue mr. Botfeld the publicity would ruin me Oh, and I've learned my lesson from now on. I'm running a different kind of place I hope so and you don't have to repay me I have an insurance policy which will cover it. I'll collect from the insurance company and just hope we can keep the whole thing quiet Mr. Botfeld, where have I seen you before your face looks so familiar? Pardon me mr. Botfeld you said the men who were holding you left through this window about an hour ago Yeah, yeah, no more than that certainly that's strange. What's the matter Roy no fingerprints no fingerprints Pat But there's a spider web here for nothing unusual about a spider web and a deserted cabin. There is about this one It takes a spider four or five hours to spend a web this big The window was just like this when you and Botfeld came in here early this morning and fake this kidnapping What are you talking about Rogers the very idea now? I know where I saw you before mr. Botfeld you were in the Eureka cafe yesterday afternoon while Roy and Pat were out looking for you He couldn't have been my seven Jeff come on make a break for it. Oh, no, you don't grab him Pat Now you swindler do you still want to make a break for it look Rogers were making plenty on this deal Forget this whole thing. We'll cut you in for a couple of thousands still mighty generous aren't you coughing? Well, I hope you've got insurance to cover a broken joy Some people will never learn and I don't suppose this will teach you anything There's sure ought to quiet you down for a little while you better let me go Rogers You'll never prosecute me successfully I can spend millions on lawyers if necessary and you'll never prove anything You can't bluff us and I'm pretty sure we can prove that you were working for Kaufman Yeah, and in that case you ain't got a nickel because we know what kind of wages he pays Let's get some ropes on them Pat and start them back to town. Yeah, let's use our own ropes Hey, when'd you get wise to Kaufman Roy when I looked through the window? I saw that the ropes on Botfeld were the same sort of junk that almost cost Kaufman his life yesterday And from then on every time either him opened their mouths They drew a tighter noose around themselves Well, I know one dude ranch that isn't going to be operating anymore And I guess a couple of insurance companies are going to be mighty happy with Kaufman and Botfeld out of the way That's right. I've got a hunch. They'll be able to pin enough swindles on them to ensure their privacy for a long long time That's all for now folks, this is Roy Rogers saying to all of you from all of us Goodbye, good luck and may the good Lord take a liking to you. 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