 horse with the speed of light a cloud of dust and a hearty hi-yo silver the lone ranger in companion tanto the mask ran of the planes led the fight for law and order in the early days of the Western United States nowhere in the pages of history can one find a greater champion of justice his strength and courage were always on the side of right against might and it was his daring and resourcefulness that finally made possible the winning of the West return with us now to those thrilling days of just a year a lot of the past come the funding who feeds the great horse silver the lone ranger rides again many employees of the great Crawford ranch near the border with Pablo Vegas he and his wife Maria occupied a small shack and one night as Pablo returned home at the end of the day's work you open the door to find Maria struggling to hold back her sobs my dear Maria what is it what has happened you are ill yes you feel the pain Pablo oh there there my little one it is nothing nothing in arm you and your husband I will not permit it I'm sorry why do you cry it was just see Pablo while you were gone I sat here sewing I could not help thinking how poor we are terribly hard you must work all the day long oh you are the foolish one but I can you think that your Pablo is afraid to work yes I know that I have no this train I know yours or is it Maria that you are permitted yourself to think of other days the days when we lived in our own country to the south when whatever we wanted it was ours for the asking was it of that thought my Maria oh you must not it is not good Pablo how am I to help it you are unhappy with me oh no no then let us resign ourselves let us put thoughts of our home out of our mind let us be contented while we are but the senior crawler he is cruel to you Pablo you cannot deny I've seen he has struck you that I've seen with my own eyes oh Pablo we are poor yes and perhaps we shall never be able to return to our country again but must we stay here cannot we leave we have no money and without dinner or what is want to go I always want to leave without horses or saddle and who would the senior Crawford would give me work and not ask questions and he's a beast oh it is so I hate him and I'm already then we must no no no it is not possible we someone comes who is it I do not know Maria Maria dry your teeth see come there was the upload what your Pablo Vegas is in your but I don't be alarmed I'm here is your friends and you're only honest men are our friends I come honest men do not wear mask Maria oh but Pablo I do not trust you right then you're a of course honest men do not wear masks but there are exceptions I'm not speaking of myself I'm speaking of a mask man you've met and called your friend many times you'll mean the black Cavalier of your noise and I come from him Pablo you'll speak the truth this is not a trick senior it isn't I do speak the truth then then you must have brought us a message see I have and Pablo the black Cavalier over to the message himself if possible but he could not yet other work to do is on the mission for your government so important that it couldn't be neglected so important in fact the title a friend of mine is giving him help I wrote here alone and the message you can return to your home whenever you like it has been proved that none of your family was ever guilty of treason your lands have been restored all charges against you have been forgotten you hear what he says Maria Maria do you hear Pablo see I'd advise returning as soon as you can you may doubt my word but once across the border you'll not belong in learning that I've told you only the truth and you'll forgive me for what I said certainly and I mean yes my thanks a thousand times Pablo I did nothing but bring you the news your gratitude you owe to just one man the black Cavalier don't call us steady over we're not going far what I've heard about Crawford is true Pablo may run into trouble when he attempts to leave you and I'll keep an eye on things old boy come on that same evening Pablo Vegas went to Crawford the ranch owner scowl as he learned of the Mexican's determination to leave then he pounded the table with his fist I said you can't do it what's a little bit you want your wages I see you know how much you get Kevin see Maria and I we have figured it's a new I've worked for you for nearly a year I've drawn only such money as has been necessary in the money of your country seniorly two hundred dollars I'll do me is that not correct correct that by a long Saturday what I'm just a second let me show you some the way to put them accounts had him right here oh yeah here they are know what these are young fella no you are to your names on every one of them where you signed them needn't think I didn't keep track these are what you signed every time you bought supplies I do not understand hey mean to claim you didn't sign these slips oh no no senior I have remembered well but what they have been taken into account even with those seniorities 200 dollars that you owe me yeah I had you know how to add listen to this grab you about the first month you was here 20 dollars and that's the lowest the grub you bought since then come to more what I can hear this is for some Calico your wife bought $10 here's another for some boot you got here's one for some work clothes another for some lumber to fix up your cabin what's in your other second I'll give you the total let me see it is here's what you owe me up to the first of the month but of course that ain't the whole thing there's been more since yeah it adds up all right young fella allowed for your wages and everything you owe me $500 and 29 cents and if you've got some full notion that you're pulling the stakes before you work that out your local try it now have you jailed nobody can cheat me for what that cannot be sent him line saying your way we have bought these things from your yes I do not deny it but when I ask you the price you tell me you charge only what one would have to pay in pound but now you say that I can you do you get care to be sure of memory sure I said my price for just the same as you're paying time plus charges for freight and them supplies out here to the ranch it is a tree ain't no such thing I got a lot of folks working for me if I keep a stock of supplies for sale here in my place it's just a saving trouble you ought to be grateful take my fault if you spent more year and the others is it that they owe you also senior well it till the truth Pablo I reckon if I wish to go over all these accounts I'd find out the dead you folks are all the same money don't mean a thing to you till after it's bad and they too must work until you have been repaid yes sure I ain't got no no other way I get my money back this is the law I told you I'd have you jailed if you tried to skip didn't I you bet it's a lot then it is not fair you are one big cheats and your I will not pay that means you're skipping out and you're I have say what I've said I will not pay proof that was to me I see that I'll play just one out sure that Vegas sin wasn't it sounded like he didn't take to your little game he wants to quit so I heard well you watch him savvy if he tries to sneak you let me know I'll make him wish you'd never been born what is it you're angry the pig is a cheat you will not pay me you say hi Pablo or him money I must stay and work until it is paid you think I do not know it but Pablo if this senior Crawford does not pay you if we have no money how will we leave how will we cross the border they will not stop us you have a plan see pack what we are tonight when he sleeps we're gone just before dawn roof pounded at the door of the ranch house boss hey boss wake up let me in kick by a horse that low down horse thief what's that he got away he stole two horses from the corral and him and his wife their moves who did who do you think that Pablo hombre of course why didn't you stubborn you think I got this year up on my head by giving him a hand he did that hit me show dog going hard I seen a million stars and he's gone how big a start they got not over five minutes which way to go south towards the border able to ride if I have to settle up send the horse for me and rounds up the boys I'll be with you quick as I give a boot on we're going after him yeah and when we catch him we're stringing that next to the first tree we can find now get going right beat them I don't wake up your hombres wake up and rather you sidewinder for life or smile you they will catch us ride on mall camp not far away alone ranger was saddling the great horse silver he stopped for a moment to sound a Maria's screen then he quickly tighten the cinches roll fellow that's how the zone trouble had come before we expected it steady boy all right old boy 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 how to continue our story while Maria been over her husband the men led by Crawford surrounded them and Maria they won't it was not matter you're as Maria I will stand up but no you must not your arm see a senior if the horse had rode and not drawn me by now we would have been across the board yeah but you but you a lot of good debt does I suppose you've got sense enough to say what kind of a fix you've got yourself in by trying this time don't you it's bad enough yes you're light not only cash but you had to steal a couple of horses in the bargain now what happens to horse thieves in this part of the country problem then you are your horse they were not stolen once Maria and I'll reach the place of safety they would have been returned expect me to believe that I speak the truth you mean you lie if you expect me to swallow any set story you're a bigger digit my ticket for you roof yeah come here and bring your rope I don't keep this Kyle covered it makes a break drilling I cannot escape senior lucky for you you got sense enough to know it there you are boss good what is it you do try guessing roof make a make a new side to one and throw the other over that bread sure no you cannot you cannot hang my bubble I will not permit it out stop back Maria it is no use then your well you you can do with me what you will but first I ask of you one small favor baby what do you mean well when I have been punished for me to my Maria to depart unarmed hey she is but a woman I alone and to blame for me to go to cross the border I has nothing else missy you wait in a place where you can give orders your ass favors either one you got that ready roof all set boss of its anyone I beg you please it will put that rope around this poor cat's neck and heist a minute of the saddle right one of the rafters want to keep it but he's worse in the world cat now up with this cut the rope shot into every one of your reach for the sky it's a nice man miss me and I get him the next man to slap mother get the same problem yes I make a yes you say I am safe bring them here then come with me while Crawford and his man looked on helplessly Pablo and his wife made their escape in the company of the masked man the Lone Ranger took a roundabout course to hide the trail finally reached his well-hidden camp this month you'll be safe here me go if it had not been for you my mother Pablo listen to me speak on me go I know that you're anxious to return to your home in the south but you've seen just what kind of man Crawford is you know the game he's working and you are his only victim he employs many men and women of your race playing the same game on them and that is so he employs them forces them to buy the supplies from him and charges them several times what those suppliers are worth see because he doesn't ask payment and cash but offers to take it from their wages they don't realize what they're being charged until too late I'm a go this annual Crawford said that I owe him more than $500 it cannot be so unfortunately he's entitled charge whatever he wishes each time you purchase supplies you sign the slip acknowledging the purchase even though it's morally dishonest as long as he holds those slips to prove your obligations you're legally indebted to him it is not fair certainly it isn't that means that the people of your race who work for them a little better than slaves I don't know I can't leave them while they're in his death and they'll never get out of death while he can help it he'll see to that an amigo there is but one thing to do yes I will take a gun on me I will hold him out of that's not the way but what a murder never solves anything but if you will you can help I will do anything in your as I said Crawford employs many people of your race see are they your friends you suggested a plan to free them what they do as you say oh they would send your my Pablo as well like you you have a plan yes Pablo while Crawford holds those slips you and your friends have signed you're in his power yes but if they were destroyed we will steal them no well then how could that too would mean stepping outside the law but if on the other hand Crawford himself destroyed them and willingly he seemed possible you think so you would not be so great a fool here would I have in mind Pablo then decide for yourself and Crawford had not willingly admitted defeat and had let his gun hands in a search for Pablo and his wife unsuccessful however he had returned to his ranch and that evening discussed the masked man's interference with Ruth Ruth he said he would this means if something like this should ever happen again I got a good notion it means that the breeds I got working here will be trying the same thing once they see somebody getting away with it they'll be letting out to gun it had been having enough trouble with them so I noticed yeah you heard anything well they've been acting kind of funny all open on the job as much as they can and acting like it had pleased them something special to start something they do I'll have them shut down as a side of them I can handle the fools sure reckon you can all I mean is you'd better be careful anyhow for now just today they've been worse than ever how do you mean I was down by the shacks this evening yeah it was all bunched together jabbing away like 60 when they seen me coming along they shut up like they forgot how to talk they did it and I ain't too proud to admit I was plenty glad when I got out of sight again wouldn't surprise me none at all if one of them gone local and tried some fancy knife work you think we're hatching something up I don't know all I know is what I told you away listen what didn't send in most that's them I think they're doing they sound plenty mad to me boss you could have been hit get back inside by the door boss it looks to me like they've had enough with the rest of them in like they locked in the bunkhouse and boss yeah we'd better put out the lamps and get out of sight if I ever seen a crowd bent on lynching that's it well Crawford and Ruth hastily put out all lights and barricaded the doors and windows the crowd outside yell for revenge all the resentment against Crawford had come to a head and it seemed that nothing would satisfy the mob but action but strangely enough although many carried guns few shots were fired the mob held back from storming the house roof and his employer watched them behind a barricaded window and boss what do we do are we going to get out of this have a lot of them yeah that's a swell idea just how do you figure to do that well I'll have the law and when we get out of here which maybe we won't do a live you mean you think they'll what they look like you look like they're paying a friendly call skunk well you've been playing with fire I've told you that before it can't trick folks all the time and expect them to stand for it not even briefs hey look there what is it that mass man again boss he's their leader give me a gun what are you gonna do let him have it oh no you don't just about all they need to set them off one shot from us we don't use no arms till we have to there was just some way to get rid of the share well there ain't but if there was a lot maybe it'd save us sure but we can't so what's the use of talking about it wait a second hey they've quieted down the nice man saying something you hear what it is can't do a thing then come on as a busted window over here I want to know what that I'm very scheming listen to me man there's no need to rush the house that would just mean fighting and men wounded they can't escape and they can't light a signal fire to bring help from town the patient men sooner or later they'll have to surrender then you can do with them as you please you hear that you bet I did it looks like we're done for you know and he would have met and you hear what the man's man said huh he told us what we can do sounded more to me like he was saying what we couldn't do as a kind of care scene over in the corner go get it what do you mean you may go get it sure boss hurry it up what are you going to do bring help from time huh starts breaking that case you know the floor I don't hey you mean you're going to set this place a fire that's just what I mean but you can't do that is said better than getting lynched think I give a hoot for this place when I got a chance to save my life but after you set it a fire then what they won't be expecting it take him a minute before they'll set me what's up that's all the time we'll need we'll make a break for the smokehouse and if we can't hold them off from there till somebody writes out from town then I'm clean local boss I think it'll work we'll make it work what's funny I was just thinking boss the mask man's out to get it but it was him that showed us how to bring help well it ain't here yet it won't be if you don't get busy the crowd outside wedding tensely could not suppress cries of excitement and flames burst from the windows of the ranch house a moment later the rear door open in two men race for the security of an outbuilding only the lone rangers here the stride is powerful white star didn't show no surprise that he spoke a low command to his horse and followed in pursuit there they go boy after them come on so what you said stand aside come on old fellow it's the mask man get back get back hold on man hold on bro let's have it stop right here take it you'll get me stop this time to be if then you thought we're after your lives I designed roof and roped you both of their mercy yet they have made one move to harm you don't say they never meant to harm you that ain't so they was going to interest they were why don't they now well no they don't mean to harm you and Crawford you can't harm them your ranch house is a place it'll burn to the ground and with it every record that could prove that those men are in your death what do you say what's more you burn those records of your own accord that ain't sure I'll make plenty of trouble for them quiet but I tell you I'll see the fire and soon be here you can tell them whatever you want but if I were you I'd make no complaint you can prove nothing and if you do complain well you might find it a mistake there's always a next time Crawford and next time you might not get off so easily remember no use yelling boss he's gone that coyote and you know something what are you talking about we're keeping still we're telling the share of nothing because if we talk too much maybe that mass gent will come back or you have just heard as a copyrighted feature of the Lone Ranger